Category Archives: Fascism

An Afghan Family, With Visas in Hand, Is Detained in Los Angeles – The New York Times

The scene at the airport was “chaotic, panicked; it was a mess,” said Lali Madduri, a lawyer with the firm Gibson Dunn, which is representing the family pro bono. “The whole time the children are crying, the woman is crying. They can’t understand what’s going on.

”The father had arrived on Thursday with his wife and three children, ages 7, 6 and 8 months, on Special Immigrant Visas, according to the lawyers’ habeas corpus petition filed on Saturday in Federal District Court in Los Angeles. Those visas were created by Congress for citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan who have helped the United States military or government as drivers, interpreters or in other jobs — work that often makes them targets in their home countries.But instead of being allowed to enter the United States, the family has been detained, according to the court papers.

“I’ve never, ever heard of this happening,” said Becca Heller, the director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, or IRAP, which filed the petition. “They go through so many layers of security clearance, including one right before they get on the plane. ”Calling the detention “egregious, inhumane and unconstitutional,” the group petitioned the court to release the family, whose names were not publicly revealed. The judge did not order the family be released, but set a hearing in the case for Monday.According to Ms. Heller, the father was being held Saturday night at a men’s immigration detention facility in Orange County, Calif. His wife and children were taken to a detention center in downtown Los Angeles.

Sikh man shot in the arm says gunman told him ‘go back to your own country’ | World news | The Guardian #LoserTrump

A Sikh man who was shot in the arm late Friday said the gunman approached him as he worked on his car in his suburban Seattle driveway and told him to “go back to your own country”.

Source: Sikh man shot in the arm says gunman told him ‘go back to your own country’ | World news | The Guardian

#LoserTrump Seeks Inquiry Into Unproved Allegations That Obama Tapped His Phones –  “Really desperate to deflect from treason with Russians!”

Senior law enforcement and intelligence officials who worked in the Obama administration have said there were no such secret intelligence warrants regarding Mr. Trump. Asked whether such a warrant existed, James R. Clapper Jr., a former director of national intelligence, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, “Not to my knowledge, no.”“There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign,” Mr. Clapper added.

San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking : Image of the Day – Inconvenient truths will lead trump to cut more from NASA budget.

Since the 1920s, excessive pumping of groundwater at thousands of wells has caused land to subside, or sink, by as much as 8.5 meters (28 feet) in sections of California’s San Joaquin Valley. This subsidence is exacerbated during droughts, when farmers rely heavily on groundwater to sustain one of the most productive agricultural regions in the United States.Subsidence is a serious and challenging concern for California’s water managers, putting state and federal aqueducts, levees, bridges and roads at risk of damage. Already, long-term land subsidence has damaged thousands of public and private groundwater wells throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Furthermore, the subsidence can permanently reduce the storage capacity of underground aquifers, threatening future water supplies. It’s also expensive. While there is no comprehensive estimate of damage costs associated with subsidence, state and federal water agencies have spent an estimated $100 million on related repairs since the 1960s.

Source: San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking : Image of the Day

Jewish Cemetery In Rochester Vandalized: Gothamist

As for President Trump, he and his advisors spent the last couple of days cautioning everyone not to jump to conclusions and to focus on what’s important. Trump told a meeting of state attorneys general that bomb threats against JCCs nationwide might have been done in order to “make others look bad,” a statement which baffled the Pennsylvania state attorney general. Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci tweeted a reminder that some Democratic activists engaged in “bird dogging” during the 2016 election, a tactic that’s generally understood to mean aggressive questioning of elected officials, as proof that…maybe liberals are behind this? Typical of a coward who’s “just raising questions,” Scaramucci later tweeted that he just didn’t want anyone to overreact and of course he Loves The Jews.

Source: Jewish Cemetery In Rochester Vandalized: Gothamist

Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers | FlowingData And Mr. Trump thinks all this is to make him look bad, which would mean that it’s not haters of Jews but haters of Trump? Pretty delusional, I’d say

Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw from ProPublica with a set of straightforward maps that show bomb threats to Jewish community centers and organizations: Since Jan. 1, at least 89 locations of Jewish organizations in the United States — including schools, Jewish Community Centers, and offices of the Anti-Defamation League — have received a total of 114 bomb threats. The majority have come in five of what the JCC Association of North America calls “waves” — groups of robocalls coming on a single day. So far, none of the threats have been carried out.

Source: Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers | FlowingData

Trump Condemns Attacks On Jews – After Earlier Suggesting They Are Meant To Make Him Look Bad | Southern Poverty Law Center ROTFLMAO – People are threatening Jews and defacing cemeteries to make Trump look bad??? A new definition of spin, BS and ItsAllAboutMe!

the president believes the threatened attacks on Jewish communities around the United States are not the product of anti-Semitic terrorism, but instead are part of a campaign by his political enemies to make him look bad.On Tuesday morning, he reportedly told a gathering of state attorneys general that “sometimes it’s the reverse” when asked about such incidents as the toppling of nearly a hundred headstones in a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery.Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told reporters: “He just said, ‘Sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people — or to make others — look bad,’ and he used the word ‘reverse’ I would say two to three times in his comments,” Shapiro said. “He did correctly say at the top that it was reprehensible.”

Source: Trump Condemns Attacks On Jews – After Earlier Suggesting They Are Meant To Make Him Look Bad | Southern Poverty Law Center

Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign, Justice officials say – The Washington Post – hate is love, love is hate. Lying is being true.

The attorney general did not disclose the encounters during his confirmation hearing.

Source: Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign, Justice officials say – The Washington Post

“I did not have communications with the Russians,” Sessions said at his January confirmation hearing, when asked what he would do if he learned of evidence anyone in the campaign had communicated with the Russian government during the 2016 race. A spokeswoman for Sessions said there was “absolutely nothing misleading” about the answer and said he met with the Russian envoy as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee rather than as a top foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.

Richmond District Indian, Eritrean Restaurants Shot At During Dinner: SFist Happy David Duke, Trumpster?

Diners and staff at two Richmond District restaurants a half a mile apart were terrified but uninjured by gunfire in the same five minute span on Sunday night, incidents that an SFPD spokesperson called “very similar” in speaking to the Chronicle.“People heard a loud pop,” said officer Giselle Talkoff. “A window shattered. No one saw any suspects.” The restaurants appear to be Star India on the 3700 block of Geary Boulevard, fired into at 7:21 p.m., and Assab Eritrean on the 2800 block of the same street at 7:26 p.m.“Through the course of the investigation, they’ll try to determine whether this was a specific, targeted [crime] or see if it was something random,” Talkoff added. No arrests have yet been made as investigators scour the neighborhood for leads like surveillance footage and witnesses.

Source: Richmond District Indian, Eritrean Restaurants Shot At During Dinner: SFist

This Interview With Shirtless Alex Jones Will Ruin Your Day: Gothamist “Putin wannabe pose – next Trump on a horse and no shirt – my eyes, my eyes! My brain is melting!”

Alex Jones—a red-faced screaming sack of flesh who thinks the Obama administration faked the Sandy Hook massacre so they could take away Americans’ guns and now has the ear of the President of the United States—was the subject of a sprawling profile in German news magazine Der Spiegel today. At some point, the reporter had lunch with Jones, who was dressed like this:

Source: This Interview With Shirtless Alex Jones Will Ruin Your Day: Gothamist