In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

From Tom Homan's presss conference this morning at 12:00 in the video embedded above: One thing we all agreed on was that US Customs and Border Protrection is a legitimate law enforcement agency and has a duty to support the laws enactged by Congress and keep this community safe. Like I've said many times for the last several years, even before this administration, jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities are sanctuaries for criminals. Sanctury cities are sanctuaries for criminals. . . . To be clear, we did not agree with Minnmesota state and local officials that they would be involved in federal immigration enforcement. I didn't ask them to be immigration officers. I'm asking them to be cops working with cops to take criminal sliens off the street. What we did agree upon was not to release public safety risks back into the cummunity when they could be lawfully transferred to ICE. . . . I'm also pleased to announce ...

🚨 BBC obtains footage from January 13 of a man they say is Alex Pretti Videos appears to show him spitting at federal law enforcement and attacking their vehicle pic.twitter.com/cuXYO6PLIx — Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) January 28, 2026 The X post embedded above shows video footage of the altercation Alex Pretti had with CBP officers the week before he was shot, which reportedly resulted in him breaking a rib. It shows him kicking out the tail light of the CBP van and struggling with the officers. Several scenes in the video appear to show him carrying a firearm in the small of his back, as he did a week later when he was shot. Additional context has emerged this week that suggests he wasn't just a random bystander; he was deliberately dispatched to both scenes by an organized network purposely to disrupt CBP activities. In yesterday's post, I also speculated that Pretti must have been part of an organized network of agitators with specific job descriptions and respons...

First Question: Renee Good, the lady who was shot by a federal officer while trying to run him over with her $50,000 Honda SUV, has been characterized in the media as a stay-at-home mom from Kansas City who nevertheless dropped her child off at day care so she could demonstrate against ICE in Minneapolis. Just how did she afford her lifestyle? If she didn't draw an income, what about her partner, Becca? I asked Chrome AI mode, "What did Renée Good's partner do for a living?" It replied, Becca Good, Renee Good's partner, was a handywoman. Following the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the couple moved to Canada for several months before relocating to Minneapolis. During their time in Minneapolis, they were reportedly involved in a local business together, with both listed as company managers for an entity incorporated in 2024. So I asked, "What was the local business in which Renee and Becca Good were both listed as company managers for an e...

Yesterday, there was basically no news out of Minnesota. As usual, alt media was no better than legacy -- just nothing. Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, flew there to meet with Gov Walz last night, but there's been nothing from that meeting. As of Thursday, Border Patrol Commander at Large Greg Bovino was in Minneapois making hard line statements , but following Saturday's shooting , and potentially connected with Homan's visit, Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday, a White House official and another Trump administration official familiar with the decision told NBC News. . . . Bovino will be returning to the border in El Centro, California, a senior White House official and an administration official told NBC News. The officials said he is losing his "commander" title and will return to his previous job as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro. He will not continue overseeing Border Patrol agents making ...

Vice President Vance's X post saying the Minneapolis case is unique because it involves far-left agitators working with local authorities isn't really on the mark: local auithorities have been complicit in the migrant fraud business model everywhere. For instance, I linked to this reporter's conclusions about the Springfield, OH Haitians in a September, 2024 post here : My investigation discovered a long rotten beam extending from the Mayor down to NGOs, pastors, corporations, and local mediocrities looking to make a fast buck. Everyone is on the take. And Springfield is not an outlier. It is a standard example of local partnerships with federal and corporate resettlement programs working together to profit themselves. In this post , I linked to a story that suggests the Springfield police were complicit in not enforcing traffic laws against unlicensed Haitian drivers: An Ohio police chief says his access to Springfield’s police radio frequency was cut off ...

Predictably, Real Clear Politics this morning is gengerly tiptoeing through an it's-not-clear-what-happened-both-sides-are-at-fault narrative. From their link to The Wall Street Journal : Videos of the incident appear to show that before the shooting, Pretti was filming federal agents, something that has become common in Minneapolis as citizen observers document ICE actions. Agents appeared to spray a chemical irritant at him and another person. In the milliseconds before shots were fired, it was less clear what happened during a scuffle in which Pretti was on the ground, surrounded by multiple agents. Then they dug up an X post from sometime never Trumper Erick Erickson , whom they never ordinarily link: (5) I think Tim Walz and Jacob Frey have made the situation far worse and destabilized by amping up white progressives and refusing to assist immigration agents. (6) I think Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino have made the situation far worse by being unrestrained in how th...

I've noticed a steady trickle of stories about how Somali fraud businesses in Maine seem to be emulating the same overall pattern of those in Minnesota: 🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Journalist finds $2M "home health" center in Maine located next to a SOMALI MONEY WIRING SERVICE They don't even freaking hide it. In one building, TEN businesses are home health. Nobody is ever there. They are funded by our tax dollars. IT'S FRAUD. "That's a… pic.twitter.com/w5TPHk9C3x — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 21, 2026 ICE seems to be belatedly on the case: As ICE Begins Enforcement Raids in Maine, New Allegations of Somali Fraud Emerge : Somali-led fraud is a nationwide epidemic. Minnesota is the epicenter due to excellent reporting from Nick Shirley and the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed after she tried to ram an ICE agent in Minneapolis. But Washington State, Ohio, and Maine also have fraud issues, and now ICE is heading north The piece quote...