HEADLINES: 2026

[Shiftless2]

$800k ? And where does that $money come from? The taxpayers?

I expect that much (most?) of that money will be covered by insurance although I have no idea what sort of deductible the County's insurance policy has (it could well be $1 million or more).

Do the "women of color", the ones harmed here, get any share of that $800k ?

The "women of color" are the "public defenders" so the money was awarded to them. So they'll get the money - I assume that they legal fees are included so just how much their lawyers will take is a different question.

 

[sear]

"I expect that much (most?) of that money will be covered by insurance although I have no idea what sort of deductible the County's insurance policy has (it could well be $1 million or more)." S2 #21

The notion that a policy holder will ever get the better of an insurer seems illusory to me.
In the short term paying off a large claim might seem to put the policy holder ahead. BUT !
Long term, the payments on such insurance policy increases, right?

Seems like another example of "punish the victim". The one to be punished is the thug that obstructed the women in the first place.

"The "women of color" are the "public defenders"" S2 #21

Oh.

So why didn't they ring the law judge's smartphone and ask him to order the sheriff's deputy to stop obstructing justice.

 

[Rigby5]

New Mexico to prevent ICE operations in the state.

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SANTA FE, N.M. — Lawmakers plan to address several key issues in New Mexico and Democrats want that to include action on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Democratic leaders in both the New Mexico House and Senate say they plan to hit the ground running with proposals to ban federal immigration detention operations in the state.

Currently, New Mexico has three detention centers with federal contracts to detain migrants in ICE custody. The facilities are in Torrance, Cibola and Otero counties – and have all faced complaints of human rights violations over the years. One of those instances also resulted in an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit over the apparent suicide of a 23-year-old Brazilian man at the Torrance County facility.

New Mexico’s congressional delegation has made several calls for the end of ICE operations in the state. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham even considered adding an “immigration detention operations ban” to the special session agenda in October.

Now, state legislative leaders say it’s full steam ahead.

“New Mexico should not be in the business of for-profit detention of innocent people. We’re going to move quickly, we’re going to move swiftly. We’re going to move those bills out of the house within the first 10 days or so,” Speaker of the House Javier Martinez said.

Martinez said this year’s proposals will look similar to years past. Past proposals would’ve banned local governments, such as Torrance County, from entering new contracts with ICE – and would force them to end existing contracts.

While lawmakers haven’t filed an actual bill on this, supporters at the New Mexico Immigration Law Center issued the following statement to KOB 4:

“The Immigrant Safety Act sends a clear message: New Mexico will not be complicit in a system that harms people and erodes trust in our communities. We are grateful to the legislators and community partners who have worked over the years toward keeping families together and call on our leaders to pass this critical legislation.”

Republican lawmakers – and even some Democrats – opposed previous attempts to ban ICE detention operations due to the potential loss of jobs and revenue in rural communities.

New Mexico Senate Republican Leader Bill Sharer issued this statement in response to this story:

“Instead of addressing the true causes of New Mexico’s crime crisis, Democrat lawmakers have instead focused their attention on political posturing. The only outcome of “banning” ICE Detention Facilities in New Mexico would be the destruction of New Mexico jobs and economic support for local communities. Furthermore, by disrupting the enforcement of federal law with this virtue-signaling, Democrat lawmakers would enable violent criminals, who are in the United States illegally, the ability to continue terrorizing our neighborhoods. These reckless proposals only shield people like Mahmoud Telfah, an illegal alien from Jordan who was recently convicted in Albuquerque for soliciting a 15-year-old for sex.
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Lawmakers could ban ICE detention operations in New Mexico

Lawmakers are mulling legislation that could lead to a ban on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention operations in New Mexico.

www.kob.com

 

[Shiftless2]

‘I’m for it’: Johnson endorses impeachment for judges against Trump​

The speaker was previously cool to the conservative push to oust judges who rule against the administration.

Speaker Mike Johnson now supports the push inside his party to bring impeachment articles against judges perceived as antagonistic of President Donald Trump’s agenda — a notable shift for the Louisiana Republican who over the summer sought to squelch such effort.

“I’m for it,” Johnson told reporters at his weekly news conference Wednesday, responding to the question of whether he would endorse impeaching judges who have ruled against the administration.

A symbol of this ongoing effort has been James Boasberg, a U.S. district judge who ruled last year that the Trump administration’s abrupt deportation of 137 men violated their due process rights and defied court orders to keep them in U.S. custody.

Trump allies and Hill conservatives have argued .....

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[Rigby5]

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‘I’m for it’: Johnson endorses impeachment for judges against Trump​

The speaker was previously cool to the conservative push to oust judges who rule against the administration.

Speaker Mike Johnson now supports the push inside his party to bring impeachment articles against judges perceived as antagonistic of President Donald Trump’s agenda — a notable shift for the Louisiana Republican who over the summer sought to squelch such effort.

“I’m for it,” Johnson told reporters at his weekly news conference Wednesday, responding to the question of whether he would endorse impeaching judges who have ruled against the administration.

A symbol of this ongoing effort has been James Boasberg, a U.S. district judge who ruled last year that the Trump administration’s abrupt deportation of 137 men violated their due process rights and defied court orders to keep them in U.S. custody.

Trump allies and Hill conservatives have argued .....

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It would seem that since judges are the impartial balance, impeaching judges would seem illegal by the executive?
It would seem to me that only other judges could impeach a judge, and that there would have to be evidence of a crime, not just a ruling the executive did not like?

 

[sear]

"Speaker Mike Johnson now supports the push inside his party to bring impeachment articles against judges perceived as antagonistic of President Donald Trump’s agenda ..." S2 #24

"It would seem that since judges are the impartial balance" R5 #25

The three branches of U.S. federal government are:
legislative (Constitution Article #1),
executive (Constitution Article #2),
judicial (Constitution Article #3),

Demonstrating the "separate but equal" character of these 3.

Just what enumerated Article #1 obligation is Speaker Johnson threatening to execute / enforce?

Does Speaker Johnson mean to suggest any judicial ruling that does not support the executive branch is grounds for impeachment?

 

[sear]

HEADLINES: 2026​

C o l d & I C E

 

[Shiftless2]

It would seem that since judges are the impartial balance, impeaching judges would seem illegal by the executive?

That's for the Supreme Court to rule on and, given the current makeup of that body, I wouldn't want to make book on the outcome.

 

[Shiftless2]

The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences​

Meyil sinkhole in Karapinar in the central Anatolian province of Konya, Turkey, on June 24, 2024. Sinkholes have increased in recent years due to drought and overuse of groundwater.

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report.

Regions across the world are afflicted by severe water problems: Kabul may be on course to be the first modern city to run out of water. Mexico City is sinking at a rate of around 20 inches a year as the vast aquifer beneath its streets is over-pumped. In the US Southwest, states are locked in a continual battle over the how to share the shrinking water of the drought-stricken Colorado River.

The global situation is so severe that terms like “water crisis” or “water stressed” fail to capture its magnitude, according to the report published Tuesday by .....

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[sear]

The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences #29​

Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says​

Overuse and pollution must end urgently as no one knows when whole system might collapse, says expert
Damian Carrington Environment editor / Tue 20 Jan 2026 13.00 EST
The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared.
The overuse and pollution of water must be tackled urgently, the report’s lead author said, because no one knew when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion.

Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says

Overuse and pollution must end urgently as no one knows when whole system might collapse, says expert

www.theguardian.com

How much water is used by people in the United States?
Since 1950, the USGS has collected and analyzed water-use data for the United States and its Territories. That data is revised every 5 years.
As of 2015, the United States uses 322 billion gallons of water per day (Bgal/day). The three largest water-use categories were irrigation (118 Bgal/day), thermoelectric power (133 Bgal/day), and public supply (39 Bgal/day), cumulatively accounting for 90 percent of the national total.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-water-used-people-united-states

Water !

 

[Rigby5]

This lack of ground water has me wondering if Trump sees Greenland as a source of fresh water that could increase in value soon?

 

[sear]

"This lack of ground water has me wondering if Trump sees Greenland as a source of fresh water that could increase in value soon?" R5 #31

Your #31 has me wondering if the way we express our speculations about Trump is handicapped by projecting our more rational minds.

Trump is a rational thinker. BUT !
Don't be distracted by Trump's improper methodology. It's Trump's Project 2025 ambitions that ought not escape our attention.
Biden's approach to U.S. prosperity was Biden's huge spending bill he rammed through congress early in his presidency. [1]
Trump's approach to a prosperous presidency is:
- make a few simple promises [2],
- insure fulfilling those promises dominates the headlines for years
- use the headlines as a political shield, Trump is merely fulfilling a campaign promise and Trump's winning the election validates the task, the choice of the People
- misrepresent the status quo as proof of his own unprecedented success as a world class deal maker.
I think Trump could be quite successful hawking at a carnival midway.

And Trump likes vengeance, his reason for using government thugs to rough up blue-State cities, populations that voted against Trump. Trump is deliberately punishing them, terrorizing them daily, shooting them occasionally.

"Trump kicked off his 2024 campaign by promising retribution. But last night he took a very different tone." CBS Late Show / Colbert
"I'm not gunna have time for retribution. We're gunna make this country so successful again, I'm not gunna have time for retribution. And, and remember this. Our ultimate retribution is success." Trump on FOX News Democracy '24 Iowa Town Hall television

At this Iowa town hall Trump said he wouldn't have time for retribution. But 10 years earlier Trump said: “I'm gunna be workin' for you. I'm not gunna have time to go play golf.” GOP pres. cand. Trump “8/2/16”

R5,
You, I, and a few billion of our closest friends may be over-thinking Trump here. He may be more easily understood if we perceive Trump as a 12 year old.
Trump is so single-mindedly egotistical he doesn't flinch at demolishing the East wing of the white house, and was willing to lie, and evade protocols to do it.
He's not not only doing that on the white house grounds, Trump is doing so in Ukraine, Greenland, Venezuela, NATO, and within the Republican party.

Trump wants what he wants, and is not too particular about the assortment of conflagrations seen on his horizon.

[1] The Biden-Harris Administration increased the federal deficit by about $2.5 trillion more than what the Congressional Budget Office projected for fiscal years 2021-2024. Spending surged by about $4.7 trillion and tax revenues by about $2.2 trillion. The national debt rose to $35.5 trillion. https://epicforamerica.org/federal-budget/the-biden-harris-spending-binge/

[2] "I will build a great, great wall on our Southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall, mark my words." Republican primary presidential candidate Donald J. Trump 15/06/16 www.DonaldJTrump.com

 

[Rigby5]

All Biden had to do in order to balance the budget mostly, was to not give hundreds of billions to the Ukraine and Israel, for weapons.

 

[Shiftless2]

MN 01.23.2026 - Drone footage showing the sprawling sea of people that came out in subzero temperatures for the Ice Out General Strike​

https://imgur.com/qszM8FJ

 

[sear]

"All Biden had to do in order to balance the budget mostly, was to not give hundreds of billions to the Ukraine and Israel, for weapons." R5 #33

epicforamerica.org #32 says it was $Trillions.

Smacking Russia down would have been a good idea. Biden didn't. And Trump surely isn't either. And today's reports indicate Trump threw a tantrum

Rewarding Putin for his carnage in Ukraine is an international blunder humanity can hope to regret.

MN 01.23.2026 - Drone footage showing the sprawling sea of people that came out in subzero temperatures for the Ice Out General Strike S2 #34​

Thanks S2 #34.
Did this register in the usual daily news stream?
I'm wondering whether that video is legally obtained.

 

[Shiftless2]

U.S. military falters during Arctic exercise

U.S. military falters during Arctic exercise

NATO defense officials have confirmed that European allies, led by the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, currently carry the primary responsibility for Arctic military operations, as the United States lacks sufficient forces and experience for sustained activity in the High

defence-blog.com