Saturday, January 17, 2026

Forget the 50,000 dollar bribe Holman took, he's got a new title

I knew Tom Holman was corrupt and was recorded taking a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents and I knew he had a semi-title of "border security advisor"; however, I didn't know he held a second title.  

President Donald Trump's border security adviser Tom Homan told Fox News's Laura Ingraham on Thursday evening that he wants the administration to build a "database" of any protesters who get arrested for obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so he can broadcast their names and faces to employers, schools, and everyone else he hopes might punish them for it.
"These people who want to say, follow ICE and film ICE, you know what, you can protest, you have that right," said Homan, who has previously threatened to arrest Democratic officials and has been accused of taking a $50,000 bribe from undercover federal agents. "But when you cross that line and we've proven it, if you interfere, impede, or assault an ICE officer, you will be prosecuted."
"One thing I'm pushing for right now, Laura, we're going to create a database," said Homan. "The people who are arrested for interference, impeding, and assault, we're going to make them famous. We're going to put their face on TV. We're going to let their employers and their neighborhoods and their schools know who these people are. Because as you say, these people, a lot of them say they're taking time off work to protest. I bet you a lot of them are calling in sick. I bet you a lot of those employers don't know what they're doing. We're going to make sure everybody knows who they are."


So Homan's second title is Snitch Bitch?


"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Friday, January 16, 2026. The corrupt administration of Donald Chump has many, problems but it all boils down to: They forgot who they war working for.


"They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans." is the title of a powerful guest essay by Shalom Auslander which addresses historical importance and recognition and the signs that led up to the Holocaust and the signs we see around us now in the United States:

But that’s the Trump administration, I reassured myself, not the American people.

Americans aren’t so easily fooled.

Americans are different.

Alas, my comfort was short-lived, as I made the mistake, then, of sinking into social media. There I encountered ordinary Americans who believed the Trump administration without question. Ordinary Americans who blamed Ms. Good, who repeated the things they learned from the government, like that she was a paid agitator, a far-left radical who got what she deserved. Ordinary Americans who said the armed agent who killed an apparently unarmed woman was a hero, defending his nation from undesirables. Ordinary Americans who, soon enough, lay the blame for the whole thing on Democrats, antifa, Gov. Tim Walz, Jews, women and gays.

Past or present, it’s not the leaders who disappoint me. It’s the led.

Which brings me back to that flea market find, to that old diary I didn’t buy. I was a young, broke writer at the time. I opted to spend what money I had on the old typewriter.

But I miss those days.

I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.

I miss believing that we Americans could never be led by a fearmonger to commit atrocities he claimed were necessary and good.

I miss believing we are not like them.

Shalom is exactly right.  


We, people in any country, have a problem with honesty when it comes to us.  Not all of us, but enough of us and, yes, it tends to men more than women who delude themselves.


Women will note a wrong more often than a man.  And movies capture that.  

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN and PRIVATE BENJAMIN are two examples.  Both are movies about individuals in the military who triumph.  But in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, the harassment from above is treated as something other than harm.  It's a learning lesson.  No, it's harassment.  Richard Gere's is targeted because he's suspected of being weak.  Goldie Hawn and the women of PRIVATE BENJAMIN have on illusions about Captain Doreen Lewis.  

For everyone, regardless of gender, it is hard to step back and look at what's going around us with a level of objectivity. I'm not just referring to the uneducated but they are part of the problem.  They're unable to question their government, they're unable to grasp the importance of analysis and criticism and they just follow along down the marked trail to whatever trap awaits them.  Along the way, they sometimes make a really stupid statement -- say something like "I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that" that gets logged for life via a Michael Moore film. 

The signs are obvious and have been obvious throughout 2025.  Some people refuse to see because honestly they're stupid.  Some people refuse to see because they can't admit that they're being wronged (again, more men than women seems to have that problem).  (And, yes, that can be backed up with studies and various illustrations and it's from a standard talk I gave back before the Iraq War when friends would ask me to speak to their colleges -- if the topic interests you, please refer to the work of Stephanie Coontz but we're not going to get lost in parentheticals today -- the text equivalent of lost in the weeds.)  And there are people who miss the signs because they don't want to see them because it's a horrible thing to see.  They're not saying, "I don't want to know because I don't care."  They don't want to believe that something so horrible and vile could take place in their country.  This group is hoping for the better and they awaken as things fail to improve.  

But it is happening here.  

A hateful and vile man is destroying our country and that's all there is to it.  He's at risk of harming the world.  And that's why it's really stupid -- you'll know who I mean -- and I address in this morning's gina & krista round-robin -- for someone on TV this week to have stupidly said not to pay attention to Greenland, it's not worth our times, it's not a real issue.  

It is a real issue and it does have impact in the world and in this country.  And, as Ben notes this morning on MEIDASTOUCH NEWS, it has one Republican in Congress saying he'll vote to impeach Chump if Chump invades Greenland.  



So maybe stop trying to police our discussions?  Ben's not the one, by the way, who said ignore Greenland -- that happened on MS NOW.   


Chris Hippensteel (NEW YORK TIMES) reports on a couple in a car with their six kids who were unable to turn around and even explained that to ICE:

One agent told the couple that they needed to get out of the area. Ms. Jackson said she and her husband responded that they were trying to do exactly that, but their path was blocked by agents coming up the street.

Then, agents let loose on the crowd, the couple said.

The crowd-control grenades went off around them and one tear gas canister rolled beneath the car, Ms. Jackson said. A concussive blast — from the tear gas canister or another device, she wasn’t sure — rocked the vehicle, she said, setting off the airbags and trapping the family as acrid smoke billowed around.

“It felt like our lungs was burning,” Mr. Jackson said, noting that two of his children had severe asthma. “Water didn’t help. Nothing helped at that moment.”

The couple said they were able to get their children, ages 6 months through 11 years, out of the car only after Mr. Jackson kicked open a door. Ms. Jackson, blinded and unable to breathe, circled the vehicle pulling out as many of her children as she could, she said.

Bystanders arrived to usher the family into a nearby house, she said, while others set about removing the 6-month-old, who was briefly trapped in his car seat.


How does this happen?  How does any of this happen?  

I think all of our current problems, the cause of them, can be summed up in one sentence.

They forget who they work for.  

You notice that about this trash heap administration? 


Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem defended ICE agents who are demanding that Americans prove they are U.S. citizens in Minneapolis amid escalating tensions.

The DHS secretary spoke with reporters outside the White House on Thursday as protests intensified in Minnesota after an officer shot a man in the leg after he allegedly assaulted an agent.
Noem was asked why Americans were being asked to prove citizenship and whether she was advising Americans to carry proof of citizenship.

“In every situation, we are doing targeted enforcement. If we are on a target and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they’re there and validate their identity,” Noem claimed. “That’s what we’ve always done in asking people who they are so that we know who’s in those surroundings.”


Wasn't aware that being Secretary of Homeland Security came with the power to rewrite the CONSTITUTION.  

As THE DAILY BEAST reminds, "The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizures and requires probable cause."


The Fourth Amendment trumps any bimbo with bad plastic surgery, somebody let Noem know.

We are their bosses.  We are the ones who pay them.  We are the ones they work for.  This idea that they're going to be corrupt and steal our money and close our schools and terrorize our cities?  That's not their job.

They don't know their job, they don't even know the law that they're supposed to be upholding.  

Let's drop back to the May 21st snapshot:

The fat and impotent Donald Chump is clearly unbalanced but long before all that, he was just stupid.  He remains ignorant to this day.  And that explains the losers and liars he's used to assemble a Cabinet.  Never has a team of less qualified people been put together and allowed to do so much destruction.


The worst of the worst -- that's the best description for Chump's Cabinet and, goodness, has it been on display. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's 'experience' was pretty much limited to killing her dog and publicly humiliating her husband.


Needless to say, that did not prepare her for the office she currently holds.


Senator Maggie Hassan: Secretary Noem, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff recently said that the Trump administration is actively looking at suspending habeas corpus.  Last week, you were asked about this and I want to clarify your position because it's obviously really important to get this right.  So, Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?


Secretary Kristi Noem: Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and --


Senator Maggie Hassan:  No.  No.  Let me -- let me stop you, ma'am.  Habeas corpus, excuse me, that's incorrect.


Secretary Kristi Noem: President Lincoln used it.


Senator Maggie Hassan: Excuse me.  Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.  If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people -- including American citizens -- and hold them indefinitely for no reason.  Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea. As a Senator from the Live Free or Die state, this matters a lot to me and my constituents and to all Americans.


We're all aware that Kristi didn't graduate college, not really.  In real time, she dropped out.  Years and years later, after she was in Congress, she went back and they gave her course credit for serving in Congress at the time. Without those extra breaks and extra credits, Kristi could not have graduated So the point here is, Kristi's not a lawyer.  She's taken no classes in the law.  She doesn't know the law.  If you want a dog shot, Kristi's your killer but if you want someone who understands the law and the Constitution, you'd be better off looking for a fifth grader who even half-assed applies themselves to their studies. 




Kristi Noem was grilled on the concept of habeas corpus during a Senate hearing, weeks after White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller floated suspending the due process for migrants.
Noem falsely claimed that "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
Instead habeas corpus guarantees a person's constitutional right to challenge, in a court of law, their detention by the government.


Grasp that this idiot doesn't know what habeas corpus is and, worse, she's so stupid, she's convinced herself that the US Constitution says it is a right granted to the president.


Do we all get how stupid she is?  She wasn't qualified for the office and she's been in it for months acting under the mistaken belief that habeaus corpus is a right of the US president and that this is via the Constitution.  If she were an attorney, that kind of 'error' and the way she has applied it could get her disbarred. 



They forgot who they work for.  AG Pam da Bimbo Bondi is pissing in her Frosted Flakes but still getting it down her throat.  As people like to joke of Pam, stealing from CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, "Anyone who could swallow two Snowballs and a Ding Dong shouldn't have any trouble with pride." And Pam never does have any trouble with pride.  Pocharapon Neammanee (HUFFINGTON POST) notes:


Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at six federal prosecutors who reportedly resigned after refusing to prosecute the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota woman killed last week by an ICE officer. 

“We had six prosecutors who suddenly decided they didn’t want to support the men and women in ICE,” said Bondi, as she visibly fumed Thursday on Fox News’ “Hannity.” “One of them was busy doing a photo shoot with The New York Times while ICE was out there risking their lives.”


I think SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Angie Tempura (played by Michela Watkins) said it best.






Exactly.  Let's all stare blankly at Pam and say, "Bitch please." 


I'm really offended by this crap.  She's not a private citizen.  She is paid to be professional and yet the whore can't be.  We pay her to be professional. Instead, she's forever attacking judges, mayors, governors, members of the federal government, private citizens.  Pam, you're a cheap whore and a ugly one. You don't deserve respect because you've never shown anyone respect.  Did you give Epstein a pass in Florida because he supplied you with women?  I don't know, you Republican women in Florida tend to be in one three-way after another -- especially if you're one of those Moms For Bigotry.



But I do know your behavior is outrageous.  


How dare you attack any attorney in the federal government who didn't want to do your WHORE BIDDING.


If I'm not mistaken even you drew a line at going after Comey.  Not because you cared about the law but because you knew it could get your license pulled.  That's the whole reason Chump sent you the message -- sent it to everyone by accident -- about how you needed to bring in Lindsey Halligan.


So when you refused his orders to save your own lazy ass, who were you not supporting?


You're a damn liar and you're a cheap who whores out any ethics you might still clutch -- even loosely.  So how about you trying earning the tax dollars we pay you and start acting profession.  Or do you just want to be known as a whore?

She's pathetic.  Wanting to prosecute the widow because the government murdered Renee Nicole Good.


They forgot who they work for. 



David Corn, Washington, D.C. bureau chief at Mother Jones, reported on Wednesday: “The Bureau of Prisons won’t explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this-and now we’re suing.”

Corn thanked the Reporters Committee (RCFP), which also reported: “The lawsuit, filed by @rcfp attorneys on behalf of the Center for Investigative Reporting, alleges that the Federal Bureau of Prisons violated FOIA by unlawfully withholding records related to Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer.”


They won't explain it.  Because when they take Chump's fiend Ghislaine Maxwell out of the prison she was sentenced to and ignore her convictions to place her in Club Fed, they're not working for the American people.  They're working to protect Chump's friends.

What did former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene tell us?  Chump yelled at her over the phone to stop supporting the release of The Epstein Files because releasing those files would embarrass his friends.

Probably him to.  But it would embarrass his friends, he said.

They forgot who they work for.




President Donald Trump and Republicans are down in the polls with less than 10 months until the midterm elections. Now, Trump is giving the economic populism of the left a try.

Last week, Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest at 10%, unveiled plans to bar large private-equity funds from buying up housing and said he would bar defense companies from issuing dividends or stock buybacks. These moves check off many policy wishes of the populist progressive left and borrow from political opponents like former Vice President Kamala Harris.

It comes as Trump, who strode into a second term on a pledge to lower costs, finds himself underwater on the economy. A recent CBS News poll found that only 39% of voters approved of his performance on the issue, while 61% disapproved, one of his worst polls since retaking the presidency.


He's not working for the American people and the polls demonstrate that the American people are grasping for it. 


Last week, the US government murdered Renee Nicole Good on January 7th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a man with years of training in using a firearm and who provided training to others ("a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor"), shot and killed the mother of three who was unarmed.  Ross, apparently needing to make social content while on the clock, filmed her and when the video was released, the world saw that her last words to him were, "I'm not mad at you."  By contrast, he or one of his fellow agents immediately called Renee a "f**king bitch" after plugged her with three bullets.  The federal government immediately began attacking Good -- even though they should be stating "I can't comment on an ongoing federal investigation." 

Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, "And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the evidence means."  Fat and little Vice president  JD Vance is a professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous.   John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:


Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential  Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.

Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.

Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."

The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched, Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in the hospital."

[. . .]

As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.

Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.

The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.


Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic,  I'm sick of this little bitch distorting my religion.  He needs to be excommunicated.  I'm not joking.  He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our teaching.  Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope Leo.  Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as a Catholic.  Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn mind.  We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."  

At AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW, James T. Keane writes:


After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making” and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three, was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.” 

Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.

Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend such Gestapo-like tactics. 

The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.

Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all, she was already dead.

The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify, and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.

On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”

Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal claims used after the fact to justify them.

How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?

 

And they keep lying.  And they keep smearing Renee Nicole Good.  Over and over, multiple times a day.  The government  just lies.  And how's that going?

They forgot who they were working for. 

Earlier this week, ICE attcked another woman, pulling her from her car.  Dan Gooding (NEWSWEEK) notes:
 

Bystanders at Tuesday’s confrontation shouted at agents to stop, with some questioning their actions.
“Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled,” Rahman said. “This happened just two blocks from where Renee Good was murdered, so I am very aware that this confrontation could have ended differently for me.”
Rahman told Newsweek that she repeatedly asked for a doctor while she was in ICE custody, only being taken to the hospital once she lost consciousness.

“I want to thank the medical staff at the Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Department for taking care of me. They gave me hope when I thought I was going to die,” she said. “I may have more to say in the coming days but for now, I am relieved to be safe and ask for privacy as I heal from my injuries and navigate how to move forward from this traumatic experience.”


 They forgot who they work for.

And that's apparent in Chump's administration's latest food recommendations.

 



And it's another example of how they forgot who they were working for.


On Jeffrey Epstein, we're going to note two videos.

 

And this one below, trigger warnings apply.  

 



The following sites updated:


  • Thursday, January 15, 2026

    Propaganda Pig


    Fox News viewers became vocal against President Donald Trump as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's praised his recent accomplishments.

    During the conference, Leavitt, 28, donned a flashy business suit as she wore her signature accessory - her petite silver cross. While starting off with an update on the Trump administration, the press secretary praised Trump's role with the inflation crisis.
    She said, "Tuesday's CPI report marked the latest confirmation that President Trump has defeated Joe Biden's inflation crisis. Since President Trump took office, core CPI has increased at just a 2.4 percent annualized rate, substantially lower than the 3.3 percent annual rate inherited from the Biden administration last January."

    I hope Propaganda Pig is saving her pennies.  You know she's pregnant again.  She already has the freakish looking child and now she's going to have another one.

    Apparently, she feels she can cover plastic surgery bills on both children.  The freakish comes from her side and that's why she had plastic surgery.  You've seen the picture from before, right?


    Best comment on the article:


    Thomas Allen
    1 hour ago
    Trump is the house guest that stayed too long.


    "The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

    Thursday, January 15, 2025.  Chump's administration is filled with liars, another shooting in Minnesota, the F-word Chump and his bad body odor, the American people are not buying ICE lies and much more.


    We are returning to the Tuesday Ford factory visit Donald Chump made for a reason: To demonstrate how the White House lies. Ben Solis (MICHIGAN ADVOCAE) reports:

    A union-backed auto worker at Ford Motor Co. was caught on video heckling President Donald Trump as a “pedophile protector” when he visited a Dearborn factory on Tuesday ahead of his address to the Detroit Economic Club. The video that has now gone viral shows Trump responded in kind by mouthing an expletive at the worker, twice, and displaying a middle finger as he walked away.

    Now, the union says the worker has been suspended while Ford looks into the matter.

    A representative from the UAW told Michigan Advance late Tuesday that they could confirm that he was suspended but the length of the suspension was unknown. The union was also uncertain about the process that would follow to investigate the matter. 

    On Wednesday, the UAW’s Laura Dickerson, who serves as the Ford department director, issued a statement saying the “autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.”

    Dickerson said the UAW will ensure their member receives the “full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member,” adding that workers “should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone—including the President of the United States.”

    The video, which was first published by Distill Social, shows Trump walking around a raised portion of the Dearborn F-150 plant when the worker, who is not seen on screen, yells to Trump and calls him a “pedophile protector,” a reference to Trump’s widely reported connections to deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein and the Trump administration’s bungling of a new law that ordered the FBI to release all of the files that the department had available to them.

    A message seeking comment from Ford to confirm if the worker was fired or suspended was not immediately returned on Tuesday evening.

    The worker has since been identified by the Washington Post as 40-year-old TJ Sabula, a line worker and member of UAW Local 600.


    Let's note the UAW statement in full:



    Jan 14 2026
    Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director

    The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job. 

    The UAW will ensure that our member receives the full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member. 

    Workers should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone—including the President of the United States. 

    # # #

     

    KJ:sr:opeiu494afl-cio
    Contact Information

    Krissi Jimroglou
    UAW Communications
    313-518-8822
    kjimroglou@uaw.net


     Chump flipped the man the bird (the middle finger) and screamed "F**k you" at him at least twice after the man called him a "pedophile protector."  Pedophile protector refers to Chump's refusal to release The Epstein Files even after the Act of Congress and to him screaming at former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene that if he releases the files some of his friends will be hurt. 


    That is the definition of a pedophile protector.


    And, for the record, "pedophile protector" is not an expletive. It is not a swear word.  The f-word?  That's a swear word.  


    Steven Cheung.  What can you say about him?  White House Communications Director.  Grossly, morbidly overweight.  What else?  I hope he's a closeted gay man.  I hope he is.  Otherwise he's pathetic and lonely  How pathetic do you have to be when your WIKIPEDIA entry has no "Personal Life" section?  Steven has no "Personal Life" as made clear by WIKIPEDIA.  That's where you find out that the person was married or lived with or dated, that's where you find out that they have a special cause that they donate to, they have pets, etc, etc.  Seven Cheung, per WIKIPEDIA, has no "Personal Life."  


    He apparently, when not lying, just sits around stuffing his face.  That would explain his statement to TMZ, "A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."

    The lunatic was Chump  He was the one "screaming expletives" and in "a complete fit of rage."


    But look how Cheung took the truth and 'remixed' it.  He's a liar and he lies all the time.  This is typical from him and typical from the White House.  It never matters to them -- not the truth, not the truth being captured on video.  They lie and they whore over and over.




    "was ike bad breath mixed with feces"



    B.O. 



    https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/13/a-ford-worker-called-out-trump-the-president-flipped-him-off-now-hes-been-suspended/


    White House Communications Director Steven Cheung tells TMZ ... "A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."

    Here's some more media coverage. 

    .




     


    The second video is Ben with MEIDASTOUCH NEWS and we need to note two things on his video report.  That awful party that Chump threw at his hellhole in Florida?  It's MAGA -- EYES WIDE SHUT for the right-wing Furbies crowd.  


    Second, Ben notes Chump's odor.  Chump has little bowel control at this point.  We've noted that issue for years now.  He mocked Ron DeSantis for Ron's failure to make it to the bathroom in time when Ron was in Congress and dealing with a House vote.  And that's how DeSantis got his nickname from Chump.  He did that even as his own body was beginning to give out.  (It's also why there were complaints after he vacated a bedroom in Windsor Castle.  Sheets were covered and caked in feces.)  And it's so bad that their efforts now to spray him with whatever they can find to try to mask the odor no longer work  Which is why, as Ben notes, people at the Ford plant were complaining about the stench of Chump, describing it as "body odor [. . .] like bad breath mixed with feces."  His dementia makes it harder and harder to get him out in front of the public.  Maybe Steven Cheung can give him an enema before each public appearance?  If nothing else, it might give Steven a "Personal Life" at WIKIPEDIA


    It can be hard to work out what might be going through Donald Trump’s head at the best of times, but lately his actions have seemed to be increasingly bizarre and reckless. 

    However, all of those actions become much easier to understand with one simple perspective shift: Trump knows he is dying, he doesn’t have much time, and he won’t have to face any consequences, at least not in this life.

    Trump often doesn’t seem too stressed about consequences, and that’s felt especially true since he won the 2024 election. But over those four years out of office, he came close to facing very real consequences. He was tried and found liable and guilty in both civil and criminal court. It’s not unreasonable to suggest that he was well on his way to being bankrupt, imprisoned, or both. The only thing that saved him was the presidency.

    If Trump leaves the White House again, he’ll be at risk of those consequences again, along with all the other ones that he has racked up over the last few months. While Steve Bannon has become the latest supporter of Trump seeking an unconstitutional third term, and Trump still refuses to rule that out, it starts to feel more likely that Trump will avoid walking out of the White House not by changing the Constitution, but by shuffling off his mortal coil while still in residence.

    Trump’s health is clearly failing. He’s been seen struggling with stairs and has even mused that Obama was better at navigating them. His cognitive health might well be in decline, and his instances of random word association in public comments appear to be getting worse.

    While Trump and his cronies claim that his medical reports generally show that he is in the finest health any person has ever been in, the number of those reports recently should raise an eyebrow. In early October, he had what he called a “semi-annual physical” at the Walter Reed National Medical Center. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed it was a “routine yearly checkup.” The problem is that he already had his annual physical in April.

    Those checkups included an MRI at Walter Reed. “It was perfect,” Trump said, claiming “the doctor said [it] was some of the best reports, for the age, they’ve ever seen.” While MRIs are often used to rule out possible medical concerns, they’re rarely used when there are no concerns to begin with. 

    Trump has also claimed to have aced another cognitive test, making comments that echo his “person, woman, man, camera, TV” debacle

    The White House has not released comments on the MRI or the cognitive test. All of that might be fine, but Trump has historically overstated his health (with the help of his doctors), and with everything else, it becomes part of a suspicious pattern.

    Death is clearly on Trump’s mind.



    A federal agent shot and injured a man in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, federal officials said, an incident that touched off hours of clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers and that came just one week after an immigration agent killed a woman in the city.

    Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security


    And we stop there because we don't quote known and repeated liars.  As Ava and I noted in October's "Media: They fail to note the pattern of ICE lies but make time to defend this year's John Fetterman:"

    They're a department of liars led by the lying Homeland Secuirty Secretary Kristi Noem.

      

    ICE rammed a car in Chicago -- ran into it -- and they lied in statements and false charges insisting that  Dayanne Figueroa, a US citizen, ran into them:

    Footage obtained by Newsweek appears to show armed federal agents detaining Figueroa, dragging her by the legs to remove her from her vehicle. Some agents brandish guns, and bystanders can be heard shouting, “You hit her,” as the situation unfolds.

    Additional video obtained by Figueroa’s family from another witness provides a different angle of the encounter. The bystander who is filming tells federal agents: “You hit her. We all saw it.”
    “You guys are f*****g scumbags, f*****g Nazis. They hit her car. You guys hit her, and you f*****g know it,” the bystander is heard saying.

    “As agents were departing, the driver, a U.S. citizen, struck an unmarked government vehicle,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek.

     

     

    Tricia, like Kristi, is a repeat offender when it comes to lying to the American people. Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) notes:



    A senior ICE official is under fire after publicly sharing a 13-year-old child's information — and an expert warns it "could lead to serious consequences."

    DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, 31, who is the most senior public affairs official under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, revealed the identity, alleged criminal history and a photo of the child detained by ICE, The Daily Beast reported Monday.

    McLaughlin is accused of sharing children's information not just once, but multiple times.

    Her social media post and the DHS actions “could lead to serious consequences inside the government, such as an Inspector General investigation, disciplinary action, or even congressional scrutiny," Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Arash Hashemi told The Beast.
    Public anger was rising after a Brazilian-born seventh-grader in Massachusetts was reportedly taken by federal agents to a juvenile detention center more than 500 miles away from his family.

    In an attempt to stop the public criticism, McLaughlin and DHS tried to use social media.

    "They claimed that the boy had an 'extensive rap sheet,' while listing some of his apparent past offenses. They also stated—falsely, it transpired—that he had been in possession of a firearm," The Beast reports.

    It's illegal for DHS or law enforcement to share a child's information.


     And here's where the media keeps failing us.  Homeland Security officials have been caught in one lie after another.  It's so bad that judges can't really take their claims seriously at this point.  But the media too often repeats claims regarding ICE without noting the long pattern of lies from them this year.  

     

    We were all taught about the little boy who cried wolf.  You don't lie because you'll be known as a liar and the time will come when you need to be believed but you're known as a liar.  

     

    A lesson we're taught as children is too much for ICE and the officials over ICE to grasp. That might be shocking if we hadn't already addressed the relaxed 'standards' when it comes to hiring ICE agents.



    Yesterday was one week exactly from the murder of an unarmed American woman.  The US government murdered Renee Nicole Good on January 7th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a man with years of training in using a firearm and who provided training to others ("a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor"), shot and killed the mother of three who was unarmed.  Ross, apparently needing to make social content while on the clock, filmed her and when the video was released, the world saw that her last words to him were, "I'm not mad at you."  By contrast, he or one of his fellow agents immediately called Renee a "f**king bitch" after plugged her with three bullets.  The federal government immediately began attacking Good -- even though they should be stating "I can't comment on an ongoing federal investigation." 

    Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, "And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the evidence means."  Fat and little Vice president  JD Vance is a professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous.   John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:


    Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential  Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.

    Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.

    Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."

    The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched, Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in the hospital."

    [. . .]

    As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.

    Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.

    The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.


    Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic,  I'm sick of this little bitch distorting my religion.  He needs to be excommunicated.  I'm not joking.  He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our teaching.  Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope Leo.  Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as a Catholic.  Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn mind.  We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."  

    At AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW, James T. Keane writes:


    After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making” and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three, was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.” 

    Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.

    Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend such Gestapo-like tactics. 

    The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.

    Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all, she was already dead.

    The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify, and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.

    On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”

    Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal claims used after the fact to justify them.

    How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?

     

    And they keep lying.  And they keep smearing Renee Nicole Good.  Over and over, multiple times a day.  The government  just lies.  And how's that going?

    Not very well at all.


    Tommy Christopher (MEDIAITE) notes, "Americans favor the filing of criminal charges against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross for the killing of Renee Nicole Good — with a whopping 23-point spread between 'yes' and 'no' responses."  Christopher explains:

    Days after the shooting, Americans disagreed with Trump and Noem by almost two-to-one. Respondents to a YouGov poll taken between January 9 and January 11th uniformly showed opposition to ICE on every question.

    Americans were asked, “Do you think the ICE agent should face criminal charges for shooting the woman in Minneapolis?”

    Fifty-three percent answered “yes” versus just 30 percent “no” — including 54% to 23% among independents — with the remainder responding “not sure.”

    There was a similar spread when participants were asked “Do you think the ICE agent was justified or not justified in the amount of force he used in shooting the woman in Minneapolis?”
    On that question, 53% said “no,” Ross wasn’t justified, to just 28% “yes.”

    Elsewhere in the poll, a stunning 61% said ICE “often” or “sometimes” arrests immigrants “who are authorized to live in the U.S. and have not committed immigration or customs violations.”

    And similarly, 60% said that Trump’s ICE agents use “unnecessary physical force against U.S. citizens who have not committed immigration or customs violations.”

    Mandy Taheri (NEWSWEEK) adds, "The survey, conducted January 9-11, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points."

     


    Chump and company are losing so they're lying even more.  That's not working so -- despite the fact that none of them are legally supposed to be talking about an ongoing investigation, their new strategy is to try to intimidate people regarding their free speech rights.


    Let's note this reality.  You can sue for anything.  Doesn't mean you're going to win.  Apparent bribe taker Tom Homan is floating publicly that John Ross might sue!!!!  Might he?  SFW.  Holman's trying to shut people up and put a chill on free speech because that's what bitches like Tommy Homan do.  Where's the 50,000 dollars, Tommy?  Billal Rahman (NEWSWEEK) reports:

    A senior Trump official suggested that Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, could pursue legal action for defamation against individuals who labelled him a “murderer” online and in public remarks.

    “I think you may see him take action,” Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said on the Will Cain Country podcast, adding that Ross has gone into “hiding.”

    I don't care what  in hiding Jonathan Ross thinks.  He's somebody who shot an unarmed mother of three dead -- shot her in the face, like a little coward.  I think he's a murderer.  I've tried to make the point here that it doesn't end with him and goes up the chain to Kristi Noem and Donald Chump. But, yeah, murderer.

    Did he shoot someone dead?  Yes, he did.

    So I can all him a murderer if I want as can all the politicians listed in the NEWSWEEK article.  

    OJ Simpson walked on charges of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and people continued to call him a murderer.  There's no video of OJ killing Nicole and Ron.  There is video evidence of Jonathan Ross -- cry baby in hiding -- shooting Renee Nicole Good.  And he shot her and he shot her dead and we can all make the connection to murder.  It is a judgment call.  We can make it.  We are within our legal rights to make the conclusion and free speech allows us to say we think he's a murderer.

    I've been really nice about Jonathan Ross.  But if he is trying to foster free speech intimidation?  Well truth is truth.  That includes about his immigrant wife.  And the paper's don't have that story.  I'm happy to go into that story at great lengths.  

    Again, you can sue for anything.  Let's note Joni:


       


    I saw a little lawyer on the tube
    He said "It's so easy now anyone can sue"
    "Let me show you how your petty aggravations can profit you!"
    Call for the three great stimulants
    Of the exhausted ones
    Artifice brutality and innocence
    Artifice and innocence
    -- "The Three Great Stimulants," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on DOG EAT DOG.

    DOG EAT DOG is one of Joni's classic albums -- beat up in the playground more than any of her works except for THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS but it's due for a critical reappraisal.  (Which should note that men doing the same thing that year and later were praised for examining the world around them but Joni, a woman, was attacked for that.)  Joni's ex and sometime collaborator Larry Klein has an article about DOG EAT DOG -- it is now 40 years since the album was released.  Again, a masterpiece -- I'll go out on the ledge without fear.  It's a masterpiece.  Back in November, Joni was awarded Juno's lifetime achievement award.  She's been releasing from the archives of late and next month, February 1st, JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES -- VOLUME 4: THE ASYLUM YEARS (1976 -1980) we'll see if she wins the Grammy for Best Historical Album.




    So stay in hiding Jonathan Ross.  If you think you can.  But the reality is you can't hide from yourself.  That's who you are trying to escape.  We all know right from wrong.
     
     

    This should be a wake up call to the many ICE agents who have e-mailed this site.  I warned you long ago -- both in e-mail replies and up here at this site -- where this road ended.  You would be physically harming people and that would include US citizens.  When Chump started talking up this crackpot 'plan' in the summer of 2024, we took it seriously here and noted it would lead to racial profiling (and it did) and it would lead to not just immigrants being targeted but also to American citizens being targeted and to "let me see your papers" (and it did).  I'm not a genius.  Anyone paying attention could have seen the exact same things.  So, question, why didn't you Amy Goodman?  Why did you do multiple segments attacking Kamala Harris on Immigration (see Ava and my  "Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump") and insisting Chump was the same as Kamala or better?  Why?

    Don't pretend you were looking out for immigrants because you weren't.

    But back to the ICE agents.  I can't be your sin eater.  I told you that staying with ICE was going to destroy you.  That you'd end up in therapy or you'd end up self-medicating.  It's time for you to wake up.  You've thought about leaving, you've written me about you leaving.  At this point, the smartest thing you could do is quit and take your stories you've shared with me to your reps in Congress.  Joe Sommerlad (INDEPENDENT) reports:

    Six days after protester Renee Nicole Good was shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, another confrontation between immigration enforcement and a member of the public has been captured on video.

    In a clash between federal forces and demonstrators on a residential street in the same Minnesota city – just two blocks from where Good, 37, was killed last Wednesday, sparking a national outcry – an unidentified woman was dragged screaming from her car Tuesday.

    Multiple masked agents wearing sunglasses and flak jackets argue with the woman as she tries to drive away from the chaotic encounter. Two of the men reach in through the driver side window before one of them manages to force it open and drag the woman to the floor.

    “I’ve been beat up by police before,” the woman shouts as she is dragged off into the melee. “I’m disabled, I’m trying to go to the doctor up there, that’s why I couldn’t move. I am an autistic disabled person, I’m trying to go to the doctor.”

    As the agents drag her away, bystanders yell at them to stop, with one asking “where is your humanity?”.


    ICE agents, you can't continue on this course.  The money's not worth f**king you over.  That's what Noam and Chump are doing to you.  And people aren't going to be kind like me -- I've noted Jonathan Ross but not stopped there -- Kristi and Chump are also guilty -- more guilty in fact, it's their orders, their 'plan' and they've failed to provide all of you with proper oversight and training.  They're doing this to you and they're not going to stand with you when the legal impact sticks, they're going to let it stick to you.  You're being used and abused.

    And you can hide out like Jonathan Ross is doing but what he's going to slowly realize is that there's nothing other people can say about his murder of Renee Nicole Good that is worse than what his own voice is saying to him in his head.  And he can't escape that. 

    Think about what you're expected to do now.  Eduardo Cuevas  (USA TODAY) reports:

    Federal agents have detained a handful of Native Americans amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.

    The detention of at least five men in and around Minneapolis has sparked an outcry among Native American groups about Indigenous people being racially profiled as undocumented immigrants by federal immigration agents. Minneapolis is one of the largest urban centers for Native Americans in the United States.

    I know the lies you tell yourself to get through the day.  That it's just immigrants and that they're in the country and shouldn't be and you're not setting out to harm anybody.

    But you are harming Americans like the Native Americans USA TODAY is reporting on.  And you are harming immigrants.  There is no "just immigrant."  These aren't criminals and 'the worst of the worst.'  These are day care workers and these are farm workers and day laborers and these are food cart owners and restaurant owners.  The only typical about the bulk of the immigrants being kidnapped is that they work hard at the jobs they do and they have families that they work for, to make their families lives better.  

    There are about fifteen of you that we've sent e-mails back and forth repeatedly.  You know it's not the worst of the worst.

    And you know Congress has let you down there.  They should have been probing what was going on long ago.  If they had, they could have put Kristi Noem on blast, confronted her 


    48,377 out of 65,735—or 73.6% held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction according to data current as of November 30, 2025. Many of those convicted committed only minor offenses, including traffic violations.


    Need another source?  David J. Bier (Cato Institute) notes:

    President Donald Trump premised his mass deportation agenda on the idea that he will be “returning millions and millions of criminal aliens.” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has repeatedly claimed that they are arresting the “worst of the worst.” New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaked to the Cato Institute reveal a different story.

    Of people booked into ICE custody this fiscal year (since October 1, 2025):

    Nearly three in four (73 percent) had no criminal conviction.
    Nearly half had no criminal conviction nor even any pending criminal charges.
    Only 8 percent had a violent or property criminal conviction.
    Only 5 percent had a violent criminal conviction.
    A majority of criminal convicts had vice, immigration, or traffic convictions.



    And the 'answer' per Chump and Noem is to increase their arrests.  They're not arresting the criminals -- certainly not the violent criminals.  That's when you stop, step back and look at what you're doing and figure out why you're not meeting your objectives.  And that's what Congress should be forcing them to do.  Because increasing the quotas for arrests when the arrests already aren't getting the violent criminals is not an answer for anything but more abuses and more tragedies. 

    It makes no sense.
     
    None of it makes sense because all of it is wrong. That's why Kristi and her finger-banging pal have to lie to the press all the time.  And they know their lie will be carried in one report after another and when the lie is exposed days later, you're not going to see the same outlets note the lie from days earlier.  Instead, they'll move on with the new lie.  

    The disabled woman?  They claim she obstructed them in some manner or fashion.  I'd argue she didn't and do so without needing any details other than the basic and instantly verifiable.  She lives there.

    She lives there.  She's not obstructing.  She's trying to get to a doctor's appointment and these out-of-towner ICE agents are obstructing her.  They're obstructing all of us.  Get the hell out -- as Governor JB Pritzker rightly said and as many have since joined him in stating the same thing. 

    Their claim is that they were there because they had an arrest warrant.  Hmm.  In the last two weeks, they've smashed in a door and entered a home they claimed to have a warrant but they didn't.  This happens over and over.  But what can be easily verified, again, is that the woman lives in the area and the obstruction is coming from ICE agents including those two stupid -- because they're not from the area -- to know how to drive on snow and ice.
     
    So that's one point to make there, another?  Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) reports:


    ICE agents were reportedly going door to door in Minnesota asking people to identify where their Asian neighbors live, according to reports Wednesday.

    Vice President JD Vance last week signaled that federal agents would take the surprising action in his comments about "door-to-door" ICE raids, and it appeared that move was underway across Twin City neighborhoods, The New Republic reported.
    ICE officers apparently went to St. Paul resident Elizabeth Lugert-Thom's home last week, according to a report from The Chicago Tribune. She warned in a Facebook post about the encounter where agents who were not wearing identification badges or disclosing their names asked her to share the location of any Hmong or Asian neighbors after they asked about a person they were searching for in the area.

    This is about targeting a city, not about arresting violent criminals. 

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