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PuraVida's avatar

Operation Raven Racists

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Revenant's avatar

"active father figures to be in?”

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Rhizolith Reborn's avatar

He seems nice

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Come here a minute's avatar

I can't be the first one to read Yemenite like Yosemite!

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

"A purse-sized dog he can talk to and pretend is a person?"

Hey, I have a slightly bigger "purse sized dog" and she says she takes offense at this ...

purse sized dog Libelz!

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Resist Herr GropenFuhrer's avatar

Now wait just a darn minute -- something doesn't add up!

Given that he arrived in 1909, and his wife and kids came in 1927 (or later, depending on the source):

... And one of the kids was 12-year-old Vincenzo Bovino, Gregory’s future grandfather, who was automatically granted so-called “derivative citizenship” for minors. That is called chain migration!

By my math, Bovino's grandpa was a bastard (much like his current offspring, but in the moral sense, in his case) ... because there's no record that the great-grandpa ever returned to Italy, so when his 12-year-old "child" arrived 20 years after he left ... well, you do the math ...

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

This was a Catholic culture. This sort of thing was very easy to explain.

It wasn't. It just was. That was that.

There's a lot of compartmentalization in Catholicism.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

These villain origin stories are always so disappointingly banal. No falling into a vat of chemicals or having half their face splashed with acid. Just shitty people who had shitty parents. Can’t we at least have one where toxic fumes caused all of their hair to fall out?

At least Hitler had the failed artist thing.

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Warren's avatar

Maybe…just spitballin’ here… Mr Bovino has met the great nephew of Clyde Tolson, or Cardinal Spellman, and this fine gentleman is his number two at ICE, and they go to the racetrack together, and place $2 bets together, and watch old Rock-and-Doris movies together, and take vacations together, and have never heard that it is OK to get married now, we on the Left aren’t going to judge, and that maybe if Mr Bovino is out, all his repressed anger at his dad can be worked through in therapy, and he can be a nice ICE, like Jack was in the Border, or in Anger Management.

Can someone please tell him Justice Kennedy said it’s OK now?

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irish379's avatar

I was going to comment that Greg and Ric Grennel seem made for each other

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Which anniversary is leather?

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Mavenmaven's avatar

People with all sorts of biographies, good families, bad families, avidly joined the Nazi party in the 1930s and participated in horrific murders.

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Sarcastic Mr. Know It All's avatar

If Bovino and his thugs go to Baltimore, it will be called “Operation B’More Cruel.”

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Menotsure's avatar

Or Operation Baltimore Gloryholes?

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Dudley Didwrong's avatar

“Charm City Catch-All”

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What A Debacle's avatar

Then they will be Baltimorons.

A name we used in the 80s to describe the hordes of weekend warriors flocking to Ocean City MD from Balmore.

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Mexfiles's avatar

I think H.L. Menken coined "Baltimorons" back at the turn of the last century to describe his hometown's elites.

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What A Debacle's avatar

Interesting! I read a lot of Mencken back then and missed this.

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Nancy Naive's avatar

They’ll never make it out of The Block.

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wobbly's avatar

OFF TOPIC:

𝗧𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴, 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿, 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝟱

Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and a daughter of Caroline Kennedy — and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy — whose harrowing essay about her rare and aggressive blood cancer, published in The New Yorker magazine in November, drew worldwide sympathy and praise for Ms. Schlossberg’s courage and raw honesty, died on Tuesday. She was 35.

Her death was announced in an Instagram post by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, signed by her family. It did not say where she died...

Ms. Schlossberg was the author of “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Didn’t Know You Had” (2019), a kind of consumer’s guide to the ways in which human behavior adversely affects the climate. In 2020, the Society of Environmental Journalists honored the book with the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Ms. Schlossberg hoped her book would help people make changes in their behavior and buying habits, rather than being overwhelmed by climate anxiety and fatalism.

“We don’t have to keep living like this, in fear of the future and with guilt about the past, because change is possible,” she wrote.

Ms. Schlossberg is survived by her parents, her siblings and her husband, whom she met at Yale and married in 2017, along with their two young children...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/us/politics/tatiana-schlossberg-dead.html

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TerseNurse's avatar

Fuck Cancer

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Sgt JMK's avatar

Fuck cancer inDEEEED.

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Alternative Dog's avatar

Why are the good ones taken when there are so many others to choose from?

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Martin Shobe's avatar

If you were picking the ones to join you, would you pick the bad ones?

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SkeptiKC's avatar

While I knew this was coming it has hit like a brick. My heart breaks for those sweet little kids.

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wobbly's avatar

Yeah, somehow I thought she'd have more time.

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Greg Bovino grew up reading gun magazines, and was especially devoted to the he-man stories by Skeeter Skelton. http://darkcanyon.net/The_Legend_Of_Charley_Askins.htm

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I didn't go all that far into the story, stopping when I realized I was mentally replacing the word gun with penis every time I saw it.

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Yeah, I can't say I managed to read much of it, but the flavor is plain throughout, let's say.

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JR's avatar

WBEZ Chicago 12/12 story on Bovino & BP, lots of ugly stuff here - long but very worth a listen -

https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/12/12/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-deportation-elcentro-california-blowing-rock-boone-north-carolina-migrants-immigration

Former wrestling coach in NC - Bovino liked snakes. Big Orange ones, especially?

Quotes by a former agent in CA - Bovino the "Liberace" of BP. Border Patrol - "Butthole of the Federal Service", a Cult, least trained of Federal Service. Taught to hunt migrants like animals to make them suffer or die as deterrent to others. Migrants are called "Tonks" because that's the sound the flashlight makes when they hit them in the head.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

I hope Bovino gets everything he deserves, in spades.

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Vic's avatar

Thoughts and prayers.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Is it wrong to assume he and Devin Nunes spend a lot of time doing Eiffel Towers in the barnyard?

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Thank You For Trying's avatar

"... he got inspired to join the Border Patrol, after watching a movie called The Border..."

Yikes. Greg Bovino is yikes.

And my family has been in the country longer than his, which is only funny considering he'd round us up for deportation at first glance.

I guess don't let your kids watch subpar Jack Nicholson movies is my point.

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wavicles's avatar

"Forget it Jake, it's the racism."

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The Wanderer's avatar

Bovino turned into a sentient menstrual cramp.

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Nancy Naive's avatar

I think he was born that way. In fact…

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