Wednesday, February 25, 2026

EmptyWheel reviews how the siege of Minnesota was a giant federal clusterfuck, but it also was one extremely traumatic and costly to the affected population.

 The priorities were to intimidate, rather than to do regular or useful business:

https://emptywheel.net/katie-britts-sad-confusion-about-and-complicit-in-misallocation-of-hsi/ 

With Pritzker having sent Trump a bill for the mayhem costs Illinois/Chicago citizens were subjected to, we await the Minnesota invoice for compensation, or for lawsuit damages, whichever. The siege's litigation will continue into and well past the November 2026 election season. May it have a giant weight in a Democratic Blue Wave. And may the federal murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pritti be held to punishment for their crimes, as may be proven in Minnesota courts, under Minnesota law. Those prosecutions should be done. And they will be done. DHS and FBI cooperation or not, the perps will face prosecutions.

(Is there a betting market on those perps facing Minnesota State justice?