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Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez is a Washington Democrat who is a bit of an odd duck. For one thing, she was one of only 7 Democrats who, last month, voted in favor of a DHS funding bill that includes money for ICE.
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Glusenkamp Perez, like everyone else, has condemned the shootings in Minneapolis and called for Kristi Noem to step down. But despite that she thinks the "defund ICE" movement within her party is a dumb idea.
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She was attacked online as a hypocrite but hasn't changed her mind. Last week, vandals targeted an auto body shop owned by her husband.
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Here's a bit of what the anarchists had to say.

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Last night we gave Dean’s Car Care in NE Portland a redecorating under cover of darkness. Dean’s is owned and operated by fascist sympathizing power-couple Dean Gluesenkamp and Washington State representative Marie Perez Gluesenkamp, a Democrat who voted in January for additional funding for ICE, enabling them to continue kidnapping and murdering our neighbors and occupying our cities. We sprayed “DEAN’S WIFE FUNDS ICE” across the side of the shop and drenched the storefront in bright orange with paintbombs made from hollowed out eggs. It was quick and easy fun, and a little exhilarating due to an unexpected burglary alarm activating from the impact of the paintbombs against the windows. We slipped back into the dark unseen, satisfied with our work and filled with the jouissance and freedom of criminality.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

Did any DU-member have the courage and honesty to point out that Spanish is a colonizer's language, not one of the languages spoken by any of the indigenous peoples of southern North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean?

Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday.

The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”

“Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people’s lives,” a spokesperson for the agency said. “That work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business Review, the World Poll, and our portfolio of U.S. and global research.”

The Gallup Presidential Approval Rating has for decades been the among the top barometers cited by media outlets measuring public opinion of the president’s performance.

Democrats are backtracking on their own demand that ICE agents wear body cameras. They’re suddenly concerned that those cameras will be used to track and surveil anti-ICE protesters, which seems like an admission that they know those people are their base voters.

This isn’t the first time this issue has backfired on Democrats. Following their anti-police push in 2020, Democrats wanted all law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, but that didn’t work out the way they planned. Instead of showing LEOs in a bad light, it showed them to be professionals who often deal with violence directed at them.
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Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used…

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who proposed a ban on ICE agents using facial recognition, also supported surveillance limits on body cameras.

“Obviously we want them to be wearing body cameras, but we would want restrictions placed on what that information could be used for,” Markey said. “We want to make sure that we have the accountability for how these officers conduct themselves on the streets of our country, but we don’t want it in turn to be used as a way of coming back and suppressing free speech.”