Bombshell report exposes militant tactics of anti-ICE network in Minnesota

"In behind-the-scenes conversations reviewed by City Journal, anti-ICE activists admitted their goal is to make immigration enforcement "too expensive," "too difficult," and "too annoying.' "

Jenna Gloeb | Alpha News MN

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"An in-depth investigation by City Journal is raising serious questions about whether a Minneapolis-based anti-ICE network is pushing civilians into dangerous confrontations with federal immigration agents after the shooting deaths of two activists in less than a month.

"City Journal reports that both Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs ICU nurse killed Jan. 24, and Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother killed Jan. 7, were participants in “ICE watching,” an activist tactic that includes tracking and filming federal agents, and alerting others to enforcement actions.

Defend the 612

"According to City Journal, one group sits at the center of Minneapolis’ anti-ICE movement: Defend the 612.

"The organization oversees a large network of Signal chats that monitor immigration enforcement, coordinate protests, and mobilize rapid-response actions across Minneapolis neighborhoods, City Journal reported.

"City Journal said it examined Defend the 612’s trainings, accessed its Signal channels, and traced its organizational support.

"The outlet reported that its investigation found that members and “related officials have encouraged protesters to impede law enforcement; pushed civilians toward legally and physically risky confrontations; and helped mobilize a counterprotest that turned violent.”

"Some of Defend the 612’s trainings were led by outside activist organizations, including States at the Core and Protect RP.

"Protect RP has been explicit about its goals. A Protect RP organizer previously described the group’s activities as “interfering with [immigration enforcement], confusing them, slowing them down so they can’t take more people, and doing it so well that they never want to come back,” according to City Journal." . . . More...

Inside Minneapolis’s ICE Watch Network   . . . "Defend the 612 lists ICE-watch trainings on its website, sometimes many per week. These trainings instruct attendees how to identify, document, and alert others to immigration enforcement, and to relay information through neighborhood-based Signal networks.

"Some sessions are led by Defend the 612 organizers, while others are taught by outside groups such as States at the Core (STAC) and Project RP. None of these groups responded to City Journal’s request for comment." . . .

Restoring & Revealing the Missing Piece of Gettysburg’s History

Once condemned, Hopkins House is on its way to becoming Gettysburg’s newest world-class museum 

“It’s comprehensive,” adds Green. “It will be the only museum that will actually tell the whole story of Gettysburg’s Black history from the beginning. And I think that’s very important, because people still might not know that there was and is a Black presence here in Gettysburg.” 

"On a late November day, the sky above Gettysburg’s South Washington Street was overcast and colorless—matching the white housewrap encasing a two-story home. The water-resistant layer rippled in the wind as light rain fell. 

"The home wasn’t exactly under construction; it was being deconstructed. Mint green siding had been removed from the outside of the Civil War era-home, now guarded by orange traffic cones and twisting yellow caution tape. From the outside, it was a somber scene.

"Yet inside, it was anything but somber. History was being revealed.

"Encased within that old green siding and plastered walls was an original log cabin. Inside, with the plaster removed, red oak logs were seeing the light of day for the first time in decades. They seemed to glow with new life, as workers filled the gaps with new chinking. Excited chatter filled the air; the restoration team sharing their progress with Andrew Dalton, president and CEO of the nonprofit Gettysburg History, along with Jean Green, president of the nearby Lincoln Cemetery Project Association.

“ 'It’s the only surviving Civil War structure in the Black community here in Gettysburg,” says Dalton, noting the plethora of plaques gracing other Civil War-era buildings throughout town. “We are saving the very, very last piece of Black history—visible, concrete evidence of Gettysburg’s Black community.”

"Not only will the home earn a Civil War-era plaque of its own, but as the Hopkins House, it will welcome future generations of visitors to learn about another layer of history as Gettysburg’s only museum devoted entirely to the town’s Black history.

“'With this taking place,” Green says, “all the history in Gettysburg will be complete.” . . .

Jack Hopkins

Hopkins House History: The history of Hopkins House goes back to the 1840s, when U.S. presidents included Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk and Zachary Taylor.

“The house was built, we believe, in the 1840s by a free Black family,” says Dalton. “And then it was sold to Abraham Brian, who famously owned a farm on the fields of Pickett’s Charge.”

"Brian owned it for five or six years, then sold it to the Hopkins family.

“Jack and Julia Hopkins lived here in the 1850s through the time of the Civil War,” says Dalton. “It’s the only home that’s still standing that was owned by and lived in by a Black family.”

"The lives of the Hopkins family, like many neighboring Black families of the Third Ward, became intertwined with the greater Gettysburg community. Jack Hopkins worked as a janitor at Gettysburg College, but he also was an integral link in the Underground Railroad." . . 

The Hopkins family’s three children were baptized around the corner and raised in the Catholic Church. Son Edward, after serving in the U.S. Colored Troops and surviving the Civil War, returned to Gettysburg. He not only ran a successful restaurant, but became the first Black elected official in the town’s history in 1880.  

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Trump Looks on to the Next Generation

 Julio Rivera - American Thinker

"In an era when too many leaders treat the domestic sphere as an afterthought, something to be managed while attention drifts abroad, President Trump is doing the opposite. He is placing American families back at the center of national policy, not as symbols, but as stakeholders."

"President Trump has always understood a truth that much of Washington either ignores or refuses to confront. Nations do not endure on rhetoric alone. They endure because they raise strong families, cultivate capable citizens, and think beyond the next election cycle. 

"The twin initiatives announced recently, Trump Accounts and TrumpRx, should be understood through that lens. Together, they represent a domestic strategy aimed not merely at governing the present moment, but at securing the future of the country itself. 

"The launch of Trump Accounts is a striking example of this thinking. Every American child born between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2028 will receive a one-thousand-dollar government-seeded account designed to grow alongside them from birth. This is not a handout and it is not a replacement for work, discipline, or parental responsibility. It is a foundation. It is a clear signal that the nation has a vested interest in the financial literacy, long-term security, and upward mobility of its youngest citizens.

"At a time when many young Americans feel economically boxed out before they even reach adulthood, Trump Accounts are a declaration that the system should reward those willing to build, save, and contribute. This is not a European-style welfare promise. It is American capitalization in its purest form, empowering individuals early, encouraging ownership, and reinforcing the idea that prosperity is something cultivated over time rather than redistributed after the fact." . . .

Julio Rivera is a business and political strategist and a political commentator and columnist. His writing, which is focused on politics and business, is regularly published by many of the largest news organizations in the world.

Donald Trump Announces Govt Savings Accounts for Americans' Children  "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart News in July that the “Trump Accounts” would provide from the government “$1,000 seed investment for every newborn American and allows up to $5,000 in annual private contributions.”

He added that the Treasury will work to ensure schools and communities are educating account-holders about long-term saving, investment strategy, and compound growth. “We want you to understand it. We want you to learn about it.”

The initiative is already gaining private-sector traction. Last week, Charter Communications, one of the nation’s largest broadband providers, announced it would match the federal government’s $1,000 Trump Account contribution for employees’ children, effectively doubling the starting investment for thousands of working families.

The company also publicly thanked Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and President Trump for championing the policy, calling Trump Accounts a tool to “unleash the next generation of American success.” . . .

 

 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson removed any shred of impartiality by applauding anti-ICE speeches at the Grammys

Miranda Devine:  

"To impeach a federal judge is the same process as impeaching a president. It requires 2/3 of the Senate. So, we can stop dreaming, she’s going nowhere." From the Comments

Activist Supreme Court Judge

"Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to dismay.

"Her attendance at the rancidly partisan anti-ICE Grammy Awards on Sunday was a joke. 

"The 55-year-old Biden DEI candidate was nominated for a Grammy for narrating the audiobook of her memoir “Lovely One,” which she unashamedly believes herself to be. 

"But she should have stayed home rather than laughing and clapping in the audience with a bunch of virtue-signaling luvvies ranting “F–k ICE” every time they got on stage. 

"It should have been obvious to Jackson that the event would be politically charged. 

"She has to sit in judgment on various Trump administration immigration enforcement cases. 

"How can she be seen as im­partial? 

"The answer is: She can’t, any more than she can be impartial on transgender-related cases after she refused to “define” a woman during her 2022 Senate confirmation. 

“ 'I’m not a biologist,” she replied to Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) question, possibly the most embarrassing answer ever provided to Congress by a judicial nominee. 

"Using the same rule book Democrats have used in their prolonged attacks on conservative-leaning justices, Jackson should recuse herself from all immigration cases due to her enthusiastic involvement in the anti-ICE Grammys. 

Left’s double standard   "After all, the left has waged a years-long campaign to get Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito thrown off the court for such sins as holidaying with a friend who happens to be wealthy, in Thomas’ case, or in Alito’s, having a wife who flew a patriotic flag outside their home. 

"Liberals are sticklers about the appearance of propriety — but only for their perceived ideological opponents. 

"Of course, Jackson won’t recuse herself or endure any effective undermining from Republicans despite the fact that she is a left-wing activist in judicial robes, who gabs inanely during oral arguments and writes nonsensical dissents attacking her fellow justices." . . . More...

Rachel Zegler LOSES IT After South Park ROASTS Snow White…But.....

With AI what does one believe?

Rachel Zegler LOSES IT After South Park ROASTS Snow White…

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For Hollywood, Terrorizing Christians Is a Badge of Honor - Intellectual Takeout 

 "It’s increasingly clear that the entire Hollywood class is a racket. The sooner we realize this,  the sooner we will cease being shocked. Only indignation will remain – indignation that Lemon would take a victory lap after what he did." 

"Don Lemon made a little boy cry and Hollywood couldn’t be happier.

"On a Sunday in January, Lemon led a group of disruptive “protestors” into Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., to scream at the parishioners about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who allegedly attended the church. Lemon, a former CNN host, gleefully filmed Christian families fleeing the church in the snow, standing outside the building and interviewing church members who had nothing to do with ICE deportation efforts. In several videos leading up to the protest, Lemon refers to himself and the rioters as “we,” intimating that he knew the group’s plans to target the church.

"Lemon has been arrested and federally charged under the FACE Act, a law which the Biden administration infamously used to target and persecute pro-lifers praying outside abortion clinics. But the law also prohibits the disruption of peaceful religious services, an action in which Lemon took part." . . .  More...

‘We’re Not Criminalizing the Unhoused’: How a Homeless Encampment and Drug Dealers Are Destroying a Local Condominium Complex and Turning Its Residents’ Lives Upside Down

. . . "Those addicts, the officer explained, preferred to camp behind the condo, where there was no curfew, plenty of drugs, and none of the rules and regulations of homeless shelters.

"To get them off the street, he said, "you literally have to take them into handcuffs."

"Handcuffs appear to have been the county’s last resort. Following the Jan. 22 town hall, the Free Beacon returned to the condo and saw several camp regulars—including the woman who threatened Brown—camped around a fire in the area that had been cleared a day earlier.

"As the fire department arrived and began to shoo them away, Chris Barber, a Marylander resident, predicted they would come back. Asked how long that would take, Barber laughed.

" I give it about 10 minutes," he said."

MS-13 and army of bums take over Maryland condos; officials target the owners for eviction -report - American Thinker    "Blue-county officials have quite the circular logic when it comes to gangs of illegals and armies of bums taking over private properties.

"Instead of scooping up the gangs and forcing the bums into rehab, they've decided it would be better to evict the innocent victims of these criminals' activities in Prince George's County in Maryland. Yes, this really happened." . . .

Anti-ICE Applause: Jackson's Disqualifying Moment – PJ Media

"One thing we should never see is judges high-fiving criminals at parties; they enforce the law, not celebrate those who mock it. Neutrality demands distance from chaos, especially when robes hang in the closet. Attending events that trash law enforcement turns impartiality into a punchline." . . .