The woman’s husband eventually arrives and tries to intervene, and he made a separate recording of the interaction on his phone. He tells the agents not to search her car because they don’t have a warrant and it would be an illegal search. The agents appear dismissive of his constitutional concerns.

“I’m not getting into the legality of everything,” one agent responds tersely.

MPR News interviewed the woman and her husband, who also doesn’t want to be identified, fearing retaliation.

The woman said the agents put her into one of their vehicles and started driving toward the Twin Cities, presumably to the Whipple Federal Building near MSP Airport, where ICE has an immigration detention facility. About 20 minutes into the drive, when they were near Le Sueur, she says one of the agents got a call, apparently from an ICE supervisor. They turned off Highway 169 at the next exit and drove back toward St. Peter.

The husband told MPR News that after his wife was taken into custody, he called his attorney, and soon after, he got a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he said he has known for years.

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Observations:

1. They execute a high-speed box stop which is dangerous to not just the innocent observer, but bystanders, all while there is zero evidence of any illegal conduct happening.

2. From the recording they all had guns drawn and pointed from the moment they stepped out of the car, meaning there was no escalation - they emerged ready to use deadly force without any grounds or justification. The only explanation is intent to kill or unlawfully intimidate.

3. Those thugs were potentially driving her to be flown out of Minnesota. After that, who knows. They were informed of the unconstitutionality of an illegal search and demonstrated they didn’t care.

4. The only reason she was saved was that the husband knew the local chief of police, which - while great and especially nice for local communities where this is more common - is certainly not going to apply to everyone.

In any normal timeline they would all be fired and potentially be the basis for a constitutional rights violation suit for multiple reasons above.

Hmm, that’s both impressive and disappointing. I’d think for a 65" you’d need to be super close to tell. I assume it’s Samsung’s HDR10 (or +) standard since they refuse to put Dolby Vision on their sets.

You have an 8k screen? Honestly the first person I’ve seen in the wild. How big is it and can you see the resolution difference?

And being a dork isn’t even the problem. I’m a big dork. I like video games and computer nerd stuff. The problem is that incel culture overlaps heavily with nerd culture. Dorks with poor social skills think that it empowers them while it actually just exacerbates and reinforces their insecurities, and stops their emotional development.

His concept of “cool” never got past that 4chan edgelord phase, and he doesn’t even realize how pathetically embarrassing it is.

If you look at the reviews, a large number use similar language and talking points. Almost certainly an influence campaign and not even authentic reviews.

Thanks for this. I don’t think it applies here.

50.15 says this is when employees are sued in their individual capacity for official duties. Inter-defendant conflicts of the type in 50.15(a)(10) are typically for when multiple defendants have competing interests and that presents a conflict to joint representation. At best, I see provisions regarding whether the DOJ is not obligated to pay money damages for an employee’s wrongdoing ((a)(8)(iii))

The situation here may just be too corrupt. Trump is suing with private counsel a third party government agency that is technically not him, but the issue is that the captured DOJ itself also is now de facto personal counsel to Trump. The IRS and Treasury are defendants that should be represented by the DOJ, except that the DOJ is irreparably conflicted. So it is Trump, by DOJ proxy, deciding whether to give himself money out of the public’s pocket, and the fact that he filed the suit itself suggests his answer is “yes, I deserve it.”

And, despite this, no private litigation counsel could even address this, because the DOJ would still retain authority to settle.

ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS: Mr. President, why are you suing your our own administration and the IRS? Why are you suing?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Who are you with?

ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS: I’m with ABC News.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You’re a loud person! Very loud! Let somebody else have a chance.

ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS: Can you answer the question? Why are you suing IRS?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: ABC Fake– ABC fake news!

ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS: You’re suing. Can you answer–.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Go ahead. I didn’t call on you. Go ahead, please, go ahead. Go ahead!

REPORTER: Do you think you’re coming?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: ABC, by the way, is truly one of the worst.

REPORTER: Do you think the upcoming talks between Russia and Ukraine stand a chance without U.S. Envoy Witkoff and Jared Kushner there.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think they stand a chance. We’ve been trying. I’ve ended eight wars. All of them, I thought, were going to be maybe tougher than…

So he never answered the question. Just moves on to another reporter after being a complete dickface.

Love to see it, but yes, Bezos and Trump don’t care since the bribe happened.

Currently a 5 (out of 100) Metacritic score, with a user review score of 0.6 (out of 10).

Rotten Tomatoes at 8 (out of 100). No user review score yet, but there’s a big bot astroturfing campaign with 5-star reviews flooding the user reviews section.

Thanks, this is not a sealion question: do you have something to further read about this or support this? I’d like to understand how the DOJ is actually bound. The DOJ has been run by Bondi as Trump’s private law firm, regardless of their mandate, and I expect that to continue.

My initial suspicion is that anything short of a Supreme Court ruling (and possibly not even that) will force compliance by the DOJ, but after-the-fact compliance may be meaningless as well. It’d be quite typical for Trump/Bondi to fully “defend” and settle the case with taxpayer money already in Trump’s account before any challenges complete, followed by appeals, etc.

That sounds like a very reasonable custom and norm for an independent, non-conflicted DOJ. (Sorry, deadpan is hard online.)

The DOJ defends civil litigation against the federal government as well.

You mean to suggest Scott Bessent and Pam Bondi won’t treat this lawsuit fairly and impartially? How dare you!

Yeah, I realized 30 seconds after posting so edited, but possibly too late for federated instances.

This is from June 2025, so don’t expect it to be nearly up-to-date.

I’ve always thought the Arcade1Up cabinets were a little too much compromise - the 3/4th size reduction plus growing up kind of makes them feel really small. But still too bad, after the death of arcades this was the simplest/affordable way to have a similar experience.

The memo clarifies that it includes “arrests, not just convictions.” That’s one loophole - illegal stop & arrest now serves as a basis for kidnapping just the same.

Mainstream media: Sorry, best we can do is a deep dive into his troubled childhood so we can better understand how such a good person could make one bad choice that shouldn’t haunt him for the rest of his life.

Just when I can’t imagine how this timeline could get any dumber.

Well, Trump is going to finally “find” those 11,780 votes.

I’m confused and probably stupid, but…should the guy not be crawling 100 meters versus 1 km (1,000 meters)? What part of my brain has damage from being dropped as a child?

If we want anything at all to change, Miller would need to be removed somehow as well.

I know I’m a broken record here, but Miller is the engine for Trump’s entire immigration and Insurrection Act / martial law plan. It will absolutely continue even without Noem.