Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the tabs are so delightful …
1. The facts will become clear on today’s shooting of the armed protestor.
2. It will not change the rhetoric from either side.
3. Democrats/MSM will continue to lie and inflame mobs resulting in more “martyrs” for their political capital and ICE officers killed.
4. Cataclysm
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) January 24, 2026
Ed: That certainly seems to be the playbook that Tim Walz and Jacob Frey are using in Minneapolis. As David wrote today, the two of them had the narrative in place even while the video of the shooting circulated, showing the man resisting arrest before the shooting took place. It’s still not clear whether the suspect pulled out the gun, but the body cameras will likely shed more light on the sequence. Why not wait to see the evidence before jumping to the conclusion, unless the point is to incite riots?
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Scott Johnson at Power Line: When Judge Schiltz consulted with his colleagues and advised Danny that he would get back to him, Rosen sought a petition for mandamus from the Eighth Circuit ordering Judge Schiltz to get with the program. Asked for his response to a petition that was under seal and that he had not seen, Judge Schiltz filed the angry four-page letter below with the Eighth Circuit. I take my recitation of the course of proceedings from Judge Schiltz’s letter.
The petition for mandamus was denied by a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit, though a concurrence by Judge Grasz states that the government has established probable cause for the arrest of all five uncharged participants. However, he continues “the government has not established that it has no alternative means of obtaining the requested relief[,]” i.e., the arrest warrants. I take it that means the government can either await Judge Schiltz’s ruling on the appeal of the magistrate judge’s denial of the arrest warrants or seek indictments from a grand jury, as Judge Schiltz emphasizes. Extraordinary relief in the form of mandamus ordering Judge Schiltz to do anything is therefore inappropriate.
Ed: Why did the DoJ rush to the Eighth Circuit? Scott points out that Schiltz is hardly a progressive, activist jurist; he was a clerk for Antonin Scalia and a well-respected federal judge. This also unnecessarily raised the temperature for the goal of just saving a few days. The White House had better think more carefully on these points in the future.
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…Chief O’Hara was just asked about reports that the suspect had approached the officers holding the 9mm. He says that they have no confirmation. Wouldn’t that be a good reason for Mayor Frey to call for the investigation to run its course rather than fuel the building anger?
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 24, 2026
Ed: It would be … if Frey was interested in responsible governance. Instead, he’s trying to incite a riot for his own political benefit, not to mention distract from the massive fraud of federal programs in his jurisdiction.
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Andrew C. McCarthy at NRO: To be clear, the federal agents have jurisdiction to investigate immigration crimes and any related obstruction. This does not change the fact that the state and local police have jurisdiction to investigate shootings on the streets of their cities, including shootings by federal agents. If the federal agents have immunity from prosecution or can get any state charges removed to federal court, those are legal matters that can be asserted and decided down the road. For now, the feds have no authority to tell the state and local police to vacate the scene of a legitimate state and local investigation. The feds have supremacy only in their legitimate spheres of enforcement; the states are still sovereign when it comes to their legitimate spheres, which include public safety and local law enforcement.
This is a breaking story, so it would not be surprising if, as more details come in, early reporting proves to be incomplete or inaccurate. That’s why, to repeat, I think it’s a mistake for Trump administration officials and Minnesota Democrats to continue making bold pronouncements before the smoke clears and an investigation can be conducted.
As this is written, the reported temperature in Minneapolis is -4 degrees. It does not appear, however, that the bitter cold is much reducing the crowds and tensions on the street.
Ed: McCarthy’s right; neither explanation can be fully substantiated, fully refuted, or anything in between until an honest investigation takes place. The problem, though, is that the feds won’t trust state and local police to conduct an honest investigation, and vice versa. I wonder whether the DoJ or DHS could bring in an independent agency instead – say, the Texas Rangers, or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, or some other agency with more independence from the outcome.
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How many more Americans will die before the government of Minnesota does what the majority of other states do and simply cooperates with federal immigration authorities to deport detained illegal aliens? Minnesota would rather Americans die than illegal aliens get deported. https://t.co/8bNT5LAw7n
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 24, 2026
Ed: This is the center of the problem. If Minnesota authorities cooperated with ICE on immigration detainers, they wouldn’t need to send their agents into Minneapolis to find and detain criminal illegal aliens.
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Additionally, while 8 out of 10 voters continue to believe that illegal immigration is bad for America, not all tactics used by ICE are considered legitimate. pic.twitter.com/rAcKInfrcF
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) January 24, 2026
Ed: The White House had better watch how this plays out with the electorate. Voters tend to punish the party in power when they feel chaos rising around them, not as a deliberate choice but from an emotional need to change the environment. That’s what happened in 2020, and it’s also what drove 2024 as well.
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WSJ: President Trump threatened a major escalation in a brewing trade war against Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, warning that the U.S. would impose 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S. if “Canada makes a deal with China.”
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Saturday that if “Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.” Trump added, “China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life.”
Trump’s trade threats against the northern U.S. neighbor were the latest in a war of words between the Trump administration and Carney’s government over Carney’s attempt to push smaller global powers to fight back against the aggressive use of U.S. economic clout.
Ed: Beege wrote about this yesterday, so be sure to read that. I include it here to pose, again, the concern that the Supreme Court still has not ruled on Trump’s tariff authority under the IEEPA. If he’s providing continuing examples of arguably arbitrary and damaging abuse of that authority, the Court may take that into consideration while the case remains incomplete. For what it’s worth, we should put pressure on Canada to limit their ties to China for national security reasons, but this may end up being a counterproductive strategy.
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The future of humanity is in a serious crisis 🚨
New 2024/2025 fertility estimates show major economies are far below the 2.1 replacement level:
• South Korea: 0.72 (Critical)
• China: 1.00 (Critical)
• Taiwan: 1.11 (Critical)
• Poland: 1.10 (Critical)
• Spain: 1.19… pic.twitter.com/x3g44nyZns— X Freeze (@XFreeze) January 24, 2026
• Spain: 1.19 (Critical)
• Japan: 1.20 (Critical)
• Italy: 1.21 (Critical)
• Germany: 1.35 (Severe)
• Russia: 1.37 (Severe)
• UK: 1.49 (Warning)
• US: 1.62 (Warning)
This isn’t a distant problem. We are heading toward:
📉 Population collapse
👴 Exploding elderly dependency
🛠️ Shrinking workforces
🏦 Broken pension systems
🏘️ Empty cities
Governments must prioritize policies to raise fertility: childcare support, housing reform, financial incentives, and cultural shifts
This is not optional. This is existential
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Any discussion of how better to have ICE do its job must actually include a plan for how to carry out its statutory mission of detaining/deporting people illegally in the country. Otherwise, it’s just a pretext for nullification of federal law without repeal via the democratic…
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 24, 2026
… process.
Ed: Exactly. Doing it this way is a repudiation of the democratic process – and a dangerous one, as two deaths have now proven in Minneapolis.
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I remain adamant in my lack of opinion about what happened in Minneapolis this morning in the absence of better information.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) January 24, 2026
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