They’ll also freak the hell out the first time CBP goes on a rampage in their neighborhood & around their kids’ schools.

And the hours of choppers & drones won’t be welcome.

Other than a few propaganda stunts CBP did little in The Loop.

I think that last one is dumb on their part, bc if they operate there the way they have here I think they’re going to piss off a lot of people whose vote they might otherwise get, & they’re going to radicalize a bunch of comfortable suburbanites not currently engaged in politics.

Yup. I read Raul Hilberg’s Destruction Of The European Jews in a seminar on the Holocaust.

And the other problem, of course, is this place has become amazingly organized, they could barely go anywhere without being met by rapid response, landscapers would hide, etc. And the Latino neighborhoods locked down.

And some of what’s happening is mundane bureaucratic behavior. They’ve got numbers to hit, if we can’t hit them here we’ll go where we can

Two other things are they’re getting destroyed in court & enjoined from doing much of how they operate. And Bovino himself could end up w legal problems…

…so I assume they looked for a relatively warm place w a large concentration of Latinos w a Dem governor. If that’s the calculation then NC is the obvious place east of the Mississippi. Then they come back here or MSP or Philly in March/April.

…was picking an area, using choppers & drones to spot landscaping crews or maybe residential construction work, & the agents driving to that location hoping to surprise the workers before word gout out that migra was nearby.

That won’t work here in winter. There aren’t many people working outside…

…and it meant that outside the heavily Latino enclaves—where people stopped leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary—the only way they could maybe hit their quotas was to go where they could find Latinos outside. Much of what happened here outside of parts of the city, esp the last month…

I think it’s bc Border Patrol doesn’t investigate, they mostly drive around like hunters looking for prey. ICE has done some of that here, but—other than their stupid & disgusting Black Hawk Down raid on the apt bldg—that’s pretty much all CBP did here & it doesn’t translate to an urban setting…

It doesn’t mean they killed the story. But it doesn’t mean they didn’t kill the story, either

The NYT has done a lot of good reporting on Trump. But they have also made numerous decisions that favored Donald Trump & can most charitably be described as very peculiar or perplexing

And campaigns will do that how?

I probably wasn’t the only one, but I pointed this out to him yesterday.

No, not the same. He was a teenager when that happened. Almost certainly was his grandfather.

"We covered this city for a living and love it, and we want you to know that what’s happening here is not normal."

"It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

Democrats like Democrats. But according to this article it’s an outsider who’s actually backed by the establishment (by two PAC’s that don’t endorse using typical left-right frameworks but based on gender/race+electability), vs the guy rejected by the DC establishment endorsed by the largest caucus

…which certainly goes against the premise in the article that the ideological divide between the candidates can be discerned by their endorsements, bc Kerrey was no progressive, & Nelson was maybe the most conservative Dem in the Senate.

…when it includes almost half the Dem caucus, while BOLD-PAC is establishment? Especially when most of the members of the Hispanic Caucus are also members of the Progressive Caucus?

*His father once held the seat, his sister is also a state senator, & endorsements include Bob Kerrey & Ben Nelson…

…PAC, which endorses, obviously, Hispanics)

I have zero preference in this primary, had never heard of either candidate. But the article reads like it was written by the guy’s campaign, & has him reject the progressive label

*How is the Congressional Progressive Caucus not establishment…