Yeah, here’s an opportunity for the Democrats to play “originalist” for once (DHS and subagencies didn’t exist in the time of founding fathers, why do we need it now!?!?), see how Republicans react 🤪.

Transat is a mostly South and East flier from the east half of Canada. So this is pretty big that their southward flights from Canada are going to skip touching the ground anywhere in the USA.

Since the metric is alignment with the USA’s UN votes, I think it’s just that the USA is taking more abjectly insane positions. Even if a new president is more “normal” and the votes become reasonable again, I think the shift away from the USA in other measures will stay as is or continue.

Despite Trump (or put any MAGA stooge here) asserting otherwise…

should always be replaced with

Despite Trump lying about it as usual…

That sounds like a fine state of affairs. Ms. Crispy Gnome can do spew bullshit lies for free if she wants to continue doing that.

It would be real nice to see him gone, at least we’d stop seeing him in Canada peddling bullshit in an official capacity.

Private, don’t worry, I won’t make you bomb that dinghy in the Caribbean Sea for no reason. Instead you can watch Melania and prepare me a film review report by next week.

Every US Court should reference this opinion regardless of whether the captured Supreme Court overturns it or not, to say that the DOJ can no longer be taken at its word by default.

It’s going to take a collectively outwardly aggressive movement, in the spirit of the armed Black Panther party.

You are emphasizing the aggressive portion of it, but I think Americans still need work on the collectively. “Get armed or get out” isn’t going to get you far in building a movement. For example, if Alex Pretti was alone and not recorded by a mass of other non-violent protestors at the time of his gang murder by ICE, the propaganda that Pretti was looking to shoot them first would stick a lot longer. Gun for gun, ICE’s budget for weapons per agent is a lot larger than even the most kitted out Black Panther. It’s already stupid the amount of weapons they have stockpiled against peaceful protest. If violence becomes the only way to win as you believe, ICE will put out a purchase order for a few LRADs or other “less-lethal” technologies that will make it hard for organized armed resistance to hold a gun straight. And further, at the first sign the administration can muster up a flimsy excuse to do a “MOVE bombing”, they certainly will.

Elections are state level, and while the fascists and gestapos are trying over and over to take it over from the states, so far it’s not working out. The MN boycott and national day of action happened last month and I don’t think they are saying “mission accomplished, we don’t need to do anything else” in response to 2000 of 3000 federal thugs sticking around. Various other groups are also organizing, like the supporters of Haitian refugees in Ohio, who will use these moments to organize and over the next few months become part of a national resistance network. Then there will be more options for aggressive and non-aggressive tactics.

“The president is leading this,” Johnson, R-La., told “Fox News Sunday.”

“It’s his play call to do it this way,” the speaker said, adding that the Republican president has “already conceded that he wants to turn down the volume” on federal immigration operations.

Republican Congress leaders Johnson and Thune look like what’d you get if you impressioned a face-shaped boot tread onto a faceless head. And Johnson’s comments here really shows that boot-licking is all he’s got left.

The most powerful person on the planet, also happens to be the most shamelessly corrupt.

He needs no shame either, as he has a subservient Supreme Court that is working overtime covering for him.

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Because the national momentum is going to fizzle out quickly if there’s no end in sight and no concrete achievable demand.

I will assume you are asking genuinely, but I hope you realize that every step that has prepared people to strike has been disparaged by people saying “not enough!”

I don’t think such a strong yet peaceful resistance to ICE could have happened without the series of No Kings protests.

I don’t think that the statewide strike could have happened without the persistent yet peaceful protest and resistance.

I don’t think the national one day strike could happen tomorrow without some evidence of it being successful and effective at the state-level, which it was.

An ongoing strike will be more likely to be successful if it follows a series of one day strikes. Yet a certain contingent cries “forever national strike now”, as if that can manifest itself just by saying it. So I’m sorry if you’re taking heat for a genuine concern, but it follows a long line of other users questioning if any action is “enough”.

In the realm of strike action, it’s like rotating strikes for an industry or work-to-rule instead of going directly to an all out work stoppage. These are tools you need to take time and prepare to use, and use them effectively. America’s not used to resisting the federal apparatus en masse like this in decades. Allow people some time and training. And I don’t imagine tomorrow will be the last day people decide to take action to resist the Trump admin.

Trump demolished his case for owning it

Half of his case was: “I’m mad the Norwegian government didn’t give me a non-governmental organization’s peace prize”. You can’t demolish something if it was already a pile of construction rubble.

I’m delighted that our Prime Minister clearly got under Trump’s skin with his speech. He certainly didn’t get his wits from America.

This lowers the bar of entry to acclimatize people to a future indefinite strike. Is one day of action going to be enough? Most people know, probably not, but if for whatever reason it is, great! Otherwise of course people will be at it longer and with better preparation.

The point being, complaints like this come across to me as shallow and unthoughtful. Each of these actions are a step towards a stronger, more robust resistance that with each additional participant become more difficult for any fascist administration put down. They keep doubling down but they are failing miserably to achieve their aims, which was ostensibly to subjugate and silence the people of Minnesota. I ask you to nurture and encourage people showing solidarity instead of writing it off as insufficient.

Europe, if you wanna get immediate change, threaten a tax against the whiniest economic cohort who have easy access to the USA president – billionaires.

You’re absolutely correct hence my caveat about commuting and about Seattle and WSDOT’s part in making few viable alternatives to driving on the I-5. This would be a perfect time to negotiate a temporary change with BNSF to a roughly hourly service, to offset closure impact and get people to try the train.

At this rate, the 1 Link will expand north 14 mi to Everett faster than the BNSF line can be upgraded to handle more passenger traffic.

Seattlites would rather drive to Spokane and back than taking the damn Sounder train for commuting. (For its part, SDOT/Sound Transit should really make the N Line a two way all day service)

Buddy you have a FIFA peace prize and Machado’s medal to suck on. Someone needs to change the toddler president’s nappies.