ICE Barbie gets iced, ineffectual cops, and tired retail CEO talking points

ICE Barbie gets iced:

• Trump fired Kristi Noem as DHS Sec today in an announcement on his own personal social network. Trump loyalist and congressional pugilist Mullin will replace her pending congressional rubber-stamp.

Yesterday:

• To serve and protect (property). Why does this feel like a scene from The Simpsons?

Around town:

• As ICE moved in, neightbors set up a shadow medical system to keep neighbors in touch with care.
• Target’s new CEO gives the same tired corporate speech about values and fresh eyes confronting sales slump. Target has a history of cooperating with ICE since the early days of The Surge, and was cooperative with police during the George Floyd Uprising; the store most heavily damaged in 2020 was an incubator from invasive surveillance for the retail chain.

The bigger picture:

• Wired writes about how Futurism gave way to fascism. Sound familiar? Now go check the date this was originally published.