I’m just one voice, and mine is no more astute or valuable than many others, but it seems our problem is cyclical. We are relying on the collective wisdom of American voters to select our nation’s leadership. At best, the results are mixed and flawed. I think we can agree that not everyone is cut out for leadership. We all have value. We all have one life. But some people are simply blessed with more gifts than others. Becoming a cardio thoracic surgeon, for example, requires some degree of intelligence and capacity to learn a complex career. You need to be serious, sober, dedicated and confident in your abilities. So too should those people charged with the responsibility to represent our best interests.
Allowing deeply flawed people like Donald Trump rise to the office of potus hurt all of us. It hurt our allies around the globe and it hurt desperately needy people here and abroad. He lacks empathy. He lacks the capacity to aspire to achieve great things FOR all of us. He’s incapable of respecting his office and his power. The President of the United States is merely a temporary custodian of an office with the immense potential for good, and the dire risk of doing great harm. The role is too vital to permit the wrong people to occupy the seat. Never before has it been this clear.
Ironically, America can be great, certainly greater than it is today, if the right people are in charge of our highest offices. I wish I knew how to ensure that we only elect our best and brightest citizens. Until that happens, more people will suffer. Fewer will prosper and cruelty, corruption and incompetence will continue.
Apparently we're gonna' have a dash of snow Fri & Sat. Meh. But this, from the Globe meteorologists:
"But we’re tracking a clipper storm that will deliver some accumulating snow to Boston and most of the region on Friday and Saturday.
But the bigger weather concern is the Arctic front that will accompany the snow, with strong winds and wind chills dropping to the negative 10s and 20s late Saturday and into Sunday. Now that’s really cold, like throw-a-mug-of-hot-water-into-the-air-and-watch-it-condense-instantly type of cold."
So, here are my current thoughts on the Epstein files.
Epstein was generally known to be a blackmailer. Trump is well aware of this, or should be. I find it difficult to believe that he wouldn't want to take over that job from the now deceased Epstein. All he has to do is tell Pammy that he wants copies of everything she has. He surely has already done that. He'll then be in a position to cash in on all that juicy material. The temptation is too great for the wee lad. He certainly doesn't want anything released, as its value as blackmail material then evaporates. His own name is all over those files as well, but we all know that anyway.
That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.
Sitting outside the post office, where I just signed for a letter holding my second passport. So both are fully renewed and good for another 10 years, or the apocalypse, whichever comes first.
Seriously, though, that’s such a fucking relief. That sense that if I had to, I could move to the front of the line and fly away.
Must be nice. I'm adopted and my birth certificate is postdated from 1953 to 1958 (the date the birth was registered. My adopted mother is dead so I'm screwed. If I could get a passport, I could leave.
I kept procrastinating because I wanted a nice photo, and then the day that Alex got shot, I just said fuck it and took a selfie and ran it through one of the online format sites, and sent it in.
Just thought how damn dumb it was not to get it done. And now I wonder why I dallied.
What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren’t investigating a crime. Nor were they serving the public.
Justifying Donald Trump’s “big lie” about winning the 2020 election may seem like his own lost cause – but like his Confederate forebears, he is weaponizing it, damage be damned. Not even his subsequent election victory has quieted Trump’s appetite for more power, earned or otherwise.
As their ICE compatriots in Minnesota were laying siege to the Twin Cities, the FBI removed ballots and election records from a majority-Black jurisdiction that helped deliver Trump’s defeat in Georgia more than five years ago. He lost – and has admitted as much. Nevertheless, he persists.
A movement that still believed in persuasion would be making an argument to voters; this one is preparing to manage them. Days after the Fulton county raid, Trump openly called for Republicans to “nationalize” elections in multiple states, recycling the false and long-debunked claim that undocumented immigrants – including Somalis in Minnesota – had helped Democrats steal past contests. Republican leaders largely responded with careful hedges, if at all, gesturing toward states’ authority while sidestepping the real issue: elections are being questioned not because of evidence, but because of outcomes.
The pattern is familiar because history insists on rhyming. What connects the Fulton county raid, the administration’s immigration enforcement abuses and the systematic removal of Black history from public institutions is erasure. Depressing the vote is perhaps his most potent tactic. Power is the point. Operationalizing bigotry to erase people, their rights and their histories is simply the cost of doing business.
The New Yorker had a recent piece about Tucker Carlson. He had been an anchor at MSNBC, but then in 2009 they let him go. He had moved from D.C. to New Jersey for the job, and bought a manse there, and now he had no fix for his massive need for attention, and no income. That pustule on the backside of humanity, Roger Ailes, called up and offered him a job at Fox. But it was a shit job: they put him on the weekend edition of Fox & Friends, which the mag notes was "even more aggressively stupid" than the weekday show, and involved Tucker riding a go-cart around, among other antics. But Tucker stuck it out, and then in 2016 his moment came. Fox had stuffed its talking head roster full of people who thought Trump was a joke and had no chance. But then .. oops, they were wrong, and they needed someone to go out there and deliver a pro-Trump line, which Tucker was quite ready to do, being racist and anti-immigrant already. He finally got onto the big boys' show, and right after the election, was awarded his own show. Well, that was good for a while, but we know how it ended: he fell out with Murdoch and was dismissed from Fox, for reasons that are still not 100% clear, although costing the network $700 million in damages for his false statements about Dominion Voting Systems is likely among those reasons. What a disgusting POS he is/was: with his fucking preppy puppy face screwed up and always basically asking, "what's wrong with White Supremacy, anyway?" Now he's on X and is still dishing out the bigotry and conspiracy theories.
He falls into the quintessential mold of the professional/intellectual MAGAt: A mediocrity who resents how the world fails to appreciate his genius and blames "the Left" for it.
It’s all about male control and the male gaze. Insult to regain control. Notice he looks around while saying it to meet the knowing gaze of another male.
It makes me pretty damn angry too. But then, this is who these people have always been. I get frustrated with the fact that people refuse to believe they are who they are. They tell us, over and over and over and over, and many people refuse to listen, or believe, or consider what that means.
And these brutal death squads? They're not new either. They're part of the system. Border Patrol has been a criminal murder syndicate since 1924, when it was founded. Ask anyone who has lived near the Mexico border.
So when people insist on the importance of preserving the systems and institutions, they mean Border Patrol also.
They don't mind, until Border Patrol shows up in their town and starts kidnapping and murdering people? Really?
I can't really even blame Schumer and Jeffries. To even get angry about it actually beclowns myself, I do understand. They are who they are, and I've known it all along; pretty immature of me to let it get under my skin.
Not to spend too much time defending Dan Quayle, but the incident that branded him an idiot was more about his inability to handle pressure than his intellect. At least, as I heard the story.
Also too, it wasn't just the potato thing. When he was trying to say "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" (the slogan of the United Negro College Fund), it came out as, "What a terrible thing it is to lose your mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
And there was the Murphy Brown thing. And a bunch of others
You're probably right, but it set up one of the greatest Letterman lines I've ever seen:
When the whole dumb "controversy" broke, Letterman leaned a little into the camera and explained, slowly and solemnly: "Mr. Vice President, Murphy Brown...𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳."
The joke works perfectly because on one level, of course Quayle knows that, but on another, he's stereotypically stupid enough not to.
The family is in the legal process of seeking asylum, and is fully current in all their obligations.
This is who they're catching, kidnapping and tormenting. People here lawfully. Because they're easy to find, because they're in the prescribed process and doing what they're supposed to do.
These death squad guys can't find people who are intentionally here unlawfully. Those people aren't easy to find. The death squad guys aren't detectives. They aren't even bounty hunters. Hell, they're not even getting paid, and they aren't smart enough to realize those lavish bonuses don't come due for 5 years; when Trump won't be President anymore anyway.
So they're just scooping up people who are easy to find because they're in the legal immigration system.
And then they're not filing the proper detention paperwork so they can't even find them in the gulag; much less appear in court to answer Habeus Corpus petitions and basic legal filing shit.
"it would be wrong to dignify an event that hadn’t been called by the committees’ leadership"
>It was wronger for the committees' leadership to not call this event themselves
I’m just one voice, and mine is no more astute or valuable than many others, but it seems our problem is cyclical. We are relying on the collective wisdom of American voters to select our nation’s leadership. At best, the results are mixed and flawed. I think we can agree that not everyone is cut out for leadership. We all have value. We all have one life. But some people are simply blessed with more gifts than others. Becoming a cardio thoracic surgeon, for example, requires some degree of intelligence and capacity to learn a complex career. You need to be serious, sober, dedicated and confident in your abilities. So too should those people charged with the responsibility to represent our best interests.
Allowing deeply flawed people like Donald Trump rise to the office of potus hurt all of us. It hurt our allies around the globe and it hurt desperately needy people here and abroad. He lacks empathy. He lacks the capacity to aspire to achieve great things FOR all of us. He’s incapable of respecting his office and his power. The President of the United States is merely a temporary custodian of an office with the immense potential for good, and the dire risk of doing great harm. The role is too vital to permit the wrong people to occupy the seat. Never before has it been this clear.
Ironically, America can be great, certainly greater than it is today, if the right people are in charge of our highest offices. I wish I knew how to ensure that we only elect our best and brightest citizens. Until that happens, more people will suffer. Fewer will prosper and cruelty, corruption and incompetence will continue.
Yeah, but there’s the tiny matter of the international pedo ring actually running the place.
he is great - our greatest criminal and con man
Ugh. More on the drastic changes happening at the Washington Post:
𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗼𝘀 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 '𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁'
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699328/washington-post-layoffs-jobs-bezos
Melania’s fine, though. She doesn’t know the theaters were empty, just like Lauren Sanchez doesn’t know she’s not a real astronaut.
Apparently we're gonna' have a dash of snow Fri & Sat. Meh. But this, from the Globe meteorologists:
"But we’re tracking a clipper storm that will deliver some accumulating snow to Boston and most of the region on Friday and Saturday.
But the bigger weather concern is the Arctic front that will accompany the snow, with strong winds and wind chills dropping to the negative 10s and 20s late Saturday and into Sunday. Now that’s really cold, like throw-a-mug-of-hot-water-into-the-air-and-watch-it-condense-instantly type of cold."
Delightful.
My ex lives in Plymouth. Said the 'noreaster last week was a dud but he is sick of the snow. Accumulations are much higher than usual.
I wore a polo shirt without a jacket today in L.A.
I rode a polo pony nude through downtown LA today like a common Lady Godiva.
(this is not true)
I am the leader of Nude ANTIFA
just one?
Well, I have an undershirt. Just one, though, I'm not a common Steve Bannon or any of that.
"a clipper storm"
Always with the sailing references, up there.
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor suit and cap
Your Surejan Of The Month!!
Donald Trump Calls Himself "MOST HONEST PERSON ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!!!"
Jesse Dollemore (9:28) : https://youtu.be/Kidp1iXKaoo
Li'l Feller Reacts:
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I often doubt if he even believes himself
Magas think honesty is being racist and sexist, “telling it like it is,” not being truthful with actual facts.
I've been calling him the honest Don for years. (I was being sarcastic.)
If the population of said world is one.
Of course he does. He's always the greatest, most and best at everything. Superlatives are to him what breathing is to a normal person.
Donnie's just goin' with the flow.
FactPost
@factpostnews.bsky.social
Trump: I hate even talking about ICE. 2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity.
Host: But it was 2 Americans who died—
Trump: We have the smallest trucks. We've been very tough on the waters
Host: The waters?
Trump: The waters where we knock out boats
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3me3623rd6e2b
Some dressing for that word salad?
He gets more stupiderer every day
Genuine gibberish.
"2 people out of tens of thousands." Can Donnie be one of the two? And can the other one be Stephen Miller?
What little mind he had is gone.
Also, I still want some member of the media, somewhere, to compare the ICE/Border Patrol shootings to the FBI or DEA over the same period.
Smallest trucks? Was he talking about his tiny toadstool?
From the comments:
https://bsky.app/profile/pasto76.bsky.social/post/3me36yf6dgc2k
um - - what?
The only thing that registers with him is a body count.
So, he thinks Minneapolis is in the waters off Venezuela? Makes perfect sense.
Sharks? Boats with batteries in them?
Battery-operated sharks.
gotta power the freaking laser beams somehow.
Far more people were killed by tramp/miller's ICE
So, here are my current thoughts on the Epstein files.
Epstein was generally known to be a blackmailer. Trump is well aware of this, or should be. I find it difficult to believe that he wouldn't want to take over that job from the now deceased Epstein. All he has to do is tell Pammy that he wants copies of everything she has. He surely has already done that. He'll then be in a position to cash in on all that juicy material. The temptation is too great for the wee lad. He certainly doesn't want anything released, as its value as blackmail material then evaporates. His own name is all over those files as well, but we all know that anyway.
That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.
Sitting outside the post office, where I just signed for a letter holding my second passport. So both are fully renewed and good for another 10 years, or the apocalypse, whichever comes first.
Seriously, though, that’s such a fucking relief. That sense that if I had to, I could move to the front of the line and fly away.
Must be nice. I'm adopted and my birth certificate is postdated from 1953 to 1958 (the date the birth was registered. My adopted mother is dead so I'm screwed. If I could get a passport, I could leave.
There’s gotta be a way. I would be shaking that tree so damn hard.
Good luck.
I bet that’s a relief. I know it will be for me when I get there.
I kept procrastinating because I wanted a nice photo, and then the day that Alex got shot, I just said fuck it and took a selfie and ran it through one of the online format sites, and sent it in.
Just thought how damn dumb it was not to get it done. And now I wonder why I dallied.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝐵𝐼 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠
What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren’t investigating a crime. Nor were they serving the public.
Justifying Donald Trump’s “big lie” about winning the 2020 election may seem like his own lost cause – but like his Confederate forebears, he is weaponizing it, damage be damned. Not even his subsequent election victory has quieted Trump’s appetite for more power, earned or otherwise.
As their ICE compatriots in Minnesota were laying siege to the Twin Cities, the FBI removed ballots and election records from a majority-Black jurisdiction that helped deliver Trump’s defeat in Georgia more than five years ago. He lost – and has admitted as much. Nevertheless, he persists.
A movement that still believed in persuasion would be making an argument to voters; this one is preparing to manage them. Days after the Fulton county raid, Trump openly called for Republicans to “nationalize” elections in multiple states, recycling the false and long-debunked claim that undocumented immigrants – including Somalis in Minnesota – had helped Democrats steal past contests. Republican leaders largely responded with careful hedges, if at all, gesturing toward states’ authority while sidestepping the real issue: elections are being questioned not because of evidence, but because of outcomes.
The pattern is familiar because history insists on rhyming. What connects the Fulton county raid, the administration’s immigration enforcement abuses and the systematic removal of Black history from public institutions is erasure. Depressing the vote is perhaps his most potent tactic. Power is the point. Operationalizing bigotry to erase people, their rights and their histories is simply the cost of doing business.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/04/fulton-county-fbi-raid-election-voting
Almost like after Jan 6th 2021 we should have had a purge of any Trump loyalist in the alphabet agencies.
Instead now, we have the reverse purge.
He just cannot STAND it that Black people could help defeat him in an election.
Why, it's almost as if he has a problem with Black women.
Especially those with a little authority.
Trump sent Tulsi Gabbard with the FBI, too. The head of the CIA!!
Tulsi, who has NO domestic law enforcement powers.
She still can't figure out how to do DNI stuff.
She has surveillance powers, which, you can bet, Trump will make her use on anyone he wants, legal or not.
Remember, history rhymes because evil people will keep doing it until it stops working.
The New Yorker had a recent piece about Tucker Carlson. He had been an anchor at MSNBC, but then in 2009 they let him go. He had moved from D.C. to New Jersey for the job, and bought a manse there, and now he had no fix for his massive need for attention, and no income. That pustule on the backside of humanity, Roger Ailes, called up and offered him a job at Fox. But it was a shit job: they put him on the weekend edition of Fox & Friends, which the mag notes was "even more aggressively stupid" than the weekday show, and involved Tucker riding a go-cart around, among other antics. But Tucker stuck it out, and then in 2016 his moment came. Fox had stuffed its talking head roster full of people who thought Trump was a joke and had no chance. But then .. oops, they were wrong, and they needed someone to go out there and deliver a pro-Trump line, which Tucker was quite ready to do, being racist and anti-immigrant already. He finally got onto the big boys' show, and right after the election, was awarded his own show. Well, that was good for a while, but we know how it ended: he fell out with Murdoch and was dismissed from Fox, for reasons that are still not 100% clear, although costing the network $700 million in damages for his false statements about Dominion Voting Systems is likely among those reasons. What a disgusting POS he is/was: with his fucking preppy puppy face screwed up and always basically asking, "what's wrong with White Supremacy, anyway?" Now he's on X and is still dishing out the bigotry and conspiracy theories.
He falls into the quintessential mold of the professional/intellectual MAGAt: A mediocrity who resents how the world fails to appreciate his genius and blames "the Left" for it.
Fuck him all the way to deep space. 🚀🚀🚀🚀
Fish fry dinner tonight. Urp. Deep fried broccoli for a garnish. Homemade cocktail sauce. Oh yeah babe.
I think maybe Kaitlan Collins just doesn't smile for paedophiles.
It’s all about male control and the male gaze. Insult to regain control. Notice he looks around while saying it to meet the knowing gaze of another male.
Are we going to prosecute people who fib? I have a tip to catch one guy I know of.
yaay! schumer and jeffries are giving away the game again. sorry, it's huffpost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-ice-masks-dhs-shutdown_n_69839db8e4b053ac3e17298d
Schumer and Jeffries have lost the plot. Hacks.
We're not going to be saved by the systems and institutions, the failure of which caused the current crisis.
Santa isn't coming, sorry.
i grow tired of the weak-willed carving out exceptions no one asked for large enough to make their position meaningless.
It makes me pretty damn angry too. But then, this is who these people have always been. I get frustrated with the fact that people refuse to believe they are who they are. They tell us, over and over and over and over, and many people refuse to listen, or believe, or consider what that means.
And these brutal death squads? They're not new either. They're part of the system. Border Patrol has been a criminal murder syndicate since 1924, when it was founded. Ask anyone who has lived near the Mexico border.
So when people insist on the importance of preserving the systems and institutions, they mean Border Patrol also.
They don't mind, until Border Patrol shows up in their town and starts kidnapping and murdering people? Really?
I can't really even blame Schumer and Jeffries. To even get angry about it actually beclowns myself, I do understand. They are who they are, and I've known it all along; pretty immature of me to let it get under my skin.
But I do let it sometimes.
yeah, but now border patrol is doing the little training the ice goons get. glad San Antonio is just outside their magic searchy zone.
Until a couple months ago, I was glad Minneapolis was outside their magic searchy zone, also.
Wanna know what's even crazier?
Quayle's only dumber than one of them 🙄 . . .
Ben Harris @btharris93
It's crazy that the Vice President from 1989 is younger than both the current US President and his predecessor.
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Not to spend too much time defending Dan Quayle, but the incident that branded him an idiot was more about his inability to handle pressure than his intellect. At least, as I heard the story.
Still a good reason for him not to be president.
There was an entire Usenet group tracking weird things he said, it wasn’t a one-off.
If you react so badly to pressure that it leaves you unable to spell the word "potato," I don't think you should be president of the local PTA.
Fair. But it is another example of the American tendency to oversimplify things that we just took to calling him a moron.
Also too, it wasn't just the potato thing. When he was trying to say "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" (the slogan of the United Negro College Fund), it came out as, "What a terrible thing it is to lose your mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
And there was the Murphy Brown thing. And a bunch of others
The Murphy Brown thing wasn't stupidity, it was ordinary right wing bullshit. But as I said, I don't want to spend a lot of time defending him.
You're probably right, but it set up one of the greatest Letterman lines I've ever seen:
When the whole dumb "controversy" broke, Letterman leaned a little into the camera and explained, slowly and solemnly: "Mr. Vice President, Murphy Brown...𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳."
The joke works perfectly because on one level, of course Quayle knows that, but on another, he's stereotypically stupid enough not to.
I know . . . but I still couldn't resist 😆
What's crazy is that I will turn 70 this year, and Obama is the only president who has served during my lifetime who was younger than I.
Same with me! . . . I thought we were finally getting a younger generation 😩 . . .
Next president onward, for sure.
Another rare piece of good news:
𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹, 𝟭𝟬, 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘡𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/minnesota-ice-immigration-elizabeth-caisaguano
The family is in the legal process of seeking asylum, and is fully current in all their obligations.
This is who they're catching, kidnapping and tormenting. People here lawfully. Because they're easy to find, because they're in the prescribed process and doing what they're supposed to do.
These death squad guys can't find people who are intentionally here unlawfully. Those people aren't easy to find. The death squad guys aren't detectives. They aren't even bounty hunters. Hell, they're not even getting paid, and they aren't smart enough to realize those lavish bonuses don't come due for 5 years; when Trump won't be President anymore anyway.
So they're just scooping up people who are easy to find because they're in the legal immigration system.
And then they're not filing the proper detention paperwork so they can't even find them in the gulag; much less appear in court to answer Habeus Corpus petitions and basic legal filing shit.
... Well it's good that she's finally been released, not so good at how much work "finally" is doing.