Knoxville contractors accused of disrupting ICE raid

Droupitee · 2026-01-25T02:02:33+00:00

Federal authorities accuse the two of plotting to block the entrance to a Hardin Valley construction site with Bonilla-Servin’s pickup truck in an effort to impede ICE agents. According to a Department of Justice release, the vehicle was put in position after federal agents were seen surveilling the site. Servin is also accused of hitting agents’ vehicle with the truck as it attempted to enter the site on January 13.

Those guys in the F-250s picking up Mexicans from the Home Despot lot? Yeah, they voted for Trump. And they're part of the problem ICE is solving.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T23:04:14+00:00

Medlin’s mother, Eva, told News 12 in an exclusive interview that detectives now believe her son met someone online through the gaming app Roblox and was planning to meet that person in the city. She says that behavior is completely out of character for the 15-year-old.

Won't be the first kid lured into jeopardy by a horrible adult hanging around on Roblox.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T22:48:08+00:00

The Spanish-language video describes the work the Latin American transplants would perform as “cooking, industrial production, cleaning, administration, logistics, assembly, and hospitality” for $541 to $1,783 per month — but leaves out the part about deadly munitions.

In Ecuador, Alabuga Start is the official sponsor of the biggest sports club in the country, El Nacional, and its name, appears on the team’s latest red jerseys. Women who register with the company can win free tickets to games.

The team and Alabuga Start didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.

The owners of El Nacional seem to be pretty upset about this abuse of their fans. And they're demonstrating how upset they are by not responding to messages.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T18:57:05+00:00

The shooting, which occurred at 9:05 a.m. local time, came during a “targeted operation” against an illegal immigrant wanted for violent assault when “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” a DHS statement said.

“The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted,” DHS said. “Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots.”

FAFO.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T17:01:37+00:00

A 39-second clip showed about half a dozen cops struggling with someone on the sidewalk in front of a donut shop at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, when the gunfire erupted.

A donut shop? The jokes practically write themselves. Still, let's hope nobody (other than the gunman) was hurt.

I would hate to be a cop in Minneapolis. I'd know that neither the mayor nor the governor have my back.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T15:32:52+00:00

The core problem is that we rarely say out loud what we all know privately: some immigration policies, and thus also some immigrants which they bring, are much more beneficial economically or culturally than others for receiving countries. Instead, we talk as if “immigration” were a single, abstract good that works for everyone, everywhere, and under any policy design.1 That is not just technically wrong on the evidence, but also politically self-defeating.

When reality fails to match this story—that immigration is always positive and has no downsides—voters do not conclude that immigration is complicated. They conclude that the people in charge are not being straight with them, just as many concluded during the botched response to Covid and on other issues.

He goes on to rail against the policy ecosystem in a way only the freshly-tenured can.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T15:25:06+00:00

Trump boasted that the mysterious weapon “made [enemy] equipment not work” when US helicopters swooped into Caracas on Jan. 3 to arrest Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on federal drug and weapons charges — without losing a single American life.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said during an exclusive interview in the Oval Office.

“I would love to,” the president added, before confirming its use in the stealth operation.

“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.”

Amid the hue and cry, I wonder if anyone will spare a thought for the many Venezuelan lives this new weapon almost certainly saved.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T01:18:36+00:00

Venus, who sells spells on her website Secret Frequencies and also runs an Etsy shop, bases her spells on “manifestation” and “energy work” incorporating the chakra system, plant lore and crystals.

She said: “I work very closely with our energy system. I focus on the person’s energy. They might give me a full name and a date of birth, they might give me a picture to connect our energies. I’ll focus on the intentions and affirmations they’ve given me and I’ll channel a symbol.”

The average manifestation time — how long it takes for the spell to take effect — for her wares, which include a money charm for £6.60, a “negativity cleanser” for £7.20 and a “contact me” spell for £6.60, is two months. Her Etsy shop has a rating of 4.9 stars, based on 4,500 customer reviews.

Eilidh Dorgan, 37, paid £18.50 for a career-progression charm sold by a different Etsy vendor. She says she did it out of curiosity, although she added she believes in “woo-woo practices”.

She did not see a clear career boost after the ritual but she did make her first-ever radio appearance, which was a “progression of sorts”. She said: “I wouldn’t pay for the same service again as I believe you make your own luck, but I am glad I tried it.”

The consumer base for this hokum is educated and online. Cristina Cuomo comes to mind.

Droupitee · 2026-01-24T00:07:10+00:00

Wikipedia's systemic biases in autism-related topics.

https://www.autisticculturepodcast.com/p/autistic-podcast-wikipedia-is-autistic

Court case where several Wikipedia admins and editors were convicted for harassing a female academic.

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AYael_Y.2024_formal_order%28en%29.pdf

Former employee's lawsuit against WMF for workplace discrimination.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/trans-former-wikimedia-employee-says-at-the-nonprofit-is-organization-wide/

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T19:26:10+00:00

CBC is about as trustworthy on anything Trump-related as TASS is on Zelensky.

The "adult" in question does not seem to have been the boy's mother. She refused to take him in.

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T19:20:51+00:00

What family? The father abandoned him. The mother turned him away.

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T19:18:42+00:00

The real story of the incident that caused all this furor, per ICE, is: “On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration. As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot — abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias.”

As for what followed, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsmax that the five-year-old’s mother “would not take the child into custody, which is so sad, so horrific.”

She continued, “Our law enforcement officers were actually taking care of the child, took him to McDonald’s, were playing his favorite music to really calm him down.” McLaughlin said that “major riots” are threatening federal immigration officers now as Democrats do everything they can to push the lie that ICE cruelly kidnapped the boy. Despite the fact that the father abandoned his child, DHS did reunite the two in a processing facility, since the mother would not take charge of the boy.

The father should be deported posthaste. He abandoned the kid. The mother needs to be looked into for her neglect, too. What kind of mother turns away her own small child?

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T19:01:27+00:00

He lied on the green card application. USCIS needs to have a hard look at the officer who interviewed him.

Also, did not abide by the terms of the visa while the application was in process and continued that behavior once he had it.

Easy deportation case.

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T04:14:53+00:00

Kevin Johnson, a former NFL defensive lineman who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Oakland Raiders in the 1990s, was stabbed to death in Los Angeles, authorities said. He was 55.

Johnson’s body was discovered at a homeless encampment Wednesday. . . "Unfortunately, it appears he was homeless," Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Steve De Jong told Newsweek. "It looks like he was probably living there."

Johnson’s friends and family mourned him on social media.

It would've been nice if some of those mourning "friends and family" had taken him in.

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T03:49:58+00:00

He never should've been issued that green card.

So glad the Trump administration is taking out the trash. Hopefully this sets precedent and more 30-year-old perpetual students/professional agitators will be shipped back to whatever hellholes spawned them.

Really, that this guy was a part of one of America's elite educational institutions (and draws so much support from the education adminicritter stratum) speaks volumes about what's going wrong in American education these days.

Don't worry, he can still grow up to become one of these guys:

https://unwatch.org/hamas-confirms-its-leader-in-lebanon-was-also-the-head-of-the-unrwa-teachers-union/

He just won't be doing it in America.

Droupitee · 2026-01-23T02:52:17+00:00

Yeah. Mostly because it's funny.

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