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


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.”

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. 

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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


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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