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What happens after Minneapolis?Also this from Minneapolis. A consulate??
Bovino “was removed, but the tactics so far are still the same,” Hernandez said. “Nobody now is trusting the government with those changes.”
The federal enforcement extended to the city’s Ecuadorian consulate, where a federal law enforcement officer tried to enter before being blocked by employees.
From another AP story:
Ecuador files a protest with the US Embassy
A video of the Ecuadorian consulate entry attempt posted on social media shows a staffer running to the door to turn the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents away, telling them, “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.” One ICE officer can be heard responding by threatening to “grab” the staffer if he touched the agent before agreeing to leave.International law generally prohibits law enforcement authorities from entering foreign consulates or embassies without permission, though sometimes permission may be assumed granted for life-threatening emergencies, like fires.
“Consulate officials immediately prevented the ICE officer from entering the consular building, thus ensuring the protection of the Ecuadorians who were present at the time and activating the emergency protocols issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility,” the ministry wrote on X.
A “note of protest” was filed with the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador so that similar attempts aren’t made at other consulates, the ministry said. The State Department, Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to requests for comment..
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What happens after Minneapolis?I'm guessing the whole Tom Homan thing is a fake, and that the immigration strategy will barrel along, if with slightly quieter tactics. @axtremus has a thread about ICE surging in Ohio soon. And there's this look behind the scenes:
NYT:
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About the UK's Chagos dealStarmer, asked whether he trusted Trump to honour the commitment he gave in backing the deal last year, told reporters: “I’ve obviously discussed Chagos with Donald Trump a number of times. It has been raised with the White House at the tail end of last week, over the weekend and into the early part of this week.
“The position, as you know, is that when the Trump administration came in, we paused for three months to give them time to consider the Chagos deal, which they did at agency level.
“Once they’d done that, they were very clear in the pronouncements about the fact that they supported the deal – and they were announcements made by the defence secretary, from memory, Marco Rubio as well, and by president Trump himself.”
Pressed on whether he believed Trump fully understood the deal – after he appeared to get the details wrong – Starmer added: “There was a three-month pause whilst his administration looked in detail at an agency level, because obviously this is about security and intelligence.
“So it was an agency review that was conducted in the US before they then concluded that it was a deal they wanted to support, did support and did so in very clear terms.”
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"Minnesota has had it."CBP and ICE people at the scene, do you hear the bus coming? Stephen Miller is about to push you under it.
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"Minnesota has had it."The "woman in the pink coat". A very powerful interview with Anderson Cooper. Worth 20 minutes of your time.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/stella-carlson-alex-pretti-witness-video
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About that White House ballroom and the East WingAs far as the first question regarding ramifications for lawyers who pull stunts like these seem to be doing and whether they may face sanctions, I don't know the answer.
From the second part of your post (what's noble about that?), I'm wondering if my comment about fun in the courtroom was misunderstood. Like @shirokuro , I think the judge is doing a great job keeping the lawyers in line. Any "fun" is enjoying them being put in their place.
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About that White House ballroom and the East Wing -
25th Amendment. Seriously.Slovakia’s prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president’s state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said.
Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump’s stance on Europe’s weaknesses, was concerned about the U.S. president’s “psychological state,” two of the diplomats said. Fico used the word “dangerous” to describe how the U.S. president came across during their face-to-face meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Jan. 17, according to two of the diplomats.
The conversation between Fico and his European counterparts took place in Brussels on Jan. 22 on the sidelines of an emergency EU summit arranged to discuss transatlantic relations in the wake of Trump’s threats to seize Greenland. Leaders used that gathering to try to calm tensions after the U.S. president walked back his threat to slap tariffs on some European countries over the issue a day earlier.
All the diplomats were granted anonymity by POLITICO to allow them to discuss the confidential exchanges between leaders. They come from four different EU governments. The fifth is a senior EU official. All of them said they didn’t know the details of what Trump had said to Fico that had triggered his reaction.
Fico denies he said these things.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/