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Please note that while what they said is based on a real quote, these participant characters are entirely fictional and not based on anyone real.

As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers shunning their products | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/buy-canadian-grows-more-us-companies-say-retailers-turning-away-their-products-2025-03-31/

That's Trumps fascism.for you. Never forgive and never forget the Republicans utter betrayal of the Constitution and America for #TraitorTrump...!

I found a lost 1988 handbook from Coalitions for America, a right-wing think tank founded by the man who started The Heritage Foundation and ALEC. The document tells readers how to fight gay rights legislation and, as you’ve already guessed, it’s almost the exact blueprint used against trans people. I digitized it for the first time here: transreads.org/defeatgayrights/

Since the 1960s, the right has spent unprecedented time, effort, and cold hard cash to convince the public that treating oppressed people with basic dignity is unfair to them. We still see this 1988 "special privileges" argument in practice against trans people today.

Can someone's transition harm other people? Of course not. But the far-right wants you to believe so. Instead of spreading actual disease, this time we're spreading social contagion. Instead of divorce, we have "trans widows" and "broken families."

Let’s not forget he is a felon and a rapist...😏👇🏾

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Trump arrests Democratic member of Congress while rewarding MAGA terrorist Ashli Babbitt

Trump's weaponization on parade

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

We’ve never seen a presidential administration weaponize government to the extent of Donald Trump--both by rewarding his supporters and punishing his “enemies.” And what we saw Monday sums it up perfectly. Trump had his DOJ arrest a Democratic member of Congress on BS charges of assaulting an ICE officer while he rewarded the family of MAGA terrorist Ashli Babbitt--who was killed while storming the Capitol on Jan. 6--with $5 million of your tax dollars. This should make your blood boil—because it makes mine! The arrest of New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is as House Democratic leaders led by Hakeem Jeffries wrote in a statement, “extreme, morally bankrupt and lacks any basis in law or fact.” The charge arises from the May 9th visit by herself and two other New Jersey members of Congress to an ICE facility in Newark. A scuffle broke out when the ICE agents suddenly arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for allegedly trespassing. Videos show McIver being pushed by ICE agents and saying on video about one agent, “He just assaulted me.” There is also video of incidental contact between McIver and an armed ICE agent in tactical gear.

After the incident, Trump officials went on TV claiming that McIver “body slammed” an ICE agent and the video would back that up. It did not—that was a lie. Yet Trump’s US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba gleefully claimed on Monday McIver had “assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement” and charged her with a federal crime. This is not the first fabricated charge by the Trump regime versus a Democrat. On Monday, Habba dropped the trespassing charge against Mayor Baraka, claiming it was “for the sake of moving forward.” In reality, as the evidence showed, Baraka was arrested on public property outside the ICE facility. You can’t trespass on public property—especially when you’re the Mayor of the city! The arrest of McIver follows an alarming pattern from convicted felon Trump over his first four months of utilizing the power of the federal government to target his critics and perceived enemies. We’ve seen Trump’s rogue regime arrest a judge in Wisconsin and the Mayor of Newark, begin a criminal investigation into NY Attorney General Tish James plus threaten to prosecute the Mayor of Chicago and the governor of New Jersey. Trump and his minions have also opened formal investigations into media outlets critical of him, the Democratic fundraising platform Act Blue, law firms, universities, people who used to work in the Trump regime but refused to lie that the 2020 election was stolen and more. As Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)--who was with Rep. McIver at the ICE facility --told me last week, she expected Trump to charge her or McIver. Not because either did anything wrong but because as she noted the Trump regime is “out of control” with their “weaponization of law enforcement.” She rightly warned, “no one is safe form this administration.” 

Something’s not adding up here: The Trump DOJ goons ordered the bogus arrest of Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) while giving a $5M reward to the family of the late domestic terrorist Ashli Babbitt.

See Also:

Public Notice: DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman

Shooting ICE agents doesn't violate their rights at all in many cases, particularly in recent cases. The main moral/strategic reason to not shoot ICE agents is that it would risk escalation. But if ICE is escalating anyway, then past a certain point, this reason goes out the window. It might well be good if more people shot back.

ICE agents often act in ways that make them look like random thugs anyway, and it is often okay or good to shoot random thugs in self-defense and in defense of others. On a personal emotional level, morals aside, I want ICE agents to be afraid they might get shot, and I want them sometimes to get shot. I think this is sometimes morally good as well, though I leave it an open question how often.

I'm saying this on Tumblr and not on Facebook, because I think I'm entitled to say it, and I am less afraid of getting in trouble on Tumblr than on Facebook.

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

What impact could the ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the aviation industry have on the industry?

More slip-shod Quality Assurance failures like the door falling off Boeing jets. and airline delays and cancellations to protect executive compensation.

COMMENTARY:

The aviation industry, including the airlines, have been the leading edge of DEI high performance technology since Rosie the Riveter begam drawing a paycheck. Boeing’s current QA problems are a direct consequence of the erosion of those standards by the de=regulation agenda of Conservative politics symbolized by Ragan’s PATCO assault of Nixon’s design for airline deregulation,

Let me put this as clearly as possible: Eisenhower’s 1956 Presidential Platform was conceived to upgrade the global Military Industrial Complex to the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Star Wars Matrix required to sustain a lunar colony for 100 years. The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey illustrates how that economics will operate, On January 19, 1981, America was on track to achieve that vision, If Carter had been re-elected, we would have had people on Mars and back by now.

If you replace the Pan Am logo in 2001: A Space Odyssey with SpaceX, that’s where we should have been when Bush/Cheney came to office, but the politics and business model of Elon Musk, as a proxy for the pro-Trump anti-DEI Fortune 500 CEOs has prevented it.

PBS had a show last night about the perilous status of the American bridge system which has been starved for the capital that has been diverted to the private fortunes of the Stanford-Silicon Valley Oligarchs of the top 1% of Trickle Down Economics, The door that flew off of the Boeing jet is one metric of that erosion of Quality Assurance represented by DEI performance technology that is being sabotaged by the Conservative agenda behind January 6. and all things Trump.

The things is, the wealth of these Oligarchs is as dependent upon the Key Bridge in Baltimore as the rest of us, but they are content to remain within the echo chamber of their cocoons of wealth and and obstruct DEI proliferation on the pretense of “merit” based on white privilege and inherited money, They are perfectly content to let America fall apart like in Atlas Shrugged purely on the basis of Ayn Rand's Virtue of Selfishness.

Dansen Macabre first appeared in Marvel Team-Up 93#, cover date May, 1980. She was created by Steven Grant, Tom Sutton, and Carmine Infantino. ("Rags to Riches", Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Comic Event)