Link.
A Maine law enforcement senior person speaks.
Developers are Crabgrass
Friday, January 23, 2026
This is crazy.
Tucker Carlson and some shouting idiot. Poor white people. And lawless failure to support ICE agents. Pure bullshit.
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Is this, however, sane?
What to conclude? There is a vast sea of some kinds of web content, one inch deep.
Not my saying, someone else said it first and I don't remember who. But it is true.
FURTHER: Third video, fit it into a pattern. Propaganda without shouting, since these are people with power and money and have no cause to shout about things. But their question is, "How is our world to be run?" Diogenes was not there.
FURTHER: RT here and here. You can go to their website and see more.
FURTHER: CNN:
With an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo that allows officers to enter homes without a judicial warrant, the Trump administration is seeking to usurp guardrails that are enshrined in the Fourth Amendment and have protected Americans’ civil liberties for centuries, experts in constitutional law and immigration policy told CNN.
Even in an administration that has always pushed an expansive vision of its law enforcement authority, the directive is notable for the way it tosses aside longstanding prohibitions against warrantless searches on private property — a legal concept that predates the creation of the United States and is among the country’s most foundational principles.
“The Bill of Rights, we thought, were the first 10 amendments,” said Mark Graber, a constitutional law scholar and University of Maryland professor.
With the newly discovered memo, he said: “I guess now we’re down to nine.”
Immigration officials had typically sought the arrests of undocumented people through two means: a judicial warrant, which is signed and authorized by a judge, or an administrative warrant, which is signed by people who work in the executive branch and fall under the purview of the president.
A critical difference between the two is that judicial warrants allow law enforcement to enter and search a person’s home or a non-public area of a business, while administrative warrants do not.
Most immigration arrests are carried out under administrative warrants because they require a lower bar to issue, and Trump administration officials have long harbored frustrations over limitations on officers pursuing targets on private property.
So, in fairness, as a question of reality being faced, how hard is it, really, to get a judicial warrant? You have one party making a case, the victim of the potential warrant search cannot make a counterargument. Do you find a judge not on a calendar but in chambers, go in, and say we need a warrant? That would be open to judge shopping, but find the process online. Yelling propagandasts, plenty. How actually are judicial warrants done, find it.
It seems the difference is judges know the game and are a bit skeptical, but you shop around there's one not tied up who can be approaced and wheedled.
So, the question is it's easier to have the administrator - boss of ICE or a designee rubber stamp something than to risk a judge not delivering, and it takes time and initiative to go to the courthouse rather than to the boss.
Find online that question, how hard, really, to get a judicial warrant, to see how citizens are actually are, or are not at great risk if you require a judge to sign off.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
This is a sad post, as it means the nation I live in has permantly lost much respect and credibility via its recent President.
Davos full speeches online, three key ones, two tightly messaged, one rambling where fact checking puts my nation in a very bad light. I should move to Canada, if they'd have me. One further Davos speech link, Macron's, which I did not watch, but found the full item online.
The first two, direct and not promising well for either the USA or its currency hegemony. There's a world of nations holding great amounts of US Treasury notes, and the bond market wonders.
Search = Trump fact check Davos -- then take your pick of multiple returned items
As a bonus, at a Congressional hearing, Jamie Raskin's Minority Ranking Member opening statement speaks of my home state, Minnesota.
Trust lost is not a good thing.
Readers, can you tell yourself of one good thing Donald J. Trump has done?
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
It is not as if great time is needed to reach cognizance of reality. Heather Cox Richardson gives the full report. Carville gives the executive summary.
You have it. Reflect on it.
When JD visits Minnesota, two questions need to be asked.
What about the 25th Amendment?
Will you end the siege?
Beyond that, do you think he's worth listening to?
USDA website on Minnesota ICE agents.
https://squealonpigs.com/take-action/
I had a nightmare about being on the ground attacked and bitten time and again by a feral band. It woke me up and I realized it was triggered by ICE presence and conduct, and media coverage of same. The way they band. The way they attack humans. Nasty animals.
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Is there an effort to ease up just a little in Minnesota, and if so, what does it mean?
Strib runs an item to semi-humanize Greg Bovino. And -
The latest: JD Vance to visit Minnesota this week as federal immigration surge continues
Those things, and the "deescalation" memo seem as if things are being taken away from Noem's shock-and-awe crap, and not changed much, but perhaps a bit lower on the gratuitous brutality as overt policy.
That would be straight out of Machiavelli, who taught maximize initial brutality, then transit to easing up a bit, and the opposition will lessen. Cold and cruel, but it looks like that. Prove me wrong, please.
Also in that JD headed item, not separately posted, Trump appears to be throwing John Ross under the bus, or starting to, with escalation from there:
Trump calls Renee Good's death 'a tragedy'At a news conference Tuesday reflecting on his first year in office, President Donald Trump had a softer tone when talking about the shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE agent than he did earlier this month. Trump said on Tuesday he “felt terribly” about it and that it was a “tragedy.”
During his remarks, Trump said ICE agents are “going to make mistakes sometimes,” he said, adding that they were occasionally “going to be too rough with somebody.”
Likely, Trump could give two shits about John Ross and about Renee Good, and is seeing Ross-under-the-bus as a tactic. Shooting somebody multiple times in the face seems to most people as much more than "too rough with somebody."
Trump still remains cogent enough to know that, but his thing is whether bad or whatever, keep escalating until time to chicken out and downscale.
BOTTOM LINE - Ross under the bus. Expendable agent.
The likely thing is to not be lulled into any fewer whistles or phone-video, as what is needed is firm proof over time of realization that the siege of Minnesota was a mistake. It would surprise me greatly if these people are capable of decency, but we'll see.
FURTHER:
They said it. It needed saying. It was time taken away from their practice, to reach the Capitol, to collectively speak up. It helps.
I guess the white male hospital top medical staff had to remain behind, since patients needed care. But the women spoke up. Women seem more outraged and vocal in general about the evil of the siege. Or news coverage suggests this is so.
FURTHER: Sadly, it needs to be said, the only answer is what Mayor Frey said at the outset of the occupation, "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." And that is NOT happening and should happen and JD can come and sophist up, down, and sideways, but, get the fuck out, and yesterday would not have been soon enough.
Unwanted, unhelpful, disturbing the peace. Get out. And leave Ross, for Minnesota to try for murder. Give all investigative notes and records and phone and email data to the Minnesota authorities, and then task the FBI to do things they can be trusted at not having cause to do a coverup. Otherwise, JD it's like you going to Greenland.
Unwanted, unhelpful, etc.
FURTHER: We do not need JD propagandizing. We need an exit. If JD takes them with him, bless JD. Otherwise, don't come. We want you JD as much as we want ICE.
Unless you intend to call off the siege and punish Ross for murder, stay in DC.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
" Leaked DHS memo warned against exact tactics used in ICE killing of Minnesota mom "
The headline above is the headline used in:
https://www.rawstory.com/renee-good-2674902911/
It's speculative, but at the Good execution exercise by Ross, the male voice at the end of the Ross recorded video saying "fucking bitch," might have been displeasure against Noem, for trying to forestall the very bogus killing practice ICE ostensibly intended to end and which Ross intentionally indulged in.
That's a Crabgass speculation, not one explicitly stated in the RawStory item.
RawStory did conclude its item, "Immigration officials stepping in front of vehicles has been a documented phenomenon for more than a decade. A 2014 internal review of the U.S. Border Patrol’s policies obtained and reported on by The Nation revealed that immigration officials had “intentionally and unnecessarily stepped in front of moving cars to justify using deadly force against vehicle occupants.”
In Minnesota, there is no statute of limitation for murder. Hopefully Ross understands why, or learns.
________________UPDATE_______________
See, also: Klipenstein, " Leaked memo: “De-escalation is key” -- Before Renee Good’s killing, immigration authorities sent agents a warning," at https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-memo-de-escalation-is-key
DOJ investigating after activists disrupt St. Paul church where MN ICE official is a pastor About 30 to 40 interrupted service Sunday morning at Cities Church on Summit Avenue, police say; DOJ investigates
Trump's people will try to make political hay from it, "My God!! A Church!!"
As a lifetime atheist, my feeling is so what, the door was open to the public and a disturbance was planned and conducted. That's a matter of local nuisance law, so don't make a federal case of it.
It should not have been done - strategically - as it won't grow legs in any positive sense. Yes, strange a high level local ICE man is a "pastor" at the church and it was Rome that hung Christ up, and now "Rome" is pissing all over Minnesota via Noem and her ICE goons. Quaint, indeed, a top ICE goon goes to a Church in honor of Christ, who the story has him firmly as a good guy activist, not dising immigrants into Jerusalem but driving THOSE HE THOUGHT DESECRATING HIS TEMPLE out with a whip. Rome hung him on a cross for that.
Remember the premise of those entering the church and that they did not use a whip.
_____________UPDATE____________
The latest: Department of Justice calls Minnesota lawsuit against ICE surge ‘frivolous’
Key paragraphs -
The U.S. Department of Justice said the state of Minnesota has no “shred of legal support” in its lawsuit against the federal government’s ICE surge in the state.
[...] The DOJ called the lawsuit’s claims “legally frivolous.” [a legalese term of art, not frivolous in any common sense]
Meanwhile, the DOJ has launched a separate investigation of possible criminal violations following a protest that was staged in a St. Paul church on Jan. 18.
Demonstrators disrupted a service at Cities Church after learning one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also works as the acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s field office in St. Paul.
[... see above] Here’s what else you need to know:
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that a recent court order limiting ICE tactics in Minnesota “didn’t change anything.”
- The Jan. 16 court order blocks agents from arresting, detaining, retaliating against or using force and chemical irritants against peaceful protesters and observers.
- The DOJ says it is not investigating the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good.
- About 1,500 active-duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a possible deployment to Minnesota.
It appears hotels where ICE agents were booked are closing for safety reasons, and towing of abandoned vehicles may be suspended modified, also for safety reasons.
Hopefully the lawless ICE men understand that public safety is a strong motivational concern.
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