Millions are Underemployed in McJobs. LISEP says ‘The Official Unemployment Rate is Deceptive.’ The Accurate Rate for Blacks is 29.6%, 28.5% for Latinos and 23.3% for Whites

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Employment researchers are warning that the share of Americans who are only loosely attached to the labor force is on the rise, and that the true rate of unemployment may be far higher than official figures suggest.

A new report from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) found that 25.2 percent of the U.S. workforce could now be classified as "functionally unemployed"—meaning jobless, seeking but unable to secure full-time employment or earning "poverty-level wages." This marks an increase from 24.8 percent in November and, as LISEP notes, represents the highest "True Rate of Employment"—or TRU—since June 2021.

"By accounting for underemployment and poverty-level wages, the TRU offers a more complete picture of our economic health."

According to the most-recent employment report from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the economy added 50,000 jobs in December, following a gain of 56,000 the prior month. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, ticked down to 4.4 percent from a revised reading of 4.5 percent for November, while the total number of unemployed Americans remained broadly stable at 7.5 million. 

While the headline unemployment rate has seen a notable jump from 4 percent last January, LISEP believes the official rates reported by the BLS are "deceiving" given the share of workers employed on extremely low wages or forced into reduced hours.

"If we continue to define success as solely having a job, even if that job is just for an hour or more every two weeks, without asking whether that job pays enough to support living above a poverty wage, we are effectively blinding ourselves to the very structural challenges that we would hope policymakers are trying to address," LISEP's chair previously told Newsweek.

By demographic, the group said the TRU rose 1.5 percent for both Black and Hispanic workers in December—now at 29.6 percent and 28.5 percent, respectively—while the rate for white workers dipped to 23.2 percent from 23.3 percent. Additionally, the share of men "functionally unemployed" increased 0.3 percentage points to 20.5 percent, while the rate for women rose to 30.3 percent from 30.1 percent. [MORE]

PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF VINCENT BROWN, THE UNDECEIVER

According to FUNKTIONARY:

SOUP – Society of Overworked Underpaid People. 2) Society of Oppressed Underdeveloped People. 3) Society of Obsolete Underprivileged People. 4) Single Oppressive Unified Pattern. 5) Strapped Overruled Useless People. The Ruling Overclass along with Doggy, Hidalgo, the Beasthood, CrimethInc., et. al, have no more use for the majority of people on the planet, therefore prepare for further depopulation efforts to permeate the planet such as existing ones, e.g., AIDS, strategic starvation, biological warfare, genetic manipulation, Eugenocide and other nefarious stratagems and techniques.

McJob – a “low-pay,” low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future job in the feudal looks-like-it-could-be food chain service (servitude) sector of the New God Economy. (See: Economies, Cainsian Economics & Quantity Theory of Money)

poverty – the ultimate legal defense. 2) the absence of conscious effort (self-determination) options; a surmountable obstruction. The glamorization of self-sufficiency in a monopoly capitalist system is an underhanded way to accuse those who will not exploit others of being responsible for their own poverty. You can determine which side of the poverty line you are on by this simple formula: Do you have more than you need or do you need more than you have? (See: Gangbanking, “The Law,” Maya Banking, Privilege, Power, Tapeworm Economy, Free-Range Slavery, Voluntiered Slavery, Taxtortion, Property, Wealth & Corporate State)

Crime was Already Historically Low in 39 States: Blithering Idiot Trump's Unlawful National Guard Deployments Cost Taxpayers a Half Billion Dollars

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President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active-duty Marine personnel to U.S. cities cost approximately $496 million between June and December last year, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Continuing the deployment for the next year could cost the nation over $1 billion, the estimate found.

The data was released Wednesday in response to a request from Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. The estimate covers the troops’ deployment over the last six months of 2025, though it excludes a late dispatch to New Orleans. [MORE]

Drop Site's Analysis of ICE Cops Senseless Murder of Alex Pretti During Trump's "Immigration" Circus in MN

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On Saturday, U.S. federal agents killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shooting him multiple times at point blank range while pinned down prone on the ground and surrounded by officers along Nicollet Avenue. The Saturday killing—committed by a Customs and Border Protection agent—is the third shooting by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and CBP in as many weeks, and comes just one day after tens of thousands of Minneapolis residents took to the streets in subzero temperatures to protest the federal raids in Minnesota.

Close-up video footage, obtained by Drop Site, shows one agent push a person to the ground and then deploy a chemical irritant twice on the 37-year-old Pretti, who had gone to help the person pushed. Around eight agents then swarm and wrestle him to the ground. One of the officers then visibly unholstered his gun and fired multiple close-range gunshots at Pretti, a Minnesota resident who was reportedly on the scene as an observer. There are ten gunshots heard in all—at least five of them were fired at Pretti from a distance, while the person holding the camera shouts, “What the fuck did you just do?” [MORE]

On Behalf of Their Masters, Republicrats and Dumbocrats Claim, ‘You Can’t Carry a Gun to Protest Tyranny’ - Yet Armed Self-Defense is the Final Remedy for Tyranny and Uncontrollable Authority

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MD Dumbocrats Prohibit Carrying Guns in Any Place Deemed “a Sensitive Place” and then Arbitrarily Claim that Most Places are Sensitive. Court says Only Gov Agents Can Have Guns in Many Public Places

[MORE] and [MORE] Republicrats and dumbocrats are now asserting the “sensitive places doctrine” to destroy the unalienable right to bear arms. Simply put, ‘you can’t carry or bear firearms in “sensitive places” - and most public places can be deemed “sensitive places” under the prevailing “clogic,” which includes protests in states such as NY and MD. Fuck the government.

The Funktionary defines as follows:

slaves – disarmed men and women. 2) men and women whose property (labor) and belongings (household goods) are taxed directly. 3) those who serve their own fears, their own petty and often self-destructive desires. A generation born into debt to pay off the debt of a previous generation are defacto slaves. Jet-set twenty-first century slaves take comfort in the certainties of mental captivity and fear the uncertainties of being free. (See: Labor, Household Goods, Inventory, F.E.A.R., Real Tax, Property, Federal Register, SSN, “Government,” Human Resources, Pixilated People, IRS, & “Greater System”)

stupidity – the inability to protect yourself from yourself. 2) a blockage in the desire and/or ability for a wo/man or child to receive, integrate and transmit new signals and symbols, i.e., contact, for one’s own experience. 3) the refusal to continuously re-interpret data that does not conform to one’s present lopsided perception or linear model (reality tunnel). 4) the worst of all misfortunes. 5) headful of wrong knowledge and of substantive things that are irrelevant to positive transformation of life and transmutation of consciousness. Stupidity, simply put, is the inability or unwillingness to learn. Stupidity (a neglected dimensional aspect of evil) does not come from a lack of intelligence, as stupid people imagine, it comes from renouncing or taking on life as it is; abdicating and abandoning one’s responsibility to one’s self while dismissing the possibility for realizing the True Self, i.e., authentic Self here and right now. “There is no sin except stupidity.” ~Oscar Wilde. “A belief is sheer stupidity. It means you don’t know, yet you are pretending. You are not deceiving others—you are deceiving yourself that you know. When you go to church, or go to the temple, what is your knowledge?” ~OSHO. Both sin and stupidity emerge from “missing the mark” like peeling off the bark— from the Tree of Knowledge. Stupidity is spending full-time on half-assed notions of empty promises. Overcome the rigidity of stupidity with the application of reality-based right knowledge. Right knowledge and appropriate behavior yield effective outcomes of self-liberation and collective empowerment when organized in such a way to achieve the desired outcome and the benefits that accrue. Just because you recognize stupidity doesn’t mean you have to get angry and crack the mirror. Caution: the object in your mirror is closer to stupendous than it appears. Never lose sight of what you lost at sea world. There is a huge difference between being foolish and being stupid. Stupidity is partly genetic and partly acquired—now tell me, whose side did you acquire it from? (See: Genius, Positive Thinking, Evil, SIN, Tree of Life, Good & Evil, Ignorance, Beta Thinkers, Negative Thinking, Belief Systems, Beta Mind, Stupidity, Polarity, Experience, True Self & Balance)

tyranny – the miscarriage of self-government. 2) the absence of ethical anarchy. In our system, tyranny must have an accomplice. The perpetrator by intent must be accommodated by the perpetrator by consent. The former initiates, the latter accommodates. Of all tyrannies, the greatest is the tyranny of the ego-mind. “If the government is allowed to place a tax on what is a natural right it can raise that tax to the point where that right has been effectively destroyed. That is tyranny.” Butcher’s Union Company v. Crescent City. “No man, no group, and no nation has the right to any man’s individual freedom. No matter how pure the motive, how great the emergency, how high the principle, such action is nothing but tyranny. It is never justified.” ~John W. Parsons. Tyranny Law #1 – Any power that can be abused will be abused. Tyranny Law #2 – Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it. Tyranny Law #3 – If people don’t resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. ~John Curran. Retaining and exercising the unalienable right to distribute one’s own property and wealth without restriction is the only guarantee of freedom from tyranny. (See: Authority, Labor, Natural Law, Self-Ownership, THC, Anarchy, Appropriation, Income Taxes, IRS, Bill of Rights, Property, Freedom, Self-Determination, GIMME!, Autotyranny, Free-Range Slavery, Matrix, Organizations, Private Services & Liberation)

tyrants – there are none; only tyranny exists. How can one man or woman rule a multitude against their will except through mindcontrol and word-conditioning control? “Find out the exact amount of injustice any people accept, and you will find out the exact amount of injustice they receive.” ~Freddy D. “The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.” ~John Jay, Castilian Days II, 1872. (See: Terms, “The Law,” Dictatorship, Corporate State & Fascism)

Study Reveals Louisiana Troopers Use Substantially More Force Against Black People. The State Population is Only 31% Black, but Blacks Make Up 60% of All Incidents [similar to rates in liberal cities]

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WHITE LOUISIANA STATE POLICE STATE TROOPER DAKOTA DEMOSS' BODY-WORN CAMERA, SHOWS TROOPER KORY YORK GRABBING THE LEG SHACKLES AND DRAGGING RONALD GREENE ON HIS STOMACH ON MAY 10, 2019, OUTSIDE OF MONROE, LA. THE VIDEO OBTAINED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHOWS LOUISIANA STATE TROOPERS STUNNING, PUNCHING AND DRAGGING THE BLACK MAN AS HE APOLOGIZES FOR LEADING THEM ON A HIGH-SPEED CHASE, FOOTAGE AUTHORITIES REFUSED TO RELEASE IN THE TWO YEARS SINCE GREENE DIED IN POLICE CUSTODY. [MORE]

White Democrat Louisiana Gov, John Bel Edwards Accused of Doing Nothing After Viewing Video of White Cops' Brutal Murder of Ronald Greene Claims 'He Didn't Know Prosecutors Hadn't Seen It or Why No Cops Were Charged'

From [HERE] The study also showed racial disparities were prevalent across the state’s entire State Police regional force.

A three-year breakdown of data surrounding the Louisiana State Police Department reveals troopers used force against Black people at a rate that far surpassed the population of Black people in the state.

Louisiana’s population is 31% Black, but they made up more than 60% of all recorded use-of-force incidents involving state troopers. There were 902 use-of-force incidents involving Black people and state troopers from 2022 to 2024. By comparison, white residents, who compose 61% of the state’s population, were involved in 341 or 23% of all incidents.

The data analysis report was conducted by Innocence and Justice Louisiana, formerly known as Innocence Project Louisiana. 11% of use-of-force incidents had the suspect’s race listed as unknown, which, according to data and community coordinator Esme Lee, did “limit the precision” of their analysis.

The study also showed racial disparities were prevalent across the state’s entire State Police regional force. Southwest Louisiana had the highest number of use-of-force incidents, where Black and Native American residents were three times more likely than their population percentages to be involved.

State law in Louisiana requires police departments to report all use-of-force incidents that result in bodily injury to the individual or individuals involved. Named the Shantel Arnold Act, the law centered around a 2021 incident where a Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy was captured dragging a Black woman by her hair and slamming her into the ground. Ultimately, the sheriff’s office settled a civil lawsuit Arnold brought forth for $300,000.

Despite the suit, the department continued to employ Deputy Jose Alvarado, the officer involved in the incident, despite a wide-ranging history of excessive force complaints against him.

According to State Police Public Affairs commander Capt. Russell Graham, the data doesn’t tell the whole story.

“While the numbers are accurate, it’s not a fair depiction of our stats,” Graham told the Louisiana Illuminator about the Innocence and Justice report, while acknowledging that the study did not have a breakdown that separated how vehicle pursuits were resolved or the conclusion of high-speed chases from other uses of force.

Graham hopes updated technology for state police will assist them in compiling their use-of-force data to inform training practices for troopers, along with an online dashboard for complete transparency. The officer also stated that the majority of incidents reported by the Louisiana State Police are tied to speeding motorists.

“We’re not looking at anything besides speed,” he said. “You’re not looking at the color of someone’s skin, whether they’re male or female, or even what they’re driving. It’s troopers running down the road in one direction, catching somebody speeding in the opposite direction.”

Still, with that acknowledgment, State Police data concluded there were similar racial discrepancies as the report from Innocence and Justice Louisiana. It showed 307 Black suspects were involved in use-of-force and pursuit incidents, compared to 102 white suspects, a three-to-one difference.

Shot in the Face For No Valid Reason: Racist Suspect Cop who Murdered Sonya Massey Sentenced to 20 Years in Jail. 2nd Degree Verdict by White Jury Saved Him from Possible Life Sentence

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From [HERE] A white sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield area home was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison.

A jury in October found Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson, 31, guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, 36, in the face in July 2024. The mother of two had called the police to report a potential prowler outside her house.

That was a lesser charge than the first-degree murder conviction Sangamon County prosecutors were originally seeking.

The jury was made up of 11 white people and 1 black person - nine men, and three women. [MORE]

Grayson was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the 2024 deadly police shooting, and the jury was given the option of convicting him of second-degree murder. They found him not guilty on all three counts of first-degree murder, sparing him a possible life sentence for killing Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed Black woman.

Grayson falsely claimed he was defending himself from Massey, who had called police to check on a suspected prowler. Grayson said that inside the home, Massey acted erratically and rebuked him "in the name of Jesus" while walking toward a pot of water on her stove.

He testi-lied that he viewed Massey's pot of boiling water as a threat and was trained to use force to gain compliance. 

Grayson then testified he closed the distance between himself and Massey to “gain a direct line of sight on her,” and that he intended to arrest her for aggravated assault on an officer. That’s when, Grayson said, Massey jumped up, grabbed the pot of water and made a throwing motion at him. Grayson then fired three times at Massey, one bullet striking her just under her left eye.

However, body-worn camera footage introduced by prosecutors in the trial showed Massey had already removed the pot when Grayson said he would “shoot her in her f***ing face,” and pointed his gun at her. Massey then put her hands in the air, said, “I’m sorry,” and ducked behind her counter.

Prosecutors said Grayson failed to render medical aid to Massey right after the shooting. 

CBS News Chicago legal expert Irv Miller said the jury's verdict was not particularly surprising, considering the evidence presented at trial and the fact that the judge gave the option for second degree murder in the first place. 

Miller explained that by finding Grayson guilty of second-degree murder, the jury determined that as a police officer he had an unreasonable belief that he was acting in self-defense when he opened fire on Massey. In this case, Miller said, whether or not Grayson's belief he was acting in self-defense was reasonable was pivotal; if a jury had found it was a reasonable belief, he would have been found not guilty. Since the jury found his belief was not reasonable, they found him guilty of second degree murder. 

Leaked Video: No Beds or Bathrooms for Non-White People Disappeared by ICE and Crammed Into a Crowded Black Site in Baltimore

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From [HERE] The man recording the video pans the camera around the holding room, where dozens of people (who appear to be all males) — many holding onto emergency blankets — are seen sitting and lying on the floor in close quarters in a room with cinderblock walls.

“They are kidnapping us,” the narrator says in Spanish. “They have us in a warehouse here in Baltimore.” In the video, the narrator says that he and others had been held at the Baltimore facility for over 10 days, “without bathing” and “dealing with hunger.”

The “processing facility” in Baltimore is meant to temporarily hold ICE detainees until they are transferred to an immigration detention facility, the DHS spokesperson said.

“For the safety of flight staff, officers and the detainees, ICE is keeping detainees at the holding facility in Baltimore until it is safe to continue flight operations,” the statement says, adding that “the illegal aliens in our custody” are receiving “appropriate care including food, blankets, water, and medical services.” [MORE]

Treating [non-white] Human Beings like Freight: DHS is Turning Warehouses Into Mass Detention Camps

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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) warehouse detention system is rapidly unfolding across the United States, advancing in open contempt of oversight, outpacing public scrutiny, and operating with the same disregard for the Constitution, the rule of law, and human life that defines the Trump administration’s exercise of power.

In November 2025, NBC News reported that DHS was actively scouting enormous industrial warehouses across the country, particularly in rural areas near major airports and transportation hubs, in an effort to expand the administration’s capacity to execute its mass deportation agenda—a system Secretary Noem recently aptly described as “one of the most consequential periods of action and reform in American history.”

After the “Big Beautiful Bill” allocated an additional $45 billion specifically to ICE for building new immigration detention centers through 2029—a budget 62 percent larger than the entire federal prison system—DHS gained unprecedented financial capacity to expand its system of terror on a massive scale. Some of the warehouses under imminent consideration exceed 800,000 square feet and could hold far more people than existing detention centers, compressing thousands of human beings into spaces designed for inventory, not habitation.

Further reporting in December showed that with this massive budget increase, DHS is not merely expanding capacity at the margins, but is redesigning the model itself. All those detained by DHS and ICE agents, including predominantly people without criminal records, both documented and undocumented im/migrants, and US citizens, will presumably be swiftly processed at local sites before being funneled into a small number of mega-facilities, each holding between 5,000 and 10,000 people. The plans outlining the duration of confinement and the conditions under which people will be held in these warehouses while awaiting deportation remain unknown. [MORE]

MD Dumbocrats Prohibit Carrying Guns in Any Place Deemed “a Sensitive Place” and then Arbitrarily Claim that Most Places are Sensitive. Court says Only Gov Agents Can Have Guns in Many Public Places

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A federal appeals court has upheld most of Maryland’s Gun Rights Safety Act of 2023,allowing the state to ban firearms in a wide range of public locations, while striking down one key provision that would have effectively turned much of the state into default gun-free zones.

In a decision issued January 20, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that most of the locations listed in Maryland’s law qualify as “sensitive places” under Supreme Court precedent.

The court rejected, however, Maryland’s attempt to prohibit firearms on private property that is open to the public unless the owner gives explicit permission .

What the Court Decided

Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Roger L. Gregory said that the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen allow governments to prohibit firearms in certain locations with historical analogies.

The Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s bans on carrying firearms in government buildings, schools and school grounds, public transportation, parks and forests, health care facilities, stadiums, museums, casinos, racetracks, amusement parks, and locations that sell alcohol for on-site consumption.

The court also reversed an earlier district court ruling. It allowed the state to enforce a ban on carrying firearms at public demonstrations and within 1,000 feet of them, provided law enforcement first orders the armed individual to leave.

At the same time, the panel unanimously agreed that Maryland went too far when it tried to ban firearms on all private property that is open to the public unless the owner affirmatively allows carry.

“Maryland’s rule would effectively declare most public places ‘gun-free zones,’” Gregory wrote. “But that likely stretches the sensitive places doctrine too far” .

A Sharp Dissent on Constitutional Limits

Judge Steven Agee concurred with parts of the ruling but issued a strong partial dissent, warning that the majority’s approach risks hollowing out the Second Amendment. [too late]

He agreed that schools, government buildings, and health care facilities can be treated as sensitive places. But he argued that approving Maryland’s long list of additional locations “stretches the sensitive places exception into a broad license to prohibit firearms in locations where people gather for almost any purpose” .

Agee emphasized that Bruen requires modern gun laws to be grounded in Founding-era history, not later traditions selectively assembled to justify broad bans. In his view, the absence of close historical analogues should be decisive, not brushed aside. [MORE]

The 4th Amendment Provides No Meaningful Protection from Gov [It Only Exists in the Minds of People who Believe in It] Memo Claims ICE Can Forcibly Enter Homes without a Warrant

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“The United States government is looking for ways around that the Fourth Amendment,” an investigative journalist said of Wednesday reporting by the Associated Press on an internal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo claiming that ICE agents can forcibly enter a private residence without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

ICE’s May 12 memo, part of a whistleblower disclosure obtained by the AP, says that “although the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the US Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose.”

The January 7 disclosure was sent to the US Senate by the group Whistleblower Aid, which is “keeping the whistleblowers’ identities anonymous even from oversight investigators,” according to the document. It notes that despite being addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” the seemingly unconstitutional memo “has not been formally distributed to all personnel.”[MORE]

As defined in Funktionary:

Constitutional Rights – mythical rites and contractual privileges; the so-called “government” has constitutional rights, i.e. 5th & 6th Amendment rights (powers), etc., you don’t. The Constitution did not and does not give (or bestow upon) anyone any rights. The Constitution and the so-called Bill of Rights for that matter, merely prohibits agents of the government from abrogating or abridging rights people already have or imagine they have (that one was naturally born with). An abstract fictional entity “government” cannot give you any rights, and even if reality was inverted to accommodate this illusion, anything functionaries of a “government” pretend to give they can take away, and the definition of rights is inherent things that cannot be taken away. The constitution is a document declaring law written to set up a government-cum-religion. The only relation the document has to human liberty is establishing means with which to control or muzzle it. Unalienable rights neither start nor stop at the revolving doors of the federal courtroom. One’s imagined “rights” are those that are unalienable allegedly or putatively guaranteed and poorly protected by the so-called “Constitution for the United States.” [MORE]

rights – fantasmatic or fictitious objects having no reality in actuality by those imagining as an identity being in possession of them. Rights are cultural gratuities perceived through various fantasy frames, recognized, and sometimes even created, by man’s system of law to provide a modicum or pretense of civility under a system whereby their very undermining and violation is vouchsafed. Rights are merely rites unless you know how to assert and defend them in order to enjoy them. 2) things people are free to do whether they are able to or not. 3) conditions of existence required by hue-man’s nature for their potential survival (primarily against the cartoon that kills, i.e., the wholly unconscionable entity called the “State”). It is a mistaken notion that rights are enjoyed by one at the expense of the many—that is the realm of privilege. Enjoyment of rights in a neo-imperialistic world controlled by Yurugu through the Greater System (Symbolic Order), paradoxically, entails not only a recognition of their inevitability but, equally, their impossibility. How can we be endowed with rights, or even know what rights are when they are based on binary considerations? Rights, as ontological ephemera, cannot be universally observed, recognized, realized or enforced—and paradoxically, act also as its own eternal source for its assertion and vessel for its fulfillment in our imaginary enjoyment of them. While the law reads rights referentially, what is universally needed in the praxis of rights discourse today is a particular re-inscription, demystification or reontologising of rights (revivified and convivial) by the pan-gendered subject-citizendecoder— taken symptomatically rather than seriously. Most people rarely experience the cognizance of being property of corporate fictions because as long as you don’t violate the rules of society your real status as feudal-property-slave is not involved or revealed. If there is no ‘I,’ to what and to whom do rights as objects accrue? Those who are confused by suffering (and the subject of same) require a re-onotoligisation of rights through the trajectory of meaning independent of their existence. Rights and even ‘lefts’ (i.e., what remains after all of our imaginary rights are traced to their inception as figment) for that matter, like good and evil, are human inventions which humans treat as non-human realities. While fantasy frames invent rights, romanticism reinvents them. Enjoy your symptoms and play with your syndrome—the symptom is the solution. [MORE]

Black State Senators in MD Push Law to Limit Interaction with ICE: ‘We can’t trust them’

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From [HERE] Immigrant rights advocates flocked to Annapolis Thursday in support of legislation slated to ban state law enforcement from entering into partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“We are watching horrified as this administration beats, abducts, murders people — including American citizens and veterans. Masked men are marching down our streets with weapons with no accountability for our laws and our rights as Americans,” Del. Nicole Williams, D-Prince George’s, said at a news conference. “Today we are here to say, ‘Not here in Maryland. We will not allow the masking of law enforcement or the participation of these ICE programs anymore.’ ”

Sponsored by Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair Will Smith, D-Montgomery, Senate President Bill Ferguson, D-Baltimore City, and Sen. Karen Lewis Young, D-Frederick, Senate Bill 245 would ban any state agency or employee, including local sheriffs, from entering into 287(g) agreements with ICE.

Williams is sponsoring the bill in the House, where it will be heard in the Judiciary Committee later this session.

If passed, the bill would go into effect June 1.

Both Ferguson and House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk, D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s, support the legislation.

In Maryland, eight counties participate in ICE’s 287(g) Jail Enforcement model Program, allowing them to alert the agency when people who entered the U.S. illegally are held in their facilities for breaking state laws. Of those jurisdictions, five — Allegany, Carroll, Garrett, St. Mary’s and Washington counties — also participate in the Warrant Service Officer Program, which allows law enforcement to serve and execute administrative warrants in county jails.

“How can our community trust our local and state officers to protect us and serve us when these very officers are so entangled with ICE?” Ama Frimpong, CASA’s legal director, asked. “We can’t trust them.”

There are other forms of 287(g) agreements that Maryland counties don’t participate in, including the delegation of certain immigration enforcement powers to local officers.

Though local sheriffs are duly elected constitutional officers, the Maryland General Assembly holds the power to restrict the rights and responsibilities through legislation. [MORE]

FreeDumb Loving GOP House Puppeticians (except Massey) Vote to Give ICE More Money Despite Lack of Public Support in Non-Representative Demockery

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From [HERE] Seven Democrats in the US House of Representatives voted with nearly all Republicans on Thursday to pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill despite growing calls from across the country for Congress to rein in the Trump administration’s deadly immigration operations, which are led by DHS agents.

Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (NC), Laura Gillen (NY), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), and Tom Suozzi (NY) joined all Republicans but Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) for the 220-207 vote that sent the legislation to the Senate—where the GOP also has a majority, but it’s so narrow that most bills need some Democratic support to pass.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) notably refused to pressure members of his caucus to oppose the bill, even though voters clearly oppose federal operations featuring violence and lawlessness by agents with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) everywhere from California and Illinois, to Minnesota and Maine.

Jeffries and other Democratic leaders have faced growing public pressure to use a rapidly approaching deadline—if Congress doesn’t pass legislation by January 30, the federal government shuts down again—to freeze ICE funding. The bill that advanced out of the House on Thursday would give ICE $10 billion and CBP $18.3 billion.

“I just voted HELL NO to giving ICE a single penny,” declared Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who’s part of the progressive Squad. “Congress should not be funding an agency that has terrorized our communities, kidnapped our neighbors, and killed people on the street with impunity. We must abolish ICE and end qualified immunity for ICE agents NOW.” [MORE]

ICE Race Soldiers Kidnap a 5 Year Old and 4 Other Non-White Children from Pre-School in Minnesota

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Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is taken into custody by federal immigration officers as he returns home from preschool on Tuesday in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota have detained at least four children from the same school district this month, including a 5-year-old boy, school officials in a Minneapolis suburb said Wednesday.

The events have inflamed tensions between residents and ICE officers, sparked by the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renée Good by an ICE officer this month. The Trump administration has sought to justify the presence of ICE personnel by saying that the officers are detaining immigrants convicted of violent crimes.

“Why detain a 5-year-old?” Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public Schools district, located just north of Minneapolis, said at a news conference. “You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.” [MORE] and [MORE]

Copitalism: In Subzero Temperatures Thousands Rally Against Involuntary Rule Disguised as Immigration Enforcement in MN, a State Ranked 29th in the Number of Undocumented Persons

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Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, and thousands gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown.

The protests are part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump’s increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops. [MORE]

Who is the Real Criminal when an Innocent Person is "Executed?" Texas Authorities Exonerate a Black Man They Murdered 70 yrs Ago. Gov says Tommy Lee Walker case marked by racial bias

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Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent in the killing of a white woman in Dallas.

Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker.

At the time of the trial, prosecutors had alleged Walker attacked Parker, a store clerk who was on her way home, on the evening of Sept. 30, 1953. Parker’s killing took place during a time of panic and racial division in the Dallas area as there were reports that a Peeping Tom believed to be a Black man was terrorizing women, according to the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.

But an extensive review of Walker’s conviction by the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, along with the help of the Innocence Project of New York and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, found multiple problems with Walker’s case. [MORE]