Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

Civil Rights Assistant AG threatens to prosecute journalists who give positive coverage to demonstrators in Minneapolis, equating demonstrating against ICE with robbing a bank.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

BRENNAN: A 6-month-old child got caught in an incident as their family was driving to basketball practice. ICE released a canister of tear gas and the mom described giving her infant CPR. Does that seem heavy handed? NOEM: The family was caught up in that situation because of violent protesters

yes, when they use them violence is happening because ICE is doing the violence

Jacob Frey: "They're standing up for their neighbors. They're making sure they've got a ride to the grocery store, a safe walk to their car ... We got a whole lot of people that are afraid to go outside at the risk of getting torn apart from their own families."

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

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BLITZER: When Noem called this 37 year old mother a domestic terrorist, that really was outrageous McLAUGHLIN: In no way is that outrageous. She used her car as a deadly weapon B: She was driving by after dropping off her boy at school M: That simply is not true. I have the facts on the ground

CNN: What do you say to people who watch these videos & worry Minnesota is becoming a police state? McLAUGHLIN: There's a lot of fear-mongering going on by the media CNN: Let me correct you. They are watching these videos & using their independence of mind McLAUGHLIN: No. Actually it is the media

McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born* McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.

Kylo Ren, Star Wars I always appreciate it when Hasbro makes an unmasked headsculpt for characters who frequently wear a mask/helmet. From Kylo Ren to Din Djarin to assorted Spider-folks, I'm always on the lookout for figures with an unmasked option

Lots of Trump’s remarks are what I think of as “threesome jokes.” As in “Ha ha, of course I wasn’t serious about having a threesome with your friend. Unless you’re into it, in which case, how about Saturday?”

Q: What steps is the administration asking ICE to take to ensure that Americans are not wrongly arrested? LEAVITT: There have been hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have been arrested and detained and deported by ICE over the last year. That's their intention and goal

LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed? REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.

One thing you have to hand to Trump, he always lays it out for you. So many liberals have made it almost a hobby to twist things around into being complex and obviously not what you think it is, but Trump pops that bubble every single day. He just says it

Rep. Randy Fine: "Jacob Frey is fomenting a second civil war ... for Democrat politicians to take the side of foreigners over American is treason. Jacob Frey should be arrested ... now there are two people who have been shut justifiably because of the rhetoric of Democrats."

Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"

Q: Why are we seeing Americans being asked on the street to provide proof of citizenship in MN? Is that targeted enforcement & are you advising Americans to carry proof of citizenship? NOEM: We're doing targeted enforcement. There may be individuals around a criminal we ask to validate identity

Frey: "I've seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting & intolerable. If it were your city, it would unacceptable there too. ICE can leave & this massive deployment can come to an end. We have filed litigation to hopefully make it so, but I'm deeply concerned we don't have that kind of time."

Frey: "This is not sustainable. This is an impossible situation our city is being put in. We cannot be at a place in America where we have 2 governmental agencies literally fighting one another. We are put in this position b/c we have approximately 600 police officers & there are 3,000 ICE agents."

You know things are going well, comrade, when government officials get on TV to give people austerity tips.

Laura Jedeed on applying for a job with ICE: "I expected them to Google me, and they didn't ... they sent me a final job offer ... what's disturbing is we don't know who is wearing these masks with guns in our city. We don't know if they have domestic violence convictions."

Craig: "In my district, 2 days ago a special ed teacher pulled into her school parking lot, her windows were smashed, she was taken & detained for 12 hours. I've never seen such an out of control agency. That's why as soon as I leave, I'm joining a group to file articles of impeachment against Noem"

Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."

Jacob Frey on Fox & Friends: "We are willing to work with people when it's about murder and when it's about crime, but the truth is that this ain't about that ... why is the largest scale immigration enforcement action taking place where we don't even have that many undocumented immigrants?"

Trump thugs are killing, brutalizing, and torturing American citizens. That is not an “immigration crackdown.” It’s domestic repression and occupation.

“She’s here illegally.” (10 seconds later) “I’m just seeing this now, I don’t know the background…” Absolutely vile

even aside from the casual racism this nitwit deploys, imagine how dumb you'd have to be to not understand why people might more readily protest a murder carried out by their government, for which their government is unrepentant, than than a murder by an individual.

"She made him do it" strikes again. He's not concerned the murder will anger us; he's insisting that saying it was murder and the officer a murderer will anger them and then our fault if they lash out. "She made him do it" is the burdening of Democrats and the left for right-wing/Republican acts.

Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.

Which is more likely: stores will completely upend their inventory or will stop accepting SNAP?

Also, the guy who killed someone dropped an F bomb. So the only difference between him and Frey is killing someone.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

AUCHINCLOSS: What you're saying is that if you get pulled over and the officer grabs your door and attempts to pry it open and is filming you, and your car moves forward away from the officer, your family would be okay if you then got shot in the face 3 times? DOOCY: No A: You're victim blaming

Craig: "This is ridiculous. The budget reconciliation bill they're quoting that would not allow us to come in is an appropriations bill, a budget bill. It's absolute nonsense. We'll be notifying the district court of these activities. We actually have a right to talk to our detained constituents"

He's just straight up rationalizing that it's OK for them to murder people over "hateful rhetoric." "Contempt of cop" is not, in fact, a crime, especially not one that warrants summary execution on the streets.

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

Frey: "We've only had two shootings in Minneapolis this whole year. 50 percent of them have been from ICE."

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"

Kelly Morrison on a Twin Cities ICE facility she & other members of Congress tried to visit: "We were told to leave. We met with 2 of the commanding officers & they told us the reason we were not able to stay & meet with detainees is because the funding for ICE came from the 'Big Beautiful Bill.'"

Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

One of the more surreal patterns in Trump's insane claims is that he loves insisting some catastrophic outcome will occur unless we immediately do X, without explaining why nothing bad happened for 250 years when we weren't doing X.

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DHS official McLaughlin blatantly lies about Renee Good: "The deceased had been following our law enforcement throughout the day, stalking them. At the time of the incident, our law enforcement was outside their vehicle trying to get their vehicle out of the snow when she started harassing them."

"If you account for our kidnapping and renditioning operation that violates US statutes, the Constitution, and international law, the economy is doing great!" is one hell of a take