#4
Also noticed they found the most cornbread white country singer locally available for both division championships to chaff that Bad Bunny and The Helmet Slogan Show is glossed over.
This is where the right-wing Jew hate is coming from. This is what a stream looks like. See the chat scrolling by?
Doesn't Rantburg do any streams? We really need based voices out there. At least join the chats and clap back.
No streams that I am aware of, though Rantburg moderator ryuge (@0ryuge) is quite active on X, among others. I haven’t the energy for such things, I’m afraid. Also, what does based mean? I seem to be the only one who doesn’t know.
Steiny from the Nelk podcast asks Sneako whether he would apologize if he said the song offended him.
Sneako responds: "If i said you doing a podcast with Netanyahu offended me would you apologize?"
Fair enough. I’d start his next intro with, “And here is that stupid asshole, Sneako, who has to pay prostitutes to pretend to like him so you’ll think he’s cool. What are you doing to bump up the click count nowadays, Sneako?” and see how he likes that. Alinksy provides a fun toolkit for manipulating hypocrites.
#4
I've only been exposed to streaming through reddit and it seems like a complete waste of time. If I knew someone who watched streaming as a hobby I would send them to therapy.
#7
Millions of people are doing podcasts, messing around on X or Instagram or whatever, thinking of themselves as "influencers". I don't have time to keep up with it and I'm not the least bit sorry that I don't.
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[YouTube] Law enforcement professionals, Kyle Shoberg and Mark Redlich, break down the Alex Pretti Minneapolis shooting involving ICE/federal agents and explain what the videos show, what the public may be missing, and how quickly these encounters can escalate.
We cover the timeline, use-of-force decision making, crowd dynamics, and the key tactical moments that shaped the outcome — with a street-cop perspective and real-world training takeaways.
More background to events that day:
The parents of Alex Pretti say their son quit his hospital job months ago and had shown “unusual behavior” recently. “He seemed to have joined some kind of group. We warned him two weeks ago — protest if you want, but don’t engage, don’t do anything stupid,” his father, Michael… pic.twitter.com/p8KT1OexyQ
…don’t do anything stupid,” his father, Michael Pretti, told reporters. “He said he understood.” But it wasn’t until police pulled messages from Alex’s phone that the truth began to emerge — and what investigators found.
It seems that Pretti's parents didn't want him participating. It seems Pretti allegedly scrubbed his social media presence one day prior to his actions leading to his death. When you make decisions based on emotions, you make poor decisions. He made bad decisions.
I’m a 2A absolutist. You have a right to carry, not a privilege.
But rights come with restrictions, you need your ID & permit on you. Reports say Pretti had neither.
I personally also find it concerning that this man Pretti was an ICU nurse, and yet he apparently spent his free time committing felonies. And yes, 18 U.S. Code § 111 bans anyone from interfering with federal operations or attempting to block or assault federal officers. CNN, which reported Pretti’s previous illegal interference in an immigration arrest, naturally would not like to use that fact as context.
The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution…Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib.
You can be certain there are a lot of details missing in between Pretti blowing his whistle and agents tackling him, but we shall have to wait for federal clarification.
Minnesota’s carry law statute says, “The holder of a permit to carry must have the permit card and a driver’s license, state identification card, or other government-issued photo identification in immediate possession at all times when carrying a pistol and must display the permit card and identification document upon lawful demand by a peace officer, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1. ”
#5
If Pretti quit his job as an ICU nurse before the incident, then he wasn't an "ICU nurse" as the media continue to report. Lies are the real in such reporting.
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[REGNUM] January 27, 1944 marks the day the siege of Leningrad was completely lifted. Since September 8, 1941, the city had been effectively cut off from the rest of the country, and its tragic siege lasted 872 days.
In German headquarters, the mission to besiege Leningrad was formulated as a program of annihilation. An order from Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Franz Halder, issued on August 28, 1941, to Army Group North stipulated: close the encirclement, destroy vital infrastructure (water supply, power supply), do not accept surrender, and do not allow people to leave the encircled city. It also outlined the role of Finnish troops, who were ordered to maintain the blockade on the Karelian Isthmus.
On September 22, 1941, the headquarters of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) issued directive number 1601/41 and titled “Die Zukunft der Stadt Petersburg” (“The Future of the City of Petersburg”).
The document set the task: the city, with a pre-war population of 3.2 million, was to be wiped off the face of the earth. The directive, verbatim, stated the following :
“The plan is to surround the city with a tight ring and, by shelling it with artillery of all calibers and continuous bombing from the air, raze it to the ground.
If, as a result of the situation that has arisen in the city, requests for surrender are made, they will be rejected, since the problems associated with the stay of the population in the city and its food supply cannot and should not be resolved by us.
In this war waged for the right to exist, we are not interested in preserving even a part of the population."
The mass death of residents of besieged Leningrad was not an “unforeseen consequence” of the military operation – the blockade was a planned act of genocide.
Let us recall that the legal concept of "genocide," although only formulated in 1948 in the relevant UN Convention, has retrospective force in Russian criminal law —that is, it applies to these crimes against humanity committed before 1948. Liability for genocide has no statute of limitations.
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Directive 1601/41 stated in plain text: “ After the defeat of Soviet Russia, the continued existence of this largest settlement is of no interest.”
One of the tools to end the existence of millions of people locked in the blockaded city, including the elderly, women, children, and the seriously ill, was to be hunger.
On November 20, 1941, Leningrad's leadership was forced to reduce bread rations: 250 grams for workers, 125 grams for employees and their families. For the city's defenders—the paramilitary guards, fire brigades, and extermination squads—300 grams.
On November 28, 1941, Leningrad ninth-grader Yura Ryabinkin wrote in his diary, admitting with horror to himself that he was not prepared to sacrifice his rations for the sake of his younger sister, Ira:
"Not only is there not a single piece of bread at home (they're now given 125 grams of bread per person per day), but not a single crumb of bread, nothing edible. And it's cold, my hands are freezing, my feet are freezing... Today, Mom will come and take Irina's bread card from me—oh well, I'll donate it to Ira, let her at least stay alive from this hellish [further illegible], and I'll somehow..."
Sixteen-year-old Yura didn't survive the first winter of the siege—even the date of his death in the archives is given as approximate, "no later than March 1942." His mother, Antonina Mikhailovna, and sister, Ira, were evacuated along the Road of Life to Vologda. Antonina died of exhaustion during the evacuation, right at the Vologda train station. Irina, who was given the last crumbs of food from the siege, survived.
Ryabinkin's siege notebooks, along with other diary accounts, are collected in " The Children's Book of War," published in 2015. Also included is Tanya Savicheva's diary, one of the most famous and horrific pieces of evidence that the siege was an act of genocide.
And in January 2026, on the 82nd anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad, excerpts from a captured document stored in the archives—a report from the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 50th Army Corps of the 18th Army of Army Group North— were published on the official FSB website:
“In the first days of February (1942), the absolute majority of mortality reached 20 thousand people per day.”
The Nazis expected that the population of the dying city would “systematically decline” not only due to hunger, but also due to epidemics.
But here the enemy miscalculated.
Thanks to the heroism of doctors and other medical workers, by April 1942 the mortality rate had been reduced to 1,000 people per day—this data is cited in the same report by the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Wehrmacht's 50th Army.
“The lack of spread of infection is explained essentially by the highly intensive work of Soviet institutions in terms of sanitary matters,” the German document noted.
Even after the blockade was broken in January 1943, the city remained under fire.
Operation Iskra ended on January 18, 1943, when the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts united and created a land corridor to Lake Ladoga 8-11 km wide, in addition to the Road of Life.
This saved hundreds of thousands of blockade survivors who were able to be saved by evacuation to the mainland, but until January 1944, Leningrad continued to live as a besieged fortress.
By January 30, 1944, during the Leningrad-Novgorod Operation, our troops broke through the German defenses. Troops of the Leningrad Front launched two attacks in converging directions, encircling and destroying part of the German force near Krasnoye Selo, southwest of Leningrad.
From January 31 to February 15, troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts defeated the Wehrmacht's Luga group and, reaching the Narva River, occupied a bridgehead on its left bank.
The threat to the Northern capital was lifted, the blockade became a fact of history.
Soviet prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials cited horrific figures: 630,000 people died in Leningrad between 1941 and 1944. But when, on October 20, 2022, the St. Petersburg City Court recognized the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators in Leningrad and the surrounding region as genocide against the peoples of the USSR, the case file recorded the deaths of at least 1,093,000 men, women, and children.
Some historians suggest that the actual death toll from the siege is even higher—around 1.5 million people. Of these, only 3% died from Nazi bombing and artillery fire; the remaining 97% died of starvation.
FINNS TO GERMANS: "ACHIEVE THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. PETERSBURG"
Germany was not alone in its responsibility for the planned campaign of extermination.
In the north, she had a partner who, through positions, decisions, and attempts to strike at Ladoga, supported the general plan: Leningrad must disappear.
On the Karelian Isthmus, the front line ran just 32 km from the outskirts of Leningrad, and the territory occupied by Finnish troops remained the very same “Finnish blockade link” that posed a threat even after January 27, 1944.
Finland's complicity in the Leningrad tragedy begins with documents and decisions from 1941. On June 25, 1941, a secret telegram from Finnish envoy Toivo Mikael Kivimäki arrived from Berlin to Helsinki : Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring discussed Finland's role in the blockade and siege of Leningrad and stated bluntly that "St. Petersburg... would be better destroyed."
On the same day, Finnish Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim issued the order to begin military operations against the USSR. This was a coordinated entry into the war, with the understanding that this would take place at the northern border.
On September 26, 1941, Kivimäki reported to his boss, the head of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rolf Johan Witting : it was necessary to “officially obtain from Germany that St. Petersburg be completely and finally destroyed.”
Finnish political leader, President Risto Ryti, discussing the future border of Suur Suomi – Greater Finland – and the German Reich, speaks of annexing the territory “up to the Neva”, adding that Leningrad “ should no longer exist as a major city”.
At the same time, the position of the German command is also recorded: the aforementioned directive on the “Future of the City of St. Petersburg” speaks not only of the intention to erase the city, but also of the fact that Finland has declared its “lack of interest” in its continued existence at the new border.
In 1942, Mannerheim attempted to contribute to the strangulation of the city by means of Lake Ladoga. In October, an attempt was made to capture Sukho Island, which protected transport along the Road of Life.
At the request of Mannerheim's headquarters, German and Italian boats and landing craft were added to the Finnish forces on Lake Ladoga. The operation failed on October 22, but the plan was the same: to cut off the artery that kept Leningrad alive, fed its people, and continued to work.
On April 3-4, 1944, approximately twenty German Junkers-88s attempted to break through to the city from the Finnish region of Joensuu. They were thwarted by airborne surveillance, warning, and communications (VNOS) and anti-aircraft fighters, but the fact itself demonstrates that the northern corridor remained operational.
It was only in the summer of 1944, after the Finnish leadership refused to accept the terms of the armistice and the start of the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Operation, that the real drive out of the Wehrmacht's Finnish allies by force began.
“WHEN I ENTERED THE BARRACKS, I THOUGHT: ‘LIVING ASHES’”
On the day Leningrad finally breathed a sigh of relief, on the other side of Europe the same death factory created by the Nazis and their allies continued to operate.
The siege and the camps, hunger and gas, the ring around the city and the barbed-wire fence around the barracks were all different forms of the same policy of the Third Reich. That's why January 27th stands side by side in historical memory as two dates.
On January 27, 1945, the Red Army entered the Auschwitz camp. This was the link in the liberation of Poland.
On January 12, strategic offensives began, and in the Vistula-Oder Operation, troops were supposed to defeat the enemy, reach the Oder and open the road to Berlin.
The armies of the left wing of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Ivan Konev, the 59th and 60th, approached the Auschwitz area.
There were battles in front of the camp: they liberated Monowice and Zaracz, fought their way to Neuberun, and then, on the morning of January 27, the battle for Auschwitz began.
The Germans counterattacked with infantry, supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers, but retreated. According to participants, command prohibited artillery fire on the camp area to avoid hitting the prisoners.
"We thought there was a military base behind the barbed wire. We asked for artillery, but they refused. They said there was a prisoner-of-war camp behind the barbed wire. They ordered us to avoid firefights," Ivan Martynushkin, a participant in the liberation of Auschwitz, recalled in a 2022 interview with the RuBaltic portal. In January 1945, he was a company commander in the 1087th Rifle Regiment of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front.
The priority of who entered first was not documented: the camp and its branches stretched for tens of kilometers, and several divisions operated simultaneously.
When the territory was occupied, about 9 thousand prisoners were found alive, driven to extreme exhaustion.
"We went into a barracks after the crematorium. I saw ashes there, and at the entrance, things and clothes... And when I entered the barracks, I thought, 'Living ashes.' It's impossible to describe the feeling—it's like a living person, but then again, it's not... Someone was sitting on the ground, chewing grass..." recalled Vladimir Chernikov, a soldier from the 1st Ukrainian Front.
Medical units were transported to Auschwitz, food was established, and later a mobile hospital specializing in the treatment of malnutrition arrived (by this time, the Soviet medical system had learned from the Leningrad experience how to properly treat malnourished people: for example, doctors discovered that starvation victims needed to be fed gradually).
At the same time, the SMERSH counterintelligence service began searching for the camp guards and leadership, collecting testimony, and the materials became part of the evidence base for the post-war trials.
The investigation by the ChGK (Extraordinary State Commission of the USSR for the Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes of the Nazi Invaders) recorded that out of 405,000 registered prisoners, 340,000 were killed, and the exact total number of victims is difficult to establish.
Civilians from all over Europe and 12 thousand Soviet prisoners of war languished in the concentration camp.
Fighters of dozens of nationalities served in the units of the 60th Army that liberated Auschwitz: the largest number were Russians and Ukrainians, but Belarusians, Tatars, Jews, Uzbeks, Poles fought alongside them…
REMEMBER FOREVER
Every year, on January 27, Russia remembers one of the most tragic and heroic events of the Great Patriotic War – the complete liberation of Leningrad from the siege.
In St. Petersburg, solemn mourning events are taking place: the laying of flowers and wreaths at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of residents and defenders of the city are buried.
The metronome, a symbol of life in besieged Leningrad, sounds, military bands perform, and fireworks ceremonies are held. Schools and museums hold courage lessons and exhibit archival photographs and diaries of those who survived the siege. Veterans are invited to memorial evenings where eyewitness recollections are heard, letters are read, and poetry is read.
In other Russian cities, candles are being lit in memory, and "Blockade Bread" campaigns are being held, reminding people of the resilience and strength of spirit of Leningrad.
On the same day, the world also bows its head to the victims of the death factory: January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops.
On the eve of the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, on January 26, Israeli Ambassador to Moscow Oded Yosef issued a statement declaring that his country and Russia are united in their desire to preserve the memory of the Red Army's role in crushing Nazi atrocities against Jews, Russians, and other nationalities. The diplomat presented a medal and a certificate of honor as "Righteous Among the Nations" to the grandson of Anastasia Sergeyeva, who sheltered Semyon Sherman, a Jew, during the Great Patriotic War.
Russian schools also hold remembrance lessons, screenings of documentaries, meetings with historians and human rights activists, and candle lighting at Holocaust memorials.
January 27th becomes a common day of historical remembrance for Russia, the heir to the heroic deeds of the Soviet people, regarding the atrocities of the Nazis and the genocide of the peoples of the USSR.
#4
Maybe if you had left the Finns alone rather than attacking them in 1940, it would not have been a problem.
Yeah but Stalin...
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#5
Re the trial transcript story the other day...
Their verdict was harsh, but just, thus:
"Were the Germans ungood, doubleplus?"
Said each murderous Red,
Be he living or dead,
"They were worse, comrade judges, than us!"
#6
Accursed, which came first, your Red wedding
Or Adolf and Joe's heavy petting?
Your personal treasons...
Or Party's malfeasance?
Please never forget... your forgetting.
The EU and India are not alone in looking to hedge their bets when it comes to the US – the free trade agreement (FTA) in Delhi was secured amid a flurry of countries striking deals and patching things up as they try to cope with global unpredictability.
The EU-India pact - the seventh trade deal India has completed recently - comes after Brussels signed a trade accord with South American trade bloc Mercosur earlier this month after 25 years of negotiation. Experts say the Trump factor helped speed that up too, though it's now facing legal challenges in Europe.
[InsightCrime] When Mexico’s drug cartels forced Colombian traffickers out of the US cocaine market, they seized control of the most coveted prize in the global drug trade. But the smartest traffickers soon began to turn elsewhere, to a market where the profits were higher, the risks were lower and the potential for growth was immense. They turned to Europe.
Today, Europe is arguably the most attractive cocaine market in the world, and its size and importance only continues to grow. This series, which is the product of field work and investigations over two years in more than 10 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, traces the evolution of the European cocaine trade and the Latin American and European criminal networks that have shaped it.
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[REGNUM] This is not the first time the hapless Midwestern state has found itself at the epicenter of political struggles dividing America.
It's enough to remember that it was here in May 2020 that George Floyd was killed, his death triggering a months-long wave of BLM pogroms. And now, for several months now, the civil war that has erupted in Minnesota has dominated the US political agenda.
In its current iteration, it all began with a major corruption scandal that erupted in Minnesota. The cause was fraudulent schemes by the Somali diaspora, which "runs" a large number of social institutions in the state.
Somalis have been imported to Minnesota en masse since the 1990s, and their community is one of the most influential. Even the state flag was recently changed to resemble the Somali flag.
Minnesota is the home of Ilhan Omar, a controversial legislator of Somali descent. She became famous for her defense of the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks, blaming Islamophobia in the United States for the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Omar was also briefly married to her brother, who needed to obtain American citizenship.
In recent years, the congresswoman has amassed a fortune of $30 million through various schemes. She openly lobbies for the interests of Somali clans.
Recent scandals have revealed that Somalis have been receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants to provide free lunches for children.
Moreover, they used subsidies to finance preschools and after-school programs, which were in reality empty. Lunches were also practically unavailable. The money, however, was spent, and it was quickly transferred from the United States to various African bank accounts.
Local authorities in Minnesota immediately came under attack.
It's a solidly Democratic state, and current Governor Tim Walz was Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate in 2024.
Democrats turned a blind eye to the antics of the Somali diaspora, desperately needing the migrants' votes. The Somalis, meanwhile, took advantage of their privileged status as untouchables, bribing jurors in court cases and stuffing ballots for their "favorite" candidates in elections at all levels in Minnesota.
When the scandal erupted, Walz found himself on the brink of losing power. The inept governor was forced to decline reelection in the November elections.
The White House sent a cavalry of federal agents to Minneapolis to conduct deportation raids and clear the city of migrants.
Since November, about three thousand illegal immigrants have been arrested and deported from the United States in Minneapolis.
But by mid-December, the Democrats had managed to shift from defense to offense and begin to turn the crisis to their advantage. The raids led to the outbreak of large-scale protests, attended by liberal activists and supporters of the left-wing radical movement Antifa, which Donald Trump has designated as a terrorist organization.
Various human rights NGOs across America are conducting training sessions on how to properly confront immigration enforcement. They are also funding protests.
This is managed by a network of organizations called the Arabella Network, which receives funding primarily from the Soros Foundations. For Alex Soros, heir to his father George's empire, fomenting a "color revolution" in the United States is a priority. To this end, he even cut many international programs, for example in Europe, by 40%.
Liberal NGOs are now spending hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize the situation within America.
In Minneapolis, special "shelter" areas have been set up, where protesters are handed identical posters criticizing Trump and the immigration police. They are also receiving first aid after clashes with federal officers, and are being given food and medicine.
The most active protesters tend to move across the country from one hot spot to another. They could have ravaged Los Angeles in the spring of 2025, and now they've reached Minneapolis.
Local authorities tend to turn a blind eye to the protesters' actions, and often even provide them with unofficial assistance.
In Minnesota, police are prohibited from assisting federal agents searching for illegal immigrants. And since mid-January, the National Guard has been deployed to the streets of Minneapolis, handing out coffee and doughnuts to protesters.
True, things haven't gotten to the famous "Maidan" cookies yet.
January was a turbulent month in the state—in just a few weeks, immigration agents managed to shoot dead two protesters who were interfering with deportation raids.
In both cases, the characterization of the tragedies that occurred varies greatly depending on who provides it.
The White House accuses protesters of attempting to attack federal officers. The first time, an attempt was made to knock down one of the agents, and the second time, a protester was found with a gun.
However, it's clear to everyone that the immigration police exceeded their authority. There was no real threat to the agents' lives. And by law, they have less authority than, for example, the police, who are generally authorized to use force in a very wide range of incidents.
Each murder is a new casus belli, fueling a wave of protests not only in Minnesota but also in other Democratic states.
While the scale and scope of what's happening can't be compared to the summer of 2020's pogroms, the Democratic Party's elite has already begun to react in the same way they did six years ago.
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and other prominent Democrats called on all Americans to support "peaceful" protests against deportation raids. Although they can hardly be called peaceful—in Minneapolis, for example, demonstrators have clashed with agents, smashed their vehicles, and stolen weapons and documents about upcoming operations.
Nevertheless, the Democrats began to win the war for public opinion.
In all recent polls, the majority of Americans have come to view deportation raids negatively.
Moreover, over 40% of US residents now support the complete abolition of immigration enforcement. For the left wing of the Democratic Party, this is becoming part of the electoral agenda – first for the congressional elections and then for the 2028 presidential race.
A rift is also emerging in the White House, with more and more Trump officials supporting the curtailment of unpopular raids.
However, the main lobbyists for the fight against immigration – US presidential adviser Stephen Miller and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem – want to continue destabilizing the situation in Minnesota.
For the latter, this is literally a pocket project. Noem is aiming to run for vice president against J.D. Vance in 2028,
Huh? I’m confused. Still, it’s a minor point…
and is currently trying to score political points.
The first serious consequences of the civil war in Minnesota could become apparent in February if Congressional Democrats block approval of the new US state budget. In that case, the US government will face another shutdown, and this time in a much more critical environment than, say, the fall of 2025.
Government paralysis will sharply weaken Trump's position both within America and abroad.
The entire coming year promises to be a period of mass protests. The summer of 2026 is sure to be turbulent, as the United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary and host the FIFA World Cup.
Trump will try to stage a "celebration of Americanism" and then head into the elections on a high note. Democrats, however, will disrupt this with demonstrations and riots.
The situation in America is extremely tense – any spark could lead to the start of a real “color revolution” with the most unpredictable consequences.
#2
George Floyd riots did $1B in damage but the stakes are much hirer now. Rioters could mistakenly torch what looks like an abandoned strip mall and could inadvertently destroy 60 Somali Learing Centers headquarter in one suite. That might be $1B right there.
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Minnesota Civil War: A 'Color Marxist Revolution' Is Being Stirred in the Homeland of BLM
Walz blinked; now his cops are protecting ICE agent hotels. Moreover, we have compromised the left's Signal networks, and they are freaking out. Finally, the dead communist uproar never really happened; it's already fading.
…The left is losing the battle of Mogadishu, MN, because Trump has stayed strong (If you think sending in Tom Homan is evidence of backing down, I cannot help you). So, the left has three choices:
1. Continue down the same path. This presents problems since the state (probably not local) cops are helping. Also, it's not getting the traction the left wants. Normies don't like the shooting of the dead commie, but they are not about to stop deportations because of it. Finally, normals will soon tire of the chaos - Trump acting reasonably undermined the left's "The problem is Trump and ICE exist" message.
2. Pull back and regroup for the next Current Thing. Alinsky taught that everything eventually becomes a drag. They could declare victory ("TRUMP BLINKED") and stop the organized chaos. Then they can get ready for another fight. But their own side will be mad. They want to TO SO SOMETHING ABOUT LITERAL NAZIS!
That leaves...
3. Direct violence. During the 60s-70s, the left launched a bloody low-scale insurrection with murders and bombings. Groups like the Weather Underground and the SLA fought the police; the government fought them like a criminal matter. This time, the left could again shoot cops, bomb things, and the like. But we just fought two insurgencies overseas and know how to map and disrupt networks. Killing ICE agents, while orgasmic for leftists, would turn the normals hard against the left and all the Trump admin to ruthlessly crush them.
Here's the problem. The left's logic demands escalation against its existential enemy. Direct actions (which we have already seen, but that have had minimal effect) are nearly inevitable. What does a low-grade insurgency look like? Check in next time right here...
#7
Trump said he "had a very good phone call" with Walz. He's always saying things like that but you gotta wonder what he meant. Could it be that Trump said something to put the fear in Walz?
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#8
Yeah and today's radicals might want to go back and read about exactly how things ended for the Symbianese Liberation Army. It was NOT cool.
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#9
I'm calling BS. The Maple Grove Police Chief Eric Werner is outside of Walz's control.
[TotalState-AuronMacIntyre] The sunshine conservative lives under the assumption that the American system more or less runs itself, that excesses can be corrected with minimal effort, and that power remains constrained by shared norms. Those assumptions no longer hold. The times that try men’s souls have returned, and the sunshine conservative is about to discover that comfort carries a cost.
For years, a bipartisan consensus reshaped the country through mass immigration. Call it conspiracy if you like, but incentives explain it better.
Democrats saw a reliable path to permanent power. Immigrants arrive without wealth, social capital, or political leverage. They gravitate toward the party that promises redistribution and protection. Every program — health care, housing, loans, benefits — tilts toward newcomers. Open borders grow government, entrench dependency, and expand the progressive patronage machine.
Republican incentives looked different but proved just as corrosive. Conservative voters opposed mass immigration, legal and illegal alike, but party leadership feared one thing above all else: being called racist.
Progressive programming successfully framed the idea of America as a homeland — run for the benefit of its people — as morally suspect. Any attempt to articulate national interest became "nativism." Chamber of Commerce Republicans exploited that fear, importing millions of workers willing to accept suppressed wages while silencing critics through ritual denunciation.
While the country changed, conservatives largely stood aside. The transformation unsettled them, but lawn care got cheaper and food delivery faster. The sunshine conservative preferred comfort to confrontation. Political activism felt vulgar. Winners, after all, make money and buy boats.
[Fox] The team plans to recruit 300 people with persistent symptoms from TBI or concussion for a randomized controlled trial in 2026, with a focus on first responders, veterans and active-duty service members.
#4
Interesting article, Skid. I woulda called BS off the cuff (like the red light baseball caps for hair growth) but this actually seems to be legit, done with MRIs and Placebo checks
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#5
Actually Frank if you get the right red hat lights the do work. A cousin of mine has had her hair grow back and thicker.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
