A Right, Not a Privilege: Why Every Gun Law Is an Infringement

From [HERE] Let’s be clear: the Second Amendment doesn’t say, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed… unless the government says otherwise.” It doesn’t carve out exceptions for background checks, waiting periods, or fees. The right to bear arms is exactly that. It’s a right. Not a privilege, not a maybe, and not a “we’ll see.” ‘Keep’ means you can have them, and ‘bear’ means there’s probably at least one on me right now.

Yet here we are, so conditioned to government overreach that we jump through hoops just to exercise something that was never the government’s to regulate in the first place.

We’ve allowed politicians and bureaucrats, many who have never even held a gun, to place a chokehold on our Second Amendment rights. From red flag laws to magazine capacity restrictions, gun-free zones, and mandatory background checks, the list of infringements keeps growing. And somehow, we’ve accepted this. We’ve let them turn a God-given right into a permission slip. Isn’t the government supposed to serve us? Isn’t government overreach and slimy bureaucrats the reason the 2nd Amendment was written in the first place? Now they regulate it?

Take Hawaii, for instance. Here’s a state that says we recognize the 2nd Amendment, we just don’t allow it in our state. They say, “the right of the people to keep and bear shall not be infringed, except for every privately owned public space in the state.”

Let’s revisit the reason we have the 2nd Amendment to begin with. It wasn’t written for deer hunters. It wasn’t about paper targets. The Founders drafted it to ensure that “We the People” had the means to keep a tyrannical government in check. That’s right, to override it if necessary. So how is it that today, we let the very institution the 2nd Amendment was meant to restrain decide how much of it we’re allowed to keep?

It didn’t happen all at once. It was one small restriction after another. A background check here, a magazine capacity limit there. “Common sense” gun laws, they told us. And we gun owners, patriots, citizens, too often just went along with it. Now, we live in a culture where these infringements have become normal, if not expected. That’s the real danger. We’re no longer throwing the tyrants in jail; we’re debating with them about how much of our rights we have to give up.

Imagine James Madison walking into a modern gun shop. He watches an American citizen fill out forms, hand over ID, and wait for government approval to buy a firearm. What do you think he’d say? He’d be furious and he’d be embarrassed that we squandered such an important component of our freedom.

And yet, we barely flinch. In some states, we even need permission to buy ammunition. We obediently wait days or even months to find out if we’re “allowed” to take home a firearm. In too many cases, that delay becomes a death sentence. [MORE]

Bill Gates is now pushing an electronic tattoo to “mark” you.

Illinois Judge issues order barring warrantless arrests of court attendees

A judge in Illinois prohibited civil arrests of court attendees absent a judicial warrant or judicial order on Tuesday.

Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a General Administrative Order that bars civil arrests unrelated to court business for individuals traveling to, present in, or leaving court proceedings in the county. The order applies to all arrests made in courthouses and their vicinity in Cook County, as the order defines “courthouse” as any building where the Circuit Court of Cook County conducts court, and “environs” as the area surrounding each courthouse, including entryways, sidewalks, driveways, and parking lots.

When announcing the order, Chief Judge Evans stated, “Access to justice depends on every individual’s ability to appear in court without fear or obstruction. Our courthouses remain places where all people—regardless of their background or circumstance—should be able to safely and confidently participate in the judicial process.”

While the order does not name specific agencies, its terms reach civil arrests by federal immigration authorities at court facilities, effectively requiring US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain a judicial warrant before making such arrests at Cook County courthouses or adjacent areas. Local media characterized the directive as barring ICE civil arrests at county court facilities.

The order cited longstanding common-law principles protecting court participants from civil arrest, echoing similar protections adopted in New York after federal courthouse enforcement actions drew criticism. The state adopted the Protect Our Courts Act (POCA) in 2020, which is similar in scope to what Cook County’s order asserts. [MORE]

Federal Judge Extends Block on the Unlawful Use of National Guard Troops in Portland

A US federal judge on Wednesday extended a block on federally-deployed National Guard troops from entering Portland, Oregon.

The extension acts as a temporary measure, until October 29, when a three-day bench trial is scheduled to determine if a longer block is necessary. The state also awaits an opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who, during a oral arguments on October 9, expressed doubt in a district court’s ability to block this type of executive action.

The initial orders responded to a lawsuit filed by Oregon and the city of Portland on September 29 against President Donald Trump and his administration, seeking a temporary block of National Guard troops into the city. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a first-term Trump appointee, issued the initial blocking order on October 4.

Trump responded the next day by calling in Texas National Guard troops instead; however, Immergut expanded the original order to block federalized troops from other states as well.

Immergut has stated that Trump did not have authority to federalize National Guard troops because the president can only do so if there is a invasion from a foreign nation or if there is a rebellion or event that inhibits the president from carrying out federal laws with local police. The judge held that the circumstances in Portland did not meet that threshold, stating, “The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”

Trump’s order for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, to deploy National Guard troops to Portland was triggered in part by a protest outside of Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building. The demonstration came from growing tensions between Portland citizens and the administration’s recent use of ICE.

Trump has spoken of and attempted to federalize National Guard troops in cities across the country with varying degrees of pushback and success. Other cities include Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis and Austin. [MORE]

Federal Judge Orders Uncontrollable ICE-Hole Cops to Wear Body Cameras in Chicago

From [HERE] US District Judge Sara Ellis ordered federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to wear body cameras during enforcement activity, and all interactions with the public.  This new order follows a Temporary Restraining Order(TRO) by Judge Ellis last week, and will now be in effect until November 6.

Judge Ellis reasoned that this modified restraining order was required because she doubted ICE’s compliance with the original TRO.  She said that said she was a “little startled” after seeing news coverage of ICE actions that seemed to violate the order, adding: “I live in Chicago if folks haven’t noticed. And I’m not blind.”

The TRO enjoins ICE from using riot control weapons, including less-lethal shotguns, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, pepper balls, and tear gas, against protestors and journalists unless necessary to prevent harm.  In those circumstances, the order required ICE to give at least two warnings and a reasonable opportunity to comply.  The order specifically enjoined ICE from using force against journalists unless ICE had probable cause to believe that the journalists has committed a crime.

Additionally, Ellis has ordered witnesses from ICE to appear to provide testimony to the Court on apparent violations of the original TRO. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Incident Commander Kyle C. Harvick and ICE Deputy Field Office Director Shawn Byers are scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

The TRO was in response to a class action suit against the Department of Homeland Security, filed by journalist groups and protestors, on October 6.  They alleged that the federal government was interfering with their First Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiff journalists alleged that agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” as part of a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians.” The suit states that federal agents used flash grenades, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and paintballs against the protestors, causing injuries. The suit also says that protestors and journalists have been detained for hours.

Millions Pack the Streets for National "No Kings" March [“Rule for the People” by a King or by a Mobbocracy of Idiots Makes No Difference, it is “Benevolent Slavery.” Why Have Any Master?]

The No Kings protests of October 18, 2025, were part of a series of demonstrations taking place largely in the United States against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency. The demonstrations, which followed the No Kings protests of June 2025, took place in some 2,700 locations across the country, including the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New York City. Organizers estimated that the protests drew nearly 7 million attendees, roughly 2% of the entire U.S. population,[11] which would make it the largest single-day protest in American history. [MORE] and [MORE]

I see no good in having several masters;
Let one alone be master, let one alone be king.

These words Homer puts in the mouth of Ulysses,[1] as he addresses the people. Had he said nothing else than

I see no good in having several masters,

it would have been well spoken. For the sake of logic he should have maintained that the rule of several could not be good since the power of one man alone, as soon as he acquires the title of master, becomes abusive and unreasonable. Instead he declared what seems preposterous:

“Let one alone be master, let one alone be king.”

We must not be critical of Ulysses, who at the moment was perhaps obliged to speak these words in order to quell a mutiny in the army, for this reason, in my opinion, choosing language to meet the emergency rather than the truth. Yet, in the light of reason, it is a great misfortune to be at the beck and call of one master, for it is impossible to be sure that he is going to be kind, since it is always in his power to be cruel whenever he pleases. As for having several masters, according to the number one has, it amounts to being that many times unfortunate. Although I do not wish at this time to discuss this much debated question, namely whether other types of government are preferable to monarchy,[2] still I should like to know, before casting doubt on the place that monarchy should occupy among commonwealths, whether or not it belongs to such a group, since it is hard to believe that there is anything of common wealth in a country where everything belongs to one master. This question, however, can remain for another time and would really require a separate treatment involving by its very nature all sorts of political discussion.

For the present I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him.[3] Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they, but simply, it would seem, delighted and charmed by the name of one man alone whose power they need not fear, for he is evidently the one person whose qualities they cannot admire because of his inhumanity and brutality toward them. A weakness characteristic of human kind is that we often have to obey force; we have to make concessions; we ourselves cannot always be the stronger. Therefore, when a nation is constrained by the fortune of war to serve a single clique, as happened when the city of Athens served the thirty Tyrants,[4] one should not be amazed that the nation obeys, but simply be grieved by the situation; or rather, instead of being amazed or saddened, consider patiently the evil and look forward hopefully toward a happier future.

Our nature is such that the common duties of human relationship occupy a great part of the course of our life. It is reasonable to love virtue, to esteem good deeds, to be grateful for good from whatever source we may receive it, and, often, to give up some of our comfort in order to increase the honor and advantage of some man whom we love and who deserves it. Therefore, if the inhabitants of a country have found some great personage who has shown rare foresight in protecting them in an emergency, rare boldness in defending them, rare solicitude in governing them, and if, from that point on, they contract the habit of obeying him and depending on him to such an extent that they grant him certain prerogatives, I fear that such a procedure is not prudent, inasmuch as they remove him from a position in which he was doing good and advance him to a dignity in which he may do evil. Certainly while he continues to manifest good will one need fear no harm from a man who seems to be generally well disposed.

But O good Lord! What strange phenomenon is this? What name shall we give to it? What is the nature of this misfortune? What vice is it, or, rather, what degradation? To see an endless multitude of people not merely obeying, but driven to servility? Not ruled, but tyrannized over? These wretches have no wealth, no kin, nor wife nor children, not even life itself that they can call their own. They suffer plundering, wantonness, cruelty, not from an army, not from a barbarian horde, on account of whom they must shed their blood and sacrifice their lives, but from a single man; not from a Hercules nor from a Samson, but from a single little man. Too frequently this same little man is the most cowardly and effeminate in the nation, a stranger to the powder of battle and hesitant on the sands of the tournament; not only without energy to direct men by force, but with hardly enough virility to bed with a common woman! Shall we call subjection to such a leader cowardice? Shall we say that those who serve him are cowardly and faint-hearted? If two, if three, if four, do not defend themselves from the one, we might call that circumstance surprising but nevertheless conceivable. In such a case one might be justified in suspecting a lack of courage. But if a hundred, if a thousand endure the caprice of a single man, should we not rather say that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise against him, and that such an attitude indicates indifference rather than cowardice? When not a hundred, not a thousand men, but a hundred provinces, a thousand cities, a million men, refuse to assail a single man from whom the kindest treatment received is the infliction of serfdom and slavery, what shall we call that? Is it cowardice? Of course there is in every vice inevitably some limit beyond which one cannot go. Two, possibly ten, may fear one; but when a thousand, a million men, a thousand cities, fail to protect themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth, any more than valor can be termed the effort of one individual to scale a fortress, to attack an army, or to conquer a kingdom. What monstrous vice, then, is this which does not even deserve to be called cowardice, a vice for which no term can be found vile enough, which nature herself disavows and our tongues refuse to name? [MORE]

Barbaric Israeli Authorities Launch Wave of Heavy Airstrikes Across Gaza, Murdering 35 (means at least 350) and Fired a Tank Shell(s) at a Bus (means Buses) Moving People Back to Gaza City

The Israeli military launched heavy airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 35 Palestinians, marking the deadliest day of Israeli attacks in the Strip since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10.

The IDF stepped up its attacks on Gaza after alleging its troops were attacked by Palestinian militants in Rafah, southern Gaza, calling it a “violation” of the ceasefire, though reports indicate an explosion was caused by an Israeli vehicle running over an unexploded bomb.

Hamas denied responsibility for the incident in Rafah on Sunday, saying it hasn’t been in contact with its fighters in the area. “We confirm our full commitment to carrying out everything that was agreed, first and foremost the ceasefire in all areas of the Gaza Strip,” Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.

“We have no knowledge of any incidents or clashes taking place in the Rafah area, since these are red zones under occupation control, and contact with what remains of our groups there has been cut off since the war resumed in March of this year. We have no information on whether they have been killed or are still alive since that date,” al-Qassam added.

Israeli officials said later in the day that two IDF soldiers were killed in the attack. According to Haaretz, Israeli military officials said they thought militants fired on Israeli troops after exiting a tunnel, but other reports contradict the claim.

Curt Mills, the Executive Director of The American Conservative, wrote on X that a senior Trump administration official told him: “Hamas did nothing. Israeli tank hit an unexploded IED that has probably been there for months.”

Ryan Grim, a reporter for Drop Site News, reported something similar. “Soon after the explosion in Rafah, I’m told by a source familiar, the White House and Pentagon knew that the incident was caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance — contradicting Netanyahu’s claim that Hamas had popped up from tunnels,” he wrote on X. [MORE]

Also, Israeli forces killed 11 members of a Palestinian family attempting to return to their home in the flattened Gaza Strip on Friday evening in what local officials said was the deadliest violation of the shaky weeklong ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops fired a tank shell at a bus transporting members of the Abu Shaaban family, who were trying to return to inspect their home in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Among the 11 victims were three women and seven children ages 5-13. [MORE]

America Not Made Safer or Greater; DHS Data Shows that Out of More than 1,000 People Arrested and Detained in Chicago, Only 10 had Criminal Records. Nationally 70% Held by ICE Have No Criminal Record

From [HERE] Operation Midway Blitz, a campaign the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched Sept. 8 claimed it would target “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens” in the area.

But the government’s own data and detentions like that of Rosales — a mother of three who has no apparent criminal record — cast serious doubt on whether that’s really the mission.

On Oct. 3, DHS announced that since the operation began in September, more than 1,000 undocumented migrants had been arrested across Chicago and its suburbs — “including the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers.” However, the agency provided detailed information for only 10 men with a criminal background, about 1% of those detained, making independent verification difficult.

In one particularly jarring raid, on Sept. 30 federal agents with Black Hawk helicopters and military-type vehicles descended on an apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. DHS said the location was “known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members,” a Venezuelan criminal gang targeted by the Trump administration.

According to DHS, 37 people were arrested during the operation; however, only eight of them were confirmed to have a criminal record — and that includes crimes ranging from aggravated battery to retail theft. The agency did not say whether any of those cases resulted in convictions.

In other words, while the administration says it is disrupting transnational gang activity, the bulk of those detained seem to have no serious record. In fact, federal data shows that over 70% of detainees who were being held as of last month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement nationally had no criminal convictions. [MORE]

LA City Attorney and LAPD Sought to Lift an Injunction on the Police Use of Force Against Journalists Ahead of Protests in City Controlled by Elite Liberals

In a unanimous vote on Friday morning, LA City Council put a halt to City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto’s attempt to lift an injunction on LAPD’s use of force against journalists. The City Attorney’s office withdrew their misguided motion the same day.

On October 16, LAist reported that the Los Angeles Police Department and the City Attorney’s Office had petitioned to lift the order ahead of the No Kings protests planned for the weekend. The emergency motion by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez directed the City Attorney to withdraw their filing, describing the attempt as “a waste of city resources and against the will of Angelenos at large.”

The federal injunction was issued in September by Judge Hernan Vera in response to a lawsuit by the Los Angeles Press Club over LAPD’s violent response to pro-immigrant protests in June and July, when LAPD intentionally targeted members of the press with projectiles despite their visible identification. Judge Vera described the lawsuit as “the latest chapter in a long and unfortunate saga of the LAPD’s use of unlawful force against members of the media.”

“City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto’s support for lifting the injunction barring the LAPD’s use of force against journalists covering protests, while unsurprising, is wholly oppositional to bedrock principles of democracy, including a free press and the public’s right to be informed about matters of public interest,” said National Lawyers Guild LA board member Carie Martin. “We are heartened to know that the City Council is prepared to act swiftly to ensure that journalists are not subject to state violence while fulfilling this vital democratic function.” National Lawyers Guild members are representing multiple protesters in lawsuits stemming from LAPD violence during this summer’s protests.

Police violence against the media has been a consistent pattern by LAPD and has resulted in many expensive settlements by the city. The request by Feldstein Soto was, in essence, to grant court permission for LAPD to continue that violence and the chilling effect on reporting that comes with it.

“While the federal government wages a campaign of fear against immigrants, our responsibility is to protect Angelenos — not to greenlight more violence against those who tell their stories” said Councilmember Hernandez in a statement to the press, hailing the vote as standing with journalism and the truth. [MORE] and [MORE]

1 Nation Under Guard: Like Rats, ICE Race Soldiers are Running Around Neighborhoods, Churches, Hospitals, Bus Stops and Schools Preying On and Snatching Up Non-White People w/Impunity

From [HERE] “Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.”— Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him

Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray. Unmarked vehicles. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Racial profiling. Children traumatized. Families terrorized. Journalists targeted. Citizens detained. Disabled individuals, minors, the elderly, pregnant women, military veterans—snatched off the streets. Private property destroyed.

This is not a war zone.

This is what now passes for law-and-order policing by ICE agents in Trump’s America—and it is not making America safer or greater.

What began as an agency tasked with enforcing immigration law has metastasized into a domestic terror force.

From coast to coast, ICE goon squads—incognito, thuggish, fueled by profit-driven incentives and outlandish quotas, and empowered by the Trump administration to act as if they are untouchable—are prowling neighborhoods, churches, courthouses, hospitals, bus stops, and worksites, anywhere “suspected” migrants might be present, snatching people first and asking questions later.

Sometimes “later” comes hours, days or even weeks afterwards.

No one is off limits—not even American citizens.

Make no mistake: this is not how a constitutional republic operates. It is how a dictatorship behaves when it decides the rule of law—in this case, the Bill of Rights—is optional. Journalists are being shoved to the pavement, forced into chokeholds, teargassed, and brutalized—in violation of the First Amendment. U.S. citizens, including toddlers, are being snatched up and carted off—in violation of the Fourth Amendment. People with no criminal records who have lived, worked and paid taxes in this country for decades are being made to disappear—in violation of habeas corpus.

This is not public safety. It is domestic terrorism, carried out by masked, militarized, lawless bounty hunters.

Each of these incidents is presented as routine immigration enforcement. Yet collectively they reveal a government agency that has abandoned the principles of restraint, accountability, and due process in favor of brute force.

Justifying extreme measures—martial law, mass surveillance, suspension of constitutional safeguards— as necessary for “national security” has always been the refuge of tyrants, and this American police state is no different.

Under Trump, however, things are so much worse.

The rationalizations have become bolder, the violence more normalized, and the lies more transparent.

The biggest lie of all is the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that its costly, ego-driven, and unnecessary military invasion of Chicago—Operation Midway Blitz—rounded up “the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers.”

In fact, DHS’ own data shows that out of more than 1,000 people rounded up, only 10 had criminal records.

Nationally, more than 70% of individuals rounded up by ICE nationally have no criminal convictions. Many have lived in the U.S. for decades, raised families, paid taxes, contributed to the economy, and worked the jobs most Americans refuse to do. [MORE]

Gavin Newsom Signs Amendments to California’s Racial Justice Act into Law

From [HERE] On October 13, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the lat­est set of amend­ments to California’s Racial Justice Act (CRJA) into law, strength­en­ing a ground­break­ing piece of leg­is­la­tion that pro­hibits crim­i­nal con­vic­tions and sen­tences based on race, eth­nic­i­ty, or nation­al ori­gin. Under this law, cap­i­tal­ly con­vict­ed pris­on­ers can pur­sue mean­ing­ful relief, beyond just the rever­sal of a death sen­tence, if the state is found to have vio­lat­ed these protections.

When California’s RJA was first passed in 2020, leg­is­la­tors expressed their inten­tion for the law to be inter­pret­ed as a ​“rejec­tion” of the 1987 United States Supreme Court deci­sion in McCleskey v. Kemp, a rul­ing which refused to accept pow­er­ful sta­tis­ti­cal dis­par­i­ties as evi­dence of racial dis­crim­i­na­tion and forced defen­dants to prove that the alleged racism or bias was pur­pose­ful. Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D‑San Jose), the CRJA’s pri­ma­ry author, said the law serves as a ​“coun­ter­mea­sure” to McCleskey, argu­ing that the deci­sion ​“estab­lished an unrea­son­ably high stan­dard for vic­tims of racism in the crim­i­nal legal sys­tem that is almost impos­si­ble to meet with­out direct proof that the racial­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry behav­ior was con­scious, delib­er­ate and tar­get­ed.” Under the CRJA, sta­tis­ti­cal evi­dence is enough for a defen­dant to bring a case. 

The CRJA has been amend­ed once before, in 2022, to make the law retroac­tive. The lat­est amend­ments to the CRJA clar­i­fy the min­i­mum thresh­old a defen­dant must meet to bring a claim, expand eli­gi­bil­i­ty for appoint­ed coun­sel for indi­gent death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers, make it eas­i­er for pris­on­ers to obtain ear­ly dis­cov­ery, and require courts to pro­vide a rem­e­dy when a vio­la­tion is found, poten­tial­ly even dis­miss­ing the charges. [MORE]

Dummy Trump Also Ignoring the 2nd Amendment for His Masters: Major Gun Rights Group Calls for Pam Bondi’s Immediate Termination as Attorney General

From [HERE] Nine months into her tenure, Attorney General Pam Bondi faces a bombshell challenge from one of America’s most influential gun rights organizations, which now demands her immediate termination for failing to protect constitutional freedoms.

On October 10, 2025, the National Association for Gun Rights called on President Trump to fire his top law enforcement official for what they call systematic betrayals of Second Amendment rights.

The bombshell announcement represents a dramatic escalation in tensions between gun rights advocates and the Trump administration’s Justice Department. NAGR is one of America’s most vocal Second Amendment organizations. As one of the loudest no-compromise organizations in the United States, NAGR pulled no punches in their scathing assessment of Bondi’s nine-month tenure, declaring that she has “failed the Second Amendment” and must go immediately.

The final straw came when Bondi’s DOJ successfully obtained a federal court order forcing two major gun rights organizations to hand over their complete membership lists to the federal government. The October 7th ruling in Reese v. ATF requires the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition to provide verified member lists, including names, addresses, and contact information, creating what gun advocates view as a dangerous government registry.

The membership list controversy serves as the culmination of what NAGR describes as a pattern of anti-gun actions under Bondi’s leadership. Despite Trump’s executive orders directing reviews of gun regulations, Bondi’s DOJ continues defending Biden’s “engaged in the business” rule, which effectively creates universal background checks for private gun sales. The DOJ has spent months “reviewing” the rule while simultaneously enforcing it against law-abiding gun owners and asking courts to delay legal challenges that could provide relief.

NAGR’s indictment extends to Bondi’s Supreme Court positions, where her DOJ has actively opposed restoring gun rights to nonviolent felons in Vincent v. Bondi and has worked to undermine pro-Second Amendment court rulings regarding 18-20 year olds’ rights to purchase handguns. NAGR points out the cruel irony that military-aged adults old enough to fight and die for America cannot legally purchase handguns thanks to positions Bondi’s DOJ continues to defend. [MORE]

Who is Better at Dominating Blacks, dumbocrats or republicrats? Upon DOJ Request Judge Will Stop Monitoring the NOPD. Blacks Account for Over 80% of All Force Incidents in City Run by Elite Liberals

“2 wings on a bird of prey:” U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan said Thursday she is prepared to lift the consent decree that has governed the New Orleans Police Department since 2013, a move backed by both the Trump administration and its liberal city officials.

Morgan indicated she would terminate the sweeping federal agreement if the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals returns the case to her jurisdiction. The decision comes at the joint request of the city and the Department of Justice, marking the first time both have aligned on ending the 12-year-old reform mandate.

The decree, signed under former Mayor Mitch Landrieu following a blistering Justice Department report that found systemic misconduct, discrimination, and excessive force, required the Police Department to revamp nearly every aspect of its operations. Over the years, it brought strict federal monitoring, new training programs, and detailed accountability systems that reshaped the department’s internal culture.

Thursday’s order reflects a shift in federal posture. Under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice has distanced itself from police consent decrees in several cities, saying local departments should be free from ongoing federal control once substantial compliance is reached. Department of Justice lawyers now agree with Cantrell that New Orleans has achieved the benchmarks required to exit oversight.

Earlier this year, Morgan rejected Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s push to end the decree immediately, opting instead for a two-year “sustainment period” meant to ensure that reforms were not only in place but durable. The Cantrell administration appealed that ruling, sending the case to the 5th Circuit and limiting Morgan’s authority to act. [MORE]

ALL UNCONTROLLABLE PERSONS WHO ARE AUTHORIZED TO USE FORCE OFFENSIVELY ON PEOPLE AND WHO PROVIDE A “PUBLIC SERVICE” THAT NO ONE CAN DECLINE SHOULD BE MONITORED 24/7.

Data publicly reported by the NOPD shows that the percentage of use-of-force incidents per arrest surged from 3.3% in 2016 to 7.4% in recent years. Alarmingly, from 2016 through 2023, Black residents accounted for over 80% of use-of-force incidents, despite comprising only 57% of New Orleans’ population, according to the 2020 census. These statistics highlight the ongoing need for vigilant oversight and community monitoring during the sustainment period. The ACLU stated, The consent decree was originally implemented to address widespread unconstitutional practices, racial profiling, and corruption within the NOPD. This sustainment period must ensure these critical issues are fully resolved. [MORE]

Ralph Nader: Massa Media is MythCounting the No. of Humans Murdered by Israel to Minimize Palestinian Lives and Accountability for Its Barbarism. Death Toll Closer to 1M, Contrary to Myth-Information

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

mythematician – a social engineer who uses statistics to support unfounded and empirically-invalid conclusions for socioeconomic or political motives, e.g., Eugenics, the “Bell Curve,” I.Q. Tests, etc. (See: Mythmatic & The “Bell Curve”)

mythematics – the manipulation of statistics to formulate and reflect the validity a preconceived desired result or position in an academic and/or socio-political context. (See: Statistics)

Newspapers – thought pollution. People who don’t read newspapers are probably much better off than those who do—as it is better to be uninformed than it is to be either misinformed or myth-informed. Newspapers everywhere, cluttered all around us up to our knees, we’re all suffering from this chronicle disease. “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ~Malcolm X. (See: Misinformation, Clutter, Propaganda, MEDIA, Predictive Programming, Opinion, Bias & Modern Newspapers)

CONTRARY TO MEDIA MYTH-INFORMATION From [Ralph Nader] Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, is known for his high standards. So too is Karen DeYoung, the long-time reporter and foreign affairs editor for the Washington Post.

Yet they, and their editors, share a common, recurring failure by misleading their readers about the serious undercount of Palestinian deaths during the Israeli regime’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

How so? By repeating in article after article the Hamas claim of 67,000 deaths since October 2023. The real death toll estimate is probably around 600,000. Unlike Israeli and American cultures, which do not under-estimate their fatalities in conflicts, Hamas sees the awful death toll as a reflection of their not protecting their people and a measure of Israeli military might against Hamas’ limited small arms and weapons. Both Hubbard and DeYoung, of course, know better. They know the daily bombardment of tiny Gaza, the geographical size of Philadelphia, with 2.3 million humans, is without precedent in Israel’s targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. The blockade of “food, water, medicine, fuel, and electricity,” along with the concentrated destruction of health care facilities have been condemned by human rights groups in Israel and International humanitarian organizations.

 Reporters and editors are quite aware of more accurate casualty estimates appearing in The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal, and estimates provided by other academic and prominent international relief organizations like Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, UN World Food Programme and others experienced in assessing the human toll of military devastations.

Journalists know the estimate last April by Professor Emeritus Paul Rogers of the University of Bradford in the UK, an expert in the power of aerial bombs and missiles, who wrote that the TNT equivalent of six Hiroshima atomic bombs has been delivered to these totally defenseless Palestinians, almost all of whom are without housing or air raid shelters.

Netanyahu’s American-made missiles and bombs continue to produce deadly bloodshed.  The waves of death from starvation, untreated, weaponry-caused infectious diseases, the cutoff of medicines treating cancer, respiratory ailments, and diabetes are still mounting.

What readers do not know is how much of the use of Hamas’s undercount is mandated by news editors, and why.  Because intense Netanyahu propaganda has declared the estimates of Hamas, based on real names (excluding many thousands under the rubble and the collateral damage to civilians that in such conflicts exceed direct fatalities from the bombing by 3 to 13-fold), are an exaggeration, the mainstream media is wary of being accused of even worse fabrications than those of Hamas.

Speaking to many reporters and editors about this huge undercount phenomenon, not prevalent in other violent arenas of war, they all agree that the real count is much higher, but they do not have a number to use that is deemed credible. But they do have casualty experts who can be interviewed, such as the chair of the Global Health Department at Edinburgh University or a foremost missile technology specialist, MIT Professor Emeritus Theodore Postol, who said on our radio/podcast recently, “I would say that 200, 300, or 400,000 people [Palestinian] are dead easily.”

The least the journalists could do is say “the real count may be much higher.” The other alternative is to do their own investigation, piecing together the empirical and clinical evidence (See, Gaza Healthcare Letter to President Trump, October 1, 2025) and citing prominent Israelis who have said that the IDF has always targeted Palestinian civilians from 1948 on. (See my column March 28, 2025 – The Vast Gaza Death Undercount – Undermines Civic, Diplomatic and Political Pressures.)

The other alternative is to do a “news analysis,” which allows for evaluations, short of editorializing. For instance, a “news analysis” could point out that conveying the impression that the Hamas figures are the true count means that 97 out of 100 Palestinians in Gaza are still living. This is not remotely credible. Yet that is essentially what Ben Hubbard’s October 7th Times article stated, “with more than 67,000 killed, or one in every 34 Gazans, according to local health officials.”  It is more like one in every four Gazans killed. [MORE]

As of mid-April 2025, University of Bradford (U.K.) Emeritus Professors Paul Rogers, a specialist on aerial and artillery bomb devastation, described the level of destruction in totally besieged Gaza as the “equivalent of six Hiroshimas, but even more destructive” because many more of the bombs over Gaza drop over targeted locations – schools, apartment buildings, hospitals, clinics, markets, refugee encampments, roads, water mains, electricity circuits and even the agricultural areas to deny the people of Gaza from growing some of their own food. Starvation, death by uncontrolled fires, infections, and the thousands of babies born into the rubble each month spiral the daily accelerating toll. Now, if you take the current Hamas figure of just over 62,000, you are telling the public that 97% of Gazans are still alive. [MORE]

Black LAPD Cop Arrested for the Murder of Brendon Glenn. Shot Homeless Black Man in the Back who Posed No Deadly Threat and was Unarmed

From [HERE] and [HERE] The Black Los Angeles Police Department officer who killed an unarmed man in Venice in 2015 was finally arrested at LAX on Thursday.

LAPD officer Clifford Proctor shot Brendon Glenn, 29, near the Venice Beach Boardwalk on May 5, 2015. Proctor imagined that Glenn attempted to reach for his partner's gun before he opened fire. 

However, the LAPD's investigation into the deadly shooting determined that Glenn was on his stomach and pushing himself when Proctor shot him in the back, killing him. Proctor's partner told investigators that he didn't know why the officer opened fire, according to police.

Surveillance video from a nearby bar did not show Glenn reaching for the weapon, and Proctor's partner, Jonathan Kawahara, said he didn't see Glenn's hand go near his gun, a district attorney's report said.

Glenn's death sparked a series of protests in the city, with activists demanding criminal charges against Proctor. 

A year later, the Los Angeles Police Commission ruled the shooting unjustified. Then-LAPD Chief Charlie Beck recommended that the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office criminally charge Proctor.

Proctor resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017. The city paid $4million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that was brought by Glenn's relatives.

In 2016, Proctor was charged in a separate case with domestic battery and is also accused of violating a court order and dissuading a witness from testifying, Orange County prosecutors said.

In March 2018, prosecutors declined to file charges despite the chief's recommendation. The DA's office released an 83-page report that ultimately claimed there was insufficient evidence to prove Proctor acted unlawfully.

"After an independent and thorough review of all the evidence in this case, we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Proctor did not act within the law," then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement.

Beck disagreed with Lacey's decision and stood by his recommendation.

"I often make comment on officer-involved shootings, and when I see an officer-involved shooting that at initial review appears to be proper I say so," Beck said. "... And I also, in the rare cases when I see one that I think does not meet our standards or does not meet the legal standards, I will also say that."

The attorneys for Glenn's family stated that Lacey's successor, District Attorney George Gascón, hired a special prosecutor to reopen the investigation into his death. It resulted in a warrant being issued for Proctor's arrest on Oct. 17, 2024.

"Although 10 years have gone by, it feels like yesterday when the tragedy took place," the family's attorney V. James DeSimone wrote in a statement. "It feels like the 'pause' button has finally been released and the rest of this criminal process will play out for all to see."

The LAPD released a statement following Proctor's arrest, stating the former officer was arrested for a felony murder warrant. 

"We will continue to support the justice system as this case proceeds and will work collaboratively with our law enforcement partners throughout the process," LAPD wrote.

Trump-Bush Declares (Covert) War On Venezuela to Steal Its Oil Reserves

[media ignores "the science" comparing the health of the "vaxxed" and Unvaxxed] An Inconvenient Study (full, unedited movie)

Black Commander Makes a Statement by Quitting the US Military Over Trump's Extrajudicial Murder Spree of Civilians Near Venezuela

The head of US Southern Command, the military commander overseeing US escalations in the Caribbean and the push toward an attempt at regime change in Venezuela, is stepping down, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.

According to a statement from SOUTHCOM Commander Adm. Alvin Holsey, who served in the position for less than a year, he will be retiring on December 12, 2025, ending a 37-year military career.

No reason was given for his resignation, but according to The New York Times, he had raised concerns about the US military mission in the Caribbean, which has involved a significant buildup of forces and the bombing of five boats that the Trump administration has claimed, without providing evidence, were carrying drugs.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a statement on Holsey’s retirement and praised the admiral, but the Times report said that officials at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill said the praise “masked real policy tensions concerning Venezuela that the admiral and his civilian boss were seeking to paper over.”

Reuters also reported that a source said there had been tension between Holsey and Hegseth and questions about whether he would be fired in the days leading up to the announcement.

The Trump administration has come under significant criticism for its bombing campaign against alleged drug-running boats since the operations amount to extrajudicial executions. The Pentagon has also provided Congress with no hard evidence to back up its claims about the strikes. [MORE]