After the brutal killing of Alex Pretti on January 25 — the second fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal agents in the Minneapolis area — the Trump administration sought to advance a narrative that it was changing course.
Homan is a thug, he has always been a thug going back to his days on the West Carthage, NY police department, a small town in northern NYS. He took a $50K bribe. And he conditioned an ICE pig drawdown on "cooperation and collaboration" by the state and city. Which means nothing. He is Bovino without the Nazi trench coat. Sadly, he seems to have the corporate media bamboozled into thinking he has lowered the temperature. He hasn't. The temperature doesn't go down until the ICE pigs are gone.
If it looks like a thug, it might be bad genes; if it walks like a thug, well maybe that's your bias; if it talks like a thug, open your eyes; if it smells like a thug, run! Tom Homan is a nasty, ugly, incoherent and smelly person. Yup, a thug.
Is this story about the mainstream media or the horror in Minneapolis? Your headlines for the legacy papers are ridiculous, and I don't understand their appeasement, especially when they have the same videos at their disposal. I watched the first minute of the first video and maybe because it's morning and an empty stomach, I wretched, I couldn't watch. It is horrifying and nightmarish to be living through this. We became soft as a nation and spoonfed all the pablum we could eat so we became fat and lazy. We were lulled by social media and YouTube and we became slow. We were told we were the best, brightest, toughest, prettiest and smartest and we all, collectively believed we were. We are fat, bloated, smelly and stupid. America.
The rest of the world thought you were fat and unintelligent, Katy. I tried my best to change the narrative after years of visiting (and living there), but this brings it all back.
All terrorist groups use excessive violence to instill fear into a populace so they can control the populace. Once this fear has been established they can control the populace with intimidation. They are testing their effectiveness by using this intimidation around some schools in Minneapolis and the result is attendance is down 50%. They are preparing to use the same intimidation around polling sites, in heavy blue areas, during the 2026 midterm elections.
Thank you for keeping this front and center. We here in MN have a @believe it when we see it” approach. In the last week there have been two news conferences where school administrators are sharing how ICE is not only stalking around their schools but actually tailing school board members and sitting outside their homes for hours. Intimidation tactics straight up.
Your comments reflect the local MPR reporting and posts from Sen. Tina Smith, both proven to be accurate, reliable observers. Changing the guard from the shock and awe phase (Noem) to Homan is NOT changing course - it is doubling down and tightening the screws. ICE has made more appearances here in "greater" Minnesota as well, which has been reported in local papers such as the Park Rapids Enterprise. Leaving 2,300 ICE goons (reported in other media as 2,000) when there are usually 150 is not a drawdown. Thank you for your accuracy.
Isn’t “rhetoric” speech? So Homan will continue to threaten and punish Minneapolis until they stop the speech he doesn’t like. Hmmm. Which constitutional amendment does that bring to mind?
Sadly thank you....ICE is too afraid to be identified not just hiding behind their massive clothing but all the way down to no license plates....let that sink in... what are they afraid of? getting hit with a snowball?
Apart from the illegality of their actions and their reckless disregard for life, which are horrible, these guys are just utterly clueless bunblefutzes. They have no idea what they’re doing.
They want to start a war they cannot win any way other way than by destroying this country. OUR country! They'll claim it's to save the US from being woke. How stupid is that?
Remember when rethuglicans said Obama "destroyed the country" then said Biden "destroyed the country?" Both claims were untrue but this mob of miserable, mendacious, miscreants will destroy everything with their massive criminality, corruption and straight up evil intent.
So, that leaves ~2,000 ICE people here (I refuse to call them officers or agents as those are professional titles). It takes more people to create terror than maintain it. Nothing is changing on the streets here, other than some of the major news outlets are going home. People are still being rounded up because of how they look and being held in squalid condition for days before being released randomly on the streets. People who don't look like white christian nationalists are scared to go shopping, go to school or work, go out to dinner, etc.
Minnesotan here: AP cited this yesterday a total of 268 ‘violent’ immigrants have been captured = success in the eyes of goons.
State of MN has 5.84 million people living here. What these fascist thugs are calling a success is nothing more than a ploy to cover up their punishment of us out wintering them and the fact that our governor called them weird. (They are)
More math: with the ICE budget, each ‘criminal’ is worth $600k.
Multiply that by 268-this has cost tax payers $160,800,000.
I have friends who have family in the military. Those soldiers, if something happens to them while in active duty and they loose their life: worth $500k-weird.
Follow the money.
These people who ICE are recruiting aren’t capable of passing to be a real soldiers, officers, fireman-the only badge they get is aggressive hall monitor.
Meanwhile this administration continues to make money hand over first in the guise of upholding and defending the constitution, but they’re really tearing it down. They are trying to push colonialism again and Minnesota is ground 0.
Everyone in America has to WAKE UP to the fact that this is NOT about "immigration enforcement"! That is a LIE! What it IS about is Trump's REVENGE, RETRIBUTION, and EXTORTION Racket being imposed upon Minnesota. Trump NEVER lets a Grudge of his go by - EVER! He ALWAYS comes up with an excuse to attack anyone or anything that gets in his way. Just like Roy Cohn taught him. And NOW he is using HIS Brown Shirts of ICE and CBP to ATTACK and HARASS and THREATEN and ASSAULT and ABUSE and KILL people in Minnesota - including CHILDREN and BABIES! JUSTICE will be done and EVERYONE in ICE and CBP who are abusing their authority WILL be held to account! Receipts are being kept everywhere they go and there are records of EVERYTHING they do and those who violate the rights and freedoms and liberties of people WILL be held accountable. The members of ICE and CBP who are abusing their authority will NOT escape their accountability. The light is coming as to just who they are and what they did. They can only hide so long behind their masks.......
Homan is a thug, he has always been a thug going back to his days on the West Carthage, NY police department, a small town in northern NYS. He took a $50K bribe. And he conditioned an ICE pig drawdown on "cooperation and collaboration" by the state and city. Which means nothing. He is Bovino without the Nazi trench coat. Sadly, he seems to have the corporate media bamboozled into thinking he has lowered the temperature. He hasn't. The temperature doesn't go down until the ICE pigs are gone.
If it looks like a thug, it might be bad genes; if it walks like a thug, well maybe that's your bias; if it talks like a thug, open your eyes; if it smells like a thug, run! Tom Homan is a nasty, ugly, incoherent and smelly person. Yup, a thug.
Same shit, different dog.
My heart and my thoughts are with the people of Minneapolis and others all across America who have been targeted by lawless ICE goons.
Is this story about the mainstream media or the horror in Minneapolis? Your headlines for the legacy papers are ridiculous, and I don't understand their appeasement, especially when they have the same videos at their disposal. I watched the first minute of the first video and maybe because it's morning and an empty stomach, I wretched, I couldn't watch. It is horrifying and nightmarish to be living through this. We became soft as a nation and spoonfed all the pablum we could eat so we became fat and lazy. We were lulled by social media and YouTube and we became slow. We were told we were the best, brightest, toughest, prettiest and smartest and we all, collectively believed we were. We are fat, bloated, smelly and stupid. America.
The rest of the world thought you were fat and unintelligent, Katy. I tried my best to change the narrative after years of visiting (and living there), but this brings it all back.
All terrorist groups use excessive violence to instill fear into a populace so they can control the populace. Once this fear has been established they can control the populace with intimidation. They are testing their effectiveness by using this intimidation around some schools in Minneapolis and the result is attendance is down 50%. They are preparing to use the same intimidation around polling sites, in heavy blue areas, during the 2026 midterm elections.
Thank you for keeping this front and center. We here in MN have a @believe it when we see it” approach. In the last week there have been two news conferences where school administrators are sharing how ICE is not only stalking around their schools but actually tailing school board members and sitting outside their homes for hours. Intimidation tactics straight up.
Your comments reflect the local MPR reporting and posts from Sen. Tina Smith, both proven to be accurate, reliable observers. Changing the guard from the shock and awe phase (Noem) to Homan is NOT changing course - it is doubling down and tightening the screws. ICE has made more appearances here in "greater" Minnesota as well, which has been reported in local papers such as the Park Rapids Enterprise. Leaving 2,300 ICE goons (reported in other media as 2,000) when there are usually 150 is not a drawdown. Thank you for your accuracy.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/04/minnesota-response-homan-drawdown-announcement
Isn’t “rhetoric” speech? So Homan will continue to threaten and punish Minneapolis until they stop the speech he doesn’t like. Hmmm. Which constitutional amendment does that bring to mind?
How long before the next citizen death? Two weeks?
The Admin lied⁉️⁉️
Sadly thank you....ICE is too afraid to be identified not just hiding behind their massive clothing but all the way down to no license plates....let that sink in... what are they afraid of? getting hit with a snowball?
Apart from the illegality of their actions and their reckless disregard for life, which are horrible, these guys are just utterly clueless bunblefutzes. They have no idea what they’re doing.
Ah Mark—I think they do know what they are doing.
They want to start a war they cannot win any way other way than by destroying this country. OUR country! They'll claim it's to save the US from being woke. How stupid is that?
Remember when rethuglicans said Obama "destroyed the country" then said Biden "destroyed the country?" Both claims were untrue but this mob of miserable, mendacious, miscreants will destroy everything with their massive criminality, corruption and straight up evil intent.
So, that leaves ~2,000 ICE people here (I refuse to call them officers or agents as those are professional titles). It takes more people to create terror than maintain it. Nothing is changing on the streets here, other than some of the major news outlets are going home. People are still being rounded up because of how they look and being held in squalid condition for days before being released randomly on the streets. People who don't look like white christian nationalists are scared to go shopping, go to school or work, go out to dinner, etc.
Minnesotan here: AP cited this yesterday a total of 268 ‘violent’ immigrants have been captured = success in the eyes of goons.
State of MN has 5.84 million people living here. What these fascist thugs are calling a success is nothing more than a ploy to cover up their punishment of us out wintering them and the fact that our governor called them weird. (They are)
More math: with the ICE budget, each ‘criminal’ is worth $600k.
Multiply that by 268-this has cost tax payers $160,800,000.
I have friends who have family in the military. Those soldiers, if something happens to them while in active duty and they loose their life: worth $500k-weird.
Follow the money.
These people who ICE are recruiting aren’t capable of passing to be a real soldiers, officers, fireman-the only badge they get is aggressive hall monitor.
Meanwhile this administration continues to make money hand over first in the guise of upholding and defending the constitution, but they’re really tearing it down. They are trying to push colonialism again and Minnesota is ground 0.
Everyone in America has to WAKE UP to the fact that this is NOT about "immigration enforcement"! That is a LIE! What it IS about is Trump's REVENGE, RETRIBUTION, and EXTORTION Racket being imposed upon Minnesota. Trump NEVER lets a Grudge of his go by - EVER! He ALWAYS comes up with an excuse to attack anyone or anything that gets in his way. Just like Roy Cohn taught him. And NOW he is using HIS Brown Shirts of ICE and CBP to ATTACK and HARASS and THREATEN and ASSAULT and ABUSE and KILL people in Minnesota - including CHILDREN and BABIES! JUSTICE will be done and EVERYONE in ICE and CBP who are abusing their authority WILL be held to account! Receipts are being kept everywhere they go and there are records of EVERYTHING they do and those who violate the rights and freedoms and liberties of people WILL be held accountable. The members of ICE and CBP who are abusing their authority will NOT escape their accountability. The light is coming as to just who they are and what they did. They can only hide so long behind their masks.......
Thank you for continuing to cover the ICE / CBP civil and criminal violations in my city