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2026-01-27 Government Corruption
Current ground coordination of anti-ICE activities appears to include leadership within Minneapolis PD, and two more analyses of connections and funding
Via Clarice Feldman’s Facebook page
SURVEILLANCE UPDATE- January 26, 2026; 1300 ET (Minneapolis, Minnesota only)
Latest findings are EXTREMELY disturbing and require a bit of very important background. To the TLDR crowd, keep scrolling. Also, the following is a responsibly edited version (to preserve investigative integrity and OPSEC) of our findings submitted to Federal LE for their evaluation and action.

Please read carefully and share widely.

General Summary of Findings: Current ground coordination of anti-ICE activities appears to include leadership within Minneapolis PD (traced back to 2017 under chief Medaria ARRADONDO, now under Brian O’HARA since 2022), staff within Hennepin County DAs office (traced back to January 2020 under DA Michael FREEMAN, now under DA Mary MORIARITY). As previously noted, communications by members of the office of Mayor FREY exist.

Higher-level operations and support appears to originate and communications traced to from the offices of Gov. Tim WALZ, Lt. Gov. FLANAGAN, state reps, and unsurprisingly, the constituent office of Ilhan OMAR. Specifically, financing for ground operations appears to be under the direction of the above, which is also connected to several Somali Hawala locations, although disrupted and in disarray (H/T @nickshirleyy).

The present operational infrastructure being used to attack ICE is a much more refined version of what was deployed in the 2020 “summer of love.”

Currently, operational assets working for IPA and child groups have been expanded into nearly every local, county and state government office in MN, most heavily within the Twin Cities. (For important background, see: https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2015543791818621192)
Identification of ICE agents via DMV access (their primary method) is not only illegal, but particularly disturbing.

Consider:
On July 18, 1991, Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, actress on TV sitcom My Sister Sam, was shot in the face at her apartment by a deranged fan, Robert John Bardo. He paid a PI $250 who accessed DMV records to obtain her current address. Bardo then went to her apartment and fatally shot Ms. Schaeffer.

Consequently, congress passed the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), restricting access to DMV databases.

Presently, it appears that anti-ICE operatives are using sworn LE officials within two-(2) LE agencies having access to restricted DMV databases to publish the IDs of ICE officers within signal chat groups. Note that every inquiry is recorded and maintained within each LE agency. FED LE has access to these records.

Perhaps most importantly, the role of the Signal chats, while vital to anti-ICE ground response, is only the (now) visible portion (H/T @camhigby) of a much deeper and more sophisticated operational structure. Behind the chat groups exists inaccessible (to us) encrypted communications appearing to exist within local and state LE agencies, each feeding restricted information to anti-ICE ground operators. Certain local media is deeply entrenched as well, working with the PIOs of LE.

To avoid getting too far into the weeds and unnecessary detail, here’s the bottom line: Our surveillance confirmed that that nearly all anti-ICE operations are not just being facilitated by local, county, and state offices, but are being controlled and directed by them.

Ground level operations are being managed (in part) through the “Defend the 612”organization. Primary HIGHER-LEVEL control groups include members of “The 50501 Movement,” which has infiltrated higher offices. Additionally, interstate operational support is also being provided by several Muslim organizations (one very specifically from Newark, NJ – connect the PD dots). Several local Islamic centers are involved with sanctuary support.

Distribution of “riot supplies” can be traced to certain city centers/offices, at least one church, and one Islamic center within Minneapolis city limits.

The objectives are MUCH GREATER than organized resistance against ICE, and is perhaps the most blatant display of an insurrection in our nation’s history since the Civil War.

By definition, many principal actors involved can be legally labeled “Unlawful Enemy Combatants.”

The pressure applied by recent public disclosures disrupted operations at all levels. The use of encrypted LE channels MUST be investigated by FED LE.
ALL ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE FINDINGS were properly submitted to FED LE prior to this update.

Hopefully, this update makes sense despite the necessary redactions of actual submissions to FED LE.

Courtesy of Jairong, a very detailed dive into the data — based on the DefiyantlyFree tweet in Clarice Feldman’s post, above. A taste:
It Feels Like a Communist Revolution Because It Is: The International Network Behind MN
[InsurrectionBarbie] What we’re witnessing on American streets isn’t grassroots activism. It’s not spontaneous protest. It’s not even traditional left-wing organizing.

It’s actual communism—funded by Shanghai, coordinated internationally, and deployed strategically across American cities.

And it didn’t take over our streets until after 2020.

THE POST-2020 EXPLOSION
Something changed after the summer of 2020. The tactics got sharper. The coordination got tighter. The funding got bigger.

Before 2020: Scattered protests. Local organizing. Predictable left-wing activism.

After 2020: Synchronized nationwide mobilizations. Identical tactics in dozens of cities. Rapid-response networks that deploy within hours. Professional-grade coordination that would make any military commander jealous. The difference? A Shanghai-based billionaire with documented Chinese Communist Party ties poured over $275 million into an international network that openly states its mission is to fight "without intervention of imperialist forces of the United States."
I thought the writer was going to go for the usual boring MUH SOROS DID IT! but she veered off at the last minute to go for China instead. Whew! It's not well-known but the Nazis and Nationalist Chinese were allies.
I didn’t know that.
Hence "the Good German" Rabe.
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Leaked databases show the Iranian connections.
There it is, Iran, it's always Iran. If we had a fucking CIA capable of overthrowing governments like it used to in Central America in the 80s we wouldn't have this Iran problem still.

GWB let it fester when he had the perfect opportunity after Iraq. Troops in theater, massive support from the US public, all gone.

Now it's our problem. Pay me now or pay me later.


Courtesy of NoMoreBS:
Monday Kunstler Gives Detailed Analysis On The Players and Structure Behind the MN Riots
Isn’t it obvious by now that the seditious mischief roiling Minneapolis is some kind of a demonstration project for a China-backed overthrow of the whole country? This is not hard. And, apparently, the Democratic Party is either a willing accomplice or a hostage in thrall to its captor — like Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped and bamboozled by psychotic Maoist maniacs who styled themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army, until she was happily making bombs and robbing banks with them (and ended up in prison).

It is well understood that these ICE-Out riots are organized and funded by a network created by one Neville Roy Singham
…not Singh, as I was saying yesterday. Oh well, he’s the one I meant...
(American, b. 1954), now based in Shanghai. Singham funds the Party for Socialism and Liberation, The Peoples’ Forum, Code Pink, the United Community Fund and a web of other money laundries that supply all the logistics for Lefty-left mobs going back to the George Floyd / BLM operations of 2020 and including the pro-Palestinian uproars of 2024.

Singham’s father, Archibald, was a Sri Lankan poly-sci prof at Brooklyn College, specializing in Third World revolution; his mother was a Cuban-born Marxist. Singham founded a software development company called Thoughtworks in 1993, and sold it to a London-based private equity firm, Apax, for $785-million in 2017, after which he devoted himself to the cause of “dismantling capitalism,” and destroying the USA. If ever there was a James Bond villain come to life, it’s Neville Roy Singham.



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Posted by badanov 2026-01-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1850 views ]  Top
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1 The link in the headline goes to a post from November. I can't find the quoted material on her FB page.
Posted by EMS Artifact  2026-01-27 00:22||   2026-01-27 00:22|| Front Page Top

2 Try it now
Posted by badanov 2026-01-27 00:56||   2026-01-27 00:56|| Front Page Top

3 Link attempt
Posted by Frank G 2026-01-27 01:04||   2026-01-27 01:04|| Front Page Top

4 The Clarice Feldman headline works for me. As do the other two pieces stacked under it.

Lots to think about.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-27 01:24||   2026-01-27 01:24|| Front Page Top

5 Check out this X post:
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.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2026-01-27 03:27||   2026-01-27 03:27|| Front Page Top

6 
The DOJ had better take their thumb out dark places and start making high level arrests. Otherwise it will turn red and ugly.
Posted by NN2N1 2026-01-27 03:38||   2026-01-27 03:38|| Front Page Top

7 "It's not well-known but the Nazis and Nationalist Chinese were allies."

That started to change in 1936, when then ambassador at large Ribbentrop signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan.

After the Rape of Nanjing Germany fully pivoted to Japan and severed relationship with the Kuomintang.
Posted by European Conservative 2026-01-27 05:44||   2026-01-27 05:44|| Front Page Top

8 Installing DEI hires at the head of city police departments was not about pronouns.
Posted by Super Hose 2026-01-27 06:46||   2026-01-27 06:46|| Front Page Top

9 Installing DEI hires at the head of city police departments was not about pronouns.

A recruitment process that has been ongoing since the early 1970's. Change will be very difficult.
Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-27 06:50||   2026-01-27 06:50|| Front Page Top

10 ^You gotta start with teachers' colleges.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-01-27 07:32||   2026-01-27 07:32|| Front Page Top

11 All you need to do is compromise the Internal Affairs Department and the rest is easy peasy.
Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2026-01-27 07:32||   2026-01-27 07:32|| Front Page Top

12 DataRepublican on the job
Posted by Mercutio 2026-01-27 09:49||   2026-01-27 09:49|| Front Page Top

13 It's not well-known but the Nazis and Nationalist Chinese were allies.
During the post-WW1 era the Chinese Warlords needed military weapons and the German Weimar Republic was happy to supply them. The various League of Nations attempt at arms embargoes of China and the German desire to keep their arms industry from withering under Versailles restrictions made them natural partners.

TL/DR: It is far more nuanced than Nazi-Kuomintang 'alliance'.
Posted by magpie 2026-01-27 09:58||   2026-01-27 09:58|| Front Page Top

14 FBI investigating Minnesota anti-ICE Signal group chats, Patel says
Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-27 11:33||   2026-01-27 11:33|| Front Page Top

15 I imagined Tevia singing "Sedition, sedition!"

Posted by Melancholic 2026-01-27 15:10||   2026-01-27 15:10|| Front Page Top

16  The DOJ had better take their thumb out dark places and start making high level arrests. Otherwise it will turn red and ugly.

Arrests? We can’t have any arrests until we investigate! And no one is above the law! - Barbi Bondi

What a useless waste of oxygen she is! J6 these MoFo’s now!
Posted by Gerthudion Bucket9415 2026-01-27 20:27||   2026-01-27 20:27|| Front Page Top

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