Notices by Burr Deming (burrland01@mastodon.world)

The promise was that ICE would aggressively pursue and deport dangerous gangs, those invading communities to rape, pillage, and ...you know... eat our pets.

It is counterintuitive to imagine any success in finding those dangerous members working for years at Home Depot in Los Angeles or at the Glenn Valley Foods plant in Nebraska. Still, that’s where Trump aide Stephen Miller directs ICE raids.

Jason Linkins seems to have it about right:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/14/week-of-militant-forcetrump-birthday-parade-los-angeles-freedom-protests-mug-the-senator-event/#JasonLinkins

Sarah Cooper speculates that ChatGPT was invented by some guy, because it always sounds so confident. Women have been taught to hide their knowledge, treating information exchanges at work like other traditions:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/07/week-of-trump-musk-wrestlingtrump-v-musk-the-politics-of-unrequited-love-tariff-backfires-taco-trump/#whatchugotforme

Award-winning author John Scalzi notes the now common practice of ICE pulling seemingly random folks off the street and sending them to remote prisons when they can’t prove they belong here.
He asks a reasonable question. Can you (yeah YOU!) instantly put your hands on your own proof of citizenship?
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/07/week-of-trump-musk-wrestlingtrump-v-musk-the-politics-of-unrequited-love-tariff-backfires-taco-trump/#whatever

North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz makes a compelling case that weaponizing ICE does more than endanger immigrants. It is also a disgrace to America.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/07/week-of-trump-musk-wrestlingtrump-v-musk-the-politics-of-unrequited-love-tariff-backfires-taco-trump/#johnpavlovitz

Julian Sanchez thinks carefully about immigration enforcement and has a thought.

A correspondent notes that, although immigration laws were enforced way before, ICE as an actual agency was brought into being by Congress in 2003.

Which brings up a question about restarting.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/07/week-of-trump-musk-wrestlingtrump-v-musk-the-politics-of-unrequited-love-tariff-backfires-taco-trump/#juliansanchez

At The Onion, a typical MAGA voter is shocked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in her community.

She had thought Trump would only deport immigrants on the list she mailed to the White House.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/07/week-of-trump-musk-wrestlingtrump-v-musk-the-politics-of-unrequited-love-tariff-backfires-taco-trump/#theonion

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Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has harsh thoughts about Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Duggan, who stands accused by Trump’s Justice Department of interfering with the arrest of an immigrant in her courthouse.

Key Senatorial pre-verdict:
"She should be prosecuted. I hope she gets convicted, and I hope she gets sentenced to the maximum penalty as an example so other judges don’t abuse their authority"
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/06/07/week-of-trump-musk-wrestlingtrump-v-musk-the-politics-of-unrequited-love-tariff-backfires-taco-trump/#jameswigderson

A thread in a music forum is entitled:
Please Artists, Leave your political BS at home.

Dave Dubya responds, pointing out that Free expression is a core value of democracy and vital to freedom..

Key complaint:
"Not saying an artist, can’t have their opinions, but please I don’t need to hear it at your shows."

Key contrast (Dave):
"Mercifully, every country isn’t like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other dictatorships."
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/05/24/week-of-trumps-big-whopping-billoh-noem-student-deports-south-africa-biden-cancer/#davedubya

@jeffowski
oh NO!
I've been wearing eyeglasses for years!!

Signalgate is amplified again as Mike Waltz gets booted. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has an excellent question about Pete Hegseth:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/05/02/week-of-trump-flounderwalz-faces-trump-dump-hegseth-floats-tariff-panic-democracy-attacked/#jameswigderson

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Tommy Christopher excerpts from an emotional interview with a survivor of the Florida State shooting, recounting how he was getting ready to die.

Key motivation:
“Seybold revealed to Jackson he knew the suspect, and that he was a member of the Florida chapter of Trump ally Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA.”
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/04/26/week-of-trump-decline-polls-plunge-court-cases-lose-economy-collapses-defense-department-well-drinks/#mediaite

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As if the Oval Office visit by El Salvador dictator Nayib Bukele didn’t become bizarre enough, Tommy Christopher brings us the portion where Trump advisor Stephen Miller rants about those wanting the US to kidnap (sic) US resident Abrego Garcia and bring him back.

CNN analyst Paula Reid has the right reaction as she laughs out loud.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/04/19/week-of-trump-tariffs-and-trump-terror-economy-deports-arrest-citizens-no-due-process-threats/#mediaite

On the young man we arrested in error and sent by mistake to a prison in El Salvador:

As I understand it, we don't violate sovereignty by reclaiming US residents.

We only violate sovereignty by claiming canals.

@jeffowski Strange as it may seem, I could be wrong.

I believe the hearing was about Biden administration efforts to counter misinformation from foreign governments. It was wrongly characterized by Republicans as censorship.

So I think it likely that Rep. Self was ineptly trying to tie Biden to the Nazis rather than endorsing Goebbels himself.

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“It starts with the basic stuff, right?” Hegseth told the crowd. “It’s grooming standards and uniform standards and training standards, fitness standards, all of that matters.”

Focusing on how a uniform fits and grooming is a facile take and literally the most superficial view of leading, which belongs in basic training and the parade deck but, not in a combat ready military.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#disaffectedanditfeelssogood

The submission of classified combat information to a commercial chat app has obvious results going beyond our borders:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#alliesreact

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Disaffected and it Feels So Good reminds us that chatting with a reporter about military plans is only one of many demonstrations of Hegseth incompetence.

Key priorities:
"Hegseth’s ideas of leadership are like a grade school boys imagination"
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#disaffectedanditfeelssogood

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Among the issues raised by this degree of carelessness with top secret information is the very real danger to those carrying out military missions.

That this instance of sloppiness did not cost American lives was a matter of luck.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#mediaite

Brian Beutler doesn’t seem to care for the current passive Democratic strategy of relax and let Trump be Trump:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/08/week-of-courage-and-cowardice-zelenskyy-european-resurgence-trump-speech-lazy-slashes#BrianBeutler

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For not reporting the new fiction as if it is the truth.

AP has filed a lawsuit against this violation of Freedom of the Press.

The White House Correspondents’ Association, along with pretty much every press organization, is up in arms.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/01/week-of-slashes-health-care-veterans-national-security-agriculture-social-security-privacy-integrity-inspectors-general/#themoderatevoice