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Troops and federal agents briefly descend on LA’s MacArthur Park in largely immigrant neighborhood | AP News

«“This morning looked like a staging for a TikTok video,” said Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president of the Los Angeles City Council, adding if Border Patrol wants to film in LA, “you should apply for a film permit like everybody else.»

https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-raid-troops-military-2d81f5c35f9d11db9e32234e03480497

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-is-willing-let-migrant-laborers-stay-us-farms-2025-07-04/?gaa_at=la&gaa_n=ASWzDAhcSbnzSmEe6DKyikkYIN7tp5lQajZ3bLEtztrrUxlHaJ-Ia-xidtNQWe5cB5N0A3Gkhtg61KFIACJlSFy3H0i6W6QovF9a9LA%3D&gaa_ts=6868273a&gaa_sig=CHujlNQEv1jUG3ppbgp6dIfEfmvgwyThL3LhhBMQFbXZyY-j6BuflScqIG-yZtgnTcvm0SP0gYXtZ2EIp_HkVQ%3D%3D

If it wasn’t for the inhumanity of it all, and the price of food for poor people in this country, I’d say he should just go ahead and ruin America’s farmers. (Well… except for the 1/3 of them that voted for Harris.)

On individual action

Ok, so.

I voted for Anderson when I was a stupid college student. Reagan is my fault. Sorry, y’all.

On the other hand, after the 2016 election, I left an emphatic, heartfelt (polite) voice mail (about how Trump’s victory was a Russian psyop, but not in those exact words) on Richard Burr’s voicemail, and guess what? Investigation led by Burr.

Now, I left a heartfelt (and polite) voicemail and Actual Human Contact (more than one, actually, and one of them got me hung up on by some Young Republican aide when I wouldn’t accept his bullshit reply, although, admittedly, I was more emphatic than polite that time) for Tillis, and guess what? He votes “no” and is supposedly resigning.

It doesn’t make up for Reagan, but I try.

I am diametrically opposed to “conservatives” on just about everything, but…

Trump’s billionaire giveaway is a deficit bomb.

If Thomas Massie and Chip Roy wind up killing this thing, they get free drinks on me whenever we meet.

(Not the Patrón, though, guys; c’mon, pick something worth the money.)

Update: whoops, never mind. I should just build a list of times “conservatives” say one thing and do another. Starting with complaints about the “imperial presidency” when Obama was president.

Trump immigration crackdown ripples through economy

«Yes, but: Immigration opponents say the crackdown will translate into more and better-paying jobs for native-born Americans.»

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/trump-immigration-crackdown-economy

And yet… the response to a $15 minimum wage is that it will make everything so much more expensive that restaurants will have to close.

Which is it, gang? Higher wages are bad? Or good?

Or is it both, depending on which point you want to make?

Murdoch Paper Warns: Trump Just Put His Own Presidency at Risk

“If only the Führer knew what was being done in his name, he’d stop it immediately.”

«fiery speech in which he slammed the president as “misinformed” and advised solely by “amateurs.”»

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rupert-murdoch-owned-wall-street-journal-warns-donald-trump-just-put-his-own-presidency-at-risk/

«“GOP legislative reforms will have no chance if Democrats take the House in 2026,” the paper wrote. “And if they also take the Senate, forget about confirming another Supreme Court nominee. The Trump Presidency will be dead in the water.”»

Let’s hope, but there’s a reason some Presidents seem to be coated with Teflon.