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3 weeks ago.

Can Tom Homan De-escalate Tensions in Minnesota?

I've been a critic of NYT for two decades--sometimes as a job--but I don't have monolithic view. There are great reporters working there. Headline writers, not so much. This is actively misleading. By framing it as a question it takes a side, asserting that he wants to w/out plausible evidence.

Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap' The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.

If true, this could explain a lot: Epstein’s mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trump’s submissiveness around Putin.

The PosCast with Joe Posnanski & Michael Schur

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Everything he does is wrong. But everything.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Protest sign of the day.

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

What the fuck is this headline. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Opinion | Trump's response to the Ilham Omar attack shows the real problem Abraham Lincoln warned us about this moment.

The Un-American President.
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I keep seeing pundits describe how the Administration is “deescalating” and “taking the tone down” yet this week they’ve claimed dramatically expanded authority for arrests and argued they can enter your home without a warrant

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In a blistering ruling, a Bush-appointed conservative federal judge said that ICE "has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."

Congress must not give one more cent to this rogue agency.

Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

'Chaos': Behind the Scenes of Amazon's Melania Trump Doc Crew members of the Amazon documentary "Melania: Twenty Days to History" detail a chaotic production process under Brett Ratner.

Chaos behind the scenes. Two-thirds of the crew who worked on Amazon's $75 million Melania Trump, the movie asked for their names to be left out of the end credits.

Trump’s deployment of federal troops has cost taxpayers nearly $500 million so far — and could surpass $1 billion for the rest of the year.

That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs.

Priorities.

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Trump border czar attacks police commissioner, says he's 'bringing hell' to Boston "Take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer because you became a politician, you forgot what it was like to be a cop.”

Tom Homan really hates that heated rhetoric, he's always turning down the heat. www.boston.com/news/politic...

Border czar Tom Homan's message to anti-ICE protesters: 'You want some? Come get some' White House border czar Tom Homan defended ICE agents against protesters and hecklers at a Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Florida.

One presumes that Tom Homan is very disappointed in Tom Homan for the heated rhetoric that he says led to these brutal ICE executions.

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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

Rand Paul: "There has to be an investigation. I don't know who trusts an investigation done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an 'assassin,' a 'domestic terrorist,' saying he was assaulting police. How can they be in charge of an independent investigation? Something's got to happen."

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel on the Vile and Heartless Murder of Nurse Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis

I think if the intent of the Jimmy Kimmel stuff a few months ago was to convince him to stop speaking his mind about politics, it … did not work. This is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.

Victor Wembanyama on Minneapolis:

"Every day I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable."

Denmark, our NATO ally that Trump has threatened with war to take part of its country, has provided $12 billion in aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded—3% of its GDP.

The equivalent for the U.S. would be nearly $1 trillion, five times as much as we’ve actually anted up.

This is how “straight” reporting distorts the news. Trump says he wants an “honest” investigation. But the DOJ is not doing an independent investigation, and, instead, CBP will be investigating its own officers. Sounds like it could be a rigged inquiry. Trump’s “vow” is worthless PR.