By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, june 9, 2025 at 11:07:00 p.m. edt
GRA report via Fox l.A. feed; a lot less scum on the street today in l.a. (11 p.m. edt)
GRA: Watching a street with an unknown number of vagrants—maybe a couple hundred, judging from the helicopter shot—at an intersection where a fairly small number of police are spread out, defending the area.
Police, with a bullhorn, telling any of the participants, “you will be arrested if you move forward.”
Definitely not as many troublemakers today—actually, there appears to be almost as many cops as troublemakers.
It’s just getting dark in L.A., not much going on, from what I see.
--GRA
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Someone is selling a 16mm episode of BLACK JOURNAL (NET series,1974) on Ebay, and I thought this synopsis was worth keeping for posterity:
"Black poetess Nikki Giovanni interviews singer Lena Horne in this special Black Journal program focusing on the Black woman. Miss Horne speaks candidly about her divorce and remarriage to a white man, orchestral conductor Lennie Hayton. She admits that she "failed" her first husband: "I had married first a Black man and I wasn't a big enough woman to help him," she says. Asked about her views on the recent arrest of Black revolutionary Angela Davis, Miss Horne asserts: "What I'm so afraid of is this actually is a calculated move in many instances because - the kind of strength that these young people have, which may not always be comparable to the kind our ancestors had, is so positive and so fearless that it frightens people."
I know you are already aware Lena Horne was scum. The combination of stupidity plus arrogance in her statement is mind-boggling. Here's the rest of the description:
"In another segment, a panel of six prominent Black women discuss the role of the Black woman in today's society. Participating in the panel are Verta Mae Grosvenor, author of "Vibrations Cooking"; Jean Fairfax, NAACP Legal Defense lawyer; Martha Davis of the Harlem Drug Fighters Union; Marion-Etoile Watson, producer for Metromedia Television (Channel 5, New York City); Bibi Amina Baraka (Mrs. LeRoi Jones); and Joan Harris, hostess of NBS's "Positively Black." Also on the program Mrs. Grosvenor's eight-year-old daughter, Kali, reads from her recently published book, "Poems by Kali"; The Church of the Shrine of the Black Madonna holds a woman's day ceremony to honor "the generations of struggle that the Black woman has made in order for Black people to survive"; during the ceremony in the church, author Sonia Sanchez reads her poem "Queens of the Universe." Black Journal #28 is a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. (Description adapted from NET Microfiche)"
Interesting that someone names her daughter Kali, after the Hindu Death Goddess. I wonder what became of the girl?
LeRoi Jones, before morphing into Amiri Baraka, wrote a play called DUTCHMAN about a white woman teasing and tormenting a black man in a subway car at night; it was made into a short movie which I actually liked, with yet another Oscar-worthy performance by the great Shirley Knight. Jones was a radical (racist) lunatic, but in this case I thought the anger in the play transcended racial animosity- and Al Freeman Jr,. is also outstanding as the victim. Probably available online.
-RM
Post script:Newsom filed for an order in federal court Tuesday to block President Trump from deploying 4,000 national guard troops in L.A.
No word yet on any court response.
(pbs) Part of the request from Newsom included a statement that the Pentagon plans on using the Guard to provide support for ICE--including the securing of perimeters around areas where raids would take place and securing streets.
The Guard members were originally sent to protect federal buildings. It is unknown if the change in mission had begun.
--GRA
Any article that upper cases black and lower cases White Isn't Worth The Internet Paper It's "Printed" On.
--GRA
Funny, I didn't even notice that- blame it on whoever archived the material for NET. I did check out the online resource, though, and you'd think PBS/NET never presented anything worthwhile- it's ALL Communist-oriented material! Shows about every minority group, lots of homo stuff (that's got to be comparatively recent), SESAME STREET (Red propaganda for the kiddies from day one), Watergate, etc. I do remember things like series of classic movies, great shows like COSMOS and CONNECTIONS, et al, but judging by what they're choosing to preserve and highlight online... DEFUND!!!
-RM
nbc NOISE TURNS UP THE PROPAGANDA VOLUME--SAYS "PROTESTS ARE SPREADING TO 25 CITIES--SOME
WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE";LOS ANGELES NINCOMPOOP MAYOR BASS(ACKWARDS)ORDERS A CURFEW FOR A TINY AREA OF L.A.
(nbc noise)Despite protests against the detention and removal of suspected undocumented migrants that have roiled Los Angeles and spread coast to coast, immigration raids continued across the country Tuesday.
Activists gathered in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and elsewhere, rebuking the Trump administration’s tough stance against migrants and its aggressive round-up efforts, which Democratic leaders in California have criticized as contributing to a sense of fear across communities.
In Los Angeles, which has been the epicenter for the protests, leaders on Tuesday announced a curfew to quell unrest after more than 100 people were arrested over the last few days.
Since Monday, NBC News counted at least 25 rallies and demonstrations coast to coast. Some involved only a few dozen participants, while others attracted thousands.
The protests are taking place as federal immigration raids continued across the nation Tuesday, including a “targeted enforcement operation” in Los Angeles, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as a raid at a meat processing facility in Omaha, Nebraska.
ICE posted a photo to its X account showing a person wearing military fatigues alongside federal agents, one with “DEA” emblazoned on his vest, standing near a handcuffed person, and a military Humvee painted in camouflage parked next to them. The arrest happened in Los Angeles, ICE said.
In Omaha, two businesses were targeted for federal immigration enforcement operations, local officials said. The office of Mayor John Ewing Jr. said 80 people were arrested by federal agents at Glenn Valley Foods and Lala Dairy.
Cellphone video of the scene at Glenn Valley Foods showed agents in green uniforms, camouflage clothing and plainclothes appearing to detain several workers, hands cuffed, inside the facility’s lunch room, where a motto was painted on a wall: “Together we achieve more.”
Chad Hartmann, a spokesperson for Glenn Valley Foods, said in a statement that federal agents searched the company’s facility “for persons believed to be using fraudulent documents to gain employment.”
He said the company strives to operate within the law, is cooperating with agents and “is not being charged with any crime.”
An estimated 700 Marines and more than 2,000 National Guard troops were authorized for deployment to Los Angeles by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a move California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass have sharply criticized as unnecessary.
“This is not an insurrection,” Bass said during an interview Tuesday.
The mayor announced that a curfew will be enforced in a 1-square-mile of downtown from 8 p.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday in an attempt to prevent vandalism and looting. She emphasized the curfew area, where people will be subject to arrest, is a small fraction of the city’s nearly 500 square mile landscape. “This is not citywide civil unrest,” she said, describing the protests.
The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday said officers under its command, along with partner agencies, have arrested 163 people in connection with the protests since Saturday. During that time, seven officers have been injured, at least five with minor ailments and two who were hospitalized and released, the department said.
California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Kyle Foster said Tuesday that 67 people who protested on the 101 Freeway in downtown L.A. over the weekend, shutting it down for hours, were arrested for alleged failure to disperse.
GRA:mex said they want the next few days off to get drunk--back on the weekend.
--GRA
NEWSOM'S EMERGENCY RESTRAINING ORDER DENIED BY COURT LATE TONIGHT,BUT HEARING ON THURSDAY WILL DECIDE IF NATIONAL GUARD STAYS AFTER THAT
11pm(Breitbart)A federal judge denied Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to quash President Donald Trump’s deployment of California’s National Guard troops to riot zones in Los Angeles.
Judge Charles Breyer, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, denied Newsom’s emergency request for a Temporary Restraining Order regarding Trump deploying 4,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles.
Breyer also “granted” the Trump administration’s request for additional time to “file a response brief,” and gave them a deadline of Wednesday morning.
“Plaintiffs Gavin Newsom and the State of California filed an Ex Parte Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order at 11:00 A.M. on June 10, 2025,” Breyer said in his filing. “Defendants Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Department of Defense requested ’24 hours from the time that Plaintiffs files their motion for temporary restraining order to file a response brief.'”
Breyer added that “Plaintiffs may file a response to that opposition by” Thursday morning.
“The Court will hold a hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion in open court at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, 2025,” Breyer continued.
GRA:So no instant injunction,while waiting for the actual hearing.
--GRA
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