Netanyahu: No reconstruction of Gaza without demilitarization, no Turkish or Qatari soldiers in Gaza

By Jihad Watch

WATCH: Netanyahu: No reconstruction of Gaza without demilitarization, no Turkish or Qatari soldiers in Gaza

Netanyahu may get some pushback on this from the man who wants the Nobel Peace Prize above all other things, and who has forgotten what little he once seemed to know about the global jihad.

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Trump’s Armada Has Now Been Assembled

By Jihad Watch

Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran over its killing of protesters, but the killing has gone on, albeit at a slower pace than on January 8 and 9, when the massacre in city streets across Iran was at its height. After the first two weeks of protests and the mass killing of protestors. Trump issued his call for the protests to continue and assured those protesters that “HELP IS ON THE WAY!”

But the killings continued, albeit at a slower pace, and instead of acting as he had threatened to do, Trump decided to declare that he had been informed that the killing had stopped and so there was no longer any need for the U.S. to take action. He declared he was satisfied that he had stopped the killing of protesters, which, of course, he had not done. Trump waxes and wanes, he says one thing and then its opposite, this mercurial and unpredictable man, and he has done so especially in his statements about Iran. He utters menacing threats, pretends the threats have worked, and therefore he no longer feels any need to make his threats a reality. The killings of protesters, though the number of victims has decreased, are continuing.

Now he has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, and several other ships in the carrier group as well, from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, where another carrier group headed by the USS Ford, is already stationed. Their mere presence is supposed to overawe the Iranian leaders and cause the regime to end its nuclear program, and hand over to the Americans the 400 kg. of uranium Tehran has enriched to a just-below-weapons-grade purity of 60%. “Russia, Turkey seeking US-Iran talks to stave off conflict amid Trump’s threats,” Times of Israel, January 29, 2026:

…Trump has threatened military intervention against Iran over its crackdown on protests, which rights groups say killed thousands. However, rhetoric on the issue has shifted in recent days so that the threat of military action is hanging over Tehran unless it returns to the talks on the issue of its contentious nuclear program.

A US naval strike group arrived in Middle East waters on Monday with Trump warning it was “ready, willing and able” to hit Iran “if necessary.”

The Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been talking with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, but said Wednesday: “There was no contact between me and Witkoff in recent days and no request for negotiations was made from us. Our stance is clear, negotiations don’t go along with threats and talks can only take place when there are no longer menaces and excessive demands.”

Aragchi’s remarks do not suggest Iran is ready to negotiate with the US over its nuclear program. Since Trump has so often in the past made ALL-CAPS threats, and then not followed through, why should the Iranians take the latest threat seriously?

Meanwhile, the latest figures on those killed and wounded in Iran, that are being reported by both European news programs and by Iranians in exile, are 36,500 killed and 330,000 wounded.

With the arrival in the Gulf region of the USS Abraham Lincoln, adding more airplanes to those that previously arrived on the USS Gerald Ford, Trump does indeed have a powerful armada with which to harm the Islamic Republic. There are many ways Trump’s threat can be carried out against the Islamic Republic. It could take the form of airstrikes on the senior Iranian leadership. These airstrikes could take out the supreme leader, his son Mojtaba, a dozen more of the highest-ranking clerics, as well as the senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Basiji, and the Iranian army. The IRGC troops could also be hit, killing thousands of them. The Americans could also launch attacks on those nuclear facilities that Iran has been trying to rebuild since the IDF devastated them in the 12-Day War last June, that also included a one-day attack by American B-2s that dropped 30,000 pound bunker-buster bombs on nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and in Isfahan.

The “Armada”— consisting of the USS Gerald Ford, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and a dozen smaller vessels — could also park itself in the Persian Gulf right outside the port of Bandar Abbas, on the northern shore of the Strait of Hormuz, in order to enforce a total blockade on Iranian oil exports, and on any imports headed for Iran. This would be a devastating final blow to the Iranian economy.

Trump now has so many ways to rattle the cages, to flutter the dovecotes, to scare the supreme leader into burrowing deeper in his underground hideout, while the protesters can return in force to Iranian cities, confident of American support should more bombing be deemed necessary to stop the killings in the streets, in order to pull down the already tottering pillars of the Islamic Republic without — please note — the need for a single American soldier to be on the ground in Iran.

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Trump Threatens Iran: ‘Next Attack Will Be Far Worse’

By The Daily Signal

President Donald Trump issued a warning to the Iranian regime, reminding the leaders of past U.S. strikes on Iran and threatening that the “next attack will be far worse” if the regime refuses negotiations over its nuclear program.

Trump reiterated his desire to strike a deal with Iran in a Truth Social post Wednesday, calling on the regime to ‘quickly ‘Come to the Table’ and negotiate a fair and equitable deal — NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS — one that is good for all parties.”

“Time is running out, it is truly of the essence,” Trump said. “As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again.”

The U.S. struck Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, Iran’s three key nuclear facilities, last June during Operation Midnight Hammer, significantly damaging Iran’s nuclear program.

Trump’s warning comes two days after the president told Axios in an exclusive interview that while the situation in Iran is “in flux,” he believes the regime does want to make a deal.

Trump was close to ordering a strike on Iran earlier in January, Axios reports, but chose to wait until more U.S. military assets arrived in the region, which they now have.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is heading the “massive Armada,” according to the president, who added that the fleet is larger “than that sent to Venezuela.”

Trump moved a large U.S. military naval presence toward Venezuela before capturing dictator Nicolás Maduro and bringing him to New York to stand trial.

“Like with Venezuela, it is ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary,” Trump said of the fleet.

Iranians began protesting in the streets against the regime at the end of December. The protests are driven by dissatisfaction over Iran’s government, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and frustration over the nation’s struggling economy.

Trump has previously threatened to act against Iran if the regime killed civilian protesters. Estimates on the number of protesters killed range anywhere from 6,000 to more than 30,000.

An accurate death toll has not been confirmed due to limited information coming out of Iran during regime-imposed internet blackouts.

On Jan. 13, Trump encouraged Iranians to “keep protesting,” telling them, “Help is on its way.”

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Minneapolis Mayhem, ICE Updates, and More

By Family Research Council

President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda has arrested headlines for over a year, but violent riots and a series of fatal shootings have intensified scrutiny over immigration raids in Minneapolis. Earlier this month, 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent when she struck the agent with her vehicle after impeding enforcement operations. Just last week, 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents when he showed up armed to protest immigration enforcement operations and involved himself in a physical altercation with law enforcement. Subsequently, the president deployed Border Czar and former ICE chief Tom Homan to Minneapolis to take control of operations. Here are the latest updates.

‘Noem, Go Home?’

In the wake of the violence in Minneapolis, multiple Democratic legislators have called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign, threatening to impeach her if she does not leave of her own volition. Now, Republicans are joining Democrats in clamoring for Noem’s ouster. According to Fox News, frequent Trump critics Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) have joined Democrats in calling on the president to fire Noem. “I think the President needs to look at who he has in place as the Secretary of Homeland Security. I would not support her again,” Murkowski said, referring to her vote to confirm Noem, “and I think it probably is time for her to step down.”

Tillis faulted Noem and, more broadly, the Trump administration, especially White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, for stalling a partly-bipartisan amnesty push for illegal immigrants. “I don’t know if it’s lost yet, but if it is an opportunity lost, I put it squarely on the shoulders of people like Noem and Stephen Miller,” Tillis said. Referring to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) handling of Pretti’s death, he added, “Those two people told the president, before they even had any incident report whatsoever, that the person who died was a terrorist. I mean, that is amateur hour at its worst.”

Following Pretti’s death, Noem referred to him as a “domestic terrorist” and official DHS channels, citing the handgun and multiple magazines Pretti brought with him when interfering with federal law enforcement, claimed that he sought to “massacre” federal agents. The characterization has been criticized as premature and has reportedly inspired some frustration within DHS’s ranks, particularly among ICE agents, who fear that they are being blamed for some of the more aggressive riot control tactics used by USBP.

The president has asserted that he will not ask Noem to resign, but he did reportedly question his Homeland Security Secretary in a two-hour Oval Office meeting Tuesday. According to The New York Times, Noem and her top advisor, former Trump campaign official Corey Lewandowski, met with the president, who was joined by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Communications Director Steven Cheung, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, to discuss the optics surrounding Pretti’s death and Noem’s response. The New York Times reported that no indication was given that either Noem or Lewandowski was at risk of losing their jobs.

Notably absent from the Oval Office meeting was Miller, the chief architect of Trump’s immigration policy over the past decade and one of the president’s closest and longest-serving allies. According to Axios, Noem faults Miller for DHS’s response to Pretti’s death, with the Homeland Security Secretary saying that Miller told her to label Pretti a domestic terrorist and a threat to federal law enforcement personnel. “Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,” Axios quoted Noem as saying. Unnamed sources reported that Miller “heard ‘gun’ and knew what the narrative would be: Pretti came to ‘massacre’ cops,” but that the USBP agents involved in the shooting were quick to shut up and lawyer up, impeding the White House’s fact-finding in the matter.

However, other sources faulted USBP Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino for the miscommunication. “Bovino should be blamed,” one unnamed source told Axios, “not Stephen.” According to Miller and several other sources, Bovino and USBP quickly relayed potentially incorrect or incomplete information immediately following Pretti’s death, resulting in DHS’s controversial messaging. “The initial statement from DHS was based on reports from CBP on the ground,” Miller told the New York Post. “Additionally, the White House provided clear guidance to DHS that the extra personnel that had been sent to Minnesota for force protection should be used for conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors,” he noted. “We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol.”

Not a Pretti Picture

More information is emerging surrounding the controversial shooting of Pretti. A preliminary DHS review of the incident found that Pretti and another rioter were physically obstructing federal agents, despite being told multiple times to move out of the way. Pretti resisted arrest and struggled with USBP agents, when one agent shouted that Pretti had a gun, a loaded Sig Sauer handgun. Shortly afterwards, at least two federal agents began firing at Pretti, discharging roughly a dozen times. It was not until after Pretti had been shot that another agent announced that he had taken Pretti’s weapon from him. USBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility Investigative Operations Directorate also confirmed that the agents involved were wearing bodycams and that footage has been collected.

While many have touted Pretti’s credentials as a Veterans Affairs nurse, CNN reported that Pretti was already “known” to federal agents due to interfering in previous operations, including a physical altercation in which his rib was broken, just a week before he continued inserting himself into law enforcement operations and was killed. According to a Fox News report, Pretti was a member of an anti-ICE organization that used complex communications and tracking networks to plan obstructions to law enforcement operations. Pretti and others were already waiting for federal agents at the site where Pretti was killed. Pretti’s ex-wife confirmed that he had also been involved in the violent riots that rocked Minneapolis in 2020, following the death of George Floyd.

The president has committed to a thorough investigation of the events surrounding Pretti’s death. “We’re doing a big investigation. I want to see the investigation. I’m going to be watching over it. I want to see it myself,” he told reporters Tuesday. “I love all of our people. I love his family, and it’s a very sad situation,” he continued, advising anti-ICE activists not to bring guns to confrontations with federal law enforcement.

Lives on the Line

Pretti’s armed altercation with federal law enforcement agents and subsequent death comes in the midst of increased violence and threats against ICE personnel and other federal agents. According to a Breitbart News analysis, recent months have seen an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE agents, including threats against their families, and a 1,300% increase in violent assaults against ICE agents. Breitbart quoted a voice message left on an agent’s phone as an example of the threats made against law enforcement personnel:

“I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go in your life happens. I hope you have the most miserable life. I hope you get hit by a bus. I hope you’re paralyzed, and your wife leaves you, and starts getting [expletive] by [other men] every day. You are a traitor to the American people, to the values that made our country. You should kill yourself. You’re [expletive] disgusting.”

According to the Washington Examiner, DHS is currently investigating the case of a woman who attempted multiple times to purchase firearms “to protect herself from ICE Agents, and also to kill ICE Agents.” In another instance, Virginia Commonwealth University fired a nurse for a series of social media posts advising anti-ICE activists to use paralytic drugs and poison ivy brews against ICE agents and encouraging single women to use dating apps to meet ICE agents and then poison their drinks.

DHS Assistant Secretary for Communications Tricia McLaughlin partly faulted Democrats for the rise in hostility, citing the dehumanizing rhetoric they use against federal law enforcement officers. “Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she warned. “Every day there are more assaults, more vehicle-ramming attacks, more attempts to kill our officers.”

Twin Cities Stalemate?

After having been deployed to Minneapolis this week, Homan has already begun negotiating with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) to ensure that immigration enforcement operations can continue with as little conflict as possible, pressuring the two Democrats to end their “sanctuary” policies and cooperate with ICE. “We all agree that we need to support our law enforcement officers and get criminals off the streets. While we don’t agree on everything, these meetings were a productive starting point and I look forward to more conversations with key stakeholders in the days ahead,” Homan reported Tuesday evening of his meetings with Walz and Frey. “President Trump has been clear: he wants American cities to be safe and secure for law-abiding residents — and they will be.”

Walz is evidently considering cooperating with the Trump administration, much to the outrage of his constituents. Anti-ICE activists stormed the Minnesota state capitol building Tuesday and staged a mass protest outside Walz’s office, chanting slogans such as, “ICE out now!” and “Do your job!” The governor had met with Homan Tuesday afternoon and had spoken with Trump previously, in what the president characterized as “productive.” He later quipped, “It couldn’t have been a nicer conversation. It’s hard to believe that’s the same guy I watch on TV or the debate not doing so well, because we had a reasonable and good conversation. If you believe it, he’d like to get this over with!”

In an interview following his meeting with Homan, Walz classified the Border Czar as “a professional,” which he said was not his experience of Noem and Bovino. “The tone was different, there was a tone shift,” he said of his talk with the Trump immigration official. While insisting that he would still like to see ICE leave Minnesota altogether, Walz admitted, “It was progress. Look, I never got a call from Bovino or Noem, nothing.” However, the governor still faulted federal operations for unrest in Minneapolis, rather than his own actions and rhetoric. “They started this fire.”

Frey also spoke with Homan, but has continued to reject the administration’s requests to end “sanctuary” policies. “Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, ‘Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws,’” the president reported in a Truth Social post Wednesday morning. “This is after having had a very good conversation with him. Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!”

Appearing on “Washington Watch” Tuesday night, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) stressed the damage done by Democrats’ anti-law enforcement rhetoric, in addition to the importance for Republicans to follow through on the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. “All the other jurisdictions around the country where ICE is doing that job, they have cooperation from local officials, so there are no problems,” Harris observed. “The problems are when you have a governor and a mayor openly telling people in Minnesota to go against the Constitution, go against the ability of the federal government to enforce immigration law,” he continued. “You have a rogue governor and a rogue mayor, that’s the problem in Minnesota.”

“Republicans were elected to the majorities with President Trump to close the border and to begin the deportation of the 10 to 12 million people who crossed the border illegally under the Biden administration. We have to get that done,” Harris emphasized. “Unless you think that the 10 to 12 million people who came in illegally under the Biden administration should be invited to stay forever, you need ICE.”

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It is Islam

By Amil Imani

For decades, I have argued that the enemy is Islam without adjectives, Islam is “pure and simple.” Adjectives such as “extremist,” “radical,” “moderate,” “fundamentalist,” “moderate,” “political,” and “Islamist” mislead the blind and the ignorant.

The naive and wishful-thinking humanists, liberals, as well as soft-headed Jews, Christians, and idiotic atheists succumb to their fears and previous follies regarding the savagery intrinsic in Islamic scriptures and history, recognized by former Muslims who have somehow overcome their misconceptions about the most vicious and dangerous enemy of civilization and mankind.

A revealing book on the subject is Robert Reilly’s “The Closing of the Islamic Mind.”

This purely scholarly work should be supplemented by the work of theologian George Weigel, “Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism.”

Terms such as “Political Islam,” “Radical Islam, “or Militant Islam are the contributions of Useful Idiots. These terms do not even exist in the native parlance of Islam simply because they are redundant. Islam is a radical political movement by its very nature and, according to its charter, the Quran.

It is the Useful Idiot who sanitizes Islam and misguides the populace by saying that “real Islam” constitutes the main body of the religion and that this main body is non-political and moderate.

Regrettably, a large segment of the population goes along with these nonsensical euphemisms depicting Islam because it prefers to believe them. It is less threatening to think that only a hijacked small segment of Islam is radical or politically driven and that the main body of Islam is indeed moderate and non-political.

Islam is not a religion. It is a political ideology. In Islam, the mosque and State are the same—the mosque is the State. This arrangement goes back to the days of Muhammad himself. Islam is also radical in the extreme. Even “moderate” Islam is radical in its beliefs and its deeds. Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire-bound and deserve to be maltreated compared to believers.

Many people wonder why Islam is blossoming in the US! They are bewildered as to why Democrats back Islamic ideology, honor their holidays and customs, and promote it as the religion of peace, knowing that Islam is not a religion of peace. In fact, it is an ideology of war. The answer is quite simple: The Democrat Party stands with anyone who hates America, and the Republican Party.

History has proven that once Muslims have the majority, they will institute sharia law and adopt their own legal system—a government within a government.

The Democrat Party has shown by both words and actions that they despise the US Constitution. Regarding the support of Muslims, they will not hesitate to hold the Bill of Rights over anyone who dares to accuse Islam and Muslims of wrongdoing. While crime and threats skyrocket, Islamized citizens will ignore the wrongdoing. They will look the other way for fear of retribution, honor killings, and punishments from those who uphold the Islamic requirement to seek revenge on anyone who dishonors or disagrees with Islam.

The Democrat Party has descended into nihilism, which describes the present State of America. This is a logical consequence of America’s abandonment of its Declaration of Independence, which she never really understood. Which, unknown even to eminent scholars, represent a synthesis of classical and modern political science, which is elaborated in my masterwork “A Judeo-Scientific Guide for the Perplexed.”

The primary target of the Left is the Bible of Israel. The Bible says that God creates nations and individuals, and the Left opposes our country and our individualism. Do you fathom this? This does not require a lengthy discourse.

“By each passing day, the death of Western Civilization — specifically, the death of Europe, will not have been a suicide, but a cold-blooded, premeditated murder, carried out by the Western ruling oligarchy.”

In plain language, Western Europe has been betrayed by the very people entrusted with its protection and stewardship — its political leaders and their enablers. Like former EU President Jean-Claude Juncker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and many others.

When the wolf gets into the fold and begins terrorizing the sheep and preying upon them, who is most at fault — the wolf or the shepherd who was supposed to guard the flock? Although his fangs may be bloody, the wolf is only being what he is — a predator. On the other hand, the shepherd has failed in his duty to protect the flock.

In the case of Europe, the “shepherds” have done much, much worse than fail through negligence. They have actively aided and abetted the enemy and let them into the heart of Europe to prey upon its native peoples.

The Muslims who now terrorize Europe must be dealt with like the rabid dogs they are — but a great evil has been done, and the job will not be done until the traitorous leaders of old Europe have been brought to justice and pay the price for their enormous betrayal. They have the blood of innocents on their hands – men, women, and children alike.

In the Germany of the 1930s, very few people were Nazis, and most Germans dismissed them as a bunch of hotheaded fools. Before long, the hotheaded few cowed the dismissive masses, resulting in millions losing their lives.

America: stay awake. It has started to happen here, too. Time is of the essence.

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Govt. Shutdown Risk Spikes As Senate Democrats Vow To Tank Funding Package

By Therese Boudreaux

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The Revolution Is On in Minnesota

By Center For Security Policy

It’s a LARP…until it’s not.

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, who was shot after hitting an ICE officer with her car according to video footage, have many asking the question, “What exactly do these anti-ICE activists think they are doing?”

The seemingly incomprehensible decision by Good, a mother with stuffed animals in the glove box of the vehicle she used to obstruct the enforcement of federal law, is leaving people scratching their heads. Reporting that Good became an activist through a peer group at her child’s progressive, social justice-focused charter school has not provided many answers. Media outlets like CNN have sought to demonstrate that the work Good was involved in was more like a side project of the local Parent Teacher Association than domestic terrorism.

But reality was something else.

As the New York Post reported, Renee Good and her significant other were actively involved with the organization Minnesota ICE Watch, and regularly attended trainings with the group. The group on social media openly promotes a manual on de-arrest tactics, a term used by activists that can include assaulting law enforcement officers to allow fellow activists time to escape. These tactics aren’t merely civil disobedience, where a protestor calmly accepts being arrested to highlight a perceived injustice. These are direct action tactics designed to impede and subvert law enforcement, including through the use of physical force.

The manual was produced by Sprout Distro, a self-described “anarchist zine distro.” A distro is a DIY print shop that produces and distributes zines, which are publications that typically focus on a subcultural topic that can be adapted for easy dissemination. Distros are popular in anarchist circles for distributing ideological tracts, strategy discussions, and technical manuals for everything from riot tactics and operational security methods to criminal activities ranging from vandalism to arson to derailing a train.

Minnesota Ice Watch previously distributed a zine entitled “Building a Midwest Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement,” which called for using a network of zine distros to build a revolutionary movement to “enable collective groups of people that can combat class enemies in a way that is militant, uncompromising, and continues to bring people into the struggle.”

The group later collaborated with the pro-antifa website CrimethInc. to celebrate an ICE vehicle being destroyed by rioters and its contents, including a rifle and ammunition, being looted. CrimethInc. is one of the most active anarchist websites and published an after-action report on the siege and burning of the Minneapolis third police precinct in 2020.

While the media has portrayed Minnesota ICE Watch as a kind of community service project, it’s really about creating a pipeline to transform progressive soccer moms into anarchist revolutionaries, fulfilling its role to “bring people into the struggle” to wage militant direct action.

And that is how one must understand these growing attacks on ICE officers. They aren’t intended as protests against a policy with which the protestors disagree, and which they hope to see reversed through legal means. Organizers view them instead as a way to draw normal Americans into joining a revolution.

That effort has gone increasingly mainstream. New York City-based Antifa militant and sometimes freelance journalist Talia Ben-Ora (aka Talia Jane) highlighted pundit Rachel Maddow sharing a CrimethInc. article entitled “Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities.”

The piece is the third in a series on how to organize Ice Watch groups that previously featured efforts in Los Angeles and Chicago. It notes that Good was a member of this advanced “rapid response network” that utilized surveillance and countersurveillance techniques, together with encrypted phone apps, to spread information about ICE, manage databases of suspected ICE vehicle IDs, and summon swarms of individuals ready to target ICE. The authors write:

Each chunk of the city (Southside, Uptown, Whittier, and so on) has rotating shifts of dispatchers, who admin a running Signal call throughout operational hours. Sometimes, multiple dispatchers overlap to split up the extra tasks of watching the chat, relaying reports to other channels, and checking license plates. Dispatch also helps people evenly distribute patrols across an area, takes notes, and assists people through confrontations. All patrollers in cars and on foot and [sic] stay on the call throughout their patrol. There is a constant flow of information, allowing other cars to decide whether they are well-positioned to join in, take over tailing the car, or continue searching for additional vehicles.

“Dispatchers.” Foot and vehicle patrols running rotating surveillance. Running license plates of suspicious vehicles through a database. If all of this sounds less like a protest and more like a security force, that’s because that’s exactly what it is.

There are multiple reports of the network targeting individuals for surveillance, including a Fox News reporter, and entering their license plates in databases. In another incident, a video posted online shows a man accosted for having rented an SUV that too closely resembled what an ICE agent might drive. Rapid responders forced him to open his trunk, as he was essentially detained, searched, and questioned.

At the same time, like guerrillas, anarchists seek to target where their opponents are weakest. For ICE that weak link has been the hotels and rental car companies the agency relies upon to house agents and provide vehicles for operations. Multiple hotels and rental car companies have been targeted with multi-layered campaigns aimed at forcing them to stop serving ICE officers. Similar efforts have sought to pressure restaurants into not serving agents.

The common theme is forcing a choice: you’re either with the government or with the revolution. The same logic holds for the recent storming of Cities Church in St. Paul, where parishioners were accosted for the counterrevolutionary crime of having a pastor whose name appeared on an alleged list of ICE agents. If you want to be able to eat, drive, sleep, or worship, you’d best acquiesce.

In leftist organizing language, these efforts to establish the revolutionaries as the true authority are known as “community self-defense” and “dual power.” While sounding like buzzwords, these principles are recognizable to every guerrilla and insurgent from the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Fallujah. First, delegitimize the legitimate government by making it unable to conduct its business peacefully, and second, set up an alternative shadow government to seize and hold territory. The message being sent is that the self-styled revolutionaries are the real authority in the streets of Minneapolis.

That message has not been blunted by the irresponsible rhetoric of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who described the state as being “at war” with the federal government. Nor by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, whose profanity-laced rants have echoed activist demands to expel federal law enforcement from the city.

This inversion of reality, whereby federal law enforcement officers are “kidnappers” and those physically assaulting them are seen as “serving and protecting” the community, creates the bizarre situation whereby activists seem genuinely confused and indignant that their attacks are met with lawful force. This can be seen in the video response of Good’s significant other. Just before the incident, she taunts ICE officers about hiding their license plates. Moments after the shooting, she can be heard screaming, “Why did you have real bullets?”

All of this has led a number of observers to conclude that the Minneapolis ICE activists are essentially LARPers, playing the role of revolutionary in a dystopian fantasy game of their own creation. To a certain extent, there’s probably some truth to this. Social media is replete with false claims that ICE is not a real law enforcement agency or that it lacks the legal authority to arrest citizens who commit crimes in the presence of its agents. Many of the anti-ICE activists have likewise been convinced that their white privilege will permit them to engage in radical behaviors at less risk than that faced by minorities.

But perhaps a better comparison would be to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Yes, in one sense these people are playing dress-up. But the incantations contained in these militant direct-action “spell books” are all very real. The true revolutionaries, the ones who put the books into the hands of these apprentices, know all too well what they are trying to achieve. Reproduced accurately, these techniques can produce uprisings, insurrections—and even revolutions—as they have for generations of insurgents on every continent except Antarctica.

There’s always an element of play-acting at the beginning of every insurgency. Whether it’s an ignorant campesino given a red bandana or a soccer mom given a whistle, for that hapless foot soldier it may all seem like a bit of a lark, a quaint diversion from their humdrum day-to-day lives.

But though every revolution begins as a LARP, they usually end in bloodshed.

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Kyle Shideler is the director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.

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In the Islamic Republic of Iran, More Than 36,500 Protesters Killed

By Jihad Watch

“I met Murder on the way/He had a mask like Khamenei.”

The numbers of protesters murdered in Iran by their own government keeps rising, and now we know that at least 30,000 have been murdered by their own government. Iran International, which has a history of accurate reporting from sources inside Iran, says that the number killed since the beginning of the protests is 36,500.More on these numbers can be found here: “Iran may have slaughtered 30,000 protesters in 48-hour intense crackdown – report,” by Jacob Laznik and Miriam Sela-Eitam, Jerusalem Post, January 25, 2026:

As many as 30,000 people may have been killed across Iran during a two-day crackdown on January 8 and 9, TIME reported on Sunday, citing two senior Health Ministry officials and a separate compilation of hospital data shared with the publication. The figures have not been independently verified and far exceed numbers publicly cited by authorities.

The number, if true, would massively increase the death toll from previously believed estimates. Days after the alleged massacre, Iran International estimated around 12,000 deaths from the two-day period.

The officials said the scale of killing overwhelmed the capacity to handle the dead, exhausting body bag stocks, and prompting the use of eighteen-wheeled trailers to move bodies. TIME reported that security forces used rooftop snipers and trucks mounted with heavy machine guns after authorities cut communications. An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official warned on state television that anyone entering the streets should not complain if a bullet hit them, according to the report.

A hospital-based count shared with TIME listed 30,304 deaths as of Friday, January 9, said Dr. Amir Parasta, a German-Iranian ophthalmologist who compiled the data. “We are getting closer to reality,” he said, while adding that the tally likely excludes cases from military hospitals and unreachable areas. Public health specialists quoted by TIME cautioned against over-extrapolating from hospital records but said the internal figures point to mass killing over a short period.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei slammed the estimated death counts in a Sunday evening X/Twitter post, calling them “truly vicious” lies.

“A Hitler-style BIG LIE: isn’t this the number they planned to kill in the streets of Iran?!” Baqaei wrote. “They failed, though, and now they’re trying to FAKE it in the media. Truly vicious!”…

“The 30,000 verified deaths are almost certainly an underestimate,” Columbia University researcher Les Roberts told TIME, noting that crisis mortality counts often omit victims who never reach hospitals or are buried outside official channels….

The latest figure on the total number of protesters killed, compiled by Iran International on the basis of “new documentation and eyewitness accounts from medical staff and families of the deceased,” is 36,500. By the time you read this, that number is likely to have risen to close to 40,000.

And that number gives new meaning to the line “where forty thousand met their death/incapable of shibboleth.”

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Big Legal Win for Trump, ICE—and a Setback for Agitators

By The Daily Signal

Amid escalating tensions in Minnesota, Immigration and Customs Enforcement scored a court win on Monday in staving off agitators.

A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put a stay on a lower court ruling that restricted ICE agents from arresting, detaining, or pepper-spraying agitators without probable cause, Fox News reported.

“We accessed and viewed the same videos the district court did,” the appeals court ruling said.

“What they show is observers and protesters engaging in a wide range of conduct, some of it peaceful but much of it not. They also show federal agents responding in various ways.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X that this was a “WIN AGAINST JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN MINNESOTA.”

“The [Justice Department] went to court. We got a temporary stay,” Bondi said in the post. “NOW, the 8th Circuit has fully agreed that this reckless attempt to undermine law enforcement cannot stand.”

The federal complaint against the Department of Homeland Security and ICE alleged federal law enforcement violated the civil rights of six protesters.

On Jan. 16, U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and imposed a preliminary injunction to stop tactics used by ICE toward protesters who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement.

Menendez said plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their challenge that federal agents violated protesters’ First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights as part of Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities.

AUTHOR

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” Send an email to Fred. Fred on X: @FredLucasWH.

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It’s Time to Re-awaken the Sleeping Giant

By Anne Marie DiCarlo

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President Trump’s second term began with a bang, a high-speed projectile launch instead of the traditional slow-moving policy roll-outs of the past. During his years in exile, Trump studied his enemies and the game, and returned prepared to fight. The American people gave the President the mandate he needed, and within one year, the nation, the political landscape, and the future of America turned bright, casting off the long dark shadows of its dystopian course.

Despite the utter bias of the mainstream media against President Trump, he enjoys an approval rating among Republicans of over 85%. It doesn’t take much to understand why. In the course of one year, this administration has achieved more than any other in history. Period. Here is a short list of what the drive-by media will not admit to:

  1. Trump has successfully stopped the bleeding border, achieving negative net migration for the first time in 50 years, and restored US control over the southern border in compliance with stated US law.
  2. Through the use of ICE and self-deportation strategies, the administration has removed over 2.6 million illegal immigrants, one of the greatest efforts in history. Taking back the border also resulted in a 50% reduction in fentanyl trafficking, saving countless American lives.
  3. Trump delivered the largest one-year homicide reduction in US history by intervening in lawless blue cities and ending non-enforcement policies.
  4. Trump wisely reclaimed the Panama Canal to assure the free flow of American goods and products.
  5. Trump either brokered or continues to push for peace in various theaters around the world as he promised—Gaza/Israel, India/Pakistan, Armenia/Azerbaijan, Iran, and Ukraine/Russia.
  6. The administration has attracted over $10 trillion in re-shored investments and launched a tariff strategy to promote US manufacturing.
  7. Thanks to wise energy policies and the rejection of the 2030 agenda, oil production in the US has hit record highs, and gas prices have fallen, resulting in more affordable products across the board.
  8. Through the Big Beautiful Bill, Trump delivered the largest middle-class tax cut in history.
  9. Since Inauguration Day, Trump has continued to dismantle the administrative deep state through DOGE and other efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, exposing billions in fraud and waste. Combined with the roll-back of regulations, it is estimated that $180 billion has been saved.
  10. Trump restored sanity to government by eliminating DEI hiring mandates and acknowledging the reality of biological sex. This also applied to the overhaul of the US military to make it a fighting force, not a social -experimentation playground.
  11. In securing the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy as head of HHS, the Trump administration has begun the largest and most transparent overhaul of our health agencies and regulatory bodies, the vaccine schedule and resurrecting the Childhood safety task force, all while de-coupling the US from the tentacles of the globalist WHO by rejecting the International Health Regulations (IHR) which would have ceded US authority to the WHO. The administration has also defunded GAVI (the International Vaccine Alliance).
  12. The Trump administration has delivered on its America First promise by denouncing neo-con nation-building and forcing NATO to boost defense spending rather than its expectation that America will pay for it all.

This amazing list of accomplishments does not include many other successful efforts that have directly improved the lives of Americans, safeguarded our constitutional rights and the literal future of the Republic. 

The work, however, is far from over, thanks to the years of degradation by lawmakers who have ignored Constitutional restraints and become slaves to special interests at the expense of America.

Trump has indeed accomplished a fair amount through executive action, but to ensure that it will not simply be overturned by a future Democratic administration, it will require codification. Currently, the Republicans control both the House and the Senate, but with majorities not large enough to get the job done. Sadly, the Republicans always need to allow for the RINO vote that will side with the Democrats on any given issue; the Democrats, conversely, vote in lock step—always.

The average American voter has grown fatigued by the constant battle in DC and, sadly, is often uninformed. Thinking that the election of a President is enough is dead wrong. Freedom requires vigilance.  

Republicans, conservatives, and independents need to realize that the war is not over. The other side does not rest, and the mid-term elections are truly a ‘win or die scenario,’ and we need to start acting like it.

If we remain apathetic, we can look to the recent Virginia state elections for a preview of the future.

Newly elected Governor Spanberger (D) signed 25 executive orders on her first day in office, none of which had been advertised to voters prior to the election. What exactly did Spanberger subject Virginians to? Here is a short list:

    • Higher taxes—including a 4.3% sales tax on deliveries (including Uber Eats and Amazon), new sales taxes on event admissions, hotels, and services like landscaping. New income taxes include a boost of +8% on people making over $600,000, and +10% on people making over $1,000,000 a year. Capital gains get a +3.8% increase. Oh, and let’s not leave out the reinstatement of a climate tax on residents’ electric bills. No doubt, all of these initiatives are making life more affordable for the middle class.
    • Preventing local police from assisting ICE
    • Guaranteed free education for illegals
    • Criminalizing protests at abortion clinics
  • Draconian rules mandating that confused children can destroy their genitals without parental consent
  • Lowering the criminal penalty for robbery and eliminating minimum mandatory sentences for violent crime (that will make law-abiding Virginians safer)
    • Ban on gas-powered leaf blowers ( to ensure the purchase of really long extension cords so everyone gets to pay the climate tax on higher electric bills)
    • Allowing for voting by internet, extended times to count late mail-in ballots, expanded ‘ranked choice’ voting, and —most unbelievably— making it a crime to hand-count ballots, to ensure that rigged elections stay rigged!
  • Removal of the Columbus Day designation, replaced with ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’—adios American history.

Virginians just lost more of their liberty.

What occurred in Virginia is a microcosm of what will happen nationally if Democrats regain power. This party has shown itself as the party that embraces globalism, socialism, and authoritarian rule. It hates America’s past and wishes to subjugate our future to unelected global autocrats. We need to remind voters of the excesses and failures of the Biden Administration, exiling the Democrat party to the political wilderness for a very long time.

To save our Republic, we need to restore voting integrity. The decades of Democratic gerrymandering have resulted in the party gaining unfair districting advantages to ensure more seats in the House. The importation of millions of illegals and the dismantling of voter integrity controls have resulted in millions of votes for Democrats who promise welfare and freebies to people who have no loyalty to this country, its history, or its future. No country in the world that wishes to preserve its future allows foreigners to determine its leadership. To do so is national suicide. We need to demand in-person ID to vote in all elections.

Our second big problem is Republican turnout. It’s not that Republicans are dissatisfied; quite the opposite. Polls report a historic 80-90% satisfaction (depending upon the poll) with President Trump’s performance, as mentioned at the outset.

Democrats reported being 66% “extremely motivated” to vote in the midterms, but Republicans were only 50% “extremely motivated” to vote, down from 67% in October 2024. This is a huge warning sign!

I believe that part of the problem lies with the Republican establishment at the state and local levels. A recent Facebook post from a Republican party official illustrates the divide between voters and the people who claim to represent them. In conjunction with the internal election process, this official labelled ‘far-right extremists’ as the threat to unity and electoral success as a result of ‘fringe priorities’ in lieu of practical governance. The plea was that in order to maintain wins in general elections, the candidates and leadership should be those who appeal to ‘mainstream voters’, so trust should be placed in those who ‘embody party unity, expertise and a proven track record’.  In other words, the party should place moderates at its helm and those willing to compromise on key issues—those who have spent years, perhaps too many years in office—playing the political game. When the Trump agenda has 90% approval rate among the voting base, why would you wish to choose candidates who disparage the ‘right-wing’ agenda of the Trump coalition?

When the party fails to vet candidates and endorses those who are moderate to left-leaning on many key Trump issues, the Republican base becomes disillusioned and angry. Angry voters stay away from the polls. Vetting a candidate is not simply checking to see if the “R” affiliation is present; too many times, the Republican-endorsed candidate has turned out to be a formerly registered liberal Democrat or lukewarm moderate.

If the party is resting on the laurels of majorities in the state House, it is only because we still have an advantage in the number of registered Republicans and conservative-leaning Independents. While it is good that we control the legislature, it is a pyrrhic victory when every meaningful piece of conservative legislation is vetoed by our radical governor, Katie Hobbs.

Since taking office in January 2023, Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed a total of 394 bills, {as of July 5, 2025}. This included 143 bills in 2023, 73 bills in 2024 and 178 bills in 2025. For a full list, visit: https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2025-04-01/heres-a-list-of-all-the-arizona-bills-gov-katie-hobbs-vetoed-so-far-in-2025#

If we lose the midterms, then Trump’s policies will remain only temporary executive orders that will be immediately reversed when the next Democrat president takes office. If this happens, the Trump 2.0 momentum is over.  His remaining time in office will once again become submerged in fighting impeachments, investigations, stalled initiatives, and the wrath of progressive fury.

Therefore, it is time for us to wake up, energize the Trump base, expand upon it, remind the voters of what Democrats really stand for, and get to the polls in November!

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SIGNAL INSURRECTION: Walz Incitement, Anti-ICE Signal Cells, Fatal Confrontation — Minnesota Democrats, Walz Adviser Identified as Admins

By The Geller Report

Democrats are getting people killed.

Governor Tim Walz was recently filmed on the gate of his Minnesota mansion inciting protesters to violence and to oppose federal ICE operations amid escalating violent unrest in Minneapolis after multiple shootings involving federal agents. In that same climate of defiance, an armed man — Alex Pretti — was shot and killed during a confrontation with federal agents, which has further inflamed tensions.

The Minnesota Insurection

Alex Pretti was not a random bystander — according to Fox News Digital, encrypted Signal “rapid responder” networks were actively tracking federal agents’ movements and broadcasting their locations in real time around the Minneapolis ICE operation, mobilizing activists to converge on them just minutes before the fatal shooting took place. A neighbor told The Mirror US that the man shot by Border Patrol was deeply embedded in these anti-ICE rapid-response Signal networks designed to hunt down agents, dox them, summon reinforcements, and disrupt federal operations. Independent journalist Cam Higby (scroll down)  reportedly infiltrated the group and confirmed its coordination role, demonstrating that this was not a random encounter but part of an organized resistance targeting federal immigration enforcement. In that context, an armed man attacking agents was met with deadly force — illustrating how these anti-federal-law-enforcement communication networks are contributing to volatile, dangerous confrontations on Minnesota streets.

Read this:

Independent reports circulating online show that at least two Democratic Minnesota state officials and a campaign adviser to Walz, identified as Amanda Noelle Koehler, have been named as “admins” and “dispatchers” in a now-leaked Signal group chat that critics say was used to track and impede federal immigration operations and, they allege, organize around resisting or obstructing federal agents. Commentators have described multiple Signal groups around Minneapolis with the purpose, they say, of identifying federal vehicles, doxxing agents, and directing protest activity; these reports also link Koehler — a protest organizer and former Walz campaign strategist, said to go by the code name “HAH” — as an admin of an “MN ICE Watch” Signal chat. Some claims circulating on social media further allege thousands of license plates have been captured and shared in these groups as part of that coordination.

Recently exposed Signal chats reveal a coordinated operation to disrupt ICE that involves Minnesota’s lieutenant governor and other elected state officials. This is not protest — it is an organized criminal conspiracy reaching straight into the Minnesota Statehouse.

Signal networks involving journalists are responsible for tracking federal agents’ movements and coordinating attacks and harassment of ICE across cities — that’s organized crime.

Here is the village idiot of the civil war party inciting to violence:

Mainstream Media Refuse to Report the Full Facts on ICE Protests, so Americans Must Rely on X Indies

By Family Research Council

Want to view one of the many resistance training videos being used by protest organizers in Minneapolis? You won’t find it on The New York Times or The Washington Post. Forget USA Today. And don’t even bother searching for it on NBC, MSNOW, CBS, ABC, or CNN. The mainstream media isn’t interested in reporting that side of the biggest domestic protests since the George Floyd riots of 2020.

But independent journalist Cam Higby has not only made public “Documenting and Responding to ICE,” a training video hosted by a Chicago political activist, Jill Garvey, he also infiltrated the Signal organization that is coordinating, supplying, and directing the chaos on Minneapolis streets.

Higby has posted names of the members of the eight sub-groups within Signal, extensively quoted the group’s internal communications, and documented in detail how members track ICE movements then direct protestors to specific locations where ICE law enforcement officials most likely are trying to remove an illegal immigrant who could be a hardened, violent criminal from the streets.

To appreciate how deeply Higby has infiltrated and documented Signal, check out his X home, then search on “MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED.” There you will find multiple posts like this one that documents how the protestors relay tag and other information on an ICE vehicle located in one of the protest areas. Higby’s infiltration has been so effective that Signal’s operators were forced to take counter-measures that temporarily limited their ability to continue operations. Unfortunately for them, those counter-measures came after Higby exposed the most relevant facts about their structure and operations.

To appreciate the logistical depth and detail of the organization behind the Minneapolis chaos, check out this “pop-up Leftist supply depot” videoed and reported by Gunther Eagleman, AKA David Freeman. You want milk, here it is. You need hand warmers, gotcha covered. How about some hot coffee? Or donuts? Crackers? Water? It’s all there and somebody is paying for it.

This is the kind of organized, equipped and strategically directed opposition to federal law enforcement that George Wallace, standing in the “school house door” at the University of Alabama in 1963, could only dream of having at his disposal. Ditto another avowed hard-core segregationist determined to stop federal law enforcement, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, when 101st Airborne troops escorted nine young black students into Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. And imagine the death and destruction former Confederate Calvary General Nathan Bedford Forrest could have wreaked across the Reconstruction period had he access to Signal-level insurrection sophistication and funding?

In fact, Signal is not something new. To the contrary, Signal duplicates and refines what Eric Schwalm, a former U.S. Special Forces warrant officer, saw happening time and again with highly sophisticated, organized, and funded insurgencies overseas:

“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. … This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a [Special Forces] team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace ‘ICE agents’ with ‘occupying coalition forces’ and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.”

And Schwalm is worried because Signal isn’t in Afghanistan or Iraq or Gaza, it’s right here in America:

“The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers — complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal — you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.”

Whatever you think of the Minneapolis situation, it could only happen in a limited number of locations in America. How many? Well, Kevin Bass analyzed media reports on anti-ICE incidents around the nation for the past year and found nine counties that accounted for two-thirds of all such violent confrontations.

The nine are all connected to deep-blue big cites with far-Left Democratic mayors and with long-standing sanctuary status, including Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, New York, and Newark. Statistically, those nine counties turned out to be 590 times more likely to experience violent anti-ICE confrontations than all of the remaining 3,134 counties in the United States! Coincidence?

Even given all of the preceding facts, however, there is evidence the Signal operation is not perfect, as seen in this video snapshot on X of a “protestor” who, in the midst of a chaotic demonstration, suddenly finds himself able to lift himself out of his wheelchair to pick something up from the street. Either the age of miracles continues or Signal is sending false signals.

AUTHOR

Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests Foreign Terrorists Living in U.S.

By The Daily Signal

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Homeland Security in the past year has arrested multiple illegal aliens it says have known ties to terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.

According to the agency, the illegal aliens include members of al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Islamic Republic Guard Corps of Iran, and MS-13, which President Donald Trump designated a foreign terrorist organization when he returned to office.

“Just a year ago, under [President] Joe Biden, our border was wide open, and criminals, gang members, and terrorists were released into our communities,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, stated.

Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have “unleashed” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “to target the worst of the worst, including national security threats,” McLaughlin said, adding that the Trump administration is “delivering on the American people’s mandate to make America safe again, and we’re just getting started.”

One of the detainees is Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, identified as a member of the Iraqi Shia militant group Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq.

The first Trump administration designated Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq a foreign terrorist organization in 2020. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the group as “violent proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Al Fawadi, an illegal alien from Iraq, has a criminal history that includes charges for rape and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation. He has been convicted on federal charges of making false statements on an immigration application about his membership in Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq.

He was given a deportation order in 2022, but ICE arrested him in the U.S. in November 2025.

Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi (DHS)

Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, originally from Sudan, was convicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. ICE arrested him in June.

Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan (DHS)

Fares Abdo Al Eyani, a criminal alien from Yemen, was previously convicted “for conspiracy to unlawfully export defense articles in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations,” DHS reports.

Jordanian Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman has a record that includes conviction for conspiracy to defraud the U.S.

Majid Ghorbani served in the Iranian military and was “charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and convicted for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and petty theft.”

Illegal aliens Fares Abdo Al Eyani, Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman, and Majid Ghorbani. (DHS)

Additionally, DHS reported arrests of MS-13 gang members Gaulner Uliel Pineda Castillo, a Guatemalan who was previously arrested for a kidnapping plot, and Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernandez, an illegal alien from El Salvador with a criminal history that “includes arrests for murder, assault, dangerous weapons with intent to injure, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy assault, and stalking.”

Illegal aliens Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernandez and Gaulner Uliel Pineda Castillo. (DHS)

The Department of Homeland Security faces criticism and backlash following a Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.

Two and a half weeks before that, an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Both shootings took place amid anti-immigration enforcement operation protests in Minneapolis and are currently under investigation.

AUTHOR

Virginia Allen

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of “The Daily Signal Podcast” and “Problematic Women.” Send an email to Virginia. Virginia on X: @Virginia_Allen5.

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By Neland Nobel

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MINNESOTA INSURRECTION: DHS Agents Engage, Shoot Armed Keffiyeh-Clad Rioter in Enforcement Action Against Violent Illegal

By The Geller Report

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that federal agents were in the area executing a lawful operation to apprehend an illegal alien wanted for violent assault when they encountered armed rioter Alex Pretti.

DHS stated that Pretti was armed with a loaded nine-millimeter semi-automatic handgun and two magazines, posing an immediate and lethal threat to federal officers and the public. The agency later released a photograph of the weapon recovered at the scene.

According to federal officials, agents attempted to secure and disarm Pretti, but he violently resisted, escalating the encounter into a life-or-death struggle. With an armed suspect refusing to comply and officers in close proximity, a Border Patrol agent fired a fatal shot in defense of life.

Pretti was pronounced dead at the scene. DHS reported that he had no identification at the time of the incident.

Video footage shows agents actively struggling to restrain an armed suspect, bringing him to the ground in a final effort to neutralize the threat — underscoring that lethal force was used only after physical control measures failed.

Watch the armed rioter confront the federal agents:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Daily Mail that the deceased was armed with two magazines, and the gun has since been recovered by federal authorities.

At least two Democrat Minnesota state officials and a campaign adviser to Tim Walz, Amanda Koehler, have been identified as “admins” and “dispatchers” in a now-leaked Signal group chat used to stalk and impede federal immigration operations in the state.

Minnesota burning Chaotic moment agent reached for gun revealed in close-up analysis of Minneapolis armed anti-ICE protester shooting

By Anna Young, NY Post, Jan. 24, 2026, 8:50 p.m. ET

Close-up videos of the fatal Minneapolis shooting showed protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was armed with a gun — with the agent who fired the more than a dozen shots clearly reacting to something that alarmed him amid the chaos.

It’s unclear if Pretti had drawn the weapon and was immediately disarmed, if an officer had pulled it from his clothing or if he was in the process of pulling it out when a separate federal officer was seen taking it from the 37-year-old as he was pinned to the ground.

Videos of the incident show officers shouting “he’s got a gun,” as the unidentified agent reached into Pretti’s waistband to retrieve the weapon.

At one point an officer in gray coat is seen emerging from the melee with the gun, which officials said was a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. According to close up video of that moment, as the officer holds the gun, the gun’s slide moves, meaning it may have fired, causing a loud noise of a gunshot shortly before other officer fired at Pretti.

In various videos,the agent who fired the fatal shots could be seen shooting the armed protester at close range, then pumping at least 9 more rounds into his body as Pretti lay motionless on the ground.

The Department of Homeland Security said Pretti had approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun as they were conducting a “targeted” arrest.

“The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said at a press conference Saturday night.

“Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.”

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Organized and well-funded:

The people on the streets of Minneapolis tonight aren’t “concerned citizens.” They are a Paid Operation.
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The reporter confirms it:

  • Comms: They have radios and a command structure.
  • ​Logistics: They have supply lines and food drops.
  • ​Organization: They move like a unit, not a mob.
  • We know this playbook. The Democrats do this every time.
  • They bus them in. They fund the supplies. They give the orders.
  • This is the NGO Industrial Complex at work.

The Border Patrol union released a statement, saying agents are “trained extremely well to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and innocent third parties.”

The union called for lowering anti-ICE rhetoric.

“When a supposed ‘peaceful’ protester brings a weapon (such as a loaded handgun) and brandishes it, there are going to severe consequences and repercussions,” they said.

“We have pleaded with and warned the media and the politicians that their irresponsible, hate-filled and false rhetoric is going to get people unnecessarily hurt, or worse, killed when they portray our agents and officers as the aggressors. They have encouraged these reckless confrontations and attacks on our agents and officers who are performing their lawful duties and enforcing the laws that Congress has put on the books,” they added.

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Illegal Immigration for Idiots

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

I – Infiltration: Flooding American soil, traditions, values, political and professional positions, educational and religious institutions, and ideals with Socialist-Communist and/or jihadist illegal and domestic warriors against capitalism, religion, and wholesome American life.

M – Motivation: Waging warfare against the laws and Constitution of America in order to subvert this nation into decadence and defeat as it celebrates its 250th anniversary year.

M – Money: Payments made to organized mobs for services and supplies to bring civil discord and widespread violence into the streets of America, universities, houses of worship, public buildings, community events, and wherever rioters can pass, trespass, and invade.

I – Invasion: Intrusion into the public and private spheres with intent to control, usurp, force, rule, inflict harm, terrorize, and terminate lawful public functions of value for the American public, including the safe flow of traffic, entrance and exit of buildings, normal business matters, proceedings of meetings, and ordinary daily life interactions.

G – Guise: Fraudulently using the appearance of protecting vulnerable illegal/criminal “neighbors” from alleged governmental harm in order to justify chaos, wanton lawlessness, violence, domestic terrorism, filthy language in front of young children, intimidation of religious worshippers and leaders, deadly threats, vandalism and destruction of federal and private property, and to divert governmental resources from prosecuting ongoing crimes defrauding American taxpayers of many billions of dollars.

R – Revolution: Inciting violent and armed resistance against the laws and Constitution of America to overthrow the government via a Red-Green Alliance of jihadists and Socialists-Communists to build an Islamist caliphate or atheistic Communist country.

A – Anti-American: Defeating America from within by adding millions of persons entering the United States illegally from foreign foes of America with no loyalty or allegiance to America and with visceral antipathy against America’s core values and institutions.

T – Terrorism: Causing children, in particular, to feel intense fear as involuntary witnesses to hours, days, and weeks of physical brutality, extreme vandalism, filthy threatening language against lawful agents and religious worshippers, vehicular attacks, unabated piercing noise and screaming all day and night, vicious ridicule of the public and lawful governmental agents, and intense intimidation of the law-abiding public by trained professional rioters for the purpose of scaring them into compliance with and submission to Socialist-Communist-jihadist dictates and governmental functions.

I – Insurrection: Willful intent and wanton violent actions with weapons, dangerous projectiles, and vehicles used against the United States and its lawful agents to establish control over America via jihadist-Islamist Sharia law or Socialist-Communist rule.

O – Overthrow: Intentional use of force, arson, toxic chemicals, dangerous/deadly projectiles, weapons, and propaganda by the Red-Green enemy within to cause the United States government to fall and be defeated from inside its borders with substantial financial support from foreign powers like China, Russia, Iran, and jihadist-Islamist factions.

N – Name-calling: Pernicious, pervasive propaganda by mobs of paid professional protesters to dehumanize citizens and lawful governmental agents by labeling them as “racists,” “Nazis,” “modern-day Gestapo,” “stormtroopers,” “fascists,” “kidnappers,” “monsters,” “slave patrols,” … in order to normalize violence and filthy language, inciting violent actions against them, including deadly force by conventional weapons and vehicular attacks to normalize violence and filthy discourse in American life.

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Getting Greenland

By Bruce Bialosky

You may have noticed there’s been an international kerfuffle over the United States taking over Greenland. On a scale of 1-10, I consider this issue a 1. I don’t really want to discuss the issue. I would rather focus on international issues like Iran, Venezuela, or Gaza. But since I am a notable Jewish Republican, everyone who is either a Democrat and/or has a serious case of TDS thinks I am responsible for every Trump proposal.

Since I have not considered Greenland a major issue and my liberal friends were hounding me about it, I thought I would have some fun with the issue, especially their dubious concerns. It was apparent the issue for them was all about Trump and not about an oversized island with a population of about 56,000. The place is so boring when the Beautiful Wife and I traveled to Iceland and the Faroe Islands, an area expert suggested we skip Greenland because there was nothing to see.

The Danes took the island from the indigenous people. We keep hearing Lefties talking about this place or that place supposedly on the land of some indigenous group in America. Apparently, that is important to these caring individuals, while in America, but they couldn’t give a hoot about it affecting the native Greenlanders.

And guess what the Danes made it – a colony. The Left considers “colony” worse than any four-letter word in the English language, which is evident by how their elected representatives are constantly thrusting themselves in front of a microphone these days to use one of George Carlin’s seven dirty words. They accuse Israel of colonizing land that they have occupied for over 5,000 years. You would think the Left would be happy that Trump is proposing to free Greenlanders from the yoke of colonization.

Denmark has far worse problems than supposedly colonizing a vast space with few inhabitants. Denmark itself has an actual king. In fact, it is officially known as the Kingdom of Denmark. When I recently saw the U.K. Prime Minister chastising President Trump for his actions regarding Greenland, he referred to Denmark as the “Kingdom.” Weren’t these same people out protesting against No More Kings? Maybe I am wrong because they are always out protesting something, but it sure seems like they made a big deal out of the fact Donald Trump acts like a King. While Trump is trying to free the Greenlanders from an actual king, His Majesty King Frederik X, they want to stand in his way.

Denmark must have treated the Greenlanders really well to make them not want to hook up with Americans. Then we find out the Danes actually sterilized 4,500 Greenlander women over about 25 years. We know it is true because the Prime Minister of Denmark recently apologized. King George didn’t even do that to the colonists in America. All he tried to do was make them buy tea at inflated prices.

After all these questionable acts of the Danish occupiers being in conflict with the Left’s current causes, they still ran to the defense of the Kingdom of Denmark because it is Trump who wants to take Greenland away from them.

One person pointed out that the Greenlanders are voting on their independence. He sent me all the details. I believe he skipped over the part where the Danish parliament has the final approval on the vote. So much for the Greenlanders having an independence vote. When we had a vote on independence, we just gave the Brits a kick in the butt and they went away.

It is not like we haven’t bought land from Denmark before. A century ago, we bought the U.S. Virgin Islands from the Danes. They had been the Danish West Indies. You don’t see the Left urging us to give back St. Thomas, St. John, or St. Croix. We made the inhabitants all citizens of the United States. The Lefties apparently draw the line at giving away their chance to lie on white sandy beaches after a few good protest marches. Maybe, if Greenland had some beach volleyball courts the Left could be persuaded to think differently.

The last domicile of scoundrels is fear tactics. The battle cry was that Trump is going to go to war and that would break up NATO. I don’t do predictions, but it is easy to see Trump is never going to attack Greenland. It is also blatant that NATO was not going to fall apart because of actions regarding an oversized island with virtually no people.

It is always fascinating to see the anti-Trumpers get their bloomers in a knot over an idea Trump throws out. Maybe he does it just to drive them to the loonie bin.

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Bruce is now on Substack.  See him at https://brucebialosky.substack.com/.

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‘Spasms Of Death’: Up To 30,000 Reportedly Dead After Iran’s Regime Cracks Down On Protestors

By Mark Tanos

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Editors’ Note: We think what is going on in Iran is truly terrible, and the US and President Trump may have contributed to it indirectly by suggesting “help is on the way.”  But the responsibility clearly is in the hands of the religious leaders of Iran, a stark condemnation of both their rule and their beliefs. It is also worth noticing the silence of the International Left. No protests at Columbia, none at Berkeley, and not a word from the new Muslim mayor of New York, or the many Muslim leaders in England. Nor have we heard anything from Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens. Strange, is it not ? 

Iranian security forces may have killed as many as 30,000 people in just two days as the regime crushed nationwide protests with gunfire and heavy weapons.

Two senior officials from Iran’s Ministry of Health told TIME Magazine that the government’s internal death count reached approximately 30,000 on Jan. 8 and 9 alone. The slaughter outpaced the state’s ability to handle the dead. Body bag supplies ran out, and 18-wheel trucks took over for ambulances, the officials said.

A separate tally compiled by physicians inside Iran put the hospital-recorded death toll at 30,304, according to Dr. Amir Parasta, a German-Iranian eye surgeon who gathered the data. That figure excludes deaths at military hospitals and locations the inquiry could not reach. (RELATED: Iran Rushes To Execute Anti-Regime Protester Days After Arrest As Brutal Crackdown Kills Over 600)

“We are getting closer to reality,” Dr. Parasta told TIME. “But I guess the real figures are still way higher.”

Les Roberts, a Columbia University professor who studies violent death, struggled to find a comparison. “Most spasms of killing are not from shootings,” Roberts said. He pointed to the 1941 Nazi massacre at Babyn Yar, where death squads executed 33,000 Ukrainian Jews in two days, as the only comparable event in modern records. TIME stated it could not independently verify the figures.

The United Nations (U.N.) offered its own grim assessment. Special Rapporteur Mai Sato said Jan. 22 that civilian deaths could exceed 20,000 based on reports from doctors inside the country, according to Bloomberg. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported 5,459 confirmed deaths with another 17,031 under investigation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

Iran’s official toll stands at 3,117.

Doctors documented between 330,000 and 360,000 injuries, Iran International reported. Dr. Parasta told the outlet that security forces used military-grade weapons and that 700 to 1,000 protesters lost an eye.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged “several thousand” deaths but blamed President Donald Trump and called protesters “foot-soldiers of the United States.”

In Isfahan, 23-year-old aspiring animator Sahba Rashtian was shot before she could join the chants. Her father wore white to her burial. “My daughter became a martyr on the path to freedom,” he told mourners.

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This article was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation and is reproduced with permission.

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