There was an extraordinary moment this week in Los Angeles where City Councilmember Imelda Padilla asked LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell to monitor and warn citizens whenever the federal authorities are conducting an operation or seeking to make an arrest. Padilla asked McDonnell if they could use “AI” and other means to give immigrants a heads up to allow them to oppose or evade federal law enforcement. McDonnell gently explained that Padilla was asking him to commit a crime.
In the June 10th council meeting, Padilla challenged McDonnell to be innovative and “find a creative way” to tip off the immigrant community. In the face of a clearly dumbfounded chief of police, Padilla explained that he needed to act “in the spirit of your loyalty to the city of Los Angeles.”
McDonnell delivered a measured response in the tone of an officer attempting to talk down a jumper from a tenth floor window ledge: “You’re asking me to warn you about an enforcement action being taken by another agency before it happens? We can’t do that.”
Padilla shot back: “why not!”
McDonnell keep his “I-know-you-are-upset-but jumping-will-not-help-the-situation” voice: “That would be completely inappropriate and illegal. That would be obstruction of justice. You might want to talk to the city attorney about that.”
Yet, that moment of sanity only seemed to irritate other residents of this insane asylum. City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson warned McDonnell that he should not refer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “law enforcement partners”:
“If we know somebody is coming here to do warrant-less abductions of the residents of this city, those are not our partners. I don’t care what badge they have on or whose orders they’re under. They’re not our partners.”
Just to be clear, what the council member was asking would be a crime under both state and federal law. California Penal Code Section 148(a) states that obstructing, delaying, or interfering with a peace officer in the performance of their duties is a crime. Notably, Wisconsin Judge Lynn Adelman was just charged with obstruction and facilitating the escape of an illegal immigrant in assisting an individual to evade ICE.
The exchange captures the growing view that opponents to the Trump Administration are entitled to use any means necessary to oppose immigration enforcement and other policies. It is fueling the rage and the sense of license to commit even criminal acts for a higher cause.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
#9. Whirlwind Schumer to attack the rage, heal America.
“This Schumer guy … isn’t he the one who said that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh had “released the whirlwind” and “will pay the price.” And then a would-be assassin was arrested outside of Kavanaugh’s house? Yeah, same guy.”
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/06/14/schumer-we-must-confront-the-toxic-forces-that-are-radicalizing-people-n2414276
He better attack the wrath.
The “no kings” protesters are saying that enforcing America’s immigration laws is “genocide”
https://x.com/Hoosier_truth/status/1933537396618072546
Meanwhile just two weeks ago at a graduation speech, Tim Walz said that Trump and ICE are the “gestapo” (his words) who are coming to kill you:
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1933945851044368776
What do people like that think other people are going to do in response to their inflammatory rhetoric? They know there will be killings like this, and perhaps that’s exactly what they want.
It’s about money. They’ve looted and burned. Fudge the law a little is crime. Just like mostly peaceful is to warm people to the idea of crime. The Constitution specifically says peaceful. That’s not mostly peaceful. Not removing freedom of speech at all but reigning in assembly. Two different issues.
A moratorium on all protests should have been called by every mayor long ago. The cost to LA and California in graffiti and clean up from this is major.
“There was an extraordinary moment this week in Los Angeles where….” This was not at all extraordinary. Rather, it was the typical lunacy of the Los Angeles City Council.
@Alan
Yup. Absolutely expected. What would have been extraordinary was if they’d let the cops shut it down after the first act of violence and much smaller crowds; then tracking down the sources of funding and organization would have been miraculous. Miracles do not happen in California; everything good seems to have forsaken that state, double time. And I say this as someone whose father was a native Angelino many years ago.
What are you going to do when their mayor is a silver-spooned, lifelong, card carrying, and groomed Marxist from her teen years onward? How this is supposed to be compatible with our free Republic is anyone’s guess.
And make no mistake: the modern left wants our entire country to be California. People in Texas in particular: *wake up*. They are already there, and there are well-funded plans to push forward.
The voters of LA voted for Bass over Caruso. They elected an incompetent ideologue over a candidate with common sense. They had a stark choice between lunacy and sanity. They chose lunacy. They get the government they deserve, together with all the wildfires, property destruction, and violence that go along with that choice.
“In the spirit of your loyalty”, Lancelot, .. ..
Cuckoo
Such shameful misconduct from a person elected to office! The LAPD Chief attempted to reason with her, but it’s impossible to talk with such fools. They are so far left, so hung up with TDS (bordering on the “insanity” to which Turley refers), so anti-USA, so anti-real law enforcement at any level of government, so supportive of criminal aliens who entered and remain in the USA … they only deserve to be IGNORED.
OT:
So, turns out the dems tragically shot in MN were likely attacked by a fellow dem. These people are just flat-out sick:
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/suspect-minnesota-lawmaker-shooting-had-no-kings-flyers-his-car?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Planned Politicianhood? Relieving a “burden”? Abortive ideation.
Trending on Twitter / X:
Murdered by a Democrat
https://x.com/search?q=%22Murdered%20by%20a%20Democrat%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
Actually that’s true, James.
Apparently he killed the Senator because she sided with the GOP on a vote. Too soon to say for sure, but it will be interesting once there are more details are known.
#9. Ummm, isn’t this what typically happens South of the Border?
Nope. From “Raw Story”:
“After initial contradictory evidence regarding the political affiliation of the alleged shooter who killed a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota on Saturday, the suspect’s best friend sought to clear things up.
A man over the weekend allegedly posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home. According to the Associated Press, the same suspect also shot and wounded a second lawmaker, who could still live.
The alleged shooter, Vance Boelter, reportedly voted for Trump, according to a report reproduced on social media.
“And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers ‘voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,’ according to his best friend,” he wrote.”
I read he’s from Mars.
Killing politicians is called an election in the third world. Fyi . It’s come to you and yours.
California is lost to Communism
The Pearl Project* has released a spreadsheet that discloses the sources of >$3 Billion of funding for ~500 organizations, comprising the protest industry, all tied to the Democrat Party.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel should take note
An estimated 198 groups — all aligned with the Democratic Party and many enjoying nonprofit status as supposedly “”nonpartisan””– are organizers for the anti-Trump #NoKings nationwide protests scheduled for Saturday, June 14, with total annual revenues of about $2.1 billion, according to research by the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative that is investigating the protest industry.
A. #NoKings Breakdown:
🔹3 Democratic National Committee organizations are protest “”partners.””
🔹16 political action committees that mostly fund Democratic political candidates, including Friends of Bernie Sanders, Progressive Democrats of America and Vote Blue, with about $1.1 billion in annual revenues
🔹18 501(c)(5) Democrati-aligned labor union nonprofits, including lead organizer American Federation of Teachers, with about $19.4 million in annual revenues.
🔹76 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(4) political nonprofits with about $734.3 million in annual revenues
🔹47 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(3) nonprofits with about $286.7 in annual revenues
🔹38 other Democratic groups with unknown revenues
Total: 198 groups with an estimated $2.1 billion organizing #NoKings protests
B. #TeslatTakedown #HandsOff #MayDay Breakdown:
Additionally, most of these groups were involved in earlier protests against Trump.
🔹There are an additional 267 groups with annual revenues of $1.3 billion that have been organizers of protests called #TeslaTakedown #HandsOff and #MayDay.
TOTAL
🔹That makes a total of 475 groups with annual budgets of $3.4 billion that have been organizing protests against Trump in this dataset. There are many more that we will be pulling from a new database we are creating with the groups invovled in the anti-ICE protests. Stay tuned.”
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16GChwHCZHjHuEsLkErMWBcuSqq4L616BjXsHZgZVang/edit?gid=636508532#gid=636508532
* About the Pearl Project:
The Pearl Project is an investigative journalism organization named for Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. 1 The project was founded by journalist Asra Nomani and Georgetown professor Barbara Feinman Todd, and in 2011, it issued a 31,000-word report prepared by faculty members and students at Georgetown University. The report concluded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, had admitted to killing Pearl. 2
The organization has exposed ties between radical Islamist groups and socialist organizations in the United States. 3 4
https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/pearl-project/
Estovir – it’s mind numbing just trying to read through that. Why so much money being poured into an insurrection against the duly-elected Donald Trump?
Only one reason: there’s even more money at stake. My theory: these people are globalists with a globalist agenda that involves probably hundreds of trillions of dollars in economic control, to go along with the political control. Trump is avowedly anti-globalist, as are others that they hate such as Milei and Orban. Compared to that, what’s a measly little $3 or $ billion? To them it’s money well spent.
My theory: Democrats killed God in the public square to make themselves their preferred deity. Now it is all cult, which explains why a Tim Walz appointed Democrat killed Democrat Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman. Her crime? She voted with Republicans as the lone Democrat in the MN House to stop funding healthcare for illegal immigrants
This is what cults do. This is the Democrat Party. Note how she is in tears just yesterday for casting the lone vote with Republicans
REPORT: Shortly before Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was shot and k*lled, she broke down in tears in front of cameras after siding with Republicans.
Hortman was the lone Democrat who voted to cut health care access for adult illegal immigrants.
“I did what leaders do… I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota.”
Hortman and her husband were k*lled shortly after this video was taken in their home. Police believe it was politically motivated.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/19339245644191296
Sad to say but women should be moved out. Cryning over a budget? Then the male suspect is a piece of work, too. Dems need to go.
Thanks for the motive, Estovir.
… which explains why a Tim Walz appointed Democrat killed Democrat Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman. Her crime? She voted with Republicans as the lone Democrat in the MN House to stop funding healthcare for illegal immigrants.
And in that respect, this ties into yesterday’s article about Bluesky. No dissent on any topic is allowed, people are ostracized for the slightest departure from left-wing orthodoxy. In this case, The deceased representative voted with the GOP, which was the deciding vote (at the time, the House was split 67-67 between the parties, now with the one vacancy due to her tragic death, it is 67-66).
I remember only like 20 years ago the Dems were all about stopping illegal immigration, which was hurting the wages of lower-class workers and draining resources from needy lower-class Americans. That made logical sense. Today’s 180-degree opposite position adopted wholesale by the Dems doesn’t make any sense . . . unless the illegals are their actual voters. Which might be true, according to this very reliable news story:
https://babylonbee.com/news/newsom-says-its-his-duty-to-represent-the-illegal-immigrants-who-elected-him
Democratic leaders call for increased security after Minnesota shootings*
Jeffries and Schumer seek additional protection for lawmakers
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/14/democratic-leaders-call-for-increased-security-after-minnesota-shootings-00406283
* to protect them from violent Democrats
Intel officialsDemocrats ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you’Estovir
Yet another stupid ignorant comment from a stupid and ignorant MAGA cultist.
The shooter had a manifesto with the names of 70 targets for assassination.
The targets were ALL Democrats, as well as abortion providers and pro-choice activists.
The targets included Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, US Senator Tina Smith and AG Keith Ellison.
Now tell me he is a bleeding heart liberal .
He is in fact a registered Republican.
Your suggestion that the shooter is a liberal Democrat and that Melissa Hortman was targeted because of her vote on healthcare for immigrants is absurd.
It is well documented that she voted with the Republicans because it was the only way to move the budget. Republicans were threatening a government shutdown if they did not get their way on the healthcare vote. She reluctantly voted with them for the sole purpose of avoiding a shutdown.
That is why she wept after the vote.
Your stupid comments reveal your deeply delusional thinking.
Estovir, it’s because they tasted sin and it tasted good. The apple. Do you have an apple computer? Does it run Word? The word?
Israel is at war.
Spot on!
#9. Imagine if Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini had been so monetarily entrepreneurial…
Thanks, Wow! That is extensive.
Perhaps you know something of Karen Bass? I was reading that she was involved with a Cuban communist group and had visited Cuba over eight times?
When I was in high school, we used to watch movies warning us about subversion and how we might one day be invaded from within. These were the Cold War days. I am not so certain that these films were right and that it was a good move for us during History and Civics classes to learn a little bit about psychological warfare. I certainly learned something about this later in life.
I meant to say that these films were spot on.
#9. Well I’ll be dog gone if it’s none other than a guy the Minnesota Democrats just loved! At least that is, he was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four-year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, documents show.. That was after Democrat Gov., Mark Dayton also had appointed him back in 2016. Twice appointed to a state governor’s special work group means you get a gold star on your noggin.
I was waiting for the white supremacists shtick, but Waltz, never one to risk being on the firing line, leaped out there with “politically motivated”, knowing that the truth that he had appointed him to his own Governor’s Board would come out soon. Apparently not the “safe white boy” type that Crockett is looking for.
Pics of the fugitive:
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/suspect-in-deadly-minnesota-shootings-identified-as-vance-luther-boelter/
Yes, it’s getting really serious. Just let ice do it’s work and NG deployed all 50 States. The bigger matter is Iran Israel.
Imelda means what by loyalty? To whom, to what? She should be removed. That’s scraping the bottom.
Which dear leader has the best parade of war assets and soldiers? Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump or Xi Jinping?
Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker killed in ‘politically-motivated assassination,’ massive manhunt for suspect underway. Well, so much for the bullish!t MAGA argument that MAGA isn’t violent. When the pendulum swings the other way and Americans get sick of MAGA, the Tumptards better hide.
The suspect is a Waltz appointee – a Democrat
Liar. As always, MAGA lies. About everything.
https://x.com/julio_rosas11/status/1933930061062942990?s=61&t=Xya-BNQ2U6a1z16p9njjkA
Its getting interesting.
According to several news outlests, Boelter, 57, was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four-year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board.
KEEP UP ANON! Too hard for you??
NOW we see clearly the reason the secret service pounced on Padilla as he entered the room unidentified. Excellent.
No words can express just how bad dems really are.
At some some point Trump supporters will have to admit they want to shut down free speech, make Trump president for life, and make all points of view which are different than MAGA illegal.
Why would they “admit” something that is not true, but rather, a matter of left-wing projection?
Just stick with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
There will be no communist welfare state, no redistribution and affirmative action, and there will be private property per Article 1, Section 8, and the 5th Amendment.
There will be regulation of ONLY “the value of money,” “commerce among nations, states, and Indian tribes,” and “land and naval Forces.”
There will be freedom, free enterprise, free industries, and free markets, all self-regulated and devoid of incompetent and corrupt governmental interference.
Lin – in re that song, who writes lyrics using the word “laden” these days, or encumber, or phrases like “his welfare is my concern”?
So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We’ll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother
If I’m laden at all
I’m laden with sadness
That everyone’s heart
Isn’t filled with the gladness
Of love for one another
For context–the line “He ain’t heavy, Father, he’s m’ brother” came from Father Flanagan, the founder of Boy’s Town, who saw a young boy carrying a smaller boy on his back. The smaller boy was a polio victim who wore heavy leg braces that made it difficult for him to get around. From the Boy’s Town website:
“Back in 1918, a boy named Howard Loomis was abandoned by his mother at Father Flanagan’s Home for Boys, which had opened just a year earlier. Howard had polio and wore heavy leg braces. Walking was difficult for him, especially when he had to go up or down steps.
Soon, several of the Home’s older boys were carrying Howard up and down the stairs.
One day, Father Flanagan asked Reuben Granger, one of those older boys, if carrying Howard was hard.
Reuben replied, “He ain’t heavy, Father… he’s m’ brother.”
But the story doesn’t end there.
In 1943, Father Flanagan was paging through a copy of Ideal magazine when he saw an image of an older boy carrying a younger boy on his back. The caption read, “He ain’t heavy, mister… he’s my brother.”
Immediately, the priest was reminded of a photo of Reuben carrying Howard at a Boys Town picnic many years before. Father Flanagan wrote to the magazine and requested permission to use the image and quote. The magazine agreed, and Boys Town adopted them both to define its new brand.
Nearly 75 years later, the motto is still the best description of what our boys and girls at Boys Town learn about the importance of caring for each other and having someone care about them.”
Of course, this sentiment of caring for others is the antithesis of MAGA–taking away food from starving people in Africa, cutting Medicaid and school lunches, cutting off USAID, kicking millions of Americans off of health care coverage-all to give tax breaks to the very wealthiest while driving up the national debt.
Go ahead–call me some names.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Imelda Padilla must be immediately indicted for obstruction of justice, criminal complicity, aiding and abetting, conspiracy to violate federal immigration laws, incitement, insurrection, rebellion et al.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell must be indicted as a co-conspirator.
This “Declaration of Sovereignty” by the administration of the City of Los Angeles is an act of illegal and unconstitutional secession.
Secession by Los Angeles is an Act of War.
Is the foreign “lawmaker” going to be arrested and put in prison for trying to break federal law?
AI Overview
The Supremacy Clause…Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, establishes the Constitution, federal laws,…as the supreme law of the land, overriding any conflicting state laws or constitutions.
This principle ensures a hierarchical system where federal law takes precedence, preventing states from undermining federal authority.
As usual the talking puppets regurgitate the daily talking points. A man today rushed the podium where Chuck Schumer was speaking. The Secret Service in a flash prohibited the man from reaching the podium and the Democrats all praised the quick reactions of the secret service. Take note. After the man was being pushed back from the podium he declared that he was a Senate Republican. He was not wearing his Senate lapel pin at the time. The Democrats all stated that there was no way that the Secret Service could have known that the man was a Senator when he rushed the podium. Indeed, Chuck Schumers’ life could have been in danger. All the Republicans declared that the incident was an authoritarian tragedy likened to those imposed by Hitler himself.
Oh wait. I got my political parties mixed up. Sorry.
Who’s side is she on?
The councilwoman should look to her own oath of office for guidance:
Sec. 215. Oath of Office. (Los Angeles City Charter)
Every officer provided for in the Charter shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of office, take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and the Charter of the City of Los Angeles, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of (here inserting the name of the office) according to the best of my ability.”
~+~
Article IV Section. 4. (US Constitution)
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Note to Council Member Imelda Padilla:
No one is above the law.
Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 31, 2024
No one is above the law.
Nancy Pelosi
No one is above the law.
Adam Schiff
No one is above the law.
Shiela Jackson Lee
No one is above the law.
Elizabeth Warren
No one is above the law.
Jerry Nadler
No matter how big, rich or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law.
New York state Attorney General Letitia James
But no one is above the law…. unless the law is violating the law…. what a joke 🙂
suborn
verb
sub·orn sə-ˈbȯrn
suborned; suborning; suborns
transitive verb
1: to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
2: to induce to commit perjury
also : to obtain (perjured testimony) from a witness
subornation
ˌsə-ˌbȯr-ˈnā-shən
noun
suborner noun
Suborn is from Latin subornare, which translates literally as “to secretly furnish or equip.” The sub- that brings the “secretly” meaning to subornare more commonly means “under” or “below,” but it has its stealthy meaning in the etymologies of several other English words, including surreptitious (from sub- and rapere, meaning “to seize”) and the verb suspect (from sub- or sus- and specere, meaning “to look at”). The ornare (meaning “to furnish”) of subornare is also at work in the words ornate, adorn, and ornament.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suborn
Thanks anon, it’s a rare breath of fresh air to get an etymology lesson on this blog. Please provide more in future at your discretion.
Yours,
-Uncle Henry
It’s so good to see you, Darren.
I once had a Work Permit for the United Kingdom….employer had to jump through legal hoops to prove to the UK Home Office (think ICE) that I was not taking the job of a British Person and it was only good for a finite period of time…and I had to have a UK Professional License requiring complex testing and skills.
Making beds and picking lettuce do not require that level of expertise, training, and testing.
What say Congress get off its collective hind ends and enact legislation, say…by end of next week….and set up a Work Permit System for Non-Residents/Non-Citizens and resolve a huge problem literally in a week?
Never mind the back and forth and finger pointing and silly posturing…..solve a problem for just once and do right by everyone concerned?
Is that too much for all of us to demand of Congress?
Senate Democrats would filibuster any such bill.
Your joking, right? The US has such. 😂. Oh, no passport no visa thing? Umm no.
*. There aren’t any crops grown in California anymore. Send in undercover and document. All foods are imported from Latin America including breads from the Bimbo company.
They’re here clearly for the cheese.
California makes most of its political money from fruits and nuts.
The L.A. chief of police clearly stated that the police are being overwhelmed. Yet, politicians in California say that the National Guard was not needed to maintain order. Now the California politicians are telling the police to break the law. Calling for tipping off the ICE raids so they can’t arrest the drug dealers, child rapist, drug dealers, murderers and wife beaters is such a noble cause. We should thank the heavens that they are coming to the defense of these upstanding non citizens of our nation. When they tell you who they are believe them.
Breaking news! MSNBC and The New York times report that Trump is “largely” (not completely) curtailing the arrests of dozens of illegal alien farm workers. Farms across America are being shut down! Exactly what percentage of farm workers are “dozens”. The average annual employment of hired workers in US agriculture is around 1.5 million. Wow, “dozens” out of 1.5 million. The Times, MSNBC and Anonymous on this blog spend most of their time making mountains out of mole hills. Psst. Don’t tell them that the American people have come to understand what they are doing. If they knew they might stop shooting themselves in the foot, biting their nose to spite their face, Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera.
So now you quote MSNBC and NY Times as authoritative sources as to what is actually happening.
REALLY ????
They have used the term “largely curtailed”, and you apparently believe these leftist, communist propaganda outlets.
I would refer you to Trump’s own words on Truth Social,
“Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. We must protect our farmers, Trump wrote.
And also the directive from an ICE official to halt ALL worksite enforcement investigations.
Tatum King, a senior ICE official, sent out the following email:
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,”
Clearly the directive is to halt ALL enforcement at farms, meat packing plants, restaurants and hotels.
This covers hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of workers in many industries where the employers have voted for Trump.
What part of this do you not understand??????
Your attempts to minimize this as a “few dozen workers” on a farm somewhere is patently absurd.
This is complete and utter hypocrisy.