Roaming Charges: Are We Not Men? No, We Are DAVOS

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : " + Israel just demolished the Jerusalem headquarters of UNRWA, yet Israel remains a member in good standing of the UN.
64% : Some, like Cory Booker, want to give ICE even more money in the name of "training.
61% : In fact, we have a long history of working exceptionally well with our federal partners, including ICE agents, and we have seen the best of them perform their job extremely well in the past.
59% : There's actually very little left of the US social welfare system since Yglesias's political heroes, Bill and Hillary, ended "welfare as we know it" in 1994.
58% : + With the support of many Democrats, the budget for ICE was tripled.
57% : The ICE directive directly undercuts that advice.
56% : + ICE Associate Director Marcos Charles told 60 Minutes that any individual that ICE agents encounter in, around, or in-route to a "target" is fair game for an interrogation
55% : + Rather than simply giving poor families cash, a proven remedy for reducing child poverty, Yglesias wants to give them "tax credits," which the Field Guide to American Political Birds says is one of the surest signs to identify a subspecies of the Neoliberal Peacock, preening its tail feathers.
52% : + Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ's foreign affairs editor: "Trump's Board of Peace looks very much like a plan to replace the UN Security Council with an imperial court of vassals in which he is chairman for life, even after leaving the White House, with veto over every decision and the sole right to designate a successor.
51% : The Wall Street Journal reports that ICE agents get bonuses based on their arrests, which they get to keep even if the person is released without charges.
51% : + Instead of defunding ICE, Democratic Party deep-thinkers like Matty Yglesias want to defund...er....welfare, though he doesn't seem to know what "welfare" actually is, since several of the programs he endorses (SNAP, Medicaid and child tax credits are "welfare" programs).
51% : Or perhaps they'll join ICE?
50% : " + The Associated Press reported that ICE agents are being "trained" on how to break into people's homes without a warrant."
50% : + As Trump prepares to send military lawyers, military police and perhaps the military itself to Minneapolis/St. Paull, ICE reportedly has booked thousands of hotel rooms booked in the Twin Cities through May!
50% : Our country's moral role in confronting evil around the world, sustaining the right to life and human dignity, and supporting religious liberty are all under examination.
50% : + Springsteen tells ICE where to go... Booked Up What I'm reading this week... The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals: A Vet's Vision for a More Humane Future Larry Carbone (California) The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World Clifton Crais (Chicago) Black Robes Enter Coyote's World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains Sally Thompson (Bison Books) Sound Grammar What I'm listening to this week Off the Fence James Hunter Six (Easy Eye Sound)
49% : His moral sensibility is simply unparalleled... + Renee Good still had a pulse when paramedics (who had to trek across the snow several blocks on foot because ICE blocked the ambulance from entering Portland Ave) reached her, more than 15 minutes after she was shot and ICE refused to allow a physician on the scene to treat her wound.
49% : Just think what other kinds of Constitutional mischief they could get up to if the Democrats' plan to give ICE officers "more training" gets billions in funding... AP's Rebecca Santana: "For years, immigrant advocates, legal aid groups and local governments have urged people not to open their doors to immigration agents unless they are shown a warrant signed by a judge.
48% : + Only 32 fossil fuel companies were "responsible" for half the global carbon dioxide emissions produced by human activity in 2024, according to a report by the Carbon Majors, which names Saudi Aramco as the "biggest state-owned polluter" and ExxonMobil the largest "investor-owned polluter."
48% : State-owned fossil fuel companies make up 17 of the 20 "top emitters, "all controlled by countries that opposed a measure to phaseout fossil fuel at last year's COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil.
45% : What you won't hear from any of us today is the rhetoric of "abolish ICE" or that there shouldn't be immigration enforcement.
45% : + This week, ICE arrested four children in Minneapolis, one as young as five years old, in their driveway as they came home from school.
45% : Its agents now claim it would cause "chaos" to let people it arrested and detained see their lawyers... + Judd Legum at Popular.Info reports that ICE hasn't paid its bills for third-party medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees since October, leading to many detainees with serious, even critical, conditions not getting treatment.
45% : + Matt Duss: "Democratic foreign policy hands who stood by as the US helped obliterate Gaza but have now decided that seizing Greenland is a bridge too far: We see you." + The Davos debut of Trump's Board of Peace, his scheme to replace the United Nations and international law, with a group of like-minded autocrats willing to pony up $1 billion a seat, was a bust.
45% : By eliding the identity of the killers... + Stephen Semler: "By the time the House passed the State Department bill with $3.3 billion for Israel last week, the US had already given Israel $352 billion in aid since its founding.
44% : And that "echoes recent reports by the Budget Lab at Yale and economists at Harvard Business School," the Journal reported, writing, "Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.
42% : + ICE is shredding the Bill of Rights one amendment after another.
42% : In Brooklyn Park, one particular officer who shared her story with me was stopped as she passed ICE going down the roadway.
42% : + ICE is shredding the Bill of Rights one amendment after another.
40% : + Defund ICE and the LA Dodgers!
39% : According to a study quoted by the Wall Street Journal, American consumers and importers paid 96% of the cost of Trump's tariffs in 2025: "Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.
39% : + A UN report warns that the world is facing irreversible water "bankruptcy" as a consequence of decades of overextraction of water reserves combine with shrinking supplies from lakes, rivers, glaciers and wetlands.
38% : + This week, there was another death in ICE custody.
38% : + This week, there was another death in ICE custody.
38% : Stateline reports that ICE is using data from Medicare-phone numbers, addresses, employment, birth dates and migration status-to track down immigrants and detain them, leading to fears that many immigrants will not seek medical care when they need it so as not to risk deportation.
38% : + Several CounterPunch correspondents have requested press credentials this week to cover protests against ICE.
37% : " + Mark Bruley, the Police Chief of Brooklyn Park, a suburb north of Minneapolis, speaks out against ICE's (Brett) Kavanaugh-stops (racial profiling) of his off-duty officers, all of them either Hispanic, Native American or Black: I'm Mark Bruley, police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
36% : The detained man has a serious medical condition and ICE stopped paying its third-party medical providers in October, so many detainees with serious, and even critical, medical conditions aren't receiving any treatment.
35% : + Trump's threat to send federal troops into Minnesota without a single serious injury to an ICE agent makes whatever happened in the Gulf of Tonkin appear like a real "incident."
34% : + ICE wants you to believe they confused Scott Thao for the men in the wanted poster... + A Go Fund Me Page for the St. Paul snowplow driver who was racially profiled, arrested by ICE and transferred more than 1100 miles away to a detention prison in Texas, despite being a legal resident with no criminal record and an employee of the City of St. Paul.
33% : + What part of the Constitution allows an ICE agent to bust into a Thai restaurant with his gun drawn in St. Paul, Minnesota, shouting at the terrified owners that he was "looking for a kid" he accused them, without any evidence, of "hiding"? + ICE conducted a warrantless raid on the home of an elderly US citizen named Chongly "Scott" Thao, dragged him out of the house into freezing temperatures in his underwear, perp-walked him in front of the press, and accused him first of being a child molester, then, after that libel fell apart, of housing two sex offenders-allegations which seem to have been completely invented to justify this abusive and unconstitutional home invasion, arrest and detention.
30% : But how did Bari Weiss report Israel killing one of her own staffers on the homepage of CBS News?
18% : " + Adam Johnson on the (worse than) useless Cory Booker's plan to give ICE officers "more training": "The guy who killed Renee Good was a ten year ICE veteran who had been thoroughly "trained" by the US military, border patrol and ICE and Good's murder was captured on three different cameras so what does any of this have to do with anything" + Trump has sent 13% of his immigration forces to Minnesota and is considering sending in the military.

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