The Funny Papers

Benjamin Slyngstad, Pedro X Molina, RJ Matson, Bill Bramhall, Michael de Adder, Max Espinoza, Gary Huck, Andres Edery, Adam Zyglis, Marc Murphy, Clay Bennett,

Once More: This Ain't America!

It’s been a little more than a week since the ICEstapo, terrorizing the citizens of Minneapolis, murdered Renee Nicole Good, and then lied about it.

Border Barbie, Kristi Noem, claimed the ICEstapo officer, Jonathan Ross, felt his life was in danger because she was coming at him with her car and yet the shots that wounded Good—yes, she was still alive after the shooting but died before medical attention could be given to her—all came from the driver’s side window meaning Ross was next to the car and not in front of it.

Simply put, Renee Nicole Good was shot by ICEstapo agent Jonathan Ross and then left to die on the street; she was murdered.

And, of course, then came Liam Ramos, a 5-year-old preschooler, who was taken out of his father’s car upon arriving home from school and then told by the ICEstapo to knock on the door of his home asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home; the ICEstapo used an innocent child as bait.

Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family had an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived in the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point. They did everything right … except for the color of their skin and the language they speak.

Liam and his father are now be held in a concentration camp in Texas.

And now here we are again, another citizen in Minneapolis has been murdered by the ICEstapo, shot between five and ten times, after a scuffle.

The Cankles Regime, with Fascist Kristi Noem painting  Alex Pretti as a dangerous man hellbent on violence. Sure, Alex was a gun-owning outdoorsman, but he had a right to carry a weapon; he was also a hiker, scientist, and a Veteran’s Affairs ICU nurse who helped critically ill military patients.

Noem claims Alex Pretti —according to an official DHS statement lie—approached  fully armed ICEstapo murderers with a  9mm semi- automatic weapon when actually, all he had in his hands was a camera And he was trying to help a woman that the ICEstapo had shoved to the ground. The murderers then took on Pretti, trying to force him to the ground; onlookers say Pretti told the ICEstapo he had a gun, and a permit to carry.

As many as eight agents were attempting to detain Alex Pretti, and one is seen on video emerging from the scuffle holding Pretti’s gun. That agent had bent down, reached toward Alex Pretti and lifted a gun from his back near his waistband; the agent turns and begins to walk away while holding the weapon, pointing it toward the ground.

Another agent, standing beside the agent who had Pretti’s gun, unholsters his gun at virtually the same moment and points it at Pretti’s back at close range. At least two agents are attempting to hold him down. A split second later comes the crack of the first gunshot, though the videos do not show which agent fired. Pretti gets up on one knee and falls over as the agent who had unholstered his weapon fires in rapid succession while other agents back up and also discharge their weapons.

It appears that 10 shots were fired at Alex Pretti while he was unarmed, already shot once, and laying on the ground and while a woman is heard screaming:

“What did you just do?”

According to court filings, a witness, whose name was redacted, is a physician who lives near where the shooting occurred. The witness went to treat Pretti’s wounds and said ICEstapo agents were not administering first aid:

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side because that is not standard practice. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Leavitt, Cankles and Tiny Man Greg Bovino, playing dress up as a Nazi all say that that Pretti was the aggressor; he was “threatening” the ICEstapo; they say he came at them with a gun and they were just defending themselves; he’s a Leftist extremist; and he got what he deserved when he attacked these so-called officers.

Last week the House, with the help of these Democrats—Representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen of New York, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, Jared Golden of Maine, and Don Davis of North Carolina—voted to increase ICEstapo funding by billions of dollars. This week the Senate is expected to vote.

In the names of Renee and Alex, call your Senators, write your Senators, Tweet at them, scream at them over social media. Demand action before other citizens are murdered in the streets.

Oh, and if you want proof that this regime doesn’t give a fuck about murdered Americans but instead blames the dead for what happened, take note that Fascist Attorney General—and just about the most hate-filled vile human alive—Pam Bondi, mere hours after the ICEstapo murdered Alex Pretti in the street, demanded access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Regime’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.

They’re killing Americans in the hopes of rigging elections.

Architecture Wednesday: Little Pink House

I sometimes think we could live in a tiny house, btu then I also sometimes think I need to understand what “tiny” really means.

This home, nestled on an expansive, 60-foot-wide flower and vegetable garden  lot is a rare blend of 1920s-era architecture and tastefully updated, modern industrial details, two things I love. It also features other things I adore, like vaulted ceiling, exposed beams, an urban sleeping loft,  open floor plan, and oak and slate floors, but, and here’s the rub, it sits at just 565 square feet. Now, our current home is 2545 square feet and much larger than this home, while our house in Miami was small, or so I thought, at 1300 square feet.

But 565 … ?

It’s all one room, save for a bathroom at the back and a room off the kitchen; the living and dining and kitchen and bedroom fill the main floor, while there is also a sleeping loft under the rafters up top.

I like the house … I kinda love it … but could you double it in size … or maybe almost triple it? Howsabout turning the two-car garage into a private, separate primary suite?

That might be as small as I go.

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Architecture Wednesday: Moderne in Minneapolis

This one of a kind—for Minneapolis because I saw many homes like this in Miami—residence sits on the shores of Cedar Lake. It is also considered to be International Style design because of the alternating effect of ribbons of glass and white stucco on the exterior, the open and light interiors, with amazing views from the back, the curved walls, and translucent glass-block windows.

The first floor features the living room with a double-sided fireplace that opens to a sitting room, a dining area, kitchen and breakfast nook and a family. The second floor has the secondary bedrooms and baths with views to the lake while the entire third  floor is the primary suite including a spacious bedroom, marble bathroom with heated floor and steam shower, sitting room with two-sided fireplace, glass-blocked dressing room, and a private terrace overlooking the lake.

It’s a little South Florida in Minnesota.

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Colin Perucco Mentioned Marsha P. Johnson In Class and Some Parents Want Him Fired

Colin Perucco is a Minnetonka Middle School East language arts teacher who teaches a “Person of the Day” segment in his online pandemic class. One day, Perucco highlighted Marsha P. Johnson—an early gay rights activist and drag queen, who was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969—and, well, you know what happened.

A parent recorded the lesson and sent it to the Daily Caller—a right-wing news and opinion website co-founded by Fox News asshat Tucker Carlson—telling them that “there is no excuse to bring any of this into the classroom” and that she “finds the political atmosphere of classrooms inexcusable.”

Other parents shot back that the parent’s disregard for the safety of school staff and students was a violation of school policy; recording the online classes is against policy to protect all the students and their families. And those parents, and their children, stood up with, and for, Colin Perucco as the manufactured outrage over the two minutes dedicated to Johnson’s life grew. It even caused the Principal, Pete Dymit, to send an email:

“I want to let all MME families know that I feel Mr. Perucco is an excellent teacher who is highly committed to supporting the academic, social and emotional development of our students. He is loved by his students, respected by his peers, and I look forward to having him as a part of our staff for many years.”

Sadly, while Dymit, students and many parents,  voiced support for Perucco, the school board remained silent, and parents and activists both wonder what message that sends to students and teachers.

One parent wrote:

“It is imperative for our district board to issue a statement stating that they stand with our BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community members and that attempts to intimidate and silence teachers who stand for equity and who teach inclusive content will not be tolerated. The board’s silence on this issue to date is unacceptable.”

The only statement given by the board sidestepped Colin Perucco entirely and insinuated that the profile on a legendary Black drag queen and early champion of the LGBTQ+ rights wasn’t “appropriate.”

Luckily, most at the school feel the two minutes was appropriate and plan to march in support of Perucco and to demand the school board do better, noting that Colin Perucco closed that Marsha P. Johnson video lesson by saying this:

“We’re all going through this life together. We are all human beings experiencing the world in very different but also very similar ways. [Let’s] give a little extra grace to the people around us.”

Oh my gosh, what a horrible lesson to teach our children! I guess some parents, and members of the school board need to realize that while we are all not the same, we are very much alike, and rather than tear one another down we should build one another up.

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