The Daily Broadside

Tuesday

Posted on 01/27/2026 5.00 AM

JCM 1/25/2026 5:10:26 PM


Posted by: JCM

vxbush 1/27/2026 6:38:32 AM
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"What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t 'protest',” he continued. "It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook."

"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."

vxbush 1/27/2026 6:41:41 AM
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Is It Time to Offer Spain's Jews Asylum?

Much of Europe has a reason for going this way which we aren't allowed to talk about. 

vxbush 1/27/2026 6:43:14 AM
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Media Want You to Think Trump’s Losing On Immigration. Polls Say He’s Not.

Before the weekend’s shooting, a recent Rasmussen Reports survey revealed that almost two-thirds of the country supports Trump’s efforts to round up and deport illegal aliens. This includes most independents, over 33% of Democrats, and almost two-thirds of Hispanics. Support among both black and white voters is the same, meaning this is an issue that cuts across all Demographics, and Trump is still winning. 

vxbush 1/27/2026 6:58:09 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 3:

At the same time

After federal immigration agents on Saturday shot and killed a Minneapolis resident for the second time this month, more Americans now say they would support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than say they would oppose eliminating the agency. A majority of Americans say ICE's tactics are too forceful and about half say they strongly disapprove of the way the agency is handling its job, according to a YouGov Poll conducted hours after the shooting. More Americans approve than disapprove of protests against ICE.

[…]

Another poll conducted the day after the shooting found that about half of Americans say the shooting Saturday of Alex Pretti was not justified, while only 20% said it was justified. The gap is even larger among Americans who have seen video of the shooting, nearly two-thirds of whom say it was not justified.

And the author notes one other thing: 

The Democratic leadership will never admit it ‘cause their base would absolutely lynch ‘em, but in their heart of hearts, they want these ICE raids to continue through the midterms, because they think it’s a winning issue!

I totally believe that. 

vxbush 1/27/2026 7:03:14 AM
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Be watching out for this: Fake But Accurate: Journos and Other Assorted Propagandists Run With AI Enhanced Pretti Image
vxbush 1/27/2026 7:03:42 AM
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So much for leaving politics at the door: Nurse Says He Won’t Give Anesthesia to Republicans Undergoing Surgery

Doesn't that violate some law when it comes to emergency care? 

vxbush 1/27/2026 7:09:08 AM
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They're Scattering: Anti-ICE Leftists Consider Fleeing Country After Signal Chat Got Exposed

I think that headline is wishful thinking, but but while some Signal chats have been infiltrated, new ones have already sprung up. 

vxbush 1/27/2026 7:10:48 AM
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James O'Keefe has some hard words about his visit to Minneapolis. 
Occasional Reader 1/27/2026 7:33:55 AM
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For comment:


Don Surber: Waltz is caving to Trump


Consider:


Yes, Bovino is out as a CBP “commander at large”, but has not been fired, he returned to his regular role. Homan is now in MN, and he does not exactly play pattycakes on immigration enforcement. MN State police are now (reportedly) actually helping ICE. So I’d say, this looks like a Trump win.

JCM 1/27/2026 7:36:54 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Way deeper according to Peter Schweizer.

Mexico using 'weaponized immigration' to undermine US sovereignty, author of new book alleges

Not just Mexico, but China and other countries that have an interest in the US being diminished.


JCM 1/27/2026 7:38:58 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 6:

Yes. Reason for losing their job and license.

JCM 1/27/2026 7:39:28 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 2:

Let's not repeat MV St. Louis incident.

vxbush 1/27/2026 8:13:06 AM
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In #10 JCM said: Not just Mexico, but China and other countries that have an interest in the US being diminished.

Have you seen the stories about the Chinese couple in California that had something like 10-12 surrogate mothers giving birth to babies at the same time? That sounded like a replacement plan to me, if only meet the needs of China. 

vxbush 1/27/2026 8:14:10 AM
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In #9 Occasional Reader said: Homan is now in MN, and he does not exactly play pattycakes on immigration enforcement.

And it helps that he received an award from Obama, so I think that gives him a tiny level of titanium to fend of Democrat attacks. 

JCM 1/27/2026 8:21:37 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 13:

I've seen stories over the years for many countries doing that. That why the Birthright Citizenship case is so important.

With China they play a long game. A recent case had 3 charged with espionage up here at Ft. Lewis. All three were first gen Chinese. I'm personally convinced that was planned when their parents were sent her from China. Have a kid, who's a citizen and an agent.


JCM 1/27/2026 9:20:37 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Alex Pretti... he went to a protest armed to obstruct ICE he initiated a confrontation to obstruct ICE.

The far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm's way, then made him a martyr

"This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities," Vice President JD Vance... 

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.

JCM 1/27/2026 9:22:36 AM
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OHMYGODWEREALLGOINGTODIE!

Doomsday clock set to a record 85 seconds to midnight

vxbush 1/27/2026 10:12:01 AM
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Here's a piece of good news in Minneapolis: Hegseth approved letting ICE use Fort Snelling as their operating base. Now protesters won't be able to find the ICE agents in hotels across the city. 
vxbush 1/27/2026 10:17:30 AM
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Coffee and COVID finds the micromanagement so you don't have to: 

Britain’s ruling Labour Party reversed a prior ban, unleashing local governments to impose so-called “15-minute city” ordinances. The first enthusiastic participant was the city of Oxford, where the city council promptly proposed to divide the city into six “15-minute neighbourhoods.” Residents will get little local passports, which ration a certain number of trips outside their designated living zones. After that, they’ll be subject to escalating fines. For now.


The idea, if you can call it that, falls apart under the most trivial examination. They’re not even doing it right. Fifteen-minute cities were originally a design template, for building new types of cities that would be divided into regions, with each region containing everything people needed —stores, government agencies, parks, stadiums, schools, churches. They would all exist within walking distance, in each little zone. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Lovely and collective? But what about when it rains?


Even in the scheme’s original formulation, it was never meant to be superimposed on existing cities, which, after all, weren’t carefully pre-planned by technocratic elites during construction to ensure that each area was the effective equivalent of every other one. But existing cities aren’t built that way. 

JCM 1/27/2026 10:36:39 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 19:

How very Soviet of them. USSR had internal passports. I've held one belonging to a Refusnik who escaped the Soviet Union.

The internal passport limited where you could travel. A lot of people in were barred from traveling to Moscow. Only Russians could go to Moscow. Anyone from the various "republics" were generally barred unless they had been approved by the party.

Fits right in with Her Furhrer Keir Starmer's digital idea.

Roll over the top of the ChiComs social scores.

Pure dystopia nightmare stuff actually happening. What is ironic is all the Hollyweird depiction of the this have it coming from the right. But the reality is it comes from the left/



JCM 1/27/2026 10:57:04 AM
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Xi has absolute control over China’s military. Now he wants more

Ah, good old Maoism on the rise. Not good for anyone.

Kosh's Shadow 1/27/2026 11:16:43 AM
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In #21 JCM said: Xi has absolute control over China’s military. Now he wants more Ah, good old Maoism on the rise. Not good for anyone.

Purges like that reduce military capability because it removes experienced officers. That can be good or bad.

Good in that it makes it harder for China to successfully invade Taiwan

Bad because Xi could decide to use nukes if they get bogged down and anyone tries to help Taiwan.

Occasional Reader 1/27/2026 11:45:15 AM
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Reply to JCM in 17:


Only collectivism will save us!

Occasional Reader 1/27/2026 11:54:53 AM
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https://instapundit.com/772201/

OMG! TRUMP DEPLOYED HEADLESS, BIONIC RIFLE-LEGGED ICE AGENTS IN MINNEAPOLIS!
vxbush 1/27/2026 12:03:20 PM
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In #24 Occasional Reader said: OMG! TRUMP DEPLOYED HEADLESS, BIONIC RIFLE-LEGGED ICE AGENTS IN MINNEAPOLIS!

I saw that, but didn't want to give it any more attention than it so richly deserves. 

JCM 1/27/2026 1:48:26 PM
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Wife of tanker captain captured by US sues

A legal fight is unfolding in Scotland over a Venezuelan-linked oil tanker seized by US forces in the North Sea and the fate of its captain, the Guardian reports. Lawyers for the wife of Capt. Avtandil Kalandadze, a Georgian national commanding the Russian-flagged Marinera, have asked Scotland's highest civil court to review what they call his unlawful detention. The Marinera, previously known as Bella 1, was intercepted by US forces earlier this month as it sailed between Iceland and Scotland and has since been anchored in the Moray Firth, a sheltered inlet off the country's northeast coast.

As I understand the ship was not properly documented, sanctioned and carry sanctioned cargo. So... not much of a case... IMAO.


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