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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 4d

MrG's Blog & Notes for Week 41 / 2025
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-- internet radio in my home
-- antijam drones
-- renewable energy in Ukraine
-- AI is not killing jobs yet
-- Trump wants to send in the National Guard ...
-- & prosecute his enemies ...
-- & won't get Nobel Peace Prize

MrG's Blog & Notes For Week 41

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 9m

The GOP clings to Trump because, when he fades out, they've got nothing left.

Jack Hopkins had interesting things to say about that:

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · Sep 1

DAYLOG MON 01 SEP 25: Donald Trump has been out of public communications for the last week, strongly implying that his health, not good to begin with, has gone south. Not much more to be said right now, but the public buzz is getting louder. [1/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 25m

I want to watch him fall until there's nothing left of hm. Trump obviously has no future -- the thing is that the GOP falls with him.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 27m

When Trump talks, all I hear is animal noises. The noises are gradually getting ever more incoherent.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 32m

That news does not encourage me.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 35m

Good stuff.

Myself, I will be very surprised if the Dems cave in on the government shutdown -- because caving in would cost them a lot and win them nothing.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 40m

LINK:

www.publicnotice.co/p/emma-goldm...

Lessons from a Red Scare

The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.

www.publicnotice.co

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

Today's ICE raids are making far more arrests and deportations, but public disgust is growing while support is declining. History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and the ICE raids would seem to contain the seeds of their own defeat. [10/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

The hysteria died down. Of about 10,000 arrested, there were only 556 deportations. The raids helped lead to the foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920, with the ACLU documenting the excesses. [9/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

The newspapers were generally enthusiastic about the raids, but there were critics. Changes in leadership at the Bureau of Labor led to more concern about due process, with the American public becoming disgusted at reports of police brutality as well. [8/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

In early January, a series of new raids began, ultimately covering more than 30 cities and towns in 23 states, but raids in Ohio and the West were largely symbolic in nature. The arrests tended towards the indiscriminate, with even Hoover admitting to cases of brutality. [7/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

On 7 November 1919, the second anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, agents of the Bureau of Investigation, working with local police, conducted raids against the Union of Russian Workers in 12 cities. There were reports of beatings of detainees. [6/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

A renewed effort was organized under J. Edgar Hoover, then a young official in the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation. In September, the Senate passed a resolution demanding that Palmer explain what he was doing about the "radical alien threat". [5/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

Since none of the people arrested in the raid had committed crimes, the courts let them go. Palmer went back to the drawing board to devise a stronger strategy, using tough immigration laws under the control of the Bureau of Labor. [4/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

... with a number of bombings in the spring of 1919 pushing the tensions to the snapping point. US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer thought it was time to go after immigrant communists and anarchists, leading to a raid on an anarchist group in Buffalo, New York, in July. [3/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

The emergence of communism in the 19th century did not go unnoticed in the USA, with paranoia about "Reds" spiking during Woodrow Wilson's presidency, particularly after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Labor strikes raised tensions ... [2/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 42m

DAYLOG THU 16 OCT 25 / PALMER RAIDS: To no really big surprise, the current US government obsession with deportations has its precedents, most notably the "Palmer Raids" of November 1919 and January 1920. [1/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

That deserves to be fleshed out:

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

I'll match and raise that bet.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

He looks like a troll. They've staked out the accounts of Dem politicians like Hakeem. I just block the trolls.

Oddly, they don't seem to focus on Hillary much these days -- or maybe I've just blocked most of them.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's popularity is in the negatives and continuing to decline. I'm thinking the GOP will suffer badly in the next two elections.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 4h

#haiku #YoungRepublicans #Hitler

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 5h

I get into comments on Blue politicians and expect to see a lot of trolling -- but they seem to have given up on HRC.

Or maybe I've just blocked most of them.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

I'll wear my Uncle Sam costume, but with yellow socks.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

www.hercampus.com/culture/no-k...

Why Are No Kings Protesters Wearing Yellow? What To Know

If you're going to an Oct. 18 No Kings protest (or watching online), you might end up asking: Why are No Kings protesters wearing yellow? Here's an explainer.

www.hercampus.com

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

All the GOP has left is Trump. Nothing else there.