Monday, January 26, 2026

The Beat Goes On

I feel better already. Heads below the parapet don’t get shot off.
Jennings: For whatever you want to say about Stephen Miller, the local politicians have a responsibility to be more measured in their own rhetoric

Collins: Speaking of being measured in your rhetoric, the vice president also retweeted Stephen Miller, calling Alex Pretti an assassin, something that no one is even repeating today.
I knew there was an underlying reason. Is it too much to hope? The tell will be whether the GOP cuts ๐ŸงŠ funding loose from the appropriations package; or tries to bash Democrats for shutting down the government to “defund ICE.” And lets the government shut down.
This, from @DavidAFrench : “One of the saddest things about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is that you could tell that neither of them seemed to know the danger until it was too late. They believed they were operating in some version of the normal state . . . where the police usually respond with discipline and restraint.”
There are reports Wiles and Miller are putting the blame for this on Noem and Lewandowski. Bovino may be out, Noem’s time may be up, Miller may even be isolated…but this is far, far from over.
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B-I-N-G-O

Raw Story:
It was not immediately clear why the body camera footage had not been released.
Sure it is. After all... That actually didn’t sound desperate. And then... But why would they do that? Oh… Besides: Somebody wants him erased from existence: You almost have to admire ruthlessness once in a while. And other people are now aware of that, and how it looks: Got to admit, that was never on my bingo card. There’s always someone who still hasn’t gotten the memo. Others did, and are scared shitless.

One wonders who's next.
It seems it’s finally come; but it’s come at too high a price.
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“THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Trump: "Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"
This would be the same guy who told us: Which would be the agreement the U.S. has had with Denmark since Truman was President. 

And now they’re looking for “criminals” in state possession? Pam Bondi told Walz they want the state electoral rolls. What’s the “bargaining chip” here?

Oh, and homicides are up 50% in Minneapolis, thanks to ICE.  And Todd Blanche won’t allow investigations. LAW ‘N’ ORDER! Right?

So excuse me if I want to hear from Gov. Walz first.
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The Same Administration…

... that told us what Alex Pretti’s motivation was that led to his execution righteous shooting, can’t tell us what evidence they have that protesters in Minneapolis are being paid, but it’s true and you can trust them.

Just like you can trust that Renee Good was a criminal agitator and the agent who shot her suffered “internal bleeding.” Which was treated at the federal building where he was taken right after the shooting? 
Trump: "I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me. Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets. Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at “Congresswoman” Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT"
A) When your hope is Tom “Cava” Homan, you’re already so far down, bottom looks like up. And Homan is nobody’s idea of a savior.

B) Fraud? Do you mean the fraud perpetrated by Todd Blanche refusing to investigate the Renee Goid shooting? Or tge fraud perpetrated by Noem and Bovino about the murder of Alex Pretti, complete with a second suppression of evidence and coverup of inv?

C) Ilhan who? I don’t think anyone can hear you over the noise of ๐ŸงŠ and CBP competing for who can commit the most egregious murder in broad daylight and on multiple videos.

When Tom Homan’s your cleanup guy, you’ve given up all pretense of serving justice and the American people.
"Tom Homan: Please fix this! By which I mean, please establish an alternative narrative that dominates all the headlines. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT.” Tom Homan’s gonna fix that, too.
When Ben Terris arrived at the Oval Office in December to talk to Donald Trump about his health, the president was standing next to a couple of men clutching pieces of paper labeled TALKING POINTS.

“These are two doctors,” Trump told Terris. “And by the way, I don’t know them, they’re not my best friends. They’re respected doctors that practice out of Walter Reed. And they happen to be taking care of me for anything — but I don’t need any taking care of because I’m in perfect health. I do purposely every year or less a physical, because I think the American people should know that the president is healthy so you don’t get a guy like the last one, who was the worst thing that ever happened to older people. Because I know people in their 90s that are 100 percent. Gary Player is 90 years old. He shot 70 with me the other day.”

Trump gestured at everyone present to follow him into the room. “Let’s sit for a couple of minutes,” he said. “I hate to waste a lot of time on this, but if you’re going to write a bad story about my health, I’m going to sue the ass off of ‘New York’ Magazine. There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, five years — five years, no one is going to care, I guess. Go ahead and sit down.”

Read the president’s exclusive interview with Terris:
After all, the President has more important things to occupy himself with.
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“O, What A Paradise It Seems”

Remember when ๐ŸงŠ said conditions in their “detention centers” were so good immigrants were happy to be there? And Jake Tapper bristled at hearing them called “concentration camps”? 

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

It takes a lot of words to try to make you not see what you saw. WTAF? Extirpate the entire party, root and branch. Kill it with fire.๐Ÿ”ฅ  ๐ŸงŠ and CBP are supposed to be removing the “worst of the worst” from our country. But if we don’t know who the agents killing Americans are, how do we know they’re off the streets and we’re safe?
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Obviously It’s Time To Invoke The Insurrection Act

Meh. You want to learn that lesson, pastor small churches. Or practice law, especially family law. And then teach English. In the Bush years of Abu Ghraib and “24 Hours” (anybody remember that Fox travesty?) I assigned an essay by the FBI interrogator who got the Al Qaeda driver out if CIA. torture and got information from him simply by treating the captive as a human being. Torture, he argued, does not work. It is actually counter productive (as well as inhumane). My students remained convinced torture was good and necessary.  I’m not quite sure they were moral monsters. Nor that my worst church members were demonic. They were simply all too human. “Ideals of liberty” were always for me, but not for thee. Slavery? Slaughter of the Native Americans? Cruelty and xenophobia towards waves of immigrants, when even certain European nations were considered “non-white”? Violent opposition to the labor movement? The civil rights movement? Gay liberation? Any of this ring a distant memory bell? There’s the real problem. A picture is worth a thousand words, after all. And when government officials use thousands of words to try to overcome a picture…. You don’t need to let them tell you what you think you saw. Or worry about those who agree with them. There are more of us. And clanking and ponderous as the machinery is, here the majority still rules.

And we pass out donuts ๐Ÿฉ and coffee ☕️ to the demonstrators.
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When Gross Incompetence Becomes Criminal Mayhem

Don’t lose sight of the fact these people have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, from the President down to individual CBP agents (who killed Pretti). Miller might as well blame “mass hysteria” and “mass hypnosis.” Although I’m sure he soon will. “No moral compass” hardly surprises me. No fucking idea, is a bit more disturbing, especially in a Deputy Chief of Staff to the POTUS. This isn’t government at all. It’s chaos and corruption caused by people who think power is all that matters. From the Oval Office down.  Trump U.S. often said to wish he could emulate Putin. Even Putin’s political enemies fall out of windows with no one around to blame. He’s more circumspect than Trump. And all Trump’s pitiful men aren’t going to put Humpty Dumpty together again. They’re doing everything but perp walking themselves at this point. Even Putin knows better. And America ain’t post-tsarist Russia. We have a wildly different political culture.
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

For Reals

What else have they got? Or have they ever had? Alright, this I don’t get. Sen. Dr. Cassidy is presumably an intelligent man. And he’s right about RFK, Jr.’s stance on vaccines. But Trump appointed RFK, Jr. Trump could fire him tomorrow. So yes, Trump is to blame. That’s not only fair, that’s the way responsibility works.

Meanwhile, Vermont volunteers:
This is the same reasoning the Sinister Six have used since Trump was re-elected. And even they are reconsidering the wisdom of their decisions (well, I think four of them are).  

It always was fascism . It always has been. So long as it doesn’t affect the Heritage Foundation, it’s fine.
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Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

BREAKING: ICE agents are now in CHURCH PARKING LOTS, illegally stopping and demanding proof of citizenship from U.S. citizen families, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

In the video, a citizen notices ICE agents patrolling a church parking lot.

When the agents see a family getting out of their car, on their way into church, they cut through the grass and pull up directly next to them.

An ICE agent immediately demands ID.

The family shows their passports and explains to the agent, yes, they are U.S. citizens.

The observer calls the agents out, telling him they should be ashamed for stopping families on church property.

The agent responds by trying to silence the legal observer, ordering him to “get in his car” and stop obstructing.

The legal observer replies, “Why? I’m in a church parking lot. How about you leave.”

And the agents then get in their car and drive away.

ICE agents are illegally stopping and harassing people, on church property, making them feel unsafe to attend church and freely practice their religion.

And yet, not one Republican is outraged.

Which is surprising since last week Republicans screamed about protesters entering a church, claiming it violated the right to “practice religion freely.”

But now, FEDERAL AGENTS are harassing families at church, demanding proof of citizenship, intimidating U.S. citizens from feeling safe to practice religion freely…

and those same people say nothing.

Trump stripped protections from churches, explicitly giving ICE permission to operate on church property, so FEDERAL AGENTS could do exactly what Republicans lost their minds about…

Infringe on religious freedom, and terrorize families where they’re supposed to feel safest.

You can’t claim to support religious liberty while backing a government that is openly attacking it.
So, hanging’s too good for ‘em? Oh, and we should believe you…why? So if Greg Bovino doesn’t like what you say, you should be gunned down in the street? According to Greg Bovino, Pretti made the wrong choice. Sux to be Pretti, I guess. No wonder Bovino had a press conference. What a pitiful little martinet he is. That’s it, take him off the shelf. He’s already turned rancid. Cold blooded murder. 

Fuck Bovino.

Fuck Noem.
And fuck Trump.

I discard the lot of them.
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“Breaking The Law”= ๐Ÿ’€ …

...according to the Trump Administration.

And how do we know he wasn’t carrying ID? Noem says so. How did BP know? Maybe they removed his ID before they left Pretti to die. 

It would be irresponsible not to speculate. ๐Ÿคจ 
So if you aren’t wearing ID around your neck … you could be murdered by government agents? And maybe a sign saying: “I’m armed, but I’m a patriot! MAGA! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”? ๐Ÿ’€!! It’s the only way to be sure.๐Ÿ‘ (Oh, and fuck state law, too! ๐ŸงŠ and CBP recognize no sovereign but Trump. Thank you for your attention to this matter!) "Interfering with law enforcement” = helping a woman off the ground after ๐ŸงŠ shoved her down. It’s a felony punishable by death. Because CBP/ICE are fully authorized to be judge, jury and executioner. It says so in a double super secret EO. Trump signed without reading.
Brennan: ICE detained at least five kids, including 5-year-old Liam Ramos. Does this picture sound right to you?

Scalise: His father was here illegally.

Brennan: The family disputes that. The administration has a problem with the previous administration's legal system for asylum. They don't like the app he used to file for asylum.

Scalise: Joe Biden allowed millions to come into our country.

Brennan: They’re retroactively trying to change the legality of his status.

Scalise: President Trump is removing violent people

Brennan: The father did not have a criminal record.

Scalise: These are very bad people that have been arrested by ICE.

Brennan: 47% have criminal charges.

Scalise: You can find out horrible people, murderers, rapists, they picked up…

Brennan: That doesn’t apply to the father or five year old Liam or the two year old who was separated. Are they the worst of the worst.
The Administration’s narrative isn’t selling as well as it used to. So, the military access to Greenland the country has had since Truman was President?
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Facts, Coming To Light

I think a court process is far superior to judgment in the court of public opinion. But this government is leaving us no alternative. A man after my own heart.
Alex Pretti was a Minneapolis ICU nurse who spent his days caring for and saving others. Today, he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol Agent. Alex’s life was extinguished by state violence. We must tell the truth about what is happening.

My father warned us, “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”

What we are witnessing now (masked raids, people taken without due process, vigilante, Gestapo, and slave patrol-like tactics normalized under the color of law) is a moral crisis.

Nonviolence demands more than outrage; it demands action.

Congress must dismantle ICE; enact just, humane immigration policies; and ensure implementation of the policies by people who honor the humanity of Black and Brown immigrants, respect those raising their voices in support of immigrants, and seek the safety of community.

The blood of those who are being kidnapped and unjustly killed by agents with impunity is not only on the hands of those who pull the trigger, but on every lawmaker and every court that has the power to intervene and chooses silence.

Creating the Beloved Community requires truth, accountability, and the courage to act before more lives are lost.
Somewhere in hell a new level is being dug. And about those facts coming to light:
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It’s Not About Facts, It’s About Definitions

Or that we can’t tell what happened because we only have the video to go by:
“When the agent took the gun away, that happened before Pretti was shot,” Bash said. “Why was an unarmed man shot multiple times by law enforcement, by your Border Patrol agents?”

Bovino, who on Saturday had already concluded, without evidence, that Pretti “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement,” disputed Bash’s assertion that Pretti was disarmed.

“Dana, you don't know he was unarmed, I don't know he was unarmed, that's freeze-frame adjudication of a crime scene via a photo,” Bovino said.

“That's why we have investigators, that's why we have an investigation that is going to answer these questions: how many shots were fired, who fired shots, where were the guns located? All those questions are going to be answered.”

Bash didn’t let up, however, and directed Bovino’s attention to the video that appears to show Pretti being disarmed by a federal immigration officer.

“We're not going to adjudicate that here on TV in one freeze frame!” Bovino fired back.

Bash continued, first by correcting Bovino that a video was “not a freeze frame,” and second by asking that he watch the video in question again.

“We don't know that agent was taking any gun away!” Bovino insisted. “That could have been the agent's because we don't know that! The facts are going to come to light.”
Will the facts come to light? Will DHS let that happen?
No new funding.

Kristi Noem must RESIGN.

Greg Bovino must be FIRED.

Suspend the LAWLESS mass deportation raids nationwide NOW — ICE is no longer just deporting dangerous criminals.

Send the border patrol back to the border.

End the militarization of ICE + the sick racial profiling.

End the perverse cash incentives that are bounties to perpetrate Trump’s cruel agenda.

Require thorough, real background checks for everyone, and 2+ years of training before even setting foot in the field.

INVESTIGATE and PROSECUTE every single federal agent who is breaking the law.
Definitions I can get behind. "We don’ need no steenken facts to come to light!” Now, square this circle: By defining the term “Back the blue.” Cell phones are dangerous weapons. See?

Pretty clear no one in this Administration is interested in seeing the facts come to light.
Now get Blanche to define “humanely.” Hint: it’s not the same thing as “humanly.”
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Sunday Morning

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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Because Nobody Else Wants To Watch It

I honestly hope that's not an entirely symbolic gesture.
BREAKING: @AOC just completely went off on Trump after ICE murdered Alex Pretti.

"Donald Trump [is] accusing a Veteran Affairs ICU nurse (Alex Pretti) as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating services members to our country, who was dedicating his life to serving Americans. Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground. And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist, in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law and in order to precipitate greater conflict."
Really can’t say that too often.
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What Happened Today (Sorry, I’ve Been Away)

(Not really the right place to start, but you’ll see why.) So let’s see what facts came to light. ๐Ÿ’ก 
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out and get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that ... we are not gonna have it ... our country was founded on law enforcement"
Just the way you want a USAG to behave. Impartial; and only on the side of justice. Sure. I believe you. ๐Ÿ™„
MS NOW: "I'm just getting something handed to me -- a statement from DHS -- that it will investigate the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old protester by its officers rather than the FBI. So they're gonna be investigating that which they already issued a summary about. It would seem like a closed book."
Protester: "They say they're coming in to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who bake for us, who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. I can't stop thinking of Mr Rogers. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, and right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
"Have we ever lied to you?” Best way they know to deflect responsibility. Not the flex she thinks it is. No further investigation needed. Very alternative history. Gah! I need a return to reality.
AOC: "Early reports are that he was an ICU nurse at the Mpls VA. So we are talking about Donald Trump accusing a VA ICU as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating service members to our country ... who in his final act on early was helping a woman pushed to the ground. And they are calling him a domestic terrorist."
It takes a lot of words to make you try not to see what you see. If Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act he can; more easily than he can acquire Greenland. For all the good it will do him. (The 8th Circuit seems likely to uphold Trump on using it. But the Marines will be tasked with stopping the violence; which is coming from ICE. So….) "Our guys” are upstanding, law-abiding patriots. “Your guys” are domestic terrorists. See how this works when you get to make the definitions? Allegiance to the myth of objectivity will do that to you.
Van Hollen: "The Trump administration has essentially said to folks at ICE, 'Anything goes. You have a license to kill. And by the way, we won't investigate you. We'll take care of this for you.' When they're calling these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' what they're saying to ICE is we got your back."
"Nice state ya got here. Be a shame if something happened to it.” ๐Ÿฆ It’s always somebody else who needs to take responsibility.
AOC: If you can keep people divided, then you can continue to loot the economy.

It's no coincidence here that this explosion in ICE funding is also a complete giveaway to the surveillance tech companies…

They can continue funneling billions of dollars in corruption, whether it's offshore accounts, whether it's these crypto coins, whether it's jacking up tariffs and costs on the American people so that the billionaires that funded this administration and Donald Trump himself can get away with lining their own pockets.

They are they are trying to distract from the fact that prices have exploded, that people's health insurance is being stripped, $1 trillion out of health care to fund this violence.
“Outside agitators!” The ‘60’s are alive and well! Gotta stop it somewhere. This seems like a good place.
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