“MSP” is the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport.
I can confirm via friend that works at MSP….”there was a confrontation with Ice and tsa yesterday. They were confronting the tsa in the checkpoints and asking for THEIR papers”
— Marc Bloomquist (@m40dotcom.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Hey, Kristi Gnome says we all need to carry our papers at all times or else ICE can “detain” us. But that stirred up manosphere influencer Joe Rogan. Greg Sargent writes at The New Republic,
This week, Rogan harshly criticized Trump’s ICE raids again after the horrific and unjustified killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. “You don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people, many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don’t have their papers on them,” Rogan said:
“Are we really gonna be the gestapo?” Rogan asked. “Where’s your papers—is that what we’ve come to?”
And the answer is yes. That’s what we’ve come to.
Sargent goes on to say the murder of Renee Good is, among other things, a massive PR problem for the Trump Administration. A Quinnipiac poll found that 87 percent of Americans have seen the videos of the shooting. Only 35 percent of those believe the shooting was justified. CNN and Yahoo News found that only 26-27 percent believe the shooting was justified. In all polls a clear majority believe it was unjustified.
Sargent points to a private memo on research circulating among Democratic party operatives:
The testing also found that the killing has “broken through with voters,” the memo says, with 86 percent saying they have heard at least “a little” about it and 76 percent saying they’ve seen footage. And importantly, the testing also finds that Democratic proposals to rein in ICE have broad support. Voters favor requiring warrants for arrests by 29 points, and back a prohibition against masking during arrests by 16 points, though “Abolish ICE” remains a few points underwater.
However, according to Forbes, more people want to abolish ICE than keep it.
Sargent’s point is that this issue is breaking through to the “low-information” Americans who don’t pay much attention to the news. And it hands Democrats an opportunity that even Chuck Schumer couldn’t miss, one hopes.
Trump is eager to invoke the Insurrection Act, reportedly in the belief that it would give him absolute dictatorial powers to crush all opposition. The government-sponsored violence will likely get worse. And, possibly, Trump is preparing an excuse to cancel the midterms. He doesn’t have the constitutional authority to cancel the midterms, but don’t be surprised if he tries. Democrats are preparing to counter any move he might make to interfere with the midterms.
See also this Chris Hayes segment.
Stephen Miller and other elements of the Maladministration are flapping their lips as fast as they can to paint ICE as the noble, hard-working victims of an insurrection that has been funded and orchestrated by nefarious anti-American forces. But clearly the public ain’t buyin’ it.
To complicate matters regarding the murder of Renee Good — The New York Times is reporting that Good still had a pulse when emergency workers got to her. You might have seen that ICE prevented a doctor at the scene from going to her and also blocked first responders from driving to her car, forcing the first responders (they may have been firefighters) to carry her back to their vehicle to begin trying to save her. According to an ABC News timeline of the shooting, the first shot was fired at 9:37:13 a.m. She began to receive CPR at 9:45:30 a.m. That’s not a huge amount of time, but maybe if CPR and other lifesaving measures had begun immediately she could have been saved. We’ll never know.
In other news — yesterday Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado met with Trump at the White House and gave him her Nobel medal. And he kept it. I assume she still thinks he will change his mind and support her as Venezuela’s rightful leader. But I hope she doesn’t hold her breath. Most likely she gave away her medal for nothing but a swag bag. I hope that someday when Trump is gone someone has the decency to return the medal to her, but she’ll probably never see it again.
Regarding Trump’s threats to attack Greenland — I see that Republicans in Congress realize how stupid and self-destructive that would be. Some of them are even telling Trump it’s a really bad idea; they are trying to “scare him back to reality.” But I can’t take them too seriously if they can’t even pass the bill that would stop Trump from further military action in Venezuela.
We just thought we had an immigration problem before we saw the immigration solution.
Just because the agriculture and construction industries are being devastated, and anyone who does not look like a blonde Teutonic warrior or a Valkrye is being kidnapped I don’t see any reason to be worried. These little glitches will work themselves out into full-blown crises in no time.
We often hear that Americans are too provincial and seldom leave the country. The Trump regime is offering Americans all expenses paid trips to to the sunny, tropical El Salvador or to exotic Sudan, with the fabled Nile, camels, AND RPGs.
Clearly, it is going to be the biggest, the best deportation sweep ever seen.
Clearly the best in this age of superlatives. Maureen Dowd killed it with her Donald of Deliria article in today's NYT.
Machado doesn't deserve to get the medal back. She decided to play footsie with the Fascist Orange Clown, so she deserves all the consequences. (Is she going to maintain support at home by swapping one dictator for another?) As Yoda might say, "If once you start down the Trump path, forever will it dominate your destiny."
One might even say she's enabling him.
Uh, I wouldn't count on that. Schumer can miss anything.
He'll never miss a payment from his big money donors.
Greenland is the cork in the bottle, the stopper that seals Europe’s northwestern borders from Russian aggression. The US helps operate, maintain, and use extensively, the passive sonar systems that cover vast stretches of icy ocean waters in that part of the world. The US and NATO, keep the Russian submarine fleet under near constant surveillance and we know where nearly every Russian missile submarine is at all times.
Russian missile submarines carry nuclear warheads that target American cities and military installations.
We can’t get that system of protection back once we lose it. The moment we declare war on Greenland we lose the faith and trust of our NATO allies.
Europe will respond to all things American as an existential threat. All trade treaties and immigration will halt.
This is Putin's desire and what ever he has on the circus peanut, he will do it. Only now his actions seem more accelerated.
Will Congress let it happen? Will the military? If he believes there will be an election, and he knows the Dems will win, he will do it before then. The military has been wiped of real leaders.
We are doomed.
"Greenland is the cork in the bottle, the stopper that seals Europe’s northwestern borders from Russian aggression"
Which is why diaper don wants it, he's working for Putin!
Chuck Schumer is more pro-tRump than many repugs. Like maga, he does not care if he destroys turnout.and the most radical wingnuts are elected. All the old dems, and schumer is far too old to be competent even if be wantes to be, needed to retire long ago. It was shameful that anyone that supported Iraq war was allowed, via entirely rigged primaries and delegate selection, to catapult tRump into White House by a former sec of.state that never met a war she could not get behind. Frankly, if she spent more time "entertaining" bill clinton so he did not have to wag his finger and lie about sex with "that woman", maybe she would have had a chance — she was the most unpopular and incompetent candidate in U.S. history and those closest to her even published a book detailing her many screw-ups and indifferences to beating tRump.
Bill should have slent 2016 make her gag with a large banana of bis cboice 😉 Then we could have had a.popular candidate thqt would have crushed tRump.
All so disturbing, because it was not just maga that catapulted tRump into power.
Chuck is my senator and I want him to be replaced as badly as anyone, but you're way overstating the problem. He does want a Democratic majority in Congress. After all, with a Senate majority he gets to be Majority Leader. He's just way out of touch with what "normal" people are thinking and tends to promote candidates that fill some centrist ideal he formed in his head during the Reagan Administration. And while I'm no Hillary Clinton fan, I find the rest of your comment sexist.
sexist is far too kind
To “Longtime Reader”:
Hi, Boris.
Clearly, Trump should back off with Greenland. Europe is sending troops to Greenland. I don't think they will fire on US troops, but they will object – they are invited, and the US is not. The complaint will emphasize the violation of the NATO pact, and we will be ostracized from Europe. We'll be told to pack up every military base we have in Europe. Trump will embargo NATO from obtaining replacement military parts. For the military-industrial complex, the loss of NATO sales will be devastating.
I'm not at all sure NATO will collapse – they have Putin to worry about. If the rest of the world joins the EU in a boycott, or if they dump T-bills, the US economy will be in Great Depression territory for some time. The thing is: Putin has Trump convinced that we have to dump NATO and Europe. So Trump may still do it – if the military will follow Trump's orders.
There's no DOJ investigation of Renee Good's murder. If sources are right, NO investigation. Not even the pretense of an objective effort to collect evidence and statements from witnesses. When/if this goes to court, grandstanding by Noem will not impress a jury.
This week, a union worker for Ford greeted Trump on a tour with a loud, "Pedophile Protector." And President Pedphile flipped him off. Ford suspended him without pay and a pair of GoFundMe campaigns collected $800.000.00 and change before the Ford worker closed it down.
DOJ is trying to get a Grand Jury to charge Governor Walz and Mayor Frey for 'obstructing' ICE. This will likely fail in court, but locking up political opponents remains an essential part of the takeover that they can't get right.
The damage to the ship of state continues to mount. But Trump is not winning on so many fronts. Polls show Trump is in real trouble politically. Venezuela bought Trump nothing. The chaos and blood have temporarily taken the pressure off Trump for the Epstein files but none of those distractions is working to make Trump more popular.
The situation is really bad for the US, economically and internationally. If the midterms are a rout and the economy a shambles, the GOP will want to dump Trump and cut the 2028 losses if they can.
I was very reluctant to add this recent news to this post, as I needed other sources to verify its veracity. Maureen Dowd did so in her column today:
After he shot he a number of times, at least once in the face.
Do recall the fabrications emanating from the white house on this matter. No wonder the public is not buying anything that PP and company is saying. It is delusional nonsense. The word lie is not strong enough. No adjective supporting the word lie is strong enough. Delusional nonsense I can go with. Note: PP is the new moniker fearless leader got from the Union guy (See Doug comment for details). For Doug and others that missed my recent comment Puddles may be next. Delusional Donny cannot be ruled out.
Thanks — you are far too kind. I didn't think I needed the sarcasm tag and did go too far. Like many, I am disappointed that dems paved the way to tRump. Schumer and the Clintons did more than help and need to head off into the sunset. When dems run repug lites or cannot tell the truth, in Hillary's case, she knew the more people saw/heard her the less the less they liked her. "What Happened" is a must read but Schumer and Hillary don't get it and might as well be stealth tRumpers.
Have been reading about the ICE Capades in Mpls – residents are hosing down the sidewalks and streets, making them icy-slick for the shock troops. These recruits are no match for seasoned northerners, battled hardened to deal with the winter. Gov Tim Walz is the man of the hour;
In Canada, PM Carney has opened the door for Chinese EVs. These will decimate the US auto industry, which (I believe) still has plants in Canada. This is why Elon's Tesla stopped producing newer and cheaper models and turned to the CyberTruck – he can't compete with China. Way to go, alienating our neighbors.
What ICE is doing is clearly not primarily about immigration enforcement. Just read that in his 8 years, Obama deported over 3 million. But it was not done with all the violence and threats. They werent accosting random people on the streets, and the focus wasnt on red or blue states. They just found people, went to their homes and politely but firmly asked them to leave within a prescribed time frame. At his current pace, Trump will not come close to Obamas numbers.
Trump ignores the law and is openly corrupt, but media pretends that what he does is "normal." For example, its barely reported, but Trump set up an account in Qatar to "manage" proceeds from the sale of oil on tankers the US military is hijacking on the open seas. So essentially Trump used the US military to pirate and hijack shipping for his own profit! Its bad enough oil is being stolen, but the proceeds are not even going into the Treasury but in his own personal control. That he would even openly do this and apparwntly without any concern for accountability is mind blowing. Remember what the Bidens were accused of to be called "The Biden Crime Family"? This is far worse than any of the imaginary crimes Hunter Biden was accused of, but nary a peep from the media.
We elected a convicted felon, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised. If we had a real congress, Trump would have been impeached and removed from office by now. Even if dems take over in 2026, they'll still need GOP support to properly hold him accountable.
We have a truly effed up system when all it takes to break the law at the highest level is political leaders willing to be complicit
The situation in MN has been escalating in a few different ways after the murder of one R. Good. MAGA surged counterprotesters who have aggressively been (literally) in the faces of anti-ICE folks. These aren't wine moms they're flying in – the toops include J6 veterans. They're spinning the confrontations for Fox to accuse ant-ICE as the terrorists.
DOJ is going after Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. I don't think DOJ has a snowball's chance in hell with a jury, but it's a fastball thrown way inside to brush them back. And it's not working.
Governor Walz is actually calling out the National Guard. What I wouldn't give to know the real rules of engagement. They are trained in crowd-control, so you can bet they will keep MAGA away from anti-ICE. The question is: what happens when ICE cones in contact with the National Guard in a situation where ICE is potentially outside of their jurisdiction, which includes contact with anyone who is legal. I'm not sure if the NG can detain ICE for Minnesota law enforcement to arrest and detain. Yeah, ICE might start shooting, but the National Guard actually has training and armored personnel carriers and heavy weapons.
Is this a confrontation Walz wants? No, but he's not indifferent to citizens being murdered on the street. A confrontation gets the issue in front of a federal judge and the judicial verdict, IMO, is to have ICE stand down and depart so that the National Guard can go home. (This is what I was referring to earlier. When the judge demands the investigation report, or to talk to whoever is in charge of it, ICE will have nobody and nothing to support the determination that an unarmed woman was at fault for being shot dead in her car by ICE in a stop where they had ZERO jurisdiction.)
Where does it go? If a judge orders ICE to stand down in the invasion tactics, Trump will either obey or defy the court. When there are appeals, if ICE is continuing to engage and injure citizens in violation of the order, higher courts will be VERY unlikely to sustain ICE. Let the administration go full-rogue and see what happens in the final throw when they call on the US Army to mobilize against citizens.
Yes, this is ugly. More people will die. But we are not losing.