Obviously It’s Time To Invoke The Insurrection Act

This is amazing.

MN's National Guard has arrived and are distributing donuts, coffee and hot chocolate to anti-ice protestors.

They're wearing reflective vests so protestors know they're not Trump Troopers. pic.twitter.com/UBInVU03sV

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) January 25, 2026

The number of people who’ve lost all sense of humanity, not just the abdication of the values of a nation founded on the ideals of liberty and opposed to a tyrannical government, is sickening. Poisoned minds that refuse sanity, reality, truth, and the evidence of their own eyes.

— Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) January 26, 2026

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?

In the last hour, "T2" posted this same photo five times, replying to Pete Hegseth, Steven Miller, Bondi, etc. Just this photo, no text. Retired 4-star Gen. Tony Thomas led the nation's Special Operations Command. https://t.co/3eLQWaSfLR

— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) January 26, 2026

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….

In this moment, we must choose the right side of history. May Alex Pretti's memory be not just a blessing, but a charge.

My comments on Minnesota: pic.twitter.com/NH2tNLM3KA

— David Jolly (@davidjollyfl) January 26, 2026

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 🍩 and coffee ☕️ to the demonstrators.