THE ICE SOLDIERS of Trump’s army are running around the country in dark vans with tinted glass, abducting people willy-nilly, like some bad script re-write of Costa-Gavras “Z” or “Salvador” (with Jim Belushi) …just more disappeared gone to places I can’t even spell without Google—e.g., Djibouti (OPB, 6/7/25) …AND then the “Orange Mastermind” ups the ante by reacting to LA’s anti-ICE protests by sending in the NATIONAL GUARD, with their heavy weapons (even though the LAPD were aggressive enough, with flash bangs & rubber bullets). Makes me recollect the Guard’s killing of protesters at Kent State (May ’70). And then OFFSHORE FROM GAZA, the climate activist heroine, Greta Thunberg, has been detained, along with the others with her, taken off their humanitarian aid flotilla heading for the Palestinian shore. But then Netanyahu and his unrepentant cabinet want the Gazans to starve faster. And it all seems part of an ugly authoritarianism. Coming up THIS SATURDAY, 6/14: “NO KINGS DAY”, brought to you by Oregon Indivisible and others. Bring your sign about issues here and abroad to Salmon St. Springs, 1000 SW Naito Pkwy, waterfront, 11:30am. To get more of the inside scoop, turn to national Indivisible leads Leah & Ezra, with their weekly “What’s the Plan?” webinars—these two are true, thoughtful heroes of the Save Democracy movement. What a time!