Trina's Kitchen

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Black Bean Soup in the Kitchen

Margot e-mailed to note her favorite soup recipe. It's from Country Living and it's Black Bean Soup:

Ingredients

3 Tbsp. olive oil

1 yellow onion, chopped

1 green bell pepper, chopped

4 cloves garlic, chopped

1 Tbsp. ground cumin

2 tsp. smoked paprika

2 tsp. dried oregano

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

4 (15.5-ounce) cans black beans, rinsed

7 cups vegetable stock

2 bay leaves

1 Tbsp. sherry vinegar

Sliced avocado, chopped red onion, chopped fresh cilantro, and lime wedges, for serving

Directions

Step 1

Heat oil in a large Dutch oven or pot over medium heat. Add onion and bell pepper. Season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Add garlic, cumin, paprika, and oregano. Cook, stirring, until fragrant, 1 minute.

Step 2

Stir in beans, stock, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until flavors have melded, 40 to 45 minutes. Discard bay leaves and stir in sherry vinegar.

Step 3

Transfer 2 1/2 cups beans and 1 cup liquid to a bowl; mash with a potato masher until smooth. Return to Dutch oven. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with avocado, onion, cilantro, and lime wedges alongside.

News? Tom Boggioni (Raw Story) reports:

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer faces mounting allegations of misconduct while her department operates largely without her showing up for work, according to The Washington Post.

In addition to ongoing investigations into allegations of an affair with a staffer and drinking on the job, new reports describe alcohol stored in her office and attendance at strip clubs with staff members. The Post reported that insiders claim Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling effectively runs the Labor Department.

Chavez-DeRemer has maintained minimal presence in Washington, focusing instead on a 50-state "America at Work" tour. Her absence has prompted criticism from both agency stakeholders and business representatives, according to the report.

One lobbyist with department dealings commented, "Keith has been running the Labor Department since Day 1, as we thought he would. Her substantive interest is not that great in many areas. She hasn't been in the building much. She has had, from what I can determine, minimal involvement in substantive matters."

Career staff members echoed similar concerns. A longtime Labor Department employee stated, "The career staff view her as a ghost. She doesn't publish her schedule. We don't know where she's at. We find out from the press releases that the public gets."

She needs to be let go immediately. In addition, Keith Sonderling, whether he is named the new Secretary of Labor or not, needs receive back pay so that the entire time he has been Deputy Secretary but doing the work of the Secretary the pay reflects that. I'm sure it's much more than a $5000 a month difference but whatever the difference is, he needs back pay because he was the one actually doing the job. I have no idea what his politics are and honestly don't care. This is about fair pay. He did the job while she was on the road going to strip bars and having her affair with a subordinate. He did the work, he needs the pay. I would also argue that if he wants the job, if he wants to be Secretary of Labor? If he can get confirmed by Congress, the job should be his. He's spent the last year demonstrating that he can handle the duties. If the job didn't require Senate confirmation, I wouldn't bring it up. But it does so we need that.

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Monday:

Monday, January 19, 2025. Chump goes to court to try to circumvent the law ordering him to release the Epstein documents, after ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good the Justice Dept is investigating everyone except the one who was holding the gun that killed her, Robert Kennedy Junior has his own Epstein ties, and much more.

Ben with MEIDASTOUCH NEWS notes Donald Chump's being booed everywhere.

The Convicted Felon is loathed around the world.

As, in fact, he should be.

Starting in the occupied state of Minnesota, BRING ME THE NEWS notes, "St. Paul Public Schools says two of its vans were stopped by ICE agents while students and staff were on board. According to a statement from the district, two of its contracted vans were pulled over by ICE agents on their way to school last week." Stopping school buses? One of the many ICE abuses that have outraged Americans. And they're not going to just sit down and take it. Matt Lavietes (NBC NEWS) reports:

Standing outside his son’s elementary school, a father heard a warning crackle over his walkie-talkie: a suspicious car nearby.

At another school, volunteer Joe Dirkswager stood watch, nodding at passing vehicles. Miles away in St. Paul, Matthew Kearns was questioning unfamiliar individuals near the school he graduated from decades ago.

The three are among the volunteers who have begun patrolling streets around elementary and high schools in the Twin Cities, using walkie-talkies, Signal group chats and whistles to warn families and school staff of immigration enforcement activities. The informal patrols have emerged amid a sharp surge of federal immigration personnel in Minnesota and the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer last week.

On Thursday afternoon, about two dozen adults lined the perimeter of Green Central Elementary School in central Minneapolis, just blocks from where Good was killed. Patrol volunteers scanned nearby streets and relayed updates in real time.

As Alex Bollinger (LGBTQ NATION) notes, the administration is losing it over the public's reaction to ICE's actions including the murder of Renee Nicole Goodman, "White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at a journalist after he asked why the administration is saying that ICE is “doing everything correctly” even after queer mom Renee Good was shot in the face three times by an ICE agent. Leavitt then ranted about how he is a left-wing 'hack' who should be reporting administration propaganda instead of asking questions about ICE’s brutality." Aymann Ismail (SLATE) writes:

I am in the passenger seat of a stranger’s car in Minneapolis, four days after Renee Nicole Good was killed here. I’m riding with someone who was doing the same kind of work we think Good was doing when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot her. Right now, our work is much quieter. We’re driving in loose loops when a volunteer who is patrolling the streets as a pedestrian observer on the Signal call we’re listening to—a broad network of thousands of locals relaying up-to-the-moment intel on ICE activity—reports two vehicles near Karmel Mall, known locally as “Somali Mall.” Another volunteer fulfilling the role of dispatcher, also on the call, identifies them by make and model. Another observer cross-references the license plates against a running database. They’re confirmed as ICE vehicles, unmarked like they almost always are.

My guide for the day, who I’ll call C, sits up. “They’re going to come past us right here,” they say, accelerating toward the intersection.

Within seconds we spot them: two SUVs moving faster than the flow of traffic. Through their windows, I can see silhouettes of men with heavy Kevlar high on the neck, faces covered, sunglasses.

C begins calling out every turn, street, and direction the SUVs take—while laying on their car horn hard and continuously, like an alarm. The sound is constant and blunt. It could easily be mistaken for an expression of anger, but watching how others in the area—pedestrians, other drivers—react, it’s a signal: a warning to anyone within earshot that ICE is moving through the neighborhood. It turns what ICE hoped would be a discreet operation into a public event. One pedestrian we pass hears the horn, turns, and gives the ICE vehicles the finger.

Serial liar and plastic surgery victim Kristi Noem appeared on CBS' FACE THE NATION Sunday. Katie Francis (DAILY BEAST) notes:

Kristi Noem was cornered into admitting the ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Good was being investigated per protocol.

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary was confronted by CBS News’ Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan about whether the agent Jonathan Ross’ conduct was being reviewed after the shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“We are following the exact same investigative and review process that we always have under ICE and under the Department of Homeland Security and within the administration. The exact same policy that the Biden administration used,” Noem said during the interview Sunday.

So he's being investigated if . . . the noted liar is telling the truth this time. If. Always a big if with Kristi Noem. Sydney Kashiwagi (THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE) reports, "The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey." So there's not an investigation. Supposedly, there's an internal review within the Homeland Security Dept and we all know how worthless that is. Remember Monica Elizabeth Moreta-Galarza?

If not, let's drop back to September 27th:

Starting with Monica Moreta-Galarza. She was assaulted by ICE agents. Samira Asma-Sadeque (PEOPLE) notes:

According to another video of the incident cited by CNN, the woman was seen with her arms interlocked with a man, understood to be her husband, as he was being detained.

One masked agent is allegedly seen grabbing the woman's hair while someone else is heard saying, “Just grab her, grab her and pull her away.

I was not aware of that video until tonight. She's the woman we noted in Friday's snapshot who was assaulted by ICE:

Want to see something disgusting? Steam this video at THE NEW YORK TIMES of an ICE agent slamming a woman to the ground. Andy Newman and Luis Ferré-Sadurní report for the paper:

A federal agent shoved a woman and pushed her to the floor in front of what appeared to be her two young children on Thursday during a confrontation at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan.

A video shows a wrenching encounter in a hallway of 26 Federal Plaza in which the woman and a girl are desperately clinging to the woman’s husband, who is being detained. Agents pull the hair of the woman and the girl to get them away from the man.

After agents pry the family apart and lead the resisting man away, the woman yells, “You guys don’t care about anything!” in Spanish at an agent who is trying to get her to leave and telling her, “Adios, adios.” She puts a hand on his chest, and he shoves her. When she tries to grab onto him, he pushes her down.

This is not America, let's not pretend that it is. It's hell and it's brought you to be the tedious contributions of Convicted Felon Donald Chump and the corrupt Supreme Court.

These are thugs unleashed by Donald Chump who are not bound by laws -- per the Supreme Court -- and who terrorize people daily. And there is no real legal recourse presently, none at all. Federal courts try to do their job and follow the law -- including the Constitution -- and for that Chump attacks them publicly and the Supreme Court nullifies them.

That's why the mid-terms are so important.

That video was outrageous. And it got attention. Other video that has been outrages has not gotten the amplification it deserves and needs. Luis Ferré-Sadurní (NEW YORK TIMES) reports:

A federal immigration officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday.

The altercation took place on Thursday at 26 Federal Plaza, the epicenter of President Trump’s immigration crackdown in New York City, and was captured in videos that spread rapidly on social media and beyond. The footage set off an outcry from New York City officials who denounced the behavior of the officer, who has not been identified, and demanded that he be disciplined.

[. . .]

“The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees ICE. “Our ICE law enforcement are held to the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation.”

Ms. McLaughlin declined to elaborate when asked if the officer had been suspended or fired, saying, “That’s being determined pending investigation.”

On Friday, Representative Dan Goldman and Brad Lander, the city comptroller, both Democrats, referred the ICE officer to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan for felony prosecution. The referral is a recommendation for prosecution, but the Department of Justice has the discretion to decide whether to pursue a case.

And that's probably where it now starts and ends. Homeland Security says they're investigating and they don't do a damn thing and then try to pretend that there's no reason to provide an update. Of course, there is. The simplest one being public trust.

No one should ever be treated the way Monica Moreta-Galarza was treated.

But ICE and Homeland Security will pretend the matter was addressed when it never was.

It can't be addressed. To do so would probably open the US government up to a lawsuit on the part of the ICE agent beating up the woman. That man would then sue if he was held accountable. And he'd note what ICE agents have told me: That they're instructed to do whatever they want and told they will face no consequences.

So watch Homeland Security bury the whole thing while pretending that they're addressing it.

Of course, I ended up being wrong. ICE and Homeland Security dealt with it and doled out real punishment and -- What's that? Oh, yeah, I was right. From the October 2nd snapshot:

Let's zoom in on the public statement from Homeland Security that's noted above:

A week later, we learn that he's back at work. No longer relieved of current duties. That was a quick investigation. And what a turn around from "The officer's conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE."

I guess that conduct is acceptable -- which we all knew -- and that it regular behavior on the part of "the men and women of ICE."

Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS NEWS) notes:

Reached for comment, a DHS official did not address the officer being placed back on duty but called the woman's husband a "criminal illegal alien."

"President Trump and Secretary Noem are not going to allow criminal illegal aliens to terrorize American citizens," the official said. "If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will arrest you and you will never return."

CBS News reached out to representatives for ICE and the White House for comment.

Thugs. Chump's gestapo.

That's 'justice' in Kristi's world. Less than a week after an ICE agent violently shoves an unarmed woman to the ground and it is captured on video and the uproar is so great that ICE says publicly it is unacceptable, but six days later we learn the man is back on the streets terrorizing others.

And that's why ICE can't be left to investigate themselves.

On Kristi's Sunday appearance, Sarah Fortensky (THE HILL) adds:

Noem pushed back on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) statement that “The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.”

“I would not listen to Gov. Walz,” Noem said in response. “He has a very bad track record.”

He has a bad track record? He has? Look who's talking. Or, better yet, look at Kristi and looks who's lying -- again. Robert Mackey (GUARDIAN) notes Deputy AG Todd Blanche's remarks, "Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Donald Trump before he won his second presidency, dismissed the need for any criminal investigation of Ross during an interview with Fox News. He suggested that the officer was cleared by the publicly available video evidence." Those would be the videos that make it clear murdered Jonathan Ross was not struck by Renee's car, that Ross broke rules and protocol by stepping in front of the vehicle, he broke rules and protocol by shooting into the car and he did so when there was no threat of harm to him. Todd Blanche is a liar and he's trash. We now know he lies. He's not just stupid, he's a liar.

The Justice Dept won't investigate Jonathan Ross but they will investigate Tim Walz and Jacob Frey. As well as Renee's spouse. Ryan J. Reilly, Julia Ainsley and Jon Schuppe (NBC NEWS) report:

Federal officials are investigating Renee Nicole Good’s [WIFE!] partner to determine whether she may have impeded a federal officer moments before he shot and killed Good in Minneapolis, according to two people familiar with the investigation who spoke to NBC News.

The federal investigation into the shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross is focusing more on Becca Good, including what officials said were her possible ties to activist groups, and less on Ross’ actions when he fired into Renee Good’s vehicle during an immigration operation last week, the people said.

The fatal encounter has touched off protests in Minneapolis and calls for accountability for immigration officers, whose tactics have resulted in at least 10 other shootings since September.

Antonio Romanucci, Becca Good’s lawyer, said in a statement Saturday that “there has been no contact from the FBI or federal officials indicating Becca Good is the subject of an investigation.”

Let's review so that we're all on the same page. A woman was murdered, shot dead. An unarmed woman was shot dead. And, in response, the FBI has opened investigations into Governor Walz, Mayor Frey and Renee's spouse -- none of whom held the gun that killed Renee. And as for "[WIFE!}" -- NBC NEWS used "partner." That's Renee's wife. They share the same last name or did NBC NEWS not notice that. PEOPLE has referred to Becca as her "wife" and THE NEW YORK POST has referred to her as her "widow." Why is NBC NEWS attempting to make it sound like Renee and Becca were partners in a bridge game instead of a married couple?

And let's note Cheyanne M. Daniels' report from POLITICO:

“We wouldn’t be in this situation if Joe Biden hadn’t allowed our open border policies to be in place and allowed up to 20 million people unvetted into this country,” Noem said. When Brennan asked for the breakdown those in custody who have actually committed a criminal offense, Noem said every single individual has committed a crime — and 70 percent have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes.

“It’s not 70 percent,” Brennan responded, pointing to CBS’ own reporting that shows only 47 percent have criminal convictions. Brennan added that that number was based on the Homeland Security Department’s own data.

Turning to the pedophile protector that is Donald Chump. Last week, he got confronted with that reality at a Ford plant in Dearborn when a worker there, TJ Sabula, yelled that accurate term at him and Chump responded like the lunatic that he is by responding with repeated "F**k you!"s and flipping hi the finger. Ben Solis (MICHIGAN ADVOCATE) attempted to pretty it up:

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.

Bungling, Ben? Bungling? It's breaking the law and it's doing so intentionally. Chump knows that, he signed it into law. Or is the dementia so great that he can't even remember what he did back in November? All the Epstein files the government has were supposed to be released last month. Instead, Pam da Bimbo Bondi, Attorney General in the Administration of corruption insists that 1% -- one percent -- of the fies have now been released. 1% isn't all files, 1% isn't even half the files. For the record, the Justice Dept insists there are 5.2 million documents. And Chump and the corrupt crew are now trying to circumvent the new law. AP's Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister explain, "Manhattan's top federal prosecutor said Friday that a judge lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking probe of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer was told in a letter signed by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton that he must reject a request this week by the congressional cosponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act to appoint a neutral expert." CNBC adds:

The ‍DOJ since December has been releasing caches of documents tied to its investigations of Epstein. But U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have ‌criticized ‌the department’s slow pace.

Khanna, a California Democrat, and Massie, a Kentucky Republican, last week said they asked U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer to permit them to file a brief that would argue for the appointment of a special ⁠master and independent monitor, given the Justice Department’s failure to fully comply with a law that requires the DOJ to release all records related to Epstein by Dec. 19.

Here are two video reports on the topic.

And tie all of this into Chump raging over the phone to former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene that she needed to drop her support for the released of the Epstein files because releasing them would embarrass his powerful friends and he's not going to do that. Americans are watching. They see that his corrupt and rich friends get protected again while females were sex trafficked and abused. As usual, Chump is the wrong side and, as usual, he's not fighting for the American people. He is, in fact, a pedophile protector. Again, Americans are watching. They see this.

Ariel Edwards-Levy (CNN) notes:

Few Americans are satisfied with the amount of evidence released in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with most saying they believe the government is intentionally holding back information.

The poll was conducted a little less than a month after the December 19 deadline that Congress gave the Justice Department to release all of its files about Epstein.

The Justice Department estimated earlier in January that it had released less than 1% of its Epstein-related files. Department officials told a court Friday they had enlisted approximately 80 more attorneys from the department’s criminal division to work with prosecutors in New York’s Southern District to review documents related the convicted sex offender.

A two-thirds majority of Americans say the federal government is intentionally holding back some information about the Epstein case that should be released, while just 16% say the government is making an effort to release all information possible. The remainder say they haven’t heard enough about the case to say.

Riya Siddhacharjee (MEAWW) reports on another poll:

A new poll has revealed that the majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump was aware of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

According to a new national survey by YouGov, 71% of the survey responders believe Trump knew about Epstein’s crimes involving minors.

A smaller but still significant percentage (49%) believes Trump was directly involved in the disgraced financier's offenses.

In related news, no boundaries Robert Kennedy Junior has wandered into the story. Please remember that right before his run as an 'independent' candidate for US president ended, he had an affair with a journalists. Please remember that he recent book makes clear that she lied -- and we told she did in real time -- when she said that the affair consisted only of sexual texts. In the book, she explains Junior told her that if it was just sexual texts being reported, his candidacy could survive. She lies for him. And also remember that prior to that while still on the campaign trail, charges that he had sexually assaulted a baby sitter for his kids had emerged and he refused to talk about that to the press.

He's been a whore and tramp his entire life. At one point, low on cash and needing a fix of heroin, he's even rumored to have given up the butt to a guy or two. Now Thea Felicity (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES) notes:

A video has resurfaced showing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referring to Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as 'wonderful to me' and 'kind'. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Critics noted that Kennedy's comments did not acknowledge the victims or the severity of her offences.

Many social media users responded critically, saying that calling a convicted child molester 'wonderful' reflects a disconnect from the harm caused. One commentator described the statement as 'not empathy for victims, not disgust, just nostalgia for his own comfort', noting how privileged men sometimes shield or polish the reputations of powerful enablers. Another user sarcastically asked whether Kennedy had been 'on the island of young girls and maybe boys too'.

Further criticism explained that Maxwell's kindness was selective, targeting those who were wealthy or influential. A widely shared comment noted that her behaviour towards Kennedy reflected his elite status rather than genuine morality, writing: 'She was kind to you...not because she was naturally kind...because you're a member of the elite...you're a Kennedy...she saw you as someone who could do something for her'.

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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Cheesy Hot Dog Casserole in the Kitchen

Olivia notes that she's got four kids to feed and Chump's destroyed the economy. There's a recipe from Pillsbury for Cheesy Hot Dog Casserole:

Ingredients

1 package (14 to 16 oz) hot dogs, sliced 1/4 inch
1 can (15 to 16 oz) pork and beans, undrained
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup ketchup
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1 can (10.2 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Grands!™ Southern Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits (5 Count)
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (4 oz)

Instructions

Step
1

Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 13x9-inch (3-quart) baking dish with cooking spray. In medium saucepan, mix sliced hot dogs, pork and beans, onion, ketchup and brown sugar; mix well. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Spoon hot bean mixture into baking dish.
Step
2

Separate dough into 5 biscuits; cut each biscuit into 6 pieces. Arrange biscuits in single layer over hot bean mixture. Sprinkle with cheese.
Step
3

Bake 18 to 21 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown and biscuits in center of baking dish are cooked through on bottom.

Chump has crewed over the country and it's only going to get worse. I am so sorry for those of you struggling with bills. I've been there -- most of my life, in fact. Eight kids to raise, feed and clothe? I've been there where you are begging the electric company for eight extra days on the bill -- please, please, please don't shut it off.

I know you can and will make it through. But this is not your fault and should have to be struggling. This is the fault of a wealthy man who just helps his friends and you and I are not his friends. Those of who have to struggle are not his friends. His friends are rich crooks who get away with everything, stealing, assaulting youn girls, those are his friends.

Greg Owen (LGBTQ Nation) reports:

In twin moves attacking transgender detainees and prisoners, new guidance from the Trump administration strips away safeguards against rape and other protections for trans people in custody in U.S. prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities.

The Department of Homeland Security instituted this revised guidance this month for several privately-run ICE facilities, while the Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving to eliminate rules protecting LGBTQ+ people from sexual abuse in prisons, a shift advocates are calling “reckless and dangerous.”

At least six ICE detention facilities, most run by private prison companies, have newly modified government contracts to strip away safeguards against rape and other protections for trans detainees rounded up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, The American Prospect reports.

As of January 5, multiple detention centers revoked safety measures and halted medical care for trans prisoners in Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, and at least two facilities in Texas.

A third in Laredo, Texas, run by CoreCivic, has a contract modification stating “all transgender guidance provided here is hereby rescinded,” but doesn’t specify what the guidance included.

The revised contracts cite Trump’s executive order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism” as the reason for the changes, which also include a revocation of all diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility language.

The cruelty is disgusting. Donald Chump will rot in hell. And he will deserve to rot in hell for eternity.

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Thursday:

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.”

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.

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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

Faefyx Collington (LGBTQ NATION) notes Chump's health:

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.

Turning to Minnesota, Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsMitch Smith and Hamed Aleaziz (NEW YORK TIMES) report this morning:

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? B illal 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

TRACREPORTS notes:

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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