The NY Times has an excellent analysis of who was where when the federal agent shot and killed the protester, complete with diagrams and slowed video.

The Washington Post headline:

ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the woman had committed an act of “domestic terrorism,” first disobeying officers’ commands and then weaponizing her SUV by attempting to “run a law enforcement officer over.” President Donald Trump said the woman “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”

A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage, however, raises questions about those accounts. The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of

This morning in reading bits of reporting on the Minneapolis events I thought at first there was a second video, taken from in front of the car instead of behind it, but the one being cited turned out to be the same one we all ran a billion times yesterday.

The trouble is, of course, that it’s from behind, so we can’t tell if there’s another cop in front of the car and that’s the cop she was (according to team Trump) trying to hit – or as Trump cautiously put it, actually ran over.

I still don’t know. I see talk of a second video, but if it exists it’s hiding itself with great cunning.

Some NY Times reporters … Read the rest

The struggle to stamp out women’s rights in Scotland continues.

SNP ministers are seeking a legal ruling declaring that implementing the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on sex would unlawfully trample on the human rights of transgender criminals.

While not implementing the court’s ruling on sex would merely trample on the human rights of women, and that obviously doesn’t matter at all. Women are garbage, while transgender criminals are infinitely sacred and precious and valuable.

Despite repeatedly insisting in public that they accept the judgment of Britain’s top court in April, ministers have privately requested that Scotland’s top civil court issues a “declaration of incompatibility” which would severely undermine it, if its other legal arguments fail.

Privately, as in secretly … Read the rest

Filthy liars.

Today, in an act of domestic terrorism, an anti-ICE rioter weaponized her vehicle against law enforcement. Our officer relied on his training and saved his own life, as well as the lives of his fellow officers. Sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages rampant assaults on law enforcement.

@POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem will always have the backs of law enforcement.

Liars. She was leaving. … Read the rest

More destruction.

Trump said on Wednesday that the United States would withdraw from dozens of international and U.N. entities, including a key climate treaty and a U.N. body that promotes gender equality and women’s empowerment, because they “operate contrary to U.S. national interests.”

Among the 35 non-U.N. groups and 31 U.N. entities Trump listed in a memo to senior administration officials is the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change – described by many as the “bedrock” climate treaty which is parent agreement to the 2015 Paris climate deal.

The United States skipped the annual U.N. international climate summit last year for the first time in three decades.

“The United States would be the first country to walk away from

Whatever it takes to punish women.

SNP ministers are seeking a legal ruling declaring that implementing the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on sex would unlawfully trample on the human rights of transgender criminals.

Um, excuse me, what about the rights of women? There are a lot more women than there are transgender criminals. Maybe it’s worth paying attention to our rights too.

Despite repeatedly insisting in public that they accept the judgment of Britain’s top court in April, ministers have privately requested that Scotland’s top civil court issues a “declaration of incompatibility” which would severely undermine it, if its other legal arguments fail.

A declaration, if granted, would state that removing biologically male prisoners who say they identify as

Ugh god this guy

NY Times live updates:

Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said in a news conference that she will ask the Justice Department to prosecute the use of vehicles to block immigration enforcement operations as domestic terrorism.

Which is typical trumpian idiocy, because blocking people is the opposite of terrorism. Non-violent resistance is not terrorism.

Kristi Noem defended the use of deadly force by the federal agent and said that agency policy permitted an agent to fire on someone threatening officers with a deadly weapon, including a vehicle.

But she wasn’t threatening officers with her car, she was driving away. Maybe she had threatened them with her car earlier, I don’t know, but in those seconds before the Ice agent … Read the rest

The police say that’s not the way to do things.

NPR has reviewed multiple videos of the shooting taken from different vantage points and posted to social media. The footage shows multiple officers near an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. One officer demands the driver exit the vehicle and grabs the car [door] handle. The SUV reverses, then begins to drive forward, which is when a different officer near the front of the car pulls his weapon and fires into the vehicle. Three gunshots are heard, as the firing officer backs away from the SUV. Moments [seconds] later, the vehicle crashes.

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In a statement, DHS spokesperson McLaughlin asserted that the motorist “weaponized her vehicle, attempting

Slowed down.

Cop 1 told her to get out of the fucking car, she drove slowly away a few feet, cop 2 pulled his gun and shot her in the face.

I don’t think they’re supposed to do that, even when provoked. Yes you’re supposed to do what the police ICE tell you, but no they’re not supposed to shoot you for little or no reason. Some of the police ICE agents were saying get out of here, and she appears to have been doing that.

Grim.… Read the rest

Ok there is a clear video of what happened. A cop or agent fired straight into the woman’s car as she was driving away.

Victim signaled by passenger of arriving ICE pickup to leave. Yelled at to get out by another.

Victim panics, tries to flee.

Other agent kills with head shots.

Agent will say his life was in danger, so had to fire as trained.

— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) January 7, 2026

There’s video but it won’t embed.… Read the rest

In Minneapolis

An ICE officer fatally shot a woman Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis, according to Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for public affairs.

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McLaughlin claims the victim was “one of these violent rioters” who “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism.”  

In a social media post, Democratic Minnesota U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said the victim was “a U.S. citizen.”

Clearly McLaughlin has learned her rhetorical style from Trump.

Witnesses tell WCCO whistles sounded to alert neighbors of ICE’s presence at about 9:30 a.m. Witnesses say they saw a Honda Pilot blocked by multiple federal agents, who soon

Jo Bartosch in the Telegraph:

It was an attack that stripped away the chintzy veil of victimhood that has long shielded the transgender movement, revealing well organised thuggery. Yesterday, Bash Back, the self-described “direct action project”, hacked the Free Speech Union (FSU) website and published the names of donors, alongside the sums they gave and the campaigns they supported.

The intention was unmistakable: to intimidate and punish private citizens after the FSU’s founder, Lord Young of Acton, commissioned a security report into the threat posed by the group. On Bash Back’s website, the activists make clear that more such actions are planned, welcoming visitors to “a new era of trans rage”.

Not new. The rage has been … Read the rest

Do they even hear themselves?

Donald Trump and his team are considering “a range of options” in order to acquire Greenland — including “utilizing the U.S. Military,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNBC on Tuesday.

That’s not “acquiring”; it’s violently stealing. There’s no such thing as casually and cheerfully “acquiring” other countries, there is only invasion and imperialism.

Trump said Sunday that the U.S. needs Greenland for national security purposes, pointing to Russian and Chinese activities in the region near the Arctic island.

What the US needs or doesn’t need is irrelevant to whether or not Trump gets to annex Greenland by force.

There are situations where need is relevant. If a person using a cane or carrying … Read the rest

Trump thinks the January 6 rioters should be rewarded for their murderous rioting.

Supporters of some Jan. 6 riot defendants have championed the idea of a reparations fund to reimburse the criminal defendants — most of whom were pardoned by President Trump shortly after he returned to office last year — for the cost of their prosecutions and expenses.

Mark McCloskey, an attorney whose social media page says he is “championing the cause of J6 compensation,” posted on his X feed in August: “To all the J6 political prisoners out there- I’m doing everything I can to [expedite] the establishment of a claims resolution procedure so we can get you back on your feet and get you some real justice.”

Originally a comment by Athel Cornish-Bowen on Standpoint epistemology.

DTjr is seeking mineral rights interests in Greenland, so as to keep himself stocked up with cocaine for the rest of this life

Probably that’s right. A question that never seems to get asked by journalists and politicians is where the money comes from that drives the international drug trade. The answer is perfectly obvious, but as people don’t like the answer they don’t ask the question. The money comes from the pockets of the people, mainly in North America and Western Europe, who buy the stuff. No demand, no supply. The chaps in Colombia who grow cocaine wouldn’t bother if chaps like DTjr didn’t buy it. Here in Marseilles, … Read the rest

The Guardian’s defence and security editor tells us more about Greenland and the Nato crisis.

The idea that one Nato country could attack another – a US invasion of Greenland – is so alien that the most famous article in Nato’s founding treaty does not distinguish clearly what would happen if two of its members were at war.

Article 5, the cornerstone of mutual protection, dictates that “an armed attack against one or more” in Europe or North America shall be considered “an attack against them all”. Simple enough if the military threat comes from Russia, but more complicated when it comes from easily the alliance’s most powerful member.

A whole lot more complicated, I’m guessing.

“If the US

Trump’s Chief Goon says the US gets to tell all the other countries what to do. It’s the Playground Bully school of foreign policy.

Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.

In what sense does Greenland “rightfully” belong to the US? Please explain. Note: “Because Trump wants to” is not an explanation. Trump’s wants are not foreign policy or international law.

If Greenland belongs to the US then Trump’s Manhattan penthouse belongs to me. Hand it over, Steve.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength,

David Frum writes:

Because the anti-Trump side cares about fairness, many of its most prominent figures hesitate to accuse Trump of corrupt motives until sufficient evidence emerges to support the accusation. That Trump has ordered the military to seize an alleged drug-trafficking Latin American head of state barely a month after he pardoned and released a convicted drug-trafficking Latin American head of state is suspicious, to say the least. But until and unless there’s something to back those suspicions, and perhaps recalling the readiness of Trump’s regulatory agencies to retaliate against Trump-critical speech, many on the anti-Trump side deem it unwise to voice them. The possibility that U.S. armed forces could have been deployed because Trump insiders bought into

Fox News hack declares war on Senator/military veteran.

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that he had issued a formal censure to Democratic senator Mark Kelly and initiated proceedings that could strip the Arizona lawmaker of his retired military rank and cut his pension, escalating a dispute that began when Kelly urged service members to resist unlawful orders.

Polite reminder: service members are required to resist unlawful orders. This is asking a lot, because service members are also required to obey orders from superiors, and unlawful orders are generally not labeled unlawful. All the same, that is the rule.

Meanwhile Pete Hegseth is a blob of cough-phlegm on everyone’s shoe.

Just days after a covert mission to capture