Of course federal law enforcement is aggressive, and of course [insert slang term for the anus here] things happen; every arrest is an [insert slang term for the anus here] action, the taking of a suspected malefactor against his will, and if the suspect has a family, of course they’re going to be upset. Oddly enough, the American left weren’t too terribly upset when then-former President Trump was arrested as both state and federal persecutors prosecutors tried to throw him in jail, even though he had a son who was a minor at the time.

The very lovely Rachel Maddow linked this story in her skeet on Bluesky:

N.J. Girl, 6, Found Alone by Neighbors Crying ‘Where’s Papi?’ After Dad Was Detained by ICE While Picking Up Food, Mom Claims

Adonay Mancia Rodríguez was detained near his home in Morristown, N.J., by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Sunday, Jan. 11

By Janelle Griffith | Friday, January 16, 2026 | 1:56 PM EST

The mother of a 6-year-old girl in New Jersey says her daughter was found walking alone outside their apartment crying and asking for her father over the weekend after he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while picking up food for himself and the child.

Gabby Rosa told NJ.com that her partner, Adonay Mancia Rodríguez, had been watching their daughter, Annabella, in their apartment in Morristown while she was at work at a nearby Walmart on Sunday, Jan. 11. According to Rosa, Rodríguez had left their apartment to pick up food from a nearby restaurant when he was detained by ICE agents.

Rosa recalled receiving phone calls from a concerned neighbor, whom she said had seen the girl wandering the streets looking for her father.

“She told me she’d seen my daughter, walking by herself on the street, crying, crying out for her dad, asking, ‘Where’s Papi? Where’s Papi?’ ” Rosa told the outlet.

She said she rushed home to care for Annabella and later that day, saw video on social media of Rodríguez and others being detained as part of an ICE raid.

I was careful to screen capture the blurb from the original to note that Mr Rodríguez had left his 6-year-old daughter alone in their home, not that she was out with him when he was picked up.

There’s more at the original, and you can follow the link if you are interested. What I found more interesting were the cosplaying revolutionaries on Bluesky. Captain West skeeted:

They don’t fucking care! These ICE agents are just animals on the prowl for victims. At what point do State and Local law enforcement start protecting the people they supposedly serve?

The left were overjoyed when the Supreme Court let stand the decision in Lozano v City of Hazleton, which held that the federal government held sole authority over immigration law. In that case, Hazleton PA was trying to restrict housing and employment of illegal immigrants in the city. The American Civil Liberties Union sued and won. Since the Bush Administration was not taking serious enforcement immigration law enforcement, the left were happy, and cities and states could do nothing. Now the Feds are enforcing immigration law, and it’s coming back to bite states helping the #illegals.

Brave Minneapolis resistance fighter preparing to do battle to stop ICE. Note that he’s wearing fingernail polish! Stolen from Facebook.

Nobody will save us. Americans with guns need to step up.

Of course, Americans with guns were much of President Trump’s base. Rural residents and hunters are the ones with the most guns, the ones who actually use their guns, know what they are doing with guns better than the spray-and-pray gangbangers of Philadelphia, and they are the ones who gave huge percentages of their votes to Mr Trump.

The left want to fight, fight, fight, but they’re cosplaying revolutionaries. As G Gordon Liddy used to say, they wouldn’t know out of which end the bullet comes if they had to fight!

Nina Bookout of The Victory Girls noted that Representative Ilhan Omar Mynett (D-Somalia) believes that all of the fraud investigations in Minnesota are just political public relations stunts:

Ilhan Omar Claims Fraud And ICE Investigations Are Just PR Stunts

by Nina Bookout | Monday, January 12, 2026

Ilhan Omar will do her absolute best to spin her way out of the fraud issues blanketing Minnesota. Yesterday she, with a straight face, asserted that all the fraud cases are just PR stunts by the Trump Administration.

The administration says the surge has been necessary to conduct both immigration enforcement and to investigate a growing fraud scandal in the state, the cost of which federal prosecutors estimate could top $9 billion. The scandal dates back to 2021, when Biden administration Justice Department investigators first honed in on an at least $250 million COVID-era scam revolving around the Feeding Our Future program, a case that now includes more than 75 defendants.

Most of the defendants are of Somali descent, leading President Trump and other Republican lawmakers to focus attention on the state’s large Somali community, while threatening to suspend federal funding to the state across a broad array of programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, and child care funding.

She’s super tired of all this guys. We need to drop the subject and quit the investigations.

There’s just one problem with the Mrs Mynett’s claims: it seems that people are actually being convicted of fraud!

Nonprofit’s Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240 Million in Federal Food Aid

Aimee Bock was accused of overseeing a scheme that exploited lax pandemic-era controls, and reaped millions with fake invoices for nonexistent meals.

By David A. Fahrenthold | March 19, 2025

Aimee Bock and Salim Said

The leader of a Minnesota anti-hunger nonprofit was convicted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday of masterminding a brazen scheme that reaped more than $240 million in pandemic relief funds with a network of bogus food kitchens that billed the government for 91 million meals.

The nonprofit’s leader, Aimee Bock, 44, was convicted by a jury of seven counts, including wire fraud and bribery. Another defendant, Salim Said — a 36-year-old who oversaw one of the bogus kitchens — was convicted of 20 counts, also including wire fraud and bribery.

When Ms. Bock was charged in 2022, federal prosecutors said her scheme was the largest known fraud against the government’s Covid-19 relief programs.

At least 70 people were charged in the scheme, and more than 40 have already pleaded guilty or been convicted. Last year, another case related to the same scandal made national news, when someone attempted to bribe a juror in a separate trial by leaving about $120,000 in cash at her home in a Hallmark gift bag. Five people were later charged with bribery in that case.

Wikipedia noted:

Although the state agency responsible for monitoring the school meal program repeatedly tried to cut off funds, the organization was not shut down until FBI raids and federal indictments in 2022. As of late 2025, out of 78 suspects indicted in the fraud, more than 50 had pled guilty. Another seven individuals were found guilty at trial, including the leader of the scheme, Aimee Bock, while many others awaited trial. As most perpetrators, excluding Bock, were Somali Americans, the scandal resulted in increased political attention on the community, including from the administration of Donald Trump.

Note that these fraud allegations, trials, and convictions were the result of investigations during the Biden Administration, not the evil President Trump. Apparently the lovely Mrs Mynett doesn’t believe that the Biden Administration was being fair to Somalis.

I guess that this isn’t much of a surprise: it seems that the state of Minnesota and city of Minneapolis are suing the federal government to stop enforcing our immigration laws as well.

In his Twitter biography, Harry Pettit describes himself as:

Academic researcher. Geographer: extraction and resistance in MENA. Author of The Labor of Hope. Opinions my own, repost not endorsement. Free Palestine

I’ll reserve judgement on what kind of “academic researcher” he is, but he’s all in on the “Free Palestine”, more accurately described as free barbarism, movement. He even said:

October 7th was a legitimate and successful resistance operation. ‘israel’ made up lies and killed their own because they wanted cover to commit a holocaust.

while retweeting this hysterically funny claim:

Hamas has published a 42-page report rejecting claims that civilians were targeted on October 7. The report says fighters were instructed to avoid civilians, hospitals, schools, & medics, and accuses Israel of spreading false information. It urges the ICC or an independent body to investigate civilian casualty claims.

Yeah, uh huh, right. Hamas were so proud of their “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack that they filmed some of it. And it takes a special kind of stupid to see the kidnapping of children as “avoid(ing) civilians.” Hamas must believe that Westerners are stupid, and there’s at least some evidence that they’re right about that, to judge by the number of Westerners who actually support the Palestinians.

But this latest bit is just as inane. Mr Pettit calls “Olax” an “absolute hero” for throwing a brick through a window of the British embassy in The Hague. Mr Ex-Lax, oops, sorry, Olax has tried to get himself arrested, so that he can begin a hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestina Action hunger strikers in British jails.

Perhaps he hadn’t hears tat four of the eight hunger strikers gave up their action, leaving only Heba Muraisi, 31, Teuta Hoxha, 29, Kamran Ahmed, 28, and Lewie Chiaramello, 22, who is refusing food every other day because he has diabetes, actually on strike. I’m not certain how Mr Chiaramello could be considered a true hunger striker if he’s eating every other day, but I don’t think that not being able to comprehend the logic of the left is a serious deficiency.

Ahhh, but Mr Olax said in his video, “I intend not to eat, to NOT drink, (and) will refuse all life prolonging medical care.” Human beings starting in decent physical condition can survive over a month without food, but the body starts to shut down after just three days without water. Depending upon conditions, and death can occur. Four or even five days survival is possible, but just barely. It looks like he’ll have a pretty short hunger strike if he refuses to drink, and refuses intravenous hydration.

I look at Mr Olax’s video, and my first thought is: how does he really intend to persuade anyone not already on his side while showing wholly messy and unkempt hair, a beard which looks like [insert slang term for feces here], or like a ‘Palestinian’ jihadi, and a belly which looks like he has very little experience in missing meals? Clearly Dress for Success” was not in his bookcase!

John Wayne supposedly once said, “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” In starting a war that they knew they could not win, Hamas and the ‘Palestinians’ who supported and cheered them on proved that life is tougher because they’re stupid. And the people living in the luxury of Western civilization who support Islamist barbarism are even dumber than the ‘Palestinians.’

Our good friends on the left are doing everything that they can to express their disgust, and try to score political points with far-left voters, over the eight Senate Democrats who agreed to end the filibuster and allow the continuing resolution to reopen the government to be passed. Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) is trying to tell us that he’d have gotten a better deal to reopen the government, because he finally got the state budget passed, a mere 135 days late. 🙂

Gov. Josh Shapiro says national Democrats folded in the federal shutdown, while he stayed ‘at the table’ for Pa.’s late budget deal

As Shapiro portrays the outcome of Pennsylvania’s 2025 state budget as an across-the-board victory, the path to get there was harder, messier, and longer than anyone in Harrisburg would have liked.

by Julia Terruso and Gillian McGoldrick | Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 5:00 AM EST | Updated: 10:08 AM EST

The turning point in Pennsylvania’s budget impasse, by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s telling, came just before Halloween, when he and leaders in Harrisburg gathered in his stately, wood-paneled office to meet twice daily to hash out a deal to end the bitter, monthslong stalemate.

The long grind eventually led to compromises 135 days in, and a deal Shapiro said he thinks is far better than what national Democrats, hoping to extend healthcare subsidies, got in Washington at the end of the federal shutdown.

“Sometimes you’ve got to show that you’re willing to stay at the table and fight and bring people together in order to deliver,” Shapiro told The Inquirer in an interview Friday, touting the state budget agreement finally signed that week.

“I think it’s a stark contrast, frankly, with what happened in D.C., where they didn’t stay at the table, they didn’t fight, and they got nothing,” he said.

Let’s tell the truth here: the Democrats in Washington weren’t “at the table” because Republicans wouldn’t negotiate with them, and that’s because Republicans had most of the power. Republicans control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House in Washington, while they control only the Senate in the Keystone State.

As Shapiro portrays the outcome of Pennsylvania’s 2025 state budget as an across-the-board victory, the path to get there was harder and messier than he would have liked: a nearly five-month slog that strained his dealmaker image and forced concessions to get the deal across the line — including no new money for mass transit. The absence of a new funding stream in the budget marked a final blow in the saga to Southeastern Pennsylvania commuters who rely on SEPTA — and who are likely to be reminded of the beleaguered agency’s funding woes as delays, staffing issues, and needed repairs persist.

Critics are quick to note it took the self-proclaimed dealmaker so long to get a deal. Counties, school districts, and nonprofits struggled through four months without state payments while officials remained at loggerheads. Pennsylvania was the last state in the nation to pass a spending plan for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

The failure of the budget to include new money for SEPTA is the big bugaboo for Philadelphia-area Democrats. They certainly don’t like the apparently horrible idea of raising fares to have the people who use SEPTA pay more of SEPTA’s expenses.

At the federal level, all the Democrats had was the power to keep the Senate from voting on the Continuing Resolution via the filibuster . . . and the Republicans who control the Senate could have used the so-called “nuclear option” to end the filibuster rule, something the President urged them to do.

But things were worse for the Democrats at the federal level than Republicans in Pennsylvania. Sure, many “counties, school districts, and non-profits struggled,” but at the federal level the 42 million SNAP recipients were having to go without their ‘food stamps,’ their EBT cards being refilled. How much longer could the Democrats have held out?

We have previously reported on how Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch and the newspaper’s Editorial Board were just spittle-flecking mad that the Democrats ended the filibuster, and now the Working Families Party — which is a complete misnomer, since so much of their support comes from non working families and welfare recipients — have decided that they are “committed to recruiting and supporting a primary challenge to him in 2028.”

Earlier this year, Fetterman was the first Senate Democrat to support the Laken Riley Act, a Republican immigration bill that requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain and take into custody individuals who have been charged with theft-related offenses, even without a conviction. Critics of the law say it severely cracks down on due process for immigrants.

Fetterman was the sole Senate Democrat to vote to confirm Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was one of Trump’s attorneys when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

And he has been the Senate’s most outspoken defender of Israel during its war in Gaza, sponsoring a resolution with Sen. Dave McCormick (R., Pa.) against antisemitism and appearing for the first time since his fall at an event hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on Monday.

He also received recognition from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called him the country’s “best friend” and gifted him a silver pager inspired by Israel’s attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon that exploded pagers.

“He has repeatedly shown disregard for the rights of Palestinians,” the Working Families Party release said. “Refusing to support a two-state solution and breaking with the rest of the Democratic caucus on Israel’s illegal annexation of the West Bank.”

Translation: Senator Fetterman does not hate Jooooos enough.

You know who else do not “support a two-state solution” for the ‘Palestinians’? The ‘Palestinians’ themselves, along with their fellow travelers who chant “From the River To the Sea” in support of them.

The Pennsylvania (Non)Working Families Party hates things like law enforcement, rejoicing over the re-election of Philadelphia’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police hating District Attorney Larry Krasner, and of course they support the blood-thirsty ‘Palestinians’. Mr Fetterman is a surprisingly good Senator, a Democrat to be sure, but a moderate Democrat rather than a wild-eyed leftist.

So, apparently Senator Fetterman will have a challenger from the far-left in the 2028 primary, assuming that he even runs for re-election; he’s not in the best of health, despite being only 56 years old.

A fine gentleman named Tim Hannan, whose Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — biography simply describes himself as “New Yorker, pro-Democracy”, threatened us all with this vicious threat:

From here on out Donald Trump enablers are put on notice. Democracy will survive. We are not scared of Tinfoil dictator Trump. He may never be held to account but you will.

When challenged in Twitter by some, including me, to tell us how he was going to hold us accountable, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, the brave Mr Hannan chose not to respond.

What Mr Hannan wrote is not a legally specific threat, so it’s not something for which he could legally be held accountable, but we can certainly mock him, which many did.

The “No Kings” protests were on Saturday, but here it is, Monday morning, and I have yet to see anything in the news about Donald Trump no longer being President. It’s cool here, but the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and somehow I have yet to be held accountable for having cast one of the 77,302,580 votes which made Mr Trump our President today. 🙂

So very, very many of the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian demonstrators were decrying ‘genocide’ of the ‘Palestinians’ by Israel in the two-year-long war. They published all sorts of photos of places before-and-after the war. The same could have been done concerning Berlin and Dresden and Tokyo and Yokohama, because that’s what it takes to win wars. The last war we actually won was World War II, because we bombed and burned and blasted the infrastructure of Germany and Japan and, to a lesser extent, Italy, because that was what it took to starve their war machines and their governments. The lesson should be: don’t start a war you can’t win! Japan did, Germany did, Italy did, and now Hamas have done the same thing.

And now we know just what Hamas were trying to do:

Hamas Oct 7 memo shows meticulous plan to ‘end the children of Israel’

Story by Jotam Confino • Sunday, October 12, 2025

Yahya Sinwar sent to his eternal reward in Al-Hawwiyah.

An October 7 memo written by the Hamas leader in Gaza instructed members to burn down entire neighbourhoods, stamp on soldiers’ heads and broadcast the attack to the world.

It was followed up with orders from Hamas commanders to “kill everyone you encounter” and “end the children of Israel”.

The six-page memo, found in a bunker by the IDF, was written in Arabic by Yahya Sinwar, who was the Hamas leader until he was killed by the IDF in Gaza in October last year.

The original was published here, in London’s The Telegraph, but you need a subscription to see it. Here is The New York Times story on the discovered document.

Details were revealed in documents and intercepts discovered in Gaza and verified by The New York Times. They provide evidence that Hamas deliberately targeted civilians, contrary to their own claims throughout the war.

It also shows how carefully planned the attack was, despite some claiming it was sporadic.

It instructed bulldozers to destroy the fence separating Israel from Gaza, and for combatants to “stomp on the heads of soldiers,” as well as “opening fire on soldiers at point-blank range, slaughtering some of them with knives, blowing up tanks”.

“It needs to be affirmed to the unit commanders to undertake these actions intentionally, film them and broadcast images of them as fast as possible,” it stated.

“Two or three operations, in which an entire neighbourhood, kibbutz, or something similar will be burned, must be prepared,” the memo said.

Before the attack, a Hamas commander from Gaza City, known as Abu al-Baraa, told operatives near Kibbutz Sa’ad: “Document the scenes of horror, now, and broadcast them on TV channels to the whole world. Slaughter them. End the children of Israel.”

Well, we know that they did that part! Hamas and their minions did exactly that, and were intensely proud of having done so. The fake ‘journalist’ Saleh Aljafarawi celebrated the October 7 attack, but now he’s been killed, not by Israel, but another ‘Palestinian’ faction. Hamas have been executing Gazans they suspect of having collaborated with the IDF. They are nothing but a death cult.

Of course, our good-hearted and sympathetic and noble friends on the left will never recognize that the people they’ve been supporting are simply bloodthirsty killers. They’re all like the idiotic “queers for Palestine” people, people who Hamas and the other Islamists would happily slaughter for being queer.

And now it is being reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Trump in Washington on Friday. Mr Trump failed in his earlier attempt to broker a ceasefire in the Russo-Ukrainian War, but there was never any real doubt that he’d try again. Will progress be made? Will the President succeed? Only the Lord knows the answer to that, but it is at least a possibility. If he succeeded, no one would be more hurt than Bill Kristol and the rest of the neocons.

It wasn’t like tons of people stated that recognizing the Palestinian state would be a victory for the terrorists who started this on October 7th, right?

Hamas declares ‘victory’ after UK recognition of Palestine

Hamas has declared victory for “the justice of our cause” after Sir Keir Starmer announced Britain would recognise Palestinian statehood.
In a video message on Sunday, Sir Keir insisted the move, one of the most significant shifts in British foreign policy in decades, was “not a reward for Hamas”.

But Mahmoud Mardaw, a senior Hamas official, claimed it represented “a victory for Palestinian rights and the justice of our cause” and would “send a clear message” to Israel.

On Sunday night, US president Donald Trump said the decision was “rewarding Hamas”. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, he added: “I don’t think they should be rewarded. I am not in that camp, to be honest.”

Canada and Australia, which have been overrun with Islamist just like the UK, also recognized Palestinian statehood

“With the actions of Hamas, the Israeli government escalating the conflict and settlement building being accelerated in the West Bank, the hope of a two-state solution is fading, but we cannot let that light go out,” Starmer said.

Alongside similar announcements of recognition from Canada and Australia, he described Hamas as a “brutal terror organisation”.

He said: “We are clear this solution is not a reward for Hamas, because it means Hamas can have no future, no role in government, no role in security.”

The group which is a designated terrorist organization by the UK government disagrees.

Jewish organisations, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, condemned the decision, arguing there will be “deep dismay at the Prime Minister’s announcement across the Jewish community”, while the Campaign Against Antisemitism described the decision as “Sir Keir Starmer’s Neville Chamberlain moment”.

Meanwhile, the families of hostages held by Hamas said the UK and its allies were responsible for a “catastrophic failure of political, moral and diplomatic leadership” and said any recognition of Palestine must be contingent on the release of their relatives.

Britain is lost.

Update: LOL