Yes, "it’s the immediate responsibility of Congress, which has done so much to enable and encourage Trump’s historic abuses, to step up to its official constitutional role as the people’s representative and check on the other branches." In this morning's interview on "Face the Nation", Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the feds were preventing any other department to investigate the shooting. He also said the murdered man had a license to carry and that the gun was never drawn/used. What is really horrible is the people who choose NOT to believe what they see because they cannot admit they elected the real criminal.
The main problem of all those fascists at the top seems to be their equating the entire US population to their so very ignorant maga base.
The robber barons, of course, have their own agenda and will continue to support the fascists.
George Orwell, wherever he is, is thinking, "I never thought the state would actually expect their citizens to believe what they are told, rather than what they see with their own eyes, in real lfe."
I am proud to be a novelist who, like Orwell, uses fiction to posit what might be so that others may take steps to prevent what should obviously be prevented. There's certainly more truth in fiction today than in the statements of the federal government.
It's impossible not to feel like those in Congress care more about holding on to their status and power than they do about the citizens they're supposed to represent.
I don't even have words for how terrible it is to watch federal officers murder a nonviolent, unarmed man in the street and see immediate victim-blaming. And, know the people who did it are still carrying guns today.
USE THIS PARAGRAPH IN YOUR MESSAGING TO ELECTED REPS, PLEASE:
"Congress has to act now to cut off all funding to ICE. That means voting to block funding for ICE in the current DHS appropriations bill for fiscal year 2026. Beyond that immediate step, it means amending the budget to substantially reduce ICE funding in general. And it means thereafter taking up legislation to remove ICE’s authority and dismantle its law enforcement function, which should be transferred to another agency altogether."
I haven't failed. Find a demonstration near you and make the truth heard. If you're old and infirm like me, bring a chair. Every living body counts right now.
And don't retort that protesting doesn't work, Robert, as you have said in the past. Bearing witness is what we can do, and in the face of the regime's lies, it is our duty to confirm the truth. I can tell you that at the gathering in the little red town near me yesteray, I made eye contact with many maga locals driving by who could not look away from the truth. This is an important act. Keep the faith.
I'm gratified to see that the NYT came out of its shell today and called the feds liars:
"John F. Kelly, the president’s longest-serving White House chief of staff in his first term, came to believe that Mr. Trump was a pathological liar. As Mr. Kelly has recounted, the president would sit with him and his press staff to go over what to tell reporters about some issue and Mr. Trump would try out lines without any regard for whether they were accurate or not. “But that’s not true,” Mr. Kelly would object. “But it sounds good,” Mr. Trump would reply."
"One of the officers suddenly fires a shot, and, after a brief pause, fractions of a second, nine more shots, apparently from multiple agents, ring out in quick succession: 1 1-2-3 1 1-2-3 1-2.
"It looks like nothing so much as a mob execution."
For one unarmed man who had already been subdued and beaten. No shot was needed, but 10 were fired and killed him. It looks like nothing so much as a mob execution.
Yes, "it’s the immediate responsibility of Congress, which has done so much to enable and encourage Trump’s historic abuses, to step up to its official constitutional role as the people’s representative and check on the other branches." In this morning's interview on "Face the Nation", Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the feds were preventing any other department to investigate the shooting. He also said the murdered man had a license to carry and that the gun was never drawn/used. What is really horrible is the people who choose NOT to believe what they see because they cannot admit they elected the real criminal.
The main problem of all those fascists at the top seems to be their equating the entire US population to their so very ignorant maga base.
The robber barons, of course, have their own agenda and will continue to support the fascists.
George Orwell, wherever he is, is thinking, "I never thought the state would actually expect their citizens to believe what they are told, rather than what they see with their own eyes, in real lfe."
I am proud to be a novelist who, like Orwell, uses fiction to posit what might be so that others may take steps to prevent what should obviously be prevented. There's certainly more truth in fiction today than in the statements of the federal government.
Unceasingly call or email your Congressional Senators & Reps: Capital switchboard
(202) 224-3121
It's impossible not to feel like those in Congress care more about holding on to their status and power than they do about the citizens they're supposed to represent.
I don't even have words for how terrible it is to watch federal officers murder a nonviolent, unarmed man in the street and see immediate victim-blaming. And, know the people who did it are still carrying guns today.
Well they did say that ICE was going to go after the "worst of the worst." But they didn't explain that it was so ICE could hire them.
USE THIS PARAGRAPH IN YOUR MESSAGING TO ELECTED REPS, PLEASE:
"Congress has to act now to cut off all funding to ICE. That means voting to block funding for ICE in the current DHS appropriations bill for fiscal year 2026. Beyond that immediate step, it means amending the budget to substantially reduce ICE funding in general. And it means thereafter taking up legislation to remove ICE’s authority and dismantle its law enforcement function, which should be transferred to another agency altogether."
We have waited and "talked things over" too long now. The Fascists are now in control and our democracy is now history.
I am truly afraid we have failed.
I haven't failed. Find a demonstration near you and make the truth heard. If you're old and infirm like me, bring a chair. Every living body counts right now.
And don't retort that protesting doesn't work, Robert, as you have said in the past. Bearing witness is what we can do, and in the face of the regime's lies, it is our duty to confirm the truth. I can tell you that at the gathering in the little red town near me yesteray, I made eye contact with many maga locals driving by who could not look away from the truth. This is an important act. Keep the faith.
Reading ice accidentally fired Mr. Pretti’s gun when removing it setting off a firestorm to murder him in seconds by these “trained” despicable thugs.
Fox news is still promoting DHS lies. And much of the mainstream media are doing the both sides wobble. America is being brainwashed.
I'm gratified to see that the NYT came out of its shell today and called the feds liars:
"John F. Kelly, the president’s longest-serving White House chief of staff in his first term, came to believe that Mr. Trump was a pathological liar. As Mr. Kelly has recounted, the president would sit with him and his press staff to go over what to tell reporters about some issue and Mr. Trump would try out lines without any regard for whether they were accurate or not. “But that’s not true,” Mr. Kelly would object. “But it sounds good,” Mr. Trump would reply."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/politics/trump-truth-minneapolis-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.1Zif.zIiPcf4e6Htq&smid=url-share
"One of the officers suddenly fires a shot, and, after a brief pause, fractions of a second, nine more shots, apparently from multiple agents, ring out in quick succession: 1 1-2-3 1 1-2-3 1-2.
"It looks like nothing so much as a mob execution."
For one unarmed man who had already been subdued and beaten. No shot was needed, but 10 were fired and killed him. It looks like nothing so much as a mob execution.