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-War on Police-
DFL caucus in Minneapolis Coming Up - 5 leftards competing
[MSN] State of play: Incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey is vying against five challengers for the endorsement: State Sen. Omar Fateh, Council Member Emily Koski, the Rev. DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton and Brenda Short.

The big picture: Left-wing groups are hoping to build on a successful 2023 election that emboldened Frey's critics on the City Council, giving them the votes to rewrite the budget and enact other priorities without the mayor's support.

Frey has pitched himself and his council allies as practical moderates more interested in delivering on core services than ideologically driven "messaging" legislation
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The so-called moderate Frey (unlike others he didn't want to decimate the police - only demoralize them) may be helped by having 4 further lefties against him. Sort of the reverse of the NYC situation.


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Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [111 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 07/16/2025 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party might as well adopt the traditional farmer-labor symbol
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/16/2025 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't Fateh the guy who played the head pirate in "Captain Phillips"?
Posted by: MW || 07/16/2025 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  "who played the head pirate"

I think the majority of us came to that very same conclusion.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/16/2025 15:24 Comments || Top||


Britain
1.3 Million Foreigners Getting UK Welfare Payments, Majority Are Unemployed
[Breitbart] The British government published demographic statistics on benefit claimants for the first time on Tuesday, revealing levels of tax money payments to foreigners so high Nigel Farage said Conservative politicians should be “in hiding” out of shame.

The number of foreigners claiming Universal Credit in Britain in the month of June was 1.26 million people, out of a total 7.9 million claimants, new statistics from the UK Government reveal.

Universal Credit is a welfare payment that was created by the previous Conservative government to replace a plethora of other smaller benefits into one easier to administer handout. Claimants can be unemployed, unable to work, or in very low paid work and receiving a top-up to bring them up to a living wage. Migrants can become eligible for the payment if they have indefinite leave to remain or refugee status and indeed over two per cent of all claimants are refugees of varying classifications.

The statistics are the first time demographic data has been published for Universal Credit and as acknowledged by the BBC, the publication comes following a campaign by now-independent right-wing Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe. Last month, Lowe wrote: “It is absolutely mental that we are paying illegal migrants benefits. And we wonder why they keep coming… Stop benefits for foreign nationals, other than those who have contributed for 10+ years, and get these millions of healthy Brits back to work.”

Other aspects of the data published on Tuesday revealed that in all, 76.4 per cent of claimants are recorded as having white ethnicity, that the average payment was £1,010 a month, and the overwhelming majority of migrant claimants are unemployed.

Applying the average payment to migrant claimants suggest the monthly cost of migrant Universal Credit to migrants could be one-and-a-quarter billion pounds ($1.6 billion), or £15.2 billion a year. Earlier analyses before Tuesday’s data was published put the cost at £12 billion a year.

Conservative opposition politicians attacked the Labour government for the figures, but Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was quick to point out this situation was mostly created by the 14 years of Conservative Party government which concluded last year. In a recorded statement on the figures, he said: “for the first time the Department of Work and Pensions have given us some figures that many have wanted for years.

“The result? There are 1.3 million migrants on Universal Credit, and over half of them don’t do any work at all. This goes completely against the lie we’ve been told for 25 years that immigration’s fine because everyone’s working and everyone’s contributing. We can see from this that it’s not… some of this has happened since Labour came to power but nearly all of it happened during 14 years of Conservative government.

“And if they dare say a word about these numbers today don’t take them seriously and frankly they should be in hiding for what they’ve done to this country”.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 09:13 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Government Corruption
Here We Go. Obama Under Investigation for Corruption Scandal
[GatewayPundit] FBI Director Kash Patel has launched a "Grand Criminal Conspiracy" investigation into the decade-long weaponization of the federal government — a probe that specifically circumvents the statute of limitations, allowing Sherlocks to finally pursue justice for long-buried crimes.

According to a report by JustTheNews, Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
, John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
, James Clapper, James The spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
, and other high-level Obama-era operatives have been named in the investigation, which shows a coordinated criminal conspiracy to target political enemies, shield Democrat allies, and manipulate multiple presidential elections — from 2016 through 2024.

But it gets better: The probe may now shift jurisdiction to Florida — thanks to none other than Special Counsel Jack Smith’s own raid on Mar-a-Lago.
File under Petard, Own, Hoisted By. Every blessed thing the Trump team does proves the universe exists independent of my imagination.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Solomon teased that within the next 10 days, bombshell revelations would be made public — possibly exposing how weaponized federal agencies colluded to rig the political landscape against Trump and deceive the American people.


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Posted by: Fairbanks || 07/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [225 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Believe it when I see it working.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/16/2025 2:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^ Ditto!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/16/2025 3:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember SCOTUS gave Trump a pass as long as the things he did when he was president. Same applies to Obama, but not his lackeys.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/16/2025 7:13 Comments || Top||

#5  An attempt at a regime change was it? Who does that type of work ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2025 7:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Loyal Jill Biden aide arrives for sworn deposition in Comer's cover-up probe

Bernal was originally slated to appear last month for a voluntary transcribed interview, but he and his lawyers backtracked after the Trump administration announced it was waiving executive privilege rights for him and several other former White House staffers.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ He plead the 5th on any and all questions
Posted by: Frank G || 07/16/2025 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ I donno, I've blamed a fifth for some of my actions, that I remember.

Biden chief of staff reportedly gave approval for autopen pardons on final day in office

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 12:48 Comments || Top||

#9  @Skidmark

I am not familiar with US laws but approval by an _unelected_ official of autopen pardons isn't that usurping a prerogative given to the President ONLY and shouldn't it lead to decades behind jails?
Posted by: JFM || 07/16/2025 13:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Good to see you, JFM!

Procopius2k asked the same question yesterday, so I consulted my in-house contracts specialist. ;-) The answer I posted yesterday:

I asked Mr. Wife, who spent the last third of his career negotiating outside projects for his international Fortune 100 employer. He says that he did, and still does use, autopen/electronic signatures for contracts emailed back and forth, often Adobe PDFs and other contract programs. They are perfectly legal. I can even sign for him — not work but household stuff — because I hold his power of attorney, and I’ve signed such things in my own right for contracts for our house, most recently to remove squirrels from the attic and seal the entry holes.

BUT, wherever the signature is not actually witnessed it can be challenged if there is a question of validity. If it’s his signature, for instance, but it can be proved that that day he was in a car accident and undergoing surgery at the time that he was supposedly clicking the signature block in the form on his computer screen.


Added today: In the old days, when even unimportant people had personal secretaries, a secretary could sign a letter or document when so directed by her boss by adding a /initials at the end of the name to indicate she had done so. How do we prove that someone who now is senile and cannot remember giving an informed order was then either not informed or was incapable of giving the order? Just because we all know his brain was then a rotting turnip is not the same as proving it retrospectively now.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2025 18:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Massie Proposes to Make COVID Vaccine Makers Liable for Injuries
[CHD] Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced legislation to repeal the "sweeping" liability shield that exempts COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers from responsibility for serious injuries or death caused by their products. Legal experts said the bill would open the door for thousands of lawsuits, including lawsuits directly targeting vaccine makers.

The PREP Repeal Act (H.R.4388) would revoke the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act of 2005, a law that provides legal immunity to "covered persons" who manufacture or administer countermeasures during a public health emergency.

"Covered persons" under the PREP Act include vaccine makers, manufacturers of masks and other personal protective equipment, and physicians, nurses and pharmacists who administer vaccines.

The Biden administration ended the COVID-19 public health emergency in May 2023. However, the public health emergency, declared in January 2020 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the PREP Act, remains in effect.

In December 2024, HHS extended the liability protections through 2029. It was the 12th extension since 2020.

Massie’s bill would strip away these protections, repealing the PREP Act’s liability shield and restoring civil remedy rights for people harmed by products covered under the act....

Good luck with that, Mr. Massie, but it ain't gonna happen under the Pfizer-Trump administration.


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Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/16/2025 17:53 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Trump administration fires 17 immigration court judges across ten states
[APNEWS] Seventeen immigration court judges have been fired in recent days, according to the union that represents them, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its mass deportations of immigrants colonists in the country.

The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, which represents immigration court judges as well as other professionals, said in a news release that 15 judges were fired ''without cause'' on Friday and another two on Monday. The union said they were working in courts in 10 different states across the country — Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

''It's outrageous and against the public interest that at the same time Congress has authorized 800 immigration judges, we are firing large numbers of immigration judges without cause,'' said the union's President Matt Biggs. ''This is nonsensical. The answer is to stop firing and start hiring.''
The answer, always, is to fire somewhere between the bottom decile and the bottom quartile, and simultaneously hire replacements with better potential, thus improving the overall quality of the workforce — because people are not widgets. Also, 17 is only 2% of 800, an insignificant loss even if the remaining current staff would not be significantly more effective without having to work around the poorest performers.
Firings come with courts at the center of administration efforts

The firings come as the courts have been increasingly at the center of the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement efforts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting immigrants colonists as they appear at court for proceedings.

A spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which is the part of the Justice Department that oversees the courts, said in an email that the office would not comment on the firings.

The large-scale arrests began in May and have unleashed fear among asylum-seekers and immigrants colonists appearing in court. In what has become a familiar scene, a judge will grant a government lawyer's request to dismiss deportation proceedings against an immigrant. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick......
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are waiting in the hallway to arrest the person and put them on a fast track to deportation as soon as he or she leaves the courtroom.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/16/2025 10:06 || Comments || Link || [68 views] Top|| File under:

#1  15 judges were fired ''without cause''

They just don't get "serving at the pleasure of the President", do they?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/16/2025 14:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ..they also never seem to be in too much of a hurry to do their jobs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/16/2025 15:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Immigration judges have a union. I woulda thought that they were management.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/16/2025 19:01 Comments || Top||



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