So Miller is blaming CBP (they “may not have been following […] protocol”, "The initial [lying] statement from DHS was based on reports from CBP on the ground.”)
Noem is blaming the White House (“Trump had been privately defending [the killer]”, “Noem was given guidance from multiple White House officials on how she should talk about the shooting”).
And trump is distancing himself from both of them, as well as Bovino.
They’ve also announced that they’re not going to release the killer’s bodycam footage.
Threat briefings are now fixated on alleged “retaliatory” plots against ICE and Border Patrol after the deaths of Pretti and Good. “Lots of people are freaking out,” one officer told Klippenstein, saying agents are “getting seriously paranoid, afraid of being targeted by ‘retaliators,’” and talk as if “we are fighting insurgents,” turning Minneapolis into a domestic Baghdad.
What’s that Battlestar Galactica quote about the people becoming the enemy of the state?
The result, officers say, is an overstretched and physically and emotionally shattered force. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) teams are “being squeezed heavily” to police protests rather than tracking down immigration targets. This, they say, leaves “lots of guys totally exhausted out there with a lot of pressure on them” to conduct non-immigration missions, one officer said.
Poor babies. You can always quit.
Another warned that the FBI is now “reluctant to participate” in any Minneapolis task forces.
Interesting.
One senior ICE agent summed up his reaction to Pretti’s killing in two words: “F–k this.”
Fuck ICE.
They only get their 50k bonus if they stay for five years, and they have to pay off all those macho pickups they bought …
Every year, I buy a farm share (CSA) that gets me about half a bushel of produce every week during the growing season, plus PYO privileges; right now, it’s running about $400 for 24 weeks, so about $17 a week. The CSA model is that you pay up front, so the farm has the money to run for the year without being dependent on extreme variables like weather and crop prices. When it’s a good year, I get extra produce; and if it’s a bad year, well, prices in the stores are going to rise anyway. And after I buy my share, I don’t have to buy produce for like 2/3’s of the year. Anyway, it all means that my meals are very veggie-based, and seasonal; and that I have less of a ‘feel’ for the cost of my meals because I pay most of it up front.
Stuff that I make with my share (I freeze about half the stuff I make and eat it through the winter and spring):
Leafy-green stuff: salad; stir fry; frittatas; lettuce soup (okay but not great, but prevents letting stuff spoil when I get sick of lettuce month); kale chips; spinach salad, spinach dip.
Veggie dishes: eggplant Parmesan; zucchini boats; stuffed tomatoes, stuffed peppers; feta-crusted baked tomatoes; cinnamon roasted potatoes; French onion soup; seven layer casserole; pizza; mashed turnips with potatoes; colcannon; moussaka; baba ganoush; roasted daikon; radishes with butter; three beet salad; double garlic soup; garlic scape dip; chili; garlic mashed potatoes; creamy corn chowder. [This also doesn’t include simple “direct” stuff like roasted carrots or potatoes, corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes, etc.]
Canning / freezing / dehydrating extras: marinara; salsa; tomato paste; red pepper flakes; hot sauce; pickled garlic, pickled onions, pickled beets; giardiniera; dilly beans; apple slices, apple skins, apple butter; sauerkraut; garlic scape relish. Lots of various herbs.
Fruit-based or dessert-type stuff I make from my share: strawberry muffins, strawberry shortcake; blueberry pancakes; raspberry jam; blackberry compote; apples baked in lemon custard; zucchini bread, butternut squash bread; pumpkin pie; peach kuchen; sweet potato pie; baked sweet potatoes with apples; baesuk.
There’s undoubtedly a lot of stuff that I’m forgetting to list.
Invited to hear Noem and Lewandowski was White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director.
So - the person paid to pay attention while Trump takes naps, and two people running the White House spin machine. Meaning that absolutely nothing is going to change except their PR.
NetHack. Tracker support. Very occasionally, ebooks and audiobooks I couldn’t find elsewhere.
I mean, the main reason they’re making folding phones is that general phones have gotten so large. I’d love to have some decent small-form phones back on the market.
He’s ?56?. Mandatory retirement age is 57, so he was headed out anyway.
It’s a distraction, to lower the resistance and the heat while they continue to lay siege.
“Trust us, bro!”
Lucy pulls the football away again
I keep saying that the cops should be civil forfeiting every vehicle, mask, and piece of tacticool gear ICE uses.
Don’t count on reddit being much better. spez explicitly protected r/TD multiple times and is very much a follower with a desire to be in the “big” techbro leagues, including Nazi affiliation.
You enabled and covered for all this shit. You could stop it, even now. You are complicit.
He’s … 56? now, and mandatory retirement age is 57, so he was planning to leave soon anyway. This is just him being moved off the board in an attempt to reset public opinion regarding ICE operations and de-escalate the resistance.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said Bovino’s access to his DHS social media accounts has been revoked.
A promising sign that this is true.
The Atlantic also reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her adviser Corey Lewandowski are at risk of losing their positions.
It would be nice if this were true as well.
“All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it,” Melugin added.
They’re fine with it, they’re only upset with some of “minor” details.
“Many of the sources have expressed frustration that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.”
Border Patrol was assigned to help ICE; ICE is supposedly in charge of these operations. Maybe ICE should be more discerning about what people or agencies they accept help from. And if they don’t like it that much maybe they should be be exercising tighter control and oversight of the people working for them.
Fuck that. You knew what you were getting into when you signed up, you’re only upset now because you have to work longer and harder than you thought you would.
It’s unclear why January’s security update for Windows 11 has been so disastrous.
Vibe coding …
A) he could be pardoned right now, before anything else happens. Except
B) he’s been charged with crimes at the state level, so Walz isn’t going to pardon him and a pardon from the federal level would have no effect