I enjoy reading your stuff. It's where I go when I need a break from all the hand-wringy over-precious 'liberal' bleating about how very helpless we are in the face of all these big, bad storm troopers. The Left will discover, in time, that the old "we're so helpless" schtick runs out of juice when trying to curry public favor as the public stops having time for this shit.
Truth is, these bad guys appear to be weak bullies, selected by weak bullies. They've been sent packing by soccer moms out for their latte (do *not* piss them off). Little old ladies with phone cameras have made them cower back to their battle wagons as they cover their retreat with weapons of war. Their masks will come off. Their communities and their families already know who they are.
Adrian, Thanks for the reporting on these uplifting interventions. You should be as proud of your work as we are to receive it. We have ordinary citizens with ordinary means achieving extraordinary outcomes. The Musk's, Bezos', Zuckerberg's and Ellison's should be ashamed of themselves for having so much and doing so little for humanity. All those Tech Bros, Law firms and Universities should take a good look at how you handle bullying, you put up your dukes, start winging combinations and watch the bully run home to mommy. These caving entities might have saved their businesses but in the realm of public sentiment they are eunuchs.
Thank you for this hopeful story and all the work you have done this past year to keep up informed. Thank you to all of my fellow citizens across the country who have stood up for immigrants and the rule of law. You have all given me hope that better days are coming.
Thanks again for these stories. These kind of actions are how we get out of it. People knowing the law, their rights and standing up to the unlawful use of force and intimidation, and for their community.
Perhaps the only positive impact of the Project 2025 fever dream with its poster boy Trump is that the growing boil filled with the poison of racism, classism, jingoism and especially oligarchy that has infected our country has become too big to ignore, and the pain it inflicts on regular Americans is becoming too great to ignore. Hopefully, it can be lanced and we can learn how to at least minimize its recurrence.
I'm in North Carolina and Siembra's grassroots organization is impressive. There are trained volunteers and dispatchers covering the Triangle – where I am – and I think Charlotte and a lot of other areas as well. We support our neighbors!
Those films are, to say the least, not stone cold classics. We can chuckle at Mortal Kombat without saying it was actually good. Halloween 3 was miserably awful and Hook is one of the most notoriously bad flops in Hollywood history (though by all means it's fine to like a bad movie. I love Red Dawn). I'm sure they're great makeup artists and makeup wasn't how Hook failed but, you know, let's slow our roll with the term "stone cold classics".
Americans are a generous people, they are kind and often considerate. The downing down of our mores and social interactions is due, in much part, to the last decade's fall from political grace, promoted and enjoyed by Trump and friends. We will get out of this mess one day and there will be accountability, no matter how hard the masked men try to hide.
Police departments have begun to practice non-cooperation. Some are ordered to arrest ICE agents who engage in their favorite brutality. "Protect and Serve".
Thanks Adrian for your stories! Here in Mn., I have been following news stories of ICE's operation "metro surge" in MPLS. There has been a lot of pro active activity going on instead of simply reactions. What I do know is ICE is not allowed to do anything on private property without a warrant. Next spring I will be getting a new roof on my house. If I see any such activity in from of my house with unmarked vans and such while work is being done. I will do this; Approach these vehicles, demand ID, demand to see search warrants. If I get BS, I will say get the fuck off my property.
Workers who put up roofs as well as a lot of construction tend to be largely Hispanic. That is why I will have their backs if this happens. Earlier in a MPLS suburb, ICE showed up on a construction site of a house. Didn't end all that well for ICE. The crowd was not having any of it. Eventually, they called in police for protection. and they were escorted away. Makes me proud to be a Minnesotan! Oh those stoic Minnesotans!
we had a house built in Indiana this year, moved in while rest of neighborhood still under construction. Hearing La Musica - 🎼 corridos, Norteño - during some of the construction, sometimes an especially enthusiastic artesano singing along - felt like back home in AZ. Without those craftsmen our neighborhood wouldn't have been built. ¡Que Dios los bendiga a todos!
Earlier this summer, there was a lot of hi speed internet cable being laid. I can't help but think how they must be feeling now! My sister lives in Tucson. (Large Latino pop).Immigrants are what make this country great. By the way, Linda Ronstadt, one of my favorites is from Tucson!
I saw the Ronstadt documentary, Sound of my voice. What an incredible voice! And then she did opera; Pirates of Penzance. Amazing.I am not an opera person but she equal any of those opera singers. And she was amazingly humble about her voice!
Thank you for these stories of hope.
I enjoy reading your stuff. It's where I go when I need a break from all the hand-wringy over-precious 'liberal' bleating about how very helpless we are in the face of all these big, bad storm troopers. The Left will discover, in time, that the old "we're so helpless" schtick runs out of juice when trying to curry public favor as the public stops having time for this shit.
Truth is, these bad guys appear to be weak bullies, selected by weak bullies. They've been sent packing by soccer moms out for their latte (do *not* piss them off). Little old ladies with phone cameras have made them cower back to their battle wagons as they cover their retreat with weapons of war. Their masks will come off. Their communities and their families already know who they are.
I’m still working hard to get myself healthy so that I can join the fight against autocracy, fascism, and racism.
Love your work, Adrian!
Adrian, Thanks for the reporting on these uplifting interventions. You should be as proud of your work as we are to receive it. We have ordinary citizens with ordinary means achieving extraordinary outcomes. The Musk's, Bezos', Zuckerberg's and Ellison's should be ashamed of themselves for having so much and doing so little for humanity. All those Tech Bros, Law firms and Universities should take a good look at how you handle bullying, you put up your dukes, start winging combinations and watch the bully run home to mommy. These caving entities might have saved their businesses but in the realm of public sentiment they are eunuchs.
Thank you for this hopeful story and all the work you have done this past year to keep up informed. Thank you to all of my fellow citizens across the country who have stood up for immigrants and the rule of law. You have all given me hope that better days are coming.
Thanks again for these stories. These kind of actions are how we get out of it. People knowing the law, their rights and standing up to the unlawful use of force and intimidation, and for their community.
Perhaps the only positive impact of the Project 2025 fever dream with its poster boy Trump is that the growing boil filled with the poison of racism, classism, jingoism and especially oligarchy that has infected our country has become too big to ignore, and the pain it inflicts on regular Americans is becoming too great to ignore. Hopefully, it can be lanced and we can learn how to at least minimize its recurrence.
I'm in North Carolina and Siembra's grassroots organization is impressive. There are trained volunteers and dispatchers covering the Triangle – where I am – and I think Charlotte and a lot of other areas as well. We support our neighbors!
It is not an excuse or a rationalization, just the facts and an analysis of Trump's personality disorder, go to:
https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f
Rich S. Octogenarian and Contrarian
Those films are, to say the least, not stone cold classics. We can chuckle at Mortal Kombat without saying it was actually good. Halloween 3 was miserably awful and Hook is one of the most notoriously bad flops in Hollywood history (though by all means it's fine to like a bad movie. I love Red Dawn). I'm sure they're great makeup artists and makeup wasn't how Hook failed but, you know, let's slow our roll with the term "stone cold classics".
Americans are a generous people, they are kind and often considerate. The downing down of our mores and social interactions is due, in much part, to the last decade's fall from political grace, promoted and enjoyed by Trump and friends. We will get out of this mess one day and there will be accountability, no matter how hard the masked men try to hide.
Thank you for sharing some heart-warming stories.
Maybe some of the large law firms who defied Felon Trump would use some of their pro bono work hours to sue the pants off of ICE.
Police departments have begun to practice non-cooperation. Some are ordered to arrest ICE agents who engage in their favorite brutality. "Protect and Serve".
Hope it spreads to other cities.
Thank you for sharing these positive stories, it's very heartening
Thanks Adrian for your stories! Here in Mn., I have been following news stories of ICE's operation "metro surge" in MPLS. There has been a lot of pro active activity going on instead of simply reactions. What I do know is ICE is not allowed to do anything on private property without a warrant. Next spring I will be getting a new roof on my house. If I see any such activity in from of my house with unmarked vans and such while work is being done. I will do this; Approach these vehicles, demand ID, demand to see search warrants. If I get BS, I will say get the fuck off my property.
Dave - stand tall, brother!
Workers who put up roofs as well as a lot of construction tend to be largely Hispanic. That is why I will have their backs if this happens. Earlier in a MPLS suburb, ICE showed up on a construction site of a house. Didn't end all that well for ICE. The crowd was not having any of it. Eventually, they called in police for protection. and they were escorted away. Makes me proud to be a Minnesotan! Oh those stoic Minnesotans!
we had a house built in Indiana this year, moved in while rest of neighborhood still under construction. Hearing La Musica - 🎼 corridos, Norteño - during some of the construction, sometimes an especially enthusiastic artesano singing along - felt like back home in AZ. Without those craftsmen our neighborhood wouldn't have been built. ¡Que Dios los bendiga a todos!
Earlier this summer, there was a lot of hi speed internet cable being laid. I can't help but think how they must be feeling now! My sister lives in Tucson. (Large Latino pop).Immigrants are what make this country great. By the way, Linda Ronstadt, one of my favorites is from Tucson!
Hope you get to visit often. We were between TUS & MX. Dreamland! (spiritually, not the military one)
Got to meet some of the Ronstadt family. All amazingly talented. Been to Linda interview/biography show in town 💖
I visit my sister in winter to get out of this state!
I saw the Ronstadt documentary, Sound of my voice. What an incredible voice! And then she did opera; Pirates of Penzance. Amazing.I am not an opera person but she equal any of those opera singers. And she was amazingly humble about her voice!