CANADIAN SCHIZOPHRENIA WAS ENOUGH! Canadian schizophrenia: “Resist US aggression!” but also “Disarm law-abiding civilians!”
January 26, 2026
January 25, 2026
GO FIGURE:
Weird that ICE are operating in dozens of states, but it only gets violent in the one where we just uncovered a billion dollar fraud ring with probable links to the governor.
— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) January 25, 2026
As my New York Post column for tomorrow notes, it’s a distraction from the fraud. Or at least they hope it will be.
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KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON: Trump issues four immigration demands to Walz, Democratic leaders.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Artemis 2 moon rocket is on the launch pad. What’s next? Lots of on-ground tests.
BARACK OBAMA FORGETS HIMSELF, PONTIFICATES ON WHAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SHOULD DO ABOUT ICE:
Obama begins:
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Which “core” values are under assault? The values of safety, security, and not being afraid a criminal illegal is going to rape, murder, or ram you with a car or commercial truck? Or is it the core value of not having your First Amendment and other civil liberties violated? As I recall, Obama was not big on civil liberties, since he used his presidential powers to not just spy on journalists (Hello, James Rosen and Sharyl Attkisson), but to weaponize the IRS to block Tea Party and pro-liberty groups who opposed him from acquiring 501(c)(4) status so they could fundraise against his 2012 re-election.Of course, Obama just leaves that one hanging, because his “core values” are flexible.
He blathers on.
Federal law enforcement and immigration agents have a tough job. But Americans expect them to carry out their duties in a lawful, accountable way, and to work with, rather than against, state and local officials to ensure public safety.
That’s not what we’re seeing in Minnesota. In fact, we’re seeing the opposite.
Jan Brewer smiles: Byron York on immigration law: Federal government has enforcement authority.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said that, despite what Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass think, state and local governments do not have the authority to enforce immigration laws — only the federal government does.
Bass defended her resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement on CNN’s The Situation Room, where she responded to the network’s new poll finding that 54% of people approve of the administration’s program to deport illegal immigrants. However, Bass said she does not believe this poll is accurate and that federal agents were “overstepping,” taking away power from the state.
In response, York clarified that the federal government has the sole authority to enforce immigration law.
York recalled the Obama administration, when Arizona officials told former President Barack Obama, “You are not enforcing immigration laws, so we’ll do it.” Obama said no, the issue went to court, and the president won.
“The ruling is the federal government has the sole authority to do this,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “So when Karen Bass says, ‘It is like the federal government is coming in and taking our state and local authority,’ no, they don’t have any state and local authority.”
Bill Clinton has weighed in as well, despite having his own unique record of smashmouth immigration enforcement:
Remember this one, Bill? https://t.co/DQtVGWUYtW pic.twitter.com/t8y3a8t74o
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) January 25, 2026
DON’T GET WOBBLY:
Trump has forced the dems into taking the 20% side again. https://t.co/FQoiRjI6CW
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) January 25, 2026
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INSURRECTION:
Thread:
🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED
I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them.
BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED
Each area of the city has a signal… pic.twitter.com/ATSHlCucWv
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 24, 2026
Recently revealed Signal chats show that this felonious paramilitary operation to disrupt ICE operations is being formally coordinated with Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor and other elected state officials.
This is a criminal conspiracy of immense and troubling magnitude that… https://t.co/bE36mtf8Ik
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 25, 2026
TELL WALZ TO CALL OFF HIS MOBS THEN: Minnesota CEOs call for ‘immediate deescalation’ in the state.
TORI AMOS, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Scientists Just Created Tiny Earthquakes Inside a Microchip.
THE LEFT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS ABOUT ALEX PRETTI, THE MAN THE BORDER PATROL SHOT: “We already knew that Pretti was carrying a loaded handgun and two extra loaded magazines when he showed up at an active ICE operation targeting a violent criminal illegal immigrant. And like Good before him, Pretti wasn’t some random citizen. He was part of an organized network dedicated to interfering with immigration enforcement. And he brought a loaded gun. Cam Higby from Newsmax spent days undercover inside the Signal messaging groups these activists use to coordinate their efforts. What he found was stunning in its sophistication. These aren’t just angry citizens showing up to protest. This is a well-oiled machine running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
Related:
The man who was kiIIed by ICE was apparently in anti-ICE resistance signal chat groups
Do you know who’s running the chats?
Minnesota State Rep Alex Falconer.
He admitted it. He’s open about it.
When is he going to be hauled in for questioning? @FBI pic.twitter.com/KMoFetYXne
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2026
UPDATE:
Peggy Flanagan is in a Signal group chat doxxing federal agents.
Not shocking.
Here’s a video I made last week showing how half of her town hall walked out to impede federal law enforcement, and how she encouraged others to do the same.
This is the network she helped set up. pic.twitter.com/KpQVztxeAq
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) January 25, 2026
IRONY: ICE Incident At One Epicenter of Welfare Fraud.
Took a look, and OMG… 184 NPIs at 2614 Nicollet.
That's just health care providers. Not including child care. And none of them are on an exclusion list. @DOGE_HHS https://t.co/lgyHgzthIg pic.twitter.com/OhXu2DMpBj
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 24, 2026
Including an old friend:
OH MY GOD:
2628 Nicollet is just three doors down from the ICE shooting.
THREE daycare centers are tied to this address.
Owner’s name: Siman Aden
Siman Aden is also owner of the “Quality Learing Center” that was made famous by @nickshirleyy
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 😂😂😂 https://t.co/ymQ78v9eW2 pic.twitter.com/10rtAL5bkz
— Governor Dill (@TheGreenOldDill) January 24, 2026
“Before all this chaos erupted, the entire country had its eyes on the fraud; now everybody is angry about ICE. That’s how Frey and Walz want it.”
The organized nature of the demonstrations has not been lost on President Donald Trump.
“These people are professionals,” he wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. “They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner.” Speaking to reporters that same day about the scene at the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, he described a protester who was “so loud, like a professional opera singer … These are professional agitators that want to see our country do badly.”
This month, assuming a role similar to that which it played in fomenting BLM chaos, unions, including United Auto Workers, have taken leading roles in coordinating the nationwide march.
“No work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action,” the ICE Out For Good website reads. Those outside of Minnesota are encouraged to “take action on January 23 in solidarity by organizing or attending a non-violent solidarity event, demanding corporations stand up to ICE, and calling on Congress to act now to rein in ICE.”
An “ICE Out for Good” rally—organized by a conglomerate of large and small unions as well as left-wing political groups such as Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America—is being held in Manhattan’s Union Square late Friday afternoon.
The unions, which once championed the BLM cause, have since rechanneled their energies toward resisting ICE and Border Patrol officers, perhaps seeing an opportunity to rebuild solidarity and passion on the left in the face of the MAGA movement. Friday’s strikes and protests, for example, resemble the nationwide “Strike for Black Lives” that took place in July 2020 at the behest of 60 unions and social justice groups, the San Diego-based outlet KPBS reported. Essential workers from Boston to San Francisco ditched their jobs to “rewrite the rules so that Black people can thrive, that corporations dismantle racism, [and] white supremacy.” In June of that year, researchers around the world promised a strike to #ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia in support of BLM.
Flashback: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox. It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’”
Incidentally, Worst Hitler, Ever: Church-Invader Nekima Levy Armstrong Rushes to Democrat-Friendly CNN After Release by Activist Judge.
UPDATE:
🔥 How did Sam Tripoli predict the immigration / ICE riots with such eerie accuracy on Joe Rogan years ago? pic.twitter.com/itIqJfRu3J
— TUPACABRA (@tupacabra) January 25, 2026
QUESTION ASKED: Who Built the USSR?
One of the epic stories of World War II is how Russian troops held the Stalingrad tractor factory against repeated assaults by German units from August to October 1942. That factory, the historians tell us, had produced more than half of the Soviet Union’s tractors before the war, and had begun manufacturing T-34 tanks in 1941. The factory finally fell in battle, but it was rebuilt after the war as a symbol of Soviet resistance to fascism—and an enduring icon of the economic miracle of Soviet socialism.
The truth was, the Stalingrad factory had been designed and built by American engineers and American workers living on-site in the early 1930s, and then outfitted by a dozen or so American companies, including International Harvester. The McClintic-Marshall Company made the plant’s steel structures, which then shipped to Stalingrad for assembly. The first tractors to roll off the assembly line in June 1930 were designed by the McCormick Deering company.
In other words, this supposed icon of Soviet industrial prowess was one of many examples where American companies, engineers, and workers helped transform the USSR into a major economic power.
Oh sure. Next you’re going to tell me that the Americans designed the Soviets’ postwar Tupolev Tu-4 bomber:

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: The 2027 Chevy Bolt Will Stay in Production for Just 18 Months.
BUNKERTIME: Iran’s supreme leader retreats underground, warned of likelihood of US airstrikes: report.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has gone underground, reportedly hiding out in a bunker out of fear of being wiped out by US airstrikes — as the USS Abraham Lincoln steams toward the Persian Gulf.
The 86-year-old supreme leader has moved to a fortified shelter in Tehran connected to a series of elaborate underground tunnels after senior military officials warned of the increasing likelihood of an imminent US attack, Iran International reported, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Faster, please.
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MINNESOTA’S AMY KLOBUCHAR IN 2006: Build That Wall!
2006. Amy Klobuchar says she wants a border fence (wall).
Says illegals shouldn’t be allowed in the country as legal immigrants wait in line and companies hiring illegals must be prosecuted.
If she said this now, she’d be labeled a fascist by every Democrat in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/fhLAV4Zi32
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 25, 2026
Indeed. Here’s Klobuchar in 2026: Dems “are focused on getting ICE out of our state.”
Amy Klobuchar sounds mid-meltdown as she says Dems "are focused on getting ICE out of our state."
She wants you to talk to your Republican reps and "make clear that this is not the America that is ours."
What is she really trying to say? pic.twitter.com/F9QDuwnvDB
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) January 25, 2026