Color me cynical, but, the gang that won’t release the Epstein files despite a court order….Won’t stop threatening to invade Greenland despite NATO agreements….Won’t allow Minnesota to investigate the murder of their own citizen….Ignored a court order to not fly immigrants to CECOT in El Salvador….Is pursuing criminal charges against the governor of Minnesota and mayor of Minneapolis; congressional veterans who advised military personal they have the obligation to refuse illegal orders, et al, isn’t likely to give one hoot about a restraining order.
Until the state starts charging and arresting these out of control ICE agents, nothing will stop them.
I refer to Bondi’s federal government as The Injustice Department. As long as that regime remains intact we’ll be fighting this crap everywhere everyday all at once. Chaos reigns and we’re all getting soaked!
But do believe you are right -we need to push back on MANY parts all at once, just as ‘they’ are trying to drown out coherent response by sheer volume of BS!
The resistance to the chaos is planning and coherence in key, effective venues:
Online info /attention - many messages, but must include addressing underlying causes - (the insane power consolidation by the tech oligarchy and multinationals, which preclude democratic governance). Must find crack in oligarchy’s hold on MSM!!!
Courts & lawsuits x1000
Pressure on congress (of same degree as T’s? ‘Minnesota Nice’ Gloves may need to come off)
Protecting integrity and conduct of the midterms - suggest aggressive legal initiatives, not just reaction; suggest paper ballots and audit tripwires, and manual recounts. Avoid unverified computer tallies being used to pre-empt results!
Prosecuting Article II, sections 3&4. Working toward removal by trial of T, V , and cabinet, NOT just T!!
I agree - Many of these suggestions have not been brought forth before. As you said, they are trying to drown out coherence with BS.
The reaction (!) to that should be actual REACTION - obviously, the heads of the Democratic Party wants to clutch their pearls & wait for - WHAT! - mid-terms, 2028? Do as little as possible until then?
If that's the "answer" to this mess - well, we all should just sit back and re-read 1984 - a how-to story for us to follow.
Hi, understand your feelings, but great news - can read Heather cox Richardson’s newsletter today for it all, but basically a republican congressman from NE and other republicans and all democrats told the president that he would be immediately brought up on impeachment charges if he dared to invade Greenland. This is a moment of long political alliances.This is their Jimmy Kimmel moment we all had when they tried to fired him. Across political groups people screamed and were outraged. I literally cried when I read the above.
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) went further, telling Wolf Blitzer of CNN that an attack on Greenland will lead to impeachment regardless of who is in control of Congress after the midterm elections.
Yes, I read that too. A moment of sanity in a maelstrom of deceit and madness. A beginning, but, merely a straw house in a terrible storm. What has impeachment gotten us so far? We haven’t reached the turning point yet. I pray it’s coming.
A bully will push you as far as you let him, and every time you don’t stick up for yourself because of what you think that bully will do to you, then he’ll just get what he wants today and ensures he’ll go after you again tomorrow.
Thank you for taking the time and energy necessary to document this history as we (sane Americans) are horrified at what is happening to our country. In the future, I hope the next generations of people NOT born in the U.S. don't have to study how democracy was dismantled and destroyed in the country once known as America.
Just now getting to some previous posts. Great reporting. Sadly, Judge Menendez’s order has been blocked by the 8th Circuit Court. We can hope that enforceable restrictions on ICE and CBP operations and agent behavior will be included in the new bill in a couple of weeks.
Even Trump's advisors realize the imagery of roving paramilitary thugs in masks tear-gassing, beating & killing people is more than bad optics. ICE is a terror agency masquerading as an immigration enforcement agency. Reagan appointed Judge Wm Young called the targeting of critics as an "unconstitutional conspiracy" & even compared the administration’s larger deportation policy to people catching and returning enslaved African Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
In Barnes v Felix a unanimous Supreme Court rejected the self created "moment of threat" & reaffirmed the "totality of the circumstances" test for evaluating excessive force claims under the 4th Amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_v._Felix
What in the judge’s order constrains the protestors from throwing missiles at, spitting on, and physically impending the ICE officers?
Understandably boundaries need to be set to allow both the constitutional right to peacefully protest and assemble by the protesters and the constitutional mandate of ICE of the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Meanwhile under the news barrage of immigration enforcement and protests, the criminal probe into the alleged massive theft of US taxpayers money by residents of Minnesota continues.
Where is your news coverage of that, Explicit?
It’s clear to me your silence should make you Complicent, not Explicit by your biased reporting and commentary.
I refer you to Stephen Smith as an example of clearer eyed and therefore far more powerful analysis. Your bias dilutes the power of your message, sir.
In triage, we don’t start with the guy in the waiting room yelling “but what about my paperwork.” We start with the woman bleeding out and the baby who can’t breathe. Even in horse-and-buggy days, everybody understood the order: women and children first.
So no, John, a judge didn’t “greenlight” missiles, spitting, or physically impeding officers. That’s already illegal. The order says: don’t retaliate against people who are peacefully protesting and not obstructing. In other words, stop treating a camera and a chant like they’re felony weapons.
But in John Silvers World, the top priority patient is the white man who calls lesbians “bitches” and then shoots them in the face in broad daylight, and everybody else can wait in the hallway. That ain’t triage, John.
Protestors are already legally restrained from assaulting government agents. Judge Menendez is reminding the terrorist goon squads hired by the administration that they cannot harass law abiding citizens without cause.
Taxpayer theft and the way federal police conduct themselves in a state are totally unrelated. I hope you aren't somehow thinking that some (any?) amount of corruption in the use of federal funding in individual states justifies the federal police coming into your state and brutally harming and killing its citizens. Who wants to live in THAT world? Especially because there's a heck of a lot of misuse of taxes going on everywhere, so it's a very convenient transgression to use as an excuse for federal agents to get away with doing whatever they want, anywhere they want.
I never approved the use of my tax revenue to pay federally sponsored thugs to harass law abiding citizens or migrants. If you break it down, this is an obscene theft/ misuse of federal. state, and municipal tax revenue.
Color me cynical, but, the gang that won’t release the Epstein files despite a court order….Won’t stop threatening to invade Greenland despite NATO agreements….Won’t allow Minnesota to investigate the murder of their own citizen….Ignored a court order to not fly immigrants to CECOT in El Salvador….Is pursuing criminal charges against the governor of Minnesota and mayor of Minneapolis; congressional veterans who advised military personal they have the obligation to refuse illegal orders, et al, isn’t likely to give one hoot about a restraining order.
Until the state starts charging and arresting these out of control ICE agents, nothing will stop them.
Think the good news is in the different venues for these two matters: Menendez and MN courts v Blondi and the T’s festering federal swamp.
I refer to Bondi’s federal government as The Injustice Department. As long as that regime remains intact we’ll be fighting this crap everywhere everyday all at once. Chaos reigns and we’re all getting soaked!
But do believe you are right -we need to push back on MANY parts all at once, just as ‘they’ are trying to drown out coherent response by sheer volume of BS!
The resistance to the chaos is planning and coherence in key, effective venues:
Online info /attention - many messages, but must include addressing underlying causes - (the insane power consolidation by the tech oligarchy and multinationals, which preclude democratic governance). Must find crack in oligarchy’s hold on MSM!!!
Courts & lawsuits x1000
Pressure on congress (of same degree as T’s? ‘Minnesota Nice’ Gloves may need to come off)
Protecting integrity and conduct of the midterms - suggest aggressive legal initiatives, not just reaction; suggest paper ballots and audit tripwires, and manual recounts. Avoid unverified computer tallies being used to pre-empt results!
Prosecuting Article II, sections 3&4. Working toward removal by trial of T, V , and cabinet, NOT just T!!
I agree - Many of these suggestions have not been brought forth before. As you said, they are trying to drown out coherence with BS.
The reaction (!) to that should be actual REACTION - obviously, the heads of the Democratic Party wants to clutch their pearls & wait for - WHAT! - mid-terms, 2028? Do as little as possible until then?
If that's the "answer" to this mess - well, we all should just sit back and re-read 1984 - a how-to story for us to follow.
Hi, understand your feelings, but great news - can read Heather cox Richardson’s newsletter today for it all, but basically a republican congressman from NE and other republicans and all democrats told the president that he would be immediately brought up on impeachment charges if he dared to invade Greenland. This is a moment of long political alliances.This is their Jimmy Kimmel moment we all had when they tried to fired him. Across political groups people screamed and were outraged. I literally cried when I read the above.
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) went further, telling Wolf Blitzer of CNN that an attack on Greenland will lead to impeachment regardless of who is in control of Congress after the midterm elections.
He should’ve taken that same stance in regard to invoking the Insurrection Act.
Yes, I read that too. A moment of sanity in a maelstrom of deceit and madness. A beginning, but, merely a straw house in a terrible storm. What has impeachment gotten us so far? We haven’t reached the turning point yet. I pray it’s coming.
So very true.
That’s the best news I’ve heard in quite a while. Thank you for your work.
Rule of law is fighting for survival. Our fate hangs in the balance.
Of course, that is very much our business.
Bravo, Xavier, and brava, Judge Menendez!
claiming that officers faced “unruly crowds and agitated protesters”
That's just a bit vague in terms of statutorily illegal conduct. No?
They’ll ignore it or just lie.
A bully will push you as far as you let him, and every time you don’t stick up for yourself because of what you think that bully will do to you, then he’ll just get what he wants today and ensures he’ll go after you again tomorrow.
https://musingsofanobody.substack.com/p/its-time-to-turn-the-screws-on-trumps
Thank you for taking the time and energy necessary to document this history as we (sane Americans) are horrified at what is happening to our country. In the future, I hope the next generations of people NOT born in the U.S. don't have to study how democracy was dismantled and destroyed in the country once known as America.
You should check your facts
Elaborate
Just now getting to some previous posts. Great reporting. Sadly, Judge Menendez’s order has been blocked by the 8th Circuit Court. We can hope that enforceable restrictions on ICE and CBP operations and agent behavior will be included in the new bill in a couple of weeks.
Thank you Axel for the quick and clear recap of the what the judge did. So so needed it clearly laid out.
Even Trump's advisors realize the imagery of roving paramilitary thugs in masks tear-gassing, beating & killing people is more than bad optics. ICE is a terror agency masquerading as an immigration enforcement agency. Reagan appointed Judge Wm Young called the targeting of critics as an "unconstitutional conspiracy" & even compared the administration’s larger deportation policy to people catching and returning enslaved African Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205395/ice-raids-toxic-rattling-trump
In Barnes v Felix a unanimous Supreme Court rejected the self created "moment of threat" & reaffirmed the "totality of the circumstances" test for evaluating excessive force claims under the 4th Amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_v._Felix
Believe the video:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html?smid=url-share
Resist the fraudster authoritarians. #VoteBlue!
Thank you again for your clarity and the full explanation of Melendez’ ruling.
What in the judge’s order constrains the protestors from throwing missiles at, spitting on, and physically impending the ICE officers?
Understandably boundaries need to be set to allow both the constitutional right to peacefully protest and assemble by the protesters and the constitutional mandate of ICE of the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Meanwhile under the news barrage of immigration enforcement and protests, the criminal probe into the alleged massive theft of US taxpayers money by residents of Minnesota continues.
Where is your news coverage of that, Explicit?
It’s clear to me your silence should make you Complicent, not Explicit by your biased reporting and commentary.
I refer you to Stephen Smith as an example of clearer eyed and therefore far more powerful analysis. Your bias dilutes the power of your message, sir.
John, man, you’d be a disaster in triage.
In triage, we don’t start with the guy in the waiting room yelling “but what about my paperwork.” We start with the woman bleeding out and the baby who can’t breathe. Even in horse-and-buggy days, everybody understood the order: women and children first.
So no, John, a judge didn’t “greenlight” missiles, spitting, or physically impeding officers. That’s already illegal. The order says: don’t retaliate against people who are peacefully protesting and not obstructing. In other words, stop treating a camera and a chant like they’re felony weapons.
But in John Silvers World, the top priority patient is the white man who calls lesbians “bitches” and then shoots them in the face in broad daylight, and everybody else can wait in the hallway. That ain’t triage, John.
AMEN. Your last paragraph is spot on. And in my opinion, so is your essay.
Beautifully stated — thank you Xavier.
Protestors are already legally restrained from assaulting government agents. Judge Menendez is reminding the terrorist goon squads hired by the administration that they cannot harass law abiding citizens without cause.
Please show evidence that federal agents need protection from protesters or those they arrest or detain. Your bias is blatant.
Taxpayer theft and the way federal police conduct themselves in a state are totally unrelated. I hope you aren't somehow thinking that some (any?) amount of corruption in the use of federal funding in individual states justifies the federal police coming into your state and brutally harming and killing its citizens. Who wants to live in THAT world? Especially because there's a heck of a lot of misuse of taxes going on everywhere, so it's a very convenient transgression to use as an excuse for federal agents to get away with doing whatever they want, anywhere they want.
I never approved the use of my tax revenue to pay federally sponsored thugs to harass law abiding citizens or migrants. If you break it down, this is an obscene theft/ misuse of federal. state, and municipal tax revenue.