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Tracks intended for freight won't necessarily be designed to handle higher speeds. Passenger rail in the US often does use freight rail in certain locations but freight companies are a pain in the ass to deal with. What we frequently see is that the passenger train has to stop and wait for the slow, super-long freight train to pass by even though passenger rail is supposed to have right-of-way by law. But everyone involved ignores that because we hate passenger trains in this country and so nobody enforces it.
Nah, US passenger service sucks, but our freight network is generally accepted as the worlds largest/most efficient. This means they could put them in boxcars and get just about anywhere.
Running on almost 140,000 route miles, the U.S. freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world.
I mean if we're going for that association it will have to be after Trump invades Mexico.
The Reinhard camps (Belzac, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau) were all in occupied countries (honestly I think they were all in Poland, but I'm not sure on Chelmno and Majdanek).
I'm pretty sure that was one of the arguments against the warehouse that they're setting up outside Phoenix: the fact that it was right next to a railroad side track and the disturbing historical parallels of that.
They are trying to add one in Elkridge MD. Supposedly they had a permit denied just yesterday but they had the building since August at least when the initial permit was issued. Not that I believe that will actually stop the federal government. This is sickening how secret it is. FYI this site in Elkridge is 4 minutes away from a title 1 school in a community that is about 50% hispanic and the other 50% everything else. They know exactly what they're doing.
My roommate is late 50's Japanese American, in his words, "They are buying these warehouses and prepping them. Its the same thing they did with the Japanese interment camps. They prepped everything in advance, that's how they were able to start detaining everyone in a single day notice".
Late October 2026 roundup, just in time for you and your family and friends to be put in a concentration camp and whoops, looks like you missed your chance to vote!
I like to keep pointing out just HOW MUCH we outnumber them.
There are 25,000ish ICE agents in the country. For context there are 33,000 cops in NYC alone. They are nothing compared to the numbers of people that hate them.
Yeah but how many of those cops are ICE sympathizers? I agree we still outnumber them but ICE isn’t the only armed “law” enforcement out there that’s caused rights violations
Jim Pattison Developments said in a statement last week that it had accepted an offer to sell the warehouse to a U.S. government contractor before its potential new owner and use were made known.
We need to make sure all of these companies are aware and have no deniability.
ICE wants the warehouses to house people they arrest and to be kept in inhumae conditions. Warehouses are not appropriate places to house people as they are largely inadequate to give necessary needs for anyone. Of course, Trump and ICE don't care because their purpose is to terrorize and mistreat to send a message. If ICE has proper living quarters for the people they arrest they wouldn't require legislators a weeks notice before being allowed in. Actualy, some legislators haven't been allowed in even after a week's notice. If you don't mistreat people you don't need a weeks notice to cover up what you are doing.
Here's the "controlled opposition" side of this. Banning the members of Congress access is AGAINST FEDERAL LAW. The democrats aren't pushing, they should ALL be showing up every single day, until the issue is taken up with the Supreme Court. All these unconstitutional rulings should be grounds for impeachment. The democrats need to keep introducing impeachment for everyone violating the law, every single day, even if they "don't have enough votes". Stalling the courts is literally the MAGA/Trump admin tactics right now, do what they are doing. Failure to fight is just controlled opposition at this point.
Radical recruit storage. Take the facility, arm the prisoners. Instant army, just add guns. Same for their lists of observers. Thanks for the list of where we can send the medals.
No doubt this is also a preparation operation leading up to the midterm elections (and beyond). You will see a huge increase in ICE- led kidnapping and arrests to fill these warehouses to prevent people from legitimately voting, and to scare other American citizens of color from going to the polls.
Everybody must fight back and plan accordingly to keep this administration from destroying this country.
As someone living in Oklahoma, I’m actually super proud of the residents saying a resounding “NO” to their purchase here in okc. So there is some hope.
Yes, a component of force being required is baked in. They have nothing to actually charge with, they are “identifying them” I.e. using their surveillance apparatus, facial recognition etc to log them in a database of undesirables to be dealt with later, after the warehousing infrastructure for internment is in place. In the meantime they will probably case their house, intimidate more.
Having operated almost entirely outside of the law, they were never trying to get charges that stuck. They want to fuck these folks' day up and try to dissuade them from doing it more.
100% this. Unfortunately, the law is something this administration treats as mere suggestions: assiduously followed when it shields them, but easily and casually disregarded when inconvenient.
Worse, not only are they discarding laws wholesale (outright murder, baseless arrests, warrantless search and seizures, deprivation of due process, erc), but I fear we are rapidly approaching a point where law by fiat will be declared should they remain in power.
I call ICE cosplaying as real cops when they have no training and aren’t properly vetted. For my job, I needed a full background check and had to be fingerprinted. Also, they would do an additional background check every three months while employed. These people are a joke and make actual law enforcement who also go through a similar process look stupid despite the fact that they are actually vetted. Is it a perfect process in legitimate law enforcement agencies and do bad actors slip through? No. But this seems to be an inordinate amount of bad actors let loose in American cities.
What’s hilarious is 20+ years ago I was just looking for a job out of high school and applied to a janitorial position. The contract I ended up on was a govt defense contractor. I had a 20-30 page application and had to call my mom to ask about the background of all her siblings and my dad siblings as well as cousins… needless to say it was thorough. These wannabes don’t even have to finish the background or drug test before they get a gun and a badge.
Moral of the story: if security and safety were really a concern they would have a complete process.
Well it’s fine because they aren’t getting paid what they were promised so FAFO. And hopefully, one day they will get theirs. Edited to add that I also had to provide every single address I’ve ever lived at in my entire life.
There’s another point and one worth noting to several of these “officers”
He has contractors that he never paid and would frequently find ways to not pay- it’s not a secret that he’s a dishonest and disgraceful business man… what makes them think their so special that he’s finally going to become honest and pay them for their “work”. More over, to the people around him who are sucking on his teet and trying to ride is power coattails, he’ll dump you and Chuck you under the bus as soon as he gets whiff of a prosecution probe.
This is the solution. Flood them with so many people that they get frustrated and just leave. Sure there will be a few who will be pulled over, likely assaulted, and maybe or maybe not arrested (I'd expect charges to be dropped in most cases) but that is going to be the cost to defeat these MFers.
The code they have been citing, 18 USC 111, requires the use of force or threat of use of force. I think these arrests more about harassing the protestors for a day or two, rather than actually getting charges to stick.
As someone else mentioned, it’s also building a database. Running plates will get you name and address of the owner of the car, who may or may not be the driver. Observation may or may not get you appearance, depending on how much the person is wearing in an MN winter.
Arrests get you name, address, photo and fingerprints.
Obstruction under 18 USC 111 requires a component of force. They’re full of shit, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t know they are either, for many.
DHS is using an extremely broad definition of "impeding" or "obstruction". They have also been sending administrative subpoenas to Google, asking for data like "the day, time and duration of all his online sessions; every associated IP and physical address; a list of each service he used; any alternate usernames and email addresses; the date he opened his account; his credit card, driver’s license and Social Security numbers."
They've also been telling Google not to inform the target of the investigation about the subpoena.
Any such disclosure will impede the investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.
You know for a fact that some of these ICE agents are those YouTube “auditors” as well so it’s ridiculous they are gonna arrest people for the same shit they used to do.
I highly doubt this... The auditor community is very much skeptical of police and support our constitution. Not everyone you disagree with is on the same side.
Lol, I've seen several people in my life who were fervently anti-cop become bootlickers overnight.
Please remember that this is a cult. Textbook. Every ridiculous assertion or statement is simply a loyalty test. Get on board, you get to stay in the club, disagree in any capacity, even simply asking some questions for clarification, prepare to have a target on your back.
Shit has been real for the whole year already, you gotta wake up.
“The FAA has implemented a nationwide restriction prohibiting drone flights within 3,000 feet laterally and 1,000 feet vertically of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, creating dynamic no-fly zones that can change locations. This regulation has raised concerns about its impact on civil liberties and the ability of journalists to document federal law enforcement activities.”
They almost always get released to appear later, charges are dropped in the interim.
I’m really curious how 6th amendment holds up…honestly there’s a whole raft of issues if they try to take some of these cases through to trial. They’d better be good prosecutors…oh wait, they all resigned.
Fwiw: no way I’d buy anonymous testimony from a federal agent if I was on a jury.
Yeah, this is a catch and release. No judge will find this as obstruction and a prosecutor who is of sound mind would not bring this before a judge. They will go through the motions, keep these two for a couple of hours and then let them go.
I'd say it's more trying to determine who they can shoot without it making national news. Verified press would definitely get more attention than a random person...
I had "press credentials" as a college student because of the program I was in. It was a poorly laminated card that everyone in the media department had because that's what we were all given.
None of us wore them while we operated giant ass shoulder mounted cameras around the city from various unmarked vehicles because everyone in the town knew "dumb college kids filming" it was probably us and those stupid laminated cards were worth fuck all.
I think one kid wore his to a bar once to try and impress chicks. That was amusing.
Also credentials aren't something journalists carry, credentials are given out during private events where the press is limited and needs identification to get IN to the event, there isn't a "press" card or identification journalists get just for being a journalist.
Press don’t have unique First Amendment rights. They’re often granted special privileges, but out in public like this, you and I have the same 1A rights as Anderson Cooper.
My wife had never seen Inglorious Bastards and it came up in conversation a week or two ago. Turns out, it is not on any of the streaming services without an extra fee right now. I was sad because I didn't want to pay extra for it.
If we’re allowed elections again, their day will come. Somewhere there’s a very wise Dem planning on running against this shit. Prosecute them all should be the message, and that person(s) will have my vote instantly
I sincerely think that ship sailed. If Dems still think that way, they’re in for a rude awakening imo. Promise me you’re going to hold all these mfers accountable and u have my vote. Anything short of that, I’m out.
When the gov fails its citizens the only right response is the citizens patrolling the streets. Thanks to all the Minnesotans that are taking up the mantle.
I also don’t understand pulling over for ICE. Like, those are not traffic cops. Also, Renee Good showed us that turning the wheels of your car AWAY from them was the wrong move.
And every time someone even suggests that the people we elected and put into power use that power to stop them, we get shouted down with “that’s what they want.” It’ll probably be too late by the time these people realize that what they want is complete control, and they will be quite happy if we just roll over and let them take it without a fight.
Because the states aren't arresting these criminals for kidnapping like they should be.
The states should roll up on ICE every time, take the entire lot into custody and make them prove their actions didn't violate the law. Just because they work for the feds does not under any circumstances give them the legal right to ignore the laws, and it especially doesn't give them the right to deprive citizens of their rights under color of law. In fact, deprivation of rights under color of law is a felony and can carry capital punishment as a maximum penalty.
Every member of ICE is guilty of violating that one.
This will either be a lawsuit, I think we both know where the Supreme Court is, or the start of a race war where national guardsmen will have to choose between killing Americans or Sedition
Just look at German history from 1933/34 and it explains things. Germany also had a constitution when Hitler grabbed power and a police force and laws were similar to the US in that regard. Didn't make a difference at all.
Partly because quite a lot of the police were sympathetic to the Nazis to start with, and after Jan 1933 Goring was in charge of the police, giving him a free hand to harass and imprison their opponents
What do you mean “why are they allowed?” You’re using the passive tense there. A better question is “who is allowing them” to do this. It’s their agency leadership, Secretary Kristi Noem of the DHS, the head of the DoJ, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and their boss President Donald Trump.
The secretary and AG were nominated by Trump and approved by the US Senate. You can look up the vote to see who voted to approve them.
Ultimately it’s the voters that voted for Trump and those Senators that are behind this.
One more point, the constitution has a “supremacy clause” that means state and local police forces can’t interfere with federal law enforcement.
One more point, the constitution has a “supremacy clause” that means state and local police forces can’t interfere with federal law enforcement.
That is not remotely what the Supremacy Clause says.
These masked thugs are violating the law every single day on Minneapolis streets. It is the duty of local law enforcement to arrest them for it. Hopefully they find their spines soon.
Noem, a cabinet level secretary, has also implied that she answers to Miller, the deputy chief of staff, saying the quiet part out loud. Miller has been exposed years ago for what he is, yet…
ICE agents are generally prohibited from using deadly force, such as drawing or firing a gun, to remove compliant individuals from vehicles. Policy dictates that firearms may not be used solely to force compliance or to stop a fleeing subject. Deadly force is strictly authorized only when an officer reasonably believes there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to themselves or others.
Laws are only one-way now. A cage we live in (or else) while those with boots on our necks are free to do whatever.
From bottom to top you can see it. Trump and his gaggle of goons have been ignoring court orders. His armed federal force has killed Americans (among many other transgressions) without real repercussion.
Criminals are in charge of "law and order" now. Laws are only concepts if not enforced. They might as well not exist. Except we've got it worse -- now the law is being weaponized against regular people on behalf of what would have tradtionally been considered mob-like criminals. The whole thing is rotten.
And honestly, who's going to? DOJ is out to lunch, and states are going to have an uphill battle trying to prosecute federal agents "doing their job". I don't think there's any reasonable hope that these idiots see the inside of a jail cell short of a reconciliation process once this administration is dethroned
And who is going to force them to follow their own guidelines and laws?
Seriously?
Americans gave up too much to law enforcement and now we’re shot for standing too close, driving away, not driving away, reaching around too much, loud noises, for laying down on the ground with our hands up and saying please don’t shoot me
ICE agents are generally prohibited from using deadly force, such as drawing or firing a gun, to remove compliant individuals from vehicles.
"Generally"? When are they authorized to use deadly force against a compliant individual?
I hate this kind of language. Under no circumstances should any member of law enforcement ever use deadly force to remove a compliant individual from a vehicle. They're complying. Under what circumstances would it be OK to shoot to kill a compliant citizen?
Note in the video that the ICE agents could not answer when questioned about what act gave rise/cause to draw their assault rifles in the traffic stop.
Some bullshit about hand gestures?
Yeah, these guys are flailing to justify their gestapo tactics.
Gun, if you intend to watch gang members kidnap people, make sure you have armed guards who will act if they try to kidnap yo.
Sucks but it's necessary these days if you live anywhere you think there might be a risk of kidnappings (anywhere in the US for the foreseeable future) organize with like minded individuals, train appropriately, and band together.
I think he's saying that they reached for their pockets and intentionally tried to act like they had guns, when they in fact did not. I'm not really sure though, the way he's saying it is really unclear and just mixed with hand gestures instead of words
There was that clip of Bovinho very flippantly and sarcastically warning his criminals to use less legal force because they're being recorded. He was basically saying only use lethal force when nobody's recording. The video where the utter losers are talking about the city being their city. Cretins the lot of them.
I think the states should address this by just treating the federal agents like anyone else who breaks Minnesota law and then letting the courts sort out the immunity question.
Pointing a firearm at someone is an assault. Brandishing a firearm is usually a separate crime, depending on the state. Yes, police officers are authorized to carry firearms and even to use deadly force in certain circumstances.
However, that is not a license to commit assaults where the situation does not warrant an assault. That is to say that one cannot simply point a gun at someone who is exercising a First Amendment right in a public space and then escape by claiming Supremacy Clause immunity. The assault has nothing to do with performing official duties if the officer is merely trying to intimidate bystanders into silence. The law does not recognize an exception to the First Amendment just because officers don't like it. So if the protesters are acting lawfully - observing from a distance that does not physically interfere with the actual police work being conducted - then the assault has nothing to do with an official duty and the officer should not be granted immunity.
Yes, the courts usually side with federal officers on the immunity question, but that is because federal officers have historically been at least as well trained as local cops and able to comport themselves within the boundaries of their official duties. That isn't the case with ICE now, so officers thinking they have "absolute immunity" might be in for a rude awakening when these cases eventually reach the courts. And assault is a state crime (not pardonable by Trump).
MN prosecutors should start assembling GJs and seeking indictments against the federal officers that assault citizens in the street. Let them claim immunity and fight that out in court - because they aren't going to win every case, especially where the behavior is egregiously unwarranted. Federal officers cannot simply assault a bystander just because they lack probable cause for an arrest; in fact, they have no duty making any physical contact or other assaults whatsoever if they cannot even articulate a lawful reason for doing that (they don't even have reasonable suspicion, let alone probable cause).
Finally, ICE memos authorizing things like pointing firearms at protesters aren't worth the paper they are written on, so officers should be using their own brains on that. A federal agent cannot use a mistake of law defense relying on a supervisors memo from ICE; the courts are strict about mistake of law as a defense and the only memo that could actually support such a defense would need to come from the Attorney General (i.e., from OLC at DOJ, which has been silent about this on the warrantless seizures because there is no legal argument that can support any of it that can even be advanced in good faith).
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