Jesus Christ, America

 

It's Sunday

 

Your eyes have been lying again

 It might look that way to you, but that's not what ICE is doing.  

Homan is a lying rat bastard and an evil Nazi.

We'll believe our eyes.  But to tell the truth, it was getting too difficult to snatch people in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The citizenry was outwitting them at every turn, and the optics were horrible.

Yesterday in St. Paul...

UPDATE 09:30 am:

And it was giving encouragement to other cities.

But, here's the real surprise: he's thanking the Minnesota Dems...

Ah, the technicalities.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis

 A city under seige.

UPDATE 02/22/2026:

They haven't backed away.  Just the opposite.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis

 

Minneapolis is serious

 

Homan in Minneapolis

 

Kristi Noem should be looking for another job.

TACO Tuesday

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter demanding three policy changes from the state led a federal judge to ask whether the federal government was engaging in a “quid pro quo,” potentially implicating the anti-commandeering doctrine.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, a Joe Biden appointee, seems reluctant to take that opening because the Eighth Circuit paused a much more modest order to prevent civil rights abuses against peaceful protesters. A three-judge panel found today the government was “likely to succeed on the merits” of its appeal.

Even if Judge Menendez doesn’t end the surge, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security appears to be winding things down on their own amid friendly fire from conservative allies.

[...]

Gov. Tim Walz reported a “productive” phone call with Donald Trump, who reportedly agreed to look into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota and ensuring the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension can conduct independent investigations into the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

[...]

[M]ultiple news outlets reported that soon-to-be-former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino would be leaving the state with many of the agents under his command. Bovino reportedly will return to his previous job as a sector chief for El Centro, Calif., after being the face of two unpopular operations in Chicago and the Twin Cities. During his brief tenure, one federal judge in Chicago declared in open court and in a written opinion that Bovino “lied” in a sworn deposition.

In his absence, so-called Border Patrol czar Tom Homan traveled to Minnesota to give Operation Metro Surge a more professional gloss.

  Adam Klasfeld

Yeah. Professional. The guy who took a $50,000 bribe in a Cava bag and is still in his job.

In further good news, though...

Having been forced out of the Eastern District of Virginia, ex-Trump lawyer turned fake U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan is leaving the Justice Department altogether.

[...]

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Justice Department’s application to review the disqualification of Trump’s ex-lawyer turned U.S. Attorney Alina Habba before the full bench.

All his pretty, young, incompetents are biting the dust. Eyes on Kristi Noem.

Trump’s Justice Department also withdrew a pending application for the chief judge of the District of Minnesota to pursue arrest warrants for five more people tied to the recent St. Paul church protest, including independent journalist Don Lemon.

[...]

In the face of enormous protests, internal mutiny, and mounting legal defeats, Trump appears to be cutting his losses under pressure.

When asked if Noem will step down, President Donald Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn Tuesday, "No."

  NBC

 

Minnesota v Noem

Plaintiffs are seeking an emergency temporary restraining order against ICE.

 

Follow the hearing  here: 

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(When you come to the end of Parloff's posts in a thread, click the last post to open up the next ones.  Not very efficient, but I don't know if BlueSky unrolls threads.)

I'll update this post below when the arguments are over.

It's Sunday

 

Time to turn in your neighbors

 How can you be shocked at this point?  These are Trump's Gestapo.

The Nazis are taking over.

With full Nazi propaganda...

Why isn't Homan being investigated?

 Well, I'm satisfied.  You?

The Trump administration is one big grift

 

Newsom's press office has still got it

 

Oh, surprise! Tom Homan is corrupt

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump administration officials.

The cash payment, which was made inside a bag from the food chain Cava, grew out of a long-running counterintelligence investigation that had not been targeting Mr. Homan, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the case.

Mr. Homan’s encounter with the undercover agents, recorded on audiotape, led him to be investigated for potential bribery and other crimes, after he apparently took the money and agreed to help the agents — who were posing as businessmen — secure future government contracts related to border security, the people said.

  NYT

Under the Trump administation, officials at the Department of Justice closed the investigation because they doubted they could could convince a jury Homan agreed to specific actions in exchange for the cash, the outlet reported.

  USA Today

Is that really why? What could his defense has offered as another reason?

“This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing," a joint statement from FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

[...]

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson blasted the probe as a "blatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity" in a statement that accused the Biden administation of using DOJ resources to target Trump allies "rather than investigate real criminals" and immigrats who illegally entered the country.

[...]

Homan did not respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.

Could somebody ask the previous administration?

Homan is a heaping pile of shit

 

Faith and Freedom Coalition indeed.  He's being wildly cheered.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles...

At the very least, I hope they feel as ridiculous as they look.  But  my guess is they think they look like awesome super rangers.

Trump 2.0 - Knives out

 

Foreign students beware

 

This is not just happening in California.

UPDATE 04/09/2025:

Homan is a monster.  And, as Trump would say, right out of central casting.  He just looks like a Russian officer winnowing the populace.