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!!!!!!"
OH MY GOODNESS!!! They did it, the Bills won again so they remain undefeated so far but I gotta say I had to keep telling myself they can do this, they will win, and they did!!! Bills Mafia played a MAJOR roll in this victory, they were loud and proud and disrupted the Chargers a couple of times! It was ugly win but it is a win all the same. Here's my text with family in Colorado during the game...
I don't know what is going on with the Bills, they have been way off their game today but the off sides call against them was bullshit cause the game clock was at 0 so the defense was right to move. The 15 yard ruffing the passer was penalty on Rousseau was bullshit too, he tripped and was falling and fell on the Chargers QB. Typical shitty officiating...
Another shitty call, Shakir didn't catch a pass because the Chargers defender was hugging him and the officials didn't see it. The Bills Mafia is letting these officials know how they feel, maybe they'll meet some of them in the parking lot after the game, wouldn't that be "awful"???😉
Well it's the half and they are tied 10-10...The Chargers get the ball after the half....
Despite 5 turnovers and multiple penalties by the offence and in spite of really shitty officiating and thanks to the Bills defense Buffalo beat the Chargers 24-16. This is an Ugly win but it is still a win!!!
Still I wouldn't feel bad at all if the officials that were so obviously for the Chargers slipped or tripped and smashed their faces on the parking lot pavement.....
Paige Adamson affirme avoir été détenue jusqu'à près de 3 h du matin, heure du Pacifique, et avoir été « pratiquement traitée comme une criminelle » lorsqu'elle a tenté de traverser la frontière canado-américaine au poste frontalier de Point Roberts le 15 septembre. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Quand j'étais enfant dans le Nord-Ouest de la Pennsylvanie, voyager entre le Canada et l'État de Pennsylvanie était pratiquement identique à voyager entre l'État de New York et l'État de Pennsylvanie. Le 11 septembre a évidemment changé bien des choses : il faut maintenant un passeport pour aller au Canada et entrer aux États-Unis. Mais ça n'a jamais été un problème entre les États-Unis et le Canada avant que mon président, Trump, entame son deuxième mandat. Lui et sa bande de néonazis, de fascistes et de fanatiques MAGA ont tout gâché. Alors, je vous présente à nouveau mes excuses, Canada, pour la discorde causée par l'ignorance de Trump. Comme vous, on a hâte que ce cauchemar national prenne fin. (Source : Radio-Canada )
Paige Adamson rentrait chez elle après un souper d'anniversaire à Tsawwassen, en Colombie-Britannique, le 15 septembre, lorsqu'elle a été arrêtée au poste frontalier de Point Roberts.
C'était une étape régulière à laquelle Adamson — un citoyen canadien qui vit à Point Roberts, dans l'État de Washington, en tant que résident permanent américain depuis 14 ans — s'était habitué.
Mais cette fois, ils avaient une nouvelle question à lui poser.
« La toute première chose qu'elle m'a demandée, c'était : « Avez-vous déjà voté à une élection fédérale américaine ? » », a dit Adamson.
Adamson, 61 ans, a dit qu'elle a dit à l'agente des frontières qu'elle n'a jamais voté à une élection fédérale.
« Ils ont tout de suite dit : "Garez-vous ici et entrez dans le bureau." »
Paige Adamson affirme avoir traversé la frontière sans problème pendant les 14 années qu'elle a passées aux États-Unis. Mais récemment, elle a été interrogée pendant des heures après avoir été accusée d'avoir faussement prétendu être citoyenne américaine. (CBC News)
Ce qui s'est passé ensuite, a raconté Adamson, a été un processus qui a duré près de six heures : elle a subi une inspection secondaire peu après 21 h, a été interrogée jusqu'après 2 h du matin et a signé des documents avant d'être admise aux États-Unis.
Un des documents examinés par CBC News indiquait qu'Adamson « devait se rendre aux autorités pour être expulsé des États-Unis, si tel était l'ordre donné ».
Les avocats interrogés par CBC News ont déclaré que les systèmes d'inscription des électeurs américains peuvent parfois piéger des non-citoyens par des erreurs, et l'un d'eux a affirmé avoir constaté une augmentation du nombre de non-citoyens interrogés au cours de la semaine dernière.
Motifs de retrait
Selon les documents fournis par Adamson, le ministère de la Sécurité intérieure (DHS) allègue qu'elle a faussement déclaré être une citoyenne américaine « dans le but de s'inscrire pour voter dans le comté de Whatcom, dans l'État de Washington ».
Le département allègue également qu'Adamson a voté lors des élections générales de l'État de Washington en 2018.
Le DHS cite ces allégations comme motif pour expulser Adamson des États-Unis.
Mais, selon une transcription consultée par CBC News, Adamson a maintenu lors de son interrogatoire qu'elle n'avait jamais voté à une élection fédérale et ne se souvenait pas d'avoir jamais voté à une élection d'État, même si elle a reconnu avoir reçu un bulletin de vote et avoir peut-être été inscrite sur les listes électorales.
Adamson doit comparaître à une audience à Seattle et craint d'être expulsée de l'État où elle habite depuis 2012.
« Mon anxiété est à son paroxysme », a-t-elle déclaré.
Une tendance plus générale
Au cours des dix derniers jours, l'avocat spécialisé en immigration, Len Saunders, a déclaré avoir reçu des appels de trois personnes — dont Adamson — affirmant avoir été détenues à la frontière et interrogées sur leur droit de vote.
L'une d'elles, a-t-il précisé, est une résidente de Blaine, dans l'État de Washington, qui traverse quotidiennement la frontière pour travailler comme infirmière en Colombie-Britannique.
Saunders a dit que trois situations presque identiques comme celle-ci en si peu de temps étaient sans précédent dans sa carrière de plus de 25 ans.
Cet avocat de Blaine a dit à CBC News que des centaines de Canadiens pourraient faire face à des problèmes similaires et s'attend à plus de cas à mesure que les Canadiens traverseront la frontière pendant les fêtes.
« C'est juste la pointe de l'iceberg », a-t-il déclaré.
L'avocat en immigration Len Saunders est photographié à Blaine, dans l'État de Washington, le 9 janvier 2026. Il affirme avoir constaté une augmentation récente du nombre de résidents permanents américains interrogés au sujet de leur inscription sur les listes électorales. (Martin Diotte/Radio-Canada)
L'avocat en immigration de la Colombie-Britannique, Chris Anders, a déclaré que l'application des lois aux frontières est « beaucoup plus stricte et plus sévère » qu'à tout autre moment au cours des deux dernières décennies.
Il a expliqué que les bases de données utilisées par les agents frontaliers sont en constante expansion, ce qui signifie qu'un élément qui ne posait pas de problème auparavant pouvait soudainement apparaître lors d'une nouvelle entrée.
Problèmes d'inscription des électeurs
L’État de Washington inscrit automatiquement certains électeurs admissibles lorsqu’ils obtiennent ou renouvellent un permis de conduire ou une carte d’identité de l’État, mais l’État précise que le système est lié à une preuve de citoyenneté américaine.
Mais des courriels internes du département des permis de conduire de l'État de Washington, obtenus par la Fédération pour la réforme de l'immigration américaine (un organisme sans but lucratif) grâce à une demande d'accès à l'information, révèlent des cas où des non-citoyens étaient inscrits sur les listes électorales.
« Beaucoup de Canadiens disent : « Eh bien, je pensais avoir le droit de voter parce que je suis allé au bureau de vote, j’ai obtenu mon permis de conduire et ils m’ont inscrit sur les listes électorales » », a déclaré Saunders.
Saunders a déclaré que, dans ces situations, il conseillait à ses clients de se désinscrire immédiatement et de soumettre une déclaration indiquant qu'ils s'étaient « inscrits ou avaient voté sans le savoir », et que c'était auparavant une solution courante.
« Aujourd'hui, la situation semble complètement différente sous cette administration. »
La détention
Dans un courriel adressé à CBC News, un porte-parole des douanes et de la protection des frontières des États-Unis (CBP) a déclaré que lorsqu'un résident permanent arrive à un point d'entrée, les agents vérifient ses documents dans les bases de données fédérales et étatiques.
Le CBP indique que si ces dossiers révèlent « une inscription électorale potentiellement illégale, un vote illégal ou une fausse déclaration antérieure de citoyenneté américaine », la personne concernée est soumise à un « examen rigoureux et à un interrogatoire détaillé ».
Selon les cas, une personne peut faire l'objet de contrôles d'immigration « prolongés », recevoir une assignation à comparaître et se voir imposer une procédure d'expulsion formelle, a déclaré le porte-parole.
Adamson a déclaré qu'on ne lui avait offert de l'eau qu'après environ cinq heures de détention, et que personne ne lui avait demandé si elle avait besoin d'aller aux toilettes.
« J'ai été traitée comme une criminelle, en gros », a-t-elle déclaré.
Elle a dit que l'importante population canadienne de Point Roberts — une enclave américaine située juste au sud de Delta, en Colombie-Britannique — l'inquiétait, car certains de ses voisins pourraient être confrontés à des problèmes similaires.
« Ce joli petit coin de paradis est en quelque sorte envahi », a-t-elle déclaré.
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Un homme né à Winnipeg a été déporté au Canada après neuf mois de détention par l'ICE.
Arden McLeod, originaire de Vancouver, est producteur associé à CBC News. Passionné par le journalisme communautaire et les nouvelles locales, il a à cœur de refléter les valeurs de la Colombie-Britannique. Il est diplômé du programme de journalisme audiovisuel et numérique du British Columbia Institute of Technology. Vous pouvez le joindre à Arden.McLeod@cbc.ca.
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Paige Adamson says she was detained until nearly 3 a.m. PT and was 'basically treated like a criminal' when she attempted to cross the Canada-U.S. border at the Point Roberts border crossing on Sept. 15.(Ben Nelms/CBC)
WHEN I was growing up in Northwestern Pennsylvania travel to and from Canada was basically the same as traveling to and from New York state. 9/11 understandably changed a lot of things, now one needs a passport to go to Canada and to enter America but it never became an issue between the US and Canada until NOT MY pres drumpf/trump started his second term and he and his evil band of neo-nazi fascist and maga cultist made things stupid. So again I apologize to you, Canada, for the discord the ignorance of drumpf//trump-vance has caused. We, like you, can't wait for this, our national nightmare to be over. This from the CBC
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing.
It was a regular stop that Adamson — a Canadian citizen who has lived in Point Roberts, Wash., as a U.S. permanent resident for 14 years — had grown used to.
But this time, they had a new question for her.
"The very first thing she asked was, 'Have you ever voted in a federal U.S. election?'" said Adamson.
Adamson, 61, said she told the border agent she had never voted in a federal election.
"They immediately said, 'Park over here and come into the office.'"
Paige Adamson says she has travelled across the border without issue for all of the 14 years she lived in the U.S. But recently, she faced hours of questioning after being accused of falsely claiming she was a U.S. citizen. (CBC News)
What happened next, Adamson said, was a nearly six-hour-long process — where she went through secondary inspection just after 9 p.m., was interrogated until after 2 a.m. and signed documents before being admitted into the U.S.
One of the documents CBC News reviewed said Adamson "must surrender for removal from the United States, if so ordered."
Lawyers who spoke with CBC News said U.S. voter registration systems can sometimes catch non-citizens up in errors, and one of them says he has seen an uptick in non-citizens being questioned in the last week.
Grounds for removal
According to documents provided by Adamson, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges she falsely claimed she was a U.S. citizen "for the purposes of registering to vote in Whatcom County, Washington state."
The department also alleges Adamson voted in Washington state's 2018 general election.
DHS cites those allegations as grounds for removing Adamson from the U.S.
But Adamson maintained during questioning, a transcript reviewed by CBC News showed, that she has never voted in a federal election and doesn't remember ever voting in a state election — though she acknowledged receiving a ballot and may have been registered.
Adamson is now scheduled to appear for a hearing in Seattle, and is grappling with potentially being removed from the state she has lived in since 2012.
"My anxiety is over the top," she said.
A broader trend
In the past week and a half, immigration lawyer Len Saunders said he has received calls from three people — including Adamson — about being detained at the border and questioned about voting.
One, he said, was a Blaine, Wash., resident who crosses the border daily to work as a nurse in B.C.
Saunders said three near-identical situations like this in such a short period is unprecedented in his career that stretches back more than 25 years.
The Blaine-based lawyer told CBC News there could be hundreds of Canadians facing similar issues, and expects more cases as Canadians cross the border during the holidays.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," he said.
Immigration lawyer Len Saunders is seen in Blaine, Wash., on Jan. 9, 2026. He says that he's seen a recent uptick in U.S. permanent residents being questioned over voter registration. (Martin Diotte/Radio-Canada)
B.C. immigration lawyer Chris Anders said border enforcement is "way, way stricter and tougher" than at any point in the last two decades.
He said the databases used by border officials are constantly expanding, meaning something that did not cause problems for someone previously could suddenly pop up during a new entry.
Voter registration issues
Washington state automatically registers some eligible voters when they get or renew a driver's licence or state ID, but the state says the system is tied to proof of U.S. citizenship.
But internal Washington Department of Licensing emails, obtained by the non-profit Federation for American Immigration Reform through a Freedom of Information request, show instances where non-citizens were registered to vote.
"A lot of Canadians say, 'Well, I thought I was entitled to [vote] because I went in, got my driver's licence and they registered me to vote,'" said Saunders.
Saunders said that in those situations, he has told clients to immediately deregister and submit a declaration saying they "unknowingly registered or unknowingly voted," and that used to be a consistent solution.
"Now, it seems to be a completely different scenario during this current administration."
The detainment
In an email to CBC News, a spokesperson for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said when a permanent resident arrives at a port of entry, officers screen their documentation against federal and state databases.
The CBP says if those records indicate "potential unlawful voter registration, illegal voting, or a previous false claim to U.S. citizenship," the individual is subject to "rigorous examination and detailed questioning."
Depending on the case, an individual may face "prolonged" immigration inspections, receive a notice to appear and formal removal proceedings, the spokesperson said.
Adamson said she wasn't offered water until around the five-hour mark of her detainment, and no one asked whether she needed to use the bathroom.
"I was basically treated like a criminal," she said.
She said the large Canadian population in Point Roberts — an exclave of the U.S. located just south of Delta, B.C. — has left her concerned that some of her neighbours could face similar problems.
"This beautiful little place, it's kind of being invaded," she said.
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THE neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance administration might even use it as justification for sending troops to seize ballots...Will the military honor their oath to the US Constitution or give in to NOT MY pres drumpf/trump and fascist fotze trunt petie lola hegseth Sec of Defense & commit treason? The importance of this election can not be overstated, the threat to our nation can not be underestimated and we have to be ready to defend our democratic Republic. This from the Guardian.....
Election experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting.
With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election “counting window” is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former US federal government officials.
While the US president’s bid to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in ballots was rejected by the supreme court earlier this month, there is apprehension that Trump and his allies could use the period while votes are counted to amplify unfounded allegations in a bid to challenge results that don’t go their way.
“I think because the administration has lost so many of their attempts to disrupt the normal process in court, that they are going to use the claim of foreign interference at the end of voting days to either seize equipment or to seize ballots, whether they’re legally justified to do so or not,” Caitlin Durkovich, a former deputy homeland security adviser for resilience and response on the national security council, told a briefing staged by the Brennan Center for Justice earlier this week.
Some states take days – even weeks, in California’s case – to complete a count of votes after an election. Control of the House of Representatives and Senate may hinge on results in states with a delayed result.
“That period, that waiting time, is where doubt begins to surface,” Durkovich said on Tuesday. “And when it is then amplified by foreign actors and, frankly, by domestic actors, it starts to cause distrust in the integrity of the process.”
State-level elections officials are trying to prepare the public to understand the process now, to head off a manufactured controversy later, said Larry Norden, vice-president of the elections and government program at the Brennan Center. “To me, this is the biggest threat right now,” he said.
“I think a lot of people may think just because they’re seeing all these headlines being thrown at them that things have changed – that it’s become more difficult to vote,” added Norden. “In the history of American elections in some ways, there have never been more options for the way that people can vote, and they are still in place going into this election.”
Early voting eliminates most of the threats voters apprehend ahead of an election, he suggested. “The earlier they vote, the more secure they can feel that their vote is going to count, and I think that’s a really important message for us to be delivering to people.”
“Every state in the country now has live ballots out,” said Ben Hovland, former chair of the Election Assistance Commission. “That really means the election is here, and it means that needs to be taken into consideration for any court rulings we’re looking at.”
A supreme court decision this month upheld a lower-court injunction on the Trump administration using the US Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security to vet mail-in ballot deliveries.
But groups such as the NAACP, the National Urban League and other rights organizations remain concerned about the Trump administration’s insistent claim – without evidence – that the 2026 midterm elections will be illegitimate unless the federal government intervenes.
Normally, the Department of Justice and the FBI enter a “quiet period” just ahead of elections, to avoid influencing the results. That has not been the case this year.
The Department of Homeland Security continues to pursue voter-roll lists in states that would not turn them over voluntarily. The federal government has asked states to retain their 2024 election documentation for later inquiries. And DHS is pursuing an independent “unlawful voter initiative” to find non-citizen voters on state rolls, one that an anonymous whistleblower told congress last week that is using “highly questionable data” and may be unlawful.
The federal government’s claims of illegally-registered voters – claiming numbers that do not bear up under scrutiny – and Trump’s rhetoric alleging fraud without evidence, “back up a narrative of fraud to undermine confidence in the elections”, Hovland said.
Much of the president’s election rhetoric revolves around foreign interference. Experts make a distinction between foreign influence – propaganda, essentially – and foreign interference , or directly manipulating vote counts.
“It’s very important for people to understand that we don’t have any examples of a country trying to interfere in the electoral process, in that technical process,” said Beth Sanner, a former deputy director of national intelligence who is now director for geopolitics and strategy at International Capital Strategies.
“It just didn’t happen,” she said. “It didn’t happen in 2020.”
Election security has improved across the country, partially as a reaction to false claims about Trump’s 2020 defeat.
“Every state audits its results,” said Geoff Hales, former chief of joint cyber defense collaborative partnerships at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. “Election officials across the country have really taken cybersecurity seriously.”
Despite the president’s insistence that the country faces a foreign threat to elections, Hale said the federal government has sharply cut staff and spending on elections security at CISA, and with it the technical assistance that once flowed to state election’s officers.
“The federal support that used to be there has pulled back sharply,” he added. “This means that cybersecurity services have been reduced, funding for information sharing environments have been cut, the threat briefings about nation-state adversaries that used to occur dozens of times a year are occurring rarely or not at all.”
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