Developers are Crabgrass : 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.

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.
Harry Niska
Opinion contributor
Jan. 29, 2026, 6:05 a.m. ET

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!