Monday, January 26, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Signal Goes Out in Minnesota

We survived Snowmaggedopacolypse 2026 just fine. After yesterday's post, it continued to sleet all day, beating down the 3 inches of snow we started with, and ended the evening with a light bit of freezing rain, enough to produce a little icicles on the deck railing and light glazing in the trees without doing any damage. Later, we'll go out and chip the driveway clear, but that shouldn't be too onerous. Right now, it's 23 F and a light band on snow is going by, adding to the total. Our power never went out, although SMECO did have some outages. School, of course, is canceled as is Corwin's job, so Corwin and Gabby get another day to sled. All in all not too bad for a storm that, a week out, was predicted to dump up to 15 inches of snow, and up to an inch of ice.

Apparently, liberals think Signal is a secure enough platform for their conspiracies. From Stacy McCain, Minnesota: @camhigby Exposes Communications of Anti-ICE Conspiracy. GunShyMartyr @jimmy_rustlin "Code names HAH. Meet Amanda Noelle Koehler, one of the admins of the MN ICE Watch signal chat group. She believes that property damage isn't violence, was a campaign strategist for Tim Walz, and organizes a lot of the protests and walkouts in the area." GunShyMartyr @jimmy_rustlin, "She organized the MSP airport protest." 0HOUR1 @0hour1, "So what @camhigby showed us. 1 They have access to the national database to trace license plates in real time. Meaning someone in law enforcement is passing on plate read data. Not only that they were notified of police shift changes from within the department. Its organized crime." Moni @MoniFunGirl "BREAKING: Tim Walz admits local and state police had to RETREAT because they were overrun by leftists near the shooting scene Leftist agitators are in FULL CONTROL of Minneapolis now President Trump needs to invoke the INSURRECTION ACT NOW! FEDERALIZE THE NATIONAL GUARD!" Twitchy, SHOCKING TIES: Just GUESS Who's Strategist Leads Anti-ICE Signal MN Mob Hunting ICE Agents (Gets WORSE). PM, EXPOSED: Signal chats of far-left anti-ICE Minnesota networks revealed: report, “ICE chaser operations go all night. The dispatch call is 24/7. These are messages screenshotted at 2am asking for observers at a location with potential illegals.” Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "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 reaches all the way to the Minnesota Statehouse," Quote Alexis McAdams @AlexisMcAdamsTV "This isn’t a protest — it’s an operation. Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis rapidly track, doxx, and harass anyone they believe is tied to ICE. They take pics of you, your license plate, & upload to their “data base”" Dustin Grage @GrageDustin, "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." "Margaret Flanagan is an American politician and Ojibwe activist serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of Minnesota since 2019." Sunny Lohmann @sunnylohmann, "This is alarming. The Revolutionaries have an organized and VAST network of people out snitching and spotting and harassing people that covers the entire city and suburbs. Are regular Americans in Minnesotans comfortable with that? That’s chilling in the extreme. At any moment they can drop the net, and their boot is up your ass, and you are totally without rights. Don’t try to resist or they can and will mobilize a HUGE mob to attack you. I’m shocked by what I’m hearing. It’s later than I thought. In what other cities can they do this, I wonder." Quote James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII, "URGENT UPDATE: I’ve never experienced anything quite like today in my life. I’ve interacted with the Cartel and have witnessed some crazy things in the desert in ‘24. But what strikes me is how organized these agitators in Minneapolis are. They have spotters everywhere …" Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "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?" Matt Margolis at PJM, The Left Doesn’t Want You to Know This About Alex Pretti, the Man the Border Patrol Shot. From Breitbart, DHS: Deceased Armed Man 'Wanted to...Massacre Law Enforcement'. He may have wanted to, but I don't believe he intended to do that. He just put himself in a bad spot. The redoubtable Julie Kelly at substack, Becca and Renee Good Were Not Married. So Why Does Everyone Keep Lying About It? "Even after a lawyer representing Becca Good confirmed the pair were not married, news outlets and social media influencers refuse to correct the inaccurate portrayal of a "bereaved widow."" From Compact, How Pro-Immigrant Activism Turned Dangerous, gradually, then suddenly.

From WJ, Anti-ICE Rioters Barricading Entire Blocks in Minneapolis, Police Appear MIA. Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth "Sooo… they’re going to deport anyone who “illegally” crosses into their little area? And they won’t see the irony of it?" Quote Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "Leftists have now declared an AUTONOMOUS ZONE in Minneapolis, dumpsters dragged into the streets to BARRICADE entire city blocks while the anti-ICE protests rage on. This is THIRD WORLD chaos!" Joe Chalfant at TownHall reports a Rioter Arrested After Laying Traps to Disable ICE Vehicles and Antifa Lunatic Openly Advocates for Followers to Arm Up and March on 'Nazi Gunmen' ICE Agents. Erik Florack at PJM asks about Minneapolis: How Is This Not an Insurrection? Sundance at CTH cites FBI Director Kash Patel: We Have Our Top Men on the Ground in Minneapolis. Twitchy, So, About That Big Tough Guy 'Antifa-General' Who Told Minneapolis to Take Up Arms Against ICE? Yeah, LOL. Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "BREAKING - It’s been revealed Minneapolis’s “Antifa General,” AKA Kyle Wagner, who recently called for guns to be used against the federal government, is a cross-dresser who really enjoys dresses."

Jen O'Connell at RedState, You Thought the Video Was Bad: Anti-ICE Protesters Ambush of MN Cities Church Is Even Worse Than Reported. Tyler O'Neil @Tyler2ONeil "One woman broke her arm. Congregants "were terrorized, our children were weeping, college students and young women were sobbing, it was impactfly and it will take time to work through." and "An agitator "continued to scream in the faces of young children while they were crying." Nick Ballasy at JTN, Appeals court finds evidence to charge Don Lemon over church protest, but won’t force arrest warrant "The decision, unsealed Saturday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, came after DOJ asked the appeals court to overrule a Minnesota magistrate judge who refused to approve multiple arrest warrants related to the protest."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Irony: ICE Incident At One Epicenter of Welfare Fraud Governor Dill @TheGreenOldDill, "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!!!" Basically, you can't swing a dead cat in Minneapolis without hitting a case of fraud. 

Sundance, JD Vance Notes Something Very Important About Minneapolis Chaos. JD Vance @JDVance, "This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities." Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "The VP is correct… Texas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona, etc have had more ICE arrests than Minnesota, but they cooperate with federal law. Their officials don’t urge the public to resist." RazörFist @RAZ0RFIST, "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." Mike @thinkorswim0712, "only reason their is chaos in Minnesota is because @Tim_Walz and @Jacob_Frey are doing everything in they can to stir the pot in order to distract us from the fact that they were complicit in a 100 Billion dollar fraud scheme and when melissa hortman found out they killed her." pnorm @paleonormie, "something crazy in all of this is that ICE is claiming to have apprehended like 3,000 people with active removal orders and thus far there have been exactly two deadly altercations and both of them were with protestors rather than actual targets."

Sundance, President Donald Trump Releases a Statement on Minnesota Chaos. "I am hereby calling on Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and EVERY Democrat Governor and Mayor in the United States of America to formally cooperate with the Trump Administration to enforce our Nation’s Laws, rather than resist and stoke the flames of Division, Chaos, and Violence: 1. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey should turn over all Criminal Illegal Aliens that are currently incarcerated in their State Prisons and Jails to Federal Authorities, along with all Illegal Criminals with an active warrant or known Criminal History, for Immediate Deportation. 2. State and Local Law Enforcement must agree to turn over all Illegal Aliens arrested by Local Police. 3. Local Police must assist Federal Law Enforcement in apprehending and detaining Illegal Aliens who are wanted for Crimes. 4. Democrat Politicians must partner with the Federal Government to protect American Citizens in the rapid removal of all Criminal Illegal Aliens in our Country. Some Democrats, in places like Memphis, Tennessee, or Washington, D.C., have done so, resulting in safer streets for ALL." Nick Ballasy again, After ICE shooting armed man, Trump accuses Walz, Frey of inciting an 'insurrection' "LET OUR ICE PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB! 12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota. If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today!" WJ reports Anti-ICE Agitators and 'Legal Observers' Losing Strong Majority of Public Support: New Poll. unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Trump has forced the dems into taking the 20% side again." Quote InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022, "Voters on ICE Protests - Are each of the following legitimate forms of protest that should be protected by law?" John, McGuiness at Law and Liberty notes Trump has The Duty to Enforce the Law. UPI whines Minnesota CEOs call for 'immediate deescalation' in the state. Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "DAG Todd Blanche just flipped the script on Kristen Welker: BLANCHE: “Absolutely. Every American should be bothered, but what should they be bothered by? They should be bothered that ICE had zero support from law enforcement.”" From NYPo, Gavin Newsom launches vicious attack on president over death of armed anti-ICE protestor: ‘Trump made a shooting happen’ Sister Toldja at RedState hears Kathy Hochul Makes Outrageous Statement About Federal Storm Help Amid Reports of NYers Freezing to Death. Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul, "Secretary Noem offered assistance to New York ahead of the impending snowstorm. I shared that the fastest way to help is for ICE to back off so people feel safe accessing warming centers, shelters, hospitals, and houses of worship." Jon Levine @LevineJonathan, "Turning down federal assistance in a deadly blizzard because you hate Trump and ICE." NYC Scoop @NY_Scoop, "You literally just told a U.S. Cabinet Secretary offering FREE blizzard relief to fuck off because @ICEgov might make your illegal alien constituents feel 'unsafe' going to a warming center. Meanwhile actual New Yorkers, tax-paying, legal, freezing Americans, are digging out cars and kids with frostbite. You’re not a governor. You’re a border checkpoint for cartels. Resign, you treasonous ice queen. New York is bleeding and you’re handing out hot cocoa to the people bleeding us dry. GO TO HELL." NYPo, Barack Obama issues rare political statement condemning DHS over Alex Pretti shooting — as Dems rally against Trump admin. Driscoll at Insty, BARACK OBAMA FORGETS HIMSELF, PONTIFICATES ON WHAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SHOULD DO ABOUT ICE. Ben Shapiro at Da Signal sees it all as The Left’s Search for a New Cause, or an new excuse. 

Cam at Bearing Arms records how 2A Groups Respond After Fatal Shooting of Minneapolis Protester and Concealed Carry Holder. Althouse finds "The right to publicly carry weapons is a centerpiece of Second Amendment advocacy and has emerged as a key issue in the shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti...." ""Bill Essayli, Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor and a Trump ally, received fierce blowback from gun-rights groups over his Saturday claim that there is a 'high likelihood' law enforcement will be 'legally justified' in shooting someone who approaches them with a gun. The National Rifle Association responded on X that this sentiment was 'dangerous and wrong.' Gun Owners of America condemned Essayli's statement, writing that the Second Amendment 'protects Americans' right to bear arms while protesting—a right the federal government must not infringe upon.' Essayli claimed that condemnation 'mischaracterize[d]' his statement...." From "Gun rights groups challenge shooting of legally armed Minneapolis man" (Axios). And here's Jonathan Chait, in "What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second Amendment/Now Americans know" (The Atlantic)(gift link)." Pretti had the right to carry the gun, but he had the obligation to carry his permit, and to warn officers that he had the gun on him. Not confronting the officers would have been a smarter move, too.

Ward Clark at RedState, Trump's Texas Triumph: Big Bend Border Hits All-Time Low in Illegal Crossings. Ben Smith at LI appreciates how ICE’s WOW Database Turns Enforcement Into a Public Record, "By making that record searchable and publicly accessible, the administration has subjected its enforcement claims to verification over time."

From TNP, New Greenland ‘Framework’ Will Cover Minerals: Trump. From Sundance, Sunday Talks – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Discusses Trade Conflict with Canada and Greenland and Canadian Ambassador Hillman Says Canada Is Relying Upon Democrats and Republicans in Congress to Protect them from Trump’s Bilateral Trade Approach with Canada. From TCW, Trump’s apology is welcome, but he has good reason to be fed up with ‘Europeans’. At the Brussels Signal, Unity? Bulgaria doesn’t care about Greenland, Spain doesn’t care about Estonia and so on. From News Wax, Zelenskyy Hails 'Constructive' Trilateral Talks With US, Russia. RCW, Make the Americas Great Again: Colombia Embraces Trump & the U.S. The Latin Times reports Mexican President Sheinbaum Reportedly Reviewing Whether To Continue Oil Shipments To Cuba Due To Potential Reprisals From Trump Admin "Two Republican lawmakers warned Sheinbaum that she could face consequences during the renegotiation of the USMCA." Roger Kimball at Am Great thinks The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun. "Peace talk aside, the ticking in Iran isn’t diplomacy—it’s a death-rattle, as a murderous regime nears judgment and a brutalized people pray that liberation, at last, is real." TNP, ‘We’re Watching Iran’ – Trump Warns U.S. ‘Armada’ Will Arrive in Gulf SOON.

Larry Elder at Hat Hair, The Midterms: It's Not About 'Affordability' -- It's About Trump Hatred. From ET, Energy Department Announces Cancellation of $30 Billion in Biden-Era Loans "The department said that after a review, it would also revise another $53 billion in loans."

From Breitbart, Trump to Ditch Super Bowl, Blasts Halftime Performers Green Day and Bad Bunny: ‘I’m Anti-Them’.

From RCP, Supreme Court Orders CA Dems To Justify Prop 50 Maps, but given recent rulings I expect them to allow it.

The Victory Girls thinks Mamdani is Testing his Relationship With NYPD As Overtime Is Cut.

Hat Hair's Betsy McCaughey predicts Phasing Out State Income Tax Key to Success in Dying Blue States, but they won't. At RCE, Red States Have Reliable Power Because They Embrace an All-of-the-Above Strategy.

I&I, Just How Easy Is It To Rip Off The Federal Gov’t? It's so easy a Somali can do it.

Da Signal explores How Biden and Fauci Suppressed the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory.

At Am Great Paul Sperry sees Obama’s Fingerprints All Over Investigations of Trump And Clinton. "Comey cleared Clinton, Obama boarded Air Force One with her, and the Russia hoax took flight—new evidence suggests the fix was in long before voters ever weighed in."

From BIS, Fans Want Reporter Banned for Repeatedly Trying to Provoke Australian Open Tennis Players Into Negative Comments About Trump.

At the College Fix, Indiana U. professor sanctioned for creating ‘hostile environment’ for white students. HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0 "Unfortunately the demand for racism has exceeded the actual supply so we now have black people wearing klan outfits so other black people can pretend to be frightened."

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