The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[The Grand Nudger]

Imagine being the empty headed weirdo who thought "the mexicans are attacking el paso!" was going to be the thing to make america rise up and give a shit about white replacement. People in el paso don't give a shit about el paso...

[Jackalope]

Here is a question for forum members: If and when Republicans lose badly in the midterms, what do you think Trump will do in response?

A nasty slip-and-fall?

[Angrboda]

How a Solitary Bullet Hole Blew Apart ICE’s Web of Lies

After an ICE agent shot a DoorDash deliverista in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly offered a variation of her standard falsehood.

She had said the same after the fatal shooting of an unarmed mother of three, Renee Good, a week earlier on Jan. 7. And she would repeat it regarding the killing of Veteran Affairs’ ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Jan. 24.

“Fearing for his life, he fired a defensive shot,” Noem said of the agent.

She told the press that the deliverista incident constituted “an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.”

“Our officer was ambushed and attacked by three individuals who beat him with snow shovels and the handles of brooms,” she added.

That falsehood was more elaborate than others, but received less attention because the person shot in this case, Venezuelan Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, 24, only suffered a wound to his right thigh and survived. He was arrested along with another man who allegedly joined in assaulting the agent after a car chase ended in a struggle outside of his home.

But a bullet hole in the front door corroborates contradictory accounts by two eyewitnesses. They say the agent fired through the door, and Sosa-Celis was struck after he entered the house and could not have constituted a threat. The bullet was later found to have torn through into the apartment.

The bullet was found “between a child’s bed and a crib,” the wounded man’s attorney, Frederick Goetz, told the Daily Beast on Friday.

Goetz said two children, aged 1 and 3, were in the apartment at the time. The older one could be seen in a live video Sosa-Celis and his wife, Indriany Mendoza Camacho, made as they called 911 to report in Spanish that he had been shot “by ICE” when he was inside.

“They shot through the door,” she says in Spanish.

In a subsequent statement, she reported that her husband was not even the man that ICE had been chasing for fleeing a car stop. The agent had, in fact, been after fellow Venezuelan DoorDash deliverista named Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, 26, who was arrested outside the home.

Aljorna’s partner, Valentina De Los Angeles Tiapa Moreno, was inside the house and had watched it all alongside Camacho. Sosa-Celis and the two women and the two young children had then sought refuge in an upstairs bedroom, but ICE drove them out with tear gas.

A number of area residents had gathered outside and were loudly expressing their displeasure when ICE sought to scatter them with more tear gas.

It seeped into the home of a neighbor whose six-month-old began to have difficulty breathing.

The neighbor took the baby out to his car only for agents to toss flash bangs under it, causing the airbags to inflate. The baby ended up going by ambulance to an emergency room, but thankfully survived.

In the meantime, ICE arrested the wounded Sosa-Celis and Aljorna. An FBI criminal complaint charged them with “aiding and abetting the forcible assault, resistance and impeding of a federal law enforcement officer.” ICE, which had been routinely barging private property in Minneapolis without a search warrant, reported that the lack of one kept it from collecting the bullet.

ICE used the same excuse for not vouchering the supposed ambush weapons, the broomstick and the snow shovel, which ultimately proved to have been plastic.

ICE also arrested the two women who had witnessed it all from inside the house. They and the two young children were flown out of Minneapolis the next morning.
“To Texas and other places,” Sosa-Celis’s lawyer, Goetz, reported.

But both women managed to file habeas corpus petitions seeking their release and their return to Minneapolis. The petitions were filed under seal but were viewed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which reported documents contain detailed eyewitness accounts of the incident. The report revealed that the women watched an unnamed ICE agent punch and choke Aljorna. Sosa-Celis sought to assist him.

“Seeing Alfredo in danger, Julio intervened and attempted to separate Alfredo from the man beating him and choking him — pulling on Alfredo towards the house to get him away from his attacker,” a petition says. “At no time did either Alfredo or Julio use or threaten to use a weapon, nor wield any object that could be deployed as a weapon, against the man assaulting Alfredo.”

The women say in the petitions that a child was in the room when Sosa-Celis was shot. Contrary to Noem’s initial statements regarding the encounter, the occupants were the ones truly afraid for their lives when they sought safety in an upstairs bedroom.

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In the meantime, the women have been returned to Minneapolis. By all indications, they are ready to offer their accounts in the same courthouse should the case come to trial. The prospect of their testimony, combined with video of the incident and the bullet hole in the door, prompted the U.S. Attorney’s office to seek dismissal of the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be reinstated.

[emphasis mine]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Remember when those in government were better at lying to cover up their heinous acts?  I never thought I'd be nostalgic for those days.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said. In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and that have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents. The New York Times saw two subpoenas that were sent to Meta over the last six months.

The tech companies, which can choose whether or not to provide the information, have said they review government requests before complying. Some of the companies notified the people whom the government had requested data on and gave them 10 to 14 days to fight the subpoena in court.

Meta, Reddit and Discord declined to comment.

“When we receive a subpoena, our review process is designed to protect user privacy while meeting our legal obligations,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. “We inform users when their accounts have been subpoenaed, unless under legal order not to or in an exceptional circumstance. We review every legal demand and push back against those that are overbroad.”

The Trump administration has aggressively tried tamping down criticism of ICE, partly by identifying Americans who have demonstrated against the agency. ICE agents told protesters in Minneapolis and Chicago that they were being recorded and identified with facial recognition technology. Last month, Tom Homan, the White House border czar, also said on Fox News that he was pushing to “create a database” of people who were “arrested for interference, impeding and assault.”

Some social media companies previously fought government requests for user information. In 2017, Twitter (now X) sued the federal government to stop an administrative subpoena that asked it to unmask an account critical of the first Trump administration. The subpoena was later withdrawn.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/techn...media.html

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^So, they want the identities of people who are exercising their First Amendment rights? Yeah, that’s not terrifying at all.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Fuck ICE. Fuck DHS. Fuck this Administration.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Fuck ICE. Fuck DHS. Fuck this Administration.

I have nothing but admiration for your eloquence.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Fuck ICE. Fuck DHS. Fuck this Administration.

I have nothing but admiration for your eloquence.

Boru

I welcome their visit to my Spicewood residence.

[Jackalope]

Fuck ICE. Fuck DHS. Fuck this Administration.

^

All I have to add is fuck this Congress and fuck the propaganda machine that created this electorate.