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(they're not supposed to spend any money at all on that)
(they're not supposed to spend any money at all on that)
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-15-2026 at 08:12 PM.
"Munchhausen by Nazi"
https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapol...al-post-threat
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star...54d1e847b.htmlWhat I saw felt like the natural endgame of the Trump project. For more than a decade Trump and his followers have been spreading a dark fantasy of America: one where every major city is overrun by illegal immigrants causing chaos and committing violent crimes.
Now, in Minnesota, that fantasy — spread through Trump’s own ceaseless screeds and online through YouTube and TikTok videos, Facebook posts and racist diatribes on X — is boomeranging back into the real world. Having imagined a violent war for the future of America, Trump and his minions seem set on creating one in Minnesota.
Over five days in Minneapolis, I witnessed a city on the edge of a nervous breakdown. It genuinely felt like an invasion — a hostile national force confronting furious locals equipped mostly with whistles, snowballs and funny signs.
In parts of the city, normal life continues undisturbed. Coffee shops are open. The bars were busy Friday night. In others, signs of the siege are everywhere: immigrant businesses are closed; schools are half full; convoys packed with ICE agents haunt the streets.
“What’s happening in Minnesota defies belief,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a televised address Wednesday night. “News reports simply don’t do justice to the level of chaos, disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down.”
Beginning in December, the Trump administration sent thousands of heavily armed and poorly trainedICE and border patrol agents to Minnesota ostensibly to investigate fraudand sweep up illegal immigrants. But up close, what they’re doing looks more like mass racial profiling and violent counter-insurgency than it does policing.
“If you want to investigate fraud, bring an accountant,” Stancil, a Democratic activist and education policy adviser told me as we drove around his neighbourhood Monday. The ICE agents in Minnesota don’t look like accountants. They look like soldiers. And you don’t bring soldiers unless you want to fight a war.
What I saw in Minnesota — both in person and on videos captured by bystanders, reporters and volunteers like Stancil — was agents patrolling the state, gassing crowds, and detaining people, often violently. Those scooped up have included U.S. citizens, Native Americans, pregnant women, teenagers and dozens of Minnesota residents with active refugee claims. On Wednesday night, ICE agents allegedly attacked a car carrying six children with flash bangs and smoke grenades.
According to do ents leaked to the Cato Ins ute last November, just five per cent of those detained by ICE so far that fiscal year had criminal convictions. Much of the police work ICE agents are doing instead, not just in Minnesota but around the country, amounts to harassing anyone who looks brown or Black or anyone who speaks with an accent, demanding they prove their citizenship.
Jenny Macua, a mother of six who was born in and has spent her entire life in Minnesota, told me she was stopped by ICE on her way to work last week. “They asked if I was a U.S. citizen. They wanted my ID,” Macua, whose parents are Mexican, said.
I asked her if there was any plausible explanation for the stop. Was she speeding? Was her tail light out? The only reason, she said, was “my skin colour.”
None of this is hidden. ICE agents are openly going door-to-door demanding Asian, Hispanic and Black residents show their papers. They’re trawling local businesses, stopping drivers and harassing residents on the street.
if immigrants don't have due process neither do US citizens
https://www.lawdork.com/p/noem-says-...kavanaugh-stopAsked about U.S. citizens being asked to provide proof of citizenship in Minnesota and whether that is “targeted enforcement,” Noem said the following:
In every situation, we’re doing targeted enforcement. If we are on a target and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they’re there and having them validate their iden y. That’s what we’ve always done in asking people who they are, so that we know who’s in those surroundings, and if they are breaking our federal laws, we will detain them as well until we run that processing.Importantly, Noem did not reject the premise of the question or reassure Americans that such a question is ridiculous. Instead, she merely tried to limit when and under what cir stances it is happening — and, presumably, will continue to happen — under her leadership.
But, with a closer look, even that falls apart.
First of all, there is a mountain of evidence that the first sentence of Noem’s statement is a lie. Ask Frank Miranda or Maria Greeley, ask Jesus Gutiérrez or Mubashir, ask any of the “more than 50 Americans who were held after [immigration] agents questioned their citizenship’ during 2025” who were identified by Pro Publica.
But, for a moment, let’s set that to the side.
The secretary of Homeland Security on Thursday said that if you are found in the vicinity of a person subject to DHS’s “targeted enforcement” operations, you are likely to be detained if you cannot prove your citizenship or legal status — if you cannot prove that to whatever agent might be involved in the operation.
The limitlessness of that is clear if one examines what she said — and didn’t say.
Noem didn’t say what cons utes the “surrounding” area. Given the broad evidence of sweeps of parking lots and places of employment, blessed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its September shadow docket order allowing the racial profiling in the Los Angeles area of Latino people in low-wage jobs, the limitations claimed in her statement become virtually meaningless — particularly if you are not white.
Stops OK’ed in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo have subsequently become known as a Kavanaugh stops due to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion concurring in the order, the only opinion authored by any of the Republican appointees in the majority.
If, as Noem said on Thursday, the administration’s view is that anyone “surrounding” any person involved in a Kavanaugh stop can have their citizenship questioned — a Kavanaugh stop once removed, if you will — then virtually anyone in the U.S. could find themselves subject to a Kavanaugh stop.
On top of that, Noem didn’t say what cons utes “validat[ion]” of legal status — a question that kept one woman in detention for 25 days because DHS officials didn’t believe that she is an American citizen.
Further still, this comes as video evidence mounts of the violent, masked, anti-cons utional project being engaged in by the federal immigration agents sent to Minnesota and elsewhere. The lack of concern for the First, Fourth, and Fifth amendments is manifest, as is — Minnesotaand Illinois argue in their lawsuits against these mass-immigration-enforcement actions — the Trump administration’s attack on the Tenth Amendment.
Sharp abridgment of speech, free exercise, and assembly; unreasonable searches and seizures; an appalling lack of due process; and a complete disregard for states’ rights and the rights of the people.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday by the ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota — with support from the law firms of Covington & Burling, Greene Espel, and Robins Kaplan — the stark reality on the ground in Minneapolis and St. Paul was laid bare and in great contrast to Noem’s statement:
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-16-2026 at 05:37 PM.
Administrative detention and release of US citizens without explanation seems to be becoming a thing
DHS assaults people, throws them in an ICE hole for awhile, then releases them without charges or explanation
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ ...lice-valentineOnce they reached the Whipple Building, Alice and Sophia were given one water bottle which they immediately drank. It left them with nothing to treat their tear gas wounds, and when Alice called to ask for more water and additional treatment, she said they were instead met with more casual cruelty.
“I pressed the call button, and I was like, ‘We were pepper sprayed. We need medical attention as soon as possible.’ And there was just a pause, and we heard laughter in the background. And then a lady was like, ‘It's gonna be a while. We don't have medical on-site.’”
The two were questioned separately by ICE officers, and Sofia was subjected to particularly invasive and humiliating questions. They asked her if she had had a sex change and if she had a penis. Alice said back in the cell Sofia told her she answered truthfully to both questions to avoid the officers from groping her for answers.
pure official oppression
ICE operations impinging on access to medical care
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza...countering-iceWith so many families canceling pediatric appointments, O’Brien said, “we are missing opportunities to prevent illness, vaccine-preventable illness in particular, and also to provide much-needed life-saving care.”
leaving aside the depraved indifference to the life of a US citizen they just shot, this is what folks are reading in People in the checkout line at the supermarket and Target
https://people.com/doctor-tried-to-h...gents-11881473Moments after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, a man who identified himself as a doctor was barred by officers from checking on the victim.
Video taken by a witness in the aftermath of the shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 7 was obtained by the Huffington Post.
The video picks up after the woman's SUV crashed into a parked car after she was shot by the ICE agent
"Can I go check a pulse?," a man asks.
An agent tells the man, "No," and to back up.
"I'm a physician," the man replied.
"I don't care," one agent is heard saying, while another says that EMS is on the way and that they had their own medics on scene.
A woman then yells, "Where are they?," apparently referring to medical response, and is told to relax.
"How can I relax when you just killed my f—ing neighbor?," she responds.
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-17-2026 at 06:55 AM.
prosecuting criticism by public officials as a conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers
very extreme
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...rey-minnesota/The federal inquiry is focused on a federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 372, one U.S. official told CBS News, which makes it a crime for two or more people to conspire to prevent federal officers from carrying out their official duties through "force, intimidation or threats."
The statute has historically been used in cases involving coordinated efforts to obstruct federal officials, including actions involving violence or threats. Public criticism of federal policy has historically been treated as protected speech unless involving direct coordination or incitement to obstruct law enforcement.
Vladeck: DOJ is manufacturing a pretext for declaring the Insurrection Act
This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...
secret police checkpoints
https://www.bizjournals.com/twinciti...do ents.html
had US and tribal IDs, detained by ICE anyway
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...a/88171195007/
detain first, check ID later
Bellingcat deep dive on one BORTAC agent's use of less lethal rounds and chemical irritants
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026...l-minneapolis/
Trump's ethnic cleansing stormtroopers are maiming peaceful Americans
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...anti-ice-rally
Assaulting the press is another speciality
This Getty photographer is tossing his camera to another photographer
(Pierre Lavie)
this is a great idea, I hope a bunch of states do this
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/01/law-w...-illinois.html
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