Anti-ICE protesters clash with fed agents
outside DTLA federal building
Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/31/2026 4:52:59 AM
Hundreds of unruly anti-ICE protesters were locked in a hostile standoff with federal agents outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles Friday. The mob clashed with officials, who pepper-sprayed the group as it attempted to move closer to the building. Most of the disorderly crowd covered their faces with masks or scarves and some used gas masks. At one point, federal agents deployed what appeared to be tear gas into the crowd to disperse the agitators. Some of the aggressors scrawled “F–k ICE” in spray paint along a concrete barrier — others defaced the building.
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This week, Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, was photographed trying “the excellent new cycle lanes on Lambeth Bridge”. He was joined by two cycling groups, the London Cycling Campaign and Cycle Sisters UK. In this piece I am going to delve into the latter as an example of how ridiculous identity politics has become, so much so that there are now exercise charities only open to minorities.
Case in point: Cycle Sisters UK describes itself as “award-winning charity which creates accessible and empowering spaces for Muslim and ethnically diverse women to cycle and become more healthy, confident and connected”.
The Senate on Friday evening voted 71-29 to pass a revised $1.2 trillion funding package that will partially fund the government until September 30.
The bill will now head to the House.
The House is in recess until Monday, so the government will partially shut down over the weekend.
The Democrats and President Trump will have two weeks to negotiate the Homeland Security appropriations bill. The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass a major funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but the legislation won’t become law before parts of the government shut down at midnight.
The War on Terror Came Home
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As it currently stands in America, the criminal illegal alien is treated by the left as both hero and victim, while the ICE agent enforcing federal law is cast as the de facto villain and oppressor.
After a radical left-wing protester is killed during a confrontation with federal agents—an act authorities deem lawful self-defense—the left demands the dismantling and defunding of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But after an illegal alien rapes and murders an unarmed American woman out for a jog, the same voices continue to champion the very open-border policies that made the crime possible in the first place. The left demanded unlimited funding and military support for Ukraine,
Welcome to "The New Monroe Doctrine," where I give you an update on what's going on in the Western Hemisphere, south of our border, especially as it relates to the United States. Okay, folks. We're a month into 2026, and Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have already toppled a narco-terrorist dictator and are helping Venezuela free itself from nearly three decades of Chavismo. Plus, they are well on their way to kicking communism out of Cuba for the first time in nearly 70 years.
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The State Department announced on Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “took action this week to revoke the privilege of Iranian senior officials and their family members to be in the United States,” as a consequence of Iran’s bloody crackdown on protesters this month.
“Those who profit from the Iranian regime’s brutal oppression are not welcome to benefit from our immigration system,” the State Department said. Important step. Well done, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rubio. Long overdue,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director for United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI.) Brodsky noted that his organization has “long advocated this step.”
Hundreds of unruly anti-ICE protesters were locked in a hostile standoff with federal agents outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles Friday.
The mob clashed with officials, who pepper-sprayed the group as it attempted to move closer to the building. Most of the disorderly crowd covered their faces with masks or scarves and some used gas masks. At one point, federal agents deployed what appeared to be tear gas into the crowd to disperse the agitators. Some of the aggressors scrawled “F–k ICE” in spray paint along a concrete barrier — others defaced the building.
Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.”
This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.
But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today.
Now that we’ve seen videos of an earlier struggle with federal agents and learned more about the organized nature of the anti-ICE resistance, it’s become clear that the better word for Pretti was agitator, or perhaps even operative.
A protester, as typically understood, is someone who is making a point, often as part of a gathering of other like-minded people and,
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Trump threatens tariffs on any country
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“The word ‘choke off’ is awfully tough,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president’s tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
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The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago — the ones that erupted after a young woman was arrested and died in custody for not wearing the hijab properly — would improve civil rights in the Islamic Republic.
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Ex-CNN host Don Lemon arrested for Minnesota
church invasion while in Los Angeles covering Grammys 27 replies
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Disgraced ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles early Friday over the anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minneapolis church during Sunday service, according to his attorney and US Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
“Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents … in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,” Lemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement shared with multiple reporters.
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NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill to launch ‘portal’
for uploading videos of ICE: ‘Get your
phone out’ 21 replies
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A sprawling Islamic complex is planning to open in the Austin suburb of Leander – before being transferred to a national Islamic trust that was identified in federal terrorism prosecutions tied to Hamas financing.
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Democrats and Republicans Team Up to Slip
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Catherine O’Hara, a gifted comedic actress and two-time Emmy winner, has died.
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