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You talked to a employee at the store about Thom Hartmann? How come this crap NEVER happens to me at the store?

     There does not exist a world in which a grocery store employee would take the time or the trouble to have a political discussion with a customer pointed enough to include minor radio personalities.

     Having said that, I do not see how a discussion with a grocery clerk is a novel call to action for contacting representatives. If we've learned anything since the 80s or so, if the culture has instructed us of any one thing to which we can all agree yet which cannot be helped or altered in any way, it's that there is no point in contacting congressional representatives about anything, ever. It's precious that these people still think calls to Washington and letters to the editor have any effect on any outcome whatsoever. I sometimes envy their insistence that we are still in 1971.

FBI arrests 2 connected to anti-ICE protest at St. Paul church, Bondi says

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-arrests-an-organizer-of-anti-ice-protest-at-st-paul-church/

Federal authorities have arrested two of the people connected to an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a church service on Sunday in St. Paul.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday morning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney who helped organize the protest.

Minutes later, Bondi announced Chauntyll Louisa Allen was also arrested. She’s listed as the clerk of the St. Paul Board of Education.

FWIW, Armstrong is a professional "protester" (= shit-stirrer inclined toward violence), affiliated with BLM-type orgs.

ETA: Allen founded the local BLM chapter.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Just Insulted Justice Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest Justices to ever sit on the Supreme Court, and the second Black Justice after Thurgood Marshall. Known for being a man of few words, but one who can write scathing rulings, Thomas is a wonderful example of not only jurisprudence but of profound legal and Constitutional thinking.

So, naturally, the Left despises him.

This includes Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who says he can't think of a single thing Justice Thomas has done to benefit Black people.

"Judicial Watch is suing the city of Chicago over its reparations task force, saying that it's discriminatory by race," a reporter said. "When you said it wouldn't just benefit Blacks, especially foundational Black Americans, doesn't deviation from recently supported case law to institutions of higher learning, where Clarence Thomas laid out a legislative package, make the program unnecessarily vulnerable, status by race versus status by injured class?"

"Yeah, I'm not aware of anything that Clarence Thomas has ever done that has benefited Black people," Johnson replied.

"I just told you," the reporter said.

"I mean, you just read something, but there's no evidence that anything that the Justice has ever done on behalf of the interests of Black people, or even marginalized people in general..." Johnson continued.

As a reminder, here's some of what Brandon Johnson has done for Blacks in the city of Chicago: in 2024, he ended the city's Shotspotter program, calling it — you guessed it — racist. Since then, the vast majority of shooting victims have been Black males. Of 63 victims known and tracked by CWB Chicago, just seven are white or "unknown." The youngest victim was just 13-years-old. Some of them might have lived had the Shotspotter system alerted police to the gunfire.

Clarence Thomas, on the other hand, works to ensure the Constitutional rights of all Americans, regardless of race. Thomas grew up in poverty and worked his way through college and Yale Law School before becoming an assistant attorney general in Missouri. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in D.C. in 1990, where he served for only 19 months before taking Marshall's seat on the Supreme Court.

To say that Thomas has done "nothing to benefit Black people" is an insult to his work and his legacy, as well as to every Black child who is growing up in poverty. And, of course, Johnson intentionally missed the point of the reporter's question: Thomas is warning Chicago that a race-based reparations program won't pass constitutional muster, giving the city a chance to rethink it into one that will. Johnson is refusing to do that, instead resorting to ad hominem attacks on Justice Thomas.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/22/brandon-johnson-clarence-thomas-n2669870

From my recollection living in North Texas, there is only one snowplow in the state. The state really shuts down if there is ice or snow. I speak from experience 30+ years ago.

It's not a whole lot better now.  Dallas has some salt trucks, but so many roads and overpasses are built too steep to use if there is the slightest bit of snow or ice.  Plus people don't have any experience driving on snow and ice, so their ignorance makes the roads even more dangerous.  Growing up in Kansas, I've been amazed at how little it takes to just shut the DFW metroplex down.