Kristi Noem's ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate and violent misfits 'not ready to tie their own laces' are recruited (Shawn Cohen/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345295/ICE-campaign-hire-deportation-officers-unfit-violent-illiterate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p60#a251204p60
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/waymo-to-issue…
Before somebody comes and replies about how the population •should• be violent: please note that the way the public is responding is a carefully calibrated strategy.
Judge after judge is striking down National Guard deployments. The Trump regime is •desperate• at this point for some kind of violent escalation to justify domestic military deployment. We’re not giving it to them. We’re just doing what we do: taking care of each other, showing by example how to be human in the face of inhumanity.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brooke Valentine:
🎵 Long as You Come Home
#BrookeValentine
https://djdeadeye.bandcamp.com/track/brooke-valentine-long-as-you-come-home
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wqjDYmQF0SZUHeWpl7iCi
Good Morning #Canada
Overnight news of Trump attacking another country in a blatant attempt to seize their resources should be a wakeup call for Canada. Does anyone here think a strike on Ottawa to remove the current government couldn't happen? Could the U.S. find a stooge willing to become the interim leader? How much oil, aluminum, uranium, hydropower or other resources would be looted before Trump strokes out from too many big macs. Yesterday I would have laughed at this scenario but today it starts to be less of a fantasy.
I glossed over this article when it was first published back in November but now I'm leaning towards support of developing a volunteer force in Canada. Perhaps a 2-year voluntary military service for our youth to provide employment and training. I don't want a volunteer military force to ever be used and hopefully it becomes a deterrent. But unfortunately a serious discussion is needed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/
Just to underline that:
A huge portion of the MAGA authoritarian takeover plot rested on the false assumption that they could provoke a violent domestic conflict at a whim and jump straight to martial law. It seems they believed their own BS about how cities are hotbeds of unrestrained chaos and iT’S tHe LEft tHaT’s REALLY viOLeNT!!1!
They thought they were picking a fistfight. They didn’t expect to just get mocked, shamed, and videoed into social oblivion. They are both reviled and a laughingstock now.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Au Revoir Simone:
🎵 A Violent Yet Flammable World
#AuRevoirSimone
https://aurevoirsimone.bandcamp.com/track/a-violent-yet-flammable-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfIC76Q7SliDLgLvu0PKo
See, this — •this• — is what ICE CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:
- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it
…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections