I need to take care of some business today, so I’ll try a roundup before heading out. Start with PP:
Philip Pilkington @philippilk
The fall in metals prices last week that definitely was NOT a political intervention in the market didn’t even push gold or silver below their moving averages. I wonder who is holding those short positions.
For all her flaws—and everyone here knows I’m no Libertarian—MTG makes a cogent case (2:31 video):
Libertarian Party @LPNational
Feb 1
“MAGA is—I think people are realizing—it was all a lie.
I won’t even attempt to get into the Epstein revelations which provide a small glimpse of the vast stretch of the Anglo-Zionist empire. Instead, the big story this morning, continuing from yesterday, is Trump’s search for an exit from Iran. First, Glenn Diesen says what the ruling class hopes nobody understands—but I think most do. Many are coming to the realization that, just as MTG argue, the war on Iran is serving “big donors”:
Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen
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From this headline, you would think that Iran had encircled the US coastline with offensive military capabilities and was making threats.
The military representatives of the big donors have been sent to pressure their agents in our own military establishment. The problem, of course, is that our own military establishment sees the looming disaster any war would bring:
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. @RecTheRegime
Top Israeli general secretly visits Pentagon – Israel is reportedly concerned that President Donald Trump could reach a deal with Tehran without ordering military strikes
Michael Young, journalist based in Beirut, presents his big picture of what has Israel so alarmed (and also how Trump screwed up by yielding to Jewish Nationalist pressure, i.e., MTG’s “big donors”):
Michael Young @BeirutCalling
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We’re in a very interesting moment in the Middle East. When the U.S. began disengaging from the region under Obama, its elites sought to find a replacement for American hegemony. Obama, as his Jeffrey Goldberg interview showed, believed the way was to bring about a new balance of power in the region, led by Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Israelis fought this idea, arguing that the nuclear deal Obama signed with Iran was a way of giving the Iranians a greater regional role, something that would challenge Israeli supremacy.
Trump reversed that idea, cancelling the nuclear deal, and replacing it with another: U.S. hegemony would be replaced by U.S.-supported Israeli domination, which would be anchored in the so-called Abraham Accords. October 7 derailed that, but not the U.S. desire to reinforce Israeli hegemony, an objective shared by Republicans and Democrats, Biden and Trump. What we’ve seen is a much greater Israeli say in U.S. policy toward the region since 2023, as a consequence of this, with the U.S. even ignoring its own laws in arming Israel during the slaughter in Gaza, though the Americans knew that Israel was committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. It didn’t matter.
However, the success of Israeli efforts [in buying off the American political establishment] has proven to be a problem for Israel today, as we are seeing an alignment of powers—Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar, as well as Pakistan, but also a weekend [sic!] Iran—emerging to counter-balance Israel. For these countries, Israeli hegemony, backed by Washington, is the ultimate threat to their own power.
This alignment is now trying to avert a U.S. attack on Iran that would only strengthen Israel. When Netanyahu went to Washington in late December, alarm bells went off in regional capitals, seeing this as an Israeli effort to push the U.S. into round two against Iran. For now, the Israelis cannot be happy with the delay in an attack, but Trump is also a wild card who is not always predictable. Much of what takes place from now on in the region must be intepreted in this context.
Of course Jewish Nationalists aren’t happy with any delay—Iran only gets stronger the longer the delay continues.
But here are some military realities that the Pentagon surely knows, and has probably been telling Trump—urgently:
Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_
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The US military is designed for Shock and Awe, decapitation strikes, and occupation regimes led by Western-owned puppets/divisive warlords (see Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, etc). It cannot defeat a unified and resilient Iran.
Any war with a duration more than 12 days can defeat the US, as the 12 Day War last June demonstrated.
Weapons stocks depleted by 4 years of war in Ukraine, 3 years of Gaza genocide and regional airstrikes, and the 12 Days War cannot be rapidly restored now that the Chinese licensing of dual-use exports disrupts military supply lines.
All Iranians need to do is withstand 2 weeks of attack, retaliate with overwhelming missile strikes on Israel and US bases/ships in the region, and they win.
They know this, even if US doesn’t.
Recall, however, what Steve Jermy, former naval aviator, told Danny Davis last week. The US endurance in attacking Iran can probably be measured only in a matter of days—as counted on one hand. Not weeks. Meanwhile, the Iranians are conducting aggressive drone recon of Trump’s “big beautiful armada,” no doubt preparing for missile attacks. And China and Russia are also actively helping Iran—this isn’t Venezuela—and are going to conduct joint exercises near the BBA. Here’s photo I lost track of but found again today:
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
China’s “Da Yang Yi Hao” scientific research ship is located in the Arabian Sea, near USS Abraham Lincoln, for .. scientific research activities.
Trump foolishly thought he could bluff Iran into accepting another tit for tat theater and back them down a bit. This time is different. Iran has repeatedly assured him that they are prepared for full out war on the US and Israel no matter who attacks them. And that the war will not be short. And the US knows Iran can make good on that threat.
Here’s a link to a highly recommended conversation with Alastair Crooke:
Trump would have probably liked to strike if there had been a decent chance of a short, successful war. But there was and is none. Iran would retaliate sharply for any attack and set the region on fire.
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Trump now needs to find a way to chicken out from his grandiose threats to Iran. He has sent out feelers for negotiations: …
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The likely outcome: Trump will have to lift some sanctions and, in exchange, will get some limited nuclear agreement with Iran. I assume that it will be softer on Iran than the JCPOA agreement which had been signed under Obama only to be trashed later by Trump.
The other demands on Iran which the Israelis had made through Trump: – no enrichment, a curb on the number and range of its ballistic missiles, an end of support for militia in the region – will not be part of the negotiations.
Those points are not of interest for Trump. He wants and needs an agreement – any agreement – that can be sold to the public has his personal success. The details will matter less to him than the fact that an agreement was made.
Israel will not like this. …
But the U.S. is no longer the all powerful force in the Arab region that it had been 30 years ago. It is lacking the means to defend its ships and bases against attacks by ballistic missiles and drones. This while Iran has systematically build up such weapons and forces.
Iran has also gained allies. …
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.png00Kevin MacDonaldhttps://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.pngKevin MacDonald2026-02-02 09:11:582026-02-02 09:11:58Trump’s war with Iran: It’s all about the pro-Israel donors
Sixteen activist groups mobilizing against immigration agents in Minnesota have one thing in common: financial support from a nonprofit backed by the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations.
The Minneapolis-based Headwaters Foundation for Justice awarded $3,321,013 in funds and non-cash assistance since 2014 to groups that nowseek to monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or protest the agency, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of tax filings, activists’ websites and their social media posts. One related protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) airport led to around 100 arrests on Jan. 23.
The Headwaters Foundation did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.
“What we are seeing in the streets of Minneapolis and across Minnesota right now is a fight for collective liberation in real time,” the foundation said in a Wednesday Instagram post announcing $120,000 in new grants. Other Headwaters Foundation grants from 2025 are listed on its website with unspecified dollar amounts.
“Your support of Headwaters will help us meet the ongoing need of funding organizing on the ground,” the post said.
Liberal philanthropynonprofits disclosed millions in donations to the Headwaters Foundation for more than a decade, including $300,000 in 2020 from Open Society Foundations, which George Soros created and his son now leads. The nonprofit did not respond to a request for comment.
‘ICE Out’ Marches
Several activistgroups that coordinated “ICE Out” marches on Jan. 23 were funded by the Headwaters Foundation: Mizna, Unidos MN, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota, Communities Organizing Latine Power and Action (COPAL), Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL), Jewish Community Action, Voices for Racial Justice, Minnesota Freedom Fund and the LGBTQ groups OutFront Minnesota and Gender Justice.
None of the organizations responded to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
Join us today on the largest action to get ICE out of MN. It’s cold for those who are able to march its starts at 2pm. For the remaining come to the Rally at the Target Center at 2pm. Here are tickets.
Jewish Community Action board member Emma Kippley-Ogman was arrested at the MSP airport demonstration after the crowd blocked a roadway and violated conditions of their protest permit, according to police. Kippley-Ogman defended her actions in an op-ed, declaring, “We cannot keep on with business as usual when our federal government is engaged in escalating state terror right here, right now.” The Headwaters Foundation has given $183,013 to Jewish Community Action, tax forms show.
CTUL told supporters in a post to call its “worker defense hotline” if an employer “threatens you for taking the day off of work” to participate in the Jan. 23 marches. The organization received $1,085,750 from the Headwaters Foundation, tax filings show.
Unidos MN, formerly called Navigate MN, is also hosting an upcoming “healthcare worker resistance training” in February to teach medical employees how to “protect” patients during ICE searches, an Instagram post shows. Unidos MN received $90,250 from the Headwaters Foundation.
Minnesota Freedom Fund’s only Headwaters Foundation grant was for an unspecified amount. The fund also drew support in 2020 from former Vice President Kamala Harris, who encouraged the public to donate to bail out alleged Black Lives Matter rioters.
The Headwaters Foundation also gave at least $25,000 to Mizna, $385,000 to the Greater Minnesota Worker Center, $10,000 to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, $171,000 to Voices for Racial Justice and $318,500 to OutFront Minnesota.
COPAL, the Indigenous Protector Movement and MN8, formerly ReleaseMN8, advocate for so-called observers to follow immigration officials in person.
A “Constitutional Observers” handbook uploaded by Communities Organizing Latine Power and Action (COPAL) on Aug. 1 2025, tells readers to follow a six-step method for documenting immigration enforcement. (Screenshot/COPAL)
MN8 and COPAL have a text chat and hotline, respectively, that Minnesotans can use to summon observers during ICE encounters. An online “Constitutional Observer” handbook from COPAL tells readers to wear an identifying badge and film agents — but avoid physically interfering with arrests. The Headwaters Foundation awarded $360,000 for MN8 through the years and $10,000 for COPAL in January 2026.
“As you document, demand that law enforcement present a signed judicial warrant,” reads the handbook. “While in many cases, they aren’t legally required to present the warrant, persist in asking.”
Gender Justice also invites viewers of its website to fill out a form for possible legal action if they have endured or witnessed “gender-based” mistreatment by immigration agents. The group has obtained “reports of agents calling women slurs and body shaming people” and “misgendering trans women,” among other allegations, its legal director claimed in Thursday testimony to the Minnesota Senate. The Headwaters Foundation gave $62,500 to Gender Justice.
In a Jan. 23 Instagram post, the Indigenous Protector Movement asked supporters to send money for gas masks, goggles, “legal observer vests” and other items for demonstrators.
“Federal agents shot and killed a man this morning,” the Indigenous Protector Movement’s post said, referencing protester Alex Pretti’s fatal scuffle with law enforcement in Minneapolis earlier that day. “Community defenders are on the streets RIGHT NOW. SUPPLIES NEEDED IMMEDIATELY.” Another collaborator on the Instagram post was MN ICE Watch, which activist Renee Good was volunteering for when she was fatally shot by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.
We’re investigating reports of unlawful gender-based or sexual violence and harassment by federal immigration agents in Minnesota. If you’ve experienced or witnessed gender-based harm at the hands of ICE, CBP, or DHS, you can submit a confidential report at genderjustice.us/ice-report
The Indigenous Protector Movement did not respond to a request for comment. The Headwaters Foundation announced $10,000 in funding for the group in its Wednesday post, its first show of financial support.
Minnesota’s Somali Lobby
The Headwaters-funded groups Ayada Leads, Awood Center and CAIR Minnesota focus much of their advocacy in support of Somalimigrants, a large Minnesota population targeted for deportation due to welfare fraud scandals.
CAIR Minnesota’s Somali-born executive director attendedmultiple Minneapolis anti-ICE demonstrations over the past week, footage shows. The chapter received $140,000 from the Headwaters Foundation.
Ayada Leads also provides political campaign training and previously recruited Somali-born Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to start running for public office, according to its website. Omar is a fierce critic of ICE’s Minnesota operations and was reluctant to condemn violence against agents in a Jan. 11 interview.
Ayada Leads and the Awood Center did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment. The Headwaters Foundation awarded $280,000 to Ayada Leads and $190,000 to the Awood Center.
The Awood Center seeks to hire a new employee for anti-ICE “rapid response,” the DCNF previously reported. Its new rapid response program will help “prevent unlawful or coercive detentions,” among other goals, a job description says.
This conflict, on both sides, is entirely manufactured. There is no possible way this ICE circus could deport tens of millions of people. In fact, the government claims they are only attempting to deport a few hundred thousand. You will not notice that. (After you’ve consented to a full deployment of masked federal cops on your streets, four years later, there might be 48.5 million illegal immigrants instead of 49.1 million. But of course their children will vastly make up for the difference, as will the tens of millions of Indians that will be brought in during that period.)
Meanwhile, the protesters against ICE are marketing a fantasy where they are protecting Anne Frank. It is all total nonsense.
Everyone is getting to know this new kind of government system we have recently been gifted. Some seem to like it, apparently purely as a result of a kind of BDSM fetishism, wherein an individual enjoys being stomped on and having their dog shot. Others are lashing out. Most are simply confused.
Between the unleashing of a domestic paramilitary force that just kills people and the christening of a mega-warmachine that openly presents itself as a gang of pirates, the United States has dropped any pretense of being something other than a totalitarian state which acts with impunity at home and abroad.
One can argue about how long we have been living under this type of a system without anyone saying it aloud. Certainly, those brave folks who were crushed while resisting forced integration in the South would tell you it has been a long time since the people of this country had the right to self-determination, and the millions of dead Germans, Vietnamese, Koreans, and Moslems would tell you that US adherence to “international norms” has always been a fraud. Regardless, we have entered into something totally new under “Donald Trump 2: Double Jew Up Your Ass” in that the government is no longer pretending that people have rights, no longer pretending there is such a thing as an international order.
Pretense is a type of fraud. But when the overwhelming majority of people believe in the pretense, it holds a lot of weight, as everyone acts as though the fraud is real. And, like rights and laws, which are abstractions, people acting as though they are real means they carry real weight, even if the government can and does violate them with impunity. When the pretense is gone, no one will or can act as though these sociological abstractions of rights and laws exist, which means they do not exist in any sense.
Enter Bellum Americanum.
Of course, it all remains very abstract, for at its core, it is nothing but a bunch of abstractions driving real world actions. This is why people are supporting this new system, some running around in a panic, some simply confused. The real world consequences of the abstractions are what matters and that is what people see. But no doubt, there is a struggle to connect the abstraction to its real world effects. People have spent more than 300 years getting lost in so many abstractions that it is sometimes very difficult to know where abstraction ends and where reality begins.
Start with some realities, we should. Aye, we should do.
It is a reality that a fat dyke and a Jew-face got killed by the cops. As a reality isolated in itself, most would likely chuckle at this, or perhaps ironically pour out a few sips of Coors Light. One would not have trouble arguing that as an isolated reality, it’s probably better those two are no longer with us, and certainly, anyone crying about these deaths could rightly be labeled a homo.
The fact that these two disreputable fiends were murdered by totally untrained morons in such a slapstick manner only makes it all the more attractive. There is a Looney Tunes vibe to all of it.
But what do the deaths mean? If we start with the deaths, then unwind the abstractions and connect them back to the reality situation? Is it just two random people you don’t like getting what they deserve? Or is it something much more important than that?
I believe it is something much more important than that, and yet I have found it virtually impossible to say that without people accusing me of defending fat dyke and Jew-face. It is so emotionally charged. It is like talking to rocks. But I will do my best to explain why I am against the federal government unleashing masked paramilitary forces to execute people in the streets, even if for the time being, I personally do not like the people they are executing.
As a rather obvious matter, we have now established a standard where militarized federal police can flood the streets and just start killing people with impunity and that after their deaths, women and Indians representing the government will go on TV and make obviously false claims about what happened. Maybe some smarmy welp on Fox News can argue the dyke had it coming because her car was so scary, but no one can argue that about Jew-face. He just got thrown on the ground and executed. Then the Indian who rules over us said we don’t have a Second Amendment (or if we do he is unaware of it) and if you have a gun the government can kill you.
The very emotional people defending this are defending it because they view the deceased as their enemies. But just whose enemies are being killed here? And why? Are they being killed because they are your enemies? Is the government your friend?
Regardless of what you think of fat dyke or Jew-face, they were murdered by the state because they were viewed as enemies of the state. They were not murdered because they are pro-immigrant. ICE is not really even an immigration enforcement group in anything but name at this point. They deport fewer immigrants under Trump than they did under Obama. They are primarily being unleashed on the streets to fight people who are organized to fight them and, without our analysis getting too complicated, it is pretty clear that there is a deeply symbiotic relationship between ICE and those fighting them in the streets, and that neither group represents the interests of any common people.
This conflict, on both sides, is entirely manufactured. There is no possible way this ICE circus could deport tens of millions of people. In fact, the government claims they are only attempting to deport a few hundred thousand. You will not notice that. (After you’ve consented to a full deployment of masked federal cops on your streets, four years later, there might be 48.5 million illegal immigrants instead of 49.1 million. But of course their children will vastly make up for the difference, as will the tens of millions of Indians that will be brought in during that period.)
Meanwhile, the protesters against ICE are marketing a fantasy where they are protecting Anne Frank. It is all total nonsense.
If we were living in reality, instead of this demented Teletubby hyperreality, people would demand the government use existing laws and existing law enforcement to calmly do pre-dawn raids on the people who are housing and employing the illegal immigrants. In a matter of months, none of these Anne Franks would have anywhere to live or work, and they would peacefully take their $3,500 checks and plane tickets home. By this time next year, 85% of illegal immigrants would have left. That’s the reality situation.
Donald Trump has no interest in the mass removal of illegal immigrants, ostensibly due to economic reasons, and so instead of punishing those housing and employing the immigrants, he is putting on this stupid circus of cruelty and death for the proles. It’s very similar to the totally incompetent Nero giving people bread and letting them watch people kill each other at the circus. In order for the circus to work, a bunch of morons have to come do violence against the fake immigration people. The violence of the “protesters,” who are actually using guerrilla warfare tactics, then justifies the violence of the state. The boomers and their allies cheer on the total militarization of domestic policing without thinking even days, let alone months or years, in advance.
If we can grasp that those being killed are being killed because they are enemies of the state, then the logical thing for us to ask ourselves is this: is there any chance that we or anyone we care about could ever under any circumstances be considered an enemy of the state? That question should not be very difficult to answer.
Let’s look.
The same guy saying this:
Is saying this:
You’ve probably seen some other things that particular individual has said. He’s the guy who said “starve away” about Palestinian children, and I guarantee if you typed something against Jews on the internet, he would say that same thing about your kids.
It’s a pretty specific group of people who are coming out in support of this new federal police force killing Americans.
There is no reason to belabor the point: all of the people supporting these ICE murders are the Israel people, and I promise you, every single one of those people cares a million times more about Israel than they do about illegal immigration. (Note: they all also, to a man, support mass “legal” immigration. So you can figure that one out. Or try to.)
What this means is that in the eyes of the people supporting these murders, people who are opposed to Israel and Jews are already enemies of the state, and therefore can already be shot in the streets without consequence.
Better hope liberals like you before getting killed by the government
When is it okay to “slander” the victim of a police shooting? It all depends on the politics of the victim.
Ever since Renee Good and Alex Pretti got themselves killed by interfering with federal law enforcement while in possession of deadly weapons, the media have been in a fit about the Trump administration’s plan to investigate the agitators’ ties to anti-ICE activist groups.
The federal government is facing a militarized, highly disciplined, violent left-wing operation that will do anything to prevent a single illegal alien from being deported. This includes road-blocking, screaming, blowing whistles, face-to-face confrontations, arson, vandalism, even assassination.
But for wanting to gather information on these two troublemakers, The Hill newspaper thundered at the administration: “the expectation is straightforward: you investigate the use of deadly force,” NOT the victims of the deadly force.
Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty says the Trump administration’s interest in finding out more about Good and Pretti is “galling.” (Moriarty is such a left-wing lunatic that the other lunatics, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, had to take a murder case away from her, after she offered the perps a two-year sentence in a juvenile facility. This earned her a 6X daily spot on MS-NOW.)
Obama administration veteran Juliette N. Kayyem claims that “Kill and Slander” is official government policy. “Kill and Slander,” she said, is the “terminology that is part of their M.O. right now.”
What liberals mean by “slander” is “to reveal unflattering facts about a person.”
Divulging anything vaguely negative about a victim whom liberals like is abhorrent, beyond the bounds of decency — even if the information is true, relevant and important. On the other hand, if liberals don’t like you, the worst thing you ever did in your life will be front-page news the day after the government kills you. The nastier and more irrelevant, the better.
DON’T LIKE: law enforcement officers, gun enthusiasts, and right-wing protesters.
LIKE: criminals and left-wing protesters.
This is part one, about the “Okay To Slander” chumps. There aren’t a lot of these to choose from because the people liberals don’t like rarely fight with the police.
On Jan. 6, Ashli Babbitt was blown away by Capitol Hill Police Lt. Michael Byrd for trespassing. She was not attempting to run over a law enforcement officer, nor was she getting in the face of an officer while carrying a gun.
Immediately after her death, the media were fairly bristling with Babbitt’s flaky beliefs, tweets, arrests (no convictions) — even a confrontation with her husband’s ex-girlfriend, despite its sublime irrelevance to whether Byrd was justified in shooting her. The day after her death, The New York Times ran this headline: “Woman Killed in Capitol Embraced Trump and QAnon; After 14 years in the military, Ashli Babbitt bought a pool supply company and delved into far-right politics.”
Meanwhile, we still don’t know anything about Ms. Good’s first husband or why she didn’t have custody of their two children, among other basic biographical information. It took 10 days for the media to tell us that Ms. Good wasn’t even married to the woman the media still call her “wife.”
No one said it was “tragic” that Babbitt was killed. They went straight to calling her a kook, this 14-year Air Force veteran. We certainly weren’t treated to a week of interviews with people who loved her. No photo-shopping to make her more attractive.
In other words, Babbitt’s death got the exact opposite treatment of Good and Petti’s, who were directly harassing federal officers trying to enforce federal law. Those two must be beatified — or you’re a Nazi.
Say, anybody remember Waco?
While not as recent as the murder of Emmett Till — no, I’m sorry, it’s 40 years more recent — in 1993, Bill Clinton’s ATF and FBI killed 80 Americans, including 22 children at a Waco, Texas, compound of Branch Davidians, an offshoot of Seventh-day Adventists.
They did this for the sole purpose of serving a warrant on a single individual, David Koresh, who’d always peacefully complied with warrants in the past. But instead of just knocking on the door, the ATF decided to shoot, strafe and tear-gas a compound full of men women and children.
It was the U.S. government’s largest massacre of Americans in history.
Naturally, Democrats and the media leapt to defend the government’s pointless slaughter of Americans.
Guess how!
They smeared Koresh. The Democrats produced a member of Koresh’s religious sect, a 14-year-old girl, who testified that she’d been sexually abused by him.
And oh, how the media cheered. Under the headline, “In Waco Hearings, Parties Undergo a Role Reversal,” the Times cackled about how Democrats had switched the focus to Koresh — rather than the federal agents who killed him. Then-Rep. Charles E. Schumer, the Times reported, “received a congratulatory telephone call from President Clinton.” (Taking a moment away from jetting off on the Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein, no doubt.)
The Washington Post explained that “Koresh’s character — and the nature of his hold over his band of followers — is crucial to understanding what happened.”
Crucial! (His “hold” was based primarily on his mastery of the Bible, suggesting another category of Americans liberals think it’s okay to kill.)
In contrast to what’s happening in Minneapolis, the Branch Davidians were not an ongoing threat to the operation of the federal government, if they ever were. Their leader was dead and the compound a heap of smoldering ashes. To borrow from Hillary Clinton, what difference, at that point, did it make what kind of man Koresh was?
Maybe the molestation claim was true and maybe it wasn’t. The moral of the story is, sliming Koresh was the left’s go-to move. You might call it “Kill and Slander.”
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“We’re investigating. As soon as Higby put that post out, I opened an investigation on it. If that leads to a break in the federal statute or a violation of some law, then we are going to arrest people. They should be worried. If they broke the law, you should be worried,” FBI Director Kash Patel told Benny Johnson this afternoon.
Patel is referring to citizen journalist Cam Higby’s bombshell report on infiltrated Signal chats linked to left-wing groups in Minneapolis that are acting as a shadow revolutionary force against the federal government’s deportation operations targeting criminal illegal aliens.
What is especially concerning is that the federal government was unable to identify the command-and-control communication structures behind these pressure campaigns in the sanctuary city, while citizen journalists were the ones who ultimately uncovered the bombshell.
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What appears to be unfolding in Minneapolis, particularly following the emergence of “Signal-Gate” on Sunday via citizen journalists on X, extends well beyond any conventional protest activity. The evidence so far suggests coordinated pressure campaigns against federal agents exhibiting characteristics of a low-level insurgency, with direction, tasking, and information flow routed through encrypted messaging apps, implying an organized command-and-control structure functioning as a shadow revolutionary force.
What’s more, former Tim Walz campaign adviser Amanda Koehler, as well as Minneapolis City Council Member Aurin Chhowdhry, have allegedly been identified as a key figures in the now-leaked Signal group chat.
Koehler has gone dark, deleting social media accounts and making her website private.
The group even had a ‘Signal Chat Guide’ advising anti-ICE protesters:
The Signal chat was exposed by journalist Cam Higby, who published a bombshell report on Sunday after infiltrating multiple groups across Minneapolis with the stated aim of tracking federal agents and impeding, assaulting, or obstructing their operations. The report sparked a wildfire across X overnight.
Higby’s reporting unleashed a rapid mobilization of citizen journalists, including accounts such as 0HOUR1, who began mapping what appears to be an organized command-and-control network of left-wing activists behind the groups.
Higby suggested that left-wing activist networks are leveraging local residents as force multipliers in coordinated pressure campaigns against federal agents, forming pressure campaigns that one military analyst characterized as “What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”
The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE “rapid responders” were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning “backup” around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting happened. Local “rapid responders” made at least 26 entries into a database called “MN ICE Plates” in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.
This highly organized Signal group even managed to track journalist James O’Keefe, as well as quickly obtain his cellphone number, and threatened the journalist with violence…
Besides tracking and deploying anti-ICE pressure campaigns against federal agents like guerrilla-style warfare tactics through the messaging app, the group was also building a list of federal vehicle license plates stored in a database, 0HOUR1 revealed this on Sunday.
What was a Reuters reporter doing in the group?
By late Sunday afternoon, after Higby published the Signal chats on X and citizen journalists flooded the groups, exposing highly organized internal targeting plans, the revolutionaries appeared to panic.
Fleeing to Cuba? And we’ll revisit this possible reason shortly.
First, Eric Schwalm, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret who held the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4, offered his assessment of events unfolding in Minneapolis.
Schwalm described the command-and-control dynamics operating within left-wing activist Signal groups as a form of “low-level insurgency infrastructure,” noting it appears to be created by individuals who have clearly studied and internalized the insurgency playbook.
Schwalm continued:
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.
Meanwhile, they’re back at it…
Well, well, well …
The key informational gap citizen journalists face is who exactly is providing the organizational know-how required to coordinate these operations across Minneapolis via encrypted messaging platforms. There are reports that Antifa, government officials, gang members, journalists, and others were in the group, but the structure observed is well-disciplined, scalable, and purpose-built to disrupt federal deportation operations. We’ve told readers that Minneapolis has been a testbed for revolution, with tactics likely to be deployed across sanctuary cities nationwide.
This suggests involvement by socialist or Marxist-aligned NGOs, raising another question about the origin of their training. One plausible origin is Cuba, as outlined in earlier reporting:
DataRepublican writes, “SIGNALGATE Donor List Available for Download; Politicians and Foreign Leadership Confirmed?”
If this movement is assessed as a communist revolutionary effort, and if the seasoned special forces expert is viewing it as more of a “low-level insurgency”, then the current characterization as a civil rights protest or democratic activism is a misdiagnosis of the actual threat – one that we’ve labeled is a color-revolution-style operation being waged from the left-wing NGO sphere against President Trump.
The big question is why mainstream Democratic leaders have remained largely silent as left-wing revolutionaries operate within their party under the guise of “democracy” or whatever the most trending cause is. The mobilizing narrative has shifted repeatedly, from George Floyd to pro-Palestinian activism, and now to anti-ICE. Just wait until spring; the revolutionaries want chaos – and Democrats are completely fine with this.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.png00Kevin MacDonaldhttps://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.pngKevin MacDonald2026-01-27 06:40:072026-01-27 06:40:07FBI Launches ‘Signal-Gate’ Investigation on Minnesota Left
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