- How ICE goons welcome their jobs;
- News today about a South Carolina judge, who had ruled against Trump, saw her house burned to the ground;
- Trump’s lies about murders in Portland, and Osama Bin Laden;
- Robert Reich on how Trump sees truth only on TV.
Random comment on Facebook:
“One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.”
This might apply to Trump and his cabinet as well.
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The crazy news today, reported even on NBC TV this morning, is that the home of a South Carolina judge who ruled against Trump exploded Saturday and burned to the ground. MAGA had been doxing her.
/>Seriously, MAGA would do this? Of course they would.
JMG, from Time Magazine: Arson Destroys SC Home Of Judge Criticized By DOJ
The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire, multiple sources told FITSNews. Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.
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What’s telling is Stephen Miller’s outrage at the very idea of any connection of this event with MAGA. Thou dost protest too much.
AlterNet, Lesley Abravanel, 6 Oct 2025: ‘Deeply warped’: Trump aide melts down when MAGA is blamed for judge’s house fire
Miller immediately melted down on X, calling Goldman “deeply warped and vile,” saying, “There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.”
Miller continued his rant, saying, “While the Trump Administration has launched the first-ever government-wide effort to combat and prosecute illegal doxing, sinister threats and political violence you continue to push despicable lies, demented smears, malicious defamation and foment unrest. Despicable.”
Another take at JMG, which nicknames Miller as Voldemort: Voldemort Rages After MAGA Blamed For Arson At South Carolina Home Of Judge Criticized By The DOJ
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Trump and his administration lie every day.
- JMG: GOP Rep Claims Portland Has 50 Murders Per Weekend
- JMG: Trump Takes Credit For Capture Of Osama Bin Laden
And many others I could link.
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Robert Reich sees a big picture. Trump doesn’t read, anything, he just watches TV. (Which makes the idea of a Trump Presidential Library a joke.)
Robert Reich, 6 Oct 2025: The Mad King’s Television subtitled “How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions”
When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.”
Trump promptly ordered the California National Guard to Portland.
Apart from the obvious question of how Trump can so blatantly defy a federal judge, there’s a deeper puzzle here. Where did he get the idea Portland is burning to the ground?
It turns out,
On September 5, 2025, “Fox News aired a report on Portland ICE protests that included misleading clips from Portland protests in 2020. Shortly thereafter, President Trump appeared to reference events in the same misleading Fox News report when speaking to the press. A reporter asked which city President Trump planned to send troops to next, and he said he was considering targeting Portland because of news coverage the night before.
You would think that, if Portland were actually burning down, there would be videos on all the news media and social media of such horrific events. In fact, TV coverage shows there are a couple dozen protestors walking up and down sidewalks in front the ICE detention facility in Portland, along a block or so.
The gist here seems to be — Trump sends troops into cities he doesn’t like, who are protesting the violent incursions of ICE agents, and thus *creating* the purported violence he claims a need to fight. And that will lead to…
