"On Thursday, Jan 22 a group of about a dozen Vermont community elders entered the atrium of White Cap Office Park in Williston VT, home of ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center.
For the next 3.5 hours, they sat together in silence, pausing every 90 seconds to read the name of someone killed in ICE custody, followed by a loud whistle blast.
Around 3:15 the Williston Police announced they had determined that the protestors were not breaking the law."
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As a kid, I would give people like Carville the old reverse "You are so well spoken." I'd drag the bit out for 10+ minutes.
👴🏻You are so well spoken!
👦🏿And *You* are so well spoken!
👴🏻Huh?
👦🏿Yes! Your speech! It's amazing! Each word, so clear! And your vocabulary is so good for a, umm for --
👴🏻English is my first language!
👦🏿Me too! But where did you learn to speak? Your sentence structure is phenomenal! The way you map ideas to speech is incredibly sophisticated for, um, your people!
👨🏼OK, we get it. That's enough. You've made your point.
👦🏿What point? Did I say something wrong?
👨🏼You're calling him racist.
👦🏿WHAT?!?! No! How did you get that from what I said? I didn't say the word racist once! You're jumping to conclusions! Not everything is racism. I'm just complimenting the man on his oratory skills and solid command of the English language! He talks like us!
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So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea.
Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime.
In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty with his own logs condemning him and executed by firing squad by the Allies.
USA, this is where you are now.
Doing literal war crimes every nation condemned the Nazis for.
I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing.
Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.
Remember that this article is shrieking about a 17% decline in European tourists visiting the USA … back in *March*, only two months into the Trump administration and six months ago.
The endless litany of news about abusive ICE behaviour since then means tourism is probably down significantly further by now.
(I know I for one cancelled all US visit plans after last November 7th. Otherwise right now I'd be in Seattle.)
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I think this story maybe missing one very big reason #Europeans don't want to visit the #usa at the moment. Of course there is some resentment, but there's a bigger portion of concern I think. We don't feel as safe going through us airports as we used to. I don't want to be treated like a suspect when I travel. In fact I won't put up with that. #America just isn't important enough to me to justify that treatment. https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/08/airports-feel-like-ghost-towns-us-tourism-reels-as-european-boycott-slashes-visitor-numbers-and-drains-billions-from-the-economy/ #tourism #travel #Airports #EU #geopolitics
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