Walz.
They don't think it's that easy, over and out. It's Wait-a-minute...
Trump's poll numbers have not yet plunged enough, and Minnesota needs to be made whole for the plight Trump inflicted upon the State.
It is not over. The siege perps go, the damage remains, and the King Perp remains in the White House demented but unbowed. It sucks.
But, how petty and retributive is the man? How far is his reach that way?
Our DOW (DoD officially, but Trump/Hegseth do it their way) posts:
That's go an embedded awkward Hegseth speech if you care, but the item states:
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced the War Department would sever its academic ties with Harvard University, because attendance at the school no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services.
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"For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class," he said. "Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard — heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks."
Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the War Department will discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs at the school. Hegseth noted that military personnel who are currently attending classes will be able to finish those courses of study.
The secretary said the U.S. military has, in the past, had an important and often positive relationship with Harvard.
"In 1775 ... Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army in Harvard Yard and used the university as a military base," he said. "From that time, through the Korean War, military service was commonplace at Harvard. There are more recipients of our nation's Medal of Honor who went to Harvard than any other civilian institution in the United States."
Today, Hegseth said, Harvard is no longer a welcoming institution to military personnel or the right place to develop them.
The secretary also cited as a problem the relationships Harvard has with foreign powers, and an on-campus culture that is incongruent with military and American values and interests.
"Campus research programs have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party," he said. "And university leadership encouraged a campus environment that celebrated Hamas, allowed attacks on Jews, and still promotes discrimination based on race in violation of Supreme Court decisions."
While the War Department announced cessation of academic relations with Harvard, the secretary said in the coming weeks, the department and military services would evaluate similar relationships with other schools.
There's more, but is there some special reason, why Harvard, and will Hegseth's alma mater Princeton or any other school be next? How do you weigh that?
Well there is search = harvard turned down Barron Trump
As to how far and how petty; and as to whether Hegseth will really dump on other schools, do the search and consider the implication of returned items - re both questions; how retributive; and will others suffer "warrior scorn" now that folks can connect Barron's college options, and Harvard's being an administration target.
So, presumably other Ivy League rejections of Barron happened before NYU took him, and will there be a patterned domino effect, related per DOD/Barron rejections/
Who is Trump that way, and perhaps Barron took a shot at Princeton, the Hegseth alma mater, and they're unfit now for a warrior ethos too?
UPDATE; bonus link: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/pete-hegseth-military-harvard-donald-trump.html
FURTHER: It's reported, for example, that Barron chose NYU to remain housed in Trump Tower while in college. It likely does beat dorms or campus neighborhoods.
FURTHER: Ivanka's spouse Jared Kushner did get into Harvard, but perhaps dad Donald did not want to grease the skids the way the Kushner dad got both sons into Harvard. Or the Harvard endowment possibly would not accept cryoto.
In fairness, getting into NYU is no shabby accomplishment. Even if strings were pulled. It's a good school.
EmptyWheel:
This shooting was during the earlier siege of another Democratic Party favoring city, Chicago. More like the murder of Renee Good, shooting into an auto, etc. than like the ganging up against Pretti with multiple shooters.
This particular meeting is online here. An index of items is onscreen to the right of the viewport. Items 3.1 and 4 are of greater, or wider interest, than others.
Item 3.1 was swearing into permanent police force status of two probational officers. The uniforms were standardized, not subject to personal style decisions as to camo or other outfitting stuff. Throughout things, all the police including those observers standing at the back of the meeting were unmasked. It is standard procedure that way. Each of the inductees was identified by the chief by name and badge number.
Standard uniform dress did not involve pepper spray dispensers, nor tear gas canisters. Service firearms were appropriate. There was no aspect of intentional intimidation dress or demeanor. It was as any disciplined and responsible police force would do. It was known to be taking the right steps.
Then, item 4. Citizen input about the ICE and CBP siege effects which were more concentrated in the Twin Cities but were felt even in sleepy and predominately white Ramsey, north of the Twin Cities. Specific ICE encounters were disclosed, by Citizens, wanting some Council response, to have things better prepared for the next time a siege may be instigated. Feelings of one woman married to a Hispanic citizen were noted at the start of Citizen Input.
Things such as requiring anyone moving about the city claiming federal, state or local law enforcement powers having to remain unmasked, and to have identifiable numbered badge or name on the uniform, and to be wearing body cameras, would be simple ordinances to be enacted, and should be enacted. The use of chemical irritants, poisons not allowed in warfare, should be banned within city limits. The intimidating swagger and dress of the invading federal personnel has been documented online to where everyone knows the auto window breaking, beatings, dragging people from their automobiles, and the two cold blooded murders are cause to say if the town of 30,000 knows the right way the feds damned well know it too, and deliberately shit all over the idea of "by the book" as a way to avoid extreme intimidation of a population.
The feds knew better, but intentionally did not act better. Bottom line, Trump on down to the thug in the mask on the street with the intent to beat and intimidate, each of them should be held accountable for totally unacceptable disturbance of the peace.
Elections will clean up a lot of the problem. but that's years out. Current cleaning up of things is needed, as well as federal money to compensate for all the economic havoc the bastards inflicted - that is needed but unlikely to be accorded to the deserving State of Minnesota, its political subunits, and its people.
It is most unfortunate the demented bastard Trump will not suitably be dealt with for his hateful siege.
There is an injustice to that, and again, the point of this entire post is to show a Minnesota town of 30,000 knows better, so why doesn't a National Cabinet level operation conform to "by the book?" The answer is inescapable via logical circumstantial inference. The dogs did not want to behave as they knew proper, and that's top down, and the dogs have to be disciplined. Packs of wild dogs are a danger, but at least this pack appears rabies free. In some cases, a close call, but what looked like rabid mayhem inferentially was intended mayhem.
That point is made because in the course of the town's citizen input the mayor continued to say avoid getting into motives; which is a denial of circumstantial evidence being as good as direct evidence, which is a pattern jury instruction.
In effect the mayor misunderstood that aspect of the law. Motive almost always has to be inferred, from the FACTS, and it is to deny the entire history of law to think otherwise and to ignore proof of motive via circumstantial evidence. This is not saying the mayor was wrongly motivated, clearly he believed his counsel on point and correct. He simply was dead wrong. And that is worth pointing out. He'll do better.
Readers unfamiliar with a representative case of civil discourse at a town council meeting are urged to examine those two parts of the meeting, as well as other parts more localized in impact, if they are curious of how such meetings proceed.
The blog has readers outside of the U.S.. and they in particular might enjoy seeing the televised archive of one representative town meeting. It seems generic, but other towns likely differ in detail.
Of particular interest to Ramsey's people and officials, the Open Meeting Law mandates that decisions be made in open meetings, and there are aspects where sequential one-on-one conversations may involve a majority of a counsel, in violation of the intent and reach of the Open Meeting Law, a Minnesota State Statute.
Thus councilmembers should always strive for public open meeting discussions, where in Ramsey even council work sessions are open to the public, but rarely attended by anything beyond a handful of citizens. Open availability, and the absence of closed secret deliberations is the point of the law and its reach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Q0Qk5xGic
That was posted by The Hill, and the accompanying text, indicates over two million viewers. Crabgrass did not watch the entire thing, but enough.
The damage of lawless federal agent conduct, apparently motivated over politics, by Trump, through agents, remains. Three murderers need to be brought to justice for killing two citizens of Minnesota. We cannot tolerate anything less than a State trial for breach of State law - the laws against homicide. The question of excessive use of force, under Minnesota standards of law, needs resolution.
This does not undo the damage the Trump hateful thing has done. It cannot be undone. Trump must be held in ongoing disdain. His administration and his party should, in an ideal world, result in upcoming election whompings.
They deserve such public repudiation, and Democratic Party election wins will allow the correction of error and the punishment of those who abused federal power.
How many elections it will take? Likely the next two affecting federal offices and posts. Reform of Trump damage to the courts might take court packing, after election results permit it.
Again, in Vietnam, the French, then our nation intruded, but Ho Chi Minh and his supporters lived there and stayed, and won by the intruders leaving.
That is an inevitable pattern. Homan's admitted it. Trump has to accept it. And Trump has his poll results to consider, as to whether there was any degree of wisdom to wage a siege upon the State of Minnesota. To the extent current levels of dementia allow him to consider anything without danger to the public from the dementia, he should consider his decision making and the advice he's been given in the process.