Posts by Kim Browne
Is Trump Going to Let Venezuela Starve?
While Venezuela’s regime is getting by, thanks to its deference to Trump, it remains a repressive and corrupt force in the lives of those it ostensibly governs. Human rights groups on the scene estimate that it still holds nearly 800 political prisoners, many of whom were active in the opposition movement that actually won the…
Read MoreMasked Federal Agents Kill Another Minneapolis Resident in the Street
Just hours after Bovino recounted his dystopian, rather than feel-good, story about detained children, another report emerged that immigration agents had grabbed a child. ICE detained a family of three, including a 7-year-old girl, outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, last week. The girl’s parents had been rushing her to emergency medical care after she…
Read MoreTrust Is The Missing Marketing Strategy
Too many brands obsess over clicks and impressions and then wonder why sales stall. The problem isn’t reach; it’s what comes after. Awareness without trust is wasted money. That’s my stance, and it’s shaped by building and scaling companies where attention was cheap but confidence was earned. “How do you let new people know that…
Read MoreThis Year’s First Big Stupid Idea: “Retrain ICE”
One of the consequences of covering American politics is that it forces you to have frequent close encounters with some of the dumbest people alive and their terrible ideas. Cutting taxes on wealthy people will eventually enrich the middle class. Invading and occupying Iraq will spread democracy throughout the Middle East. Michael Bloomberg should be…
Read MoreArmy Vet Says ICE Detained Him for 8 Hours, Blocked Access to Lawyer
Just hours after Bovino recounted his dystopian, rather than feel-good, story about detained children, another report emerged that immigration agents had grabbed a child. ICE detained a family of three, including a 7-year-old girl, outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, last week. The girl’s parents had been rushing her to emergency medical care after she…
Read MoreCBP Chief Brags They’re “Experts” in Detaining Small Children
Just hours after Bovino recounted his dystopian, rather than feel-good, story about detained children, another report emerged that immigration agents had grabbed a child. ICE detained a family of three, including a 7-year-old girl, outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, last week. The girl’s parents had been rushing her to emergency medical care after she…
Read MoreFEMA Can’t Say “Watch Out for Ice” in Storm Warnings for Fear of Memes
A winter storm is set to hit much of the country this weekend, and naturally, the Federal Emergency Management Association is sending out warnings to make sure people are safe. But they aren’t allowed to use the word “ice” in any of their messaging because their superiors at the Department of Homeland Security are worried…
Read MoreICE Detains 2-Year-Old Girl Days After Using 5-Year-Old as Bait
“Respondents have taken a 2-year-old into custody—an escalation of violence that is unspeakable, cruel and without any legal basis or justification,” their attorneys said in court filings. Their attorneys claim that their clients, both from Ecuador, are asylum-seekers who were arrested without warrants. “On January 22, 2026, Chloe who is 2 years of age, and…
Read MorePolice Arrest Huge Group of Faith Leaders in Minneapolis ICE Protest
The sheriff excoriated the agents for their conduct, saying the arrest had changed his mind about the federal government’s immigration actions. “We’re being told one story, which is totally different than what’s occurring or what occurred [Wednesday] night,” Joyce said, noting that the recruit had passed the county’s application process to qualify as a corrections…
Read MoreCDC Vaccines Chief Says Every Single Vaccine Should Be Optional
The Trump-appointed head of the federal panel that recommends vaccines is saying that polio and measles vaccines—and perhaps every vaccine—should be optional. Dr. Kirk Milhoan, who heads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on a podcast Thursday that possibly every shot should be optional, saying that…
Read MoreICE Agent Makes Chilling Threat to Woman Filming Him in Public
A person no longer needs to commit a crime in order to be considered a criminal in Donald Trump’s America. A masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent warned a woman in Portland, Maine, that her information would be entered into a “nice little database” that would label her a domestic terrorist. Her infraction? Peacefully filming…
Read MoreHere’s Your Damn Playbook, Democrats
Instead of listening to these people, Dems might try looking to almost everyone else to learn how to rise to the occasion. Despite everything Trump has done to stop the clean energy transition, renewables have continued to grow, thanks in large part to the actions of regular people who are getting solar panels, installing heat…
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