Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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  1. Twaspawarednot says:

    The civil rights protests succeeded. The Environmental protests succeeded tfg is loosing. “f” is not former.

  2. maybemayi says:

    it’s started to be like 1968.

    and why is “fox entertainment” continually allowed to call itself “fox news”?

  5. Savage Librarian says:

    Just a reminder that others think that Susie Wiles has a modus operandi similar to Trump’s in how she likes to create problems and then decide whether or not to solve them:

    “Information was power. Power to help. Or power to hurt. With information, she could solve problems, and she could cause problems, and she even, people who watched and worked with Wiles began to suspect, could try to cause problems she could then solve — little fires she could start and then let burn or put out.”

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/26/susie-wiles-trump-desantis-profile-00149654

    “How Susie Wiles Became the Most Admired and Feared Political Operative Nobody Has Ever Heard Of” – POLITICO, 4/26/24, Michael Kruse

    • Magnet48 says:

      I’m always “amazed” at how miscreants’ names so suit their behaviors. As if the universe has a sense of humor…or wants to warn us.

    • Memory hole says:

      Possibly a police officer? Dressed as and with a car?
      I sure hope that Bondi and Patel do not get in the way or screw this one up.

      • Peterr says:

        From the Guardian, police say it was someone impersonating a police officer:

        The gunman was still at large, law enforcement said on Saturday, and the city of Brooklyn Park still on a shelter-in-place order. The shooter was impersonating a police officer, dressed in a uniform that would appear to be real to most people, police said.

        “They did drive a vehicle that looked exactly like an SUV squad car,” Brooklyn Park’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said at a press conference. “It was equipped with lights, emergency lights, that looked exactly like a police vehicle, and yes, they were wearing a vest with taser, other equipment, a badge very similar to mine, that, no question, if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer.”

    • Matt Foley says:

      But look at all the money Trump saved by pulling Secret Service protection from Democrats.

      • Benji-am-Groot says:

        Ah yes, the seeds of the stochastic terrorism of PINO Krasnov have grown and are bearing fruit.

        I can hear it now: “Never met the guy, no idea why he would behave like that.”

        Yeah – no. If properly identified this Vance Boelter character is exactly what Goebbels Light has wet dreams about. I believe there will be copycat attacks coming.

        And the point made about pulling Secret Service protection hits hard – what in the AF did the White House think would happen?

        The GQP may just sit on their hands and rock back and forth nervously – mid-terms coming up you know; can’t rock the boat and call for security and can’t lash out at Dear Leader VonShitsinpants for instigating the situation.

        Yes, stochastic terrorism is exactly the instigation that caused this and not one damn Rethug will have the gonads to stand tall.

    • wa_rickf says:

      Comment section covering this story missing from article at Fox “News”.com

      Even Fox knows their ilk would make horrible, anti-Liberal comments encouraging more of this type of behavior.

  7. originalK says:

    It looks as though the suspect in the MN assassinations owned a security service company called Praetorian Guard and, based on his address in 2019, is financially well-off anyway..

    • P J Evans says:

      He could get the equipment, then. And “Praetorian Guard” is a name that doesn’t bode well for the guardees.

    • Savage Librarian says:

      Looks like food service is Boelter’s real career:

      Suspect in Minnesota political shootings had ‘fantasy’ career in security : NPR, 6/15/25

      In social media posts and websites, Boelter said he had extensive experience as a security professional with “training by both private security firms and by people in the U.S. Military.”

      NPR found little evidence to support Boelter’s account. He appears to have worked most of his career in the food service industry and one long-time friend described parts of Boelter’s narrative about his life as “fantasy.”

      https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5434227/food-worker-with-fantasy-of-security-career-sought-in-minnesota-political-shootings

      • P J Evans says:

        His “security company” was charging $2400 a month for 8 random checks per week, is what I saw.

  8. BRUCE F COLE says:

    Marcy: (paraphrased) “You can stomach watching Hegseth testify if you think of it as comedy.”

    Mental health support is always appreciated!

  10. wa_rickf says:

    Good news for migrants; bad news for Stephen Miller and MAGAt voters:

    “U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has directed immigration officials to largely pause raids on farms, hotels, restaurants and meatpacking plants, according to an internal email reviewed by Reuters, a senior Trump official, and a person familiar with the matter.”

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-immigration-officials-told-largely-pause-raids-farms-hotels-nyt-reports-2025-06-14/

    Trump’s rich friends told him the reality which is immigrants contribute more than anyone knows to this nation. They grow our food, prepare all of our food, distribute our food, and in many cases as caretakers and child care workers they spoon feed food. Migrants pay taxes and social security with no avenue for a refund, and they are the single greatest factor behind economic growth. In short, Trump’s rich friends put the scare into him.

    Stephen Miller and MAGAt voters must be shaking their tiny fists in a fury.

    • greengiant says:

      The mysterious WH email that allegedly also tells ICE to stop detaining incidental non criminal undocumented.
      Seems like a rope a dope scam. Always taking a step too far and then backing off a tad. And smother it with a barrage of lies and mixed messages of false hope that anyone in 47 has integrity, honor or empathy.

      • wa_rickf says:

        “…taking a step too far and then backing off…”

        That would be
        #TACO Don for you!

        Trump
        Always
        Chickens
        Out

        (Wall St gave Trump that moniker regarding the tariffs)

    • wa_rickf says:

      I wonder if Tulsi put Whiskey Pete up to this?

      (The criminal orange clown only hires THE BEST.)

    • wa_rickf says:

      The irony is, we DO have a criminal orange clown as POTUS, who is rounding-up non-convicted migrants under the guise of the migrants being “criminals,” and deporting them without due process.

      A criminal labeling non-criminals as criminals. How Orwellian.

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