Kate and Josh discuss the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents, and its still-unfolding fallout.
Continue reading “Listen to This: Minneapolis Is Winning the Battle”Content Creator Pam Bondi Happily Does Trump’s Dirty Political Work
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Performative Politicization
Across two different categories of cases in two different states yesterday, the Trump DOJ engaged in the kind of performative politicization that it experimented with in Trump I but has brought into full bloom in Trump II under Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi is as much content creator as she is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. Her public moves yesterday echoed recent reporting that FBI Director Kash Patel is more concerned about what he can tweet than the underlying investigations themselves. (Patel got himself in trouble again with a tweet, this time causing internal political blowback in Mexico.)
In Minnesota, Bondi showed up in person to tout the arrests of protesters for allegedly assaulting federal agents while still refusing to investigate the shooting deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. It’s an unmistakeable statement not just about who the current regime favors under the law but about impunity.
While attorneys general routinely tout high profile arrests, Bondi took it a step further: posting on social media photographs of many of the arrested protesters in violation of DOJ guidelines. That move drew a rebuke from a federal judge, as I lay out below.
In Georgia, the FBI executed search warrants on the Fulton County voting center on Wednesday, retrieving ballots and other election administration records from the 2020 election in a Big Lie-fueled move that was as absurd as it was dangerous. More than five years after the election, Trump is still chasing his white whale of election fraud and a host of DOJ and FBI appointees are eager to oblige. The theatrical move checks the box for loyalty, keeps the Big Lie alive, sows doubt about any future Trump loss, and creates the kind of MAGA spectacle that Trump loves.
In the administration of any other president, DOJ would not have let itself get dragged into such obviously politicized shenanigans, let alone lead the charge in fanning the flames of public reprobation against defendants and public suspicion about election administration. But Bondi has to churn out content at an increasingly frenetic pace to stay in the good graces of President Trump and his White House, creating an irreconcilable tension between her own fortunes and the independent administration of justice.
Bondi Rebuked in Minnesota
Swaggering like an Old West marshal, Bondi hailed charges against 16 people accused of “assaulting, resisting, or impeding” federal immigration agents by posting their mug shots on X.
Bondi was quickly rebuked by U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce J. Foster during an initial hearing. “This conduct is not something that the court condones,” Foster said in court, describing herself as “deeply disturbed” by the move. But Foster said because the cases were not yet assigned to her, she couldn’t do anything about Bondi’s conduct.
The charges against the protesters arose from chaotic scenes around provocative immigration enforcement actions, including one at Roosevelt High School, and the Justice Department in recents weeks has often failed to win convictions in similar cases in other states.
The Latest on the Pretti Shooting
- The two CBP agents who shot Alex Pretti were immediately put on administrative leave, DHS said, claiming that earlier reports that the officers had remained on duty were inaccurate.
- The Justice Department continues to insist to reporters that it may conduct its own investigation of the Pretti shooting depending on what the probe by Homeland Security Investigations turns up. Again, this is not typically how DOJ use-of-force civil rights investigations typically proceed.
- Videos emerged of an earlier incident between federal agents and Pretti in which he kicked out the tail light of one of their vehicles and they proceeded to rough him up before driving away.
More From Minnesota …
- The chief federal judge in Minnesota cancelled a contempt of court hearing after ICE finally abided by his order to release a detainee, meaning the acting ICE director will not have to appear in court personally. U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, who said the detainee could still seek monetary sanctions for his delayed release, blasted ICE for defying 96 court orders in 74 Minnesota cases since Jan. 1: “This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- Another round of resignations by prosecutors in the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office could be coming, the NYT reports: “On Tuesday, prosecutors in the office’s criminal division confronted the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, Daniel Rosen, and an aide to Mr. Blanche, over concerns that they were being asked to execute orders that went against the department’s mission and best practices, according to four people briefed on the exchange.”
- U.S. District Judge John Tunheim temporarily blocked the Trump administration from arresting or detaining refugees in Minnesota who are seeking permanent status.
FBI Seizes Georgia Voting Records
The FBI seized what the Justice Department had already sued to get: 2020 voting records from Fulton County, Georgia. Trump’s animus about the Georgia result has been focused all along primarily on plurality Black Fulton County, which has the largest Black population in the state.
A few nuggets:
- Oddly, the search warrant was obtained by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Thomas Albus. (While many reports still identified him as interim U.S. attorney, he was confirmed to the permanent position by the Senate on a partly line vote in December.) It is not at all clear why a U.S. attorney from outside the jurisdiction is involved or why this particular U.S. attorney.
- Nothing about Catherine M. Salinas, the longtime magistrate who signed the search warrant, is particularly notable; if anything, her career history might suggest a more liberal than conservative lean. (Judges are limited in how far they can look outside the four corners of a search warrant application.)
- The search warrant identifies two potential criminal violations at the center of the investigation, summarized by the WaPo as: “one regarding the retention and preservation of election records by officials and the other criminalizing efforts to defraud voters from an impartially conducted election.”
Photo of the Day
This neither speaks for itself nor does it make any sense, but it is a photo for the ages:
Important Climate News
The Trump administration has delayed rolling back the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases harm public health because of concerns the proposal is “too weak” to withstand a court challenge, the WaPo reports.
U.S. Life Expectancy Reverses Slide
Life expectancy in the United States rebounded from the COVID pandemic and the opioid crisis to reach a new all-time high in 2024, the CDC announced today.
‘We’ll Take Our Stand for This Land’
By his own account, Bruce Springsteen wrote this new song Saturday after the fatal CBP shooting of Alex Pretti and recorded it Tuesday before releasing it Wednesday:
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Justice
From TPM Reader JL …
Continue reading “Justice”I agree with a lot of your post on disorganized retreat. But I want to come at this from another angle.
For the most benefit practically and politically over the next few months, the concession that is most important imo is giving MN AG full, real time access to all evidence. Not to be crass about it but the public loves a murder trial. Talking about legislative constraints on ICE will put the public to sleep. But the public will have an endless appetite when it comes to pursuing justice for Alex Pretti and putting the man who shot him in the back of the head in jail.
Why Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Protests Are Falling Flat
In Ward 10, the Minneapolis neighborhood where ICU nurse Alex Pretti was gunned down by federal agents, neighbors are turning to each other for everything from groceries to school dropoffs.
“We have people who are, every single day, taking their vulnerable neighbors’ kids to school for them; taking them to work; taking them to do their laundry; bringing groceries to folks so they can be safe in their homes,” Aisha Chughtai, the Minneapolis council member representing Ward 10, told Talking Points Memo.
“This is the most Minnesotan thing I know. This is the most compassion-for-neighbors thing I know.”
Federal agents have occupied Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota since December as part of “Operation Metro Surge,” a deportation campaign aimed at the Twin Cities. That surge has resulted in the deaths of both Pretti and 37-year-old mother and activist Renée Good. As ICE increased its presence in the city this month, Minnesotans also stepped up, with tens of thousands braving harsh winter weather to protest, act as legal observers, and participate in mutual aid. These acts, Twin Cities residents say, constitute basic care for their communities. But the GOP wants to cast these support networks as something more sinister: a conspiracy, possibly even a criminal one.
It’s a familiar tactic by a Trump administration that has often alleged dark motives for acts of decency. In Minnesota, though, that tactic is backfiring on a historic scale.
Continue reading “Why Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Protests Are Falling Flat”ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force—It Is One, and That Makes It Harder To Curb
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
As the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have intensified over the past year, politicians and journalists alike have begun referring to ICE as a “paramilitary force.”
Rep. John Mannion, a New York Democrat, called ICE “a personal paramilitary unit of the president.” Journalist Radley Balko, who wrote a book about how American police forces have been militarized, has argued that President Donald Trump was using the force “the way an authoritarian uses a paramilitary force, to carry out his own personal grudges, to inflict pain and violence, and discomfort on people that he sees as his political enemies.” And New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie characterized ICE as a “virtual secret police” and “paramilitary enforcer of despotic rule.”
All this raises a couple of questions: What are paramilitaries? And is ICE one?
Defining paramilitaries
As a government professor who studies policing and state security forces, I believe it’s clear that ICE meets many but not all of the most salient definitions. It’s worth exploring what those are and how the administration’s use of ICE compares with the ways paramilitaries have been deployed in other countries.
The term paramilitary is commonly used in two ways. The first refers to highly militarized police forces, which are an official part of a nation’s security forces. They typically have access to military-grade weaponry and equipment, are highly centralized with a hierarchical command structure, and deploy in large formed units to carry out domestic policing.
These “paramilitary police,” such as the French Gendarmerie, India’s Central Reserve Police Force or Russia’s Internal Troops, are modeled on regular military forces.
The second definition denotes less formal and often more partisan armed groups that operate outside of the state’s regular security sector. Sometimes these groups, as with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, emerge out of community self-defense efforts; in other cases, they are established by the government or receive government support, even though they lack official status. Political scientists also call these groups “pro-government militias” in order to convey both their political orientation in support of the government and less formal status as an irregular force.
They typically receive less training than regular state forces, if any. How well equipped they are can vary a great deal. Leaders may turn to these informal or unofficial paramilitaries because they are less expensive than regular forces, or because they can help them evade accountability for violent repression.
Many informal paramilitaries are engaged in regime maintenance, meaning they preserve the power of current rulers through repression of political opponents and the broader public. They may share partisan affiliations or ethnic ties with prominent political leaders or the incumbent political party and work in tandem to carry out political goals.
In Haiti, President François “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s Tonton Macouts provided a prime example of this second type of paramilitary. After Duvalier survived a coup attempt in 1970, he established the Tonton Macouts as a paramilitary counterweight to the regular military. Initially a ragtag, undisciplined but highly loyal force, it became the central instrument through which the Duvalier regime carried out political repression, surveilling, harassing, detaining, torturing and killing ordinary Haitians.
Is ICE a paramilitary?
The recent references to ICE in the U.S. as a “paramilitary force” are using the term in both senses, viewing the agency as both a militarized police force and tool for repression.
There is no question that ICE fits the definition of a paramilitary police force. It is a police force under the control of the federal government, through the Department of Homeland Security, and it is heavily militarized, having adopted the weaponry, organization, operational patterns and cultural markers of the regular military. Some other federal forces, such as Customs and Border Patrol, or CBP, also fit this definition.
The data I have collected on state security forces show that approximately 30% of countries have paramilitary police forces at the federal or national level, while more than 80% have smaller militarized units akin to SWAT teams within otherwise civilian police.
The United States is nearly alone among established democracies in creating a new paramilitary police force in recent decades. Indeed, the creation of ICE in the U.S. following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is one of just four instances I’ve found since 1960 where a democratic country created a new paramilitary police force, the others being Honduras, Brazil and Nigeria.
ICE and CBP also have some, though not all, of the characteristics of a paramilitary in the second sense of the term, referring to forces as repressive political agents. These forces are not informal; they are official agents of the state. However, their officers are less professional, receive less oversight and are operating in more overtly political ways than is typical of both regular military forces and local police in the United States.
The lack of professionalism predates the current administration. In 2014, for instance, CBP’s head of internal affairs described the lowering of standards for post-9/11 expansion as leading to the recruitment of thousands of officers “potentially unfit to carry a badge and gun.”
This problem has only been exacerbated by the rapid expansion undertaken by the Trump administration. ICE has added approximately 12,000 new recruits — more than doubling its size in less than a year — while substantially cutting the length of the training they receive.
ICE and CBP are not subject to the same constitutional restrictions that apply to other law enforcement agencies, such as the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable search and seizure; both have gained exemptions from oversight intended to hold officers accountable for excessive force. CBP regulations, for instance, allow it to search and seize people’s property without a warrant or the “probable cause” requirement imposed on other forces within 100 miles, or about 161 kilometers, of the border.
In terms of partisan affiliations, Trump has cultivated immigration security forces as political allies, an effort that appears to have been successful. In 2016, the union that represents ICE officers endorsed Trump’s campaign with support from more than 95% of its voting members. Today, ICE recruitment efforts increasingly rely on far-right messaging to appeal to political supporters.
Both ICE and CBP have been deployed against political opponents in nonimmigration contexts, including Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, in 2020. They have also gathered data, according to political scientist Elizabeth F. Cohen, to “surveil citizens’ political beliefs and activities — including protest actions they have taken on issues as far afield as gun control — in addition to immigrants’ rights.”
In these ways, ICE and CBP do bear some resemblance to the informal paramilitaries used in many countries to carry out political repression along partisan and ethnic lines, even though they are official agents of the state.
Why this matters
An extensive body of research shows that more militarized forms of policing are associated with higher rates of police violence and rights violations, without reducing crime or improving officer safety.
Studies have also found that more militarized police forces are harder to reform than less-militarized law enforcement agencies. The use of such forces can also create tensions with both the regular military and civilian police, as currently appears to be happening with ICE in Minneapolis.
The ways in which federal immigration forces in the United States resemble informal paramilitaries in other countries — operating with less effective oversight, less competent recruits and increasingly entrenched partisan identity — make all these issues more intractable. Which is why, I believe, many commentators have surfaced the term paramilitary and are using it as a warning.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Trump Finally Achieves His Ambition To Seize the Voting Machines (Or, at Least, Their 2020 Tabulator Tape)
The FBI executed a search warrant on Wednesday at an election office near Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, a locale infamous among MAGA conspiracy theorists who fulminated about the 2020 election and beyond. The search was, indeed, related to the 2020 election, according to a sweeping search warrant that surfaced hours after the raid.
Continue reading “Trump Finally Achieves His Ambition To Seize the Voting Machines (Or, at Least, Their 2020 Tabulator Tape)”Can Dems Push MAGA and Its ICE Army Into a Disorganized Retreat?
Big public and political fights often have the dynamics of military confrontations. The ongoing backlash and outcry over the ICE murder of Alex Pretti is one such example. Over the first days of this week, the Trump White House lost its footing on the whole issue of ICE wilding sprees in Blue cities. As we discussed yesterday, they’re trying to manage what amounts to a live-action rebranding, telling the public they’re getting things back into line without, if possible, changing anything. But the White House’s public line on ICE and its Blue state wilding sprees has been so categorical and over-the-top it’s a really tough pivot. It’s hard to get your footing when you’re rapidly going from “ICE is our warrior force against immigrant-befouled hellholes run by domestic terrorists” to “we need a real investigation and ICE probably shouldn’t be murdering this many people.”
Continue reading “Can Dems Push MAGA and Its ICE Army Into a Disorganized Retreat?”Don’t Fall for the Bogus Claims That the Feds Are Probing the Pretti Shooting
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- Stacey Young, a DOJ veteran who is the founder and executive director at Justice Connection;
- Kyle R. Freeny, a former DOJer who was a member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team and is now senior counsel at the Washington Litigation Group; and
- Anna Bower, senior editor at Lawfare
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Authoritarian Trickery
Since the Trump administration abandoned its initial false claims about Alex Pretti — reportedly authored by Stephen Miller — it has repeatedly fallen back on the position that it cannot comment on the fatal shooting by two Customs and Border Protection agents because there is an ongoing investigation.
As I pieced together in yesterday’s Morning Memo by reviewing a cluster of newly filed declarations from federal law enforcement officials, their investigation is limited to an administrative review of the use of force by the officers who shot Pretti, not a DOJ criminal probe under civil rights laws. That is to say, the inquiry is focused on whether officers broke CBP’s internal rules, not the law.
As MSNow has since confirmed, the Trump DOJ has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into the Pretti shooting, the same decision it made in the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good:
A Justice Department official confirmed that there is no current DOJ investigation but said, “We are not going to prejudge the facts. At some later point, if the evidence presents itself, we may investigate.”
As in the Good shooting, the focus of at least one federal investigation is not on the use of deadly force but on the victim:
A Customs and Border Protection office will investigate whether its own officers followed agency policy in the shooting, according to the people. Another DHS unit, Homeland Security Investigations, will investigate whether Pretti broke any laws, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Re-read that last sentence: “whether Pretti broke any laws.”
MSNow also reports that federal agencies are still not sharing information about the fatal shootings with Minnesota law enforcement or giving them access to evidence.
You wouldn’t think the clumsy rhetorical trick of hiding behind a pending investigation to avoid immediate accountability would work, but the number of news stories citing the federal investigation as if it’s a real thing over the past 48 hours suggests the trickery is more effective than it should be.
It’s not a new trick:
This Was Not DHS’ First Rodeo
In all 16 incidents since July in which DHS officers have fired shots, the Trump administration has publicly declared their actions justified before waiting for investigations to be completed, the WaPo reports.
As Aaron Blake notes: “This kind of maximalist, factually challenged approach isn’t just commensurate with who Trump is; it’s who the top Department of Homeland Security officials involved have shown themselves to be. This was very much par for the course. And to the extent the name of the game was sobriety, steadiness and credibility, these might not have been the people for the job.”
It Wasn’t Alex Pretti’s First Rodeo Either
About a week before his death, Alex Pretti suffered a broken rib at the hands of federal officers, who tackled him when while he was protesting a detention operation, CNN reports:
The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.
Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.
“That day, he thought he was going to die,” the source told CNN.
The Public Meaning of Masculinity
Brian Beutler contrasts the thuggish masculinity extolled by MAGA with the bravery of Alex Pretti:
Pretti was unafraid. His last act was to help a woman who had been tackled to the ground by a masked invader—to place himself between her and him. He died in a heroic way, but if he’d survived, he’d have been welcomed home by a grateful community. Strangers, who would have wanted to get to know him, learn from him, and see him safely through the rest of his life. He would have lived the life of fulfillment that MAGA wants you to believe is only possible if you behave like a thug.
‘Demented Shit’
Mass Deportation Watch: Minnesota Edition
- After threat from the chief federal judge in Minnesota that he would haul the acting ICE director into court for contempt of court proceedings unless it complied with his previous order to release an ICE detainee, the Trump administration released the man, his lawyer said.
- The government of Ecuador filed a protest with the U.S. embassy after an ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission but was rebuffed by consular staff. “One ICE officer can be heard responding by threatening to ‘grab’ the staffer if he touched the agent before agreeing to leave,” the AP reports.
- A very informative NYT analysis uses one AP photo of federal agents conducting a warrantless raid in Minneapolis to illustrate the militarization of U.S. law enforcement
Fuck Around and Find Out
Nine state prosecutors from big blue cities have launched a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate state laws. The pungent name of the organization — Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach — left the NYT struggling to to convey the word play: “Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences”
Quote of the Day
“It’s not like the SS are coming.”—Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani trying to tamp down domestic concerns that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations will be helping with security at next month’s Winter Olympics in Italy
Man Arrested in Assault on Rep. Omar
Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, was arrested for the assault on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during a town hall in Minneapolis last evening after he disrupted the meeting by spraying an unknown foul-smelling substance on her:
Omar declined to end her appearance after the assault. “We will continue,” she said. “These fucking assholes are not going to get away with this.”
For the Record …
We know exactly who Trump is at this point, but yesterday offered a couple of especially pointed examples of the curdled soul of the man:
- On the assault on Rep. Omar …
Just spoke to Pres. Trump. I asked him if he had seen the video of Rep. Omar being attacked and sprayed by a substance.
— Rachel Scott (@rachelvscott) January 28, 2026
“No. I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud. I really don't think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” the president said.
I…
In related news, Trump — in a move that would have been a standalone scandal in any other administration — revealed on social media before the Omar assault that she is the subject of Justice Department criminal investigation that apparently dates back to the Biden administration.
- On the two fatal shootings in Minneapolis …
Erasing American History
The U.S. Park Service has undertaken a new wave of removals of exhibits, signs, and interpretative aids that whitewash U.S. history to conform to a sanitized MAGA revisionism embodied in President Trump’s March executive order.
The changes have hit 17 additional parks mostly in the West, including Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend, and Zion, the WaPo reports: “The removal orders include descriptions of how climate change is driving the disappearance of the glaciers at Glacier National Park and a wayside display at the Grand Canyon referring to the forced removal of Native Americans.”
When White Supremacy Is Official Gov’t Policy
The NYT catalogues dozens of social media posts by government agencies over the past month that include iconography associated with far-right extremist groups.
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Family of Men Killed in Venezuelan Boat Strikes Sue Trump Admin for Damages
‘The Line Remains Dead to This Day’
The mother and sister of two Trinidadian citizens who the Trump administration killed in a mid-October boat strike have sued the government in federal court, seeking “pecuniary, compensatory, and punitive damages.”
Continue reading “Family of Men Killed in Venezuelan Boat Strikes Sue Trump Admin for Damages”Trump Pitches a Kinder, Gentler ICE Wilding Sprees As His Top Fluffers Fight Amongst Themselves
Yesterday I discussed how in a flash, over roughly 24 hours, the Trump administration began to lose control of the public narrative about ICE and its wilding missions in Minneapolis. The public has been turning against ICE for months. This isn’t new. What we see now is the fragmentation of the pro-ICE wilding chorus. These propaganda choruses are like schools of fish. They are marvelously united and function in a way that no fish has any interest in straying from the school. They flit this way and that but always in unison. When they begin to fragment, that coherence breaks apart very rapidly as the incentive for each fish to stay in line diminishes.
I want to recommend a new article in The Atlantic, one by Adam Serwer, the kind of article only Adam can write. The gist is that ICE and MAGA are losing in Minneapolis in large part because the citizens of the city are performing — really embodying — a resistance of mutual protection. MAGA (and its paramilitary wing, ICE) presents itself as a movement of social solidarity, camaraderie and valor based on ethnic and ideological purity. But it’s the citizens of Minneapolis who are embodying those values. Good and Pretti lost their lives acting as observers, spotters, place-your-body-in-the-breach defenders of people they didn’t know. They showed bravery and selflessness and concern for their neighbors, the kind of intense communalism MAGA posits as commonplace in a lost golden age that can be regained with a purifying violence.
Continue reading “Trump Pitches a Kinder, Gentler ICE Wilding Sprees As His Top Fluffers Fight Amongst Themselves”