Murder. I understand that for legal or journalistic integrity reasons Adrian Carrasquillo can't refer to what's happening in detention centers as torture, and Andrew Egger can't refer to the treatment of Mr. Shah Alam as murder. But I sure as hell can!
They murdered the man. Any reasonable person would assume that dropping off a blind man in an empty parking lot in the dead of night in the freezing cold would likely result in death.
I wouldn't put it past them to have sat outside the reach of the security cameras and watch him trying to find his way home. It was murder and someone needs to be held accountable.
They won’t be. They weren’t in Minneapolis, and won’t be here. And it’s normal for people to be released from detention without appropriate clothing nor from where they were taken from. It’s all about making it difficult for immigrants regardless of legality.
I know that is their usual process and it won't stop until someone is held responsible. No, it won't happen until Trump is gone, but there's no statute of limitations on murder.
Absolutely! I am here in Buffalo and wondering how the heck if the drug dealers of celebrities who overdose are prosecuted for murder why DHS can't be prosecuted, at a bare minimum in this man's case, for negligent homicide?
That will be the modus operandi of the administration going forward. In plain English the administration will be snuffing their cigarettes out on the judges foreheads.
No, it is murder. Where do ICE assassins think they could have "immunity" of any legal meaning, let alone "qualified" immunity? JD Vain saying it ain't gonna cut it.
Those SOBs are not qualified in anything except extra-legal actions. How many of them are J6 pardonees, or their unindicted co-conspirators, clever enough not to be caught at the Capitol?
David - I'm incensed as well. Wouldn't a criminal charge of murder require proof of intent for conviction? If less than 1st degree, can sufficient negligence be proven here, given the agents will declare they didn't know their victim's full medical history, aren't trained meteorologists, etc.? All my life I've seen courts & juries give 'law enforcement' more than average benefit of the doubt
J AZ, why do you see a parallel between "law enforcement" and ICE? No training, no oversight. And I think, by now, most potential jurors have a very clear idea why the "benefit of the doubt" is not applicable.
And somehow, I think leaving a helpless, underclothed for the weather man outside in the dark makes a case for murder, at least in civilized countries. Here in Germany, murder convictions have been handed down and upheld on appeal in cases of cars running over pedestrians while engaged in excessive speed, usually in a macho "contest" who has the fastest rocket. At some point, the action of the perpetrator can be presumed to be so egregious that any person would have known that death could result from his/her actions. Who would be believed if s/he said, when I fired the gun at that person, knowing that live ammunition was in it, I did not know it would kill him?
What gives you the impression that ICE is in any legal way comparable to a police force? No training, no oversight, no nothing that controls their actions?
He's not the first to be thrown out of an ICE or CPB prison with inadequate clothes, no money, no phone and no transportation. Fortunately, citizen volunteers are keeping a watch on the Whipple Building in Minneapolis, and have rescued a few people who were thrown out wearing only light clothing. Theft of their belongings, their papers and cell phones is a given.
Anyone who thought that the regime was having a change of heart about their immigration policy was unbelievably naive. I agree with you. I would add one thing. Let's stop referring the places the snatched humans are being sent to as detention centers and call them what they are, concentration camps.
It's time to drop the polite rhetoric and honestly call out what's happening. This is our country now. We can sanewash or we can face what is happening The later is the only way we can fight it.
You may expect no accountability. They should not. The wheels of justice grind slowly but incredibly fine. There are videos and photographs galore in Minnesota, and in parking lots of closed cafés that can be used as evidence in court. Nazi guards and concentration camp helpers were still being tried in German court well into the 80s and 90, and some even in this century. The Germany created after WWII considered that to be a duty for the victims.
And you don't think that the oligarchs in 1930-1940 supported the Nazis for the same selfish, greedy reasons that the Felon's Broligarchs do? History says otherwise.
I don’t really know enough to comment one way or another. My intuition right now is that our oligarchs are global and “stateless”, and extraordinarily powerful.
As an old criminal law practitioner, let me correct the statement that Shah Alam was the victim of “mistreatment.” This was clearly a culpable, prosecutable homicide.
Gregory - depending on rules in the jurisdiction, involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide, perhaps? But then there’s qualified immunity to consider…
The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam should outrage us and be all over the news. Absolutely depraved, needlessly cruel, excessively negligent. It's hard to put to words how angry I feel.
The way I am guffawing over the Cheap Shot this morning. Thank you, I needed that this morning. Mr Shah Alam’s tragic death has me seeing red. The blatant lying ALL of yesterday from these shitty people is just incredible. It really is amazing how much this administration has radicalized me into wanting to abolish ICE. He was a legal resident! He was disabled! But Adam Serwer’s words will be the most apt descriptors of this entire era- “The cruelty is the point.”
FOLLOW UP: On Wednesday morning, I mentioned watching a panel of swing voters in the wake of the SOTU and watching one voter claim that what excited him was the $18T in investments. That “swing voter” was a far right candidate for Senate in MI a few years ago!!
The problem is that so long as you're threatening contempt and not actually doing anything there are not actually any consequences for their lawbreaking.
Taking a cue from a couple of comments, and I usually avoid expletives, but this shit must end. Not tomorrow. TODAY. Right now. Lock up leadership. Lock up agents. Drag Miller, Noem, Homan, and Trump in front of Congress and judges. Make current and potential employees, corporate service providers, and land/building leasers question what could possibly justify this sanctioned, inhumane, and illegal behavior... and YOUR part in it. That assessment is not pretty.
Disciplinary "threats" absent follow-through lead to what therapists call "parent deafness" wherein the child only hears the "whaa-wha-whaa" sound that adults make in a Peanuts cartoon.
Start with the lying DHS Spox that spouted that stupid story, put 'em under oath and ask: "Do you assert your story as fact? Have you been instructed by a Superior regarding your testimony? If so, who?" Send the Marshalls to fetch the higher-up and repeat. Might fill a cell block by next weekend, mostly with contempt to begin with and escalating from there.
There are dreadful consequences, just not accountability.
"Yesterday morning, ICE officers arrested a student... after repeatedly lying that they were searching for a missing child to gain access to her building."
The next time real police say they are "searching for a missing child," many people will not believe them.
It's what he's always wanted. Lived there all his life, and the place has always treated him like the dirtbag he is. I mean, NYC knows a dirtbag when they see one.
Mamdani is handsome and charismatic. And he makes it feel like NYC likes Trump even though the day he changed his legal residence to Florida was a day NYC breathed a joyful sigh.
Adam Kinzinger sounded the alarm on Trump rigging the election yesterday. It is the first time to see him doing so. By now, we should all expect the worst and be ready to fight back however we can.
"I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that a triumphant Trumpism would go a long way to blowing out the moral lights around us."
It already has. The further it proceeds, the morally dimmer we get. Hardly an exaggeration.
Just look at Trump's rapsheet and the recent DOJ's attempt to hide credible Epstein accusations against Trump. Newsflash to the party of family values, you picked a very creepy man as prez.
Very creepy indeed. And we’re no longer a “shining city on a hill”, that’s not America First. The prez and his gang are blowing out the moral lights around us as fast as they can, and the rest of the world is getting out their flashlights and going around us. We’ve gone from the country they look to for leadership to the country they ignore as irrelevant.
The foundation of Trumpian apologetics was an explicit choice for moral relativism, under the claim that it was instrumental to a higher purpose -- defeating "the Left."
Yesterday I heard a former evangelical say that an "ends justify the means" attitude is commonplace among white-evangelical Christian nationalists, and that's why they readily; embraced a person of low morals as the hero of their "Christian" agenda. It's clear that a similar attitude prevails among the more educated Trump-boosters.
The GOP left their values completely behind when they nominated Trump ss their candidate in 2024. They knew exactly what they were getting. Everyone who voted for him us culpable. I'm tired if giving a pass for being gullible, uninformed or whatever other excuse people use for their poor judgement or actual by-in. Trump has told us repeatedly who he is. There are no excuses for anyone going along with him.
Thank you, Andrew Egger, for writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam's story. The events in this man's life, from his fleeing Myanmar's genocide against the Rohingya, to being arrested for getting lost and carrying a curtain rod as a cane, referred to as a "weapon" in the case, and now this. It makes me sick. Humanity sure has a long way to go to actually live with true compassion and love.
With regards to Zohran Mamdani, my guess is that Donald Trump isn't that difficult to figure out: just flatter him in the moment and have him sign off on things immediately before he changes his mind or his handlers get to him. Mamdani knew exactly what he was doing when he brought fake newspapers and posed with him for the press. Plenty of Democrats can learn from this guy.
Also, in regards to the 2020 and 2024 elections, it strikes me that the appeal of Trump and fascism are feelings of domination, conquest, and superiority, and if there's ever a breaking point, it's when people feel vulnerable. In a way fascism works the same way cognitively as cocaine.
2020 and the COVID pandemic provided that sense of vulnerability, which made enough voters change their minds and/or feel compelled to vote for an alternative. The fact that the Biden administration had restored things to relative normalcy made Americans reach for the hard drugs again.
I just have to compliment ALL of you at The Bulwark! I’m not much of a poster, but your journalism exceeds all others right now! So painful and tragic to see Mr. Shah Alam’s human, alive face knowing what he suffered. And also, so uplifting to invoke Lincoln as we head toward the midterms. This is not a time to look away or cower…it’s a time to cry and grieve and call out the cruelty while we remain strong, resolute and fight for humanity and democracy…thank you for supporting this.
"Everyone counts or no one counts". This administration in general and ICE in particular are making it clear that no one counts. Not you. Not me. Not the one's kissing Trump's ass to get what they want. No one! It is going to be up to us to make sure everyone counts.
Nothing will be done until the cost of doing nothing exceeds the cost of doing something.
A reason for the CEO of Anthropic to say "OH HELL NO"- the US military, using their newest laser thingy (well known for being deadly to party balloons), show down a Border Patrol drone.
If only the Pentagon still had a real press pool, someone might ask them to explain why their policy would NOT lead to a replay of that incident, just with the opposite outcome
Sko - in our Entertainment-based media ecosystem, feels like we need Ahhnold to film an explainer on why Skynet won’t be a great idea… drawing on his series of docudramas on the subject. Would probably sway more lo-info voters than anything
The death of the man in Buffalo is not all that different than what ICE did when they decided to let people go from the Whipple Building in MPLS. There they would simply open the door and say you can now go, without warm clothing, no phones, and no notification what so ever into the cold Minnesota night. The difference here is MPLS citizens organized to give clothing, a meal, warm shelter and a ride home. Not so with that blind man in Buffalo who spoke no English.
Exactly. Miller wants cruelty and death. The Mini Rat Faced Facist wants "those that don't belong " to leave and others to not even consider "Coming to America ".
There's a Cancer in this country. Triple Trumpers. Suppression is possible, but it will always be here.
My sister lived in Germany during the 70's. Even then, she saw the small groups of elderly Nazis sitting, seething venom. They were powerless but not gone. Raising new haters. Biding their time. Never-ending.
There's a quote from Gone with the Wind that's hard to find, but the "good" character, Melanie, goes on a rant about how she hates Yankees so much, she will teach her children and grandchildren to hate them. And the "bad" character, Scarlett, thinks that's pretty weird and unnecessary, but everyone says Melanie is good so it must be what she's supposed to do even if she doesn't want to. The Help plays with this too, where the "good" mother is making Black people feel lesser than and ostracizing them, while the "bad" mother just goes along to get along. There's always going to be a group passing down hate to the next generation, but we have to respond by saying, no, that's not good, that is not being a good person. And everyone hates being a moral scold. And as a woman, I can't point this out without being told I'm why Trump won.
I remember more about Margaret Mitchell than the movie. I thought she had a fascinating life, especially overcoming her depression, as she was wired to lead anything but a ho-hum life.
Much like another beloved writer of mine, Heather Cox-Richardson, I love how Bill’s writings are often tied in beautifully with showing the use of historical events in shining light on today’s events. I don’t think I am alone in these thoughts, yet up until ten years ago who would have thought these two thoughtful, knowledgeable writers would ever see their names grouped together in the same paragraph?
Murder. I understand that for legal or journalistic integrity reasons Adrian Carrasquillo can't refer to what's happening in detention centers as torture, and Andrew Egger can't refer to the treatment of Mr. Shah Alam as murder. But I sure as hell can!
They murdered the man. Any reasonable person would assume that dropping off a blind man in an empty parking lot in the dead of night in the freezing cold would likely result in death.
Exactly. This was supposedly the greatest country on Earth. The GOP is destroying it at an incredible pace.
And it's supposedly the party of "Christian Nationalist". If you support this, one thing is certain: you are neither a Christian nor a nationalist.
You're an immoral sadist who urgently needs treatment.
Or, in lieu of treatment, a rope and a sturdy tree.
If that's what you believe, you're part of the problem rather than the solution ;-)
Apparently the searches for "how to build a guillotine" have surged.
Yes they did. And did so with no remorse. Probably thought it was funny. Makes my blood boil.
I wouldn't put it past them to have sat outside the reach of the security cameras and watch him trying to find his way home. It was murder and someone needs to be held accountable.
They won’t be. They weren’t in Minneapolis, and won’t be here. And it’s normal for people to be released from detention without appropriate clothing nor from where they were taken from. It’s all about making it difficult for immigrants regardless of legality.
I know that is their usual process and it won't stop until someone is held responsible. No, it won't happen until Trump is gone, but there's no statute of limitations on murder.
Yes, they killed that poor man.
Agreed. Thank you to the Bulwark for covering the story about that poor man in Buffalo NY
Absolutely! I am here in Buffalo and wondering how the heck if the drug dealers of celebrities who overdose are prosecuted for murder why DHS can't be prosecuted, at a bare minimum in this man's case, for negligent homicide?
I expect the phrase "callous disregard" to get a lot of use in the near future.
And the use of which the powers that be will simply disregard.
That will be the modus operandi of the administration going forward. In plain English the administration will be snuffing their cigarettes out on the judges foreheads.
Is the DA in Buffalo planning to pursue charges or at least investigate this murder?
Jennifer - it’s called qualified immunity 😠
No, it is murder. Where do ICE assassins think they could have "immunity" of any legal meaning, let alone "qualified" immunity? JD Vain saying it ain't gonna cut it.
Those SOBs are not qualified in anything except extra-legal actions. How many of them are J6 pardonees, or their unindicted co-conspirators, clever enough not to be caught at the Capitol?
David - I'm incensed as well. Wouldn't a criminal charge of murder require proof of intent for conviction? If less than 1st degree, can sufficient negligence be proven here, given the agents will declare they didn't know their victim's full medical history, aren't trained meteorologists, etc.? All my life I've seen courts & juries give 'law enforcement' more than average benefit of the doubt
J AZ, why do you see a parallel between "law enforcement" and ICE? No training, no oversight. And I think, by now, most potential jurors have a very clear idea why the "benefit of the doubt" is not applicable.
And somehow, I think leaving a helpless, underclothed for the weather man outside in the dark makes a case for murder, at least in civilized countries. Here in Germany, murder convictions have been handed down and upheld on appeal in cases of cars running over pedestrians while engaged in excessive speed, usually in a macho "contest" who has the fastest rocket. At some point, the action of the perpetrator can be presumed to be so egregious that any person would have known that death could result from his/her actions. Who would be believed if s/he said, when I fired the gun at that person, knowing that live ammunition was in it, I did not know it would kill him?
I hope you look up qualified immunity cases because police do indeed get away with murder under qualified immunity. It’s sick.
What gives you the impression that ICE is in any legal way comparable to a police force? No training, no oversight, no nothing that controls their actions?
He's not the first to be thrown out of an ICE or CPB prison with inadequate clothes, no money, no phone and no transportation. Fortunately, citizen volunteers are keeping a watch on the Whipple Building in Minneapolis, and have rescued a few people who were thrown out wearing only light clothing. Theft of their belongings, their papers and cell phones is a given.
Well, we have been letting the police steal the belongings of the homeless for a few years now. This was the logical next step.
Anyone who thought that the regime was having a change of heart about their immigration policy was unbelievably naive. I agree with you. I would add one thing. Let's stop referring the places the snatched humans are being sent to as detention centers and call them what they are, concentration camps.
It's time to drop the polite rhetoric and honestly call out what's happening. This is our country now. We can sanewash or we can face what is happening The later is the only way we can fight it.
And not one hint about accountability. And we naturally expect NO ACCOUNTABILITY. We have been well trained in a very short time.
You may expect no accountability. They should not. The wheels of justice grind slowly but incredibly fine. There are videos and photographs galore in Minnesota, and in parking lots of closed cafés that can be used as evidence in court. Nazi guards and concentration camp helpers were still being tried in German court well into the 80s and 90, and some even in this century. The Germany created after WWII considered that to be a duty for the victims.
I hope. But we are up against Nazis who are also oligarchs.
It will take a big chunk of our national resources to unwind this, even if that’s ever “allowed”.
And you don't think that the oligarchs in 1930-1940 supported the Nazis for the same selfish, greedy reasons that the Felon's Broligarchs do? History says otherwise.
I don’t really know enough to comment one way or another. My intuition right now is that our oligarchs are global and “stateless”, and extraordinarily powerful.
They are anything but "stateless", but why would that make a difference anyway if they commit crimes in the US and have property, etc. here?
Yes. This was murder EXACTLY the way Alex Pretti's and Renee Good's deaths were murders.
Add that he spoke little or no English and that he was wearing cloth booties from detention.
It was probably obvious that the cafe was closed when he was dropped off.
Yep. And they are anonymous, like all secret police, so they dont have any accountability. This is truly Stalin style.
And yet any mention of ICE on Nextdoor gets an overwhelming "so, you support ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS invading our country!"
A large fraction of this country are monsters.
Yep. I see it all the time.
As an old criminal law practitioner, let me correct the statement that Shah Alam was the victim of “mistreatment.” This was clearly a culpable, prosecutable homicide.
Gregory - depending on rules in the jurisdiction, involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide, perhaps? But then there’s qualified immunity to consider…
And yet; no discussion about any prosecution that I’ve seen in media.
The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam should outrage us and be all over the news. Absolutely depraved, needlessly cruel, excessively negligent. It's hard to put to words how angry I feel.
The way I am guffawing over the Cheap Shot this morning. Thank you, I needed that this morning. Mr Shah Alam’s tragic death has me seeing red. The blatant lying ALL of yesterday from these shitty people is just incredible. It really is amazing how much this administration has radicalized me into wanting to abolish ICE. He was a legal resident! He was disabled! But Adam Serwer’s words will be the most apt descriptors of this entire era- “The cruelty is the point.”
FOLLOW UP: On Wednesday morning, I mentioned watching a panel of swing voters in the wake of the SOTU and watching one voter claim that what excited him was the $18T in investments. That “swing voter” was a far right candidate for Senate in MI a few years ago!!
#1 Fan - CNN panels proving to be pretty sus 🤔
Making their Mama's so proud 😩
The cruelty becomes known worldwide and people will no longer come to the US as refugees. And that’s what MAGA wants.
The problem is that so long as you're threatening contempt and not actually doing anything there are not actually any consequences for their lawbreaking.
Taking a cue from a couple of comments, and I usually avoid expletives, but this shit must end. Not tomorrow. TODAY. Right now. Lock up leadership. Lock up agents. Drag Miller, Noem, Homan, and Trump in front of Congress and judges. Make current and potential employees, corporate service providers, and land/building leasers question what could possibly justify this sanctioned, inhumane, and illegal behavior... and YOUR part in it. That assessment is not pretty.
It is like a mother keeps screaming at a misbehaving child but not following through with consequences.
If only their mother's had managed them 😞
Disciplinary "threats" absent follow-through lead to what therapists call "parent deafness" wherein the child only hears the "whaa-wha-whaa" sound that adults make in a Peanuts cartoon.
Start with the lying DHS Spox that spouted that stupid story, put 'em under oath and ask: "Do you assert your story as fact? Have you been instructed by a Superior regarding your testimony? If so, who?" Send the Marshalls to fetch the higher-up and repeat. Might fill a cell block by next weekend, mostly with contempt to begin with and escalating from there.
Silver Symposium:
There are dreadful consequences, just not accountability.
"Yesterday morning, ICE officers arrested a student... after repeatedly lying that they were searching for a missing child to gain access to her building."
The next time real police say they are "searching for a missing child," many people will not believe them.
Gosh, how could that possibly go wrong?
These people are such monsters.
I love that Mamdani plays the old bastard like a fucking flûte. You go, Zohran! Get it done!
Mamdani and Putin know how to pull the strings of Trumpster. Go figure? Go for the vainness, his ego and money.
He got Trump to believe that somebody in New York likes him.
It's what he's always wanted. Lived there all his life, and the place has always treated him like the dirtbag he is. I mean, NYC knows a dirtbag when they see one.
Mamdani is handsome and charismatic. And he makes it feel like NYC likes Trump even though the day he changed his legal residence to Florida was a day NYC breathed a joyful sigh.
Isn't it embarrassing that our President grins like a Cheshire Cat when flattered like that?
Adam Kinzinger sounded the alarm on Trump rigging the election yesterday. It is the first time to see him doing so. By now, we should all expect the worst and be ready to fight back however we can.
"I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that a triumphant Trumpism would go a long way to blowing out the moral lights around us."
It already has. The further it proceeds, the morally dimmer we get. Hardly an exaggeration.
Just look at Trump's rapsheet and the recent DOJ's attempt to hide credible Epstein accusations against Trump. Newsflash to the party of family values, you picked a very creepy man as prez.
Very creepy indeed. And we’re no longer a “shining city on a hill”, that’s not America First. The prez and his gang are blowing out the moral lights around us as fast as they can, and the rest of the world is getting out their flashlights and going around us. We’ve gone from the country they look to for leadership to the country they ignore as irrelevant.
The foundation of Trumpian apologetics was an explicit choice for moral relativism, under the claim that it was instrumental to a higher purpose -- defeating "the Left."
Yesterday I heard a former evangelical say that an "ends justify the means" attitude is commonplace among white-evangelical Christian nationalists, and that's why they readily; embraced a person of low morals as the hero of their "Christian" agenda. It's clear that a similar attitude prevails among the more educated Trump-boosters.
Yes. The common refrain: "Jesus is my savior; Trump is my president."
The GOP left their values completely behind when they nominated Trump ss their candidate in 2024. They knew exactly what they were getting. Everyone who voted for him us culpable. I'm tired if giving a pass for being gullible, uninformed or whatever other excuse people use for their poor judgement or actual by-in. Trump has told us repeatedly who he is. There are no excuses for anyone going along with him.
Thank you, Andrew Egger, for writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam's story. The events in this man's life, from his fleeing Myanmar's genocide against the Rohingya, to being arrested for getting lost and carrying a curtain rod as a cane, referred to as a "weapon" in the case, and now this. It makes me sick. Humanity sure has a long way to go to actually live with true compassion and love.
Thank you for filling in those details.
You're welcome. Amy Goodman did a piece on him on Democracy Now this morning: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/nurul_amin_shah_alam
With regards to Zohran Mamdani, my guess is that Donald Trump isn't that difficult to figure out: just flatter him in the moment and have him sign off on things immediately before he changes his mind or his handlers get to him. Mamdani knew exactly what he was doing when he brought fake newspapers and posed with him for the press. Plenty of Democrats can learn from this guy.
Also, in regards to the 2020 and 2024 elections, it strikes me that the appeal of Trump and fascism are feelings of domination, conquest, and superiority, and if there's ever a breaking point, it's when people feel vulnerable. In a way fascism works the same way cognitively as cocaine.
2020 and the COVID pandemic provided that sense of vulnerability, which made enough voters change their minds and/or feel compelled to vote for an alternative. The fact that the Biden administration had restored things to relative normalcy made Americans reach for the hard drugs again.
Everything about our current situation begs for psychological analysis. The baseline is; we are unhealthy.
McRob - apt comparison ✔️
"Flattery and favors", as a smart person said it.
I just have to compliment ALL of you at The Bulwark! I’m not much of a poster, but your journalism exceeds all others right now! So painful and tragic to see Mr. Shah Alam’s human, alive face knowing what he suffered. And also, so uplifting to invoke Lincoln as we head toward the midterms. This is not a time to look away or cower…it’s a time to cry and grieve and call out the cruelty while we remain strong, resolute and fight for humanity and democracy…thank you for supporting this.
"Everyone counts or no one counts". This administration in general and ICE in particular are making it clear that no one counts. Not you. Not me. Not the one's kissing Trump's ass to get what they want. No one! It is going to be up to us to make sure everyone counts.
Nothing will be done until the cost of doing nothing exceeds the cost of doing something.
That gap gets narrower each day.
A reason for the CEO of Anthropic to say "OH HELL NO"- the US military, using their newest laser thingy (well known for being deadly to party balloons), show down a Border Patrol drone.
https://www.wtae.com/article/us-military-laser-shoots-down-cbp-drone-el-paso/70525745
Excuse the typo- SHOT DOWN a CBP drone...
Sko, whenever I make a mistake, (and I do it plenty of times!) I simply click on the three dots after my piece and edit. Works every time!
Editing is for editors.
Although I did not know there was an edit button, so thanks! ;D
Another reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
If only the Pentagon still had a real press pool, someone might ask them to explain why their policy would NOT lead to a replay of that incident, just with the opposite outcome
Sko - in our Entertainment-based media ecosystem, feels like we need Ahhnold to film an explainer on why Skynet won’t be a great idea… drawing on his series of docudramas on the subject. Would probably sway more lo-info voters than anything
Judging from today's AI, it wouldn't have waited as long as Skynet did to kill people...
"Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-deletes-entire-drive
Saw that news earlier. Those guys are starting to make these guys look pretty good...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9Tovevx6w
The death of the man in Buffalo is not all that different than what ICE did when they decided to let people go from the Whipple Building in MPLS. There they would simply open the door and say you can now go, without warm clothing, no phones, and no notification what so ever into the cold Minnesota night. The difference here is MPLS citizens organized to give clothing, a meal, warm shelter and a ride home. Not so with that blind man in Buffalo who spoke no English.
Exactly. Miller wants cruelty and death. The Mini Rat Faced Facist wants "those that don't belong " to leave and others to not even consider "Coming to America ".
There's a Cancer in this country. Triple Trumpers. Suppression is possible, but it will always be here.
My sister lived in Germany during the 70's. Even then, she saw the small groups of elderly Nazis sitting, seething venom. They were powerless but not gone. Raising new haters. Biding their time. Never-ending.
There's a quote from Gone with the Wind that's hard to find, but the "good" character, Melanie, goes on a rant about how she hates Yankees so much, she will teach her children and grandchildren to hate them. And the "bad" character, Scarlett, thinks that's pretty weird and unnecessary, but everyone says Melanie is good so it must be what she's supposed to do even if she doesn't want to. The Help plays with this too, where the "good" mother is making Black people feel lesser than and ostracizing them, while the "bad" mother just goes along to get along. There's always going to be a group passing down hate to the next generation, but we have to respond by saying, no, that's not good, that is not being a good person. And everyone hates being a moral scold. And as a woman, I can't point this out without being told I'm why Trump won.
I remember more about Margaret Mitchell than the movie. I thought she had a fascinating life, especially overcoming her depression, as she was wired to lead anything but a ho-hum life.
Much like another beloved writer of mine, Heather Cox-Richardson, I love how Bill’s writings are often tied in beautifully with showing the use of historical events in shining light on today’s events. I don’t think I am alone in these thoughts, yet up until ten years ago who would have thought these two thoughtful, knowledgeable writers would ever see their names grouped together in the same paragraph?
I agree. I find myself trying to bookmark those historical links and quotes that he uses in my mind so that I can share them.
Bill is pretty well read!
Don’t blame you. He nails it time after time.
I suspect Bill is one of the very few political writers currently writing who will be read by the next generations.