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By Wayne Ince (Big Sarge) · big-sarge.blog At Jewish Community Services of South Florida this summer, eighteen Haitian employees finished their last shifts. Some had worked as home health aides there for more than twenty years. Four hundred Holocaust survivors relied on their care. When the work permits expired, the aides who were left picked up the missing hours and the agency called it overtime. That is what Florida just did to the people who bathe its parents, lift its dis

wix.com - labor The Justice Department walked away from David Huerta because the case was never about justice. It was about fear. And Americans refused to be afraid.On a June morning in 2025, a masked federal agent put his hands on David Huerta and put him on the pavement. Downtown Los Angeles. Outside the Metropolitan Detention Center. Cameras rolling. Huerta on his back, palms up. The agent's face covered. Huerta is the president of SEIU California, a union that represents

The GOP wants you to laugh at a breadstick joke while they gut the franchise. Olive Garden brought back a $100 promo card. Ten thousand people bought one. To use it, you show a photo ID at the table. That is the whole story. That is the entire event. Then the Republican Party got hold […]

Instigation Alejandro Orellana spent months under federal indictment for handing water bottles, snacks, and face shields to strangers on a sidewalk in East Los Angeles. The controversy surrounding ICE immigration became especially visible during incidents like these. That was the government’s case. Not conspiracy in the way most people understand the word. He stood in […]

The June jobs report, Florida’s World Cup Kool-Aid, and what working families should actually do. By Wayne “Big Sarge” Ince The country added 57,000 jobs in June. Dow Jones economists had penciled in 115,000. We came in at roughly half. Labor force participation slid to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021. The Bureau of […]

If you draw VA disability, this is about you. The House just pulled H.R. 9237, the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act, off the floor for the second time in less than a month. The bill bundles sixty-plus veterans measures including the Major Richard Star Act and the Love Lives On Act. Overdue bills. Good bills.

This ruling isn’t about security. It’s about race math and power. A white nationalist administration is using immigration law as a blunt instrument to hold back the demographic clock. The Supreme Court just handed Trump a loaded weapon, pointed it at Haitian and Syrian families, and told him to pull the trigger. A 6–3 green […]

ICE Shootings Map Mapped from reported cases ICE shootings across the United States This map pins victims to cities and states based on reported locations in sourced coverage. It focuses on named victims from your running list where a city-level location is documented in accessible reporting. Click any marker for the victim, city, state, and […]

Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Tyrin Johnson. Renee Good. Four names. Four killings by federal agents. One deciding vote by Susan Collins for $70 billion in ICE funding. And a federal government that will not investigate its own.

Week two, and the relief is already fading. Six fronts tracked in real numbers — gas climbing back, rent turning upward, childcare and healthcare still swallowing paychecks, and a power bill that just broke its own record.

Prices up, paychecks behind. Six fronts — groceries, gas, rent, childcare, healthcare, and utilities — tracked in real numbers, no spin. The inaugural issue of Big Sarge Economy Watch.

Three Failures, One Week: Iran, the Ballot Box, and a Plane That Can’t Defend Itself. This week has also seen renewed discussions about an Iran War Ceasefire and its possible global implications. Four days before Trump landed in Ankara for the NATO summit, he spent ninety minutes on the phone with Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin […]

The June jobs report, Florida’s World Cup Kool-Aid, and what working families should actually do. By Wayne “Big Sarge” Ince The country added 57,000 jobs in June. Dow Jones economists had penciled in 115,000. We came in at roughly half. Labor force participation slid to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021. The Bureau of […]

The June jobs report, Florida’s World Cup Kool-Aid, and what working families should actually do. With the excitement building around the florida World Cup 2026, there’s lots to consider for residents and visitors alike. By Wayne “Big Sarge” Ince The country added 57,000 jobs in June. Dow Jones economists had penciled in 115,000. We came […]

The Supreme Court’s term blocked the spectacle and blessed the architecture. Black voters will pay for the difference in November. By Wayne “Big Sarge” Ince | big-sarge.blog | July 2026 https://the-umpire-repainted-the-9a3vze9.gamma.site – Slideshow On the last Monday in June, Chief Justice John Roberts announced two decisions from the same bench, minutes apart, both answering the same question: can the […]

In 1852, a group of abolitionists in Rochester, New York, invited Frederick Douglass to give the Independence Day address. He took the invitation and used it to tell his audience why the holiday was not his to celebrate. He argued that the gap between America’s stated freedom and Black Americans’ lived freedom was vast. The […]

Birthright citizenship survived 5-4. That is not a win. That is a warning shot fired across the bow of every right written into the Constitution after the Civil War.

Louisiana followed a federal court order to add a second majority-Black district. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that following the order was itself unconstitutional. Here’s the mechanism behind Louisiana v. Callais, and the chain of rulings that built it.

This article explores the experiences of Civil War Union soldiers. By Wayne Ince Trump’s Freedom 250 leaves Black America on the cutting room floor. Notby accident. On purpose. He wants a 250th birthday party for a countryAfricans helped build, bled for, and died defending, while pretending wewere never in the room. Freedom 250’s missing chaptersThe […]

Celebrating? BreakingRanksBlog | Big-Sarge.blog America turns 250 next month. There will be fireworks. There will be speeches. There will be a National Garden of American Heroes and a student art contest and an 85-page document called “At-a-Glance Biographies of 250 American Heroes,” published by Freedom 250 and underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities. […]