Thoughts?

"San Diego County supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to end contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to train at a county-owned facility near the Mexican border and a Navy facility leased by the county. The agencies that conduct immigration enforcement and run customs and immigration checks on the busy U.S.-Mexico border have had contracts for years to train at the facilities.

“Federal immigration agents have harmed our communities many different ways here locally and throughout the nation,” said Monica Montgomery Steppe, one of the supervisors who voted to end the contracts. “We just don’t want to be complicit in that.

Other communities including the nearby city of Escondido and others in New York and Minnesota also have debated whether to let immigration agents use their firing ranges, but opted to keep contracts intact.

Jim Desmond, a San Diego County supervisor who voted against the move, said law enforcement agencies should be working and training together and making agents travel farther to get training doesn’t accomplish anything.

“ICE has overreached and overstepped, but how do you fix that? You fix it with more training,” he said.

Rodney Scott, who heads Customs and Border Protection, said the agency relies on the county’s firing range to train 1,700 officers. Without it, he said, he’d send them elsewhere for mandatory firearms training, which will reduce local staffing and affect trade and travel across the U.S.-Mexico border.

“It is unprecedented for a local partner, such as the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, to knowingly undermine border security and put our communities at risk,” Scott said in a statement.

In San Diego, CBP has had an agreement to use the county’s training center since 2017 and ICE has had one since 2021. Federal agents have logged more than 3,300 training hours at the center since 2024, according to a letter from supervisors who proposed ending the contracts.

ICE also has had an agreement since 2022 to use a Navy-owned firing range that the county leases on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the letter said.”

The Dinner Ordeal has ended. I believe the gentleman who accompanied me u/orangejulius has gotten home alive/unmurdered. Unfortunately, with no Avon/MLM products, or even time shares. #SAD

Hello neighbors! I need a plus one to accompany me to a large-ish dinner situation in North County (not far from city line). The event is Thursday evening for 1-2 hours (lesser the better, you/we can leave whenever). A free meal catered by a local restaurant is included. It would be much appreciated- I have a hard time going to these things alone. Preferably a guy ~35-50 yrs old, decent appearance and manner. Thank you.

Update: I have found a platonic victim for Thursday. Thank you to those who sent messages- I'm overwhelmed with responses, and am still trying to sort through and reply to legitimate ones, but have a lot of work to do. Rest assured I will reply to your message eventually.

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The Fire-Marshal Librarian

A library worker who spends their days cataloging spicy romance novels and their nights chasing police sirens and tracking Southern California wildfires. They will absolutely call the Fire Marshal on their own coworkers for a messy book pile but will happily spend hours trying to bribe neighborhood crows with premium cashews.

Roasts

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You are the only librarian in the world who treats a messy book donation backlog like a three-alarm emergency and actually reported your own colleagues to the Fire Marshal just to clear some floor space.

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Your post history reads less like a civilian and more like a rejected police cadet who is trying to live out their law enforcement fantasies by asking actual officers if they would arrest you for checking out spicy paperbacks.

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You are constantly shouting at San Diegans to evacuate from wildfires while simultaneously trying to recruit a literal gang of crows outside your window using a bag of unsalted cashews.

Predictions 2027

Avian Air Support

You will successfully train the neighborhood crows to bring you shiny objects, but they will only steal badges from the local police station.

Honorary Fire Chief

After reporting three more local businesses for minor cardboard box infractions, the local Fire Marshal will award you an official high-visibility vest and a personal clipboard.

Tactical Romance Patrol

You will draft a highly-detailed, 50-page evacuation plan specifically designed to protect the library's romance section from imaginary puritanical police raids.

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Thoughts on how this was handled?

Unfortunate video of the aftermath from a neighbor's cell phone: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/s/gyqJrvfkv3

Apparently the thing reignited yesterday, after two days, and is still going. Lots of concerned citizens choking on weird smoke. Any insight would be appreciated. TY

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1uaq7x4/warehouse_view_from_the_5/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1ua0fp5/really_bad_smoke_smell_woke_me_up/

Asking for a friend- from r/Firefighting

"Is this behavior normal or are we weird?

Our department in rural USA has a business meeting once a month. Usually it’s just to go over numbers, let the chief make a statement, go over how much money we have, make motions to buy new stuff and get repairs set in place etc. They sometimes get very violent.

Everyone is pretty close in this department and a lot of the guys are really alpha male types. So what will end up happening is, one of them will mention something so remarkably asinine, such as a general complaint about our weed whacker string, another will take offense, and they nearly come to swinging. Screaming at the top of their lungs at each other, neck veins bulging out, threats of violence occasionally. Then the next day they come back like nothing happened

Numerous times throughout the MANY years has this happened. We thought to get a cop in the room but the mayor told us the cops would not trespass them from a public building.

Neighboring departments have asked to film these meetings. The causes of arguments are literally things like who cut the grass and did they do a bad job and why can’t we buy a new truck.

We actually kicked out two members for this, after about the 4th meeting they cursed and screamed and stormed out of. They called the news on us and a bunch of randos were in the next business meeting, including them. They ambushed us and took turns using the public forum to say how we’re a bunch of jerks"

They did not take any from the first bowl. I just went out with a different bowl, and they are all silent (they were all just having a grand chorale). IDK what this means??