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• On the post: ICE Lawyers Are Trying To Remain Anonymous In Court Like The Cowards They Are

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2025 @ 02:10pm

  In the decade (Sep 2013 - Sep 2023 leading up to the Oct 7th incursion, Palestinian deaths and casualties at the hands of Israeli forces and settler violence were a huge multiple number of Israeli deaths and casualties at the hands of Palestinians.

  • Israeli deaths: under 250 (and less than half civilian)
  • Palestinian deaths: about 4,000 (mostly civilian)
  • Israeli casualties: about 4,400
  • Palestinian casualties: about 133,000

  In that light, also note that such casualty tallies simply ignore the reality of continuing property theft, settlement expansion, unequal citizenship, the steadily worsening apartheid conditions, etc, and Bibi's active role in fostering (politically and financially) Hamas's rise and continued prominence in the first place. The "right to resist" argument cuts both ways. And not very equally, here. Israel is not actually in a good position to play the innocent, desperately besieged, righteous victim very convincingly.

• On the post: ICE Lawyers Are Trying To Remain Anonymous In Court Like The Cowards They Are

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2025 @ 01:29pm

  And I forgot to mention

  After all, it’s only natural that the secret police should have secret lawyers.

  They have the secret informants already, don’t they? (I’ve been having trouble keeping up with everything.)

• On the post: ICE Lawyers Are Trying To Remain Anonymous In Court Like The Cowards They Are

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2025 @ 01:28pm

  And I forgot to mention

  They have the secret informants already, don't they? (I've been having trouble keeping up with everything.)

• On the post: ICE Lawyers Are Trying To Remain Anonymous In Court Like The Cowards They Are

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2025 @ 01:22pm

  As far as that goes...

  It makes perfect sense... After all, it’s only natural that the secret police should have secret lawyers.

  It won't be long now till they have secret prisons and secret judges too.

• On the post: ICE Lawyers Are Trying To Remain Anonymous In Court Like The Cowards They Are

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2025 @ 01:14pm

  It makes perfect sense...

  After all, it's only natural that the secret police should have secret lawyers.

• On the post: DOJ Drops Charges Against Plastic Surgeon, Friend of RFK JR., For COVID Vaccine Fraud

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2025 @ 09:17pm

  From 'premise' to 'confirmed fact'

  I used to think that the quote about the 'conservative' premise that there's a divide between "those whom the Law binds but does not protect, and those whom the Law protects but does not bind", was mostly a rhetorical flourish. But clearly it's not really an exaggeration after all. Nor even just a premise -- it's evidently (and openly) the guiding principle of the current American government administration.

• On the post: DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers is A ‘Violent Tactic’

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2025 @ 04:41pm

  "Surveillance for me, but hell no -- not for thee."

  "Surveillance for me, but hell no -- not for thee." ICE and DHS want access to everything (including previously near-sacrosanct things like IRS and HIPPA data -- but being video'd/documented in action is somehow an assault against them? If ICE agents (contractors, bounty-hunters, whatever) are acting above board and legally -- have "nothing to hide", so to speak -- what are they objecting to, exactly?

• On the post: ICE Again Gives The Law The Finger, Denies Member Of Congress Access To Detention Facility

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2025 @ 05:40pm

  Oh yeah, quite a number of politicians, too.

• On the post: ICE Again Gives The Law The Finger, Denies Member Of Congress Access To Detention Facility

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2025 @ 03:43pm

  “Doing things because of manufactured interest” isn’t illegal otherwise we’d have to jail every Q-aligned elected official.

  And every marketing company. Every executive at Re/Max, Red Bull, Apple, Coca Cola, or the Big 3 auto manufacturers would be under federal indictment. (Of course Elon Musk would be running Tesla, SpaceX and ExTwitter from prison).

• On the post: DHS Dumps Intel Office Because Actual Intel Keeps Contradicting Trump’s Bigoted Narrative

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2025 @ 02:55pm

  This sounds like one of those old classic British comedy television programs. No, no no; I don't mean like Yes Minister... more like Benny Hill.

• On the post: Nestle Petitions To Cancel ‘Seattle Strong’ Coffee Trademark, Arguing It Owns Seattle

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2025 @ 02:07pm

  Moral choices made easy

  Let Nestle waste good money arguing about city names if that's what they want. Thanks to Trump's "trade war"/tariff nonsense, I'd already given up buying Seattle's Best (actually a decent brand) anyways, so now I don't care at all -- at least it's not a baby formula company.

• On the post: DOGE Cuts Turned A Predicted Disaster Into A Deadly Reality In Texas

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2025 @ 03:06pm

  Now I'm curious... What's their problem with "mackerel sky" cloud formations?

• On the post: DOGE Cuts Turned A Predicted Disaster Into A Deadly Reality In Texas

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2025 @ 04:02pm

  Hmmm... That was a christian girls' summer camp, wasn't it?

• On the post: DOGE Cuts Turned A Predicted Disaster Into A Deadly Reality In Texas

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2025 @ 03:59pm

  They’re blaming “They”, who manipulating the weather. MTG is going to introduce a bill… Banning Cloud Seeing and Weather Manipulation.

  Yes -- actual news, not just a sarcastic joke

• On the post: DOGE Cuts Turned A Predicted Disaster Into A Deadly Reality In Texas

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2025 @ 03:18pm

  “The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”

  “The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”

  Even little Alice saw through that one... and she was actually asleep at the time. I'm beginning to see why MAGA types think "woke" is such an insult.

• On the post: DOGE Cuts Turned A Predicted Disaster Into A Deadly Reality In Texas

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2025 @ 03:07pm

  You know things have gotten really bad, when essential government services are reduced to providing urgent advisories/warnings to the general public solely via a social media platform -- a platform that's become so unpopular and toxic that the platform owner has to threaten lawsuits and government intervention to force advertisers to use that platform.

• On the post: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Details How CECOT Is A Torture Camp

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2025 @ 03:40pm

  Nah. In Omelas everything else was actually free and beautiful and perfect. But this administration is just turning the USA into yet another shit-hole country -- complete with massive secret police force to keep everyone who might object either in line or in a concentration camp.

• On the post: AMC’s Latest Innovation: More Ads At The Movie Theater

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2025 @ 07:38pm

  I’m kind of surprised theaters haven’t started offering to tell people the real start time for a bit of extra money.

  I've heard that in some countries, newspapers used to tell the readership what time the movie really started, in the same section as all the movie adverts. Maybe they still do? Some countries even passed legislation requiring the theaters to publish the accurate start times in their schedules and movie section ads. That might get me back into theaters here. (While they're at it, they could pass laws about acceptable noise exposure/decibel levels, too.)

• On the post: Surveillance (Against The) State: Doorbell Cam Owners Are Tipping People Off About ICE Raids

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2025 @ 02:24pm

  Under the 'G'. Under the 'G' ...

  ... failed to realize a camera on every house means every house has a camera.

  "Maybe (just maybe) ubiquitous surveillance might actually turn out to be a Good thing?" wasn't on on my Bingo card this week.

• On the post: ICE Ups Its Bullshit: Claims Assaults Are Up 500% After Being Questioned About Its 413% Figure

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2025 @ 06:48pm

  Well, you know... Videoing their illegal "arrests" is 'assault'. Demanding they provide proper identification is 'assault'. Demanding to see valid judicial warrants is 'assault'. Denying ICE entry to schools, hospitals, stadiums or courtrooms is 'assault'. Even calling them fascists is 'assault'.

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