Trump declares war on Americans

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"internal government comms with the majority party" is a scenario that doesn't exist in a democracy

that DHS did so to spread politically expedient lies underscores that

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...oting-00745707

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promoting immoral and unjust policies will drive good people out of your own camp

Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s “stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

In a surprise video announcement, the Minneapolis attorney said he supported the originally stated goals of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s operation in Minnesota, including the deportation of undo ented immigrants with serious criminal records, but the effort has “expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats.”

“United States citizens, particularly those of color, live in fear. United States citizens are carrying papers to prove their citizenship. That’s wrong,” Madel said.

Madel, who launched his campaign on Dec. 1, quickly rose from a relative political unknown to a top contender for the GOP nomination. He won over many GOP activists with the communication skills he developed as a trial attorney and his status as a political outsider. He was consistently finishing in the top three in straw polls of GOP activists, in a crowded field of about a dozen candidates for governor.

“National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,” he said.

Madel said it’s uncons utional to weaponize criminal investigations against political opponents and for ICE to raid homes with only a civil warrant.

He launched his campaign for governor as a staunch defender of law enforcement and had recently provided legal counsel to Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

https://www.startribune.com/chris-ma...tm_source=gift

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this is just evil, brown people are afraid to go outside in America

you can be sure none of the Trumpies will be talking about the harm to children and learning loss

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is this legit immigration enforcement?

This NYT video shows DHS using explosives to blow the door off a home of a U.S. citizen wanted for "injuring government property" in Huntington Park CA on 6/27 as Bovino watches nearby. The case, involving a collision with a CBP vehicle, was flimsy and later dropped.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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spreading violence and terror, DHS puts the public and its own officers at risk

If Arlington residents see immigration enforcement operating in the county, some local elected officials are advising them to call 911.


County Board Chair Matt de Ferranti and Board member Takis Karantonis encouraged calling the emergency number. De Ferranti noted at a meeting on Saturday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “have no legal requirement to tell us when they come into our community.”


“It helps us know when ICE is in Arlington, so we can better pursue Arlington County’s law enforcement mission — preventing violence in our community,” he said.


De Ferranti argued that a lack of coordination with local law enforcement is part of a broader effort to sideline localities. He said he planned to bring forward, in coming weeks, “targeted and thoughtful” county resources for family members of those taken into custody or deported by the Trump administration.


“ICE’s approach is designed to provoke right now, and to seek out conflict,” he said.

https://www.arlnow.com/2026/01/26/co...-in-arlington/

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the sources for this article are ICE/BPS officers

Oscar Hagelsieb spent nearly 25 years as an immigration officer and special agent, proud of his work enforcing federal laws.


But watching the chaos unfolding in Minneapolis, and the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen there on Saturday, Mr. Hagelsieb said he felt anger and despair at how the Trump administration was deploying his former agency.


“You’re not addressing the problem by throwing a 500-pound gorilla into these inner cities,” said Mr. Hagelsieb, 52, who said he voted three times for President Trump and retired from the Department of Homeland Security in 2023. “It’s completely unfair to the agents who have been put in this position.”


“They’re causing chaos, and unfortunately it’s costing lives,” he added. “There’s only so much they can handle before bad things start to happen.”

For Mr. Hagelsieb, one particular worry is the number of ICE special agents taken off of complex criminal investigations to instead track down undo ented immigrants, many of whom have not been convicted of crimes.


A Times investigation last year found that agents at Homeland Security Investigations, which is part of ICE and is where Mr. Hagelsieb worked, had been reassigned from cases involving sex crimes against children, drug smuggling and terrorism.
“It’s like a local police department pulling a homicide investigator to conduct an operation against jaywalkers,” Mr. Hagelsieb said.

“We lost all trust,” one current ICE official said. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...Y.i_0HMo5pLBUt

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MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

https://bsky.app/profile/jeetheer.bs.../3mddqeusfys2z

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famously, America’s special operations community has done super well against low-level insurgency infrastructures

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"if you do not comply, we will be forced to murder even more of you"

"Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."

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the tipping point on Fox News was last night after Bill Melugin's social media post, after 36 hours of smearing Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist

“Tomi, speak plainly with the audience right now,” Fox host Johnny Joey Jonestold his co-host Tomi Lahren on Sunday night. “What we're getting from Bill — and as he cited, many of his sources are pro-what's happening as far as enforcing immigration and mass deportation — but what they're concerned with is every video we've seen so far doesn’t show him brandishing a gun, it doesn’t show him — it doesn’t substantiate the idea that he was there to commit a massacre or that he was a domestic terrorist.”


“Usually, when those words are used you usually have more than the fact that he had a gun on him as evidence, and that is what at least some officials are taking issue with,” he added.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-new...-its-narrative

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desperate for good press

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threatening home visits to Mainers

Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them.
In Minneapolis, where a similar large-scale immigration enforcement operation has been underway for weeks, some observers said they were threatened and detained for filming federal agents.


“ This was not about law enforcement doing their job, this was about a federal agent using intimidation to discourage lawful civic activity in my own community,” said Erin Cavallaro, one of the volunteers in Maine who said officers came to her home. “What I was doing was lawful.”

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/

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10A anti-commandeering consideration still alive in Minnesota

I doubt this judge will craft a remedy for MN, but the record will be fleshed out

To ensure that the Court has provided all parties a full opportunity to be heard on the issues raised in connection with Plaintiffs’ motion for temporary injunctive relief (Dkt. 5), the Court instructs Defendants to file a supplemental memorandum. In the supplemental memorandum, Defendants shall address Plaintiffs’ assertion that the purpose of Operation Metro Surge is to punish Plaintiffs for adopting sanctuary laws and policies; coerce Plaintiffs into changing state and local law; compel Plaintiffs to direct state and local resources to facilitate information sharing to aid federal immigration enforcement; and cause Plaintiffs to direct more state and local resources towards holding immigration targets in detention for longer periods of time than otherwise allowed. (See Dkt. 60 at 913; see also id. at 16–19.) The Court finds that additional briefing on this issue is necessary because it was explored most clearly in the Reply, in light of recent factual developments.1 1Plaintiffs point to statements by some named Defendants and others within the Executive Branch that post-date the filing of the motion for preliminary injunctive relief. (See Dkt. 60 at 1012 (citing statements dated Jan. 12, 2026 through Jan. 20, 2026).) Defendants’ supplemental memorandum shall address the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ assertion and discuss their impact on the legal analysis relevant to Plaintiffs’ claims.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT Defendants shall file a supplemental brief not to exceed 3,000 words, on or before Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., addressing the issues identified. Date: January 26, 2026

s/Katherine Menendez Katherine Menendez United States District Judge

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...68.118.0_1.pdf

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solidarity with foreign-born community members

Many immigrants are afraid to leave their homes — let alone go to work — as masked ICE agents escalate their operations in Maine. But at apparel manufacturer American Roots in Westbrook, staff and community volunteers are trying to protect immigrant workers by standing watch as they arrive and leave for the day.
The company employs more than 80 people and more than half are immigrants, all here legally. But there are fears ICE agents could still target them, which is why the volunteers have come.



"We are forming a barrier," said Rabbi Rachel Simmons. She's one of several leaders from different religious faiths who have joined the effort. "We are standing between the workers who are being targeted and those who want to do them harm."


The group of more than two dozen volunteers stretches out in a line along the road, where ICE agents have been seen driving by on previous days. It's a wall of down jackets, yarmulkes, and brightly colored clergy stoles that blocks the view of the door behind them. They begin to sing as they wait for workers to exit.


The executive director of the Maine Council of Churches, Reverend Jane Field, said when ICE scaled up its operations last week, American Roots asked if a few faith leaders could come each day to help provide comfort.


"I'm like, 'Oh no, you don't understand," Field said. "We have a God squad we can call, you know, like, I'll just put the bat thing up in the sky.' And lo and behold, like 20 clergy were there that afternoon."


Members of the community have also joined the effort, even when biting wind adds an extra chill to an already frigid day.


"It’s cold!" said Julia, who works at a business nearby. She doesn't want to share her last name because she doesn't want to be targeted by ICE.
"I think this is one of those things where I really wish this wasn’t happening, but it's nice to see so many people are willing to come out here and freeze our butts off to show people we’ve got their backs," she said.


With the work at American Roots about to end and the human wall in place, it's time for the workers to leave. Company staff who are coordinating their exit are stationed both in and outside the facility, communicating through walkie talkies as they send out workers in small groups.


"We’ve got two coming down," a staff member said.


As the workers walk out the door, the co-founder and CEO of American Roots, Ben Waxman, quickly ushers them into their cars.


"Be safe! Be safe, ok?"' he tells them.


Waxman said he supports law and order, but that's not what's happening. He said the immigrants he employs — asylum seekers, refugees, and citizens — are all vetted and working legally in the U.S., and they're living in fear.


"We're spending tens of thousands of dollars to adapt to a situation that at its core is being told we're going after criminals," Waxman said. "There are no criminals in my company."

https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/20...-safe-from-ice

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desperate for good press

WE MAY NOT HAVE GIVEN CPR TO THE PEOPLE WE SHOT DEAD BUT LOOK AT US JUMP STARTING SOMEONE'S CAR! WE'RE JUST HERE TO HELP

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virtue-signaling> immorality

Maryland State Del. Adrian Boafo is proposing legislation designed to bar some sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from working for state police agencies.


Boafo told WTOP he’s proposing the “ICE Breakers Act of 2026,” which would disqualify ICE officers who signed up to work for the agency as of Jan. 20, 2025, from gaining employment in Maryland state law enforcement jobs.
Asked why those officers should be prevented from working for Maryland agencies, such as the Maryland State Police, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, Maryland Natural Resources Police and other state law enforcement divisions, Boafo pointed to the tone of the current ICE recruitment effort, saying, “There’s a moral debate at the center of it, and it’s playing before our very eyes.”

https://wtop.com/maryland/2026/01/ma...orcement-jobs/

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true believers are seething

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as a cohort, CBP gets prosecuted at a rate slightly higher than undo ented immigrants

it wasn't hiring the best before Trump started lowering standards and shortening the training

The Trump administration pledged to deport violent criminals—but instead, some of them have been on the payrolls of the federal government’s most aggressive agencies.
ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual and violent criminal histories in recent years, according to a reportpublished Monday by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance with research from the Pacific Antifascist Collective.
At least 20 of those individuals committed offenses with underage victims, according to the report.


The 30 listed individuals have been charged with a wide litany of crimes, including gunpoint sexual assault, child sex trafficking, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, torture, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, and possession and production of child sexual abuse materials.
Their transgressions occurred between 2015 and 2025, with the bulk of abuse happening within the last two years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/...222423105.html

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true believers are seething

They always forget about January 6. They always forget Trump is a convicted felon.

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Texas Monthly's Taco Editor gets pulled over by ICE

I am a man of privilege with plenty of resources, as is Rodrigo. Our parents survived so that we could thrive as educated and well-spoken individuals who pursue life, liberty, and happiness on a daily basis. But my working-class Puerto Rican parents instilled in me an aggressive pride for our Latinidad as well as a skepticism of authority, stemming from cultural views about the colonization of my homeland in 1898 and the subsequent destruction of large parts of my country’s food system, in addition to the forced sterilization of one-third of the female population between the 1930s and the 1970s.


The word “no” comes easily to me.


Yet when we were confronted by ICE officers, we capitulated. Or so it may seem. Rodrigo and I realized what we had to lose. We checked our instinct to resist in an effort to escape a potentially terrible fate. We did not want to hand over our IDs. We did not want to help reach a quota. We also did not want to be reduced to a headline. Our loved ones, we knew, needed us. But we protest in small ways, including by do enting the stories of immigrants. In the moment, we went into survival mode, but we thought we were supposed to be past that.


The day after the three traffic stops, we remained rattled. We tried to crack jokes during breakfast, but it wasn’t enough. I suggested we visit Café Piro, across from Socorro Mission, in Socorro, southeast of El Paso. There we would find safety and nourishment. We would be met with hugs and conversations with our friends, the coffee shop’s owners, Gabe and Melissa Padilla. We sat for hours with another friend, chef and Socorro native Enrique Lozano, consoling one another.


Afterward, Enrique and I visited the chapel at Socorro Mission, originally known as Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de los Piros de Socorro del Sur, where we listened to the church caretaker offer stories of the Native peoples of the area and their significance. Enrique and I sat to pray briefly, and as we left, the caretaker gave me a Spanish-language prayer card with the image of my patron saint, San Martín de Porres.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/ta...topped-by-ice/

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true believers are seething

They always forget about January 6. They always forget Trump is a convicted felon.

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Sen. Lindsey Port, DFL-Burnsville, who chairs the Housing and Homelessness Prevention Committee, said she agrees with the “underlying call of the moratorium.” But, she said, “I think there are practical challenges to an eviction moratorium in the way that it has existed before,” including the absence of pandemic emergency funds from the federal government.


“People should not be evicted when we are under occupation, which is what is happening in the state of Minnesota right now,” said Port, who plans to introduce an emergency rental assistance bill when the legislative session begins next month.

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Trump's USA

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a view from the old country