Roaming Charges: In ICE Cold Blood

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : And perhaps that's how ICE and the Trump administration want it. ICE's rules of engagement are to intimidate, to terrify.
58% : + Israel is the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
55% : + The only position one can morally take on ICE is the original position many of us advanced years ago: Disarm and Defund ICE, that's not the Democratic position, which calls for better training and better weapons!
54% : But it was blocked from coming to Good's aid by ICE vehicles.
54% : Johnson's List was a read so essential to understanding what was going on inside post-Soviet Russia that the pre-Mac Alexander Cockburn made me read every entry and forward him a summary of the "nuggets" by fax. +++ + Israel has now killed more than 420 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire, causing OED editors to scramble into order to enlarge the definition of "ceasefire."
54% : Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on Dan Goldman's re-election campaign launch: "Goldman literally chummed it up with Don Jr. on vacation in the Bahamas, praising Trump's Israel policy.
52% : + 36 states have given tax exemptions to data centers.
51% : + Using federal tax dollars, the Department of Homeland Security posted this ethnic cleansing fantasy on its social media account on New Year's Eve.
51% : + 2750 gigatons: amount of CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution from the burning of fossil fuels and land use change-more than the mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined.
49% : Still of an ICE agent shooting Renee Good from a video posted to X by Max Nesterak.
49% : The ICE agent responded brusquely: "I don't care," and ordered him to stay back.
49% : They shot people in a very similar way that they shot Renee Good: while they were in their cars, driving away and then blamed them for trying to run over ICE officers.
49% : " + ICE agents are dressing up as utility workers in Oregon to spy on and gain access to people's houses.
48% : Later, Netanyahu announced that Trump would be the first non-Israeli to receive the Israel Prize, which is the near opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize.
48% : Haaretz reported last week that a month before the October 7, 2023, attacks, Israel asked Qatar to increase the funds transferred to Hamas in Gaza.
48% : In fact, if we look back into history, the period with the highest taxes on the rich -- the postwar period -- was also a period with high economic growth and low unemployment.
47% : In 2025, Virginia lost $1.6 billion in revenue because of the tax exemptions granted to data centers.
46% : On October 4, an immigration agent shot Marimar Martinez five times while the 30-year-old teaching assistant and US citizen was driving around the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, warning residents of an impending ICE raid.
46% : This puts it above the militaries of Australia and Canada, and just below Israel's.
45% : A day after the Minneapolis shootings, Border Patrol agents in Portland shot two people, a man and a woman, during a traffic stop in the parking of a medical center complex.
44% : (The Intercept identified the shooter as Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent based in St. Paul.)
44% : This week, ICE finally relented to reality and released her after 25 days in captivity, during which time ICE transferred her to five different detention jails in Maryland, Louisiana, Texas and New Jersey, in an apparent attempt to keep her location hidden from her family, lawyers and the courts.
42% : Indeed, Julian Limberg, a co-author of the study, said the opposite is true: "Based on our research, we would argue that the economic rationale for keeping taxes on the rich low is weak.
41% : " A bystander who witnessed the shooting rushed forward to help, but was stopped by an ICE agent.
41% : Another video showed that Villegas-Gonzalez was driving away from the ICE officers, not toward them.
41% : As a slow-motion surveillance video of the shooting played on the laptop, we told him that this angle did not appear to show an ICE officer had been run over.
40% : Good put her car in reverse, backed up a little, then pulled forward slowly, turning away from the masked ICE agent who was slightly in front of her.
40% : The ICE agent shot her and he walked away.
40% : +++ + New study (this one by the London School of Economics), same old results: 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down.
39% : On September 3, an ICE agent shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican national, after dropping his daughter off at pre-school.
39% : " + Last month, I wrote about the dismaying case of Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, a young Maryland mother who was abducted by ICE while leaving a Taco Bell with her sister and detained, even after her legal team presented proof that she is a US citizen, born in the United States.
38% : ICE has killed before and will kill again.
38% : Portland's Mayor, Keith Wilson, called for ICE and Border Patrol to leave the city, saying "Portland isn't a training ground for militarized agents.
37% : In the last year, ICE agents have fired shots at least 15 times, killing four people.
37% : With the murder of Renee Good, ICE has now advanced from scaring the hell out of American citizens to killing them.
36% : I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.'
36% : + Trump wants to sanction the judges who found French fascist Marine Le Pen guilty of corruption and embezzlement of funds from the European Union... +
35% : + Trump's ICE agents have been tear-gassing, body-slamming, clubbing and shooting "rubber" bullets at peaceful protesters for the last 12 months... + 500: Number of bombing raids by the Trump administration in 2025, according to ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data).
34% : ICE claimed, with no evidence, that the documents were fakes and kept her imprisoned, facing deportation.
33% : + It's trigger-happy ranks already swollen with illiterate, obese, and intemperate rejects from the DEA, ATF and county sheriff departments, ICE plans a "wartime recruitment" drive, according to the Washington Post, that will target gun show attendees and military fanatics, using imagery that would embarrass DW Griffith and Lenni Reifinsthal ... + The Trump administration has been sending migrant teens caught up in its ICE raids to a juvenile prison in Pennsylvania run by the Abraxas Academy, a company with a history of child abuse.
32% : The Border Patrol officer who shot Martinez pulled up beyond her car and shouted, "Do something, bitch!," as he aimed his assault rifle at her.
28% : + Despite 969 Israeli violations over 80 days, including the killing of 420 Palestinians, the wounding of 1,141 and allowing only 40% of the aid trucks mandated by the truce into Gaza, Trump declared last week that Israel is "100% in compliance" with the ceasefire.
27% : + Minneapolis pastor Rev. Kenny Callaghan on being detained by ICE: "I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic.
26% : +++ + Citing "dangerous times," Trump said this week that the US needs to increase the Pentagon's budget by 50 percent, which, when combined with his tax cuts, will balloon the deficit.
24% : ICE originally said that Villegas-Gonzalez was shot after he tried to run over an ICE agent, who DHS claimed had been severely wounded.
22% : Is that how AP refers to Israel killing hundreds of Palestinian journalists and their families? + Trump/Netanyahu ceasefire plan for Gaza: keep them houseless, starving, hypothermic and sick...until they leave or die.
18% : + Amid reports that Israel has killed more than 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate cited the ghastly number of deaths as evidence that Israel is using collective punishment to crush reporting of its genocidal war in Gaza.

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