https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-KW-2veWHg
Thursday, February 05, 2026
Well it looks as if Minnesota Republicans are treating Homan and his zoo animals as a third rail. Except for Harry Niska, who says the big dog's knocked you over so roll on your back, show your belly and pee on yourselves and the big dog might lessen the terror.
The big dog kills. Two down, so far. Yet Niska writes:
I'm a Minnesota Republican. Gov. Walz must cool the overheated rhetoric.
As elected officials, our words matter, especially during moments of crisis. In Minnesota, continued hateful rhetoric from public leaders has poured gasoline on an already volatile situation.
The mayor said it best, "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." Our border with Canada is secure enough by itself that we don't need a Bovino, and we don't need a Homan. We need relief from them and their murders. Yesterday was not soon enough for the hateful brood to have cleared out.
Niska, however, says cave in to the big dog, etc, and I want a new rep besides that damned Quisling. Get a load of this:
Here in Minnesota, efforts to increase immigration enforcement have collided with local sanctuary policies in the Twin Cities, overheated political rhetoric and a breakdown in communication among local, state and federal officials.
What began as a public safety effort to remove criminal illegal immigrants has instead devolved into divisive confusion and conflict. The result has been civil unrest and increasingly dangerous confrontations between federal authorities and the community, with tragic results, including the deaths of two Minnesotans: Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Yes, but say it correctly - Goons descended to intimidate the Democratic City on order of the demented White House terror monger, Trump, and once here they became a lawless force of gross public mayhem and intimidation; as they were previously under Trump's order in DC, in Chicago, and in LA. They came for the same unpopular crap here. And we stood up. We did not roll over and play dead.
We organized. We blew whistles and did phone-video of the reign of terror, in its multiple aspects. Niska thinks that was excessive self-protection, and he's dead wrong. Niska wrote:
In our system of self-government, the right to peaceful protest and the protections guaranteed by the First Amendment are fundamental. Thousands of Minnesotans have exercised that right by demonstrating against federal immigration actions.
Unfortunately, we have seen the line crossed from peaceful protest to confrontational tactics, including coordinated efforts (sometimes encouraged by elected officials) to interfere with lawful federal immigration enforcement operations.
As elected officials, our words matter, especially during moments of crisis. In Minnesota, continued hateful rhetoric from public leaders has too often poured gasoline on an already volatile situation.
Federal law enforcement officers were compared to the Gestapo. Minnesotans were urged to “put your body on the line.”
Operation Metro Surge has even been compared to the Holocaust, in comments made by Gov. Tim Walz that were swiftly rebuked by the Holocaust Museum. This type of overheated language not only incited escalation but also put both the public and law enforcement at risk.
They were fucking compared to the Gestapo because they acted like the Gestapo. Cut the down-play of pulling people from cars, beating people up, and shooting two Minnesotans wrongly, as if the people's resistance to Gestapo tactics was bringing it on themselves.
Bottom line - Gestapo-like actors came into the state and terrorized the Citizenry, and Niska appears is okay with that?
Who voted for him? Why?
And he wrote "compared to the Holocast" when Walz may have said that. But they had neither death camps nor slave labor, grant that. They, instead, were acting like the SA, Hitler's 1930's armed paramilitary, and they were called an armed paramilitary, because that's what they were. An invasion by an armed lawless-acting federal paramilitary at Trump's whim and fancy.
And yes, elected officials words matter, which is why Frey got huzzas for the right words. He was heard. Not by Trump and his goons, but by the entire fucking world that had as hard a time as Minnesota in seeing the grotesqueness of what Trump unleashed out of pettiness and dementia. Niska wrote:
Federal leaders have not been blameless, either. Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have also engaged in overheated rhetoric, most notably in the immediate aftermath of the tragic shooting of Alex Pretti.
What Trump's insiders did is they fucking lied about both shootings. Through their teeth they lied, calling the dead ones "domestic terrorists." The fucking domestic terrorists were the murderers, not the murdered, and Niska calls it "overheated rhetoric?" It was flat out wilful lying, from Bovino, through Noem, Miller and JD who even said the goons had "absolute immunity" to have done all they did.
Harry, why shade the bite out of candid truth? His heart of explanation of fault, is:
In Minneapolis and St. Paul, local leaders have chosen defiance instead of cooperation, ignoring ICE detainment orders for individuals in county or city custody. These are local jails, not state prisons – an important distinction Walz too often ignores. The governor conflates ICE detainment orders, routinely honored by state prisons, with those refused by local jails because of sanctuary policies at the county and city levels.
Roll over? Local leaders set local policy - that's what Harry's been doing as a legislator, Christsakes - and because there's no knuckling under to Trump goons, they've earned the federalized grief they've gotton? Hang it up Harry. Nobody buys that. Local leaders may ultimately be coerced to cave in by the boot on the throat, but they have not, and not caving in was a triumph of courage. Not a weasel answer.
Some may agree with Niska. There's not been a great shoutout that way, and his SD31 Republican write up for initial caucusing acted as if the situation did not exist. No exhortation of support ICE and Border Patrol. Hiding heads in the sand is what you got from your own people, Harry.
Since Harry Niska's write-up, stories are here and here. They speak for themselves. Read them. One heroically honest person for Diogenes lamp, is reported by PiPress:
Government lawyer yanked from immigration detail in Minnesota after telling judge ‘this job sucks’
Julie Le was assigned at least 88 cases in less than a month. She told U.S. District Judge Blackwell that she wishes he could hold her in contempt of court so she could get “a full 24 hours of sleep.”
[...] “What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need,” Le said, according to a transcript.
Le’s extraordinary remarks reflect the intense strain that has been placed on the federal court system since President Donald Trump returned to the White House a year ago with a promise to carry out mass deportations. ICE officials have said the surge in Minnesota has become its largest-ever immigration operation since ramping up in early January.
Several prosecutors have left the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota amid frustration with the immigration enforcement surge and the Justice Department’s response to fatal shootings of two civilians by federal agents. Le was assigned at least 88 cases in less than a month, according to online court records.
Blackwell told Le that the volume of cases isn’t an excuse for disregarding court orders. He expressed concern that people arrested in immigration enforcement operations are routinely jailed for days after judges have ordered their release from custody.
“And I hear the concerns about all the energy that this is causing the DOJ to expend, but, with respect, some of it is of your own making by not complying with orders,” the judge told Le.
Le said she was working for the Department of Homeland Security as an ICE attorney in immigration court before she “stupidly” volunteered to work the detail in Minnesota. Le told the judge that she wasn’t properly trained for the assignment. She said she wanted to resign from the job but couldn’t get a replacement.
“Fixing a system, a broken system, I don’t have a magic button to do it. I don’t have the power or the voice to do it,” she said.
And Bondi fired her. Like as if she was an "Apprentice." But her words were the truth. The Trump storm troopers produced so much shit against regular real people that a diligent government lawyer could not keep up with their rightful or wrongful kidnappings. Bottom line. End of story. ICE out!
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| Goon boss: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis |
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| Goons: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis |
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Tuesday, February 03, 2026
WTF happened to "border security?" Yeah, how come it got banner disappeared? The Infestation? Wasn't it hot botton before the misfits-and-losers gangs arrived? Now, no banner presence.
Call up this page. Word search = border -- Go figure that one out: https://www.sd31gop.com/
Get a load of the final line - "We always need help."
Bro, do they ever. Now more than ever -
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
As immigration operations continue across Minnesota, all federal immigration agents in the state will be given body worn cameras “effective immediately,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced.
Noem said cameras will be rolled out nationwide “as funding is available.”
Eight additional federal attorneys are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation.
The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month in protest of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice, including the department’s refusal to initiate a civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Good.
Deep in hiding. Even tepid misleading crap such as this has been GOP deep sixed.
Harry is smart enough to know better, that such phony reasoning and name-calling the other party, which wins elections, will sink and not float. Be intimidated he says. Fold and be intimidated by Steven Miller's brutal show of killer force. Fold to the goons.
Harry knows why US Attorneys are leaving in droves. Harry is just an apologist, and should grow away from losing screeds. Sophistry, from that item:
Fold to the boot on the throat? No fucking way Harry. Give it up. We're Minnesotans and don't do that.
And if you want to see that allegedly inflammatory rhetoric elected leaders say, try YouTube, here and here.
Harry - those Frey and Walz ideas make sense, to me. Sure, Trump disrespects Somalis. He's Jealous. They've been pirates for centuries, and have done it better than the Trumps (with only four generations, this hemisphere), dating back to grandpa Fred Drumpf's Seattle and Klondike brothel - restaurants.
Monday, February 02, 2026
With this step it should be all over but the shouting. Peggy has the Tina Smith endorsement. Angie Craig has a pot of donor cash, from whereever/whoever. And a conservative record in a conservative CD2 district. Sorry, Angie the Flanagan light shines brighter.
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Tomorrow is DFL Precinct Caucus day in Minnesota. Big news today, on the eve of caucus, Tina Smith sees sufficient urgency to join the long and illustrious list Peggy Flanagan has as endorsing progressives. Times need a fighter, Smith says, and Flanagan is it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYxv_Zhtqqs - is the online video where Smith endorses and Femming says thank you, and that she will serve and fight the occupation and the individual - Trump - inciting the unneeded and unwanted influx of death and trouble which Trump has viciously instigated against Minnesota.
And the fight will reach beyond that, to an affordable economy for regular citizens, decent healthcare without gimmick giveaways to insurance firms. And Flanagan clearly is the only option for progress from a sad, outdated, stale status quo.
With the contest being Flanagan and Craig and no third option, this is Smith making the politically difficult statement; that Angie Craig is not the one.
Others have lined up that way too. MinnReformer reports:
Smith is a progressive Democrat and part of the “Fight Club,” a group of Senate Democrats challenging their leadership to be more combative in the face of the Trump administration’s sweeping agenda.
[...] “Peggy has served this state so well. She has delivered results for Minnesotans and she understands that right now what we need are fierce fighters. People who are willing to stand up to the status quo,” Smith said.
[...] Craig is seeking to replicate the success she’s enjoyed in the purple 2nd District by being more of a bridge-builder and win back voters who are put off by polarization in Congress. She’s been endorsed by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and several labor unions and state officials.
Flanagan has also been endorsed by former Sen. Al Franken, who held the Senate seat before Smith.
If the call to move the needle from the status quo to something many feel better, one must note that the Hakeem Jeffries endorsement IS that very status quo. Ineffective and entrenched, as is fellow New Yorker, Senator Schumer.
Furthermore, Strib's reporting of Smith's endorsement also notes:
Smith’s backing of Flanagan adds to her growing list of endorsements from sitting lawmakers in Congress. Flanagan has established herself as the progressive in the race, with the backing of big-name lawmakers on the left, including Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
“Tina is an unapologetic progressive champion for working people who has delivered real results for Minnesotans all across the state,” Flanagan said in a statement touting Smith’s endorsement.
Craig has garnered considerable union endorsements in the race, giving her early and strong labor backing in the race. She also has the backing of Democratic party leaders in Washington, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A handful of Republicans are also running for the seat,[...]
Simply stated, Crabgrass believes the progressive old farts outweigh Pelosi, who's still going as Craig's premier old fart, but nonetheless ossified and drifted into irrelevance.
Pelosi is one big reason Medicare for All was repeatedly tamped down while Hakeem's not said boo in favor of MfA. Craig's union backers have their own healthcare arrangements and care little about all the rest of us.
"Got mine, so get yours" has an ugliness to it which is hard to shake.
Hakeem and Pelosi have good coverage too. Cadillac plans Congress has given itself.
Clean up the mess or suffer more of the same. It's not rocket science. It's Peggy for Senator.
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One thing that rankles me, should Craig win the primary, is she's taking AIPAC money. The war criminals like her and that needs analysis.
This is sickening. It is proof of how loose Greg Bovino ran things. Unless, of course, this is the type of outcome Bovino wanted.
We hope there will be email or other communication uncovered to prove Bovino was not a passive idiot, but rather a key "policy" voice in how his stormtroopers acted.
Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents initially claimed Alberto Castañeda Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release.
But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old’s brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.
“It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.”
The explanation from ICE is an example of recent run-ins between immigration officers and health care workers that have contributed to mounting friction at Minneapolis hospitals. Workers at the Hennepin County facility say ICE officers have restrained patients in defiance of hospital rules and stayed at their sides for days. The agents have also lingered around the campus and pressed people for proof of citizenship.
Since the start of Operation Metro Surge, President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, ICE officers have become such a fixture at the hospital that administrators issued new protocols for how employees should engage with them. Some employees complain that they have been intimidated to the point that they avoid crossing paths with agents while at work and use encrypted communications to guard against any electronic eavesdropping.
Similar operations have been carried out by federal agents in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities, where opponents have criticized what they say are overly aggressive tactics. It’s not clear how many people have required hospital care while in detention.
And, after the unbelievable ICE bullshitting, the stone wall -
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on Castañeda Mondragón’s injuries. A deportation officer skirted the issue in the court documents, saying that during the intake process at an ICE detention center, it was determined he “had a head injury that required emergency medical treatment.”
Gregorio Castañeda Mondragón said his older brother is from Veracruz, Mexico, and worked as a roofer. He has a 10-year-old daughter living in his hometown he helps support.
According to his lawyers, Alberto Castañeda Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents. Minnesota incorporation filings show he founded a company called Castañeda Construction the following year with an address listed in St. Paul.
He appears to have no criminal record.
Greg Bovino's and Stephen Miller's correspondence needs investigation. There can be no doubt of that. Between those two, protocols were alleged to have existed. That's could well be a Miler cooked fiction, with the "protocol" being make examples - get it done, quick and brutal.
This is all super fucked. Our government. Against us. For now profiling on skin darkness and accent, later - no profile needed?
Pro Publica: "The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez."
Yes, a proper and decent U.S. of A, federal government would have identified these two from the start, but we ain't got that, so ProPublica had to out them.
From the tail end of the PP story:
Note from the editors:
ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed.
The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement.
The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
Silence, by Trump and Miller, is not golden. It is indicative of something to hide.
What, how bad is the truth to these people? We await truth to unwind. And, given the hiding of truth, it has to be as bad as it gets; Prove me wrong!
(That "Prove me wrong" was not good for Charlie Kirk, but I used it anyway, hoping I fare better. Even a stay in the Wipple Building beats how Kirk met his end.)
The PP story from that link is there for any interested reader. No excerpt here.
A hat tip to EmptyWheel, where Crabgrass first learned of perp ID.
Likely more shoes are set to drop, so the ongoing story will be the real truth, hopefully, and it will not be another stone wall where we infer and speculate.
The focus here revolves around the FBI now allegedly investigating and not hiding the ball. We'll see, but Crabgrass believes Pam Bondi would have preferred a deeply buried truth, which under Patel could happen, but at any rate it appears Congress critters blasted Bondi off the dime to stage something like truth seeking, (if done for not her and her DOJ munchkins), then at least done for a people hungry for and deserving more than being treated like proverbial mushrooms.
That is the five page letter from House members to Bondi, shaming her will to mushroom anyone and everyone. Pdf documents are difficult to cut/paste into hypertext, so no excerpt is given, but the letter is short and with a J'Accuse, flavor, so follow the link to the original, and see if you agree with Crabgrass that without that swift kick in ass Bondi would have done zippo for the public trust. (Just as her boss would have preferred things.)
And of course the Minnesota BCA investigative unit doing the job would have generated more trust than Kash Patel will ever be worth, nonetheless, it is the FBI Bondi tasked with "finding truth" and we wait to see.
At least now the three murdering perps have been identified in the Good and Pretti cold blooded killings, so even if the feds lie down and play dead, the murderous conduct was in Minneapolis, and local authorities will, sooner or later, prosecute.
Murder has no statute of limitations, and Minnesota convictions are immune to Trump's thugish pardon power. Nail them here, and prove the legal system works.
UPDATE: The EmptyWheel link in turn links to additional Bluesky content.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Walz is a realist. He has earned being heard and viewed as a sane man among havoc. A video helps.
Support rational democracy, now, with Walz. Later, with Citizens United.
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