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DOJ Seeks More Time on Tower Dumps
Justice Department asks for yet another extension on whether they’ll fight the end of a controversial law enforcement technique
https://www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-doj-seeks-more-time-on-tower-dumps-3143
People who would give up security for safety will soon have neither.
Damn, someone famous said that…………
Seeking the Haystack to see if they can find “The Needle” they used to justify the Tower Dump of the Haystack. Hmmmmm.
Yup, the “Patriot” Act gave the IC the haystack so they could look for needles. Bad idea.
A key case would be the Idaho student murders. Anyone think the guy is innocent? I don’t.
It’s a difficult due process issue. I think the prosecutor should definitely have to present more evidence than cellphone tracking. What if someone else had the defendant’s cellphone?
Yes, pretty unlikely, but there has to be other evidence. I find it hard to believe that the guy was that bright.
I find this Hard to Believe, but OK. If it’s True, then that’s Great.
I know what you mean. I cannot believe Russia is still invading Ukraine 4 years later. Perhaps the hoax will officially end when Israel invades Iran.
From the article the estimated number of self-deported was arrived at by calculating the number of sudden job openings by assuming that illegals employed suddenly quit and self deported.
Thinking we will get real numbers once we know how many illegals claimed the $1,000 when registering to self-deport since that payment also includes free plane rides back to their home country.
link to the actual article:
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/opinion/nearly-1-million-illegal-immigrants-have-self-deported-under-trump-which-has-led-to-higher-wages/
sooo only..29 millons have to go…..
That would be 41,000,000 have to go ……….. your number just relates to biden’s last 4 years ……. promoting a Self-Deport LOTTERY might help in moving larger numbers to self-deport ……. just an idea.
More like 99+ million left to go.
Trump’s mass deportation plan just got real-world proof.
After ICE raided a Nebraska meat plant, illegal workers were out, and suddenly the “unwanted” jobs were flooded with American applicants.
The lie is dead. Enforce the law, and Americans line up to work.
https://revolver.news/2025/06/a-funny-thing-happened-after-ice-raided-a-meatpacking-plant/
I compiled info on slain Melissa Hortman’s shooter escaping from Edinburgh golf course in Brooklyn Park, Mn. Copy and paste the address into google maps, for a map to follow along.
Edinburgh Golf Course, 8700 Edinbrook Crossing, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
This golf course is flanked by freeway sound barrier walls to the north (610) and to the east (252). There is only one road in or out for the residential homes on the north side of the golf course, Edinbrook Parkway. This creates a “boxed canyon” that would make it easy for Police to monitor all traffic in or out of the exclusive residential area. Hortman lived at 8710 Windsor Terrace.
Brooklyn Park police station, 5400 85th Ave N, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443. The Brooklyn Park Police station is located 1.5 miles from Edinburgh golf course clubhouse. It is on 85th Ave just a few blocks east of the golf course. Police are 2 miles from Melissa Hortman’s home. I assume they had squads posted at both ends of Edinbrook Parkway in minutes after “shots fired” was reported. Police put a shelter in place order for a 3 mile radius. The police station was inside this 3 mile radius.
1501 Freeway Blvd, Brooklyn Center, MN 55430, is the address for the Minnesota field office of the FBI. It is located 4 miles directly south of Melissa Hortman’s home. The shooter could have traveled this distance in 1 hour at a pace of 4 miles per hour. The FBI was just outside the 3 mile radius.
David Carlson lives at 49th and Fremont Ave in North Minneapolis. This home is 3 miles directly south of the FBI field office. The shooter rented a room at this home. The shooter was caught on video just hours after the shooting, breaking into a vehicle parked at this home. He could have walked 7 miles in a couple hours. If he had a bike stashed it would have been faster. There are many secluded bike/walking paths that could have been used.
This is my theory, shooter flees out the back of Hortman’s home. Travels south across the golf course to 85th Ave. Then heads south on Xerxes Ave N. to Shingle creek. Take the bike/walking trail to the east and follow it south till you hit 694 freeway. Only a few places to cross the freeway for a pedestrian, one being the bridge right next to the FBI field office. Continue traveling south to rental home.
The shooter escaped the Brooklyn Park Police, the FBI, the BCA. He was caught by a trail cam set up by a farmer in Sibley county… So many questions…with no answers.
Just because you/we don’t have all the facts doesn’t mean it’s a big conspiracy. There is the work history of Boelter from funeral body mover to food expert in Africa, and his odd use of a room at his “best friends” house that marks him as a mentally unstable person.
There is a lot of incompetence in MN with Walz in charge and local police departments have been devastated by the democrat insistence that cops are bad. But now they’re really good according to all the Walz cronies grabbing for the microphone unaware somehow they were vehemently anti-police just recently.
If you don’t have answers try keeping up with Liz Collins who is probably the most accurate best source in MN.
https://alphanews.org/
Just because you/we don’t have all the facts doesn’t mean it’s a big conspiracy.
That is a very condescending reply.
Now, why would you go and say something like that?
The convoluted details and the lack thereof absolutely point to the fact that there is a big conspiracy in our midst.
The alleged shooter or one of the alleged shooters allegedly ran a USAID funded NGO that was allegedly involved in bringing Somali and Congolese “migrants/immigrants” into Minnesota.
He also allegedly spent quite a bit of time in the Congo under the cover of ‘pastoring’.
He and his wife are allegedly cohorts of the governor who, by the way, has his own dubious reputation.
Allegedly, the people on the receiving end of the violence had some sort of alleged knowledge or suspicion of some sort of an alleged human smuggling ring or money laundering or some such or the other that was allegedly going in in the state.
There’s a conspiracy alright.
How deep does it goes is the question.
Check out George Webb’s videos and substacks for the past three or so days.
There may very well have been a Gladio Operation about to kick off in concert with those ridiculous NoKings riots/peaceful protests which may have to do with the timing of the 6/13 strikes by the Israelians.
We would do well to keep our brains from being sucked dry by mainstream narratives and flimsy explanations.
0.o
Alpha News and the American Experiment Are great sources for news in Mn. Nothing makes any sense of this crime. With the truth constantly being stretched we will probably never get the whole story.
I think our batting average for being correct on conspiracies should receive a little more respect.
I suspect that he was a grifter par excellence and lied so much that his world was collapsing in around him with all the lies.
Nice share.
It’s getting weirder.
Apparently, there was a break-in at the Hortman house.
0.o
The dead lady was not a member of Congress, but of the Minnesota state legislature. So there was no “congressional shooter”.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s state law that banned the medical transitioning of minors. All three liberal justices dissented, believing the argument that the ban violates sex-based rights, as argued by the ACLU.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-tennessees-ban-on-child-sex-changes?utm_campaign=64470
Good News! Quote from the article:
‘Tennessee State Rep Jason Zachary wrote, “well done AG Tennessee and team! Thankful that our legislation protecting children from gender mutilation surgery/puberty and hormone blockers went all the way to SCOTUS. This issue is now settled. There will be no gender transition surgeries on minors in TN.”‘
it’s impossible to transition
That’s True. All you are doing is mutilating your sex organs.
A Portland, Ore. gift shop named Stumptown Otaku is boasting about its decision to humiliate, kick out and ban a black customer who wore a “MAGA” hat.
New Ngo Comment dispatch:
https://www.ngocomment.com/p/portland-shop-kicks-out-and-bans
Not surprising, when a commie sees someone wearing a MAGA hat, they only see a hated enemy, not race, sex, age, disabilities or a human being, just a hated enemy.
POTUS appointed John Ratcliffe DNI (May 26, 2020), well before the upcoming election, to “watch what happens”…
JR wrote this Jan.7th, 2021, outing the treason & the cover-up…
I’m unable to copy/paste any bits from that format, but it’s an easy short read…
{ https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-ratcliffe-s-letter-accusing-career-analysts-of-underplaying-chinese-influence-in-2020-election/bf1f635d-8bbb-4510-b01d-6b86d62bce14/ }
from JR’s wiki page: “… On February 28, 2020, Trump announced that he would again nominate Ratcliffe to be director of national intelligence(linked), and after Senate approval, he resigned from the House, and was sworn in on May 26. On November 12, 2024, president-elect Trump announced that he would nominate Ratcliffe to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency(linked). He was confirmed by the Senate(linked) on January 23, by a vote of 74–25, and assumed office later that day….”
but apparently this is “new” information…?
{ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/former-intel-officer-drops-truth-bomb-cia-odni/ }
“We caught ’em; we caught ’em all. We have it all” is – and has been – a True thing.
Two weeks ago or so Patel promised video of Epstein’s cell. Still waiting.
Two More Weeks ®.
The Official Motto of The Patel and Bongino Show.
Too, More Weaks
WATCH: Pete Hegseth Effortlessly Smacks Down Dem Senator Mazie Hirono After She Asks a Disgusting Question About Trump and the Leftist Riots Across the Country
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/watch-pete-hegseth-effortlessly-smacks-down-dem-senator/
Panicans:
“Trump’s tariffs are gonna cause a recession!”
*Booming economy*
“Trump’s tariffs are gonna destroy the stock market!”
*stocks near all time highs”
“Mass deportations will hurt the economy!”
*Booming economy with rising middle class wages*
“Trump’s going to start WW3 and be worse than George Bush!”
…
I fully support people voicing opinions on foreign policy
Nothing is off the discussion table when real war is at stake
But the hysteria is coming off a bit feminine
https://truthsocial.com/@DC_Draino/114705877680547051
This is how the left operates. They don’t have real support. They buy it.
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/evg/d/seattle-demonstrators-needed/7857712648.html
June 14th was a Saturday.
If true, that would explain the white hair brigade we saw at the NoKings gatherings.. Boomers use Craigslist.
In general, money talks. As a comparison, when I closed my machine shop back during Covid, the shop rate for a full-on machine shop was the same as the hourly pay quoted, without the bonus. The difference was our shop built things that helped America.
In general, that’s the world we live in. It is what it is. I submit the ‘left’, a cabal I call Communists, get their most valued help from the legal system, law enforcement, and the courts. The money from the government money laundering operations is helpful, sure.
That’s why I removed consent and no longer contribute nor cooperate.
California Dreamin’
We are already taking action in the arena:
US helps defend Israel from Iranian missile attack
This has also been disputed tonight. We wait.
hackers also made their way into Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex. They drained the exchange of more than $90 million.
Gee, I hope our CIA, with their years of experience and expertise in financing, organizing, coordinating, managing and agitating and fomenting Color Revolutions are Busy Little Bees in Iran right now.
And not busy little bees here domestically!
Let’s just hope they don’t pick Kim Kardashian!
Maybe there should be a law to remove a “judge” if he/she has 10 unanimous reversals? Something has to be proposed.
ah, Maize, Maize, Maize
in any battle of intellect, the Senator from Hawaii shows up wholly unarmed
Hegseth does a great job here, dismisses the implausible premise (“if you received an order from the President to shoot protestors in the leg yada yada”), and then sticks to his story, repeating his same answer when asked a 2nd time
WATCH: Pete Hegseth Effortlessly Smacks Down Dem Senator Mazie Hirono After She Asks a Disgusting Question About Trump and the Leftist Riots Across the Country
That was a beautiful putdown by Secretary of Defense Hegseth.
Hirono has always been a dolt and will always be a dolt.
She must be the Japanese-American equivalent of Sotomayor, the “sage” Latina.
yep
How clueless, misinformed, mediocre and uneducated people like her became Senators baffles me to no end.
Blame the voters. Similar “dolts” are spread around the country.
I prefer to blame election fraud and “self-interest”.
As time under government education passes, yes, there are more idiots, but more than 50% suggests something more nefarious.
And ignoring the irony that a person of Japanese descent votes with the communist CCP virtually 100% of the time and she’s a Democrat, the party that interned her descendants.
Maybe her name should be Morono and not Hirono.
Ancestors, not descendants above! Oops!
Well, Hirono is the granddaughter of a Japanese bathhouse owner. Family moved to Hawaii but fled back to Japan around WWII if I am remembering this correctly.
Don Surber has a great piece today.
He really lays it on the line, however, the visiting TDSr’s are NOT going to like it one liddle bit, which makes it more enticing!
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/shouldnt-it-be-world-war-6-or-7-by
Thanks – I meant to post that…
Don is a fun read every morning but this one was unusually spot on.
It is Most Curious that Benjamin Netanyahu, in particular, has been trying to sell his “Iran is days / weeks / months away from developing a nuclear bomb” for many, many years now.
All the same, regime-change rhetoric used to sell the Iraq war in 2003 is now being used to push us into the Israel-Iran war.
Over the past few days, almost since the moment Israel began bombing Iran, we’ve seen the reappearance of almost all the old GWOT rhetoric. Then as now, the purpose is to justify a U.S. military adventure abroad and gaslight the American people into supporting regime change in Iran.
For those of us who were in high school and college during and immediately after 9/11, who saw the propaganda play out in real time, it’s an amazing thing to witness what’s happening now.
In particular, the point about needing to stop Iran before it gets a nuclear weapon is almost word-for-word how Iraq hawks argued for a preventative war against Saddam Hussein in 2003. Iraq’s WMDs had to be destroyed, we were told, before they could be used in a terror attack against the U.S. that would dwarf 9/11.
For those keeping track, we have been hearing about Iran’s impending nuclear weapon for at least 20 years. Tehran, we’re told, is always just months or weeks away from having deployable nukes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran was getting “extremely close” to a nuclear weapon — in 1996.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/18/discredited-neocon-talking-points-from-the-iraq-war-are-back-lazily-re-purposed-for-iran/
The fact is is that this has nothing to do with land, it has nothing to do with Israel, it has nothing to do with bombs and it has nothing to do with “Palestine”.
This is a centuries old Holy War being waged against Western Civilization by savage third world Mohammedans who are incapable of negotiating in good faith and believe they are on a supreme mission from allah to spread their ideological cult throughout the world by any means necessary.
The only thing that will deter them is overpowering force.
Trump & Netanyahu both know it, but politically they can’t say it.
But they must do it.
Do it NOW.
Do you really want to take the chance? Given everything we know about this regime in Iran.
What do you want us to do if they detonate a nuclear device? Whatever it is, it’s too late for millions of people.
Uh, that option is already kaput for the regime there right now. Happened just a few days ago.
The idea now is to make that option kaput permanently for them.
And then let their whole nation decide for themselves what their nuclear-weaponless future should be.
I agree and have been hearing “6 months away from a bomb” since 1990, but I would only add that Israel and others have already taken steps through the years, from bombings to the Suxnet virus to destroy their capabilities. Financial sanctions also hurt them to a degree.
Even though we’ve heard this story a dozen times already, it looks like we (collectively) have the backbone and international support to stop it for good this time around.
I’m not a fan of any regime changes that cost lives, but in this case removing nuclear capability from a theocracy that believes in martyrdom- if it can be achieved in a lasting way- is worth doing.
Tehran in the 1970’s was a modern city and it would be beautiful to see the country taken back by the people and brought back into the 21st century.
you caught the crux of the issue with this clause:
“removing nuclear capability from a theocracy that believes in martyrdom“
that makes the Iran case different from any of the other-nation hypotheticals that are thrown around
Well, there is actually a very famous book already written about Netanyahu and Iran. It’s called Moby Dick. Capt. Ahab and Moby Dick.
I will never support regime change in and of itself. There are too many disastrous examples of it: Iraq, Libya. Syria….
Federal judge smacks down AAUP for undermining our democracy
https://www.thecollegefix.com/federal-judge-smacks-down-aaup-for-undermining-our-democracy/
Hegseth has been stellar in these hearings
Another one asked “if you were given an order to have protestors shot in the legs yada yada”
“Senator, if I had been given such an order or had not, I certainly wouldn’t reveal it in THIS forum”
I would have responded that if a Social Media Personality (Laura Loomer) shared some new, verifiable, provable information impacting the individual’s ability to do the job they are being tasked to do, then yes, that is pertinent info.
She is disgusting.
Trump Abruptly Leaves G7 Conference and Ditches Meeting With Zelensky
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/ukrainians-fuming-after-trump-abruptly-leaves-g7-conference/
The Z-creep can’t take a hint.
You weren’t invited……. that’s 1.
You didn’t have a ticket……..that’s 2
You weren’t on the guest list……..that’3
You are out.
Ilhan Omar: America Is Becoming ‘One of the Worst Countries’ in the World
Money is tight but I’ll buy you aticket home!
GoFundMe
For that btch I’ll find the money.
A trebuchet would be more entertaining.
Perfect!
https://tracreports.org/immigration/
Tools
https://tracreports.org/immigration/tools/
Special Cases: Alien Enemies Act and Recent Litigation
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/03/25/federal-court-rules-migrants-have-right-to-challenge-alien-enemies-act-deportations/
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/supreme-court-again-blocks-quick-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-in-new-blow-to-trump/
Leave them in jail until their hearing.
True the Vote has created a new website where people can track the legislation in each of the States.
the tweet/x post says
“Introducing LegiTrack! LegiTrack is a bill-tracking tool to empower freedom-minded citizens to engage with and influence election integrity through the legislative process. Join Catherine and Meg on Thursday, June 19th at 6 pm ct/7 pm et for our first guided tour. Ask questions, give us feedback, and be part of LegiTrack’s growth! ”
and here is a link to the new LegiTrack website:
https://legitrack.org/
Bessie2003
Thanks for the information!
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1935433169840521552
For starters:
Kook?
Kickback?
Kayak
Kink
Intell Community trying to take out Tulsi Gabbard. Sundance has tweeted about it. No bueno.
IMO, the Intell Community needs to be gone.
Removing the 5,000+ weaponizing, disloyal, treasonous, thugs in the DOJ and the 3-letter departments (includes the so-called Intell Community) is as important as removing the 42,000,000 illegals from within our walls.
Both represent a “clear and present” danger to America’s Constitutional Republic and Americans.
Support removing them and the b-bondi, patel, bongo team that has not fired them in 150 days.
“Not All There” Joe was never running the country!
The Auto-Pen was running the country!
JUNE 18 2025
twitter – Pavel Durov
The biggest interview I’ve ever done —
and the first I’ve given to the French press.
People deserve to be informed!
I’m told an English version is also coming, so stay tuned.
=====================================
EXCLUSIF.
FBI, Russie, DGSE, Macron… Les confessions de Pavel Durov
( in French )
https://archive.ph/lPgbk
Sorry if someone else posted this. Here is a great source of information concerning the Israel/Iran conflict. Amir Tsarfati’s latest video.
https://www.youtube.com/live/zjfDdi2GTco
US Customs & Border Enforcement gave an 8-year-old kid a Green Card?!?!!??
Green Card holder for 58 years faces deportation
Victor Avila, a 66-year-old long-term U.S. green card holder who legally immigrated in 1967 and has held a green card since, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a GoFundMe. Avila was returning home visiting his son who is a member of the U.S. Airforce when he was detained.
Avila’s deportation hearing has been scheduled for July 15 at a Bakersfield-area ICE facility, with his family and legal team preparing a defense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/green-card-holder-for-58-years-faces-deportation/ar-AA1GYgCe
I reckon Victor was too lazy to bother getting his citizenship???
ICE Detains Green Card-Holder Returning from Visit to Son in US Air Force
Victor Avila, a 66-year-old green card holder who has lived in the United States since he was a teenager, was detained in May by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at San Francisco International Airport after returning from a trip to visit his son, a U.S. Air Force servicemember stationed in Japan, according to local reports and a GoFundMe page.
Avila was detained May 7 at San Francisco International Airport after returning from Japan. The 66-year-old has been a legal permanent resident since 1967, when he immigrated to the United States from Mexico. He was returning from the trip with his wife, who had not been detained.
According to a GoFundMe page, his wife, four children and six grandchildren are all U.S. citizens, including his son, who serves in the U.S. Air Force.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-green-card-holder-returning-visit-son-us-air-force-2087397
Where’s the violin? Jesse Kelly reminded us of the stories that would be unleashed by the 5th column, AKA lamestream media.
I know just the guy to follow this, a local (Bakersfield) crime reporter who was recently in the middle of the ICE protests in LA and has been following the border invasion for quite some time. Bonus is he’s Hispanic himself and speaks Spanish fluently. I’ll send this to Taco Joe and see how it goes.
I bet there was a lot of fishy stuff going on in the valley in the 60’s when I worked in the fields there. I was young and pretty innocent to the machinations of evil; too much church and not enough reality.
My cynical side says a leak was arranged to set ICE up for a MSM attack, presuming Mr. Avila actually exists and the story is authentic.
If this is even a true story, victor had plenty of years to become a real, naturalized citizen. I don’t feel at all sorry for him.
I wished I lived in Maine long enough to have an outcome on this election.
My dislike of Susan Collins is visceral.
Please Maine, send her sorry a$$ packing!
Maybe this time there will not be enough head count for illegal aliens to keep her in office.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/unequal_application_of_immigration_law_is_neither_just_nor_merciful.html
This article brings up an interesting point regarding anchor babies and citizenship. The Left likes to tell us that the baby is a U.S. citizen, because the parents are subject to U.S. law at the baby’s birth.
Now, I do not in any way believe that ridiculous argument for a nanosecond, but if the parents are subject to U.S. jurisdiction and laws, why aren’t the anchor baby fathers registering for the Selective Service?
Liar 24/7/365 everyone of them except leap years when it’s 24/7/366.
I am not a cult of personality type and I voted for Trump 3 times.
This has nothing to with “mean” tweets, but he puts himself at a disadvantage at times. In other words, we has unforced errors.
Think twice first before making a comment, please!
Too late to edit, but I meant to type “he” has unforced errors above.
On another note, did I fall a victim to my own critique, LOL?
RFK jr why are we still giving these vaccines? For the love of God…STOP!
We are poisoning our children! With no placebo controlled safety tests and no liability for Big Pharma, vaccines are NOT about health, they are about money.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/five-studies-link-aluminum-vaccine?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios