No surprise there on who.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.

Again, every time someone says "Trump can't do that" the only serious response is "Yes, he can, until Congress removes him"

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

This is correct. MN officials are the ones appealing for calm. The White House is demanding obedience.

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like:

1) They were beating a struggling man with batons

2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back

3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away

4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

A depiction of Crisps Attucks being killed by agents of the state on the streets of Boston for the crime of protesting.

If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.

As the other E Higgins points out, he looks like he was disarmed prior to the shooting
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I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.

If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences."

After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.

Fight and help win a world war.

Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.

Blow it all up.

What am I missing?

Have helped guard a local mosque during their Friday prayers.

Been very cold but Somali restaurant offers us delicious, warm tea constantly.

Members expressed much gratitude & confidence this ugly time will pass.

Media reports say two battalions of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division (aka the "Arctic Angels"), who specialize in cold weather warfare, are on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota.

The White House wants a civil war and they are taking steps to implement one. Democrats who can't recognize or accept that are incapable of leading.

Leadership need not come from the House or Senate. Governors would be better. Barring that, big city mayors. Even influential activists. But it cannot be these two.

I said this morning that we would win. But we will lose — and lose badly — if the opposition party doesn't recognize the gravity of the situation.

Schumer and Jeffries must be supplanted as the party leadership's center of gravity. It's vital. They're not capable of leading us through this.

These soldiers come from two infantry battalions, officials say.

White House does not confirm but official there says it's typical for the Pentagon "to be prepared for any decision the President may or may not make."

Move comes after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday.

About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go.

News reported tonight by ABC News, too.

ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from TX to Honduras, group says Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead.

They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone.

ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them.

Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Homeland Security & @DHSgov X.com Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.

Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

ICE detained people waiting at a food pantry, Salvation Army says A foodbank in New Jersey cautioned its partners to have a plan in place in case of an ICE raid.

ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry.

Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.

Oh, and if anyone was confused. You build houses for the unhoused. Not kill them.

Thank you.

Guantánamo Prison Enters 25th Year

Guantanamo today has 15 wartime prisoners, all held in one facility run by a Pentagon staff of 800 military police and other government workers. A look at the operation that began 24 years ago with these first 20 prisoners, one of whom is still there today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

FOP Endorses Trump! - Fraternal Order of Police Patrick Yoes, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, announced today that the members of the FOP voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.  […]

I mean were people not paying attention when the FOP national union came out in support of Trump and his policies in 2024? No surprise that the local unions are continuing that.

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The Thin Blue Line is the cops talking about is them separating themselves from you and I. That is Federal, State and Local. They were never going to be your White Knight Robert. Might be a good time to accept it.

Sort of funny that they assume the Thin Blue Line isnt all of them. Like state and local cops are aome white knights that were ever going to ride in to save anyone.