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Tunneling upward out of the darkness where they had lain in wait for 13 years, the latest brood of Disney child stars reportedly emerged from the ground Monday, filling the air with their mindless droning.

Thousands of spunky young actors, part of the child performer population known as Brood D, were spotted bursting out of the soil en masse within the 51-acre Walt Disney Studios campus, where they wriggled through the grass on their bellies in search of a vertical surface to climb up and cling to. Earsplitting screeches were heard as the child stars frantically delivered lines from yet-to-exist scripts about surfers who were secretly werewolves, preteen mayors who could speak to animals, and triplets separated at birth and suddenly reunited at the same hip-hop boarding school.

Saying that he detected the “telltale signs” the first time he lay down in it, local infant Joshua Singer told reporters Friday that he can already tell his defective crib is going to be recalled. “Man, this one’s a real piece of work; I can actually feel it moving from side to side while I’m in it,” the 6-month-old said, pointing to several hazardous design flaws in his wooden cradle that he speculated would lead to its mass recall in the near future.

Stipulating that the South Caucasus nation should be nothing but ash by the time it’s all over, the will of recently deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham orders his estate to start a war with Azerbaijan, sources confirmed Monday. “The entirety of the document consists of very specific battle plans for the scorched-earth military conquest of Azerbaijan and a clear directive that all persons named in the will immediately begin deploying troops to carry out these objectives,” said a person close to Graham’s family who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the two-pronged offensive the late lawmaker had meticulously diagrammed for a land invasion from neighboring Armenia and a naval bombardment from the Caspian Sea.

What an AMAZING transformation little baby Asher has made!!!😻👶😻 He can also SEE!!!🥳🥳🥳👀👀👀😺😺😺🎉🎉🎉

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Kurt Bardella at The Watchdog Report:

Every Monday, The Watchdog Report publishes THE AGENDA, a blueprint for Democrats in Congress to reassert themselves as a coequal branch of government. A lot of conversations are taking shape about what the Democrats’ Oversight/Corruption agenda should look like IF they take back the House or Senate in November. That conversation usually centers on the investigative targets they would/should pursue. But just as, if not, more important than identifying what to investigate is how they actually intend to achieve cooperation with their investigations. That’s what we dive into in this week’s edition of THE AGENDA. [...] That’s why the first hires of the new Democratic Majority should be a pair of former US Capitol Police Officers (who also were serving and protecting on January 6th) — Michael Fanone & Harry Dunn. Make one of them the new Sergeant-at-Arms and the other his chief Deputy, and you will have a duo unafraid to hold those who defy Congressional authority accountable.

Max Nesterak at Minnesota Reformer:

Minnesota prosecutors announced on Monday they obtained a trove of evidence from the federal government in the killings of two U.S. citizens — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — and the shooting of Venezuelan national Julio Sosa-Celis by federal immigration agents during Operation Metro Surge. The evidence includes body camera footage, officer statements and the Honda Pilot in which Good was killed, all of which the federal government had previously refused to turn over in a major breach of the tradition of cooperation between state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the evidence allows her office to fully evaluate whether criminal charges are warranted in the January killings in Minneapolis. “We will be thorough. We will be complete, and we will make a decision,” Moriarty said. Moriarty and Attorney General Keith Ellison have been weighing criminal charges against the officers across the two killings but say they’d been hindered until now by the federal government’s obstruction. Moriarty’s office has charged Christian Castro in the shooting of Sosa-Celis with four felony counts of second-degree assault as well as a misdemeanor charge of falsely reporting a crime in the shooting of Sosa-Celis. He was arrested in Texas and remains in custody in a jail in Cameron County.

“I want to thank our federal partners for their willingness to consider changing course to share evidence and promote public trust,” Moriarty said during a Monday news conference. “The collective effort from our staff, the Attorney General’s Office, and the (Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) to make this happen is staggering.”

Moriarty and Ellison sent multiple demands for evidence to federal authorities before taking the unprecedented step of suing the federal government in March seeking access to evidence. The state also solicited the public for evidence, collecting more than 1,000 submissions. Even with the release of evidence, which Moriarty said the state began receiving two weeks ago, she and Ellison are not yet ready to dismiss their lawsuit against the feds. That signals some disputes remain.

What prompted the striking reversal in the federal government’s opposition to evidence sharing wasn’t immediately clear. The agreement did involve state authorities turning over their own evidence in the three shootings to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which may have been valuable enough to promote cooperation. According to the lawsuit seeking evidence, an attorney from the Department of Justice’s Washington office flew to Minnesota in early February for a meeting. But the attorney told the BCA that the federal government wanted the BCA to share its evidence in the Pretti killing investigation, while the federal government would not share its evidence with the BCA.

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The state didn’t even officially have the names of the officers who killed Good and Pretti. The Star Tribune first reported the identity of Good’s killer as ICE agent Jonathan Ross. ProPublica reported the agents who killed Pretti are Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Asked about the identities of the officers, Moriarty deferred to the BCA.

[...] Prosecuting federal agents isn’t easy — they have some protections under the Supremacy Clause for reasonably carrying out their duties, though legal experts note they are not immune from charges for serious misconduct. Moriarty’s office has also filed felony assault charges against ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr.faces for allegedly pointing a gun at two unnamed victims in a car while he was driving an unmarked SUV. Morgan has filed to remove the case to federal court.

Finally! The feds turned over evidence in the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, and also the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis to local Minnesota authorities.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Feds share key evidence in Renee Good & Alex Pretti killings after months of withholding it

Steven Beschloss at America, America:

When Joan Sebastián Guerrero was murdered in his white Kia Rio yesterday by federal ICE agents, his three-year-old daughter was in the backseat. She was wearing her Bluey pajamas with a pink bag beside her. As horrific—as unforgivable—as this killing is, it’s another terrible reminder that the impact of these deadly crimes committed by the Trump regime always extends beyond the specific victim. They create trauma that courses through the family, any witnesses and the community itself. Not only was this little girl’s father stolen from her, this violence risks destroying her life as well.

It does not make it any less intolerable that Guerrero, a 26-year old from Colombia, was reportedly authorized to work in the U.S. and had been issued a Social Security number. It does not make it any less senseless or disturbing that Homeland Security boss Markwayne Mullins said that Guerrero was not his agents’ target. As we’ve heard before, ICE officials offered up a description of the killing intended to justify what happened. “ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop,” a spokesperson said. “The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and fearing for public safety an officer discharged his weapon.”

Yet witnesses at the scene in Biddeford, Maine, saw an SUV ram Guerrero’s Kia, heard as many as seven gunshots and saw agents pull Guerrero’s limp body out of the vehicle, its windshield riddled with four bullet holes. One witness, Daniel Boucher, who lives right near the intersection where the murder happened, said, “He was bleeding profusely from the head. He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.'”

A reporter from the Portland Press Herald described the witness’ experience like this: “Boucher watched in disbelief as the man’s legs stopped moving as he lay on the ground. He believes he watched him die.” He was getting ready for work when the killing happened. Guerrero reportedly was shackled and left on the ground for some five hours, his blood on the street. One witness saw a woman yell at the agents, referencing Guerrero’s little daughter, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

Colombian-born Joan Sebastián Guerrero is the latest to be murdered by the ICEtapo, and the killing took place in Biddeford, ME.

This comes on the heels of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

See Also:

Common Dreams: Another Fatal Shooting Involving ICE—This Time in Maine

The Guardian: ICE identifies Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero as man agents fatally shot in Maine