Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Walz Cut Minnesota Deal?

A bracing 9.5 F in Slower Maryland as we woke up. It's very rare to see single digits here, but not unheard of. We spent a couple of hours yesterday chipping out a path to get Corwin's car out to the street yesterday. There's only about 3-4 inches of white stuff on the ground, but it's well protected by a thick rind of consolidated sleet and freezing rain. The best strategy we could find was to cut squares in the rind with a deshingling tool, and then lift the resulting chunks with a snow shovel. Maybe sometime today we'll finish getting the way clear for our car. Maybe.

 Color me skeptical. Matt Vespa at TownHall characterizes it this way, Tim Walz Caves, Will Work With Trump and Tom Homan. Is This Why? The Signal chat revelations, that show some of Tim's administration working with the mobs to obstruct ICE. I would call that a conspiracy to obstruct the Federal government from carrying out it's legislatively defined mission. But I'm not a lawyer. At Hat Hair, a Larry video, Tim Walz Bends the Knee To Trump: Radical Protestor Network Infiltrated, Capt. Ed has BREAKING news Walz Reaches Out to Trump on Cooperation? UPDATE: Signal? UPDATE: Walz Confirms, De-Escalation? Trump Sends Homan to Minnesota; UPDATE: Republicans Rally to Homan, and Trump: Want to End Major ICE Operations? Make This One Change and Dave Strom explains Why I Am Skeptical That Walz Will Acquiesce and thinks Tim Walz Acts as a Local Warlord. Driscoll at Insty sees CHANGE: Trump says he’s sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight, saying Homan will “report directly to me.” "That should certainly soothe Obama’s nerves about the Minneapolis situation, right? In 2015, he awarded Homan “the Presidential Rank Award, [which] is bestowed each year by the President upon a small group of career employees and is the nation’s highest civil service award.” At Althouse, "Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call..." ""... and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! . . . That's from PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP at Truth Social. That's nice. I can think of a couple cynical things to say, but I'll leave them unsaid." And "Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol 'commander at large' and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon..." ""... according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change." Sundance at CTH thinks A Domestic Insurgency Has Erupted – President Trump Sending Tom Homan to Minneapolis. Don Surber asserts Time is on Trump’s side in Minneapolis, "Wait them out. As Saul Alinsky said, a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."

Hat Hair's John Sexton gives My Take on the Pretti Shooting, "This situation just looks less defensible than the previous one and that matters," and Duane Patterson calls it Finding Out What Happens When You Bring A Gun To An ICE Fight. At the San Diego Union-Trib, a report that San Diego County flags to be lowered in recognition of ICE-related deaths in Minnesota. Asra Nomani @AsraNomani, "Two things can be true at the same time. Alex Pretti’s death is a real and devastating tragedy, and there are several investigations appropriately occurring into the circumstances behind his killing. A far-left organizing network put Pretti in harm's way and then turned him into a martyr for their own agenda to sow the perception of chaos in America Both truths can be said at the same time." PJM's Cathy Salgado hears Minneapolis Police Chief Says It Doesn't Matter if Shooting Was Justified. Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "Because they want martyrs." Quote Chad Felix Greene @chadfelixg, "If they're convinced Trump is sending bloodthirsty, untrained, maliciously motivated executioners into the streets, why aren't they warning their own residents to stay home where it's safe?" PJM's Stephen Kruiser has A Friendly Reminder That Murderous Chaos Is ALWAYS the Dems' Endgame. Mark Hemingway @Heminator "The idea that Pretti and Good were living in some "normative state" is insane; knowingly or unknowingly they both volunteered for an organized counterinsurgency engaged in militarized tactics to stop democratically passed laws from being enforced. Pretti even had a gun." Quote, Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis, "This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."" PJM's Matt Margoli observe The Left’s Gun Rights Hypocrisy Just Hit a New Low. Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "This is retarded. Rittenhouse wasn’t interfering with law enforcement. He was only there because law enforcement was nowhere to be found. It’s literally the exact opposite situation." Quote Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj, "I supported Kyle Rittenhouse being armed at a BLM riot so it would be hypocritical If I opposed a leftist doing the same Laws need to apply equally to all Americans x.com/libertylockpod…" From No Pasaran! Law Enforcement Officers and Police Shootings: Try Comparing Those of January 6 to Those in Minnesota. At News Wax, WH: 3 Investigations of Minnesota Shootings Underway, as they should be, and Noem to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee. 

Betsy Stauffer at LI claims Obama, Clinton Statements About Minneapolis Reveal Democrats’ Midterm Playbook, "But where Obama truly goes off the rails is in his appeal to Trump administration officials to “… start finding ways to work constructively with Governor Walz and Mayor Frey.”" VodkaPundit at PJM, Just When You Thought You Couldn't Get Any More Sick of Barack Obama... The Victory Girls see Kamala Adds Fuel To The Fire In Minneapolis. Dave Harsanyi at NYPo says Sorry, AOC — protest culture is un-American. Matt Vespa cites Law Professor Rips Apart Dems Over Latest Remarks on the Border Patrol Shooting in Minneapolis, Jonathan Turley. From RCP, The Campaign Against ICE Is All About Open Borders. Mitch Bert at Hat Hair VIP, Minnesota: Let's Not Forget The Crisis Before The Crisis, massive fraud.

Jen van Laar on the Anti-ICE Signal Chats: Walz Administration Implicated, Foreign Funding Revealed. Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson, "At this point, it is not surprising at all that all of this is state sponsored and goes all the way to the top." Quote 0HOUR1 @0hour1, "Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat. This means the State of Minnesota is behind the protests. Its not organic its a insurrection at the very top." VodkaPundit at PJM, Minnesota Insurrection: A Special Forces Operator Has Seen This 'From Anbar to Helmand'. Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132 "As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. . . " Stephen Miller @StephenM, "If you are surprised to see such a large volume of professional class leftists acting in psychotic fashion in response to routine immigration enforcement, remember the conduct of this same group during covid: masking babies, terrifying children, boycotting family, shuttering schools, purging dissenters, and signaling their “virtue” to in-group peers with ever more extreme, painful and draconian measures." Kevin Bass @kevinnbass, "I am horrified. I cannot believe it. I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year. Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America. This is twice all violent confrontations in the remaining 3,134 counties COMBINED. A violent confrontation in these 9 counties was 590 TIMES more likely than any of these other 3,134 counties. 590 times. I plotted these 9 counties, and I found that all 9 counties are sanctuary jurisdictions run by Democrat politicians that resist immigration law enforcement. These violent confrontations are RARE in states and cities where local officials cooperate with law enforcement." DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "BREAKING: SIGNALGATE DONORS LIST AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD; POLITICIANS + FOREIGN LEADERSHIP CONFIRMED? In one of the files revealed by @camhigby , a resources file directs people with money to a website, Stand with Minnesota, which in turns directs donors to a campaign ran by Tending the Soil on Chuffed. More about Tending the Soil later. What to know: the campaign is hosted by Chuffed and the first donation came from Jonny Soppotiuk, a Canada-based community organizer who is part of Chuffed leadership and specializes in fundraising. He is most likely a central figure in raising money. So, yeah. Starting to look like foreigners are playing a key role in all of this. That's not all. I've put together a spreadsheet of 4000+ donors and their possible identities. Download in the next link below."

At Hat Hair, Dave Strom interpretes the Minneapolis Police Chief: Yes, the Mob Should Rule and Twin Cities Law Enforcement Abandons Hotel to Mob (looking for ICE officers), and John Sexton hears Minneapolis Has a New Autonomous Zone with Armed Guards. Open Source Intel @Osint613, "In Minneapolis clashes, an anti-ICE protester was severely injured after trying to throw a flashbang back at federal agents, losing part of her fingers in the explosion." FAFO. Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "Wheelchair bound ICE protester seems to temporarily have a divine intervention and is able to stand up out of his wheelchair and grab what he dropped These are paid actors." Eddie Scarry at Da Fed, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: ICE And ‘5-Year-Old Boy’ Edition. NYPo remembers how Gavin Newsom ignored calls to help girl, 5, left with half a skull in crash caused by illegal immigrant, dad says. TownHall's Joe Chalfant hopes This Inspiring Testimony From a DHS Hero Will Strengthen Your Resolve on Immigration. From Da Signal, EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests Foreign Terrorists Living in US.

From Ace, New Details on Church Invasion Prove It Was a Straight-Up Hate Crime, "Tyler O'Neill's thread has the supporting charging documents. This behavior would not be tolerated if a mosque was invaded." Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy, No Detention Hearing or Bail Required for Two Women Charged with Disrupting St. Paul Church Service. 

Quantus Insights @QuantusInsights, "One year into President Trump’s presidency, several key indicators have shifted meaningfully: • Net illegal immigration has turned negative for the first time in ~50 years; border encounters are down ~93%. • Violent crime is falling, with homicides down ~21%. The largest annual drop on record. • Drug outcomes have improved, with overdose deaths down ~25% and fentanyl seizures halved. • The economy remains strong, with ~4.4% GDP growth or higher and equity markets at record highs. For voters focused on border security, public safety, and economic stability, these figures show delivery on stated priorities. For Americans in general, they point to broadly healthy national metrics." Law and Liberty compares him to Teddy Roosevelt, The American Grizzly. Sundance, Ted Cruz Attacks Trump and JD Vance During Conversation with “Donors”

Carlo Carrasco is happy Trump’s America Urges Allies To Increase Defense Spending To 5% Of GDP. CEPA, Poland Prepares for Drone War With Russia. "Europe needs to get on the front foot to tackle Russia’s hybrid warfare, a Polish deputy defense minister warned as he unveiled details of a new anti-drone systems." Sundance at CTH hosts NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte Delivers Brutally Honest Message to Virtue Signaling Brussels. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn takes A Peek in as Canada Ducks: Dropping That China Trade Deal Like a Hot Won Ton. Riviera Maya News, U.S. accepts 92 high profile drug kingpins from Mexico. At Da Signal, ‘All Signs Point’ to End of Communist Cuba, GOP Officials Say. John Sexton, Trump Administration Wants to See Cuba's 'Incompetent Marxists' Gone. From NewsWax, Trump Hikes Tariffs on South Korea "In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the decision follows what he described as South Korea's failure to fulfill its obligations under a trade deal negotiated between the two countries." From the Free Bacon, Solar Companies Scramble To Hide China Ties As Trump Readies Rules Barring Chinese-Owned Green Energy Firms From Receiving Taxpayer Funds "Under Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, companies with more than 25-percent Chinese ownership can't claim green energy tax credits." Capt. Ed, Israel Recovers Final Hostage; Gaza Readies for Phase 2 of Trump Plan.

NYPo, California’s massive fraud is way worse than Minnesota’s — totals $7 billion: JD Vance.   Ace, JD Vance: California's Fraud Dwarfs Minnesota's. memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus, "You can’t show a random video from the streets of Minneapolis without capturing a 7 figure Somali fraud operation."

Elon Musk @elonmusk, "True" Quote Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters, "Holding secure elections is a civilizational IQ test > 14 states don't require any ID at all to vote > it's impossible to say that "cheating is rare" if you don't measure the thing at all > requiring proof of citizenship is incredibly popular among all Americans > yet, the x.com/BasedMikeLee/s…Show more"

NRO happy, At 88, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton Will Not Run for Reelection. I don't know why; brain dead represents the state pretty well.

Dr. John Eastman at Julie Kelly's substack, takes on the Century-Old Case Law Lurking in the Disqualifications of Trump’s Interim U.S. Attorneys "The Supreme Court is slowly returning executive power back to the president related to political appointees? Will a pending decision do the same for U.S. Attorney picks? Dr. Eastman explains."

John Sexton hears the Washington Post Braces for Massive Layoffs, or as we call it "Yesterday's news, tomorrow," Driscoll is not sympathetic, OLD AND BUSTED: "“Yeah, I’m In the Media. Screw You.” —The late Ginny Carroll, a bureau chief with the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek, who admitted on C-SPAN that she wore a button with the above message at the 1992 Republican convention. The New Hotness? Washington Post Braces for Massive Layoffs." Neither is Ace, Stephen Colbert's Ratings Hit New All-Time Low, Update: Washington Post Braces for a FIFTY PERCENT Cut in Jobs "Remember, six months ago, in the immediate aftermath of his cancellation, Colbert's ratings rose based entirely on Sympathy Viewing and liberals all claimed he was going to build the show into a juggernaut that CBS would have to un-cancel. I've got a special delivery: Six barrels of 100% pure pesticide-free Nope Juice." "Brian Stelter whines that Bezos isn't being a good "steward" of the Washington Post. Jon Podhoretz responded that he's not a "steward," he's the owner. But the bratty, underperforming losers at the paper think that Daddy Warbucks should just keep bailing them out forever." From NewsBusters, More of This, Please! CBS Invites Conservative Dana Loesch to Debate Minneapolis.

From the College Fix, Govt gave $3.3 million science grant to Northwestern for ‘safe space ambassadors’: report. Beege Welborn thinks Peak Woke Achieved: Fairy Pronouns. Oh yee of little faith, they can go higher, I'm sure.