Ta, Erik. I always learn *something* from your posts; this time I knew nothing about this bit of history, one block north of the apartment we call home.
This video is pure comedy gold. ICE can't handle the ice. And after he fall down, go boom, he scurries back to his ride, probably to go mommy so she can kiss it and make it better. Hilarious.
When I was a wee lad in school learning about US history, I wondered why we moved so quickly through the latter half of the 19th century. We covered the Civil War, briefly mentioned Reconstruction and then, boom, time for Teddy Roosevelt.
I was there for the 80s reboot. It was insane. Horse cops dragging people by their hair. The cops all taped over their badge numbers so nobody could hold them accountable. All kinds of screwed up stuff.
Things surged my way a bit too much at one point. I managed to duck into the Aztec Lounge just as they bolted the door. Spent the rest of the night there. Ran into a guy I’d gone to school with on the other coast.
The week before, there was a practice run. Streets packed, but not much police presence. There was a guy walking around with one of those big oval restaurant trays, saying “Canapé? Canapé?” offering hors d’oeurves to the angry crowd.
ICE took away three folks from Cheboygan County last Saturday. They had come up to help us clear out the ice storm, and stayed to help winter cleanup, as we just do not have enough able-bodied men here to do that sort of thing for the kind of wages we expect to pay. Our community is not growing
That was an important discussion on the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius's The Urban View (Sirius 184) radio channel this morning. Which more white people (like me) need to listen to, as I do in my car where it's the primary preset.
Every generation thinks police violence against protestors is a recent glitch. Turns out it’s been a feature since at least 1874. Same panic, same clubs, same headlines cheering it on. Just better branding now.
"Mounted police charged the crowd on Eighth Street, riding them down and attacking men, women, and children without discrimination. It was an orgy of brutality."
This was during the time that unionizing was still nascent and lacked any real power. The violence inflicted was just the beginning of brutality and savagery targeting the young unions over the next several decades. Big Biz wanted to bust unions by busting a few heads, and the rise of the Pinkertons increased business' usage to accomplish this:
> "few enemies of the working class have loomed larger than the Pinkertons. The Pinkertons National Detective Agency was founded as a private police force in Chicago in 1850, and quickly expanded its reach; its detectives initially focused on catching thieves and burglars, but soon became the bane of the labor movement for their work as enthusiastic, vicious strikebreakers. Throughout the Civil War era and in the decades after, Pinkerton operatives left their bloody mark on strikes, protests, and massacres, and gained a ruthless reputation for protecting the interests of capital by any means necessary." https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-were-the-pinkertons
I appreciate these stories I guess, but I'm stretched about caring while they are gunning us down in the street. Thanks to others who are paying attention- Document the Atrocities!
OT: Inflation up 2.7% in December? I don't see how that's possible, what with the federal government under the control of Competent White Men(c)(tm)(r).
Can't wait for the WaPo Business headline saying how this is a good economic indicator in complete contrast to 'OMG ReCeSsIoN!!!!!!!!!' headlines they screamed for four years of under Biden because inflation wasn't at the magical 2%.
OT: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at 68. In November, Adams issued a plea for Trump to “help save his life” after the cartoonist said his health care provider, Kaiser Permanente, “dropped the ball” in scheduling treatment of a newly FDA-approved drug for the disease.
“He offered to help me if I needed it,” Adams wrote on X. “I need it.
Scott Adams tried to treat his cancer with ivermectin. It didn't work and metastasized, and then he went crying to Trump. And now he's dead.
As much as I want to hate Kaiser, on general principle, if you refuse treatment because you "did your research", there isn't much they could have actually done here.
Something similar happened to Steve Jobs, too. He thought he could woo his way out of cancer and that ended up costing him his life. I'm reading here on the Wiki that while he had pancreatic cancer (pretty much a death sentence) he had a rare kind that would have been treatable.
Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent last Wednesday...
"...senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good..."
jeezus christ, these people are fucking ghouls. My hatred for each and every one of them is without limit (excluding the prosecutors who quit, of course. They are to be applauded).
Are you sure you didn't mean Jay Gould, the rancid railroad magnate, and not Jay Cooke, whoever he is or was (or wasn't)?
Ta, Erik. I always learn *something* from your posts; this time I knew nothing about this bit of history, one block north of the apartment we call home.
This video is pure comedy gold. ICE can't handle the ice. And after he fall down, go boom, he scurries back to his ride, probably to go mommy so she can kiss it and make it better. Hilarious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qa61i3/ice_cant_handle_ice/
When I was a wee lad in school learning about US history, I wondered why we moved so quickly through the latter half of the 19th century. We covered the Civil War, briefly mentioned Reconstruction and then, boom, time for Teddy Roosevelt.
It was only years later that I learned why.
I was there for the 80s reboot. It was insane. Horse cops dragging people by their hair. The cops all taped over their badge numbers so nobody could hold them accountable. All kinds of screwed up stuff.
Things surged my way a bit too much at one point. I managed to duck into the Aztec Lounge just as they bolted the door. Spent the rest of the night there. Ran into a guy I’d gone to school with on the other coast.
The week before, there was a practice run. Streets packed, but not much police presence. There was a guy walking around with one of those big oval restaurant trays, saying “Canapé? Canapé?” offering hors d’oeurves to the angry crowd.
Crazy times.
ICE took away three folks from Cheboygan County last Saturday. They had come up to help us clear out the ice storm, and stayed to help winter cleanup, as we just do not have enough able-bodied men here to do that sort of thing for the kind of wages we expect to pay. Our community is not growing
White people need to fight this
"Slave patrols were American, homegrown, legal, state-funded, community-supported"
ICE is CLOSER TO SLAVE CATCHERS than they are to the Gestapo
Americans are uncomfortable talking about it because the United States appears to be returning to its origin story
Slave patrols are the American history that White families do not want to talk about
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4x4KM_QESTw
That was an important discussion on the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius's The Urban View (Sirius 184) radio channel this morning. Which more white people (like me) need to listen to, as I do in my car where it's the primary preset.
She's one of the best
She quoted the Baroness
How about we share with the class? 😊
https://www.youtube.com/live/eLtRzeVMPwk?si=kAa-06NsrifeIV-F
Right? YES!
Every generation thinks police violence against protestors is a recent glitch. Turns out it’s been a feature since at least 1874. Same panic, same clubs, same headlines cheering it on. Just better branding now.
More people need to know about the Bonus Army. Not to mention the variety of labor massacres. But the Bonus Army always sticks out to me.
I haven't forgotten about it. Douglas MacArthur made his anti-labor bones on that. Perhaps he was our earliest pure fascist.
Patton was there as well.
That's right. A fine pair they were. As right wing as anyone could want and valorized in any number of films.
No Black generation believes it's a "recent glitch"
"Slave patrols were American, homegrown, legal, state-funded, community-supported"
ICE is CLOSER TO SLAVE CATCHERS than they are to the Gestapo
Americans are uncomfortable talking about it because the United States appears to be returning to its origin story
Slave patrols are the American history that White families do not want to talk about
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4x4KM_QESTw
But now it's directed against errybody...
"Mounted police charged the crowd on Eighth Street, riding them down and attacking men, women, and children without discrimination. It was an orgy of brutality."
This was during the time that unionizing was still nascent and lacked any real power. The violence inflicted was just the beginning of brutality and savagery targeting the young unions over the next several decades. Big Biz wanted to bust unions by busting a few heads, and the rise of the Pinkertons increased business' usage to accomplish this:
> "few enemies of the working class have loomed larger than the Pinkertons. The Pinkertons National Detective Agency was founded as a private police force in Chicago in 1850, and quickly expanded its reach; its detectives initially focused on catching thieves and burglars, but soon became the bane of the labor movement for their work as enthusiastic, vicious strikebreakers. Throughout the Civil War era and in the decades after, Pinkerton operatives left their bloody mark on strikes, protests, and massacres, and gained a ruthless reputation for protecting the interests of capital by any means necessary." https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-were-the-pinkertons
--and--
> "In response to increasing labor unrest in the post-Civil War period, several corporations in the mining, railroad, and steel industries hired the Pinkerton agency, which Allan Pinkerton had founded in 1850, to surveil, infiltrate, and undermine labor organizations and break strikes." https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/pinkertons-national-detective-agency-reports-scranton-pa-riots-1877
(FWIW, our good friend Jeff Bezos [bless his heart], was, and possibly still is, using the Pinkertons in a similar role in Europe:
> "Now the giant of a new industry is using the same approach. A story from Vice magazine's Motherboard reports that leaked documents show that Amazon hired Pinkerton operatives in Europe to surveil workers. The story also reports that Amazon monitors workers who try to form unions or take part in protest movements." https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-has-pinkerton-agents-surveil-workers-who-try-to-form-unions)
fnord
I appreciate these stories I guess, but I'm stretched about caring while they are gunning us down in the street. Thanks to others who are paying attention- Document the Atrocities!
Campaigning for electoral reform in Manchester, England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
OT: Inflation up 2.7% in December? I don't see how that's possible, what with the federal government under the control of Competent White Men(c)(tm)(r).
Can't wait for the WaPo Business headline saying how this is a good economic indicator in complete contrast to 'OMG ReCeSsIoN!!!!!!!!!' headlines they screamed for four years of under Biden because inflation wasn't at the magical 2%.
And they deliver:
Price growth held firm in December, capping a year of persistent inflation
Inflation rose by 2.7 percent in the past year, a small improvement over 2025, but one that Trump touted today.
It's HIGHER than it was last year... it's not an 'improvement'
BLEARGHA!@$#*$%Y$#$%%@43512!!
Thanks for the labor history!
OT: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at 68. In November, Adams issued a plea for Trump to “help save his life” after the cartoonist said his health care provider, Kaiser Permanente, “dropped the ball” in scheduling treatment of a newly FDA-approved drug for the disease.
“He offered to help me if I needed it,” Adams wrote on X. “I need it.
There may be a god after all.......
And nothing of value was lost.
I think Roy Cohn went through the same thing when he got AIDS after mentoring Donald Trump
He thought Donald would help him
Look how that turned out
Everything Trump Touches Dies... literally
Obi-don, you're my only hope.
He was crying to dark helmet and brain worm.
| “He offered to help me if I needed it,” Adams wrote on X. “I need it.
Hey, how's that workin' out for ya?
Oh.
So 'bout the same as for everyone else who placed faith in That Guy, got it.
When you're an unrepentant bigot who pals with unrepentant bigots, I'm afraid that's what you get
Scott Adams tried to treat his cancer with ivermectin. It didn't work and metastasized, and then he went crying to Trump. And now he's dead.
As much as I want to hate Kaiser, on general principle, if you refuse treatment because you "did your research", there isn't much they could have actually done here.
Not enough anal bleach
Something similar happened to Steve Jobs, too. He thought he could woo his way out of cancer and that ended up costing him his life. I'm reading here on the Wiki that while he had pancreatic cancer (pretty much a death sentence) he had a rare kind that would have been treatable.
My father, an otherwise intelligent man, thought that his homeopathy would allow him to cure his own cancer. Went exactly as you would expect.
Not surprised
If only he'd shoved UV lights up his ass, as the real experts recommend.
That's the way the for-profit clusterfuck healthcare ball bounces, chief.
Anyway, how about this weather?
Oh, well.
Off Topic:
𝟯 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺’𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘄
Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent last Wednesday...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/3-prosecutors-quit-after-push-to-investigate-ice-shooting-victims-widow.html
"...senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good..."
jeezus christ, these people are fucking ghouls. My hatred for each and every one of them is without limit (excluding the prosecutors who quit, of course. They are to be applauded).
It's damn nice to see lolyers with ethical boundaries, but every resignation is another post to be filled by a heinous trumpanzee hack.
I have MAGAwhore Lindsay Halligan on line one.......
If they can find any. Even scummy attorneys want to keep their licenses.
Yeah that’s when you know you are scraping the barrel bottom
There are only so many parking lot lawyers in America after all...
Respect.
Charles McCarthy has returned to torment us once again.
Joe.
Charles McCarthy was made out of wood.
So, he was a witch then?
1874 wasn't really all that long ago. Chuck Grassley was in third grade at the time.
In third grade for the third time
Joe Biden was entranced by the new fangled Iced-Cream Confection that had just been invented
Probably hadn’t even seen his first Willie Nelson or Rolling Stones concert yet.
He was Mitch McConnel's pen-pal.
They arm wrestled to see who would take Virginia Foxx to the barn dance.
So the moon is eating molecules from earths atmosphere. That’s just great.
I knew that moon was trouble from the beginning.
https://non-productive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mooninites.jpg
I knew there was life out there!
"We smoke as we fly the bird!"
Damn moonies.
It's just a phase. Nothing to worry about.
Right. No sense waxing poetic about it or anything.
My interest is already waning.
Pathetic orbiter.
Sounds like lunacy to me!