If’n we want to get fundamental , we know who shot who & still has 2 eyeballs. Just sayin’. If justice doesn’t serve us, perhaps the people shall determine the verdict for vermin passing as human. If we can doctor up a bill, float it through ice, pretend we gonna be head knockers, but b/c they didn’t really read fine print. Doozy of a munitions bill gets ice as it’s target. It can be done. But I’m leaning towards someone with more money & knowledge telling me it’s a great idea. Then that is the point where I say, great, you pay for it all. Then I end up floating somewhere in NJ. I live in the PNW. Any other ideas people?
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Maybe I just need some more coffee this morning, but right now, Im just wondering what this gibberish word salad is supposed to actually mean....
I read an incredibly disturbing article about someone who was anti ice & ended up being offered a job. With ice. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/laura_jedeed_ice Holy Moly. Anyways. Yes. There is some gibberish mostly. Perhaps if we can read nuance and take that word salad, deconstruct. Then examine what we’re goin for. I’ll have another cup of java w/ya 😉
as bad as the blinding sounds, the shrapnel worries me more. i'm familiar with a kickass surgeon in phoenix who might be able to help, but i don't know how to contact the injured.
- Family Testimony (Jeri Rees): People Magazine Interview
- Official Medical Fund: Stand with K: Justice and Healing
Thanks. My SIL had an awful carotid injury and the folk at ucsf did amazing things to save her life before a clinic in Phoenix did too. Dad had a great brain surgeon at ucsf too. They may be able to get some of that shrapnel out safely.
DEATH TO ICE
Time to start firing back with some more lethal rounds
If this administration doesn't succeed in overthrowing democracy, and we ever get legitimate leaders again, I wonder if we could get some kind of official recognition or honor given to the people who have been wounded or killed while standing up for their rights and the rights of everyone in the U.S.?
If things go how they historically have in the US likely not
My cynical take is in 20 years you'll have a day of remembrance and in 80 years your grandchildren will have official apologies, unless this current administration ends doesn't get thrown out within 5 years - then it will take even longer. My less cynical take is that these people aren't losing their lives or ability to see because they want official recognition or honour, they want freedom because that's the thing really matters. I do agree though, once the freedom (and rule of law) is back, these people definitely deserve some kind of official recognition or honour.
I hope so, and I hope these people and families get the reparations they deserve.
The reality is if you protest armed thugs, you really must wear PE. Protect your eyes, ears, elbows, knees. Ideally gas masks too.
Protest level: Hong Kong
(via https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/reader-center/hong-kong-protests-gillian-wong-insider.html / https://archive.is/6IApR)
Wear. Eye. Protection. Ballisitic goggles.
This nation needs some R&R — Reparations and Repercussions.
Go to the local construction store and buy safety glasses.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons-protesters/
The article was mistaken, they refer to it as non-lethal rounds. Even DHS itself refers to them as less lethal. There is a difference between less lethal and non-lethal.
A point without distinction, mate. They fired a weapon at close range at that man. The state knows what potential these weapons have, which is why they use them.
A point without distinction, mate.
I mean, that really depends on where you are, doesn't it? Some places make distinctions between non-lethal weapons and less-lethal weapons and some don't. Pretty much any weapon can kill if used on someone's head or other vital areas. Projectiles tend to fly faster the closer they are to what shot them.
I see the issue as either one of poor training (not trained to use the weapon) or poor training (trained to use the less-lethal weapon in a lethal manner) and I'm not sure which frightens me more right now. Probably the latter.