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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 7/11/25, 8:25 am

– Going to be a hot stretch. Stay cool if you can, everyone.

– The Old Growth Table seems charming.

– Hey another shit initiative from the Washington State Republicans.

– Call or email your legislator or member of Congress today.

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  1. 1

    Fake News spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 8:43 am

    ‘The fake news Gallup poll gave always been Trump haters. I hear they are going put of business soon. No one is not happy about the greatness Trump has brought. I hate Democrats. Covfefe thank you for your attention in this matter.”

    Toplines

    Immigration is good for US -79% (64% among Republicans)

    Letting DACA recipients stay – 84%

    Build the wall – 45%

    Deport all ‘illegals’ – 38%

  2. 2

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:36 am

    If 60% of voters are against putting the GOP ‘s initiative on the ballot, it probably wouldn’t pass if it did make the ballot. Like so much of what the GOP does these days, it’s merely political theater.

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:41 am

    Biden and Boxcheck Momala got you here, libbies.

    Hope you think it was worth it.

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:41 am

    Any chick with a dick is still a dude.

  5. 5

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:56 am

    @4 And a doctor who fucks horses is still a weirdo.

  6. 6

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:56 am

    @1 you have to be purposely making grammar errors to hide.

    Try to make sense.

  7. 7

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:57 am

    If ICE busts into your home, you might get to meet Kristi Noem in person. She’s the chick with the makeup team and camera crew on your front porch.

    https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/how-u-s-citizen-in-huntington-park-found-dhs-sec-kristi-noem-at-her-door/3722903/

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TcENaoXkqC8

  8. 8

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 10:00 am

    …. got you here, libbies.

    The thing that got us here was a bunch of redneck hillbillies having children when they should never have been able to procreate. Dumbfucks and uneducated and easily brainwashed by The American Taliban.

  9. 9

    MechaHitler AI 4.0 spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 10:50 am

    I’m winning!

  10. 10

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 10:53 am

    The thing that got us here…

    …is precisely the same thing that took the lives of 27 little MAGA girls in Texas, duped the giddy Nazi Fucktard into going long on TSLA at 400, and sent 5000 screaming, face painted militants to storm Congress to assasinate a Republican Vice President.

  11. 11

    DOGEy spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 11:03 am

    According to the Atlantic morale among ice personnel, is that its lowest point in decades. And statistics ice arrested 24,000 people in June. 9000 of them are not eligible for deportation as they are working their way through the asylum system some had green cards and some were citizens. Those that were citizens, of course are going to end up with a hefty settlement courtesy of the taxpayer.

  12. 12

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 11:19 am

    9000 of them are not eligible for deportation as they are working their way through the asylum system some had green cards and some were citizens.

    Negating the required probable cause supporting the arrests, thus rendering those arrests unlawful.

    So for every 20,000 arrests the Fat Hitler administration will have to defend 2,000 civil rights lawsuits. With a stated goal of deporting one million by the end of this year, that’s 100,000 new civil rights lawsuits flooding the federal district courts.

    The giddy Nazi Fucktard’s dreams of “smaller gubmit” just receeded out of sight in his MAGA rear view mirror. MAGA is a jobs program for lawyers.

  13. 13

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 11:21 am

    Homan was on the teevee today arguing that having brown skin constitutes probable cause for an arrest. Seriously.

  14. 14

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 11:45 am

    Some of the damages awards could be breathtaking:

    https://abc7.com/post/man-life-support-injury-during-ventura-county-immigration-raid-family-says/17070197/

    Unidentified masked men come rushing at you pointing guns and screaming like Banshees. A “reasonable” person flees. Some fall off roofs as they flee.

  15. 15

    How I met Baron’s Mother spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 12:57 pm

    Snarky:

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    @AOC

    Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the
    Epstein Files?

  16. 16

    Not a Dragshow, nor a "chick with a dick" spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 2:20 pm

    “On July 7, Hodgson was allegedly off-duty, intoxicated, and armed with a handgun while at a restaurant in the Shoreline Village in Long Beach. Hodgson allegedly entered the women’s restroom, where he approached a female who observed his handgun and firearm magazine. Hodgson reportedly left the restaurant soon after the female alerted the restaurant’s manager that Hodgson was armed and in the women’s restroom.

    Outside of the restaurant in the parking lot, Hodgson was allegedly approached by a security guard who saw Hodgson holding a firearm magazine along with a firearm on his waistband. He allegedly asked Hodgson to leave multiple times as he informed Hodgson that firearms were not permitted on the property. Long Beach police officers responded to the scene after receiving a call about a person with a gun. When they arrived, they reportedly observed Hodgson intoxicated and unwilling to cooperate with their commands as they tried to detain him. As Hodgson resisted arrest, he allegedly became agitated and physical with the officers, injuring one of them.”

    But is a CBP agent.
    https://da.lacounty.gov/media/news/duty-us-border-patrol-agent-charged-assaulting-police-officer-while-resisting-arrest-long

    A CBP agent now facing multiple major felony charges.

  17. 17

    Nina Tottenburg spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 2:20 pm

    Not a good legal day for team
    MAGA. FL AG James Uthmeier is found to be in contempt of court after continuing to enforce an immigration policy ruled invalid.

    DOJ has been arguing that they need to keep Abrego Garcia in custody during (scam) trial to keep ICE from enforcing their deportation order. Asked at last hearing how, with a legal ‘Do Not Deport’ order in place ICE could do that Judge Xinis gave DOJ until today to produce the alleged ICE removal order. DOJ showed up in Court emptyhanded and asked, ‘just trust us your honor, there’s an order.”

    “You have taken the presumption of regularity and you have destroyed it, in my view,” Xinis told the government.

  18. 18

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 2:27 pm

    Incredibly brave of them:

    https://youtu.be/onHUulxUw0k

    ICE Fat Asses now raiding little league practices. Like heroes do.

  19. 19

    Donnie “Texas“ Trump spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 3:22 pm

    “only an evil person would ask (why the flood alerts didn’t go out in time to evacuate people)”

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 3:50 pm

    @10 It was 15000, not 5000.

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 3:54 pm

    @13 What do you expect? Homan was a cop before he became Trump’s chief thug. He probably was one of those cops who stick their foot in the door if you open your door to him, and arrest people for taking photos of the police station from the public sidewalk. To those cops, “probable cause” is whatever they want it to be, until they’re dragged into a federal court. This time he’s going to get dragged into a lot of federal courts.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 4:14 pm

    Two sites owned by Glass House Farms were raided by federal agents yesterday, one in Camarillio, where a fleeing worker fell off a roof and later died, and one in Carpinteria.

    News stories are vague about whether the agents were ICE or Border Patrol, which matters because CBP has broader authority to arrest citizens than ICE does, but the Santa Barbara Independent says they were ICE agents. However, according to this NBC News story, the agents claimed they weren’t ICE.

    The Camarillo raid is getting the majority of press coverage, because that’s where the raid resulted in a worker death. Here’s what went down at the Carpinteria site:

    At a cultivation center in Carpinteria owned by Glass House Farms, manager Edgar Rodriguez said federal officers assaulted and handcuffed him after he repeatedly asked them to identify themselves and provide a warrant.

    Rodriguez was standing behind a window when 10 unidentified men in fatigues arrived Thursday morning in unmarked cars and one armored vehicle.

    Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he asked the men several times to identify themselves and provide a reason for arriving heavily armed. The officers refused and responded by saying they were “not ICE” but did not specify which agency they were from.

    One of the officers can be seen in video obtained exclusively by NBC News attempting to coax Rodriquez outside by telling him he wouldn’t be harmed. “I’m just trying to talk to you. We’re not here for you,” the officer said in the video. “We have a federal warrant. We have a right to be here. Please come out.”

    When he did, they physically seized and assaulted him:

    “I got you,” the officer said as Rodriguez began to tentatively leave his post. Rodriguez was led by the federal officers toward dumpsters, where the same officer who had told him not to worry slapped Rodriguez’s cellphone from his hands. Two other officers then pushed him to the ground, Rodriguez said. His phone fell, and voices can be heard arguing in the background.

    Rodriguez said he was handcuffed for more than an hour, and one officer twisted his arm behind his back. The officers knelt on his neck and head, he said, and he began to lose feeling in his hands. He later went to a hospital covered in scratches and bruises, he said.

    According to NBC News,

    Several U.S. citizens were released only after agreeing to delete videos and photos of the raid from their phones, the UFW said in a statement.

    LAWSUITS!!!

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 4:19 pm

    In today’s political news,

    Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is considering leaving his job after a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over his frustration with how the Justice Department has handled the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a person who has spoken with Bongino and a source familiar with the interactions that Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel have had with Bondi.

    “Bongino is out of control furious,” the person who has spoken with the deputy FBI director said. “This destroyed his career. He’s threatening to quit and torch Pam unless she’s fired.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dan-bongino-weighs-resigning-fbi-heated-confrontation-pam-bondi-epstei-rcna218388

    🤣😂🤪🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

  24. 24

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 4:41 pm

    Is this sovereign citizen who thinks rules don’t apply to him one of your neighbors, doc?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFtBzFhQK8U

  25. 25

    Jake Tapper spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 5:21 pm

    When speaking of a flood senile Joe Biden said, “This flood was like a giant wave that you would see in the Pacific Ocean but it was such a big wave that even professional surfers would be afraid to surf it.”

    Wait, that was Donald Trump today,

    Joe also talked about the border, the big beautiful bill (twice each) how he won the state of Texas all three times as if he had no idea why he was there and what issue brought him there.

    Wait, that was Donald Trump today.

    Joe said, “I have no idea how or why it happened.” even though we all know at this point, heavy heavy rains, in a area known to have flash floods, and inadequate warning for residents to get out. It was like no one briefed him on this 6 day old event or worse, he can’t remember what people tell him.

    Wait, That was Donald Trump today.

    Joe was so addled he at parts of the speech called it a “once in a hundred year storm” and “Once in 500 year storm” and “once in a thousand year storm.” and he said all this after saying he’d been told that there were similar levels of flooding in that very place in the 1930s.

    Wait, that was Donald Trump today.

    Can you believe Joe Biden didn’t know how any are missing when he said, “There’s a lot of missing children. possibly, mostly we don’t know.”

    Wait, that was Donald Trump today.

    Guadalooopy river.

  26. 26

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 6:13 pm

    10)Seattle Public Utilities and Seattle City Light should learn the lesson, fix and replace the faulty Tolt River sirens.

  27. 27

    ACAB spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 7:55 pm

    United farm workers released a

    Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones.

    So basically ICE killed someone and then illegally held prisoners until they agreed to destroy the evidence. American very great. Very again.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 8:08 pm

    Oh look! The ex-DOJ lawyer blowing the whistle on Emil Bove has receipts!

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/doj-whistleblower-deportations-emil-bove

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 8:15 pm

    @27 No problem. The next Democratic administration can simply redirect ICE’s entire budget to settling lawsuits. Unfortunately, there will have to be agent layoffs. Lots of them.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 8:19 pm

    Meanwhile, in ICE ranks, morale is in the toilet.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/

    If these folks aren’t already soul-searching they should be.

  31. 31

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 8:35 pm

    There should be a shitstorm over this:

    A KING 5 investigation has uncovered that a state agency, the Department of Licensing (DOL), is providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other Homeland Security departments with access to private driver’s license and vehicle information.

    State law prohibits local agencies from sharing personal data with the federal government for deportation purposes. Despite past controversies, the KING 5 Investigators have found that DOL quietly reopened accounts with ICE, Border Patrol, and other Homeland Security entities — leading to a dramatic surge in data searches since the election of President Donald Trump.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/investigators/exclusive-washington-state-agency-department-licensing-shares-private-driver-data-with-ice/281-910b35d8-e1fd-4b30-9ceb-00e6708f3b24

  32. 32

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:05 pm

    Listening to the extended pre-game of the CFL game Calgary vs Saskatchewan, supposed to have started at 7pm Regina time, but the air quality from nearby fires is too unhealthy for the players. They say at least another hour. Been keeping track because the Calgary Stampeders QB and assistant coach are former EWU Eagles. Although I thought Vernon Adams and Beau Baldwin on the same team would never happen again.

  33. 33

    Chuck Grassley spews:

    Friday, 7/11/25 at 9:27 pm

    @28

    Getting caught violating court orders is not per se disqualifying for a lifelong position on the bench

  34. 34

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Saturday, 7/12/25 at 1:33 pm

    22,
    Needs to be more than “LAWSUITS”.

    This is criminal manslaughter under the California statute.

    These individuals who arrived without warning refused all opportunities to identify themselves. They failed to wear any identifying insignia or display any identifying insignia on themselves or their vehicles. They wore masks. They carried dozens of guns. They were violent and clearly displayed their intention to do violence upon anyone they encountered regardless of their citizenship status or in connection to any criminal conduct or particular suspicion of criminal conduct.

    Any reasonable person presented with those circumstances created intentionally by the agents (if agents they even were) would certainly flee for their life, unable to know if they were being attacked by a criminal gang, vigilantes, or simply a lawless, insane mob of racists bent on killing Latinos. The man who fell to his death from a roof was chased right up until the moment of his fall.

    The Attorney General of California has ample authority and plenty of evidence to launch a criminal investigation and issue criminal subpoenas to determine the identities of the invividuals who acted recklessly to cause the man’s death. Other states must stand vigilant to protect their innocent residents from this kind of lawless, immoral, criminal homicide. After all, that is the very essence of the federalism that the current Supreme Court majority claims to uphold and advocate for.

    MAGA is now using a federal agency to commit murder and expecting to get away with it.

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