'Brought terror to the community': Federal agents stormed park while kids were playing https://www.alternet.org/federal-agents-los-angeles/ #LosAngeles #California #Fascism
@MrEdgarBass Hello. I thought I replied to this but I didn't.
It isn't that the groups throw us off per se. And business groups, and pharmaceutical presentations make a perfect sense.
What puzzles us at the restaurant is who has a dozen personal friends they want to take to dinner? A foursome of two couples, sure. But 12 or 14 personal friends you want to take to dinner, all together? Who has that many friends, much less that many all sitting at the same table? It just seems bizarre to us. But, whatever. We are here to serve.
@MrEdgarBass No. The restaurant was founded 65 years ago in a building that was formerly a hotel that was built 123 years ago. We have a small dining room that seats about 50 people maximum, and a cafe/bar with six booths. The dining room has a real fireplace. Very romantic.
Our specialty is the food which is Calabrian Italian style food. People come from out of state to eat at our restaurant. Some of them fly in on a private jet just to eat at our restaurant. We are considered by many to be the best Italian restaurant in all of West Virginia.
We are open thursday, friday, saturday, and the restaurant is packed full every night.
People frequently rent the entire restaurant for special functions, but we have no party room or anything like that.
LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-27/fear-of-immigration-raids-force-the-cancellation-of-several-july-festivities-in-los-angeles
…Some Americans know the reality of these #preventable #diseases all too well. For them, news of #measles outbreaks & rising #WhoopingCough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – & a longing to spare others from similar pain.
[I can speak to this personally. The Spanish Influenza (which BTWs did not originate in Spain — much like #Trump labeled #COVID “the China virus”) orphaned my grandmother as a toddler killing both her parents & her baby sister.]
@Nonilex I remember schoolmates using crutches, wearing leg braces, and in wheelchairs from polio. My girlfriend 55 years ago suffered permanent damage from whooping cough. My father-in-law suffered permanent damage from mumps. My uncle died at the age of five from diphtheria.
@MrEdgarBass @ai6yr Same here.
@ai6yr I always avoid Home Depot if I can in favor of Lowes. Home Depot are MAGA. Lowes on the other hand, has priority parking for veterans. Plus veteran discount at check-out.
@ajbobo yes, that does happen occasionally. But usually it's like a bunch of old people who are all friends. Who has that many friends? Lol who wants that many friends? Not me.
So as those of you who know me know, I'm a retired engineer who has been working as a chef in an Italian restaurant for almost 14 years. Many consider us the best Italian restaurant in the state of West Virginia, and that may very well be true.
A constant head scratcher for everyone that works here, waitstaff and kitchen, are the larger parties. We get them all the time. 10, 12, 14 people. It's fine, I'm not complaining, but who the hell has 14 friends they want to take out to dinner? Really? What about dinner for two? That makes sense to me.
I don't get it. None of us get it. What am I missing here? I barely have four friends I might want to take out to dinner together. Maybe.
https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-g8qw-mgjx-rwjr
When a user who hasn't logged in to the system before (i.e. doesn't exist in the authd user database) logs in via SSH, the user is considered a member of the root group in the context of the SSH session. That leads to a local privilege escalation if the user should not have root privileges.
@skykiss Ahh yes, logistics. The most important part of military science. Much too complicated for people like Trump. It requires thinking and careful planning.
History shows, countless times, that poor logistics will destroy an army faster than any enemy.
Wildly unprepared.
“This is what happens when the president demands National Guard deploy immediately with no plan in place & no federal funding for food, water, fuel or lodging”
A maga-clusterfuck
And number is to now increase from 300 to 2,100
https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/noem-immigration-protests-letter-20369001.php
SF Chronicle: archive.is/qaZ92
@fatsam That's basically correct. Having a raised three, this is how it goes. It went the same for me.
Cutting the apron strings means making your parents wrong so that you can leave the nest. Then around 21 to 24 years of age you discover that your parents were not as stupid as you thought and you make friends again.
"Fuck you. Tuck me in."
"Excuse me?"
"Teenagers. They need to hate you so they can leave when the time comes, but at the same time they don't want to go, so they drive everybody nuts."
- Dept Q, Ep 4.
... not wholly my experience of my kids, but enough of it to recognize. If you have a healthy relationship with them, the certainty you want what's best for them muffles this stuff, though it doesn't stop it.
"The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not."
~ Robert Reich
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
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"Despite the 501.99 square miles of peace in Los Angeles, the media is playing a video loop of two cars set aflame three days ago. That loop plays continuously in the background as news anchors ignore the illegality of Trump's federalization of California National Guard and vapidly wonder 'whether Trump or Newsom will win the battle for the spotlight.' (Looking at you, MSNBC.)"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #media
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/maintaining-focus-and-discipline
"White House pool reporters are literally pouring gasoline onto a road flare held by an arsonist. They are baiting Trump into making ever more incendiary statements, which the media then repeats with staged alarm and barely concealed glee."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
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https://apnews.com/article/thunberg-deported-mideast-gaza-israel-7d6868f213dfcf78969f8e3d982788c6
Really? How can you deport someone from another country, not your own, to another country???
Ahh, power. Physical power and force. That's how.
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