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ICE Goons Must Go

BREAKING: In an OUTRAGEOUS scene that has quickly gone viral, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent dropped his pistol and then POINTED IT AT BYSTANDERS during a chaotic arrest Wednesday morning in Hyattsville, Maryland. The incident, captured on video by local photographer Raphi Talisman, unfolded just seven miles northeast of the White House—right in the heart of morning rush hour.

Talisman, who witnessed and recorded the ordeal, says he was driving home after dropping his child off at school when traffic suddenly halted. Moments later, he stepped out of his car to find ICE officers pinning a man to the asphalt in the middle of a busy intersection. The man, who appeared to be resisting arrest, cried out for help in both English and Spanish as two agents—one masked and wearing a vest labeled “POLICE ICE”—struggled to handcuff him.  

During the struggle, as one of the agents maneuvered to restrain the man, his pistol fell from his holster and hit the ground. The detainee then reached for the weapon and smacked it a few feet away. The agent immediately lunged to retrieve the unsecured firearm. 

As the agent recovered the weapon and moved back into a crouched position, video evidence shows him briefly pointing the pistol in the direction of the gathered onlookers. This action drew immediate and angry reactions from witnesses, with one person reportedly yelling, “What, you going to shoot me? Go ahead, shoot me.” Additionally, some online critics of the footage noted that the pistol's magazine appeared to have fallen out during the scuffle, indicating improper handling of the firearm.

The tension escalated after the suspect was finally handcuffed and placed into an unmarked Dodge minivan. At one point, the agent who dropped the pistol engaged directly with the crowd of witnesses, asking, "Do you want to take him home? Are you going to take care of him?" When an onlooker asked why the man was being arrested, the agent shouted back, "Because he is a criminal. How about that?"

Later in the clip, the second ICE agent, wearing the balaclava, walked toward the group of onlookers and appeared to issue a further challenge, asking, "Want to be next?"

ICE has not released any official details regarding the operation or the identity of the detainee.  However, according to the photographer who recorded the clip, the arrest was "brutal”. The video has sparked widespread debate over federal law enforcement procedures and the treatment of detainees and the public during enforcement actions by Trump's out-of-control immigration agents.

I Hope Reich is Right

 Friends,

I can’t tell you exactly how I know but after sixty years in and around politics I’ve developed a sixth sense, and my sixth sense tells me the tide is now turning on Trump.

This past week did it.

On Monday, he sued the Times in a lawsuit that, as CNN put it, read “like a pro-Trump op-ed, with page after page of gushing praise for the president.”

On Tuesday, he accused reporter Jonathan Karl and his employer, ABC News, of engaging in hate speech against him, and warned that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, might go after them.

On Wednesday, after Brendan Carr, his lapdog chair of the FCC, pressured ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, he claimed that Kimmel being “CANCELLED” was “Great News for America,” and urged NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers next.

On Thursday, he said broadcast networks have been mean to him and that Brendan Carr might have to start taking their licenses away. “When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump,” he said, “they’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”

On Friday, he suggested that negative coverage about him is “really illegal.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office he said: “They’ll take a great story and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal,” adding “Personally, you can’t take, you can’t have a free airwave if you’re getting free airwaves from the United States government.”

On Saturday, he demanded that Bondi prosecute several of his political rivals even though grand juries and federal prosecutors couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing. He demanded that she do it “NOW!!!”

On Sunday, at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, he said that he disagreed with Kirk’s supposed leniency toward his ideological foes, adding: “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.”

You could almost feel the great sleeping giant of America open an eye and frown, then blink both eyes and sit up and stretch, and then roar “what the hell is going on here?”

Immediately after Kimmel’s suspension, Disney viewers and customers began to cancel their subscriptions to Disney+ and Hulu and threaten a broader consumer boycott.

According to Strength in Numbers, the Disney boycott quickly became four times as large as any boycott over the last five years.

Disney’s stock dipped about 3.5 percent and continued to trade lower in subsequent days — a loss in market value amounting to some $4 billion.

Even Ted Cruz — Ted Cruz! — began issuing grave warnings about censorship.

By then the giant was roaring and stomping.

By Monday, Disney decided to put Kimmel back on the air.

Trump’s poll numbers were dipping even before last week’s explosion of authoritarianism. Now they’re in free fall.

I’m old enough to have witnessed the great sleeping giant of America awaken before.

Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunt destroyed countless careers before the giant roared: “have you no sense of decency?”

McCarthy melted almost as quickly as the Wicked Witch of the West. His national popularity evaporated. Three years later, censored by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of forty-eight.

The giant roared again a decade later, after television showed civil rights marchers getting clobbered by white supremacists. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.

It roared again after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in the jungles of Vietnam, finally bringing to an end one of the nation’s costliest, deadliest, and stupidest wars.

It roared again at Richard Nixon after Nixon was heard on tape plotting the coverup of Watergate — then being forced to exit the White House by helicopter on his way back to California.

It is starting to roar again now — at the sociopathic occupant of the Oval Office who won’t tolerate criticism, who in one wild week revealed his utter contempt for the freedom of Americans to criticize him, to write or speak negatively about him, even to joke about him.

Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but I’ve seen a lot. I know the signs. The sleeping giant always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some action so disrespectful of the common good, some brutality so noisy, that he has no choice but to awaken.

And when he does, the good sense of the American people causes him to put an end to whatever it was that awakened him.

What do you think?

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Regarding Chalie Kirk's Death

 BREAKING: A prominent Black influencer goes viral with a powerful post about Charlie Kirk, condemning the assassination as "absolutely horrific" while being bluntly honest about how history will remember the right-wing demagogue.

It's crucial that we push back on attempts to whitewash this man's hateful legacy...

"America lost Charlie Kirk a couple hours ago, violently, tragically, and in a moment that was recorded, and is circulating social. I will not post it because it’s absolutely horrific," wrote The Hungry Black Man wrote to his 300,000 followers on Facebook.

Kirk, a hardcore pro-gun advocate and professional racebaiter, was tragically shot and killed yesterday at Utah Valley University. The killer remains at large.

"Charlie was not a figure of grace or empathy," continued The Hungry Black Man. "History will not remember him as a voice of unity or a champion of justice. He will be remembered for the words he chose, words that often wounded and divided. As he lay bleeding out onstage, those words, once weapons, became dust."

"When he was shot, he was speaking about one of America’s deepest wounds: mass shootings," he went on. "When asked about school shootings, his response was not measured compassion but deflection. 'Counting or not counting gang violence?' he said, as if the grief of families who send their children to school only to bury them could be minimized by a technicality. And then, almost instantly, a shot rang out. He fell, his voice instantly silenced."

"This is not eulogy-flattery," he continued. "This is memory. We remember the things he said about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: 'MLK was awful. He’s not a good person.' We remember his calculation on gun violence: 'I think it’s worth … some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.' These are not the words of healing, not the words of unity. And yet they, too, are part of the ledger he leaves behind."

"So what do we do with a legacy like this? First, we tell the truth. We acknowledge what he said, how he said it, and the hurt it caused," he went on. "Second, we resist the temptation to let violence beget violence. For if this act tells us anything, it is that political violence has become a siren call to the unhinged, a spark they would gladly use to ignite the tinderbox of racial and class resentment. Today it was a conservative voice silenced. Tomorrow, it could just as easily be a progressive one. We must not let this become the currency of politics."

"We should also understand the warning buried in this moment," he wrote. "What we say matters. How we live matters. The words we choose, the causes we defend, the way we treat one another, these become the bricks of our legacy. Kirk’s words were often sharp, sometimes cruel, but they are now etched into his memory as surely as his death. Let the rest of us take note: legacies should be rooted in love, in justice, in equality, not in division or deflection."

"Rest, if you can, Mr. Kirk. May your final act teach us something lasting: that even in grief, we are called to choose better," the post concluded.

Kirk's assassination is a dark moment for America and it's a direct result of allowing a country awash in guns to descend into hyper-polarized politicization. His death is a tragedy, but so is every death caused by gun violence. If we want to create a safer, more peaceful nation we must turn away from the hateful rhetoric that Kirk spread and embrace a vision of America where equality and understanding are celebrated.

FUCK FOX AND EVERYONE WHO WORKS THERE

 I don't give a shit that Charlie Kirk is dead.  He was an evil human being and I'm glad I don't have to see that goofy face anymore.

Now we have Brian Killmead saying on the morning of September 10, 2025,  advocated for the killing of mentally ill homeless people during a discussion.

link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-host-kill-homeless-b2826035.html

Fox News is getting dangerous by saying things like this that get MAGATs stirred up. WTF is happening in this country?

THIS Wacko

 

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Drumpf is collapsing

 Trump’s 2AM meltdowns and dictator cosplay aren’t part of a predetermined strategy — they’re collapse. A malignant narcissist, weak and unhealthy, colliding with the one thing he can’t escape: DEATH. And his team knows it, which is why they’re going full-fascist now. (THREAD 🧵) 

As a psychologist, I can tell you: when malignant narcissists lose control, they don’t fade quietly. They escalate exponentially — rage, smear campaigns, humiliation, projection, even violence. Every move is about punishing those who expose their weakness to claw back control. 

This isn’t “toughness.” It’s disintegration. In my field we call it narcissistic mortification: the sheer terror, shame, and dread of being forced to confront one’s own fragility. To them, it feels like annihilation — as the false self they’ve lived behind for decades shatters. 

Mortification hits with both physical and psychological shock — chest pain, burning, panic, humiliation, obsessive thoughts. They feel exposed, worthless, desperate. That desperation is what fuels the meltdowns you’re watching play out in real time like an SNL skit/horror film. 

For Trump, the trigger is being faced with his own mortality. He can’t sue death. He can’t cheat it, bribe it, or con his way out of it. It’s inescapable. And for the first time in his life, he’s powerless — and the panic shows in every crazed rant/wild attempt to project control 

That’s why you see him suddenly fixated on things like getting in to heaven (LMAO NEVER going to happen, Don), legacy, and being remembered. Humiliation is the narcissist’s deepest wound — and nothing humiliates more than colliding with the truth that you can’t escape the end. 

The Epstein files serve to make this terror far worse. Not only do they expose what he’s spent 30+ years concealing, but if they surface after he’s gone, he can’t spin them. The thought of being defined by that humiliation — with no power to control the narrative — is devastating 

When narcissists face both mortality AND exposure, collapse deepens. They don’t reflect or accept responsibility. They deflect, rage, lie, smear, and escalate authoritarian grabs. Anything to keep the mask intact just a little bit longer — no matter who gets hurt in the process. 

So when you hear “Many people want a dictator” understand: it’s not strategy. It’s the desperation of a cornered man. His inner circle knows his health is failing, which is why they’re sprinting to consolidate power for Vance and others before Trump’s decline makes it impossible. 

And this makes him even more dangerous. A collapsing narcissist doesn’t calm down — they grow increasingly volatile, reckless, impulsive, and destructive. His unraveling is personal, but its consequences — given the office he occupies — will not just be national, but global. 

History shows what happens when leaders in collapse drag nations into their death spirals. The personal breakdown of one man becomes political crisis for millions. That’s exactly what we’re seeing now. 

Trump’s rants aren’t strategy. They’re symptoms. His unraveling isn’t just about him — it’s about the danger of what desperate men do when humiliated and terrified. As a psychologist, I see this clearly: Trump is unraveling. And he wants to take America (and the world) with him. 

Trump isn’t “playing 4D chess.” He isn’t following a plan. He’s mentally unraveling — and when men like him unravel, they burn everything around them down. That’s the terrifying moment we’re in. And it’s everything those of us in mental health warned about for years.

🧵END🧵 

written by 

Andrew—#IAmTheResistance—Wortman

@AmoneyResists

A True Leader