Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats' Redistricting
Push Ahead Of Midterms
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 1/28/2026 12:18:02 PM
A Virginia state judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the state's Democratic lawmakers to use a new map this year before November's midterm elections, objecting to the redistricting push on procedural grounds. (snip) State law requires a constitutional amendment to be passed in the state legislature twice, with an election intervening between the sessions, in order to go before voters. But Hurley ruled that the first passage of the amendment did not take place before the state's 2025 elections because early voting had already begun.
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With Democrats pushing a number of progressive policies now that they are in control of Virginia, a Virginia state Democrat is working to ban immigration agents from operating at polling places. (snip) The move has left Republicans wondering why a Democrat would move to prevent immigration law enforcers near polling places if Democrats believe illegal aliens are not voting in Virginia elections.
A Virginia state judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the state's Democratic lawmakers to use a new map this year before November's midterm elections, objecting to the redistricting push on procedural grounds. (snip) State law requires a constitutional amendment to be passed in the state legislature twice, with an election intervening between the sessions, in order to go before voters. But Hurley ruled that the first passage of the amendment did not take place before the state's 2025 elections because early voting had already begun.
University Hospital System Nurse Fired
After Posting Videos Instructing "Sabotage"
of ICE Agents 8 replies
After Posting Videos Instructing "Sabotage"
of ICE Agents 8 replies
A nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University Health was fired after posting videos with instructions on how to "sabotage" Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. (snip) "Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages [women] to go on dates with agents and drug their food," Libs of TikTok posted on X.
The FBI Director confirmed this week that his agency is investigating after independent journalist Cam Higby leaked what he described as encrypted chats from the Signal messaging app showing local groups coordinating efforts to track and obstruct U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The chats show officers collecting license plate data, dispatching mobile patrols to search for ICE vehicles, and mobilizing crowds, according to Higby. The groups also provide ICE observer training, Higby explained.
With many videos and angles emerging, many are wondering if the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal officers was legally justified. Andrew Branca -- an attorney, author, and internationally recognized expert on self-defense -- joined Liz Collin on her podcast and explained some of the details that he included in his own viral video analysis of the incident. Branca explained that "fundamentally all the videos are pretty consistent consistent with each other and really nothing's inconsistent with this being a lawful use of force."
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's new plan to cozy up to Beijing betrays his calls to preserve the "international order"(snip.) The Liberal Canadian politician made no secret of his purpose (snip.) Canada "recalibrating" its relationship with China would set up the country for the "new world order"[:] (snip) [C]loser collaboration [with China] on the very "global governance" that Carney says President Trump has abandoned.
The fallout from former President Joe Biden's weaponized Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to wreak havoc on those it attempted to crush, even with a new administration calling the shots. (snip) [Dr. Ron] Elfenbein is an emergency room physician in Maryland who gained national recognition during the early Covid-19 pandemic pandemic (snip) serv[ing] patients and (snip) donating substantial personal protective equipment (PPE) and supplies at a critical time (snip.) The turn came when he publicly opposed the Biden administration's policy in 2021 to pause monoclonal antibody treatment (snip) and after appearing on Fox News (snip.)
The mother of six kids who were seemingly left unattended to be tear gassed at last week's north Minneapolis riot following an ICE-involved shooting is none other than Destiny Bradshaw, who was indicted on first-degree murder in the killing of a man during a robbery in 2019 in north Minneapolis. (snip) [V]ideo of last Wednesday's riot (snip) appeared to contradict the story the Jackson's told media about the events leading up to their children being affected by tear gas deployed by law enforcement (snip.) [The] Jacksons have raised nearly $200,000 in a GoFundMe account based on their story (snip.)
It sure seems that Don Lemon should've been charged for violating the FACE Act. (snip) Lemon was there during the entire shambolic event last week, where leftist clowns stormed a church in Minneapolis because they thought an ICE agent was inside (snip.) But Lemon was not charged, and we likely know why: "[t]he local judge's wife works for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison: (snip) the federal magistrate who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Don Lemon is Douglas L. Micko (snip) [whose] wife works as an Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's office."
An Antifa-affiliated website is on local and federal law enforcement's radar after years of promoting anarchistic crimes and doxxing. The "Rose City Counter-Info" blog, focused mainly on Portland, Oregon, hosts numerous posts purporting to show immigration agents' home addresses, advocating for attacks on law enforcement infrastructure and taking credit for crimes (snip.) "We will prosecute those who dox[x] ICE law enforcement officers to the fullest extent of the law." DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the DCN in June in response to a Rose City Counter-Info post doxxing three alleged ICE agents in Portland and Washington State.
An investigation into an unassuming office building on Portland's Anderson Street has revealed an interlinked network of lucrative Medicaid agency's co-located with Dahabshiil, an Emirati money transfer business favored by the Central Bank of Somalia. MaineCare spending records (snip) show that the five MaineCare agencies (snip) have increased their combined annual billing from $901, 126.85 in 2019 to $4,057,917.75 in 2024. The building houses a branch of Dahabshiil, the largest money transfer business in Africa, founded in Somalia and now based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It allows for the easy transfer of funds back into African nations, including Somalia.
Maine Flagged For $45.6 Million In Improper
Payments For Children's Autism Care:
Federal Audit 7 replies
Payments For Children's Autism Care:
Federal Audit 7 replies
The U.S. federal government is demanding a $28.7 million refund from Maine as an audit uncovers rampant documentation failures in community rehabilitative and community support services. The Mills Administration continues to face criticism over the mismanagement of Maine's largest welfare program, MaineCare (snip.) The audit also sheds light on Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey's Jan. 10 directive to Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) employees that they refuse to cooperate with Justice Department lawyers.
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Republican Rep. Mike Lawler is breaking from the Trump administration on its deportation push, calling for leniency for some illegal immigrants in an essay for The New York Times. “The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this month were tragic and preventable,” Lawler, R-N.Y., writes in an essay published Tuesday. “No matter where you stand on immigration enforcement, the shootings show that what the country has been doing is not working.”
Lawler, who represents a district in New York’s Hudson Valley that favored Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris over now-President Donald Trump, argues in the essay that Congress must codify new immigration
BREAKING: Frey says Minneapolis won't
comply with federal immigration law after
Homan meeting 28 replies
comply with federal immigration law after
Homan meeting 28 replies
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey declared on Tuesday that his city "will not enforce federal immigration laws" in the wake of a meeting with border czar Tom Homan.
Frey wrote, "Today, Chief O'Hara and I met with Border Czar Homan and had a productive conversation. I reiterated that my main ask is for Operation Metro Surge to end as quickly as possible. Public safety works best when it's built on community trust, not tactics that create fear or division."
Rather startling news out of Minneapolis on Tuesday evening: Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) was speaking at a town hall event there when a man approached her and appeared to spray an unknown substance at her while pointing and yelling at her.Here are two separate angles of the incident: (tweets) At the time of the attack, Omar was saying, "Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment."
As the crowd applauds, the man approaches her from the front. He's holding something in his right hand as he sprays an unknown substance at her, which appears to catch her on the arm or chest. He's yelling, and his
Impeachment whistleblower launches Senate
campaign in Trump’s home state: ‘Our
country is in chaos’ 25 replies
campaign in Trump’s home state: ‘Our
country is in chaos’ 25 replies
The National Security Council whistleblower who triggered the first impeachment against Donald Trump is running for Senate.
Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody.
In his two-minute announcement video, the Ukraine-born candidate leans into his anti-Trump sentiment, claiming: 'This president unleashed a reign of terror and retribution, not just against me and my family, but against all of us.'
'Today, our country is in chaos.'
Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and an NSC aide during Trump's first term, testified to Congress in October and November 2019 regarding
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said if President Donald Trump does not fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, they will “initiate” impeachment proceedings against her.
Jefferies said, “Kristi Noem is a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar. We’ve seen her slander, not just one, but two American citizens, patriotic Americans who were killed without justification on the streets of Minneapolis. In the last few weeks. She’s deeply unqualified. She never should have been confirmed to begin with by Senate Republicans and House Democrats have called for her to be fired immediately.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr announced Tuesday that the agency will vote next month on proposals to remove fraud from the Lifeline program, which provided taxpayer dollars to pay for phone and internet services for more than 116,000 dead people.
“If the government is going to spend your hard earned dollars, it must ensure that they go only to living and lawful Americans,” Carr wrote on X.
Carr’s announcement followed a report from the Federal Communications Commission Office of Inspector General (FCC OIG), which found startling levels of fraud in the program. Congress and the FCC established the Lifeline program to help low-income Americans receive affordable communications service,
The European Union has agreed to open its borders to mass immigration from India as it signed the bloc’s largest free trade agreement.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a press conference in New Delhi alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday that the bloc has agreed to a “mobility” scheme to allow for the influx of “students, researchers, seasonal and highly skilled workers” from India into Europe.
The EU chief also said that Brussels will open a “Legal Gateway Office” in India to help facilitate migrants’ move to Europe.
“This is good for our economies. This is good for the friendship between our people. This openness benefits us all,”
Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon.
The death produced no clear shifts in U.S. gun politics or policies, even as President Donald Trump shuffles the lieutenants in charge of his militarized immigration crackdown. But important voices in Trump’s coalition have called for a thorough investigation of Pretti’s death while also criticizing inconsistencies in some Republicans’ Second Amendment stances.
When you live in any community death happens. But when you live in one with tens of thousands of people, death happens pretty often. People die from heart attacks, strokes, aneurysms, complications of age, you name it. Emergency services respond, paperwork gets filled out, and that’s how records pile up. That’s just how life works. Except in some Somali communities…
And that’s why a lot of people are now asking a very uncomfortable question: what does it mean when those records are nowhere to be found?
The questions are coming from all corners… from Maine to Minnesota. People who work in and around emergency response, law enforcement, and local systems are
The FBI has launched a formal investigation into encrypted Signal group chats that anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists in Minneapolis allegedly used to track, identify, and interfere with federal law enforcement officers, FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday.
And it looks like some Minnesota state officials could face consequences.
The investigation was prompted by independent journalist Cam Higby’s viral X thread detailing coordinated efforts on the messaging app to share real-time information about ICE agents’ movements.
"We immediately opened up that investigation because that sort of Signal chat being coordinated with individuals, not just locally in Minnesota, but maybe even around the country —
With Border Czar Tom Homan headed to take charge of Homeland Security efforts in Minneapolis and President Donald Trump finding some common ground with Gov. Tim Walz, a rapid reduction in tensions is thankfully well under way.
Alex Pretti’s death plainly prompted a sobering all around, as it should.
We’re glad to see Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem elbowed aside. Her performance in recent weeks as the situation in Minnesota escalated out of control did not serve the president or the country well.
Without anyone backing off on matters of principle, state and federal leaders now can find some accommodation —
Alex Pretti Broke Rib in ‘Physical Encounter’
During Anti-ICE Protest a Week Before
He Was Shot 18 replies
During Anti-ICE Protest a Week Before
He Was Shot 18 replies
Alex Pretti was “known” to federal law enforcement before he was fatally shot, and had broken a rib during a physical altercation with ICE agents a week before he was killed by a Border Patrol official on Saturday, sources say. Pretti “had a physical encounter with federal agents about a week before he was shot and killed by law enforcement,” CNN reported Tuesday. The incident unfolded after Pretti stopped his car upon observing ICE agents chasing a family on foot and got involved by “protesting their attempt to detain other individuals,” the outlet reported.
He was then tackled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents —
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Virginia Democrats are "hoist with their own petard" since they are responsible for Virginia's lengthy early voting period. They are appealing this decision, likely to a "federal judge north of Richmond."