Thomas Leeper

ly amazing, ironically

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

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In Minnesota, it's not even possible to permanently ban someone from driving. And nationwide there are countless cases of killer drivers being allowed right back on the road.

It says a lot about our society that we think people who kill other people with cars deserve continued access to the weapon.

Silly pigeon

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

There is some kind of irony in that the modern right plays on nostalgia for pre-1950s small-town life where you know your neighbors and visit small businesses, but the only places that still resemble that in an economically healthy way are moderate-density urban neighborhoods, filled with leftists.

Literal atrocities being carried out in our names every single day

Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible

2 ICE agents on leave for lying under oath in Minneapolis shooting investigation, agency says Todd Lyons, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement accused two federal agents of lying under oath regarding the mid-January shooting of a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis.

The agents involved perjured themselves and were put on administrative leave. Administrative leave for liars, but not murderers, I guess.

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

The City did not make deals or concessions with the federal government or ICE to end Operation Metro Surge. We are committed to our separation ordinance. MPD & the City don't participate in federal civil immigration enforcement or help ICE with civil immigration enforcement investigations.

The actions of ICE, BP, HCSO, State Patrol, etc over the last few weeks have been mostly unjustified. All the dramatic scenes are police overreaction to the broadly peaceful activities of thousands of people in respond to isolated - often debatable - criminality of really a handful of people.

The use of tear gas, less lethal, crowd rushes, etc similarly and blatantly infringe the rights of peaceful people present at protests.

It's crazy to me that we've come to accept that kind of police overreach when it very clearly violates the 1st Amendment.

Probably a controversial opinion but I think the entire concept of police declaring 'unlawful assembly' is unconstitutional.

The 'right to peaceably assemble' is individual. If you're peaceful, the government can't stop you from being in public.

'Unlawful assembly' is collective punishment.

Mexico Risks Losing Its Measles-Free Status, Months Before Millions Arrive for World Cup

Somehow I completely missed that the Texas measles outbreak last year spread to Mexico via unvaccinated children and has now killed 28 people, infecting 9000, and leading Mexico to likely lose its measles elimination status.

Thanks, RFK Jr.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

Obvious lies were obvious lies, in fact.

The federal government put hundreds, or thousands, of scars all across the state. People here have to live with that forever.

We don't want ICE to leave. We want them to not exist.

Monsters. Absolute monsters. From the front line to the Oval Office.

We're here for laser loons spitting sick tunes, not laser goons shooting down balloons.

This is because cops doing high speed chases have a tendency to kill bystanders.

For example, innocent people like Leneal Frazier, who was killed by a cop doing 90mph in N Mpls.

Frazier being the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the Pulitzer-winning teenager who filmed George Floyd's murder.

Worth mentioning, I suppose, that both St Paul and Minneapolis prohibit their police departments from engaging in high speed chases unless the perpetrators is believed to have committed a violent felony.

ICE are still being terrible in the Twin Cities, hurting people and causing mayhem.

Impeachment. This would be stretching the limits of how those powers have been used but they're arguably there.

Or, alternatively, an interpretation of 14th Amendment Section 3, treating all Trump II officials as treasonous.

Or just new, case-specific legislation.

The Senate can disqualify officials from holding any public office in the future, without needing to demonstrate cause. Because that is not punishment for a crime and is not a judicial process, it is not affected by the pardon power.

The Senate in 2021 and both Biden and Garland failed to achieve serious, irreversible accountability on the perpetrators of Jan 6 and we're going to be paying the price of that for the rest of our lifetimes.

Hopefully we can make up for those errors, but I'm not hopeful.

Congressional oversight has been slowly breaking since at least the 90s, accelerated by war-related dynamics in Bush II and general nonsense in Trump I. But this is just crazy. All norms gone. All sense of loyalty to the constitution or belief in Article 1 supremacy by the GOP gone.