Minnesota Not So Nice

Plus: Solitary confinement for teens, the Disneyfication of protest, Alito asks about gender, autistic Barbie, and more...

Agents in the streets: In Minneapolis, where the death of 37-year-old citizen activist Renee Good at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has galvanized considerable anger at the feds, raids just keep happening.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her. pic.twitter.com/Y9bDF1xfKW

— amanda moore ???? (@noturtlesoup17) January 13, 2026

Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne was lawfully observing ICE on a public sidewalk last night when an agent shoved him for no reason (video from his instagram).

Get these assholes out of Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/Ot5sQ4ODrN

— Mike Norton (@NortonMpls) January 13, 2026

"It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government," state Rep. Michael Howard (D–Richfield) told The New York Times. Video circulated online of ICE agents roughing up Target workers who resisted them; the workers said they were U.S. citizens and were reportedly later released. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson (ICE is under the DHS) claimed the workers were "assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers."

There's a showiness to all of it: It feels made for TV and not actually oriented toward finding and deporting the worst criminals who are here illegally. "ICE arrests dozens of criminal illegal aliens convicted of murder, child rape and more in sanctuary state Minnesota," reads a recent press release from ICE's website, substantiated by a few examples; but DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin says officials have made about 2,400 immigration-related arrests in Minnesota since the end of November. How many of them are the worst of the worst? To what degree are they milking the numbers? These are rather low numbers if you consider the sheer amount of federal resources deployed to do this task: Roughly 2,000 federal agents are currently circulating in Minneapolis.

"Most ICE officers and agents prefer to work in plain clothes, focus on finding immigrants who are known criminals, and keep a low profile, especially in major U.S. cities where they are loathed by many, and where some activists use crowdsourcing apps to report their whereabouts in real time," wrote Nick Miroff for The Atlantic back in August. "Driving around in 'wrapped' vehicles not only blows their cover; it potentially makes them a target for protesters, vandals, and attackers, agency veterans told me. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her small cadre of loyal aides have been pushing the agency to do more showy operations in Democratic-run cities that can advance the president's agenda—and supply clips for social media and the MAGA faithful. 'They love this cowboy shit,' one frustrated ICE official told me."

This segment below is worth a watch, but not just for the difference in media tone; also for the marked difference -- the "police not paramilitaries" normalcy -- in the way that ICE dresses and behaves:https://t.co/4OflF1PCAK

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 14, 2026

Meanwhile, six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned from their posts yesterday over the Department of Justice's push to investigate Becca Good, Renee Good's wife, and the department's refusal to investigate the ICE agent responsible for killing Renee. Unintended consequences: "The Minneapolis police chief, Brian O'Hara, said in an interview that [Joseph H.] Thompson's resignation dealt a major blow to efforts to root out rampant theft from state agencies," reports The New York Times. "The fraud cases, which involve schemes to cheat safety net programs, were the chief reason the Trump administration cited for its immigration crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the cases are American citizens of Somali origin."

In response to fraud in Minneapolis that prosecutors had under control, Trump fueled hysteria about Somali-Americans and flooded the city with ICE agents, resulting in the killing of Renee Good.

Now, because the Trump administration pushed the local DOJ lawyers to investigate… pic.twitter.com/oR3qTYIqa0

— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) January 13, 2026

Miroff again: "ICE aims to more than double the number of deportation officers on U.S. streets by the end of 2025. The slick cars and the bouncy rap tracks are recruitment tools, they say, along with a 'Join ICE' website and an ad blitz using 1940s-style Army posters, many with Uncle Sam, to depict Trump's deportation campaign as a patriotic war effort, akin to fighting the Nazis. Many of the new hires will enter ICE with different motivations than the generations before them, seeing the position not as a federal-law-enforcement career but as a chance to serve as a foot soldier in Trump's mission to bring sweeping social and demographic change." This approach is inconsistent with what Americans—even those who supported Trump—say they want.

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Scenes from New York: A new lawsuit filed in federal court claims the state of New York is using solitary confinement for incarcerated teenagers. The facilities in question "are for youth up to 21 years old who are convicted of a crime in family or the youth part of criminal court," per The New York Times. "The system is intended to be rehabilitative, but youth are often held in solitary confinement as a form of punishment for 'alleged rule infractions and, at times, minor misbehavior, including manifestations of youth's disabilities,' according to the suit."

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QUICK HITS

• Rest in peace, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert comics and a very kind guy in person. A lot of the obituaries for him have centered on various controversies to which he's been connected, but I'll just say: I thought Dilbert was awesome, Adams is a very original thinker, and I loved randomly chatting with him when I ran into him at an airport lounge in Athens, Greece, a few years back. God bless his family.
• "The notion that [Renee] Good would be able to drive away from this scene just as easily as she drove into it—and that the armed agents commanding her to exit her vehicle could be safely ignored—is as understandable as it is misguided, the product of a world in which activism and political conflict have become Disneyfied," writes Kat Rosenfield for The Free Press. "What was once an organized, strategic movement with high stakes and concrete political aims has evolved today into a sort of intramural sport for all comers, from influencers to wine moms to aging Boomers who prefer protest marches to pickleball. And if the ease of participation has swelled the ranks of activists to include anyone with an Instagram account, it has also given the entire enterprise a distinct veneer of unreality, like a theme park populated by actors who spend their days LARPing as cops or cowboys and then retire at night to a dorm where they eat pizza and hook up with the guy who plays their nemesis. In 2026, political protest—and even political violence—might feel like a party, or a movie, but the one thing it rarely feels is serious, until it's too late."
• Relatedly, kind of insane for the Department of Homeland Security to be co-opting the Captain Phillips meme from 2013 as they push to deport more Somalians. Supports the Rosenfield point above.

I am the captain now. https://t.co/KpvugNXfGF pic.twitter.com/xJHmyecrux

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 13, 2026

• More Minneapolis:

minneapolis is to minnesota what paris is to france (derogatory)

like paris in the revolutionary era, it's basically a commune whose deranged sans-coulettes incubated in cordelier madrassas wage continuous war on a hinterland vendèe https://t.co/FJIVL9kjmR pic.twitter.com/oCwvnpO0q1

— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) January 9, 2026

• Did anyone ask for, um, autistic Barbie? New from Mattel.
• "More Americans are living with cancer as death rates continue to decline, thanks to improved detection methods and better treatment options," reports Bloomberg. "Seven out of ten people survived for five years after a diagnosis during 2015-2021 across all cancers, a key goal of therapy, according to the American Cancer Society's annual report released Tuesday. The improvement extended to more aggressive types, with higher survival rates for myeloma, liver and lung cancers compared with decades prior, the report found."
• Wild scenes from the Supreme Court:

ALITO: To decide if there is discrimination on the basis of sex under Title IX, we need to define what sex is, right?

ACLU: Yes.

ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman, boy or girl?

ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 13, 2026

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Agents in the streets...

Ice in the sheets.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Man, that one is begging for a good rhyme but I can't find it. Meh, you idiots figure it out.

[Ajsloss]

Your swing and miss there proves that you couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe...

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Drivers as skeets?

[mad.casual]

Karen in the streets.

[MK Ultra]

I miss Chumby

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

You will respect dollar store chumby! (Sorry fist)

[MK Ultra]

Not in any way intended to disparage our Fist. His daily efforts to kickstart the morning conversations are always appreciated.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Where IS Chumby?

[Medulla Oblongata]

AWFL self-anointed elites

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Trump drop'n beats

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

And then it repeats

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Agents in the streets...
Minny feels da' heat
Do your stuff, feets!
dogs in the backseat.
Call Mayor Pete!

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Decent.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to.

That doctor was probable foreign born!

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

According to one side. I know we have never seen a leftist chick lie before...

[Zeb]

But most people are still just trying to go about their lives. Fuck the protesters for making things shittier for everyone.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Protestors get clicks. And nice writeup at magazines like reason.

[Quicktown Brix]

ICE is doing the heavy lifting of making things shittier. They are spinning out of control. Protests are appropriate. We have nothing else.

[Chupacabra]

"Keep your hands off of our stolen money"!

[Quicktown Brix]

No need for thata straw man defense unless you've got nothing else.

More like. We don't need militarized police for domestic law enforcement. It breeds violence from the police and the public.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Not a strawman at all midwit.

[Quicktown Brix]

In general, when implying yourself as intellectually superior in an argument, it's advisable that the argument not be ludicrously erroneous.

[ML (now paying)]

There's nothing straw about the unbelievably massive organized fraud done by Somalis in the states on TPS.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

QB isn’t able to connect dots from two related stories.

[Quicktown Brix]

Read up, ML. I never said there was. But inferring I favor letting the Somali daycare pirates off the hook because I said ICE is spinning out of control sure is.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Poor QB.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He is already used to the fraud. Plus it wont fix the deficit so why bother.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Ohh, fancy words from the midwit!

[Spiritus Mundi]

We would not if domestic law enforcement handed over the criminals for deportation instead of freeing them. There wouldn't be any of this nonsense.

But you leftys need the body count to keep your house seats, your cheap labor, and streams of fraud to skim from so you give them sanctuary.

[Quicktown Brix]

We would not if domestic law enforcement handed over the criminals for deportation instead of freeing them. There wouldn't be any of this nonsense.

OK, well I guess we'll consider that a price you pay for federalism and states' rights.

But you leftys need the body count to keep your house seats, your cheap labor, and streams of fraud to skim from.

And you fascists think enforcing your political agenda with your partisan, masked, armed goons will keep you in power.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“OK, well I guess we'll consider that a price you pay for federalism and states' rights.”

Speak for yourself midwit.

[Quicktown Brix]

It's nice that you learned a new word. Now maybe make a point?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

It’s not new.

I’ve made my points repeatedly. No matter how many times I and others do, you will continue to look at the issue from the leftist narrative framing, which makes you unable to get the point.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

State rights to fraud and immigration says the midwit.

[Marshal]

Fake Quicktown Brix:

I'd really like an honest debate. This childish stuff seems like a waste of time to me.

It's nice that you learned a new word.

Real Quicktown Brix:

And you fascists think enforcing your political agenda with your partisan, masked, armed goons will keep you in power.

[Quicktown Brix]

One fucking line above that

"I don't really think you're a fascist, but was making a point that you call me lefty for a stance clearly well within libertarian principles."

Shocker to see Marshal join in with no point, but a personal attack though.

[Marshal]

One fucking line above that"

"I don't really think you're a fascist, but was making a point that you call me lefty for a stance clearly well within libertarian principles."

Defending yourself as levying insults even you don't believe because they win the moment isn't the flex you think it is.

Shocker to see Marshal join in with no point, but a personal attack though.

Of course there's a point, if you're going to insult people over their failing a standard you need to live up to it yourself. It says quite a lot that this is so foreign a concept to you that you can't even understand it.

[Quicktown Brix]

These are fair points and I apologize for missing your point and thinking it was only an attempt to insult.

I will try to do better. I slip by my own standards sometimes in these 10-on-one-pile-ons.

[Spiritus Mundi]

I am sorry you don't like the way our government is structured. But states sent repesentatives to congress, who voted on federal laws and the feds have the right to enforce them. There is no states right issue here. That is a strawman as the supremacy clause all states agreed to wins out.

Enforcing bipartisan laws that have been on the books for generations is not facism or enforcing an agenda as both parties have advocated for immigration enforement.

Why do you want criminals and dependents in your community?

[HorseConch]

States rights mean ignoring federal law if you're a blue state but its the end of the world if a red state does it.

[Quicktown Brix]

States are not required to enforce federal laws. That's federalism. That's states rights.

The supremacy clause only means states cannot obstruct or nullify federal law.

Minnesota is well within it's rights to not turn over illegals to the feds. So it seems "I am sorry you don't like the way our government is structured" applies more to you than me.

And I'm not in favor of Minnesota's policies on this stuff, but my pro-federalist principle overrides my preference there.

Enforcing bipartisan laws that have been on the books for generations is not facism or enforcing an agenda as both parties have advocated for immigration enforement.

Using a partisan armed group of thugs loyal only to the regime harassing citizens is textbook fascism. I don't really think you're a fascist, but was making a point that you call me lefty for a stance clearly well within libertarian principles.

Why do you want criminals and dependents in your community?

I'd really like an honest debate. This childish stuff seems like a waste of time to me.

[Quicktown Brix]

States rights mean ignoring federal law if you're a blue state but its the end of the world if a red state does it.

According to who?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“Minnesota is well within it's rights to not turn over illegals to the feds. So it seems "I am sorry you don't like the way our government is structured" applies more to you than me.”

Correct. But then that means the feds are going to come in and enforce federal laws. Which you also have a problem with.

And while they are doing that, local law enforcement is also refusing to enforce local laws and enabling paid agitators to interfere with the federal law enforcement by blocking roads, harassing feds, and shooting fireworks at a hotel they think ice is staying at.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Correct. But then that means the feds are going to come in and enforce federal laws. Which you also have a problem with.

He is speaking out both sides of his mouth as usual.

I'd really like an honest debate. This childish stuff seems like a waste of time to me.

The word of the day is apophasis.

[Quicktown Brix]

I thought the word of the day was "midwit"

[Quicktown Brix]

But then that means the feds are going to come in and enforce federal laws. Which you also have a problem with.

I have a problem with how they're doing it.

I don't get the relevance though. This all started as clarifying my opposition is not to prosecuting/preventing the Somali fraud.

I'm on record since the campaign of being opposed to mass deportations. I said then it will necessarily get ugly. R's will lose support. D's will regain power. Now that's playing out.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“I have a problem with how they're doing it.”

How so?

“I don't get the relevance though.”

Yes, I know.

“I'm on record since the campaign of being opposed to mass deportations.”

And the guy that was elected by over 70 million people was on record for planning on doing it. Sorry, but your personal preferences doesn’t change federal laws. No matter how much you cry, and leftists try to interfere, these deportations are happening.

[Incunabulum]

The problem with federalism is when the decisions you make for your shithole state start affecting my shithole state.

At that point, yes, I'm going to come over there and make you stop.

[Quicktown Brix]

OK. So you're opposed to federalism.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Federal dollars are sent to Minnesota, who is then responsible for allocating that money. They have decided to allow fraud of those federal funds for votes and kickbacks.

[Quicktown Brix]

I'm not opposed to the feds canceling funds to MN, nor prosecuting the fraud.

That's a separate issue from masked thugs smashing out car windows and bullying citizens on the street.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Also, sanctuary policies increase the number of people in those blue districts. Illegals are stealing more than money. They are taking representation away from citizens. Some might say that is undemocratic, fascisitic even.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

So the circle is back to ignoring all the evidence that disputes the left wing narrative.

This is why you’re a midwit.

[Quicktown Brix]

What would ML do?

Hey ChatGPT, in this conversation which commenter is really more likely a "midwit" by objective standards?

Short answer: it’s not appropriate to label any commenter a “midwit,” and by objective standards the term itself is doing most of the work here, not analysis.
But if we strip away the insult and ask a legitimate version of your question—whose contributions show weaker reasoning, more logical errors, or less engagement with the substance of the argument—then we can evaluate that.
...
QB is engaging in real argumentation, even when abrasive.

GOPI is engaging primarily in labeling, narrative assertion, and dominance signaling.

Ironically, the people using “midwit” the most are the ones least willing to do the cognitive work the term is supposed to imply superiority over.

Marshal: Actually does solid meta-argumentation about standards and consistency—and is rewarded with an apology, which tells you something.

I owe you one Marshall.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“Ironically, the people using “midwit” the most are the ones least willing to do the cognitive work the term is supposed to imply superiority over.”

Did you define midwit in your question? Because that’s not what it means.

And it’s not a conclusion from this single thread, which is the point.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Quick, QB, without looking it up, what does midwit mean?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“Short answer: it’s not appropriate to label any commenter a “midwit,””

Also, wtf is this bs? Chatgpt has the authority to determine what’s an appropriate label for someone in the commentariat?

[Incunabulum]

No we don't - it didn't work for Clinton of Biden after all.

[DesigNate]

This has already been adjudicated under Obama. States don’t get to enforce federal immigration laws which logically means they can’t impede them either.

So I have to vehemently disagree that any state is within its rights to not hand over illegal immigrants.

[Incunabulum]

Theft is violence.

[Zeb]

I can't claim to have a good or complete idea of what's really happening. My impression is that yes ICE is perhaps getting a bit too "cowboy". Perhaps some protest is appropriate there. But, whatever you think about immigration law and enforcement, they are primarily enforcing the law as it exists and a lot of the protest seems to be aimed at interfering with any ICE enforcement actions rather than focusing on the excesses.

[Quicktown Brix]

a lot of the protest seems to be aimed at interfering with any ICE enforcement actions rather than focusing on the excesses.

Fair enough.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Interfering with the feds enforcement actions is a federal crime.

Conspiracy to obstruct federal enforcement is also a crime.

[Quicktown Brix]

God bless you for reading this far in to this total waste of time exchange.

You are correct.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

I’ve seen over a dozen instances now of a partial video being released showing federal law enforcement appearing to be overly aggressive with cries of “Oh my god can you believe they’re doing this”, only to later see another, longer video, that shows the person being arrested (or shot, or hit by a car) was clearly obstructing law enforcement, and then resisting arrest, or just jumping in front of Ice vehicles.

These people are paid agitators, being used as cannon fodder for the left. They used to get away with it, but now independent journalists (and sometimes just some random dude in his apartment window wondering why the fuck some crazy lady is parked sideways in the road blaring her horn for over 3.5 minutes) are recording the context of the incidents, showing that it’s all bullshit.

Certain types of people still fall for it, so expect it to continue though.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Their theater protestations clearly work on some people.

People like Mike have zero interest in the truth of the matter, just the narratives that can be used.

[Ersatz]

its the Hamas formula. Create martyrs from your shock troops to garner sympathetic press coverage and pressure on the good guys to unilaterally disarm. The good guys here being those enforcing the law of the land as opposed to those who break the laws and the legions of useful idiot wine moms that encourage, support them and run interference for them, and lets not forget the corrupt pols that get rich off the welfare process.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Hey now, don’t call QB a wine mom!

[See.More]

. . . they are primarily enforcing the law as it exists and a lot of the protest seems to be aimed at interfering with any ICE enforcement actions rather than focusing on to provoke and incite the excesses and exploit them for political gain and posturing.

FIFY

[Incunabulum]

You could have chosen to not admit millions of thieves and shove them across the country while covering up their crimes.

[Quicktown Brix]

I did choose that, but it doesn't matter what I choose.

[DesigNate]

Or, and hear me out, Local governments could shut up and assist ICE in collecting the illegal immigrants they’re trying to apprehend.

Instead, they’re actively working with the protestors and acting like immigration enforcement isn’t a legitimate Federal function.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

No Quixy, you democrats made everything shittier when you let 20 million illegals into my country.

All of this is YOUR fault.

[damikesc]

Fuck the government in MN as well. Honor detainers and ICE would not have to be there.

[Quicktown Brix]

Good point. Minnesota seems like a mess.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

https://www.fox9.com/news/walz-impeachment-articles-drafted-minnesota-house-lawmakers

[Social Justice is neither]

But the media blame is all on the LEOs regardless, so it's impossible to believe even plausible excuses when everyone actively involved on that side sees no issue with lies.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

They are like flat earthers. They will deny everything their eyes tell them or that makes sense to keep from acknowledging the truth.

If that was a LEO driving and a protestor was in front of the car, they would be crying the LEO was trying to kill them. Even if the protestor fired at that the LEO driver. It would have been a self-defense claim.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Seemed a lot like a different version of "I can't breathe," which is now immediately shouted by just anyone arrested as they resist arrest.

[mad.casual]

Generously;

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to obstruct ICE and traffic in solidarity with a protest that had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to after being told, repeatedly, to move along.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Liz couldn't be bothered to watch the full video, which the op linked in the first response:

https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/2011168038175871440

If she was on her way to a dr. appointment she must have been ahead of schedule, because she had time to scream at the ice agents trying to get her to keep driving.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

All they do is lie. And here's Liz repeating it. Very disappointing.

[Incunabulum]

That's the problem nowadays - people see a video in their Twitter feed and just assume it tells the whole story.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

"There's a showiness to all of it: It feels made for TV and not actually oriented toward finding and deporting the worst criminals who are here illegally."

Hey Liz, you realize these people are tracking ice and showing up where they are and harassing them, right? Pretty sure ice would prefer they don't do that and let them do their job, right?

Stupid.

[damikesc]

I love seeing moms, who are CONVINCED ICE will kill people for no reason, dragging their children to these protests.

[ML (now paying)]

They love their social standing with their peer group more than they love their kids, and would love to be the mother of a martyr.

[HorseConch]

As an American, I'm really disappointed that so much American blood and treasure went to fight the Nazis when all that was needed was a bunch of German women with bullhorns and cowbells to defeat them.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

If it plays in Gaza, their assumption is that it plays even better in Minneapolis.

[damikesc]

I remember, once, it was universally believed that using children as human shields was terrible.

That belief has, apparently, changed.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Children are just the political handbag accessory now. See the Trans movement.

[damikesc]

Oh, they've been that for a few years. They lionized Greta for a reason. They lionized David Hogg for a reason. People cannot be mean and criticize a youngster who is making an idiotic point.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Get these assholes out of Minneapolis.

Sounds like if you get rid of all the assholes there will be no one left in the state.

[Minadin]

Just very few left in the Twin Cities.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Ever since Prince died.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Some Controversy in the Purple Rain.

[Dillinger]

used to be Erotic City what happened?

[Incunabulum]

Prince died.

[Dillinger]

true. Appolonia lives.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Aren't we forgetting Morris Day and the motherfucking Time?

[Dillinger]

I never forget Morris Day.

[mad.casual]

But then who will watch all the children enrolled in Somali daycare centers?

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Prince, since the children are ghosts too.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

In a shock to nobody, Texas implants teacher pay based on performance instead of seniority and things improve.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/schools-increasingly-consider-rewarding-teachers-results-not-seniority

[Public Entelectual]

In related news, CBS scooped Fox by reporting the ICE agent has developed a bruise from the SUV side mirror pushing him aside between shots one and two.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

5 mph equals 19,312,095.99 centimeters per day.

So now what?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He doesnt think a car can crush someone or injure someone if they get caught underneath it and it isnt going 88 mph or something.

He is staying in full retard and you cant convince him not to.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

That’s why I’m not trying to. But don’t tell QB, he might have chatgpt call me out for not making a cognitive argument.

[damikesc]

When I was 5, I saw my best friend have his legs crushed when a car slowly rolled over them. Couldn't walk for many months.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

YEAH BUT WHAT WAS THE ANGLE OF THE FRONT WHEELS?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

So you decided on doubling down on being irrelevant. Good for you buddy!

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Meanwhile, six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned from their posts yesterday"

If they weren't prosecuting the Somali fraud they should be arrested for abetting a crime

[Spiritus Mundi]

There is no Somali fraud. It is just Trump fueled hysteria about Somali-Americans and flooded the city with ICE agents, resulting in the killing of Renee Good.

What a world we live in where people are ok with billions in theft because the right people are doing it.

[damikesc]

I am always amazed how these resignations NEVER occur under Dem Presidents. Literally never.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Guys. I have some great news. The elitist finally admits antifa is real. And it's a good thing!

https://thepostmillennial.com/far-left-rag-the-nation-admits-antifa-is-real-and-says-its-a-good-thing

[Idaho-Bob]

Antifa doesn't exist while MAGA lurks around every corner.

Speaking of MAGA vs antifa -

https://x.com/KCPayTreeIt/status/2010829928493641732

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The dude in the red vest is the best part.

[Idaho-Bob]

It learned actions have consequences. Twice.

[Ajsloss]

That second one... my goodness. How do you walk right into that? Dude wound up like a cartoon to throw that punch.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Driving around in 'wrapped' vehicles not only blows their cover; it potentially makes them a target for protesters, vandals, and attackers, agency veterans told me.

I think, with social media spreading their locations, that undercover ship has sailed.

[Dillinger]

where can we get 100 blue 1985 Chevy Caprices?

[Scooter]

PM me your address, and I'll drop you a pin.

:-0)

[Scooter]

Some people cannot tell the difference between 'unmarked' and 'undercover'. My state ride is unmarked. If you look carefully, the emergency lights are quite visible but it has no markings to designate it as a .gov vehicle. 'Undercover' is an entirely different ball of wax.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Thank you General Trivia.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

An investigation looking back 15 years will include audits—the first in the program’s 45-year history, according to the administrator.

Wait what? First audit in 45 years??

“There’s a certain group of actors that saw opportunity in disaster and defrauded the government,” Loeffler said. “What we know now is they come back to the trough.”

President Joe Biden’s administration forgave thousands of loans that were flagged as potentially fraudulent, she noted.

“They were not ever further investigated,” Loeffler said. “Those cases were closed; those loans were being forgiven.”

So we knew and nothing happened??

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sba-investigating-12-trillion-payments-part-fraud-probe-loeffler

[Yuno Hoo]

So we knew and nothing happened??

"Oh, very well. Maybe we'll look into that a bit while we're at it."

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Well something probably happened. Such as "donations" to democrats.

[damikesc]

No resignations over this. Our honorable and noble civil servants did not have a problem with this? Does not sound like these good and decent folks.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Meanwhile, six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned from their posts yesterday over the Department of Justice's push to investigate Becca Good...

The day I weep for federal prosecutors, whether they be too ideologically left or careerists looking to strongarm pleas to pad their resumes...

[Gaear Grimsrud]

DOJ says all of those prosecutors had signed up for early retirement prior to the Good shooting. But Reason loves them anonymous sources.

[Longtobefree]

They were going to get axed for malicious prosecution - - - - - - - -

[Yuno Hoo]

ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman, boy or girl?

ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.

ALITO: Dismissed! *** Pounds gavel ***

[Medulla Oblongata]

Justice Samuel Alito: To pick up on the issue of discrimination on the basis of transgender status, let me just go back to, let me go to some basics. Do you agree that a school may have separate teams for a category of students classified as boys, and a category of students classified as girls?

Kathleen Hartnett: Yes, Your Honor.

SA: If it does that, then is it not necessary for there to be, for equal protection purposes, if that is challenged under the equal protection clause, an understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl, or a man or a woman?

KH: Yes, Your Honor.

SA: And what is that definition? For equal protection purposes? What does it mean to be a boy or a girl, or a man or a woman?

KH: Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I think that the underlying enactment, whatever it was, the policy, the law, the... we'd have to have an understanding of how the state or the government, was understanding that term, to figure out whether or not someone was excluded. We do not have a definition for the court.

KH: And we don't take issue with the... we're not disputing the definition in here, what we're saying is that the way it applies in practice is to exclude birth-sex males categorically from women's teams, and that there's a subset of those birth-sex males where it doesn't make sense to do so, according to the state's own interest.

SA: Well, how can you, how can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means? For equal protection purposes.

KH: I think here we just know it is... we, we basically know the... that they've identified person to their own statute, Lindsay qualifies as a birth sex male. And she's being excluded categorically from the women's teams as the statute. So we're taking the statute's definitions as we find them, and we don't dispute them, we're just trying to figure out, do they create an equal protection problem.

And later we get this pile of gibberish from Justice Jackson:

"And so, to the extent, that you have an individual, who says what is happening in this law is that it is treating someone who is transgender, but who does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward — that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?

[mad.casual]

And so, to the extent, that you have an individual, who says what is happening in this law is that it is treating someone who is transgender, but who does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward — that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?

No... ?

LOL

[Mickey Rat]

Jackson is attempting to make a case for an irrational position and she does not seem to have the wit for speaking the levels of BS necessary to make it sound convincing.

[Mickey Rat]

"Lindsey qualifies as a birth sex male."

"And she 's being categorically excluded from the women's teams...:

That is what should happen by any application of logic if you accept that "women's teams" should exist. I have not seen any clear reason the ACLU lawyer gives for why their client should be a mandated exception. It is just hemming and having about if it is an equal protection violation.

[Zeb]

The argument seems to be (if I am parsing the gibberish right) that some "trans" kids are sufficiently weakened by the "care" they receive that they don't have an unfair advantage over actual girls. Which also sounds like acknowledgement that the hormones and whatnot are causing harm.

[Mike Parsons]

"And later we get this pile of gibberish from Justice Jackson"

Sotomayor is also a dope, but this lady is the most clear example of why DEI is bad and why we do not need to be hiring with identity as the primary goal and qualifications second.

Reminder of this woman's completely ideologically captured mind, that causes her to believe lines of reasoning that a decent middle school student would be skeptical of:

WSJ: Justice Jackson’s Incredible Statistic

"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of “diversity” in education. “It saves lives,” she asserts. “For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live.”"

Saying that out loud there are at least two glaringly insane things that fly in the face of reality that any person with average intelligence should immediately pick up. She used this as a fucking dissenting argument sitting on the SCOTUS.

[Marshal]

"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of “diversity” in education. “It saves lives,” she asserts. “For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live.”"

Most people on the left still believe this, not just the complete morons. It's based on a propaganda study produced a couple of decades ago. I don't recall if the death rate is double but it is higher. But it turns out this is because high-risk pregnancies often see specialists who were overwhelmingly white. Once you adjust for the risk-factors the death rates by doctor race show only a small difference with white doctors lower.

The real problem is the politicized media / education network created over the last 5 decades as the far left took over those institutions. They seek and promote only information which advances their political desires, and people who go through those programs are trained to reject any other information so they never learn any better.

This is why cleansing our education system of leftists should be the top priority for all libertarians, conservatives, and even liberals.

[Mike Parsons]

" I don't recall if the death rate is double but it is higher. But it turns out this is because high-risk pregnancies often see specialists who were overwhelmingly white. Once you adjust for the risk-factors the death rates by doctor race show only a small difference with white doctors lower."

So when they compared to a baseline, black child seeing black doctor has the most minute nothingburger of a sliver of an uptick in mortality. However, you point out the obvious confounder: black doctor / black patient tended to be much more representative of a more "normal" / easy case, and white doctor / black baby tended to represent a "specialized" or difficult case.

Because more high level specialists that take on the *hardest* cases, are white. Thats the whole deal. The two biggest screaming red flags are:

1. double / 100% mortality increase is FUCKING INSANE, and is a number so large you would have to assume you are living in bizarro world or someone is actively murdering black babies

2. Black doctors, on average, have significantly lower performance, entrance scores, board scores, etc. Largely due to affirmative action letting in students with much lower scores compared to white and asian students. The odds of them performing in such a vastly superior fashion, to peers that have significantly higher (statistically) qualifications, is....unlikely. The equivalent would be me saying "Well, short Pilipino men score 2x as many points in a basketball game as black dudes". Any sane person would be like....ya, fucking no, never

[Incunabulum]

Its interesting that no one seems to have a problem with weight classes in combat sports.

No one's gonna stand up for the 6 foot 4 dudes, full of muscle, that identify as a bantamweights.

But conceptually, what is the difference?

[Mickey Rat]

It seems to be that part of it is being affirmed, in an official sense, of being a "real" woman/girl. Having a physiological advantsge in terms of competition is icing on the cake.

[mad.casual]

Once again, over $2T in education spending from 2000 and 2022, and between the ACLU and SCOTUS this can't be aggressively kicked back down from the shadow docket because nobody seems to have passed 3rd grade biology.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A leftist activist who regularly refers to Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump as pedophiles is facing felony and misdemeanor charges after authorities say he spent months communicating with someone he believed was an 11-year-old girl and then traveled to Bremerton, Washington, to meet her for sex.

https://thepostmillennial.com/activist-teacher-who-claimed-republicans-are-pedophiles-charged-with-child-molestation-in-wa

[Ajsloss]

I bet he was just trying to teach her the lesson that you shouldn't talk to strangers online. He was doing a public service, honest!

[Marshal]

Is it a coincidence this happened right when sarc huffed off?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I thought Sarc was still here as “Fu Manchu”.

[ML (now paying)]

Zeb says he knows Sarckles IRL, and Sarc told him that he was no longer going to come here, so Zeb feels that Fu Manchu cannot be Sarc.

I, on the other hand, believe that the chances Sarc was lying to Zeb are close to 100%.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I agree with your estimate.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Well considering that he told him the reason he left is because he didn’t want to pay, and I’m still not paying, I think you are correct.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You’re probably right, and knowing Sarc, Sarc probably lied.

[Marshal]

I don't think so, being stupidly wrong is not the only sarc characteristic. He's also immature and devoid of impulse control. He could never go this long without a meltdown.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He had one Saturday if I remember. Know recently he did.

[Ajsloss]

'They love this cowboy shit,' one frustrated ICE official told me.

I knew I wasn't the only person jonesing for more whipped-from-horseback pics!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Wish this thing that never happens can go back to being ignored so we can claim it never happens to push unsecured mail in voting.

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Building manager arrested for voting MULTIPLE times in 2024 by filling ballots… "for former tenants"

These fraudulent mail-ins COUNTED

Her name: Esperanza Contreras

[Yuno Hoo]

Great stuff. "No widespread fraud!" "Every vote counts!"

[ML (now paying)]

"There's no reason to show ID or vote in person. Trust us. Would we ever steal an election?"

[HorseConch]

Martha Raddatz will be by shortly to remind you that it's only a few apartment complexes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A lot of the obituaries for him have centered on various controversies to which he's been connected...

I'm reading Adams was no austere scholar.

[Bubba Jones]

He was MAGA before MAGA was cool. He probably consulted on all the messaging from day one. He had a whole schtick on Trump as the "master persuader".

And after writing countless articles about how cool his girlfriend/wife were, he dumped her for a young hot chick.

He was convinced that we lived in a simulation, he completely lacked empathy, and was a new paradigm of autistic nihilist.

So no, he wasn't a "kind person."

[damikesc]

He was a better person than you. He influenced numerous folks with his terrific books and his terrific podcast.

Empathy is bullshit and pointless.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“He was MAGA before MAGA was cool.”

What does this mean?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Yeah, too bad he couldn’t be a willfully obtuse leftist tool like you. Scott Adams was a good man who made positive contributions to the world

Unlike you.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

All morning yesterday an activist claimed ICE hit them with their car. Made its way to newspapers and blue sky. Then the dash came video came out. Proving once again the left is full of retarded liars and gullible people.

https://x.com/toddstarnes/status/2011073373195878531

Laughable video in link.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Like I said the other day, unless leftists, and Reason (but I repeat myself) can admit they were wrong once it's shown original narratives were bullshit, I'm assuming every one of these stories are lies.

[damikesc]

Lebron James should take some tips from that flopper.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The notion that [Renee] Good would be able to drive away from this scene just as easily as she drove into it—and that the armed agents commanding her to exit her vehicle could be safely ignored—is as understandable as it is misguided, the product of a world in which activism and political conflict have become Disneyfied...

I also agree that adult women are generally without agency.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

There's video of Good's girlfriend (now looks like they never actually got married) screaming "why did that gun have real bullets?!"

But nice of Liz to boaf sides it.

[BYODB]

Kinda makes you wonder if they meant to stop some other fake ICE agents for their channel, and accidentally stopped a real ICE agent doing a real stop.

Obviously a silly conspiracy theory, but an amusing one. Her reaction is what one would expect of an actor on set, and I can easily see some people on the set of Rust exclaiming the same thing.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

I took it that, like a dipshit, she imagined that "protesters" would be met with rubber bullets and pepper balls.

LARPers need to stick to Ren fairs.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Yes, this is correct. Tim Pool discussed it perfectly last night. These leftists have been coddled by blue city/state law enforcement since the Michael Brown lie, at least, where no matter how many laws they break while mostly peacefully rioting and looting, they are engaged with non-lethal munitions. Ice is in Minnesota to arrest illegal immigrants, most of them violent criminals, not to play crowd control. So they are armed accordingly.

[mad.casual]

Even at that, law enforcement pretty much everywhere (else) carries sidearms and are legally empowered to use them in defense of self and others from fleeing/reckless drivers.

The only place they generally or specifically don't is with crowd/riot control when the weapon could be taken from them. Pretty much, if the cops aren't carrying riot shields, nobody booked for public occupancy, and/or less lethal munitions aren't already in play, expect real guns with real bullets to be on the table.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Evidence that they think it's a game

[mad.casual]

Next you're probably gonna try and mansplain the difference between forced errors and unforced errors aren't you?

[Super Scary]

"but youth are often held in solitary confinement as a form of punishment for 'alleged rule infractions and, at times, minor misbehavior, including manifestations of youth's disabilities,' according to the suit."
"manifestations of youth's disabilities"

Look, just because the average teenager reads at a 2nd grade level doesn't mean you have to put then in the hole for a few days. Jeez.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

So they get a time out?

[Fist of Etiquette]

What was once an organized, strategic movement with high stakes and concrete political aims has evolved today into a sort of intramural sport for all comers, from influencers to wine moms to aging Boomers who prefer protest marches to pickleball.

Intramural sports can also be organized.

[mad.casual]

If boomers and wine moms are showing up to participate in your intramural sports, you've lost the organization. Or several.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

So, ultimate frisbee...

[MK Ultra]

I played club ultimate back in high school, mainly because the adult hippies got better dope than my classmates.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Liz. I beg you to stop posting the edited videos from activists. In both of these cases there are longer videos.

First woman double parked wedding herself to block ice. She was obstructing.

Haven't seen the 2nd, but in a similar instance yesterday a different protestor claimed the same. He was standing in front of an ICE car so it couldn't pass through. For almost a minute. That is obstruction.

[Longtobefree]

"He was standing in front of an ICE car so it couldn't pass through. For almost a minute. That is obstruction."

They could always start arresting them for attempted suicide.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

I like that.

[Medulla Oblongata]

They're not "undocumented"...also most secure election ever...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/county-clerk-raises-alarm-over-non-citizens-in-jury-pool/ar-AA1U94ge

A Michigan county clerk alleged that the jury pool for a circuit court has recently included non-citizens who are ineligible for jury duty.

“Non-citizens are coming through at an alarming rate,” Macomb County Clerk Anthony G. Forlini said in a press release. “Our jury service summonses are based on random draws from the driver’s license bank. Frequently non-citizens slip through because citizenship was not flagged in the Secretary of State database.”

Forlini, who is running for Michigan secretary of state, said he found 239 non-citizens in the jury pool over a four-month period.

“What we have found is very disturbing,” he said.

He said he also directed his staff to check the secretary of state’s Qualified Voter File (QVF).

“In a cross-check of our voter rolls, it appears that 14 of these prospective jurors were registered to vote at some point in time,” Forlini said. “Our QVF shows instances where some of these non-citizens potentially having a voting history. One in particular appears to have voted several times, all of which could result in felony charges.”

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Just emailed the Wayne County, Michigan clerk asking if they are going to investigate the jury pool and voter file to see if they have any non-citizens like Macomb County's clerk claims. I will keep you updated with what, if anything, they tell me.

https://x.com/DaveBondyTV/status/2011262895238312314

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

"Seven out of ten people survived for five years after a diagnosis during 2015-2021"

So let me get this right if you have cancer and you going to die in 2025
If it's detected in 2024 that means the treatment didn't work, but if it gets detected in 2020 the treatment is more effective because you lasted 5 years and not 1?

[Fist of Etiquette]

minneapolis is to minnesota what paris is to france (derogatory)

Lol. In more ways that just this.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Somali official shows how entrenched the 'fraud pipeline' really is

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/exclusive-somali-official-shows-how-entrenched-the-fraud-pipeline-really-is/ar-AA1U8vKz

A Somali lawmaker described to the Daily Caller how his government functions as a “fraud pipeline,” siphoning U.S. tax dollars from foreign aid, health care and day care into one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world.

Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of the Somali Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of the People, told the Caller the corruption surfacing in Minnesota and across the United States did not emerge spontaneously, but is a downstream consequence of Somalia’s deeply entrenched system of corruption.

Abib’s analysis, shared exclusively with the Caller, draws both from his experience working within what is widely considered the second-most corrupt country in the world and from his collection of specific numerical data tied to alleged fraud involving political figures.

Abib asserted that despite repeated efforts to share the data with U.S. agencies, he has been ignored as the problem continues to grow — only recently coming into partial public view through investigations and reporting. He claims that captures just a fraction of what he has warned the United States government about for years.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Oh well, guess we should just leave it to Minnesota law enforcement to handle this, they're clearly on top of it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Liz, I also see you fell for the resigning prosecution story. Here is from a defense lawyer who has actual facts instead of narratives. See if you agree with these activist prosecutors.

Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Let me tell you the real reason why the four prosecutors in Civil Rights Criminal Section resigned.

It has to do with the death of Breonna Taylor.

Louisville PD Officer Brett Hankison was retried after a jury in his first federal trial ended 11-1 for acquittal. These four individuals were part of the leadership team that agitated to retry him.

Hankison had already been acquitted in state court trial.

Hankison did not fire the round that killed Taylor. No one was struck by any round Hankison fired.

Hankison was convicted in a second trial in Nov. 2024, with the verdict coming just prior to the election.

After the Trump Admin. took over DOJ and the Civil Rights Division, it asked to have the sentencing postponed so new leadership could examine the history of the case and the decision-making behind retrying a case that had ended 11-1 for acquittal after a 12-0 acquittal in state court.

The DOJ filed a Sentencing Memorandum that said it could find NO CASE EVER that had been prosecuted on the legal theory relied upon by the DOJ prosecutors and supervisors who were behind the Hankison case.

It as a "cause" to "get" one police officer.

The Civil Rights prosecutors who had handled the case were removed by AAG Dhillon, and both have since left the office.

In the Sentencing Memoranda, DOJ recommended a sentence of "Time Served" -- 1 day -- given the conduct of the Biden DOJ.

The judge was unhappy -- she had expressed a clear dislike of Hankison and was cowed by the protesters in and out of the courtroom.

She sentenced him to 33 months AND denied him bail pending appeal even though DOJ did not oppose and agreed there were significant legal issues with the conviction.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals AGREED with Hankison and DOJ, and ordered him released pending appeal just before Christmas.

DOJ is likely to concede error by the Biden Civil Rights Prosecutors -- who were supported by the now resigned leadership.

Now you know the rest of the story.

I have an article I'm working on re Hankison's case that mostly focuses on the outrageous conduct by the Judge -- a Trump appointee, but more important than that, a McConnell acolyte.

https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/2011111356406116773

Please stop falling for propaganda liz.

Your entire writeup is just repeating leftist narratives. Dont retreat back to bad Liz.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Leftists lie.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

KMW may be ramping up pressure for Liz to fall in line with the rest of the tReason team.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Did anyone ask for, um, autistic Barbie? New from Mattel.

I knew this was going to happen when they introduced Inoculation Doctor Ken.

[Ajsloss]

Yeah, right. Ken as the doctor? Get a load of the guy that doesn't understand Barbie!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

I'm still waiting for the gay version of Ken.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

I’m not going to ask why.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Dr. Ken? Jeong?

[Fist of Etiquette]

More Americans are living with cancer as death rates continue to decline, thanks to improved detection methods and better treatment options...

The longer you live without being fully cured, the more lucrative it is.

[Eeyore]

The entire premise is nonsense.

The better they get at early detection - the earlier you will know you have cancer - the longer you will live with a cancer diagnosis - the more people who live 5 years or more after diagnosis.

There is no evidence that treatment has gotten any better. You just have more years of your life knowing you have cancer. The earlier diagnosis creates the outcome.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wild scenes from the Supreme Court...

The cure for gender discrimination suits? No genders.

[Longtobefree]

Accepting that a man can become a woman is like accepting the earth is flat.

Both are the view of those who cannot accept reality, and who are delusional.

[mad.casual]

Slight disagreement. I can look out at the horizon and see that the Earth is flat. The earth being flat is an integral premise to Euclidean geometry.

No creature with literally two neurons to rub together exists in any sort of poly-dimensional sex-determination purgatory. Even many of the plants and organisms without two neurons to rub together, still have a clear, dimorphic sexual precursors, vestiges, and artifacts.

Slime molds might singularly reproduce, assume multiple dimorphic roles, or undergo polymorphic reproduction with a group of similarly reproductively ambiguous peers.

[Incunabulum]

The earth being flat or not is irrelevant to Euclidian geometry.

Euclidian geometry is the geometry of flat planes and at small distances space (and earth is flat) sure, so Euclidian geometry isn't going to be useful on earth outside of short distances but its not dependent on a flat earth.

[mad.casual]

The earth being flat or not is irrelevant to Euclidian geometry.

As an anachronistic gestalt in modern human consciousness yes. As a historical artifact, no.

To wit, "human sex is a spectrum" is a "no" in both cases. Even if you ignore the last 2,000 yrs. of biology, trans ideology doesn't begin to explain even fairly common and basic aspects human (mammal, vertebrate...) behavior/biology.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying the Earth is flat. One is an illusion the other is a hallucination.

[See.More]

Slight disagreement. I can look out at the horizon and see that the Earth is flat. The earth being flat is an integral premise to Euclidean geometry.

Rebuttal: Cats. Cats exist. Things are still on the Earth. If the Earth was flat, then Cats would have knocked everything off by now. Ergo, the Earth is not flat.

Counter-Rebuttal: The Earth's surface is 70+% water. Virtually none of that water is carbonated. Ergo, the Earth is flat.

[mad.casual]

Virtually none of that water is carbonated.

Anything less than 18.2 mega-ohms makes me burp.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Sou you prefer your HO2 carbonated?

[Medulla Oblongata]

But will it be in a men's or women's prison? Plus, didn't know "she" was Somali...oh, wait, El Salvadoran...Lawyer said it's wrong to give prison time or deportation, because, you know, trans folks who bilk taxpayers for almost $1M have it hard..."did not understand at the time the kind of harm she was causing" my ass.

Once-revered trans activist Ruby Corado gets prison time in fraud case

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/once-revered-trans-activist-ruby-corado-sentenced-for-defrauding-government/ar-AA1U8IJi

A once-revered transgender activist whose D.C. nonprofit housed and aided homeless LGBTQ+ immigrants and youths was sentenced Tuesday to serve 33 months in federal prison and pay more than $900,000 in restitution — a sentence that is likely to trigger deportation proceedings — after she pleaded guilty to diverting federal pandemic relief funds meant to support her clients to offshore personal bank accounts in El Salvador.

Pleasant Brodnax, attorney for Ruby Corado, in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday: “When Ms. Corado’s transgender status is considered alongside her non-citizen status—foreclosing meaningful re-entry programming and virtually guaranteeing immigration detention and likely removal—incarceration would be uniquely punitive in both kind and degree. A sentence of time served, together with the severe collateral consequences she already faces, is sufficient to reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect for the law, afford deterrence, and protect the public, without subjecting Ms. Corado to a foreseeable and extraordinary risk of harm.”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Immigrants and Trans are better than you citizen.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

You would think an individual so at risk would make every effort to avoid breaking the law. When they don't, then they clearly don't fear the consequences.

[swillfredo pareto]

It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government," state Rep. Michael Howard [says]

How did it feel when your own agents killed Philando Castille and Justine Diamond?

Between this idiocy and abject corruption, fuck Minnesota.

[Medulla Oblongata]

ALITO: Let's say a school has a boy and girl track team. A male student with no puberty blockers or female hormones, or surgeries, says, 'I AM A WOMAN. That's who I am.' Can the school say, 'No, you can't participate?'

ATTORNEY: Yes...

ALITO: Is that person not a WOMAN in your understanding?! They SAY they're a woman. Are they not a woman, then?

ATTORNEY: Well, I'd respect their pronouns...

ALITO: You seem to be saying the school can discriminate on the basis of transgender status! If this person is a "transgender woman" and is barred from the girls' team, that person is being subjected to differential treatment based on transgender status, right?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The worst part about yesterday was listening to Gorsuch retreat back to his Dobbs bullshit, largely trying to help the ACLU lawyer.

Gorsuch is terrible on this topic.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Bostock

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Whoops. Yeah. Bostock.

[mad.casual]

Gorsuch is terrible on this topic.

Yeah, the whole "100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck" looks like such a social luxury of an intellectual high-water mark period of history it's not even really funny anymore.

[Social Justice is neither]

I can see a need to define where and how this matters and where it doesn't. A customer service rep wearing the wrong dress code, who cares; a linebacker identifying as a woman on the field hockey team, big deal. Sadly, there is a large and growing portion of our population with no sense making this hard far from the edges.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

SCOTUS better not fuck this one up.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Meanwhile, six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned from their posts yesterday over the Department of Justice's push to investigate Becca Good...

About that:

Let me tell you the real reason why the four prosecutors in Civil Rights Criminal Section resigned.

It has to do with the death of Breonna Taylor.

Louisville PD Officer Brett Hankison was retried after a jury in his first federal trial ended 11-1 for acquittal. These four individuals were part of the leadership team that agitated to retry him.

Hankison had already been acquitted in state court trial.

Hankison did not fire the round that killed Taylor. No one was struck by any round Hankison fired.

Hankison was convicted in a second trial in Nov. 2024, with the verdict coming just prior to the election.

After the Trump Admin. took over DOJ and the Civil Rights Division, it asked to have the sentencing postponed so new leadership could examine the history of the case and the decision-making behind retrying a case that had ended 11-1 for acquittal after a 12-0 acquittal in state court.

The DOJ filed a Sentencing Memorandum that said it could find NO CASE EVER that had been prosecuted on the legal theory relied upon by the DOJ prosecutors and supervisors who were behind the Hankison case.

It as a “cause” to “get” one police officer.

The Civil Rights prosecutors who had handled the case were removed by AAG Dhillon, and both have since left the office.

In the Sentencing Memoranda, DOJ recommended a sentence of “Time Served” — 1 day — given the conduct of the Biden DOJ.

The judge was unhappy — she had expressed a clear dislike of Hankison and was cowed by the protesters in and out of the courtroom.

She sentenced him to 33 months AND denied him bail pending appeal even though DOJ did not oppose and agreed there were significant legal issues with the conviction.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals AGREED with Hankison and DOJ, and ordered him released pending appeal just before Christmas.

DOJ is likely to concede error by the Biden Civil Rights Prosecutors — who were supported by the now resigned leadership.

Liberal activist DOJ members who abuse their power to promote their agenda.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Posted the same. Will be interested in the article he is writing.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

He's a great follow. But he defended J6 defendants, so he's probably bad.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Reason seemed fine with the 20 year obstruction charges for J6. But dont dare sentence for obstructing ICE or DHS.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Liberal activist DOJ members who abuse their power to promote their agenda."

Look at what one lefty asshole did over 34 late library book returns!

[Medulla Oblongata]

DHS to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Somalis in the US, including hundreds in Minnesota. They will be required to leave the U.S. by March 17th or will face deportation.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Yeah, but they have to self-deport. If ice tries to deport them it will just be for show.

-- Liz

[rbike]

Not our neighbors!!!

[Idaho-Bob]

Pleasant Brodnax, attorney

Another tranny? The name reeks of drag queen.

[Medulla Oblongata]

A few more and they'll match Isreal's "genocide" of Palestinians, but the liberal Western Left is largely silent.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/01/13/iran-is-now-slaughtering-innoecents-not-even-involved-in-anti-regime-protests-n2669388

Iran Death Toll Tops 12,000 As Security Forces Begin to Slaughter Non-Protesting Civilians

[Chupacabra]

That's because they support the regime.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iranian-dissident-unloads-on-american-left-s-silence-on-deadly-protests/ar-AA1U8ETS

Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad is accusing the American left of turning its back on Iranian protesters amid reports of thousands of deaths and a near-total communications blackout imposed by the regime.

"The silence of [the] left and liberals in America and Europe is not an accidental silence. It’s an ideological silence," Alinejad said Tuesday

Alinejad, who has been targeted by the Iranian regime for her activism, said Western activists and celebrities who loudly champion "Free Palestine" causes have remained silent as Iranians are killed in the streets.

"It will expose their hypocrisy," she said. "It will expose how they sympathize with our killers, with Islamist terrorists."

"You are playing in the Islamic Republic’s hands, and you are actually putting our lives in danger," Alinejad said.

[Medulla Oblongata]

RIP: Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Has Died at 68

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Favorite Dilbert cartoon:

Dilbert: “How can I appreciate being at work more?”
Philosopher/garbageman: “Marry someone who complains a lot and then have a couple of kids.”
Dilbert: “Wow, thanks.”

Lol.

[Marshal]

In response to fraud in Minneapolis that prosecutors had under control,

It's revealing this idiot claims the fraud was "under control", which of course it is not. It shows first and foremost how little the left cares about fraud, they only mention it in the context of minimizing and excusing it. But secondly it shows their comments have no relationship to reality. If something is good for them politically they assert it, if it is not they deny it. Reality is simply not a relevant factor to them.

[mad.casual]

It's revealing this idiot claims the fraud was "under control", which of course it is not.

It's revealing that they say prosecutors had fraud under control oblivious to the (other) obvious meaning of that assertion.

The Big Guy had fraud in Ukraine under his control too.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Good point. It was under control and all going to plan.

[mad.casual]

Had it under control ...for years. It was so under control you barely even heard about it in the lead up to the 2024 election.

[Marshal]

Waltz was picked because Minnesota was an example of good government. It turns out leftists believe good government is shoveling money to reliable voters and laundering the money through entitlement programs which mention children.

[Zeb]

I'm curious what not under control would look like.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

USAID.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Or more simply: leftists lie. Always.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...which of course it is (STILL) not..."

And, left to Walz, it would probably not be addressed; those folks are his constituents!

[Social Justice is neither]

It was under control, the media narrative and exposure was under control.

[Spiritus Mundi]

There's a showiness to all of it: It feels made for TV and not actually oriented toward finding and deporting the worst criminals who are here illegally.

I wonder what standard would satisfy you Liz. Because you go on to mention they are getting rid of rapists, murders, and thieves. There are still 10s if not 100s thousands illegals in Minn. They are breaking the law, and they should all face the consequences.

Then you still live in this lala land where protesters are pure as the wind driven snow just exercising their 1st amendment rights. Completely ignoring they are routinely using their cars to impede LAWFUL arrests and when that fails, using the car to attack ICE agents. Car rammings of ICE agents are up over 3000%.

It might be a shock if this is a new turn of events. But given all the BLM, summer of love, climate activists, etc. "protests" where law enforcement are hit with bricks, pieces of concrete, 'milkshakes', fire works, frozen water bottles, feces, urine, and blinded by laser pointers, it is time to stop pretending law enforcement are the violents ones. Zero articles here on these terrorist doxxing law enforcement. Zero articles on the funding and organization. Zero articles on car ramming attacks. Zero articles about the deadly rifle attack on the Dallas ICE facility by these terrorists.

Your bias is showing.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A "whistleblower" (media's term) released personal info of 3k DHS employees yesterday.

We have videos of rocks and ice being thrown at vehicles over the last week. We see lasers and fireworks. We've seen open threats to officers by big crowds of "legal observers."

Yet reason refuses to acknowledge who os initiating the aggression and violence. They continue to claim it is ICE enforcing congressional laws.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

"A "whistleblower" (media's term)"

The propaganda is out of control with this whole topic.

"A whistleblower is an individual who exposes unethical, illegal, or harmful practices within an organization, typically by reporting misconduct to authorities, regulatory bodies, the media, or internal compliance channels."

Leaking personal info of law enforcement doesn't fall under that whatsoever. But certain types of people fall for it so it's effective.

[Super Scary]

I'm seeing guides/infographics on social media instructing protesters how to "de-arrest" someone when ICE shows up. They mainly detail ways to assault law enforcement so honestly, they mainly read like guides on how to get arrested/shot by ICE.

C'est la vie.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

But it will be MURDER by an ICE agent!

[mad.casual]

And, again, I can be a pretty subversive guy, but even the articles from Reason and Cato themselves show/say a disproportionate amount of people detained and deported are criminals and the number of false arrests or detentions are below "voter/welfare fraud" levels of incidental.

The idea that this one woman who was just going to the doctor's office in the middle of an ICE arrest doesn't pass muster any more than every last ICE action is pure as the driven snow.

The difference is in the obviously disingenuous acts the post on social media a la LibsOfTiktok simply reposting trannie educators' videos and the aggregate statistics as advertised by the ICE opposition.

Some guy who probably had no clue about the law, imperialism, or insurrection once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

By the even-handed precept of "If you're catching flak, you know you're over the target", if ICE were kicking in the doors of peaceful, legal political dissidents, we'd be getting incessant livestreams of that. The fact that we're getting people stalking ICE and driving into the middle of their operations (rather than from people locked in their homes, 6 ft. away from friends and loved ones) is pretty clear indication that the dark twilight of fascism is still over the horizon.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

"The idea that this one woman who was just going to the doctor's office in the middle of an ICE arrest doesn't pass muster any more than every last ICE action is pure as the driven snow."

See my link above. This narrative is a blatant lie.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Your bias is showing."

Not showing sufficient TDS symptoms may get you fired at Reason.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Surprise, surprise...Bill & Hillary Clinton refused to respond to congressional summons on Epstein files. The House Oversight Committee is moving to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for failing to appear. The Clintons' legal team argues that the subpoenas are "legally invalid".

[Randy Sax]

Nothing will happen to them. They are too deep.

[Social Justice is neither]

I'm sure Bill will get up and declare the women ARE of age and just ignore their age at the time of the photos.

[Kungpowderfinger]

“It depends on what your definition of “ARE” is” - Slick Willy

[Quicktown Brix]

Lock 'em up. No...seriously.

[Moonrocks]

contempt of Congress

Bannon-style or Holder-style?

[mad.casual]

I loved how political climate and immigration enforcement was the FUD-defense that got top billing in their reply. Like even if no-shit brownshirts were beating up Jews in the streets that means it's OK to take a pass on preventing children from getting raped.

But I guess Clintons gotta Clinton.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Pffffft. Minneapolis is just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Am I doing this right?…,

[jonnysage]

Iran

“People were out to express themselves and protest, but quickly it turned into a war zone,” Tavakoli said. “The people do not have guns. Only the security forces have guns.”

Exactly.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to.

Where was all you pearl clutching when BLM shut down FREEWAYS blocking people and ambulances from getting to the hospital?

This woman is clealry lying as she could have taken a dozen other routes on secondary streets. And your dumbass believes these terrorists.

[mad.casual]

This woman is clealry lying as she could have taken a dozen other routes on secondary streets.

Multiple ICE officers multiple times tell her to pull forward and/or "go ahead". As soon as she's out of the car, an officer sits down in the car, shouts at people to get out of the way, and pulls the car out of the middle of traffic.

The only way it could've been more retarded on her part is if she said she had to get to the abortion clinic.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Yeah she was blocking the intersection and the cops simply told her to move the car multiple times. She refused. Meanwhile the whole scene is beginning to look like a full scale riot. No sympathy for this woman.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

So, like the imbecile who got shot, this is one lie after another.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It worked for Hamas.

[MasterThief]

O'Keefe has a very newsworthy story involving Secret Service. The director's response raises more questions and concerns. I think there's more fuel now that Butler was at least partially an inside job or at a minimum allowed by agents hostile towards their charge.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The story.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/secret-service-agent-assigned-to-vice-president-jd-vance-placed-on-leave-after-alleged-security-leak/?utm_sf_post_ref=651149711&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_sf_cserv_ref=17469289&utm_source=twitter

The response from USSS.

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2011178026999169191

Fire all the Biden hold overs and activists. Anyone hired under DEI guidance.

[mad.casual]

Fire all the Biden hold overs and activists. Anyone hired under DEI guidance.

Yeah, I don't remember which (BIPOC?) starlet or celebrity personality deviated from the script with, (paraphrasing) "I don't want people to bring their 'true selves' to work. I want professionalism, not personal grievances and conflict." but, when (BIPOC?) celebrity personalities are ad libing, you know you've lost the script.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"How many of them are the worst of the worst? To what degree are they milking the numbers? These are rather low numbers if you consider the sheer amount of federal resources deployed to do this task

How many were unauthorized aliens for whom deportation is the statutory remedy? The focus is certainly on the "bad guys," but any illegal aliens encountered are subject to the law.

Maybe if Biden hadn't opened the floodgates to millions of illegals, the "cleanup" would not be so hard. One guy with a stick and a trash bag can keep a neighborhood litter-free with just a daily walk through. But let the streets be used for illegal dumping for 4 years, and you'll need heavy equipment, multiple work crews, and a lot of time to clean it all up.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

And what these numbers don't reveal is the self deportations. I suspect many of those have criminal convictions.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Maybe if Biden hadn't opened the floodgates to millions of illegals, the "cleanup" would not be so hard."

Yeah, this is blaming the plumber working on the leak for the water from the burst pipe.
But his name is Trump, so...

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Dude…….. this is so much better than “bears in trunks.”

[Medulla Oblongata]

"...a sort of intramural sport for all comers, from influencers to wine moms..."

So she wasn't just a mom who made a wrong turn after dropping off her kid at school? She was a "useful idiot"?

Even that racist bitch Joy Reid knows the deal, and says the quiet part out loud.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2010875628250358225

Joy Reid says Renee Good was trained, part of a network that's using "white bodies" as tools to impede ICE

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

Goodbye and good riddance to that mid lipstick lesbian. Any communist useless idiot who's brainwashed and retarded enough to worship their cult leader messiahs George Soros and Block Insane Yomomma to the point where they're willing to martyr themselves for a putz like Tim Walz and the "noble" cause of multi-billion dollar Somali day care fraud? The more of them that get themselves killed, the better it is for America and the general human gene pool. I encourage them to keep escalating their asinine behavior further.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

The Islamic Republic looks like they can’t pay their army or police forces.

https://x.com/_the_prophet__/status/2011290534086672776?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

This is the cardiac arrest moment for the regime.

Bank Sepah going down is a direct blow to the IRGC’s operational lifeline. Sepah is not just large, it is the core military liquidity node. If it fails, the state can no longer pay, command, or deploy without intermediaries or external help.

Five banks collapsing simultaneously means the central bank has lost control of the interbank spine. The last tool they have is printing, and they’re using it openly. That means foreign reserves are depleted or inaccessible, and capital flight is terminal.

This now enters irreversible cascade territory:
•Military wages at risk → loyalty decay begins
•Currency hyperinflation → mass cash withdrawal + hoarding
•Interbank seizure → trust collapse across private sector
•Public unrest → fuel for regime fracture
•External actors watching → ignition risk spikes

Iran’s internal structure is no longer just weak. It is liquefying.

A strike now becomes a decision, not a necessity. The regime is already unraveling from within. All external pressure now compounds the probability of spontaneous collapse.

This is a death spiral with a countdown.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I'd like to see some way for Trump to end the killing but I'm not sure it's even possible and could make things worse.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Trump has helped a bit. The oil port was destroyed by our forces yesterday (IIRC), and that means no oil goes out to China. Which also means no hard currency goes into Iran. This will probably help collapse the banks the Mullahs use.

[Medulla Oblongata]

One bank already failed.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/bank-collapse-iran-protests-83f6b681

The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal freedom. It came from the collapse of a bank.

Late last year, Ayandeh Bank, run by regime cronies and saddled with nearly $5 billion in losses on a pile of bad loans, went bust. The government folded the carcass into a state bank and printed a massive amount of money to try to paper over all the red ink. That buried the problem but didn’t solve it.

[Sun Wukong]

Once a totalitarian government can no longer pay its security forces, it is doomed. The only thing that keeps the Mullahs alive is the existence of a group of people willing to kill to ensure that. If those people are not paid, then the Mullahs will get what they pay for.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

72 virgins?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Quick dems. Get them some pallets of cash.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

"are for youth up to 21 years old"

Hey Liz, that's not what youth means.

[Zeb]

Well, not what "teenager" means. 21 sounds pretty youthful to me.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Reflexively and George Soros

https://x.com/conceptualjames/status/2011166708451471852?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

Why so much propaganda and lying over there in Democrat Wokeland? Especially with some of the absolutely incredible things we're seeing in Minnesota, where people seem very detached from reality?

A key part of the answer is George Soros's concept of "reflexivity." You'll want to understand this.

Reflexivity is a property of social circumstances, Soros tells us in his 1992 book The Alchemy of Finance, where he develops the concept. It's what sets the social sciences apart from the physical sciences and is based on the fact that in social situations, the objects (people) affected by circumstances are also subjects and participants in creating circumstances.

Soros explains that this means that "social sciences" are a misnomer, in fact. He suggests instead that they should be recognized as "social alchemy." He goes on to explain the relevance of this difference:

"Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs. To put it another way, the primary objective of science is truth, -- that of alchemy, operational success."

Soros explains that reflexivity is a dialectic, like the dialectic of Hegel but less abstruse and like the dialectic of Marx but more open-ended. What that means is that it is "transformative" in its operation and goals. That is, it is designed to create specific, guided change, i.e., "operational success."

Soros explains that reflexivity operates in a peculiar and specific space: in the gap between what people believe is true and what is actually true. That is, the reflexive dialectic refers to inducing and utilizing actionable beliefs that are wrong.

Thus, all the propaganda.

For his method to work, there must be a gap between what is actually true and what many, many people believe is true.

For it to work, lots of people have to be dangerously wrong.

He goes on to explain that reflexive campaigns propagate through something he calls "fertile fallacies," which are errors (or lies) that lead people to act upon them, including sharing and spreading their falsehoods with others (going viral).

Thus, again, all the propaganda.

Over time, people have to be primed to be this wrong, actionably.

The way you get them there is by systematically misleading them about reality.

Soros also explains that during normal situations, which he says are "near equilibrium" (or stable), significant or "historic" change is not possible. Big changes that fundamentally reorient the way a system works only occur in situations that are "far from equilibrium" (chaotic).

During such times, people are desperate to regain stability and equilibrium, so, Soros says, they'll latch on to any "guideposts" that can lead them through the chaos.

Thus, yet again, all the propaganda.

The potential for chaos has to be arranged while getting a lot of people to believe something highly actionable that is mostly untrue, and then it has to be sparked, and then it has to be guided.

That's how the "Soros Model" (reflexivity) works.

In Minnesota right now, a huge reflexive campaign (direct action) has been launched, but it has also been building at least for many months (actually years, over a decade). The gap between what people believe and reality (or, the pertinent one among many) is that Trump is an illegitimate dictator (TDS) and his agencies, like ICE, are effectively a fascist Gestapo bringing something like Nazism to the United States, with lower officials either complicit or incapable of stopping it.

That has been the tone and tenor of a lot of the propaganda for at least a decade, and certainly very specifically since Trump took office. (Trump's admin's comms team isn't helping itself here with a lot of its unnecessarily provocative shitpoasting from official accounts, btw.)

Your average Leftist in Minnesota, agitators, organizers, provocateurs, etc., aside (with all of them playing their obvious roles) fully believes wildly untrue things about Trump, ICE, the law, what ICE is doing, why ICE is doing it, who ICE is removing from their communities, on what authority, and why, and more. They are extremely deranged and functionally psychotic.

They're in a state that is far from equilibrium and loaded up with fertile fallacies, a state I refer to on the community-level as having high reflexive potential. Just a little propaganda of very specific types will set them off into mass (psychotic) direct action, as we see.

Thus, so much of the propaganda, both chronically over the last year(s) and acutely, since ICE Floyd.

What Democratic politicians and media apparatchiks are doing now in Minnesota, to say nothing of the agitators, provocateurs, organizers, etc., and their social media appendages, is putting down "guideposts" about how to deal with this far from equilibrium situation, pushing wildly deluded people into psychopathic action.

THIS, guys, is the "Soros Model" in action (which has been widely adopted by institutional manipulators since the late 1980s when he taught it first to the CCP and then more widely).

Fwiw, in The Alchemy of Finance, Soros explains that he likes to use this method because he "takes a certain malicious pleasure in shorting an institutional favorite." The United States and the American Experiment are the best bet in the world, though, a big, big, big "institutional favorite" I'm sure Soros and his acolytes would maliciously enjoy shorting this way.

This is why so many Democratic politicians like Tim Walz and Jacob Frey and Ilhan Omar, and beyond Minnesota too, and their media and social media appendages all started screaming "ICE OUT" immediately after the triggering incident we can call ICE Floyd. They're shifting gears from building reflexive potential to releasing and guiding it.

It's also why they put so much time and effort into steadily building the reflexive potential of raging TDS. You can see how immediately actionable it is (guided by opportunistic and evil politicians, media entities, and a highly coordinated network of professional organizers and social media personalities, many completely anonymous). They needed lots of people to have a wide gap between what they believe and what's true (reflexive gap) that they could take advantage of to suddenly create "historic change" under their guidance at the right moment.

We need to understand that this is how Leftists work. All of this can be defused by targeting the building reflexive potential before the moment of explosion arrives, while they're building it. It can be dampened by increasing the number of people and voices who are savvy to the manipulations and lies and who are making the truth more visible to people who mostly haven't been paying attention until it has high immediacy. Reflexive campaigns can be dampened, fizzled, and stopped.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Thanks for posting. I think we all understand the Soros agenda but watching the mechanics play out in real time sure fits this analysis.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

We also see a lot of the "one trueblibertstians" here succumb to it while claiming to not be leftists. A great example being above.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A good example of this is the lie about what Due Process means and what is required for illegals. Or the negative effects of tariffs. Even with data the usual suspects keep repeating a false reality.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Nuh uh!

— QB

[I, Woodchipper]

"It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government," state Rep. Michael Howard (D–Richfield) told The New York Times.

Yes, because your "community" is filled with illegal immigrant scammers funding election fraud and international terrorism with MY tax dollars. Literally.

So yeah, you're under siege. If these people had just come her to become american and get a job and live a normal life no one would have ever noticed.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

These protests are planned right down to the date and time.

https://x.com/datarepublican/status/2011001070412317045?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

Found a master list of protests from Richard Stallman, of all people. Over 1,500 in total. Many are candlelight vigils, but still.

Many of them are scheduled well in advance with repeating sessions. They plan on keeping this up infinitely.

https://www.stallman.org/ice_out_for_good.html

[mtrueman]

"These protests are planned right down to the date and time."

This shouldn't be surprising. The protests are largely a Leftist thing, you see, and the Left has been stressing the importance of organizing and community and worker solidarity and action since the days of Joe Hill whose motto was 'Don't mourn, organize!' The fact that demonstrations are planned ahead of time is not only a Leftist thing, I reckon. Even Fascists and other Rightists plan their events ahead of time. No movement worth its salt relies on spontaneous gatherings to put their message across.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Fascism is left wing. Churchill was to the right of Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, and your idol, Goering.

[mtrueman]

DId you plan that comment?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Keep looking,m. Maybe you’ll “see through the pose”, someday.

Haha. What a doosh.

[mtrueman]

Churchill was a Liberal. The true right wing of England at the time were the cabinet, including Chamberlain and the Royals. They were quite happy to accommodate themselves to Hitler and his regime. They were replaced by an assortment of Labour MPs when Churchill took over as PM.

[I, Woodchipper]

Justice Brown is by far, and it's not even close, most unintelligent uninformed dipshit to ever serve on the court. It's just flat out embarrassing. For her, for the people who appointed and approved her, and for anyone who sided with her appointment. It's a disgrace.

[Super Scary]

This is what happens when you base an appointment on the person's race and gender rather than how good they would actually be at the job.

[Sun Wukong]

Appointing a smart black woman doesn't give white liberals and all important sense of moral superiority. Even conservatives would be willing to appoint a smart, qualified black woman. The only way to show the world that you are not racist is to appoint the dumbest and least qualified black woman that can be found. Don't you understand that?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I was hoping for another wise Latina.

[mad.casual]

Did anyone ask for, um, autistic Barbie? New from Mattel.

I'm going to need to take the skirt off of it before I'll believe it wasn't originally an asked-for trans Ken doll and Mattel quietly shifted gears with the political climate.

[Eeyore]

Nothing about that doll says autism to me. Does she cry and beat her head against the wall?

When is wife beating Ken coming out? He can come in alcoholic and fentanyl addict limited editions.

How about antivaxer Barbie? It turns out her kids don't have autism - strange.

[mad.casual]

Nothing about that doll says autism to me.

That was part of my reaction. At first I thought it just looked like any teen girl with headphones and a tablet. So, what exactly am I not seeing that makes it identify as autistic or neurodivergent or whatever?

[Super Scary]

She's probably supposed to be "nonverbal" autistic, so that tablet has words/phrases that can be used instead of having to speak and the headphones are to prevent loud noises from triggering the autist.

[mad.casual]

Yeah, I've seen both, but usually the person gives other affectations of behavioral maladjustment or eccentricity that Barbie doesn't have or that doesn't lend itself well to Barbie (comfortable rather than fashionable clothing, unkempt hair, averted gaze, etc., etc., etc.).

I think it's a solution in search of a problem situation. They want it to "look autistic" without stereotyping autism. Capture the entire diverseness of "the spectrum" in one person without making them a caricature (which, in the context of Barbie means their own retardation is catching up to them).

Any girl can be visually severely autistic and achieve the life goals of Sandra Day O'Connor Ruth Bader Ginsberg Amy Coney Barrett Ketanji Brown Jackson!

[Dillinger]

>>Nothing about that doll says autism to me.

me: there's now an autistic Barbie

mme dillinger: fuck you, what does it have a fidget spinner??

me: uhhhh

[mad.casual]

mme dillinger: fuck you, what does it have a fidget spinner??

Slightly OT: Am I just an adult now or have people by-and-large stopped chewing on pens and pencils and even straws?

I can understand that people have phones and devices to redirect their habits and energies, but I don't recall if people used to chew pens and straws just because they were stressed or bored or if they were young, had poor impulse control, *and* stressed and bored. Seemed like any given cup or drawer of pens and pencils had at least a few that looked like someone had tried, half successfully, to eat a couple of them.

[Dillinger]

I chewed pencils when I used pencils it probably kept me off adderall ... do kids use pens & pencils anymore?

[mad.casual]

I suppose chewing a $100 aircraft-grade aluminum stylus doesn't have the same relaxing effect of chewing a $0.05 wooden pencil.

[MK Ultra]

I spin my pens because I'm not allowed to smoke in my office. Never chewed on them, though.

[Dillinger]

ya the pen spin around the thumb too ... I am finding right now I am no longer proficient

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

She could be an excellent driver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1A0sHWYQg

[Eeyore]

The reason Mattel took the junk off of Ken is probably because they don't believe in spoilers.

[yet another dave]

Did anyone ask for, um, autistic Barbie? New from Mattel.

Look there a least 4 billion autistic women on the planet, spaz barbie is a guaranteed moneymaker. Amiright boys?

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2010722639531176061

Incredible clip that gets to the heart of Democrats' anti-deportation zealotry:

CNBC’s Joe Kernen asks Sen Mark Warner why Democrats supported deportations under Obama, but not now.

Kernen: “What changed with Democrats? Biden let in 12 million. Is it about VOTES?"

Warner avoids that question, but admits the border was WIDE OPEN under Biden:

Warner: "The border being as open as it was under Biden was one of the reasons Trump got elected."

Kernen: "You're glad it's closed now?"

Warner: "Do I think we ought to not have a FULLY OPEN border? Absolutely."

Kernen: “The 12 million that came in. What do we do?"

Warner: "Question I have for you is closing the border versus sending out ICE agents across the country to randomly pick up people based on quotas that have committed no crime?"

Kernen: "How did Obama deport 5 million?"

Warner then advocates for AMNESTY: “There ought to be a path towards legality."

Kernen’s original question was finally answered, albeit indirectly.

Warner and Democrats don’t want deportations because they want amnesty for the millions that are here — and their votes.

[Super Scary]

"Question I have for you is closing the border versus sending out ICE agents across the country to randomly pick up people based on quotas that have committed no crime?"

Why not both? And last I checked, entering the country without permission is a crime.

[Longtobefree]

Both works:

https://notthebee.com/article/america-had-negative-migration-for-the-first-time-in-over-50-years-but-theres-a-catch

[Marshal]

Warner then advocates for AMNESTY: “There ought to be a path towards legality."

There is a path toward legality: follow the immigration laws.

[Longtobefree]

Yep; easy two step process:
1. Go home.
2. Apply through the legal process.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And it's the same one that has always been there, and that about 1M people per year successfully use. But the border crossers think the rules should not apply to them, they should just be not only *allowed* to cut in line, but be rewarded for doing so.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It’s all about votes and population. You know, we could really throw the Democrats for a loop and suggest that if they want their illegal alien slaves, we could count them using the two-thirds clause in the Constitution.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"In Minneapolis, where the death of 37-year-old citizen activist Renee Good at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has galvanized considerable anger at the feds, raids just keep happening."

Gee, an imbecilic 'activist' attempting to kill an LEO has caused all this?
They (and you) might try a bit of honesty. It may hurt your TDS, and that too is good.

[Sun Wukong]

A delusional Karen got herself shot by the cops. That means every illegal alien in America gets citizenship. That is in the Constitution man.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Signed in by Otto Pen?

[Incunabulum]

>"It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government,"

It is brother. Because you've been shielding thieves and rapists.

[mad.casual]

writes Kat Rosenfield for The Free Press

I don't often refrain from shaming crazy cat ladies, but when I do, it's because they've got a pretty cogent take on the whole field of play.

ICE has got a job to do and they're doing it. If you don't like the job they're doing, obstructionist cosplay is not the way you fix it. Even many ardent "MAGA" supporters felt and openly stated that Jan. 6th wasn't beneficial to the cause and that people breaking shit and defacing property should've been arrested, appropriately charged, and tried for their crimes.

Even those (supposedly) sanctifying Ashley Babbitt generally acknowledge that if she'd been arrested and tried for a handful of charges around (e.g.) destruction of property, refusing to obey, resisting arrest, and/or breaking and entering, the case would be pretty open-and-shut.

[Dillinger]

the best Roundups are the ones written for an audience who doesn't read the Roundups

[Rick James]

Even those (supposedly) sanctifying Ashley Babbitt generally acknowledge that if she'd been arrested and tried for a handful of charges around (e.g.) destruction of property, refusing to obey, resisting arrest, and/or breaking and entering, the case would be pretty open-and-shut.

*clears throat*

Smashing through a glass window while someone tells you to stop, like driving through a group of law enforcement officers is merely constitutionally observing.

[Incunabulum]

>How many of them are the worst of the worst?

All of them? The ones that aren't murdered are rapists. The ones that aren't rapists are thieves.

They're all going, Wolfe.

[Dillinger]

>>It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government

go be neighbors with the illegal aliens in their countries

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Too dangerous.

Hey wait a minute!

[Incunabulum]

>Thompson's resignation dealt a major blow to efforts to root out rampant theft from state agencies,"

The resignation of people who turned a blind eye to the theft is going to make it harder to investigate theft?

[Dillinger]

>>There's a showiness to all of it: It feels made for TV and not actually oriented toward finding and deporting the worst criminals who are here illegally.

sorry Joe Rogan. get over your personal bullshit.

[Incunabulum]

>"The fraud cases, which involve schemes to cheat safety net programs, were the chief reason the Trump administration cited for its immigration crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the cases are American citizens of Somali origin."

Therefore it must be racists because we know it was mostly white men. Because white men have such tight cultural ties and band together to support each other against outsiders?

[Dillinger]

>>Meanwhile, six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned from their posts yesterday over the Department of Justice's push to investigate Becca Good

this is neither news nor implication of a thing.

[mtrueman]

It's clearly an implication of six things.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Naah. Your comment is an illustration of your imbecility. Fuck off and die, shitstain.

[Dillinger]

six things indicted for attempted implication maybe

[mad.casual]

There's a showiness to all of it: It feels made for TV and not actually oriented toward finding and deporting the worst criminals who are here illegally.

[mtrueman]

We want our criminals to be legal.

[Dillinger]

lol yes

[Incunabulum]

>In response to fraud in Minneapolis that prosecutors had under control

This is a very telling remark. Old boy must think that every thing is ok *since it's following the plan*.

Even if the plan is horrible.

[Incunabulum]

>a chance to serve as a foot soldier in Trump's mission to bring sweeping social and demographic change."

Remember, there would be no culture war if you just surrendered, laid down, and took it. This is all your fault. Look what you made the Left do to you.

[Marshal]

a chance to serve as a foot soldier in Trump's mission to bring sweeping social and demographic change."

Claiming this about removing illegals is an admission allowing these illegals in was a sweeping social and demographic change, yet according to the left believing this is racist.

If they actually believed their original position they wouldn't contradict themselves quite so easily.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Not riding trains = culture war. Hence, there will always be culture war.

I learned that here.

[Dillinger]

>>Miroff again:

two paragraphs from a fearful Atlantic writer = ICE is nazis ... maybe let Boehm have the keyboard tomorrow

[Incunabulum]

>Did anyone ask for, um, autistic Barbie? New from Mattel.

Why are you perpetuating a culture war, Wolfe. Just accept that this is the change you want and the pain will go away. Stop fighting and they won't be forced to hurt you anymore.

[Dillinger]

>>Relatedly, kind of insane for the Department of Homeland Security to be co-opting the Captain Phillips meme from 2013 as they push to deport more Somalians.

I'm sorry but that's delicious.

[Dillinger]

>>the state of New York is using solitary confinement for incarcerated teenagers.

the state of New York violates statutes of limitations, creates crimes from thin air, and allows murder of its inmates ... how does solitary confinement for teens surprise anyone?

[mad.casual]

how does solitary confinement for teens surprise anyone?

Anyone ...besides Emma Camp ...of course.

[Dillinger]

still the best article here.

[Incunabulum]

But remember, Biden chose Brown because she was Black.

And the whole 'what is a women' thing is perfect for the Left. Doublethink is their thing.

'You can't define what a woman is' while simultaneously screaming about discrimination against women.

[Dillinger]

>>The notion that [Renee] Good would be able to drive away from this scene just as easily as she drove into it—and that the armed agents commanding her to exit her vehicle could be safely ignored—is as understandable as it is misguided

only a quisling thinks this is "understandable" Kat

[Super Scary]

You mean to tell me that getting into trouble is way easier than getting out of it? Mind blown.

[mad.casual]

I read it as "nominally desirable" rather than "able to be comprehended".

The idea that Renee "Oops! Sorry!"ed her way into and out of the incident and everyone returned to what they were doing is the more "understandable" solution. But, of course, misguided as it was, Renee wasn't there on accident.

Like with the woman going to the doctor, if she really were going to a doctor's appointment and just happened to find herself on the opposite side of the ICE operation and they waved her through and she went. That's "understandable even if misguided".

[Dillinger]

>>Renee wasn't there on accident.

wow if her dad didn't make the statement of the century on CNN

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Missed it?

[Dillinger]

>>Wild scenes from the Supreme Court

Gorsuch needs to stop lunching with Roberts.

[MWAocdoc]

"intramural sport for all comers, from influencers to wine moms to aging Boomers who prefer protest marches to pickleball."

So - ordinary Americans? Lost in that rant is that these are people who oppose the use of ICE for political social purposes. It might not have sunk in yet to these soccer moms how serious it is to oppose armed government thugs in the streets, but it doesn't make their opposition any the less serious. Is Kat Rosenfeld or The Free Press actually supporting the notion that concerned citizens should stay home to avoid the possibility of violence? Or are they simply bemoaning the cluelessness of protestors? Maybe they would prefer Red Oktober partisans instead? For shame!

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF goes viral for defending ICE AGENTS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hg1LtNqoKU

None of what he says should surprise anyone with more than one brain cell.

[yet another dave]

Somebody's going to be looking for a new job.

[Rick James]

"The fraud cases, which involve schemes to cheat safety net programs, were the chief reason the Trump administration cited for its immigration crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the cases are American citizens of Somali origin."

Duh. Remember how "we" used to argue that immigrants who are "American citizens of X origin" were pillars of the community, generating more economic activity than they used in public services?

Funny how that falls apart once you start breaking down the poorly-defined 'blob' of "immigrant" and start looking at specifics like country of origin, etc.

[MWAocdoc]

"Remember how "we" used to argue ..."

No, Rick I don't remember that, because it never happened. No one with any acquaintance with the facts and any possession of logical ability would lump millions of people into one simplistic category and try to pretend that they were all the same. There are statistics that clearly show that millions of legal immigrants, American citizens of foreign origin and illegal immigrants are peaceful, productive citizens who have never committed any crimes. The only thing they seem to be threatening is your vision of what an all-white exclusively Protestant Christian America should look like.

There are also statistics that confirm that a few of those people are - or become - violently insane or commit violent crimes. No one in his right mind would ever claim that people who are suspects in a crime should not be investigated, arrested, charged or punished for those crimes. There is evidence to support the fact that - on the whole - immigrants (legal or illegal) are LESS likely to commit violent crimes against people than Americans born in America. Either way, whether they are immigrants or born in America of American parents, the only relevant factor is whether they are suspected of having committed a violent crime, NOT where they were born. Anyone who says otherwise is simply revealing their own bigotry and ignorance.

[Rick James]

Scenes from New York: A new lawsuit filed in federal court claims the state of New York is using solitary confinement for incarcerated teenagers. The facilities in question "are for youth up to 21 years old who are convicted of a crime in family or the youth part of criminal court," per The New York Times. "The system is intended to be rehabilitative, but youth are often held in solitary confinement as a form of punishment for 'alleged rule infractions and, at times, minor misbehavior, including manifestations of youth's disabilities,' according to the suit."

lol *snort*

No one under the age of 21 could victimize anyone else or be violent.

[Rick James]

ALITO: To decide if there is discrimination on the basis of sex under Title IX, we need to define what sex is, right?

ACLU: Yes.

ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman, boy or girl?

ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.

Fuck you, ACLU. Fuck you. Now we know why the trans movement's motto is "No Debate!", because they will lose every fucking time.

Now, let's bring in Nick Gillespie to douche-splain to the comment section about how this is just only about pronouns and promethean transformations.

[Rick James]

FYI, the latest analysis I heard on this tranny case in front of the court was that the ACLU was starting to pivot into turning a loss into a limited win. Ie, go ahead and agree that these states that have banned dudes from competing in girls' sports, but making sure that the other states which don't ban it or have explicitly allowed it may continue to do so.

[mad.casual]

turning a loss into a limited win

Snatching a victory from the back hole of defeat.

[MWAocdoc]

It's hilarious to me that the focus here is on Somali day care fraud. This is similar to the Narco Squad claiming victory in the War on Drugs after arresting a few addicts and their low-level dealers while the upper level drug kingpins go merrily on about their million dollar drug businesses unimpeded. The elephant in the room in the Minnesota day care fraud scandal starts with - and cannot happen without - government agencies handing out billions of dollars of other peoples' money to poor people. Okay, go ahead and punish Walz for incompetence in properly supervising those give-away "programs." But what we really need is for the government to STOP handing out billions of dollars of free cash. Problem solved!