The Evening Blues - 1-26-26
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Garnet Mimms - I'll Take Good Care of You
"Reality itself is too twisted."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
News and Opinion
If I spoke critically of something abusive that India was doing in Kashmir, would you expect me to be accused of an anti-Hindu hate crime?
If you criticized an Indian military operation, would you have to preface it with “I don’t hate Hindus or their religion and am not the slightest bit Hinduphobic”?
If there was worldwide opposition to something that Indian military forces were doing, would you expect western governments to start frantically churning out laws to ban that opposition because it was making members of the Hindu community feel unsafe?
Would it ever in your wildest imaginings occur to you that a criticism of the violent actions of the government of India could in any way be interpreted as an attack on the Hindu faith and the membership of that religion?
You can probably see where I’m going with this.
Normal person: It's bad to massacre tens of thousands of civilians.
Crazy person: Oh so you're saying you hate Jews then. You're saying Jews shouldn't defend themselves. You want all the Jews to die so there won't be any more Jews because you hate Jews. Jews Jews Jews Jews Jews.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) January 16, 2024
You don’t expect to see criticisms of the state of India framed as an attack on its majority religion because people in your society haven’t been conditioned to have that expectation. But we have been conditioned to have that expectation about Israel.
The association between antisemitism and criticism of the state of Israel isn’t natural. It’s not something that would organically occur to an untrained mind.
If a man who’d never heard of Israel or Palestine were shown footage of the genocide in Gaza, he would reflexively recoil in horror and say what he was looking at was a bad thing. If somebody then ran up and explained to him that what he just said was actually a hateful act of religious persecution, he would be very surprised and confused. Because he hadn’t been indoctrinated into making that association, in the same way you haven’t been indoctrinated into associating criticism of the Indian government with an attack on the religion of Hinduism.
It’s a completely counterintuitive association. There’s nothing about it that that you could find your way into through your own observation and reasoning. It’s something you’d need to be taught by others. You need it to be explained to you.
That’s the literal translation of the Hebrew word “hasbara”. It means “explaining”. Israel and its supporters have spent decades “explaining” to the world that criticism of the state of Israel is actually a terrible hate crime against Jews and their religion, because otherwise it would never occur to a normal person that that is the case.
It’s actually astonishingly impressive. The political ideology of support for this tiny apartheid state has been so effective at explaining to the world what thoughts they should think about it that those efforts touch all our lives. It’s so effective that you could be at a social gathering all the way across the sea in the United States and, unless you are very familiar with the people around you, if the subject of Israel comes up you’ll immediately understand that you could be in for a very uncomfortable evening.
It’s stunning how much influence this ideology has had throughout our society’s culture and institutions. It’s almost magical.
“Using the magic system, Zionism...” says Daniella Weiss, a far-right Israeli settler leader and former mayor of Kedumim, describing how to overcome the “great difficulty” of establishing Zionist colonies in Gaza. In the BBC 'The Settlers' documentary, she lays out her vision… pic.twitter.com/Ukn4vaNmKK
— Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) April 29, 2025
There was a segment in last year’s Louis Theroux documentary The Settlers that stuck with me where Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss refers to Zionism as a “magic system”.
“Jewish settlements in Gaza is a very difficult step that demands a lot of work,” Weiss told Theroux. “You have to influence the leftists, the government, the nations of the world, using the magic system: Zionism.”
It isn’t surprising to learn that Weiss views her operations as a kind of magic. On paper she and her ilk shouldn’t be able to do what they do. Forcefully dropping a foreign ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization and violently hammering it into place against every organic impulse of the region is freakish enough, but then convincing the rest of the world to support this? To the point that it actually affects our interpersonal relationships and interactions on the other side of the planet? It shouldn’t work. But it does.
I don’t really know what magic is, but it makes sense that some Zionists would see it that way. Because from the outside looking in all that mass-scale psychosocial manipulation kind of does look like an inexplicable sort of wizardry.
Luckily, the magic seems to be wearing off. The old tricks just aren’t working anymore. Calling someone who criticizes Israel an “antisemite” is widely recognized for the fraudulent manipulation that it is. Pro-Palestine politicians are winning elections despite highly coordinated smear campaigns saying their candidacy makes Jews feel unsafe. Everyone knows Israel lies about everything all the time. Trust in the media is at an all-time low, while awareness of the pro-Israel bias of the mainstream press is at an all-time high.
People are still showing up for protests and pro-Palestine events. The public is turning against Israel in unprecedented numbers. Nobody’s buying the old song and dance anymore.
Maybe the people are finding a little magic of their own.
Trump's Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ Is a Billionaire Cash Grab
Israel said on Sunday its military was conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the body of the last hostage in Gaza, adding that it would only reopen the Rafah crossing with Egypt after the mission was completed. The statement came as Israel’s cabinet met to discuss the possibility of opening the key border crossing, and a day after top US envoys met prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reportedly urged him to reopen the vital entry point for aid into Gaza.
Israel’s demand for the return of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as the last obstacle to opening the Rafah crossing and beginning the US-brokered ceasefire’s second phase. The border was supposed to have opened during the initial phase of Donald Trump’s plan to end the war last October.
Israel conditioned the reopening on the return of all living hostages held by Palestinian militant factions in Gaza, as well as a “100% effort” by Hamas to locate and return the bodies of all deceased hostages. All have been returned except for the body of Gvili, a police officer.
The Israeli military “is currently conducting a focused operation to exhaust all of the intelligence that has been gathered in the effort to locate and return the fallen hostage, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, of blessed memory,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, adding that once this search operation is “exhausted” Israel will open the Rafah crossing.
On Thursday, Ali Shaath, head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the US to temporarily administer Gaza, said the Rafah Crossing would open this week. It is effectively the sole route in or out of Gaza for nearly all of the more than 2 million people who live there.
Israel's Goals Have NOTHING TO DO With Hamas! (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
Israel Wants More Palestinians Exiting Than Entering Gaza
Israel is attempting to condition the reopening of the Rafah border crossing on more Palestinians exiting the Strip than returning to Gaza.
Under the peace deal Israel and Hamas signed in October, Tel Aviv agreed to reopen the Rafah border crossing. However, Israel has only allowed traffic out of Gaza into Rafah. Hamas says the peace deal, which was brokered by President Donald Trump, cannot progress to the next phase until the Rafah crossing reopens.
Israel is facing increasing pressure to reopen the crossing. The Board of Peace, a committee controlled by Trump, said on Tuesday that the cross will open at some point this week. On Friday, officials told Reuters that Tel Aviv is pushing for only a partial reopening of the Rafah crossing to ensure more Palestinians are exiting Gaza than entering the Strip.
How the U.S. Reputation is Changing Round the World /Larry Johnson & Lt Col Daniel Davis
Trump Orders Major Military Buildup in Middle East Amid Tensions with Iran
The White House is stepping up its effort to remove the government of Iran by imposing new sanctions on oil shipping and engaging in a significant military buildup that could be the prelude to a war on the Islamic Republic.
“We’re watching Iran. We have a big force going towards Iran,” President Donald Trump said on Thursday. “And maybe we won’t have to use it. We have a lot of ships going that direction. Just in case, we have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we’ll see what happens.”
The military buildup includes the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, F-15s, and advanced air defense systems. Trump ordered a similar package of military assets to the Middle East before Israel launched an aggressive war against Iran in June.
Alastair Crooke : Trump Went TACO on Greenland — Will He on Iran?
Israeli report says Jordan and UAE to support potential US attack on Iran
Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom would provide logistical and intelligence support to the US military in the event of an attack on Iran, according to an Israeli media report.
The daily Israel Hayom reported on Sunday that senior figures in Donald Trump’s administration are pushing for what it described as a “strong attack” on Iran, framing it as a “fundamental strategic move”.
The report said the move is also backed by Abu Dhabi and several European countries, including the UK.
According to Israel Hayom, the UAE, Britain and Jordan would share intelligence and operational data to support Washington, and could also play a role in intercepting Iranian missiles and drones launched in retaliation.
The report comes as US Central Command (Centcom) chief Admiral Brad Cooper arrived in Israel on Saturday for meetings with senior Israeli security officials.
A federal judge on Thursday unsealed documents showing that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally approved the deportation of university students after receiving memos highlighting their involvement in constitutionally protected campus protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Massachusetts-based Senior Judge William G. Young—an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan—unsealed 105 pages of documents he initially kept under wraps because they contained details regarding federal investigations. Young granted a request by media outlets including the New York Times to unseal the files as a matter of public interest.
Last year, Young ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by targeting pro-Palestine student activists in a bid to “unconstitutionally... chill freedom of speech.”
The unsealed documents include Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos recommending that five student activists who were legally in the United States—Yunseo Chung, Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri, and Rümeysa Öztürk—be deported, despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing.
“There are few things more un-American than masked agents throwing dissenters in the back of a van because the government doesn’t like what they have to say,” Conor Fitzpatrick, supervising senior attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)—which sued the administration over the unconstitutionality of its efforts—said Friday in a statement.
“But these documents prove that it was the students’ opinions alone, and not any criminal activity, that led to handcuffs and deportation proceedings,” Fitzpatrick added. “The First Amendment means the government cannot punish speakers for their opinions, but that is exactly what the government is doing.”
Confirming everything we knew already; the Trump admin had a foreign student arrested by masked men on the streets and detained in a remote southern prison for co-writing an op-ed and NOTHING more. https://t.co/V1uZeEdWZk pic.twitter.com/jbkUuyw3ez
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 23, 2026
As the Times reported Friday:
The documents indicate that in nearly all instances, the arrests of the students were recommended based on their involvement in campus protests and public writings, activities that the Trump administration routinely equated to antisemitic hate speech and support for terrorist organizations. They also show that officials privately anticipated the possibility that the deportations might not hold up in court because much of the conduct highlighted could be seen as protected speech.
“Given the potential that a court may consider his actions inextricably tied to speech protected under the First Amendment, it is likely that courts will scrutinize the basis for this determination,” stated one memo on Madhawi, a Columbia University student and permanent US resident.
In another document, Trump administration officials admitted there were no grounds for deporting the students, but noted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which empowers the secretary of state to expel noncitizens whose presence in the United States is deemed detrimental to US foreign policy interests.
Rubio cited the law to target pro-Palestine students for deportation, a stance that was rebuked in a June 2025 ruling from US District Judge Michael Farbiarz, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who found that Khalil’s “career and reputation are being damaged and his speech is being chilled” by the Trump administration’s actions.
In May 2025, US District Judge William Sessions III—who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton—ordered the release of Öztürk. The Turkish PhD student at Tufts University was illegally snatched off a Massachusetts street in March 2025 and taken to a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lockup in Louisiana after she published an opinion piece in a student newspaper advocating divestment from apartheid Israel.
“There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the op-ed,” Sessions wrote in his ruling.
One of the newly unsealed State Department documents states that DHS and ICE have “not provided any evidence showing that Öztürk has engaged in any antisemitic activity or made any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or antisemitism generally.”
Remember how Rubio lied by saying she was detained for campus violence and not for writing an oped https://t.co/S4aweXz6pW pic.twitter.com/1a8GdOR1f6
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) January 23, 2026
Fitzpatrick stressed that “this can’t happen in a free society.”
“It can’t happen in a free America,” he added. “We’ll continue to fight this egregious violation of the Constitution every step of the way.”
"Never Experienced Such DARKNESS" - Gabor Maté's Assessment of the Left
Canada has no intention of pursuing free trade with China, says Carney
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Sunday his country had no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China, responding to Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if the US’s northern neighbour went ahead with a trade deal with Beijing. Carney said his recent agreement with China merely cut tariffs on a few sectors that were recently hit with them.
The prime minister said that, under the free trade agreement with the US and Mexico, there were commitments not to pursue free trade agreements with non-market economies without prior notification.
Trump made his threat in a social media post, saying that if Carney “thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken”. The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on ABC’s This Week: “We can’t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the US.
“We have a [United States-Mexico-Canada agreement], but based off – based on that, which is going to be renegotiated this summer, and I’m not sure what prime minister Carney is doing here, other than trying to virtue-signal to his globalist friends at Davos.”
Trump’s threat came amid an escalating war of words with Carney as the Republican president’s push to acquire Greenland strained the Nato alliance.
Trump’s Greenland brinkmanship leaves leading Republicans rattled
Donald Trump pulled back from the brink on Greenland but not before causing untold damage to the Nato alliance. The US president’s sabre-rattling may also have shaken the faith of his own Republican party. Trump’s fleeting threat to conquer the Danish territory prompted the most strident Republican opposition to anything he has done since taking office a year ago. It came on the heels of challenges to his authority over military powers, healthcare legislation and the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The mini-rebellion suggests that a small but vocal minority of Republicans feel increasingly emboldened to speak out against a 79-year-old leader who, for all his dominance of the party, is polling dismally and could drag them down in November’s midterm elections.
“You’ve never had a president with this much influence and this much political and legislative success so in that sense he’s winning but his own party is starting to question and wonder out loud at what cost?” said Frank Luntz, a political consultant and pollster. “He has been the most influential president since Franklin Roosevelt but the public and even people in his own party are starting to wonder whether it’s too much.”
For much of Trump’s first year in office they gave the president such free rein on government downsizing, immigration enforcement and trade tariffs that critics said Congress had abdicated its responsibility, in effect setting up Trump as a monarch. But there have been blips. In November four House Republicans – Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace – took a rare stand against Trump by signing a discharge petition to force a vote to release federal files related to sex offender Epstein.
Few Republicans publicly dissented from the successful operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela and many actively cheered it. But Trump’s bellicose rhetoric about seizing Greenland – threatening tariffs on European allies and refusing to rule out taking it by force – was seen by some as a bridge too far.
Gov Shutdown IMMINENT Over ICE Funding
FBI supervisor resigns after trying to investigate agent who shot Renee Good
A supervisor in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office who unsuccessfully attempted to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in the city on 7 January has resigned, according to multiple reports. News of agent Tracee Mergen’s resignation surfaced shortly before federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. Pretti and Good were both 37-year-old US citizens.
Mergen resigned following pressure from the bureau in Washington DC to discontinue an inquiry into ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who shot Good to death as videos showed her trying to drive away from a confrontation, according to the New York Times and NBC News. Those outlets cited sources. The FBI has not commented on Mergen’s resignation, saying it does not comment on personnel matters.
Mergen’s decision to leave the bureau, meanwhile, comes as Trump’s justice department has said it sees no reason for initiating a civil rights investigation into Good’s killing, which had also prompted street protests. “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said in a statement on 13 January. The Trump administration has argued that Ross acted in self-defense after Good obstructed federal law enforcement operations with her vehicle, endangering the agent.
Federal authorities have refused to co-operate with local authorities, leading to claims by Democratic officials that the federal government is involved in a coverup.
"He Was Executed": Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti
Minneapolis residents, angry and anxious, resolve to fight on as they mourn Alex Pretti
The temperature hovered around zero degrees as news crews and mourners stopped by the site where another Minneapolis resident was shot and killed by federal agents flooding the city to carry out the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. People put up makeshift barriers in the street immediately after the shooting on Saturday, blocking off traffic with wooden pallets, trash cans and furniture. Later, the city had put up a perimeter around the area in the aftermath of the shooting and protests against immigration agents that saw agents shooting chemical irritants and flash-bangs at people. Some of the debris from those weapons was still evident in the streets.
At the scene, a tribute continued to grow – flowers, candles and signs stuck into the snowbank and on the asphalt – for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse who was observing ICE when he was killed. His death came less than three weeks after Renee Good, also 37, was killed by a federal agent in the city. In Minneapolis the scene of a growing vigil is now all too common.
Spray paint saying “ICE OUT” and “Fuck ICE” could be found throughout the area, on freeway overpasses and the sides of buildings. “RIP Alex,” signs at the shooting site said. People huddled in thick winter coats, one with a blanket wrapped around them, to pay their respects and keep watch on the memorial. A Saturday evening vigil in the neighborhood drew many hundreds of people in subzero temperatures. They lit candles and grieved Pretti’s death and the ongoing turmoil agents have brought to the city. Around the state, people gathered in parks and on street corners to light candles in his memory. Nationwide, his death sparked protests.
Minneapolis officials had immediately gone to the courts on Saturday after the shooting, seeking an immediate ruling on a temporary restraining order to stop federal agents’ activity in the city. On Sunday morning, new videos showing federal agents brawling with observers at an apartment building in north Minneapolis surfaced – a sign that ICE isn’t stopping, but neither are the people of Minneapolis.
The federal government has shown no signs it will slow or stop its siege on the state, and it has defended agents’ actions without investigation, offering explanations that contradict the ample video evidence residents have gathered. They have blamed local officials, namely the governor and mayor, for not cooperating with agents. The attorney general, Pam Bondi, sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz on Saturday issuing demands to the state, including turning over data on food assistance programs, ending sanctuary policies and turning over the state’s voting rolls.
ROUNDUP: ALL Trump Admin LIES About MN Shooting
NEWS: Star Tribune reports ICE agents have taken multiple witnesses into custody in Minneapolis.
Let that sink in.
They didn’t just shoot a man.
Now they’re detaining the people who saw it happen.
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 24, 2026
Trump blames Democrats for 'chaos' leading to deaths
Donald Trump has blamed Democrats for causing “chaos” that led to the deaths of two Americans at the hands of federal agents.
The president also claimed on his Truth Social platform that Democrat-run “sanctuary” cities and states were refusing to cooperate with ICE and “actually encouraging leftwing agitators to unlawfully obstruct their operations”.
Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying hand over the voter rolls, or ICE won’t back off.
That’s a shakedown. They’re using fear to get their hands on voter information. In America, you don’t get to strong-arm your way into our elections. pic.twitter.com/IbJc3ufl9k
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) January 25, 2026
NRA and pro-gun groups call for ‘full investigation’ into killing of Alex Pretti
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has joined other gun lobbying and advocacy groups that are typically aligned with Donald Trump in calling for the Republican president’s administration to conduct a “full investigation” into the killing of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse who was shot dead by federal immigration officials in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Pretti was reportedly legally permitted to carry a gun and is a citizen of the US, where it is a constitutional right to bear arms. Widely circulated video of his shooting death does not depict him ever holding a gun. It does show an officer reaching to Pretti’s lower back and stepping away with what appeared to be a pistol – and Pretti being subsequently shot to death.
The NRA waded into the national dialogue over Pretti’s killing after Bill Essayli – who was appointed by Trump to temporarily serve as a US attorney in California in 2025 – posted on social media: “If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.”
In response, the NRA posted: “This sentiment … is dangerous and wrong. Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens.” Gun Owners of America, a non-profit lobbying organization, also criticized that claim from Essayli – who is now an acting first assistant US attorney for California’s central federal district court. “Federal agents are not ‘highly likely’ to be ‘legally justified’ in ‘shooting’ concealed carry licensees who approach while lawfully carrying a firearm,” the group posted. It added that the US constitution’s second amendment “protects Americans’ right to bear arms while protesting – a right the federal government must not infringe upon.” ...
Witnesses stated in sworn testimonies that Pretti was not brandishing a gun when federal immigration officers descended on him. Those statements are both consistent with publicly available video evidence and contradict the Trump administration’s claims that the shots officers aimed at Pretti were defensive in nature.
Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022
Water-related violence has almost doubled since 2022 and little is being done to understand and address the trend and prevent new and escalating risks, experts have said. There were 419 incidents of water-related violence recorded in 2024, up from 235 in 2022, according to the Pacific Institute, a US-based thinktank. The institute has compiled evidence of hundreds of years of water-related conflicts, including cases of water being a trigger for violence, a weapon of conflict or a casualty of conflict.
“We’re seeing more conflicts and they are multicausal,” said Dr Peter Gleick, a co-founder and senior fellow at the institute. “The climate crisis and extreme weather play a part but there are lots of other factors such as state failure and incompetent or corrupt governments, and lack of or misuse of infrastructure.” Joanna Trevor, Oxfam’s water security lead, said the charity had also seen “an increase in localised conflicts over water due to climate change and water insecurity”.
Recent examples include tensions over an Indus River water-sharing treaty between India and Pakistan after a terrorist attack, Russia targeting hydropower dams in Ukraine, Israel destroying Gaza’s water systems, and protests over water supplies in South Africa.
“In Gaza, Israel systematically weaponised water,” Trevor said. “They deliberately targeted water systems and desalination plants and blocked repairs. Wastewater contaminated drinking water due to the destruction of sewage and storm water infrastructure, and people have been attacked while waiting or queueing for water.
“In east Africa and the Sahel, water is becoming increasingly insecure and people are moving into new areas to access water, which in itself can trigger competition and conflict with the host population.”
New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of Pfas ‘forever chemicals’
New filtration technology developed by Rice University may absorb some Pfas “forever chemicals” at 100 times the rate previously possible, which could dramatically improve pollution control and speed remediations. Researchers also say they have also found a way to destroy Pfas, though both technologies face a steep challenge in being deployed on an industrial scale.
A new peer-reviewed paper details a layered double hydroxide (LDH) material made from copper and aluminum that absorbs long-chain Pfas up to 100 times faster than commonly used filtration systems. “This material is going to be important for the direction of research on Pfas destruction in general,” said Michael Wong, director of Rice’s Water Institute, a Pfas research center.
Current filtration technology like granular activated carbon, reverse osmosis or ion exchange absorbs Pfas in water, and the chemicals caught in the filter must be stored in hazardous waste facilities, or destroyed. Destruction of the chemicals typically involves a thermal process that subjects them to high heat, but that leaves toxic byproducts, or essentially breaks larger Pfas into smaller Pfas. There is no technology that fully destroys Pfas on an industrial scale.
Wong said Rice’s non-thermal process works by soaking up and concentrating Pfas at high levels, which makes it possible to destroy them without high temperatures. The LDH material Rice developed is a variation of similar materials previously used, but researchers replaced some aluminum atoms with copper atoms. The LDH material is positively charged and the long-chain Pfas are negatively charged, which causes the material to attract and absorb the chemicals, Wong said. “There you go – it just soaks it in to the order of 100 times faster than other materials that are out there,” Wong added.
Pfas are virtually indestructible because their carbon atoms are bonded with fluoride, but Rice found that the bonds could be broken if the chemicals in the material were heated to 400-500C – a relatively low temperature. The fluoride gets trapped in the LDH material and is bonded to calcium. The leftover calcium-fluoride material is safe and can be disposed of in a landfill, Wong said.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
There Is Only One Fast Route Back After Trump
‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All To See
As ‘Loyal Agents of Nazis’ in GOP Murder Citizens, US Is at ‘Turning Point’
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Ella Baron on the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis – cartoon
Thomas Massie Drops TRUTH BOMB About U.S. Debt
A Little Night Music
Garnet Mimms - There Goes My Baby
Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters - A Quiet Place Garnet Mimms
Garnet Mimms - Looking For You
Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters - Every Time
Garnet Mimms - As Long As I Have You
Garnet Mimms - Prove It To Me
Garnet Mimms - Stop and Check Yourself
Garnet Mimms - Please Semd Me Someone To Love
Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters - Cry Baby
Janis Joplin - Cry Baby
Comments
One RWNJ is removed hopefully that this is only the beginning.
At the moment, he’s
Schrödinger's Bongino. He’s both fired and not-fired at the same time. They haven’t got their spin in place yet…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
It appears as if they can't get their narrative straight.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Gregory+Bovino&sca_esv=41ca82403af5db06&...
evening humphrey...
i think that they are going to need a lot more sacrificial "lambs" than bovino before this is over.
That's a great Hunter Thompson quote.
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I didn't regard the Federal government as ever being innocent, or even decent in the decades that followed the unspeakably filthy US war on Vietnam. However, Hunter Thompson did publish his books during that time, and they were pretty outrageous.
Today, in the era of "Thought Police" I would consider it extremely dangerous for a journalist to publish such "opinion pieces" in the popular press. I don't think a professional publisher would touch them, even as fiction.
Cosmic objectivity is a dangerous gift to have: "Reality itself is too twisted."
As an aside: From the 1600s to the present day, the US has been warring for one cause, and one cause only: The US goes to war with any entity that supports "Workers participating in the wealth creation of the Industry where they work, and citizens participating the growth of the wealth in the civilization that they are building."
This is the reason the US is determined to destroy China. China provides the world with a living example of a united citizenry that participates in the success of its civilization — a concept that US [and global oligarchs] has been waging deadly wars against for all the years the US has existed.
evening pluto...
yep, back when hunter was writing, there was an alternative press open to many voices. now we sort of have the internet and lots of clips of george carlin saying nearly prophetic things. it's a different thing.
heh, a thousands of years old culture has some advantages over a 400 year old culture (of exploitation).
True, that.
But the modern Economic Dogma that is the cause of all US wars and most military attacks, invasions, sanctions, and other US Acts of War — from the Korean War to the Venezuela kidnapping — is a foreign country's use of a Socialist or Communist economic investment and accounting system, and the private ownership of the nation's assets and resources that are held in trust for future generations, so they are not born into abject poverty and slavery — and so that public infrastructure can be built, as needed. The masking of this war policy is the reason why Westerners are unable to define either term — as they are practiced in the real world — and not as they appear in a USian fever dream.
Re: the only fast route back
This Ian Welsh article really resonated with me.
RIP Michael Parenti.
Great line up as usual Joe, thanx!
己所不欲，勿施于人。
evening soryang...
yep, welsh's observations very closely track my own, particularly when he points out that you only have the rights that you can enforce. it seems to me that this whole experiment in a republican form of government started because some overprivileged wealthy bastard and his cronies were oppressing his citizens under the color of law. perhaps it could happen again.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. Hope you're handling
the weather ok. Nice touch with the compraive versions of cry baby.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
the weather has reminded me of how much i hate shoveling snow. we have quite a lot of it with a heavy crust of sleet on the top which makes for heavy lifting. on the other hand, we didn't lose power at all and no trees fell (crosses fingers). it's ludicrously cold for the time being and supposed to stay that way for a while. oh, and there's supposed to be another big storm this weekend. oh, yay. ok, enough grumbling. on the third hand, i am warm and toasty.
i used to do a segment on my radio show that i called "shop and compare," where i would play different versions of tunes, usually the original followed by later versions. my audience always seemed to like it.
have a great evening!
I think that is fair to say that it is not if but rather when
Trump will carry out Netanyahu's orders.
yep...
looks like we're headed for a big smash.
And no doubt
about it. The Cheeto will have his own, personal, big, big, big war. He doesn’t want a pre-owned war: he wants that new-war smell.
Not a fan.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
heh...
i'm sure that it will be the best war ever. /s
Israel haz a sad when the rules are applied to them. Wah!
The rest of the tweet:
Hey, joe!
As usual, I loved the music, didn't know or remember the artist. Mimms is on the list. Thanks for the memories.
So, back in the day, Rice University was an arts/humanities beacon. I applied, got accepted, but there was no way my family could afford the tuition for me to be a history prof down the line. That it is the place of pfas tech that will give us all longer life and better health through science is setting me back on my heels! Well, Rice has a history of about faces. Fwiw, Rice was created by a white supremacist, and the entire surrounding area was dedicated to faculty and students of the white race to live. Then they went liberal.
Meanwhile, I have vivid memories of my life as a two year old. What I saw on tv, toys I played with, animals we had, words I learned, food I ate. They shaped me for 71 years. I can go to that place very where I played with a toy lunchbox and pet a baby calf.
I remember both mom and dad holding me.
Imagine what that 2 yr old captured by ICE will remember.
I haven't cried in a while. Maybe I needed a trigger.
Take care, my friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
heh, i think that mimms, while he had a fair amount of well deserved success, is probably a victim of history. his time and the time of the british invasion overlapped and r&b artists that should have been topping the popular music charts in the u.s. sadly didn't get the full attention that they deserved.
for the life of me, i can't feature how it serves "justice" to put small children in jail cells. it's time for a change.
Yep.
The Brits swamped some great names, just not the music. Folks like you made sure of that.
I grew up to love animals. Will this baby girl grow up to be a terrorist?
I am paying taxes for the next generation to find out.
I thought we boomers could right all, or most, wrongs. We are the generation that goes to the grave allowing and funding the killing and terrorizing of babies.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The earlier you put them in chains
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the more compliant they become.
But two years old is pushing insanity.
Zionism is a social disease