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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/rooke-sob-story-for-mother-who-got-tear-gassed-with-kids-at-protest-starts-to-unravel/ar-AA1V1PQ5?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6978a3d2864a4b9890b506286a088fbc&ei=91

Rooke: Sob story for mother who got tear gassed with kids at protest starts to unravel


The media spun a narrative that Destiny Jackson, a 32-year-old mother of six from Minneapolis, and her family were innocent bystanders when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed tear gas under their car.

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She said her family pulled over because a road was blocked. They were supposedly trapped by escalating chaos and couldn’t drive away before the tear gas hit. She admitted that her husband left the vehicle, but said only to assess the situation. She also said she left to find her mother, who was attending the protest. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

New video footage, first reported by Crime Watch Mpls, shows Jackson and her husband, without their children, lingering at or near the protest site for at least 45 minutes. Jackson is heard engaging with protesters from the same livestream, saying, “We’re going to kill these motherf**kers,” reportedly saying this about ICE agents in response to a question about whether protesters had weapons or guns. Jackson later claimed that her comments were sarcastic and that she believes that “shooting and killing people is unacceptable.”

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KC

oh, Dace here was told ICE was just like the Gestapo, and Minneapolis is just like Nazi Germany and she's dumb enough to believe it - here she is, ICE, grab her:

https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/pxuul299n80846r296lr0




 
 

Democrats Vow to Oppose Homeland Security Funding Bill. That Increases the Chance of a Shutdown
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/senate-democrats-homeland-security-funding-government-shutdown/2026/01/25/id/1243477/

Democrat senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a 37-year-old Minnesota man, a stand that increases the prospect of a partial government shutdown by the end of the week.

Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer, in a social media post Saturday night, hours after the shooting, said that what is happening in Minnesota is "appalling" and that Democrats "will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."

Six of the 12 annual spending bills for the current budget year have been signed into law by President Donald Trump. Six more are awaiting action in the Senate. If senators fail to act by midnight Friday, funding for agencies covered under those six bills will lapse.

Another government shutdown coming?

Los Angeles homeless services CEO charged with defrauding taxpayers to pay for luxury lifestyle

https://srnnews.com/los-angeles-homeless-services-ceo-charged-with-defrauding-taxpayers-to-pay-for-luxury-lifestyle/

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The CEO of a Los Angeles homeless services charity faces federal and state fraud charges after prosecutors said he lived a luxury lifestyle that included lavish vacations and designer clothes paid for with $23 million in public money meant to keep people off the streets.

Alexander Soofer, 42, was arrested Friday at his $7 million home that investigators believe he afforded using funds that were supposed to support his nonprofit Abundant Blessings, said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.

The charitable group was contracted with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a county agency, to use taxpayer money to find shelter and provide three meals a day for more than 600 homeless residents.

Instead, prosecutors said Soofer bought a $125,000 Range Rover, a $2,450 Hermes jacket, a vacation home in Greece and a trip to Hawaii, where he stayed at the Four Seasons hotel that was famously the setting for the HBO TV show “The White Lotus.”
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If convicted as charged, Soofer could receive a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, Essayli said. An email was sent Monday seeking comment from Soofer’s attorney, Hilary Potashner.

The circle in Dante's Inferno for exploiting charity meant for the poor is a very deep one.

Sadly, fraudsters like this are FAR from unqiue in CA, and the fraudsters know state bureaucrats are much less than diligent in verification of funds use.

How Hollywood Confuses Attention With Authority

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/01/26/how-hollywood-confuses-attention-with-authority-n4948755

IMO, celebs started using their fame as some sort of moral authority back in the 1970s, e.g. Hanoi Jane's antics in North Viet Nam and her "China Syndrome" anti-nuclear power movie (BTW, the nuclear plant she was trying to prevent starting operation is now having its retirement postponed).

Politics aside, "The China Syndrome" is actually quite a good film. But I agree with the premise of the PJ Media article.