BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
16 July 2025
( MUSIC VIDEO ) GOT DAMN / THE EPSTEIN LIST
THIS is Jesse Welles singing about the Epstein list among other things. I like him, and of the comments left on this song these seem to be spot on, It's like Bob Dylan, Tom Lehrer, and Sasquatch had a baby together. . .And Arlo Guthrie was its nanny"
ICE Quotes the Bible in a New Propaganda Video 11JUL25
There is NOTHING Christian at all in this "christian" nationalist propaganda from fascist kkkristi noem homeland security productions. Written and directed by gop jesus devotees, it is a perversion of scripture, a true example of "religious" right wing hypocrisy. It's purpose is to intimidate Americans and immigrants, to turn us against each other, to encourage class warfare. joseph goebbels would be proud. From Sojourners, the propaganda video was made with your tax dollars by the Department of Homeland Security.....
ICE Quotes the Bible in a New Propaganda Video
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda video on the social media site X.
The one-minute video opens with footage of helicopters taking off, and a man with a thick Southern accent says, “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes. Many times.” As people in military fatigues don masks and ready weapons inside the helicopter, the man quotes Isaiah 6:8: “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’”
As the helicopter takes off, a sonorous cover of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” plays before the man finishes the verse: “I said, ‘Here am I. Send me.’” A cut to a close-up of an arm patch that reads “U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” The final half of the video cycles through shots of ICE agents patrolling a river, flying over the border wall, and looking through night vision while singers chant, “Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down.”
In other words, the video rips Isaiah’s call narrative (6:1-13) out of its original context to baptize ICE’s war on non-white Americans.
In his book How Fascism Works, philosopher Jason Stanley explains: “Political propaganda uses the language of virtuous ideals to unite people behind otherwise objectionable ends.” This DHS video illustrates Stanley’s definition of propaganda perfectly: The U.S. government has appropriated the words of the Judean prophet Isaiah and the latter-day U.S. prophet Johnny Cash to baptize their wholly unbiblical treatment of undocumented people (and, too often, documented people as well).
READ MORE: What Advocates Want Churches to Know About Defending Migrants
Over the last several months, ICE has conducted raids across the country, often by plainclothes officers wearing masks and driving unmarked vehicles. They have conducted raids on church property, farms, factories, and other workplaces. Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed into law on July 4, allocates over $100 billion to ICE over the next four years, more than triple their existing budget.
ICE’s actions have been met with nationwide protests and international outrage, which makes the aim of this video clear: The Trump administration seeks to consolidate support for their inhumane and evil treatment of people by casting themselves as virtuous biblical heroes.
By deploying God’s call to Isaiah, the video casts those working for ICE as the ones answering God’s call, servants who do what few others have the courage or conviction to do. And the video’s imagery leaves no question that it sees God’s call as aligned with Trump’s draconian vision of a white America.
But ethnic nationalism was not the message God called Isaiah to deliver. As the Bible makes clear, God’s message delivered through Isaiah was one of impending judgment, precisely because the people of Judah ignored God’s calls for justice and instead were continuing to oppress people who were poor, widowed, orphaned, and refugees. In his 1998 commentary on Isaiah, theologian Walter Brueggemann observed that we’re no more attentive today than Judah was then:
“Those dulled and numbed are headed toward termination. These words sound ominous in a society like ours, deeply narcoticized not only by chemical dependence, but by a host of numbing dependencies: poverty and wealth in the extreme, brutality, militarism, self-indulgence — the same list of which the ancient poets spoke so relentlessly. Not noticing leads to termination.”
All this makes the ICE video deeply — and unintentionally — ironic. By employing Isaiah’s words to justify their oppression of immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security illustrates Isaiah’s very point: We have read the prophet’s words; we have all the information we need to know what God calls us to do. The prophets speak with one voice on our obligation to care for refugees and treat the immigrants among us as though they’re already part of us. That we persist in doing harm to immigrants is evidence of our defiance of God. ICE’s wickedness calls judgement down upon them —and upon all of us who do nothing to resist their evil actions.
GEORGE RETES, AMERICAN CITIZEN, US ARMY VETERAN, DETAINED FOR 3 DAYS BY FEDERAL AGENTS AFTER ICE RAID 10JUL25
ANOTHER instance of Sec of Homeland Security fascist fotze kkkristi noem's ice thugs violating US law, violating the US Constitution, violating detainee's civil liberties and human rights. It is happening more and more to American citizens and immigrants as part of the neo-nazi drumpf / trump-vance administration's replacement of our democratic Republic with their project 2025 authoritarian theocratic oligarchy. E mail your representative, your senators and the White House and tell them to stop these illegal, unconstitutional raids and detentions now and to demand fascist fotze kkkristi noem resign as Sec of Homeland Security or be fired from that office. My e mails are at the end of this post. From United Farm Workers BlueSky account...
ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
July 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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RSVP to media @ ufw . org.
Ahead of his press
availability, George Retes issues the following statement:
“My name is George Retes. I’m a 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran, a U.S. citizen, and I work as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California.
On July 10th, I was wrongfully detained by ICE agents while simply trying to report to work.
I was pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed, had my car window smashed, and was dragged out of my vehicle at gunpoint — all while I was nonviolent, and doing nothing wrong.
I clearly identified myself as a U.S. citizen and an employee of the farm, yet federal agents ignored me, yelled conflicting orders, and then violently detained me.
I was held in custody for three days without any charges, without a phone call, and without access to legal help.
I was never told why I was arrested. I never received care to clean myself despite being covered in tear gas and OC spray for days.
This is not how any person should be treated — especially not a veteran who served this country with honor. I didn’t break any law. I was just trying to go to work.
What happened to me wasn’t just a mistake — it was a violation of my civil rights.
It was excessive force. And it was a failure of justice. I’m speaking out not just for myself, but for every citizen who could’ve ended up in my place that day.
I’m calling for a full investigation into the actions of ICE and other agencies involved in this operation.
I want the agents who ignored protocol and used force against me to be held accountable. And I want the public to know the truth: this raid didn’t just target immigrants. It hurt Americans too.
MY E MAIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE
The illegal and immoral mass detentions and mass deportations of American citizens and immigrants must stop. America is still a democratic Republic, we are still supposed to have civil liberties and human rights, we are still supposed to be ruled according to the U.S. Constitution and the laws passed by Congress. Sec of Homeland Security KKKristi Noem's actions, her unleashing of ice, hsi and cpb thugs to attack American communities , businesses and educational institutions are nothing less than fascist intimidation meant to break down American society. This has got to stop and we, the American people expect you to do so and to replace her with a more responsible, more American Sec of Homeland Security.
Thank you.
MY E MAIL TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH AND SENATORS WARNER D-VA AND KAINE D-VA.
The fascist Sec of Homeland Security, KKKristi Noem, is out of control and needs to be stopped. Her illegal and immoral raids on American communities, businesses and educational institutions by ice, hsi and cbp thugs are attacks meant to to intimidate and break down American society, to turn us against each other, to encourage class warfare. Mass detentions and mass deportations of immigrants and Americans must be stopped now. We are still a democratic Republic with civil liberties and human rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and governed by laws passed by Congress, not the drumpf / trump-vance's and the heritage foundations project 2025 authoritarian theocratic oligarchy. I expect you to do everything possible to control Sec of Homeland Security KKKristi Noem with the ultimate goal of removing her from office and from our lives.
Thank you.
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