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Avatar: Fire and Ash As usual an amazing visual spectacular as well as a particularly long watch. Why does it feel like every Avatar movie has the same plot, with minor variations for flavoring? Is it the climactic battle scenes?

If their goal is to maximize deportations of illegal immigrants, these constitution violations are the very tactics that will cost them significant political support from moderates. In the end, we'll either be a complete despotism, or Republicans will likely get trashed in the next election.

Dog will need a bath later...

I'm wondering where the ACLU is with all these ongoing 4th amendment violations by the administration? ICE is claiming they can issue their own warrants without a need for the court. What a joke. They are invading the homes of American citizens then arresting and detaining them. Talk about unreasonable search and seizure. This is completely abrogating their oath of office.

2nd Amendment advocates issue dire warning over Trump’s Pretti gun remarks I'm finding it ironic that the gun rights crowd have justified the 2nd amendment as a defense against the very type of despotic government that DJT is creating. Somehow, other nations manage to maintain a democratic state without everybody being armed.

Some weirdness from the 80s

I long ago stopped trying to filter out the truth from DJTs constant lie streaming; it's too time consuming and isn't really helpful. At least with most politicians you CAN filter out the political garbage from the facts. But DJT wraps himself in a thick cloak of lies, so your advice isn't really that helpful. I can't trust him to do the right thing, even though very occasionally he does (when it serves his purposes).

I get the sense that ICE has rapidly ramped up their personnel, bringing in people who are inadequately trained, inexperienced, and trigger happy. The (ICE) can't fix this problem in the short term, so more citizens are going to die and the administration will continue to emit evil lies in the face of clear evidence. 🫤 Impeaching Noem to force her resignation would be a start; bring in somebody who actually has experience in domestic security in urban areas, rather than a lying politician from rural South Dakota.

Whew, won by the skin of their teeth. It's always a battle against the Rams.

I'm a long time Seahawks fan, but I can't say I feel confident heading into tomorrow's game. The playoffs are all about matchups, and LA matches up particularly well against the Hawks. But I was sort of expecting it would come to this for the NFC championship game. I hope coach Macdonald has some sort of defensive masterclass up his sleeve.

Trump's Board of Peace requires nations pay $1 billion for permanent membership Supposedly that payment goes directly into Trump's pocket, not the US government. Can you say emoluments? I knew you could.

It includes DJT-flatterers Argentina, Hungary, and Qatar, but excludes Canada? Definitely a laughable "institution". Most European nations declined to join, which tells you something. Bored of Peace indeed.

I've been watching a series on HBO/Max called "The Head" about a murder mystery at a remote Antarctic outpost (at least for the first season). It's been pretty good thus far, although the pacing is pretty slow so probably not for Gen Z types. Meanwhile: Matt Damon: Netflix Wants the Plot Explained 3 or 4 Times in Movies for Viewers Watching While Scrolling on Their Phones 🙄

Not quite; DJT presumably wants control of the mineral wealth, including that which will be uncovered as the ice cap melts thanks to the (apparently ficticious) non-existant climate change.

Note that's just 0.37% of the Federal budget.

Unless DJT backs off, I think the one way this could work itself out diplomatically without damaging NATO is for the US and Denmark to agree on some sort of shared "Protected territory" status for Greenland. Let Denmark and Greenland handle the political state and economy, and the US handles most of the defense matters, along with special influence on minerals handling.

Safety first.

DJT's argument for a hostile takeover of Greenland: 'If we don't, Russia or China will': Trump doubles down on takeover of Greenland Europe's counter-argument is that doing so will end NATO, which is entirely plausible. This must be immensely pleasing to Putin. All he needs to do is keep stirring the Greenland issue, prompting DTJ to take action and end his most formidable deterent.

The current President is the person in power, so politically he is the subject that matters (to Congress). Choosing to go after Clinton like they are is just a distraction tactic. Unless Clinton has something pertinent to add about the current President, it's more the business of the judicial system.

Well ##### certainly achieved his goal of taking J. Epstein out of the headlines this weekend, although B. Clinton may bring it back.

Referendum? You must mean Anschluss...

Reminds me of the days when large telescopes were funded by private beneficiaries, like the Hooker and Hale telescopes. Hopefully they can pull it off.

It was very sad to watch that event this morning; the woman was clearly panicking and trying to flee, and was murdered for it. This administration is starting to rack up quite a body count, and I can only expect it will get worse. Well the anti-ICE folks now have their cause célèbres, so the protest will likely ramp up. I'm not opposed to anti-illegal immigration policing per se, but somehow it needs to be made clear to this administration that the abuse level is completely unacceptible. However, I suspect that all the protesting in the world will have little impact on this ruler. He's just not quite right in the head.