'This Job Sucks'

Plus: the partial withdrawal of federal agents from Minneapolis, shifting public opinion on immigration, and D.C.'s continued snowpocalypse.

"This job sucks": Those were the words of federal attorney Julie Le, who told U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell in a Tuesday hearing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) was overwhelmed with the number of legal challenges filed by people detained as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area.

Le said she wouldn't mind being held in contempt of court so that she could get some sleep, reports local news outlet Fox 9.

Le has since been fired from her temporary job at the U.S. Attorney's Office. It's unclear if she's still employed in her former, permanent role as an ICE attorney.

While federal attorneys are clearly the real victims of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, Blackwell had called the Tuesday hearing to focus on the secondary victims of the operation: migrants detained by ICE in violation of court orders requiring their release.

"When court orders are not followed, it's not just the court's authority that's at issue. It is the rights of individuals in custody and the integrity of the constitutional system itself," Blackwell said during that hearing, per The New York Times.

This is not the first time that a federal judge has excoriated ICE for failing to follow court orders.

Last month, Patrick J. Schiltz, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Minnesota, published a list of nearly 100 court orders regarding immigrant detention that ICE had violated since the start of the New Year.

This count, wrote Schlitz, "almost certainly substantially understated" ICE's record of noncompliance. Reason reporter C.J. Ciaramella compiled a list of all the orders, which you can read here.

The White House bragged yesterday that over 4,000 "criminal illegal aliens" had been detained during the administration's Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. Border Czar Tom Homan said on Wednesday that another 158 people have been arrested for interfering with ICE operations.

In addition to the people immigration authorities have illegally detained, immigration agents fatally shot two people, Renne Good and Alex Pretti, during the Metro Surge operation. Their deaths are a reminder that it's not only Department of Justice attorneys who are suffering at the moment.

Partial drawdown: Yesterday, Homan said that 700 federal agents would be pulled out of Minnesota, following "unprecedented cooperation" from county officials in Minnesota.

.@RealTomHoman in Minnesota: "We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens BEFORE they hit the streets."pic.twitter.com/Ec7pQaiMWk

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2026

"I learned maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch, but you still have to be tough," said President Donald Trump during an interview with NBC.

Homan said the partial drawdown follows some Minnesota counties agreeing to give ICE more access to inmates in county jails and to hold inmates for an additional 48 hours at ICE's request. Allowing ICE to arrest immigrants at jail instead of in the community requires fewer officers, said Homan.

The White House has not said which counties have inked agreements with ICE. A representative for the Minnesota County Attorneys Association told CBS Minnesota that the model agreements offered by ICE to the counties violate state law. The attorney for Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, has said that its relationship with ICE has not changed.

The removal of 700 federal agents from Minnesota represents only a partial wind down of the federal government's immigration operation. Another 2,000 agents will remain in the state. Homan said that a complete drawdown of the surge of immigration agents would only happen "upon the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ICE and its federal partners that we're seeing in the community."

Turning Tide? Immigration and border security have long been Trump's best polling issues. He won the 2024 election, in part, on his promise to significantly step up deportations.

Following the shooting death of Pretti last month, however, support for the president's immigration policies has started to ebb.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted before and after Pretti's death found that 39 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, down from 41 percent earlier this month. In February 2025, Trump's approval on immigration was at 50 percent.

A more recent Quinnipiac University poll similarly finds that 38 percent of voters approve of Trump's handling of immigration, while 59 percent disapprove.

ICE's tactics and the administration's handling of the Pretti shooting were even more underwater. Some 62 percent of respondents in the Quinnipiac poll said the shooting was unjustified, and a similar 64 percent say that they disapprove of the way ICE is enforcing immigration laws.

Large majorities of voters also support requiring ICE agents to wear body cameras and forbidding them from wearing masks.

The anti-ICE shift in public opinion gives Congressional Democrats additional leverage as they prepare for a fight over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding.

The spending bill signed by Trump on Tuesday funds the DHS for another two weeks. This sets up a funding battle over immigration enforcement funding specifically, in which Democrats can hold out for reforms to ICE without needing to shut down the entire federal government.

Yesterday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D–N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) sent a letter to Republican Congressional leaders laying out 10 demands they want included in any DHS funding bill.

The list includes demands that ICE agents stop wearing masks, that DHS officers get a judicial warrant before entering private property, and that DHS adopt a "reasonable" use of force policy. They also want federal officials to cooperate with state and local investigations into federal agents' use of force.

Per the Quinnipiac poll, those are all incredibly popular positions.

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Scenes from D.C.: While barely above-freezing temperatures have caused some merciful melting, the nation's capital is still buried in "snowcrete" that is blocking roadways, alleys, and, especially, sidewalks. Occasional Reason contributor Joe-Bishop Henchman offers some thoughts on what went wrong.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

While federal attorneys are clearly the real victims of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis...

Ouch.

[Spiritus Mundi]

People who like to use the word victim, tend not to be libertarian. They tend to be progessives.

[Social Justice is neither]

That is one way to look at the Marxist judicial coup being orchestrated. Of course, Christian is fully on board with the criminals and open borders bugmen.

[Fist of Etiquette]

In addition to the people immigration authorities have illegally detained, immigration agents fatally shot two people, Renne Good and Alex Pretti, during the Metro Surge operation.

There is a hierarchy to my sympathy, and the feds' victims who were minding their own business rest at the top.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The superior courts keep denying the inferior Courts are right in their assessments on detainment.

Reason raises up struck down courts while ignoring the actual law and superior courts.

[Social Justice is neither]

Come on, that propaganda isn't going to push itself. The WEF paid good Kochbucks to push that Marxist slop and Reason is full of nothing but good globalist toadies these days.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

'In addition to the people immigration authorities have illegally detained, immigration agents fatally shot two people. Renne Good, a woman who attempted to run-down an LEO and a heavily armed activist, Alex Pretti, who was interfering in an arrest and attempted to restrain an LEO during the Metro Surge operation.'

Fixed, with added detail.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yesterday, Homan said that 700 federal agents would be pulled out of Minnesota, following "unprecedented cooperation" from county officials in Minnesota.

The locals are cooperating with the feds' leaving?

[Minadin]

I'm guessing what happened when Tom Homan met with local officials is that he said:

"Hey, if you want the ICE raids to stop, we will stop them, if you just turn over the actual arrested criminals. At the jails. We get what we want (focus on the criminals) and you get what you want (ICE raids stop) we both declare victory to our supporters."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He left 2400 in Minnesota. All narratives from reason and corporate media.

[JFree]

Minnesota has ALWAYS complied with notifications and honoring detainer requests for prisons. At the county jail level, it varies. All county jails honor criminal detention requests issued by a judge. Some do not honor CIVIL detainer requests that are not issued by a judge (per a 2021 court ruling) - nor do they allow detention by the sheriff beyond the release date waiting for ICE to do paperwork for everyone (citizen and illegal) because that puts the county at legal risk of unlawful detention. ICE's incompetence and unwillingness to actually do its job is what is pushing counties into that latter category.

Further - the main demand of ICE is to gather voter registration lists. That is clearly targeted at CITIZENS for the purpose of data mining those lists in order to detain anyone ICE wants to detain whenever they choose to detain (or hand that list over to all federal agencies or companies like Palantir). What those of you live in red states should be concerned about is that YOUR info is now in that sort of database. So - watch out if a D ever becomes Prez and head of ICE. As you all say - FAFO.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Everything Is So Terrible And Unfair, j.

My god, you’re such a boring idiot. Lol.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm not convinced that the Democrats actually want the ICE raids to stop.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Homan: “I want to be clear, just because you prioritize public safety threats don’t mean we forget about everybody else,”

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/02/04/tom-homan-pulls-700-agents-out-of-minnesota-heres-why-thats-bad-news-for-the-left-n4949092

Homan emphasized that prioritizing serious threats does not mean abandoning broader enforcement. “I want to be clear, just because you prioritize public safety threats don’t mean we forget about everybody else,” he said. “We will continue to enforce the immigration laws in this country.”

I’ll say it again, this is efficient and requires only one or two officers to assume custody of a criminal alien target, rather than eight or ten officers going into the community and arresting that public safety threat,” Homan said, adding that this model “frees up more officers to arrest or remove criminal aliens.”

He stressed that pulling agents off repetitive street operations and instead taking custody of offenders directly from jails increases overall enforcement capacity. “More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails means less officers on the street doing criminal operations,” Homan said, adding that “this is smart law enforcement, not less law enforcement.”

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

Which is the real reason for the "sanctuary" and the protests: to dilute the effectiveness of enforcement. Democrats and Marxists both want as many illegals here as possible. Democrats for the votes. Marxists for the revolution.

[Medulla Oblongata]

At least one judge knows what SCOTUS has said, repeatedly...

Oh, and Reason is part of the corporate media.

https://pjnewsletter.com/federal-judge-trump-minn/?utm_source=tpi&utm_medium=email

US District Court Judge Katherine Menendez ruled that there was sufficient evidence that Operation Metro Surge “has had, and will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences on the State of Minnesota, the Twin Cities, and Minnesotans.” … However, Menendez said the state’s argument that it was being unfairly targeted by the Trump administration was insufficient to justify blocking the operation outright. … “There is no clear way for the Court to determine at what point Defendants’ alleged unlawful actions…becomes (sic) so problematic that they amount to unconstitutional coercion and an infringement on Minnesota’s state sovereignty,” Menendez wrote… She also said there is “no precedent for a court to micmicromanage such decisions.”

While the corporate media wants Americans to believe federal agents are running amok, the reality is far less dramatic. Operation Metro Surge is simply enforcing judgments already handed down by our nation’s courts. It is the definition of law and order.

[Minadin]

502 Bad Gateway got your tongue?

[Fist of Etiquette]

...some Minnesota counties agreeing to give ICE more access to inmates in county jails and to hold inmates for an additional 48 hours at ICE's request.

Someone must have remember that the federales reimburse them for that.

[Bubba Jones]

I'd like to know why this would be a violation of state law.

It doesn't seem inherently unjust for someone to be held for ICE, pursuant to even an "administrative warrant", after they've already gotten themselves arrested for something else. 48 hours doesn't seem unreasonable, as long as it counts toward whatever due process countdown is otherwise in place for ICE proceedings.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

INA allows for detainment until claims of legality are adjudicated or deportation. There is no time limit.

[Nelson]

I would find that hard to believe. Keeping someone locked up for years as their case slowly works its way through the immigration process seems like it would run afoul of the speedy trial requirement.

[JFree]

Holding inmates for an additional 48 hours [beyond their legally mandated release date] is directly contrary to a 2021 federal court ruling and is also called 'unlawful detention' when (not if) the lawsuit gets filed against the county. The federales do not 'reimburse' those lawsuits - and they are deliberately not processing anything in blue counties in order to CREATE those lawsuits. Basically their intent is to use county jails in blue counties as de facto ICE detention facilities that are beyond the reach of federal courts so they can ignore court rulings. And because their m.o. is slow walking everything, their target is overwhelmingly CITIZENS not illegals.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Detainment for illegal immigrants isn't unlawful dumbfuck. It is in fact In the INA.

[Nelson]

I think your zealous regard for the INA doesn’t match the actual powers and authority it conveys. You seem to think that it allows detaining arrestees beyond their legally-determined release date, entering houses without a search warrant, and agents to hide their badges, faces, and identities.

In a free country, those three things would be viewed as unaccountability and lawlessness. In Trump’s America, freedom has been overruled by the pursuit of dishwashers and meatpacking workers.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I see Britches’s bitches are late, as usual.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

"An Oregon theater loses the right to screen Melania after lampooning the movie on its marquee."

I wasn't aware this is a right, dumbass.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

Read up on "contractual rights".

And, don't give up on that GED, sport.

[damikesc]

You seem to stretch the concept of "rights" to a level never before seen.

Contractual obligations are not rights. You will not go to jail for violating them.

[Nelson]

It’s standard to speak of companies having the “right” to do things that a copyright holder contractually agrees to allow them to do. When the holder terminates the contract, the other party loses the right to the copyrighted material. It’s not that hard to understand the difference between contractual or commercial rights and Constitutional rights, for most people.

You know this (or I would hope you do) and are just trying to litigate any tiny thing that irritates your tribe.

[mad.casual]

I don't know what they taught you in *your* GED program, but in my HS Civics and Contract Law classes were rather explicit about how Good Faith and/or the implied covenant of fair dealing undergirds all contracts, that a contract entered into under bad faith can be revoked or cannot be enforced.

Even my kids know and understand this and two of them haven't even graduated HS yet.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Been like a whole day since we had an update on the DC sidewalk disaster. (Heil Hitler wave) A nation's heart goes out to you,

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I heard some people slipped and almost fell!

[Vernon Depner]

Remember the Trump Blizzard when you go to vote.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-will-rebuild

[mad.casual]

Just when I thought liberal tears couldn't get any more delicious, God serves them up ice cold with 6 inches of snow.

Go back to doing the work Americans won't do pajama boy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Per the Quinnipiac poll, those are all incredibly popular positions.

While I don't automatically believe polling, this one strikes me as likely representative. The Trump administration could save itself so much headache and still accomplish things if they step away from their bubble for two seconds.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Indeed, been a lot of face-palm own-goals by the administration lately. It's never going to be easy with Democrats screeching about every single fucking thing, even the most normal day-to-day operational processes, but it's like Trump is deliberately choosing the worst possible way to do something that could be so much more easily accomplished.

One example I've been pondering lately is the TPS fights. Choosing to go out and cutting the already-granted TPS status to various groups short opened a whole can of worms. He could have simply waited a few more months and allowed many of them to simply expire on the dates Biden admin had set in the last re-up, and not pursued a re-up order. While I'm sure Democrats would have still screeched, and some judge somewhere would have pretended Trump's not allowed to NOT extend their stay, but it would be a slam dunk in higher courts.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-haiti

on February 2, 2026, a single judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order staying the Secretary’s TPS termination decision. Miot et al. v. Trump et al., No. 25-cv-02471-ACR (D.D.C.). The judge did so even though the Department of Homeland Security recently prevailed twice in the U.S. Supreme Court in a similar case. The Department of Homeland Security vehemently disagrees with this order and is working with Department of Justice to determine next steps.

[damikesc]

So, SCOTUS sided with Trump and federal courts STILL opposed it.

Why should Trump even humor district courts any longer?

Let the government shut down. I could not give less of a shit.

[Social Justice is neither]

So the judicial coup and bad behavior from Leftists means Trump should just give them what they want? Sorry but WTF! You talk about own goals from the administration and your proof is a judge thumbing his nose at SC rulings? What makes you think they wouldn't have just granted an indefinite extension for BS excuses when the TPS just lapsed?

[Medulla Oblongata]

I had mistakenly thought that the Feb 3 deadline was one of the TPS programs that Trump admin had shortened, and this was one of the reasons the judge ruled against the administration.

But it seems--as pointed out elsewhere--that this was a long-standing date and that the administration did exactly what I was suggesting, and STILL the judges made up reasons to extend the program.

Hopefully the judge is slapped down and slapped down hard on appeal.

So maybe this was not the best example, but it was one I had been thinking about. It's certainly a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't, no-win situation. Until appeals courts or SCOTUS steps in.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Judge went above and beyond her duty and even ordered new work permits for the groups along with other benefits.

[Idaho-Bob]

And when members of those mentioned TPS groups rape and murder American citizens?

I think Trump is acting as expeditiously as possible.

[Nelson]

Oh, FFS. Even you can’t actually believe that.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

That's literally what happened with Haiti. It expires next week. The judge said no.

Truth doesnt matter to leftist narratives.

[Medulla Oblongata]

You're right, truth doesn't matter. The law doesn't matter.

https://pjnewsletter.com/judge-trump-migrants/

Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee and Harvard graduate, has blocked President Trump’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitian illegal migrants. Her reasoning requires some impressive mental gymnastics. The kind they apparently teach in Cambridge.

Here’s the thing. The law explicitly states there is “no judicial review of any determination” regarding TPS decisions. Pretty clear, right? Most reasonable people would see that as a closed door. Case dismissed. Go home.

Not Judge Reyes. She decided that while she cannot review a TPS “determination,” she absolutely can review the “process” by which that determination was reached. It’s the sort of distinction that makes sense only to someone trained to find loopholes rather than follow plain language. Armed with this novel theory, she substituted her own policy judgment for the President’s. Just like that.

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

That not even a loophole, it's just a flat out misinterpretation. FYTW.

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

Homan "if minisota comply with the law and hells we could use less federal agents"

*Minisota starts complying
*Homan removes agents

Reason "ohhh look a completely unexpected drawdown. See a lighter touch is better, but we're not going to mention the increased federal agents waas solely because the state was actively encouraging violence"

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

Perhaps you looses should move out of DC and into america

[Fist of Etiquette]

Occasional Reason contributor Joe-Bishop Henchman offers some thoughts on what went wrong.

The first thing I believe that went wrong was putting the hyphen in the wrong place.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't blame britches at all here. It's ludicrous for a man to have a hyphenated name.

[Dillinger]

idk ... he misspelled Renee

[Fist of Etiquette]

Frog names are meant to be misspelled.

[Ajsloss]

He actually forgot a hyphen. It should've read, "Occasional Reason contributor Joe - Bishop Henchman - offers some thoughts on what went wrong."

You think Bishops can just do whatever they want without a legion of goons helping them?! (I mean, they can only move diagonally and occupy half the board).

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

I don’t know about bishops, but henchmen are usually pretty shady.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Yeah, he should put it up his ass.

[Bubba Jones]

Nothing went "wrong."

DC doesn't invest in NYC levels of snow removal capacity. And they shouldn't.

[Zeb]

Yeah, places that don't get a lot of snow will have problems for a few days when they get snow. What are you going to do?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

NYC’s snow removal is a joke that would get a Chicago mayor swinging from a lamppost.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Trash and snow are gone from the mayor mansion side of the street. Literally just his side. It is hilarious.

[Ajsloss]

The Trump administration prepares to make it easier to fire some 50,000 federal workers.

Oh noes! He can't do that!... Defund ICE though.

[Spiritus Mundi]

He BeTtEr GeT cOnGrEsS tO aPpRoVe!!

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Government employment is a human right!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

We must cut spending. - Reason
Nooooo. Not that spending. - also Reason.
That spending wont fix everything at once why bother? - also also reason

[mad.casual]

I pointed this out yesterday.

Trump cuts reduce CISA workforce by 65%: Our infrastructure will collapse to attackers!

DHS, of which CISA is a branch, gets excluded from budgeting pending shutdown and reform: A win for the security of our democracy!

[Spiritus Mundi]

Turning Tide?

Nope:

The Cygnal poll found that Americans support deporting illegal aliens by 61% to 34%, nearly 2 to 1 in favor of deportations. An even greater share, 73%, agree that entering the United States without legal permission is a violation of law. A slimmer majority, 54%, support ICE enforcing federal immigration laws and conducting deportations.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/polls-deliver-clear-verdict-americans-back-trumps-deportation-agenda-reject-anti-ice-politics

Never forget Reeeeason lies to you everyday.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Even CNN polling has support for deportations at 56%.

https://deepnewz.com/us-domestic-policy/cnn-poll-56-americans-support-mass-deportations-81-gop-favor-deportations-af8d5b13

Ask yourself why does Reeeeason continue to lie about this. What else do they lie about?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Is the answer everything?

[mad.casual]

Occasionally, they truthfully cite the New York Times.

[Social Justice is neither]

Truthfully citing a lie is just laundered lying when you know everything the source says is itself a lie.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...Even CNN polling has support for deportations at 56%..."

But "...support for the president's immigration policies has started to ebb..."
Imagine what it was BEFORE!

[Fist of Etiquette]

An Oregon theater loses the right to screen Melania after lampooning the movie on its marquee.

As theaters struggle to attract audiences, one would have to have his head so far up his own ideological ass to dis a movie you're trying to get butts in the seat for.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Local liberals also threatened to shut the theater down for airing a movie they dislike.

[Idaho-Bob]

Capitalism is not their strength.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

I'd add "intelligence" to that list.
BTW, TDS-addled shits on YT had it that "no one" would be seeing it. Turns out it was third on the gross for new movies last week.
Now they're claiming it's a movie critics hate! Wonder about the political views of those critics? I don't.

[Bubba Jones]

I'm willing to bet a thousand $MELANIA that theater revenue was in no way tied to "butts in seats."

Tickets were bought online as a vanity project.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Cite?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...Tickets were bought online as a vanity project..."

TDS-addled steaming piles of lying shit are willing to invent any and all lies to support their illness.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Youre just crying that opening weekend made more than both Obama movies combined.

[Nelson]

Which Obama movies are you referring to? Because the ones I can find made a lot more than the $7 million that Melania took in.

And if you think $7 million is a lot, you don’t pay attention to movie revenues.

[BYODB]

Right to heart of it as always Fist.

Theater's are probably going to go the way of the buggy whip very soon. They are unpleasant experiences, and if a movie is actually bringing in any paying customers they should be glad of that fact.

If Moore's garbage documentaries put butts in seats, that's really all that matters to the theater.

[Nelson]

“ dis a movie you're trying to get butts in the seat for.”

“Melania” isn’t getting butts in seats. No one wants to see it. It’s another end-around pay-to-play from Bezos to Trump. The theater managed to follow its obligation to show the movie, then got Amazon to forbid them to screen it to an empty theater, allowing them to play something that will bring in more money. Of course any money would be more. It’s brilliant by the theater.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Trump administration prepares to make it easier to fire some 50,000 federal workers.

Your libertarian moment has arrived.

[Eeyore]

500,000 would have been a good start.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's come to this. The White House is making Sopranos...

In this house Trump's social media intern is a hero, end of story.

[Marshal]

I'm confused about this. Are we supposed to pretend Columbus is some sort of monster as if one group of people have no right to explore and interact with the rest of the world?

[Dillinger]

no one is a hero on stolen land.

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

Nice

[BYODB]

We should probably keep it under wraps that the native population murdered, stole from, and in some cases ate opposing tribes huh?

[NealAppeal]

Columbus was the first illegal immigrant. /s

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Venezuelan opposition is optimistic that the country will hold elections within the year.

When told of this, Trump said, "Who?"

[Spiritus Mundi]

Occasional Reason contributor Joe-Bishop Henchman offers some thoughts on what went wrong.

Ctrl+f "Dem" = 0

No thanks. Whatever what wrong, Mr. Henchman doesn't understand it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Why the left is demanding agents identify themselves, so they can have their insane foot soldiers make threats. Threats even to agents kids.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2026/02/04/fbi-arrests-man-who-doxxed-federal-agent-threatened-childusing-stolen-govt-files-in-minneapolis-n2198831

Meanwhile the SS Ice brigade supported by the left is also wearing masks. Celebrated for a very unusual reason...

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Anti-ICE activist describes roadblocks and checkpoints constructed in Minneapolis:

“We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods."

You can’t make it up.

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2019175339230961754

So borders and masked agents for the left.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The anti ice professional protestors, aka legal observers, aka insurrectionists, aka criminal conspiring actors... are funded by... soros? Oh my god. Who could have known!

https://justthenews.com/nation/anti-ice-activist-groups-receive-over-3-million-funding-soros-backed-charity

At least 10 of the groups that participated in the ICE Out marches last month received various donations from the Soros-backed charity, with donations ranging from $10,000 to as much as $1,085,750, the Daily Caller reported.

Soros' Open Society Foundations has denied funding political violence, stating last year that their activities were "lawful and peaceful."

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

aka mobs of lefty shits.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Illegal checkpoints on public streets have a long history in Marxist and anarchist tradition.

They symbolize organized self-defense against "oppressors," an empowerment of "the people" to seize urban space to confront the class enemy.

When organized as barricades to block passage, they become instruments of insurrection, dating back to the 1848 revolutions of Europe and the 1871 Paris Commune

Marxists treat barricades as symbols of transition from civil protest to armed struggle.

Barricades mark the point when Marxists stop appealing to constitutional authority, and build structures for alternative power.

For anarchists, the barricade represents "direct action" and "horizontal self-organization" - the building of defenses without formal hierarchies or central leaders.

Anarchists view barricades as a reclaimed public space. Checkpoints and barricades turn the streets from channels of commerce and state control into zones of collective autonomy and mutual aid during insurrections or insurgencies.

https://x.com/JMichaelWaller/status/2018774676101623981

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Just arrest them all for felonious conspiracy.

These weak willed children will stop once an example is set.

[Social Justice is neither]

Can we just start shooting them since they've taken their neighbors hostage?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Only if they trespass. - jeffsarc

[Medulla Oblongata]

Judges are in the game too...

NY Post:

A federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from deporting 350,000 Haitians has donated more than $38,000 to Democratic campaigns — including the main committee for the former president who appointed her and let those migrants in: Joe Biden.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

You would think donations of that magnitude might cause questions regarding her appointment, let alone cases she addresses.

[Super Scary]

38k is a pretty sizable amount for most people. I wonder what the yearly salary of that judge is that they can spare that much money for politics.

[Super Scary]

"We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out"

What a novel concept.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Everyone knew liberals were mentally ill. Minnesota proves it.

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BREAKING: CMS Administrator Dr. Oz has revealed the state of Minnesota is spending over **13,000%** MORE on autism care than initially expected

Oz says parents were taking BRIBES from fraudulent autism centers to sign their kids up as autistic.

$3 million was expected to be spent by the state. They spent $400 MILLION subsidizing autism care.

ZERO CHANCE Walz didn’t know about this.

LOCK HIM UP!

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2018857111787073788

[Marshal]

Oz says parents were taking BRIBES from fraudulent autism centers to sign their kids up as autistic.

No parents will ever be prosecuted though. As ignorant third worlders who don't know how civilization works they can't be expected to know this was wrong.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

EU Twitter files just dropped. Worse than even what Biden was attempting.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/nonpublic-documents-show-global-scope-europes-censorship-apparatus-house-gop

Too local I guess.

[mad.casual]

snowcrete

Christian, I know Florida Man, I worked with Florida Man, Florida Man is a friend of mine, most of the time Florida Man isn't this stupid after saying "Hold my beer."

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

2nd grade teacher - Melting snow turns into ice when below 32 degrees.

DC residents - When did this policy begin? Why weren't we notified?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Did the snow ask congress??

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

How are we funding this?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Fucking Republicans can't NOT fuck things up.

https://civildeadline.com/senate-holds-vote-on-african-development-foundation/

Hours after the African Development Foundation’s chief financial officer admitted to bribery, the U.S. Senate had an opportunity to deliver what many observers believed would be an obvious corrective: abolish a little-known federal aid agency already engulfed in scandal.

The vote required only a simple majority. It failed anyway, 42–58, after 11 Republicans joined every Democrat to table the amendment, effectively shielding the agency from immediate defunding despite mounting evidence of systemic corruption.

The amendment’s sponsor, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, did not mince words afterward. Republicans, acting alone, could have ended the agency’s funding, and Lee argued they should have done so—particularly given that USADF’s own acting chairman and CEO had called for defunding, citing a culture of chronic fraud, waste, and abuse. Lee said he looked forward to hearing explanations from his colleagues. None of the 11 Republicans who crossed over responded to inquiries, leaving their votes unexplained as the controversy intensified.

Investigative reporting revealed that Zahui’s case was not an isolated breach but part of a broader pattern. The agency routinely issued grants that appeared compliant with its mission, then required recipients to redirect funds back to Washington bureaucrats. In one case, a Kenyan journalism organization was instructed to pay salaries of agency staff in D.C. Other examples pointed to conflicts of interest involving senior leadership, including undisclosed affiliations with organizations that conveniently received agency funding.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Vote all the no votes out.

[mad.casual]

Professing Luigi Mangione to be wet-your-shorts attractive on the internet would still be pretty fucked up as far as I'm concerned, but if he'd shot one of these guys, on either side of the aisle, in the back specifically for this, I could *completely* understand the rationale that he's closer to freedom fighter, or at least misunderstood, persecuted, stochastic martyr, than terrorist.

[Dillinger]

>>Fucking Republicans can't NOT fuck things up.

the Rulers kept their faucet on and Mike Lee got a Calculon scene ... what got fucked up?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Open borders without inspection cant cause any issues.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/chinese-students-ccp-membership-military-links-theft-concerns-infiltrate-us

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"It's come to this."
TDS-addled steaming piles of lying shit at Reason grasping at any straw they can find.

[mad.casual]

It's come to this. The White House is making Sopranos:

OK, I'm going to ask everyone to suspend all disbelief for a second and pretend I didn't see a single episode of The Sopranos.

Now, explain to me how, exactly, regarding Columbus as a hero is "making Sopranos" and how more or less everyone in the country wasn't "making Sopranos" right up until about 2016?

Is this the sort of thing where it's not OK to assume everyone who gets offended by the n-word likes fried chicken and grape soda, or that it's an insult to wear sombreros on May 5th; but if we explicitly shame every wop, dago, mook, goomba, and guinea... or adjacent... by reducing the *entirety* of their cultural heritage to "I cooka da pizza!", it's cool?

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

That second thing.

[Dillinger]

eggplant ~~Dennis Hopper

[mad.casual]

Akshually...

[Dillinger]

I forgot about that scene ... you're a cantaloupe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wax15NklZh4

[Ajsloss]

reducing the *entirety* of their cultural heritage to "I cooka da pizza!", it's cool?

The Simpsons already did that in 1998.
Nelson: Here comes a greaseball!
Luigi: Aye! Luigi bringa you pizza! Why you make-a the fun?

[mad.casual]

To be clear, I'm not opposed to impugning jokes or stereotypes, it's the rather (ironically goomba or Klan-esque) forcible erasure or dishonest re-narration of history to *nothing but* the impugning jokes or stereotypes that's (not so) quizzical.

I could understand if they were honoring Columbus as an idol to conquering more territory and enslaving more people (which the Caribs, Spaniards, Portuguese, etc., weren't in any way averse to), but AFAICT they're idolizing him because he's Italian *and* effectively opened The West to colonization and civilization.

But, again, I've never seen a single episode of The Sopranos, so maybe it was the show and not Christian Britschgi reducing people to the worst possible stereotype in a dishonest, but insistent, fashion.

[Quicktown Brix]

Guess who said the following:

"People are saying that Thomas Massie became a Liberal because his new wife, blessed be their marriage, is supposedly a Radical Left “flamethrower.” [also a former Rand Paul staffer and Ron Paul ally] This new union all went so fast that maybe he didn’t know what he was getting into, but, nevertheless, he is an absolutely terrible and unreliable “Republican” — Perhaps a RINO, or maybe even worse! Ed Gallrein, a Farmer and War Hero, is running against Massie!...[Massie] has been totally disloyal to the President of the United States, and the Republican Party.

“He’s an automatic no. No matter what. If we did welfare reform, if we did the greatest thing in the history for religion, no matter what we did, no matter how good it is, No matter what we do, this moron, no matter what it is. We’ll put [the top five things] in one bill. We’ll get a 100 percent vote, except for this guy named Thomas Massie. There’s something wrong with him. We call him Rand Paul Jr.”

The confusion between liberal and libertarian is not unique to Reason comments.

Ron Paul and Tom Woods rebut here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwzvJkfkiIE

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...migrants detained by ICE in violation of court orders requiring their release..."

You'd think the concepts of judicial-shopping and activist judges were something which Reason has not yet understood. Or you'd think Reason chock-full of TDS-addled steaming piles of lying shit.

[Dillinger]

>>In addition to the people immigration authorities have illegally detained, immigration agents fatally shot two people, Renne Good and Alex Pretti, during the Metro Surge operation.

some people were inconvenienced and two forged their own path.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Both took actions which they, stupidly enough, assumed were without consequences.
There WERE consequences.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Of course he did, everything's "racist!"

https://foxbaltimore.com/spotlight-on-maryland/baltimore-city-residents-question-mayor-scotts-163k-suv-not-with-our-money

Baltimore city residents question Mayor Scott’s $163K SUV: 'Not with our money’

(WBFF) — Baltimore residents in Federal Hill say Mayor Brandon Scott owes them answers after revelations that his new city-issued SUV cost taxpayers $163,495 – including nearly $65,000 in upgrades including police lights, sirens and a security microphone.

Scott, a progressive who has served as mayor since 2020, is facing pressure over a Fox Baltimore report showing his primary vehicle, a 2025 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, is the most expensive government-issued vehicle operated by any mayor, governor, county executive or county commissioner in the state, costing taxpayers $163,495.

Scott has responded to the report, which claims his SUV costs nearly twice as much as the next most expensive taxpayer vehicle in the state, by pointing to the cost of President Donald Trump’s "Beast" vehicle, arguing that inflation is not being factored in and suggesting politics are at play.

Scott, after being pressed by a reporter in a back-and-forth exchange, called the question "idiotic" and part of a "right-wing" effort to discredit him. "Just because you didn’t get the answer that you wanted in your racist slant, that’s one thing," the mayor said.

[Vernon Depner]

He said "slant"! Call the Civil Rights Division!

[mad.casual]

If you can't see that Wrangler, Patriot, Renegade, Avenger, and Grand Wagoneer are code for ranking positions in the KKK, your white privilege is blinding you from the truth.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

When does Scott get hired by Reason? Wait. He didn't mention tariffs. Could have had a slam dunk interview.

[Dillinger]

>>Following the shooting death of Pretti last month, however, support for the president's immigration policies has started to ebb.

ah you're the second guy on earth who didn't see Harry Enten on Tuesday

[Dillinger]

>>the nation's capital is still buried in "snowcrete" that is blocking roadways, alleys, and, especially, sidewalks.

is anyone under the impression DC roadways alleys and sidewalks ran smoothly before it snowed?

[mad.casual]

The most unbearable winter I ever experienced was a summer vacation in DC.

[Dillinger]

yes my dad would drag us down there from NJ seemed like every summer

[Incunabulum]

>Renne Good and Alex Pretti, during the Metro Surge operation. Their deaths are a reminder that it's not only Department of Justice attorneys who are suffering at the moment

Is that it? These are the only two you've got?

You tell us how horrible this all is, how brutal ICE is, how many innocent Americans are suffering - and yet the only examples you have, the only names you have, are two idiots who got themselves killed?

[Dillinger]

>>The Trump administration prepares to make it easier to fire some 50,000 federal workers.

should this not be your 48-point bold banner today?

[Dillinger]

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/02/05/top-democrats-demand-ice-shutdown-in-dhs-budget-battle/

who knew chemjeff was a (D) senator all along?

[Incunabulum]

>Following the shooting death of Pretti last month, however, support for the president's immigration policies has started to ebb.

1. This is not true.

2. Its so true that Minnesota has caved and will not assist ICE.

[Incunabulum]

>Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted before and after Pretti's death found that 39 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, down from 41 percent earlier this month. In February 2025, Trump's approval on immigration was at 50 percent.

Oh, I see. You misunderstand. We're upset Trump *isn't deporting harder*. The loss of support is that he's not doing good enough of a job.

[mad.casual]

"The stochastic martyring of AWFL people will continue until popular popular opinion overwhelmingly and irrefutably agrees with us."

From the footage I've seen of the Checkpoint Charlies, it's only a matter of time until one of these dumbasses gets put 6 ft. under the snowcrete by someone other than ICE.

[Incunabulum]

>Scenes from D.C.: While barely above-freezing temperatures have caused some merciful melting, the nation's capital is still buried in "snowcrete" that is blocking roadways, alleys, and, especially, sidewalks. Occasional Reason contributor Joe-Bishop Henchman offers some thoughts on what went wrong.

I thought we were libertarians - stop whining that the government isn't clearing the streets and take care of it yourself.

[Ajsloss]

In our defense, we've paid (or had the money stolen) for the government to clean our streets. It'd be kind of crazy for us to be robbed and then do the work ourselves.

[mad.casual]

My understanding is that you got robbed for other reasons and are now complaining that you aren't being robbed for something that the rest of us regard as mowing your own lawn or trimming your own hedges.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Somali learing centers ain’t gonna fund themselves.

[Incunabulum]

Then go get your money back;)

[Eeyore]

Places with lots of snow are wise to eliminate alleys. Why double the work load just so your property can take it in the front or the back?

[Moderation4ever]

The Democrats have listed their 10 demands for ICE reform and they all seem pretty reasonable. Basically steps would take ICE from being secret police to standard LEOs.

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/leaders_jeffries_and_schumer_to_speaker_johnson_and_leader_thune_2.pdf

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

None of them are reasonable. It is a means for quiet amnesty as deportations would go to near zero mr parody account.

Imagine requiring a blue state judge to approve any deportations.

Also nice use of secret police for the most publicized force currently. Good work maddow watcher.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Worst...secret...police...ever. On camera basically 24/7, being "watched" and doxed constantly by screeching blue haired nose-ringers.

ICE is to secret police what Gaza is to genocides.

[GroundTruth]

ICE is to secret police what Gaza is to genocides.

Which is to say, really bad optics, but with pretty good PR value for your opponents. In some ways, the ICE debacle is worse, because the overreach is unnecessary if your true goal is just to remove the hard-core criminal portion of the undocumented immigrants. If however, a la Stephen Miller, your purpose is to remove everyone who "doesn't look like you [i.e. Miller]", then by all means, have a 3K per day quota for arrests. Don't come crying here when you get clobbered in November.

[Incunabulum]

The goal isn't to just to remove the hard-core criminal portion of the undocumented immigrants.

It is to remove everyone who has entered the country illegally and/or overstayed their permission to be here.

They are going after the hardcore all over the country - its only in MN that there is resistance to this. That's your optics. The government of Minnesota wants to protect the hard-core criminal portion of the undocumented immigrants in MN.

[mad.casual]

Which is to say, really bad optics, but with pretty good PR value for your opponents.

Gaza is really bad optically but provides good PR for Israel? Israel is pretty bad optically but providing good PR for Gaza?

I think this turn about or analogy only works if you've already bought into the "From the river to the sea" mindset wholesale. Otherwise, Gaza is pretty objectively a socially bankrupt shithole run by violent political fanatics that even the Egyptians prefer to keep on the other side of a closed gate.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The goal is to deport those in the US who are here illegally. Not sure what part of his campaign you ignored.

Focus is on the criminals.

I also love how you leftist retards keep pushing this take even though youre actually against deporting the criminals. It is retarded at this point.

If you were for deporting the criminals you wouldn't be applauding sanctuary laws refusing to hand over the criminals.

Like everything else, you retards lie.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

You’re right. 3K per day is not nearly enough. And I don’t give a fuck who they don’t look like.

Idiot.

[Moderation4ever]

Clearly you are unfamiliar with secret police, which are label more on their tactics than by hiding. Secret police wear masks, carry people off with out warrants and to locations that are closed to scrutiny.

[Incunabulum]

Traditionally, secret police do not wear masks. Nor do they arrest people in broad daylight under intense public scrutiny.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The tactics of public arrests?

Again. Your idiocy shows.

Your allies assaulting Ice are wearing masks. Comment?

Please also show me which jails allow instant access to the prison populations on demand.