CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 115th Edition. The Killing of Alex Pretti, Hageman flees the stage, ICE blocked in hotel.

CNN has an excellent breakdown of the killing.

Film analysis.   

People like to say you can see more than one thing on these things. Well, let's say you can. Those last few shots are an execution.

These guys should be tried for murder.

ICE/Border Patrol in the interior should be disarmed.

Frankly, these morons are lucky this wasn't a local matter.  Things are turning against ICE and Trump, even here.  The ICE/Border Patrol killings became a topic that surprised Harriet Hageman, running for Senate, and current Wyoming Congressman, at a really hostile town hall meeting in Casper.

Hostile.

She was confronted on this and her reaction was to flee the stage.

She next appeared in Thermopolis where things didn't go much better. The crowd started yelling at each other.

Meanwhile, in Riverton, locals blocked ICE agents into their hotel. The police had to come and rescue them.

In some parts of the country, there's an effort at a general strike today.

Last edition:

CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 114th Edition. The Armed Citizen and ICE. He never served but they did. Geographically ignorant. He's demented. Canada comes to the US's aid. . . again.

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Railhead: Transportation juxtaposition

I recently posted this on our companion blog, Railhead: Transportation juxtaposition:

I noted in the text for that;

BNSF rail tunnels on left, Wyoming Highway Department tunnels on the right.

Wind River Canyon, Wyoming.

What I didn't note is how emblematic of modern local transportation this is.  The rail line on the left, running from Thermopolis to Riverton Wyoming, is spectacular in this stretch, but it carries only freight, like every other Wyoming rail line. At one time, that wasn't true.  It carried passengers as well. But that was decades ago.

The highway on the right is also spectacular, one of Wyoming's best in my views.  The replacement for the means of conveyance on the left, although in fairness I'm sure the road is quite old.  I don't know when the highway tunnels were put in.