Another ICE shooting in MN

[MU82]

Der Fuhrer is as corrupt as he is cruel ...

Prison Firm Donated to Trump's PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/geo-group-maga-inc-donations-ice-contracts.html?

A private prison company donated more than $1.4 million to President Trump's political operation last month after his administration awarded contracts that could pay the company $165 million a year to house immigrants awaiting deportation.

The donations from a subsidiary of the GEO Group were disclosed in a campaign finance report filed by MAGA Inc., a super PAC run by Mr. Trump's allies.

GEO donated $1 million on July 16, three days after the company announced that it had signed a five-year contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that will pay the company $85 million a year to operate a 1,188-bed detention center in Hudson, Colo.

But hey, the good news is that GEO stock is up 55% year to date.

[Uncle Rico]

The parents of Alex Pretti, who was murdered by his government, break their silence with ABC News

https://abcnews.com/US/family-alex-pretti-speaks-exclusive-interview-murdered-child/story?id=135910349

[MU82]

From the AP:

The Trump administration's sweeping crackdown on immigration aims to deport some 1 million people per year. Caught up in the upheaval are a group of people who up until this point had largely been protected from the threat of deportation: the parents and spouses of active-duty service members.

The administration has detained dozens of military parents and spouses since Trump took office for his second term, an AP investigation found. It's a move that's wholly unprecedented, and an about-face from nearly 20 years of immigration policy across the political spectrum, including the first Trump administration. 

This story is bigger than the 52 cases it outlines. It reveals an upending of long-held norms around immigration policy and the rollback of years of bipartisan consensus on how military families should be treated.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

From the AP:

The Trump administration's sweeping crackdown on immigration aims to deport some 1 million people per year. Caught up in the upheaval are a group of people who up until this point had largely been protected from the threat of deportation: the parents and spouses of active-duty service members.

The administration has detained dozens of military parents and spouses since Trump took office for his second term, an AP investigation found. It's a move that's wholly unprecedented, and an about-face from nearly 20 years of immigration policy across the political spectrum, including the first Trump administration. 

This story is bigger than the 52 cases it outlines. It reveals an upending of long-held norms around immigration policy and the rollback of years of bipartisan consensus on how military families should be treated.

The best people.

[MU82]

ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/27/us/ice-immigrant-arrests-trump-deportation-dhs.html?

A surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Trump's mass deportation campaign. They included people married to U.S. citizens, people who had entered legally and were pursuing an asylum claim, and others with a temporary legal status that the administration pushed to revoke.

A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were people who were accused of violating civil immigration laws but who had not been charged with or convicted of a crime, an analysis of newly released federal data shows. The share with a past violent criminal conviction fell to less than 4 percent.

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The Gestapo is purging good people who were here legally and/or contributing positively to their communities. Just as Der Fuhrer promised.

[Uncle Rico]

Love it or leave it

https://bsky.app/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3mu2rxczhzs2r

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Nazis in action

[Uncle Rico]

Nazis in action

Love it or leave it.  Really, our country is trying to ethnically cleanse itself.  We start this way, move onto small pox blankets and then genocide

[tower912]

The old HOMES acronym is no more.

Now it is SHAME.

[Pakuni]

The little guy is losing his marbles.

A former Border Patrol official who helped spearhead President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has claimed the administration now wants him dead.

Gregory Bovino made the explosive allegation during a lengthy interview with conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson, released Wednesday night.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-former-border-patrol-commander-172948137.html

[TSmith34, Inc.]

It's sad when the Nazis become paranoid and turn on each other

[Shaka Shart]

The little guy is losing his marbles.

A former Border Patrol official who helped spearhead President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has claimed the administration now wants him dead.

Gregory Bovino made the explosive allegation during a lengthy interview with conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson, released Wednesday night.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-former-border-patrol-commander-172948137.html

Probably fine. We know when to be really concerned, when a little guy starts spouting off about manatees

[Uncle Rico]

Muggsy's America:

https://bsky.app/profile/bradmossesq.bsky.social/post/3mu46iku5vs2h

[MU82]

Good news! The Gestapo agent who unnecessarily wounded an immigrant in Minnesota and lied about it has been released from a Texas jail and does not face extradition. He's free to abuse his power again, thank goodness.

Can't wait for the next "nobody's above the law" lecture.

[Uncle Rico]

Reminder, this is a genocidal country we live in

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mu64u6ba3k2x

[MU82]

When they say, "All life matters," what they really mean is:

"All lives of those we approve of matter. ... Oh, and fetuses, too, even if we intend to ignore their needs after they leave the wombs of the women we don't give a sh!t about."

[Uncle Rico]

When people tell me America is a Christian nation, I'll share this story of the "Christians" that voted for this America:

https://bsky.app/profile/tomjoscelyn.bsky.social/post/3muhhjkkzzc2h

[jesmu84]

Hmm

[Uncle Rico]

Hmm

When you speak to idiots and whites only crowd, they don't get the irony of that statement at all.

[MU82]

Hmm

"If I have to create stories ... "

Such as ...

"They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs! They're eating the pets!"

[Jay Bee]

Mass shooting including a couple of officers down this afternoon a few blocks from me in downtown Minneapolis. I walked over and it was insane the amount of responding ambulances, cops, firemen, etc.

No idea what went on other than multiple people were shot and the scene was intense. Prayers up!

[Uncle Rico]

Mass shooting including a couple of officers down this afternoon a few blocks from me in downtown Minneapolis. I walked over and it was insane the amount of responding ambulances, cops, firemen, etc.

No idea what went on other than multiple people were shot and the scene was intense. Prayers up!

Have the guns been saved and are they ok?

[tower912]

Prayers for the victims, the injured first responders, and their families.

[MU82]

From NYT columnist David French, a libertarian and veteran:

It's one of the worst videos of the Trump era, and that's saying something.

You see a young Muslim woman dressed warmly for early spring walking down the street when she's approached by a man in civilian clothes. She shouts as he places his hands on her. At that moment, a second man in civilian clothes arrives and appears to pull out a badge. Within moments she's surrounded by plainclothes officers.

They handcuff her and take her away.

If the video had recorded the arrest of a violent criminal, it wouldn't be shocking at all. It would look benign, relatively peaceful even. But you're not watching the arrest of a violent criminal. Instead, it's the arrest of a Turkish graduate student at Tufts, Rumeysa Ozturk, who had been lawfully present in the United States on a student visa.

And why was she arrested? For helping to write an op-ed. That's the reason for the swarm of officers and the handcuffs. You can read it here. She was one of four authors, and they called for the university to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar's statements, disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel."

I don't agree with the op-ed, but no rational person could read it and find anything legally problematic about it. It was political speech that rests at the core of the First Amendment. In fact, if the free speech clause means anything, it means that each of us has the right to engage in political argument, no matter if our views are radically fringe, comfortably mainstream or something in between.

This is basic stuff. Every public official in the United States should understand this fundamental civic and constitutional fact.

Not only was she detained, but the Trump administration sought to deport her, to kick her out of the country for expressing a view it did not like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/opinion/trump-rubio-free-speech-judges.html?

[MU82]

Have the guns been saved and are they ok?

Don't worry, Unk. Turns out that not only are the guns OK, but the fact that the killer was a wack-job who had repeatedly threatened to shoot his neighbors didn't prevent him from keeping and using those guns. With liberty and guns for all!

https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-shooting-police-wounded-3ff6046fde9edd1c764701c10aa4a1ac?