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It’s Wednesday, February 4th, 2026. I’m allegedly Jim Treacher, and so far I don’t seem to be in the Epstein files. Fingers crossed.
I noticed the other day when I was editing this, my voice sounded kind of nasally. Which doesn’t sound that way to me when I’m talking. But if so, I’m still, I’m getting over this cold, sore throat, post-nasal drip. So thank you for bearing with me. Thank you for sticking around.
A reporter named Christina Buttons has just published a very revealing story in City Journal, and it’s titled “Inside Minneapolis’s ICE Watch Network.”
ICE Watch, as you’ve probably heard, is the… It’s kind of an umbrella term for all these groups that are interfering with federal law enforcement around the country, particularly in Minneapolis. They track ICE agents and vehicles. Or people they think are with ICE, whether they really are or not.
And they’re all on Signal chats, where they tell people to go to such-and-such an address where ICE is making an arrest. And they train them in tactics to pester these agents, or actually physically interfere with them. Which… we’ve now seen the results of that.
It’s very highly coordinated. All this stuff isn’t happening on its own. It’s not spontaneous, it’s not grassroots.
Buttons writes:
In Minneapolis, one key organizer of these activities is “Defend the 612.” The group, the membership of which apparently included Renee Good, oversees a massive network of Signal chats dedicated to monitoring and protesting ICE activity. It has become the beating heart of the city’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement.
City Journal reviewed Defend the 612’s trainings, entered its Signal network, and traced its organizational support. Our reporting reveals that members and related officials have encouraged protesters to impede law enforcement; pushed civilians toward legally and physically risky confrontations; and helped mobilize a counterprotest that turned violent...
All of which we’ve kind of suspected. I’ve seen other stories about the Signal chats and whatnot, but this is the first time I’ve seen it all in one place.
Buttons continues… She’s talking about another group called Project RP, which is basically the same thing.
A Project RP organizer, Gabe Gonzalez, explained in 2017 that the group’s activities were “about interfering with [immigration enforcement], confusing them, slowing them down so they can’t take more people, and doing it so well that they never want to come back...”
Well, that’s exactly what you’re seeing in Minneapolis.
And Buttons explains a little bit about how these groups operate:
After joining a neighborhood’s listed chat, administrators contact participants and ask them to choose from a menu of additional, unlisted role-based chats specific to that neighborhood, such as the “Non-Cooperation Team” (which “build[s] a larger strategy to resist ICE and authoritarianism”) and “Patrol Team” (which “[c]reates systems of safety” around “ICE hotspots”)...
Which is all just a way of saying they’re interfering with federal law enforcement. That’s their whole goal. That’s the whole point of this: to break the law.
And of course, this stuff is very well-funded. Libs hate billionaires, unless they’re footing the bill for whichever cockamamie criminal scheme they’ve cooked up this time.
And it’s a cult. It’s a highly coordinated cult. They use cult tactics. When you join, they separate you from your friends and family who know better than to fall for this crap. They convince you that everything you know was wrong, and that only this cult can save the world. And they fill you with all sorts of new lingo, designed to stop you from thinking about what you’re doing and saying.
They even convince you that your own life is less important than the goals of the cult. Renee Good and Alex Pretti threw their lives away for a pack of lies.
Buttons continues:
Defense lawyer Kira Kelley spoke during the Defend the 612 training and downplayed the danger associated with “driving patrols.” “We saw with Renee’s tragic assassination that driving patrols do carry some physical risk,” she said, but “The biggest risk of all is to do nothing...”
Absent from the Defend the 612 training was any instruction to put one’s personal safety first. Instead, Lex Horan asked volunteers to “stretch” their willingness to take risks.
They’re actually using these deaths as a recruitment tool. That’s how little human life means to them. They talk you into putting your life at risk, and then they exploit your death to get even more people to do the same.
It’s wrong. It’s evil. That’s the only word for it: evil.
And of course, they’re all just [BLEEP] boring.
Just tedious, just droning on and on about the most idiotic nonsense you’ve ever heard.
If I don’t listen to MAGA, why would I want to listen to that?
Anyway, read that story. Christina Buttons. I’ll put the link in. It’s really eye-opening. And I think these people should be arrested for organizing this. I don’t know why they haven’t been brought up on charges. It’s blatantly illegal.
Speaking of evil…
Don Lemon went on Jimmy Kimmel the other night.
Not literally. He didn’t go on Jimmy Kimmel. Although, who knows?
And he whined about getting arrested for his crimes.
Here he is talking about his arrest, the trauma he went through when he was arrested.
“I got back to the hotel. I had my swag bag from the [party], and I was walking up to the room. I pressed the elevator button and all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs...”
Well, yeah, that’s what happens when you get arrested. I doubt it’s the first time Don Lemon’s been in handcuffs, but…
And then this is my favorite part:
“They want to embarrass you. They want to instill fear. That’s why they did it that way.”
So it was just like what he did in that church to those people. To those children. He embarrassed them. He instilled fear. They were crying. And unlike the guys who arrested him, he put it all on the internet for his own profit.
Don Lemon is a victim, and therefore a hero, in his own mind.
Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel lied about Charlie Kirk, almost lost his show over it, and now he’s helping Don Lemon do... whatever Don Lemon thinks he’s doing.
I don’t know that any of this stuff is going to help him in court, all this blabbing he’s doing. He’s doing podcasts now, talking about stuff that he probably should not be talking about.
I feel bad for his lawyers. Well, no, they’ll get paid either way. I don’t feel bad for lawyers. I take it back. I don’t feel bad for anybody’s lawyers.
There was a recent New York Times story about how DoorDash and Uber Eats are changing how we eat, or whatever stupid euphemism they used. And these Gen Z and millennial idiots are admitting to spending twenty to thirty percent of their income on food delivery.
Twenty to thirty percent! Between a fifth and a third of their income is going toward food delivery now.
Okay, I just lost a significant source of income. And I wasn’t spending money on that crap even then, even when I was making a decent living.
I go to the grocery store. I cook at home. Or at least heat it up. I don’t even eat fast food anymore, because it’s too damn expensive. I don’t even buy Doritos anymore, because I don’t want to spend $6 on a bag of junk.
I’ve never made a lot of money. And I’ve learned how to live cheap. So, yeah, you do have a choice in whether you spend a bunch of money on DoorDash. That’s your choice.
If you blow a quarter of your salary on food delivery, you deserve to be homeless.
It just makes me glad to be old. Kids these days, right?
The Washington Post (which just got hit with another round of layoffs) today reports:
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has recommended against gender transition surgeries for youths, becoming the first major medical association in the U.S. to narrow its guidance on pediatric gender care.
First of all, that phrase: “pediatric gender care.”
No, you’re cutting up little kids because you convinced them they’re in the wrong body.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Fox Varian, the de-transitioner…
That’s what they call somebody who “transitioned” as a kid and now realizes it was a mistake. Too late to do anything about it. You can’t change back.
She just won a $2 million judgment against the psychologist and the surgeon who convinced her to get cut up. And I don’t know if she’s destroyed her life, but she’ll never have kids.
So now all these hacks are panicking. They had a really good thing going for the past decade. They had a lot of people convinced that they could change their sex, which is not true. And now these people are scared. It’s hitting them right in the pocketbook.
Now that their bottom line is affected, all that hard work they did to get a medical degree, so they could wear a white coat and tell people that they are in the wrong body and they need to spend a bunch of money to get carved up…
Now they could lose everything. And I think they should.
I think it’s time to go back to the old days. Remember when you could say things like this?
Of course, that kid is 40 now, and probably believes he was wrong when he said that. Probably thinks that was transphobic propaganda. Maybe he doesn’t. I don’t know.
All right, well, we’ll see how this sounds. My throat is feeling a little bit better. Thanks for listening.
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Pretty please.
All right, that’s it.
See you later, seppos.
