Trump started off the day with an Insurrection Act threat. DHS Sec. Noem followed up by saying that anyone "surrounding" any DHS target has to prove their legal status.
Why in god's name does she think a US Citizen has to "prove" their citizenship no matter where they are. Being next to a "target" can simply be going into Home Depot to get a bag of nails. Or walking past a house. Or trying to get home from a ball game and getting teargassed such that your baby stops breathing. At least they didn't try to arrest those folks, even though they were black. https://www.jalopnik.com/2077210/ice-throws-flash-bang-at-family-car-minneapolis/
If asked why we are there, just say we are observing.
For the protests to rise to being a "rebellion" wouldn't the protestors have to be tear gassing and flash bombing the ICE guys, rather than vice versa?
King Donald and his royal SCOTUS have approved these acts of terror. I live in a condo and our landscapers and indoor cleaners are Latino. Can I no longer greet them with “Hola”? Will I be caught up in an ICE Gestapo raid of Latino gardeners if I walk past them at their lunch break? Should I carry my passport on my walks? Will the ICE Gestapo even recognize it?
All true,but irrelevant. There is no law that Trump or his Green Shirts are obliged to follow. In fact, SCOTUS has empowered him to pick and choose the laws or constitutional elements that he will follow and which twisted interpretation of them that he will use against all of us.
He/she can interpret or pick and choose the law anyway they want!! It’s doesn’t mean it’s going to stick !! As so many of their BS arrests have failed miserably in court !!
What would that accomplish? On each of his previous impeachments, he gained more support. There is literally no chance that he would be convicted. The only way that the nation will be shed of this man is when those Big Macs sufficiently close his arteries.
It’s worth remembering that while Kristi Noem talks tough about border stops and security — saying “anyone can face a Kavanaugh stop” and defending aggressive enforcement — there was a moment last year that underlined how real security gaps can happen anywhere. In April 2025, Noem’s purse was stolen from a restaurant in Washington, D.C. while she was dining with her family, even though Secret Service agents were present. The bag contained her passport, driver’s license, DHS access badge, keys, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, and surveillance footage later showed a masked man walking up and taking it right out from under her table. 
That incident was more than an embarrassing headline — it highlighted how security isn’t just about rhetoric. A senior official whose job is to protect the homeland still faced a basic theft in a public setting, raising questions about attention to detail and vulnerability. It’s a reminder that security isn’t just about posturing or talking points, it’s about practical, everyday preparedness, and that no one — regardless of title — is immune from lapses.
The implications are both absurd and frightening. I thought high school in Houston for nearly 30 years. I am morally certain that there was at least one undocumented student in every single class that I taught. I'm a white guy born in a military hospital in a major American city -- but they're going to insist upon verifying my citizenship? I would not so politely tell them to bugger off.
Let’s slow the hysteria and read what was actually said. Noem didn’t announce roving papers-please checkpoints for Americans; she described standard identity checks around active federal operations where violence, obstruction, and interference are already occurring. That’s not martial law—it’s scene control. The left’s trick is collapsing context so “near a target” becomes “anywhere, anytime.” That’s dishonest. If mobs swarm agents, block vehicles, and assault officers, everyone in that immediate perimeter gets sorted out. That’s how law enforcement works in every high-risk operation. The real constitutional problem isn’t verification—it’s local officials inciting chaos, then crying tyranny when order is restored. You don’t get immunity by screaming “civil liberties” while throwing rocks.
So, going door to door, randomly hoping to find some brown people is you think… constitutional?
Hahhahahahhaha. You are a collaborator with the police state.
Also, ICE is driving around with Nazi symbolism in their rental cars. Let’s stop giving the benefit of the doubt to people who have shown us who they are like 700 times now.
Let's talk for a moment about that "collapsing context" of which you speak. You refer to "violence, obstruction, and interference." Are you aware that Pam Bondi issued a memo broadly redefining "interference" under federal law? That it has always required some physical force by the accused, and now requires- according to DHS and Bondi- nothing more than simply driving down a public street when an untrained ICE agent suddenly decides to run or drive straight into incoming traffic? Now, those criminal prosecutions of US citizens who were simply minding their own business when their vehicles were struck by ICE agents or ICE vehicles suddenly entering the roadway have pretty much universally failed, but not before the citizens had their doors broken down, their young children's bedroom windows blasted in (when the accused had left for work hours below and was nowhere near the property), and were detained for days or weeks before the court could throw out the case or DOJ abandoned it on the eve of the initial evidentiary hearing.
In the case of Marimar Martinez, she was shot 7 times by an agent who turned around and bragged about giving her "7 holes" with "5 bullets", the government sought to detain her for over a month and slandered her as a terrorist who intentionally rammed ICE cars and brandished an automatic weapon. Except, the arrest report found no weapon of any kind in the vehicle or on her, and after all their public bluster the DOJ quietly withdrew their prosecution the day before the first evidentiary hearing after the defense presented video that clearly showed that in fact it was the DHS agents' vehicle that rammed Ms Martinez. Literally everything they said about the case in public and in the bond hearing was a lie, predicated on Bondi's extremely wide interpretation of the federal statute on interfering with operations. Kind of like how agents tried to break into Renee Good's vehicle based on that same interpretation when the only law she was breaking was a local traffic law over which they have no jurisdiction, meaning their commands to get out of the car were not lawful orders and she had no obligation to obey. They killed her anyway, but kindly think back to this when millions of your tax dollars go to pay the family in the civil suit they will almost certainly win, while even more of your tax dollars to to pay the agent at fault a pension and free health care for life.
So, kindly stfu with the whole "collapsing context" business. DHS has completely obliterated context. Oh, and a large group of citizens exercising the Constitutional rights of free assembly, free speech, and protest does not equal a "violent mob" unless they are actually (stay with me) *violent*. Swearing at agents is not violence in the eyes of the law. Neither is a minor traffic violation.
ICE is not a threat to me. If I have to prove who I am so be it. This could happen with any type of police officer. ICE's job is to rid the USA of illegals, it's a necessary job! Why can't people understand this? I don't care how they do it, just do it!!!
"I don't care how they do it, just do it!!!" Spoken like a true fascist. So, you are okay if they shoot your wife or mother or daughter for being in the wrong place? Are you okay spending 24 hours or 25 days in a lock-up because you were in the wrong place, and ICE thinks your passport or birth certificate is fraudulent? Or do you really mean, "I don't care how they do it, just do it, AS LONG AS IT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAMILY!" And what about the states with laws about vaccination for school children. Do you just tell people with concerns about the vaccination of their kids that they should just shut up and let the state vaccinate their kids?
This is the thing that all the normie white people who still think immigration enforcement at any cost is still in their interests don’t seem to understand.
Once you throw out due process and the 1st, 4th, & 5th amendments “for those people” you have effectively given them the freedom to throw it out for everyone.
The burden of proof is supposed to be on the government before they infringe on your privacy & freedom. Not an afterthought once they already broke your car window or busted in your door. Random dickheads in camo are not supposed to be allowed to demand to see your papers. Women in particular should be WAY more skeptical that random thugs should get to see your identifying documents, with information on where you live.
They are setting us all up to be subject to constant police state harassment, abuse, & violence.
I think I already know this. As a brown Mexican American and Native American woman I have lived this life well before Trump. It’s my reality every day. I follow the Dork so I can be “papered up” as in I am in the latest and greatest legal knowledge.
We demand the ice thugs show their citizenship ID!
Demand away.
Why in god's name does she think a US Citizen has to "prove" their citizenship no matter where they are. Being next to a "target" can simply be going into Home Depot to get a bag of nails. Or walking past a house. Or trying to get home from a ball game and getting teargassed such that your baby stops breathing. At least they didn't try to arrest those folks, even though they were black. https://www.jalopnik.com/2077210/ice-throws-flash-bang-at-family-car-minneapolis/
If asked why we are there, just say we are observing.
For the protests to rise to being a "rebellion" wouldn't the protestors have to be tear gassing and flash bombing the ICE guys, rather than vice versa?
King Donald and his royal SCOTUS have approved these acts of terror. I live in a condo and our landscapers and indoor cleaners are Latino. Can I no longer greet them with “Hola”? Will I be caught up in an ICE Gestapo raid of Latino gardeners if I walk past them at their lunch break? Should I carry my passport on my walks? Will the ICE Gestapo even recognize it?
She doesn’t know shit!! She’s not a lawyer, she’s regurgitating false BS apropos of an unqualified imp within an unqualified administration
She has been and still is a stone cold liar-a disgusting human being-
All true,but irrelevant. There is no law that Trump or his Green Shirts are obliged to follow. In fact, SCOTUS has empowered him to pick and choose the laws or constitutional elements that he will follow and which twisted interpretation of them that he will use against all of us.
He/she can interpret or pick and choose the law anyway they want!! It’s doesn’t mean it’s going to stick !! As so many of their BS arrests have failed miserably in court !!
Robin Kelly, D IL-2, has introduced impeachment articles against Noem. Apparently thare are Dems who are skeptical, per Axios.
Please ask your Rep to join in. Even if your Rep is a Republican.
What would that accomplish? On each of his previous impeachments, he gained more support. There is literally no chance that he would be convicted. The only way that the nation will be shed of this man is when those Big Macs sufficiently close his arteries.
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.".
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Noem impeachment, not Trump, is what Ed said.
The result would be the same.
A Noem Stop would include anyone with a sidelong glance.
Or lack of proper costume. Hegseth Stop—beardos!
It’s worth remembering that while Kristi Noem talks tough about border stops and security — saying “anyone can face a Kavanaugh stop” and defending aggressive enforcement — there was a moment last year that underlined how real security gaps can happen anywhere. In April 2025, Noem’s purse was stolen from a restaurant in Washington, D.C. while she was dining with her family, even though Secret Service agents were present. The bag contained her passport, driver’s license, DHS access badge, keys, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, and surveillance footage later showed a masked man walking up and taking it right out from under her table. 
That incident was more than an embarrassing headline — it highlighted how security isn’t just about rhetoric. A senior official whose job is to protect the homeland still faced a basic theft in a public setting, raising questions about attention to detail and vulnerability. It’s a reminder that security isn’t just about posturing or talking points, it’s about practical, everyday preparedness, and that no one — regardless of title — is immune from lapses.
The implications are both absurd and frightening. I thought high school in Houston for nearly 30 years. I am morally certain that there was at least one undocumented student in every single class that I taught. I'm a white guy born in a military hospital in a major American city -- but they're going to insist upon verifying my citizenship? I would not so politely tell them to bugger off.
Deep in Noem’s costume chest there must be a red nose and oversized shoes … and driving gloves for the tiny car.
Call me naive, but I almost think the people of Minnesota would be better off being occupied by the army than by DHS.
Well I suppose this is what a police state looks like. "Your papers please."
I thought Kavanaugh had walked back his remarks on the stops.
Walking back your remarks don’t carry the same weight as a shadow docket ruling, for some reason. :P
If he actually thought he was in the wrong in a meaningful way, he would use the bench to do something about it.
But he won't or he might lose his old boys club privileges.
Excellent coverage and references to other writings.
And thank you for always pinning this back on SCOTUS. We would not have today's Trump without the SCOTUS cons.
Has there ever been and will there ever be a more collectively ignorant administration?
Let’s slow the hysteria and read what was actually said. Noem didn’t announce roving papers-please checkpoints for Americans; she described standard identity checks around active federal operations where violence, obstruction, and interference are already occurring. That’s not martial law—it’s scene control. The left’s trick is collapsing context so “near a target” becomes “anywhere, anytime.” That’s dishonest. If mobs swarm agents, block vehicles, and assault officers, everyone in that immediate perimeter gets sorted out. That’s how law enforcement works in every high-risk operation. The real constitutional problem isn’t verification—it’s local officials inciting chaos, then crying tyranny when order is restored. You don’t get immunity by screaming “civil liberties” while throwing rocks.
So, going door to door, randomly hoping to find some brown people is you think… constitutional?
Hahhahahahhaha. You are a collaborator with the police state.
Also, ICE is driving around with Nazi symbolism in their rental cars. Let’s stop giving the benefit of the doubt to people who have shown us who they are like 700 times now.
Let's talk for a moment about that "collapsing context" of which you speak. You refer to "violence, obstruction, and interference." Are you aware that Pam Bondi issued a memo broadly redefining "interference" under federal law? That it has always required some physical force by the accused, and now requires- according to DHS and Bondi- nothing more than simply driving down a public street when an untrained ICE agent suddenly decides to run or drive straight into incoming traffic? Now, those criminal prosecutions of US citizens who were simply minding their own business when their vehicles were struck by ICE agents or ICE vehicles suddenly entering the roadway have pretty much universally failed, but not before the citizens had their doors broken down, their young children's bedroom windows blasted in (when the accused had left for work hours below and was nowhere near the property), and were detained for days or weeks before the court could throw out the case or DOJ abandoned it on the eve of the initial evidentiary hearing.
In the case of Marimar Martinez, she was shot 7 times by an agent who turned around and bragged about giving her "7 holes" with "5 bullets", the government sought to detain her for over a month and slandered her as a terrorist who intentionally rammed ICE cars and brandished an automatic weapon. Except, the arrest report found no weapon of any kind in the vehicle or on her, and after all their public bluster the DOJ quietly withdrew their prosecution the day before the first evidentiary hearing after the defense presented video that clearly showed that in fact it was the DHS agents' vehicle that rammed Ms Martinez. Literally everything they said about the case in public and in the bond hearing was a lie, predicated on Bondi's extremely wide interpretation of the federal statute on interfering with operations. Kind of like how agents tried to break into Renee Good's vehicle based on that same interpretation when the only law she was breaking was a local traffic law over which they have no jurisdiction, meaning their commands to get out of the car were not lawful orders and she had no obligation to obey. They killed her anyway, but kindly think back to this when millions of your tax dollars go to pay the family in the civil suit they will almost certainly win, while even more of your tax dollars to to pay the agent at fault a pension and free health care for life.
So, kindly stfu with the whole "collapsing context" business. DHS has completely obliterated context. Oh, and a large group of citizens exercising the Constitutional rights of free assembly, free speech, and protest does not equal a "violent mob" unless they are actually (stay with me) *violent*. Swearing at agents is not violence in the eyes of the law. Neither is a minor traffic violation.
ICE is not a threat to me. If I have to prove who I am so be it. This could happen with any type of police officer. ICE's job is to rid the USA of illegals, it's a necessary job! Why can't people understand this? I don't care how they do it, just do it!!!
Going door to door like the Gestapo?
Stopping people in traffic because they feel like you might be brown and illegal?
Nah. F*ck this Nazi shit & anyone who supports it. Our constitutional rights are not negotiable or to be set aside for the white supremacist agenda.
Just make sure the trains run on time. Especially the ones to Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen!!!1!!11!
"I don't care how they do it, just do it!!!" Spoken like a true fascist. So, you are okay if they shoot your wife or mother or daughter for being in the wrong place? Are you okay spending 24 hours or 25 days in a lock-up because you were in the wrong place, and ICE thinks your passport or birth certificate is fraudulent? Or do you really mean, "I don't care how they do it, just do it, AS LONG AS IT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAMILY!" And what about the states with laws about vaccination for school children. Do you just tell people with concerns about the vaccination of their kids that they should just shut up and let the state vaccinate their kids?
Thank you for the heads up! I’m papered up!
They don’t always ask for papers before “detaining” people or, as we’ve seen, shooting them.
This is the thing that all the normie white people who still think immigration enforcement at any cost is still in their interests don’t seem to understand.
Once you throw out due process and the 1st, 4th, & 5th amendments “for those people” you have effectively given them the freedom to throw it out for everyone.
The burden of proof is supposed to be on the government before they infringe on your privacy & freedom. Not an afterthought once they already broke your car window or busted in your door. Random dickheads in camo are not supposed to be allowed to demand to see your papers. Women in particular should be WAY more skeptical that random thugs should get to see your identifying documents, with information on where you live.
They are setting us all up to be subject to constant police state harassment, abuse, & violence.
Do not accept that this is how we should live.
I think I already know this. As a brown Mexican American and Native American woman I have lived this life well before Trump. It’s my reality every day. I follow the Dork so I can be “papered up” as in I am in the latest and greatest legal knowledge.
I have news for Krusty. ICE is going to go into a house where the people have nothing to lose…..