Collection of worrying incidents

[Borg]

Here's the real reason the MTG is supporting the Democrats on the ACA funding. Purely self-serving.

 

[fresh_42]

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement​

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

www.nytimes.com

Comment: So much to the American fairytale of "free speech".

 

[fresh_42]

Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats​

A Rutgers University professor who wrote a book about antifa received the death threats after he commented on President Donald Trump designating the movement a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Faced with a stream of death threats, a Rutgers University history professor who teaches about antifascism said he is moving out of the United States just a month into the fall semester.
Mark Bray, who has taught at Rutgers since 2019, told his students Sunday that his courses would move online immediately.

“Since my family and I do not feel safe in our home at the moment, we are moving for the year to Europe,” Bray said in an email to students. “Truly I am so bummed about not being able to spend time with you all in the classroom.”
Several far-right activists and other social media users homed in on Bray in late September, after he was quoted in news stories about President Donald Trump’s executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Bray described antifa — a far-left decentralized global movement whose proponents oppose fascism — to The Washington Post at the time as “a kind of coalition politics of all kinds of radicals” and “not a group.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/08/rutgers-mark-bray-antifa/

Comment: What more do Americans need to end this nightmare? I am reminded of the German Nazi regime by the day! Will we face more American asylum seekers in the near future?

 

[placebo]

Comment: What more do Americans need to end this nightmare? I am reminded of the German Nazi regime by the day! Will we face more American asylum seekers in the near future?

One thing I found helpful in understanding Americans' lack of response is to listen to The Focus Group podcast by Sarah Longwell of the Bulwark. It's kind of strange to hear people talk about what's happening as politics as usual. Many people simply don't recognize what Trump and his cronies are doing and the danger they pose.

 

[jack action]

Comment: What more do Americans need to end this nightmare? I am reminded of the German Nazi regime by the day! Will we face more American asylum seekers in the near future?

I remember the 2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum. Back then, I saw a TV news report where they were showing people against the change, going house-to-house, to convince people to vote against it.

I couldn't even understand how someone would vote for such a motion. Why do you need to convince people to reject such an idiotic move? They were interviewing an old man who would vote for it because he thought the president in place was doing a good job, and he wanted him to continue to do so. OMG! That is not the point. Even assuming the president is the best you've ever had, you don't know what the future holds. As you cannot find another person to continue his work out of the millions of people in the country?

Long story short, the population accepted the change, and the president died of cancer anyway, 4 years later. (He promised his supporters to stay in power until 2030.)

Imagine, the people already had the protection in their constitution and accepted to remove it when asked. And you are asking what the people will do against someone who deliberately ignores the protection set in the constitution?

 

[Patxitxi]

Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats​

A Rutgers University professor who wrote a book about antifa received the death threats after he commented on President Donald Trump designating the movement a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Faced with a stream of death threats, a Rutgers University history professor who teaches about antifascism said he is moving out of the United States just a month into the fall semester.
Mark Bray, who has taught at Rutgers since 2019, told his students Sunday that his courses would move online immediately.

“Since my family and I do not feel safe in our home at the moment, we are moving for the year to Europe,” Bray said in an email to students. “Truly I am so bummed about not being able to spend time with you all in the classroom.”
Several far-right activists and other social media users homed in on Bray in late September, after he was quoted in news stories about President Donald Trump’s executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Bray described antifa — a far-left decentralized global movement whose proponents oppose fascism — to The Washington Post at the time as “a kind of coalition politics of all kinds of radicals” and “not a group.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/08/rutgers-mark-bray-antifa/

Comment: What more do Americans need to end this nightmare? I am reminded of the German Nazi regime by the day! Will we face more American asylum seekers in the near future?

In my opinion I don't think they'll do much.

 

[dlu]

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement​

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

www.nytimes.com

Comment: So much to the American fairytale of "free speech".

So, were the books removed after her dismissal?

 

[fresh_42]

So, were the books removed after her dismissal?

I have had the same question. I assume they were removed. They ban a lot of books, considering their alleged love of free speech. There is a huge discrepancy between self-image and external image in the USA. The land of the free isn't so free after all.

 

[Borg]

The real Republicans. Vile, racists to the core.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack

 

[dlu]

The real Republicans. Vile, racists to the core.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack

Yucky.

 

[fresh_42]

I haven't checked the authenticity, but they claimed to be original quotes:

You can fact check all of these quotes. They REALLY said all this.

Any questions?

 

[Patxitxi]

I know what you are talking about. Canada with it's expertise and resources should be more immune to economic blackmail, but isn't. I put that down to the stupidity of the controlling interests, both political and business self serving lacking vision ever the past decades. Maybe even as far back as Diefenbaker when he cancelled the advanced Acro Arrow over a few million bucks.

Problem with Canada is that it is spread out east-west, right next to the US, and the population is concentrated within the corridor 200 miles from the Canada-US border, and lack of capital.. It's much easier to trade with the US and the Mulroney-Reagan NAFTA deal 1994 promoted that trade , raising the standard of living in both countries, something that Trump does not acknowledge.

Due to NAFTA, the Auto Pact, those being the most well known and impacting the Canadian economy the greatest, Canadian companies and politicians had an easy route to prosperity, and thus neglected nation building and market diversification nationally as well as internationally. But they did try - remember senior Trudeau's attempt to bring in several Japanese and Korean car companies into Canada ( Hyundai Bromont 1989, but export to the US was hindered due to US tariffs on non Auto Pact vehicles as one of the reasons that led to the plant closure some 5 years later ).

Canadian banks, and to an extent private enterprise , were/are somewhat averse risk to investment within Canada. The Quebec James Bay Hydro project was financed through NY, probably because it took up less of a liability on their balance sheet, but more importantly, they could see the potential.

Since the small Canadian market is quickly saturated, growth naturally means expansion to the south -Tim Hortons, CN, Jean Coutu are a few Canadian companies that have enjoyed success through this route. ( Tim Hortons' present difficulties are due to an overbearing venture capital firm ). Carney's Brookfield Asset Management ( $ 1 trillion ) moved its head office from Toronto to NY 2024 to go where the money is, to be closer to its investments and investors.

The one province taking most of the brunt of the Trump administration agenda is Ontario, which can explain Doug Ford's dislike, and his ranting and raving. How to explain to his fan base the loss of their jobs. Just recently, according to Howard Lutnick, and expressed at the Trump Carney meeting, the Aito Pact is dead - US cars to be made in the US, others suffer tariffs. Thus a potential elimination of up to 86,000 Ontario manufacturing jobs ( that must be manufacturing, assembly, and support related such as trucking 80% o the vehicles to the US ) ( Quebec auto sector lost hers, year 2000-ish( the giant GM plant on HWY 15 ST Therese shuttered for good ). To be seen where thus leads in the immediate future.

The heavy duty truck tariff of 25% will hit Quebec's Peterbilt plant St Therese exports to the US. 1000 workers in jeopardy. And this has had the immediate affect of increasing truck prices in the US. The US could not compete, but with a 25% tariff maybe now they can when an up and running a new US plant exists.

That's just a bit of the US-Canada economic-policy-treaty-finance integration that has people worried.

"Canadian companies and politicians had an easy route to prosperity, and thus neglected nation building and market diversification"

Money always looks for its easier growth.
Nation building is not one of its goals.
It's up to nations to create an economic environment in which people & companies making money ALSO help their country and its inhabitants.
Thus when there's talk about a "smaller government" what they really mean is less tax thus less commited to the wealth of their people.
Any other view is very naive besides its only fair that the environment in which the grows should grow with them...
But "fair" its not in their vocabulary. Is it?
The only goal of wealth is self preservation.

 

[Patxitxi]

The real Republicans. Vile, racists to the core.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack

Let's hope its not all republicans.

 

[Borg]

Let's hope its not all republicans.

The rest just turn a blind eye. Hard to say which is worse.

 

[fresh_42]

The rest just turn a blind eye. Hard to say which is worse.

I have had the following dialogue:

Friend: "I assume that he has something in hand against the republican politicians."
Me: "But is it possible against all of them?"
Friend: "If they are republicans, then it is possible."

No joke. That was exactly the dialogue.

 

[fresh_42]

“They no longer dare to leave their homes”: L.A. declares a state of emergency because of Trump’s migration policy​

Los Angeles – Los Angeles County has declared a state of emergency in response to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Tuesday (October 14), the County Executive voted by a majority to approve the emergency declaration. The measure is intended to help protect migrants against Donald Trump's immigration policies.



Sources:

„Trauen sich nicht mehr aus Häusern“: L.A. ruft wegen Trumps Migrations-Kurs den Notstand aus

Los Angeles ruft wegen Trumps ICE-Razzien gegen Migranten den Notstand aus. Den US-Präsidenten könnte der Schritt weiter provozieren.

www.fnp.de

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

 

[EricDMMiller]

In surprise move, head of US military for Latin America to step down

The admiral who leads U.S. military forces in Latin America will step down at the end of this year, two years ahead of schedule, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday, in a surprise move amid escalating tensions with Venezuela.

www.reuters.com

I'm sure this has nothing to do with illegal orders and a potential criminal invasion of Venezuela.

 

[Borg]

A friend of our family got pulled over by ICE this week while driving in Idaho. Just a normal kid on his way to a new job. They eventually let him go but not until they seached all of his possessions for drugs and brought in a drug sniffing dog for good measure. He wasn't violating any traffic laws either - they just felt like singling him out.

 

[fresh_42]

As an American, I was definitely concerned when Nazis began to seek asylum in the US!

Naomi Seibt, Activist Dubbed ‘Anti-Greta Thunberg’, Seeks US Asylum​

Naomi Seibt, the German political activist aligned with the far-right, is seeking asylum in the U.S., alleging she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.

Naomi Seibt, activist dubbed 'anti-Greta Thunberg,' seeks US asylum

The political activist, who is aligned with the far-right, has alleged political persecution in her home country of Germany.

www.newsweek.com

 

[jack action]

As an American, I was definitely concerned when Nazis began to seek asylum in the US!

Naomi Seibt, Activist Dubbed ‘Anti-Greta Thunberg’, Seeks US Asylum​

Naomi Seibt, the German political activist aligned with the far-right, is seeking asylum in the U.S., alleging she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.

Naomi Seibt, activist dubbed 'anti-Greta Thunberg,' seeks US asylum

The political activist, who is aligned with the far-right, has alleged political persecution in her home country of Germany.

www.newsweek.com

Sure, flee a country where you are a victim of death threats to move to another one where they actually act upon them.

 

[fresh_42]

Arrest at kindergarten: Criticism of ICE train deployment in Chicago​

In front of children and colleagues, US officials arrested a screaming kindergarten teacher – a father filmed the entire incident. The case is now being discussed nationwide.

Source: https://www.fnp.de/politik/festnahm...ik-am-ice-einsatz-in-chicago-zr-94023988.html

Comment: This is so Nazi, I am speechless. Everything in the US today reminds me of the Reichskristallnacht.

Kristallnacht - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gleem]

Take a few seconds to remember or reacquaint ourselves with "Kristallnacht". Today is its 87th anniversary, November 9 -10, 1938

Let us hope that a similar event never happens here.

 

[fresh_42]

Take a few seconds to remember or reacquaint ourselves with "Kristallnacht". Today is its 87th anniversary, November 9 -10, 1938

Let us hope that a similar event never happens here.

It is the day I am most frightened of.

November 9 is also known as Schicksaltag (fate day) in Germany. It's the day the Berlin Wall fell (1989), it's the day of the Reichskristallnacht (1938), the day of the Hitler Putsch (Marsch auf die Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1923), the day the Weimar Republic was announced (1918), and also the date Robert Blum was executed (1848), symbolizing the failure of the 1848 Revolutions. That's a LOT for one day.

Source: https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic...9th-night-of-pogroms-and-the-fall-of-the-wall

 

[Patxitxi]

Take a few seconds to remember or reacquaint ourselves with "Kristallnacht". Today is its 87th anniversary, November 9 -10, 1938

Let us hope that a similar event never happens here.

If by "here" you mean the "occupied" territories. Your hope its too late. The "colonists" have been doing it, and not only one night, for decades. Of course with the placet from the goverment of Israel.

 

[fresh_42]

If you still need proof that the USA today is all about racism, not legitimacy, then see this:

Arizona tribal member nearly deported after Iowa jail issues ICE detainer by mistake​

The woman’s family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous and shouldn’t be turned over to federal immigration authorities


A day before Arizona native Leticia Jacobo was scheduled to be released from an Iowa jail, her mom visited to verify pickup details with the staff. Ericka Burns was excited to drive her daughter home after spending a month apart and wanted to make sure Jacobo wasn’t forced to wait a minute longer than necessary.
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Source: https://azmirror.com/2025/11/12/ari...ter-iowa-jail-issues-ice-detainer-by-mistake/

Comment:

BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she was Native American.

You read that right: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — the agency supposedly tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants — just tried to deport an Indigenous woman whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years.

Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to.

Here’s how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license — nothing violent, nothing serious.

Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: “She’s not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.”

Her mom was stunned. “How can you deport her?” she asked. “She’s Native American!”

But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were “just holding her” for ICE. No one — not a single person — could explain how or why this was happening.

Jacobo’s family went into overdrive — calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove she’s an American citizen.

And still, officials hesitated. Hours ticked by while ICE prepared to take her.

Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. — barely.

And what’s ICE’s excuse? A “clerical error.”

Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office casually dismissed it as “human error.” Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil.

“We’ll have some meetings about it,” Chance said. “This is silly.”

Silly? This wasn’t “silly.” This was an attempted deportation of a woman whose people are the original inhabitants of this land, by a government agency that has no idea whose land it’s even on.

Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country.

This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power — where “clerical errors” can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadn’t fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody — another name lost in a broken, brutal system.

It’s time to abolish this corrupt and incompetent agency that can’t even tell the difference between an immigrant and an Indigenous citizen.

Because if ICE can come for Native Americans, they can come for anyone.

Source:

It is hard to find a country to deport your own indigenous people to!

 

[dlu]

It is hard to find a country to deport your own indigenous people to!

Question:
Did her great, great, great, great, .... ancestors have the proper papers when they crossed over the Bering Strait some 1000'a of years ago ?

ICE, being the diligent organisation that they are, surely asked immediately upon contact for proof of legality of residence. The non production on the spot entices suspicion, especially when combined with some wishy-washy statement of residence based upon a suspect bogus claim of birthright. It doesn't take any low brow handicapped intellect agent to see that such a claim undermines the legitimacy of his own god given birthright if extended to just anyone, especially 'illegal aliens' and their offspring. Arrest imminent. Denial and yelling are sure signs of someone who has something to hide. Arrest to proceed.

ICE - Protecting You Since 10000 BC

 

[Patxitxi]

Question:
Did her great, great, great, great, .... ancestors have the proper papers when they crossed over the Bering Strait some 1000'a of years ago ?

ICE, being the diligent organisation that they are, surely asked immediately upon contact for proof of legality of residence. The non production on the spot entices suspicion, especially when combined with some wishy-washy statement of residence based upon a suspect bogus claim of birthright. It doesn't take any low brow handicapped intellect agent to see that such a claim undermines the legitimacy of his own god given birthright if extended to just anyone, especially 'illegal aliens' and their offspring. Arrest imminent. Denial and yelling are sure signs of someone who has something to hide. Arrest to proceed.

ICE - Protecting You Since 10000 BC

This would be an extremely funny comment if it wasn't because these idiots who leave in charge of "Law and Order" other people who are even more stupid than themselves.
One may think that this is an extremely difficult task but when providing education is your last concern towards your people it's not difficult to find stupid and "stupider" people and then, of course, provide them with heavy weaponry...
Sadly funny I guess.

 

[fresh_42]

The Trump administration cut funding for clinical trials – now the effects are becoming clear.​

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From late February to August, funding was suspended for 383 clinical trials. The funding interruptions affected more than 74,000 study participants, according to a new study published Monday (November 17, 2025) in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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According to the study, roughly one in 30 studies lost their funding. Patel noted that it is unclear how many studies prior to the cuts that began in February had their funding retroactively revoked. However, he said this appeared to be rare. The researchers found that the cuts disproportionately affected studies focused on infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and HIV, prevention, and behavioral interventions. More than 100 of the revoked grants were earmarked for cancer research. The funding cuts also affected studies conducted outside the United States more than those conducted domestically. The NIH declined to comment prior to publication.
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Source: https://www.fr.de/wissen/eine-neue-...tudien-durcheinandergebracht-zr-94046308.html

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2840939

Comment: Another example of how easily an uneducated marauder can effectively damage the USA as a center of science. Sorry, but this man is harming the USA more than any terrorist could ever achieve.

 

[fresh_42]

At least 13 people pardoned by Trump have been charged again with crimes​

Source: https://www.fnp.de/politik/von-kind...-begnadigte-erneut-angeklagt-zr-94050775.html

Comment: Unbelievable.

 

[gleem]

At least 13 people pardoned by Trump have been charged again with crimes​

Let's hope they are not federal crimes so Trump can't pardon them again.