Wiseguy
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Hobby Historian, Pretend Musician, Drum Corps Nerd. Google Apps Enthusiast yet Apple convert. I wrangle people and dig logistics.
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When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
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The most inflammatory rhetoric by far in all of this on TV and social media has come from Tom Homan, Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The most inflammatory rhetoric by far in all of this on TV and social media has come from Tom Homan, Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...
When was the last time you heard a law enforcement leader refer to an going action as a “theater” and to begin a “draw down”. It equates Minneapolis to Afghanistan. And that this is a military operation in hostile territory.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
When was the last time you heard a law enforcement leader refer to an going action as a “theater” and to begin a “draw down”. It equates Minneapolis to Afghanistan. And that this is a military operation in hostile territory.
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In theater. So they think they’re at war.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
In theater. So they think they’re at war.
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I guess the plan is to intimidate people by making them look like the best ska group of 2026.
I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.
January 28, 2026 at 9:23 PM
I guess the plan is to intimidate people by making them look like the best ska group of 2026.
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NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
You know that trope "the media is liberally biased"? Imagine if this were two white GOP Congressmen. It would be on blast for weeks across all the legacy media outlets.
Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social & @repilhan.bsky.social attacked 2 days apart
As Trump & Vance continue to incite, their supporters are feeling emboldened
As Trump & Vance continue to incite, their supporters are feeling emboldened
January 28, 2026 at 8:50 AM
You know that trope "the media is liberally biased"? Imagine if this were two white GOP Congressmen. It would be on blast for weeks across all the legacy media outlets.
Disturbing video but well documented frame by frame and clearly shows evidence at trial that will be devastating against any attempted self defense or doing their job line of argument.
A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/3YXeODB
January 27, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Disturbing video but well documented frame by frame and clearly shows evidence at trial that will be devastating against any attempted self defense or doing their job line of argument.
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This is a terrific piece of rhetorical construction that also happens to be a very good point. A lot of us have been heartened by the courage and integrity so many Minnesotans have shown over this past week, in the face of intimidation and spiteful violence.
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 AM
This is a terrific piece of rhetorical construction that also happens to be a very good point. A lot of us have been heartened by the courage and integrity so many Minnesotans have shown over this past week, in the face of intimidation and spiteful violence.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
Minnesota makes me feel good about us as people. True patriots. Real Americans.
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Minnesota makes me feel good about us as people. True patriots. Real Americans.
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We know that famous American ideal, where the government has a right to shoot you dead because of “rhetoric.”
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 8:25 PM
We know that famous American ideal, where the government has a right to shoot you dead because of “rhetoric.”
Might move my weekly History missive over to Substack. Feel free so subscribe (free) and share. It'll stay on both platforms for the time being.
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"A man was lynched yesterday" is Back with Vengeance
Minnesota today looks a lot like an America we thought we left behind
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January 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Might move my weekly History missive over to Substack. Feel free so subscribe (free) and share. It'll stay on both platforms for the time being.
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O'Keefe looks at these observers through his lens, which *is* paid and (attempted) organized agitation. He cannot fathom the widespread anger and passionate feeling of community, only how it must be what he tries to do but on a massive scale. It's a form of jealousy and projection.
It's the PTO moms and spreadsheet dads and other random-ass Minnesotans concerned for their neighbors. There is no one central organizing org, just a ton of people who give a shit. It's both beautiful that it's happening and laughable that anyone thinks there's some broader apparatus at work.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM
O'Keefe looks at these observers through his lens, which *is* paid and (attempted) organized agitation. He cannot fathom the widespread anger and passionate feeling of community, only how it must be what he tries to do but on a massive scale. It's a form of jealousy and projection.
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Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
January 24, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
Amazing thread on Minnesota resistance infrastructure.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Amazing thread on Minnesota resistance infrastructure.
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What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?
Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?
We boycotted for less with the 1980 Summer Olympics
I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
January 24, 2026 at 5:33 PM
We boycotted for less with the 1980 Summer Olympics
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So the “everyone should be armed” second amendment crowd is using the fact the a man was armed (maybe) as justification?
Is this right?
Is this right?
January 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
So the “everyone should be armed” second amendment crowd is using the fact the a man was armed (maybe) as justification?
Is this right?
Is this right?
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Know hope
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Know hope
I've been wondering about this in the very "liberal" interpretation of stand your ground laws. Absolutely seems like it should stand for masked and not identifying feds?
“Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes said during an interview that residents could fire upon ICE agents who are masked if they feel they are in danger due to the state’s laws on self-defense.”
Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said during an interview that residents could fire upon ICE agents who are masked if they feel they are in danger.
komonews.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I've been wondering about this in the very "liberal" interpretation of stand your ground laws. Absolutely seems like it should stand for masked and not identifying feds?
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This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.
January 22, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.
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