Listen to wise Professor Timothy Snyder: Thoughts on MN laws, language and leadership. It is in how we treat the law, use the right language, and respect the real leaders, that we will get out of this and become a better country.

Democrats' only real remaining leverage is filibustering appropriations packages. They can no longer even slow nominations on their own after Republicans went nuclear again on noms floor time last year. There are few other bills Trump admin even wants. It's all exec orders these days.

Minneapolis residents are risking their lives so that the world can see what is actually happening to their city, Charlie Warzel reports.

DHS claimed "Medics provided immediate aid to Pretti." They lied. In truth, a physician entered a sworn affidavit that ICE blocked him from reaching Pretti, and when he finally got there ICE wasn't giving him CPR, but counting bullet holes. My full analysis: www.qasimrashid.com/p/in-minneap...

I'm reluctant to criticize people's looks. But Pamela Jo Bondi is such a hard-looking woman. She looks like the petulant person who just erroneously declined your charge for an incinerated hot dog at a GT gas station.

Pam Bondi telling Minneapolis that ICE will be recalled *only* when that blue city turns over its voter rolls is a clear reveal that this isn't about immigration. It's about interfering with upcoming elections that may not favor Donald Trump. It's extortion. www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-m...

Pamela Jo Bondi incriminatingly revealed (she's smart that way) that ICE in Minneapolis is *not* about immigration. It's about extortion to interfere with upcoming elections. And because Donald got his delicate feelings hurt that the city didn't vote for him.

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You know it's really bad when even John Fetterman is coming out against it.

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The federal presence in a crisis like this has always been predicated on de-escalating the violence. Up until now.

if Tom "Cava Bag" Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you're fucked

“It’s akin to pseudoscientism, if you’ll allow me to coin a term: The pretense that politics is more science than art, along with the artifice of scientific rigor without good methodology.” www.offmessage.net/p/a-failure-...

Yeah, the rhetoric was the problem, not, ya know, the murder.

"This isn’t about immigration enforcement. This is straight-out fascism. ... They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are beating up and killing citizens to create disruption, so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office."

Upon receiving via courier the biggest Cava bag stuffed with cash he'd ever seen, Tom Homan agrees to replace his equally incompetent and unpleasant coworker, Kristi Noem, in Minneapolis. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Is this weird? ICE usually posts press announcements almost daily (even a couple times per day) but they haven’t posted in nearly a week. This is also where they are required to post about detainee deaths. Coincidence or are they withholding information 🤔 www.ice.gov/newsroom

Sends an unmistakable message: Bari Weiss has gotten word that Kristi Noem will be fired as a scapegoat for the fantastic, multilayered screw up in Minneapolis. Otherwise no way she'd be running this. And note the paper's failure to report on what was going on in Minneapolis over a 72-hour period.

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“Republicans need the votes of at least seven Democrats to pass the legislation – and now they don’t have them.” Alex Pretti’s murder by ICE was the breaking point for Senate Democrats who are now going to use their votes to block a bill to expand ICE’s budget. zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

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Jimmy about to become Canada's most hated if it goes thru

"Trump's mass deportation campaign has been a moral and political failure," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/3LJQTVb

Sending Tom Homan to Minnesota is like pouring gasoline on a fire. The chaos is the point — let’s stop sending Trump officials in and start sending Trump’s agents home.

People aren’t supposed to have an opinion on DHS, they are meant to quietly protect the homeland. Trump and Kristi Noem have bastardized it.

The lesson of the past two weeks, whether you’re the EU, South Korea or any other trading nation: you may THINK you have a “deal” with Donald Trump. You don’t. 🤡 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9982...

This was from last week. Substitute “South Korea” for “Japan”; it’s still pretty prescient. 🤡

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Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

I can’t believe their plan of shooting people in the face and bombing their homes hasn’t proven more popular

Mike Myers is always going to rep his country! 🇨🇦 The comedian paid tribute to the Canadian military on SNL over the weekend. #SNL #MikeMyers

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Rep. Mike Collins (a US Senate candidate) suggests Georgia high school students who walked out to protest ICE are stupid

Multiple creators posting screenshots of TikTok telling them they can no longer post or promote videos that use the word Epstein or criticize ICE or Trump or Israel

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem think you will believe them over your own eyes. No. Alex Pretti wasn't a terrorist. He was a VA nurse. When agents pushed a woman to the ground, he tried to help her up. His last words were “Are you okay?” Enough. Kristi Noem should resign.

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We will remember how they threatened us for a long time

Not *quite* a threat of invasion—when you drill down on exactly what's happening here—but clearly walking up to that line by way of *telling* Canada (not asking for a negotiation on the matter) that the United States will in the future violate Canadian sovereignty in ways that are currently illegal.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

“The steady drumbeat of imagery out of Minnesota is persuading the last few persuadable voters that this deportation campaign has gone too far. More than half of independents now approve of abolishing ICE, once a rallying cry of progressives.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

NewsNation is reporting that "Bovino and his unit will be leaving Minnesota after today"

BREAKING: The Third Circuit SHUT DOWN DOJ’s attempt to overturn the court's ruling that Alina Habba is DISQUALIFIED from serving as a US Attorney The latest example of independent courts checking this Admin's abuse of power The rule of law applies to EVERYONE - TN

💯Agree. You don't get to wave the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 when it benefits you and then say you support Alberta separating. Either you are a True Canadian or you aren't, pick a lane and stay in it!! 💪🇨🇦💪

The administration is "deeply frustrated"? To my mind, Noem/Bovino carried out what the White House wanted (see statements from Miller absolving ICE and smearing Good and Pretti), and now that its backfired, they are being used by Trump as scapegoats to absolve the WH of accountability. Dont forget.