NOW: "Kristi Noem will Hang!" Huge crowd chants in Foley Square NYC, also "Save a life, kill an ICE" as they gather to protest the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 8, 2026
Some in the crowd condemn the talk of killing. pic.twitter.com/ifrXNZB0dz
Enero 9, 2026
A lynch mob? A crowd chants "Kristi Noem will Hang!" in New York City.
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"Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order."
You're kidding, right?
That boat sailed away years ago.
Their intentions will leave a not pretty mark.
Democrats can't do anything about anything. They've largely lost their base to the DSA.
The dimmest of The Dim.
Leftists threating and engaging in violence because they don't get their way?
Must be a day ending in "y."
Based on the Biden DOJ's legal theory of Jan 6th, anyone who blocks an ICE vehicle can be arrested under Sarbanes - Oxley and sentence to 5 years for "obstructing a federal meeting". 95% of the J6ers did nothing more than misdemeanor treaspass with is essentially a traffic ticket. They could give traffic tickets for the "crime of the century". Surprised that Trump's DOJ isn't using this gambit.
’Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order.’
That’s gold, Jerry - gold!!
They seem to have encouraged the chaos yesterday, and they need something quite different today lest they be seen as they wanted us to see Trump after January 6th, as having incited insurrection.
How quaint.
Round them all up.
Send them all to Somalia.
Shoot any that resist.
Filed under Free speak we don't like.
Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order
They will ignore your suggestion but will take credit for being the rational adults anyways…
I don’t disagree but what you are saying is what you call civility bullshit. And the lesson MAGA has taught the country is that being seen as inciting insurrection works.
’And the lesson MAGA has taught the country is that being seen as inciting insurrection works.’
Thanks for that trenchant analysis. lol
“ Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order.”
I’ll take “things they won’t do” for $1000 Alex.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
I don’t disagree but what you are saying is what you call civility bullshit. And the lesson MAGA has taught the country is that being seen as inciting insurrection works.
So you think J6 makes this OK.
There will be no common ground with people who think it is OK to kill and imprison your political opponents.
There will be no common ground with people who think it is OK to steal from you so they can pay Somali's to vote for them.
I find your terms acceptable. Please keep acting like this. You need to convince more people you do not belong here.
“Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order.“
That train doesn’t run here anymore.
For me context matters. Engaging in crimes historically worthy of the punishment while simultaneously ignoring rule of law in other instances it call seems justified, better then calling for the punishment because your target is chipping away at the trillion dollar fraud that’s been subverting our system of government…
Its a repeat of 2020 with BLM/Antifa Riots. Remember the lawyers who tossed dynamite in a police van and tried to murder 6 cops. It didn't explode - and the cops lived - but that wasn't what the 2 leftist lawyers wanted.
The Left will go full on violent, and start murdering people and nobody on the Right will care. Hey the stock market is up, and they're not killing me, so let me make a wry comment and watch the football game.
And because of that we have R Senators giving the country zero leadership. Its all TRump. Take him out, and we're back to Jeb Bush and Chris Christie. The loser party.
Dems committed widespread rioting in 2020 and were not punished for it at the polls.
In part, because Republicans - not even Trump - amazingly, did not make it a staple of their campaign ads. That will not be the case this time.
Truth be told, the Democrats have no interest in winning back power from Republicans. Their organized mobs want to overthrow the elected government and seize their rightful place once and for all.
It does feel like that Fred…
"Some in the crowd condemn the talk of killing."
Charlie Kirk hasn't even been dead 6 months. Too late.
At this point Democrats are retreating back into their little blue enclaves in deep blue cities where they can continue to loot and pillage.
These cities elect democrats like Mamdani with people who were not born in the USA.
This is an unprecedented opportunity to identify corrupt people and get them out of the country.
When the democrats are deported make sure they end up in Africa or Asia or Europe. We don't want them poisoning our hemisphere.
When did we repeal the First Amendment, Annie?
Your blog forgot to cover that.
"Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order. "
They won't. They want this. They know they are now the unpopular choice, so they will ramp up the violence to intolerable levels, before quelling the mob, and branding themselves the peacemakers.
Also, I don't think you're in a position to give Dems advice...
You picked your party, and Team meadhouse has bet it all on war and violence... We see you.
Why do So many democrats assume they are above the law?
(I'm praying everyday for your souls, but Satan has a strong hold when you two gather to worship Death in his name.)
Shirley has a new video posted up on X.
Unless we go back to in person voting, verifiable ID, and
same day voting the entire country will be NYC and Minneapolis.
The level of fraud and corruption he is uncovering is astonishing.
Peachy, I highly doubt Jonathan David Ross identifies as a Dem...
A federal Agent defending himself against a tyrannical propagandized mom who thinks she is allowed to thwart police and federal agents.
Free speech leftists don't like.
"I don’t disagree but what you are saying is what you call civility bullshit."
So by my definition of my own terms, that would need to mean that I am only telling them they need to speak in a particular way that would be calmer and more reasonable because I don't share their cause, and when the tables are turned, and it is "my" side that is speaking in an uncivil mode, I will be rooting them on and admiring there passion and vivid rhetoric.
As a principled libertarian, I believe that anyone who doesn't immediately do what ICE says should be shot dead. And as a principled states' rights advocate, I believe that the federal government should not allow states to prosecute these shootings.
At 1:49 the speaker admonishes crowd not to scream “Say her name”: “’Say her name’ is for marginalized communities.”
But he says you are permitted to celebrate her as a "race traitor."
Wasn't -- “Say her name” The chanting point for Jan 6th rioters regarding Ashli Babbitt
Why are you not insisting that Republicans try to calm their rhetoric or try to calm the divide that this President and administration continually try to make wider?
It is almost impossible to believe that a sitting President uses words like "enemy from within" or "radical left scum" to describe American citizens that he is supposed to be representing.
As a principled follower of Lindsey Graham, I think they all should be "shot in the head".
Americans can trust Kristi Noem. She is honest and transparent about all things. ~ Corey Lewandowski.
kak - you are not a principled anything.
Reminder: roughly 30,000 people (more than half black) died because of the Defund the Police/BLM hysteria.
Democrats were poised to regain a majority in the House in the midterm elections. This may reverse that.
Americans can Trust Joe Biden - he auto-penned pardoned his entire family.
So by my definition of my own terms, that would need to mean that I am only telling them they need to speak in a particular way that would be calmer and more reasonable because I don't share their cause, and when the tables are turned, and it is "my" side that is speaking in an uncivil mode, I will be rooting them on and admiring there passion and vivid rhetoric.
Correct me if I am wrong (and I know you love correcting me) But isn't that exactly what you aredoing?
Kakistocracy said...
Wasn't -- “Say her name” The chanting point for Jan 6th rioters regarding Ashli Babbitt
You forgot "the unarmed" in front of Ashli Babbitt.
Reminder: roughly 30,000 people (more than half black) died because of the Defund the Police/BLM hysteria.
Please provide a citation for this ridiculous assertion.
Ann Althouse said...
"I don’t disagree but what you are saying is what you call civility bullshit."
So by my definition of my own terms, that would need to mean that I am only telling them they need to speak in a particular way that would be calmer and more reasonable because I don't share their cause, and when the tables are turned, and it is "my" side that is speaking in an uncivil mode, I will be rooting them on and admiring there passion and vivid rhetoric.
How about we encourage both sides to just be honest about what they want.
Kakistocracy said...
Wasn't -- “Say her name” The chanting point for Jan 6th rioters regarding Ashli Babbitt
Please make Good a martyr for your side. Please make her a representative for what you are.
It would seem the democrats want another civil war. Another civil war to protect their illegal immigrant slave labor and fraud channels.
I believe that anyone who doesn't immediately do what ICE says should be shot dead.
In the usual disingenuous take, Kak ignores the football field of ground between "doesn't immediately do what ICE says" and "accelerates a car toward an ICE officer from inches away."
RCOCEAN: "The Left will go full on violent, and start murdering people and nobody on the Right will care. Hey the stock market is up, and they're not killing me, so let me make a wry comment and watch the football game."
What's your point here? I mean, yes, the stock market IS up. They're NOT killing me. And I WILL both make wry comments and watch football. But it doesn't follow that conservative don't care about violence on the Left. What is it exactly that you think people on the right should be doing?
“I think leftist believe they have some officially sanctioned moral authority or culturally recognized social position that grants them the prerogative to intervene in any situation they happen to stumble upon, and everyone else (including law enforcement) has to defer to them.”
-Wokal Distance
In Spain, as a matter of history, inciting insurrection is often seen as the moral, or at least "right side of history" POV, and those who suppressed them as the bad guys. Unless of course the left doesnt like those doing the insurrecting, Carlists say, so they are "the wrong side of history" at best. It is all about the ideological side of course.
Its pretty much the same thing in the US, IMHO, re J6. Its all about the ideology and the sociology of the thing (like the Spanish anarcho-leftist revolt of 1934). It is right or wrong entirely depending on your tribe. You cant argue that, you can just throw rocks and yell the slogans. You are enemy tribes, full stop.
Defund The Police, BLM, Michael Brown, George Floyd, and homicide rates over time:
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There will be no common ground with people who think it is OK to kill and imprison your political opponents.
Which exactly what you have advocating since you appeared here.
#Chris - ding ding ding!
Freder Frederson said...
Correct me if I am wrong (and I know you love correcting me) But isn't that exactly what you aredoing?
She is just pointing out how bloodthirsty and violent you people are.
After this mob lyched Noem they would dance on her corpse.
As we deport more democrat voters it will become increasingly harder to elect people who want to take money from Americans and give it to immigrants who vote for Democrats.
In Spain, as a matter of history, inciting insurrection is often seen as the moral, or at least "right side of history" POV, and those who suppressed them as the bad guys.
You miss the good old days of the Franco regime, don't you?
"Democrats seem to have encouraged the chaos yesterday." How so? Can you name one Democrat leader who encouraged such chants.
What was unhelpful is the federal government concluding - without any investigation - that it's okay to shoot point blank through a car window an unarmed demonstrator who posed no threat. That encourages violence.
turn off bold
That didn't work
That time it did.
The left's Michael Brown lie - spread far and wide by a corrupt lying Soviet-Democratic media - helped destroy black neighborhoods and black businesses in and around Ferguson.
Celebrate the holy white leftist liars! - Proclaim from on high the glorious cruel racism by the Soviet Democratics and their hacks in their corrupt media(D).
Reading the very clear definition, if Althouse is asking them to calm their language then she is rooting for them to lose in the future, and conversely, others are suggesting she wants Republicans to be more inciteful so they do succeed in the future. You may think that's what she is doing, and if you do, I think you are proving the point of her post.
The rest of us just see the Democrat Party as it was at the beginning of the last civil war; pushing a Republican President into war if he doesn't go along with their desire to maintain a cheap, colored, foreign labor force.
Defund The Police, BLM, Michael Brown, George Floyd, and homicide rates over time:
Even if your chart is correct, it is stupid and dishonest to blame all murders on "Defund The Police, BLM, Michael Brown"
"Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order. "
Democrats stoked violence in 2020 as a campaign tactic and it worked. Why would they change now?
Memories of the summer of Floyd chaos have faded. I don't think it will be good for the Democrats to revive them.
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"jim5301 said...
What was unhelpful is the federal government concluding - without any investigation - that it's okay to shoot point blank through a car window an unarmed demonstrator who posed no threat. That encourages violence."
Stand in front of my F-150. I'll run you over. We'll put your comment on your gravestone.
The George Floyd hysteria may or may have not helped Democrats in 2020, but after the horrors of January 6, I think now a solid majority don't like large-scale chaos.
The 2020 chaos was brand new and championed by most media outlets so it may have helped Democrats. But now that Democrats have gotten mileage out of opposing the J6 chaos, I think a solid majority have settled into opposing large-scale chaos.
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Jim 0351lol
Here you go
I don't understand why people on the left think that random acts of violence against ICE agents, CEOs, etc., is an effective political strategy. It seems like they were much more effective in the other things they've been doing, e.g., their ideological capture of the media and academia, vote fraud schemes, DEI schemes, using NGOs to attack conservative values from abroad, etc. Why not stick with what works?
It makes me wonder if what we're seeing is not really a strategy so much as a case of the dems' unhinged anti-Trump rhetoric having given rise to legions of mentally ill women and trans people whom party leaders simply can no longer control. (Or is that too generous?)
Too late. Minnesota and Oregon Democrats have rhetorically seceded from the United States. Trump may have to Andrew Jackson or Lincoln the secessionists.
"need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order" That assumes enough Americans still care about it. The Floyd riots showed Dems can win with violence.
"lest they be seen as they wanted us to see Trump" They want to be seen as lawless and violent, for the right cause of course. It's who they are. Trump assassinations, Kirk assassination--they like it. They're counting on the Althouses of America to dislike Trump more than Dem depredations. Are they miscalculating?
"having incited insurrection" Like anything else, previous Dem opposition to "insurrection" was strictly instrumental: used against the enemy when needed, fine when they do it.
The protests the press will be discussing this Sunday are the ones that will happen in Teheran tonight. The mullahs are toppling. This is a much bigger deal, a much bigger win for Trump than Maduro and Venezuela.
The European press is intentionally ignoring because they don't want to offend their Islamic readers. The US press is ignoring because they don't want to highlight a huge Trump win--or bump Minnesota off the front page.
Kak is simply a bot trying to incite crime.
Democrats tried to MURDER Donald Trump twice.
I don't think they give a fat fuck about how they are perceived.
Trump is ending their political party by shutting down their theft of taxpayer dollars, and they see this as an existential battle.
They believe that Trump must die or the Democrat Party is over with. They're going to murder him.
Hundreds in Durham protest ICE after Minnesota woman's death
"Durham residents gathered for a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the agency shot and killed a woman during an immigration crackdown Wednesday in Minnesota.
The protest began around 6 p.m. in CCB Plaza in Durham, with more than 100 people gathered before the event began.
After beginning at CCB Plaza, protesters marched to Durham City Hall and then back to CCB Plaza. Police said no one was arrested during the protest and march.
The protest in Durham was one of many around the country in the wake of the death of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
Good, 37, was shot and killed by an ICE officer while she tried to drive away on a snowy residential street as officers were carrying out an operation related to the administration’s immigration crackdown.
"It's sad," said Taneshia Wilson, an activist living in Durham. "I can't even put words together. I just think we really should come together."
...
On the morning of Nov. 21, students at Jordan High School walked out of class and residents motivated by the issue gathered at CCB Plaza to protest.
Thursday's protest was the second of the day in the Triangle. At mid-day, a planned protest against recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela drew those who opposed ICE actions as well."
More at the link.
this one has been fun!
(numerous people): The night is darker than the day
fredo: YOU are GOING to need to post PROOF of that!
numerous people: here are links to charts and stats and data.
fredo: SO? "Even if your chart is correct, it is stupid and dishonest"
it sure seems like Someone Here (named fredo) is "stupid And dishonest"
They have one principle: everything is a weapon for politics.
said Taneshia Wilson, an activist living in Durham:
"I can't even put words together"
this complete lack of basic literacy seems to have a LOT to do with today's problems.
MAYBE, If the students and teachers were In school, instead of "protesting injustice", they MIGHT be able to "put words together"
"Filed under Free speak we don't like."
I see that leftist Quality Learing is still doing wonders for the logic and basic grammar...
Achilles, when I said “I don’t disagree” I was referring to Althouse’s advice to “Democrats who hope to win back power.” I am a fan of civility.
I would only advocate hanging Kristi Noem after she has received a fair trial, has been convicted and sentenced to death, and has exhausted her appeals.
If you want to bring up J6, Walz is appealing for calm unlike Trump who was spraying gasoline.
As for civility bullshit, Althouse’s definition of her own term in the comments here is incomplete, because she says that calls for civility in the partisan context are always bullshit. Now, it’s true that a lot of partisan rhetoric is bullshit, but not always. Our system of government is based on the usefulness of partisan dialog. And why single out calls for civility from other types of political rhetoric?
If that Charter school that she brought her kid to receives federal funding....stop it now. Why pay for violent Progressives to teach their kids how to hate??
Left Bank of the Charles said...
Achilles, when I said “I don’t disagree” I was referring to Althouse’s advice to “Democrats who hope to win back power.” I am a fan of civility.
I would only advocate hanging Kristi Noem after she has received a fair trial, has been convicted and sentenced to death, and has exhausted her appeals.
If you want to bring up J6, Walz is appealing for calm unlike Trump who was spraying gasoline.
Walz called the agents “Rogue.”
He said Minnesota residents had a patriotic duty to protest the federal government.
Tim Walz is directly and personally responsible for Good getting shot.
Additionally he is a traitor who is supporting foreign nationals and seditionists against federal agents enforcing federal laws that a majority of Americans want enforced.
I agree that he should get a fair trial before he is hung like the traitor he is.
"... I will be rooting them on and admiring there passion and vivid rhetoric."
Sorry about the homophone typo. Should be "their passion."
"Reading the very clear definition, if Althouse is asking them to calm their language then she is rooting for them to lose in the future, and conversely, others are suggesting she wants Republicans to be more inciteful so they do succeed in the future. You may think that's what she is doing, and if you do, I think you are proving the point of her post."
Thanks, Leland.
So let's put it in simpler terms, Left Bank. You're all for seeing her hang. You just personally don't want to do it.
Gerda Sprinchorn said...
..., but after the horrors of January 6
Ah, yes, the people parading violently while stay
\ing inside the velvet ropes, that image will haunt me forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGXkMmtl6I
These folks are just cray cray crayzy!
They would have no issue with taking power via insurrection, and they may be seeing it as the only way. They are wrong about that, but that obviously doesn't matter because they feel deeply, and being comfortable with being wrong is their jam.
Civility Bullshit lite: There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with murdering your political opponents but it might be a bad look.
Nobody there said she should be shot like a dog?
“Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order.” This is not so! Informed people who value peace AND good order left the Democrats long ago. Those remaining are amoral or ignoramuses or both.
Lets hope that Democrats succeed in getting a few Trump admin killed so we can unleash on them.
I really, really hope they get lucky and get a few. The war is going to be vicious and quickly won.
I find it troubling that I have no sense that there is anything I can do or say to improve the current situation.
“It's sad," said Taneshia Wilson, an activist living in Durham. "I can't even put words together. I just think we really should come together." Oh, Taneshia. We used to come together behind our laws and honest elections. You Democrats no longer support either.
FormerLawClerk said...
“Lets hope that Democrats succeed in getting a few Trump admin killed so we can unleash on them.“
It’s called escalation. I think it’s the plan. Trump isn’t sending these untrained masked MAGA loyalists into Democratic cities for nothing.
A little honesty on her part
Ward the Cleaver, you corksoaker! You are seditious, leftist trash.
You are transparent, FLC.
She stands for the criminals like the ones that gutted that ukrainian woman a few months ago in charlotte
Iman said...
“Ward the Cleaver, you corksoaker! You are seditious, leftist trash.”
Interesting rebuttal. Been watching debate tutorial vids? Do you, Peachie, and Achilles do debate skill drills?
One shouldn’t wrestle with scum, Sparky. You are a few brain cells short of Chuck, so there’s no sport to be found in serious engagement.
Is this the correct use of the word "mob"? When the majority of people in a country or a place behave in a violent or uncontrolled way, they are referred to as a mob. But the vast majority of Americans want the border closed and the illegals deported. That is what is happening. The people rioting do not represent the majority of the country. Is there a different word to describe a small group of paid agitators and sexual deviants rioting?
"Is there a different word to describe a small group of paid agitators and sexual deviants rioting?"
Aside from 'Democrats'?
I switch hazmat suits for this purpose
Spiros @ 3:13, you’re using language to isolate reality, manufacture moral permission, and reframe coercion as public will.
If majority opinion justified violence, then any mob could claim legitimacy. That’s not how law, language, or democracy works.
No civility bullshit tab?
You are more concerned with words than the provocative, violent bullying physical behavior of actual packs of masked ICE agents around the country? The police understand the damage this ill trained federal agents are doing. Come out of your home tower and talk to some?
Either educate yourself or refrain from giving unsolicited advice, proffy. You're on the wrong side of peaceful American history again.
Peaceful protests like this are actually a healthy way to vent and release the nervous tension so many Americans believe we are under right now. Ask a cop: gathering in community with others is a healthy way to vent. Words are but words, but physical violence is real. Ask the people in the arena, not the safe places you inhabit... nttawwt.
I can't believe you once cosplayed at being a law professor. Must seem a lifetime ago. PM= pre meade.
Yes FF @839.
None as blind as the old ladies who refuse to put on their glasses, open their eyes and see.
She loves the coarse language and threats of violence when she believes it serves her team. Truth.
Keep pushing it, leftists. Keep it up.
Why are you not insisting that Republicans try to calm their rhetoric or try to calm the divide that this President and administration continually try to make wider?
You mean when he tells us to get in your faces? Or if we bring a knife, you guys bring a gun?
That kind of rhetoric from a President?
If we were the problem, you'd know it.
It is almost impossible to believe that a sitting President uses words like "enemy from within" or "radical left scum" to describe American citizens that he is supposed to be representing.
Yeah. It's not like you're bitter clingers or irredeemable deplorables, right? Or - gasp! - white domestic terrorist Nazis!!!!
Stick that fainting couch up your ass.
Foley Square is the Columbia Campus for those who aged out.
The Folly of the Useful Idiots
Democrats who hope to win back power need to act now to reconnect with peace and good order.
Why?
They believe the Gorge Floyd riots worked for them in 2020 (and it's the "crime" of "election denialism" to claim otherwise), so why shouldn't they support riots, violence, and lawbreaking in 2026?
Because it's getting people killed? Hell, your post about "white tears" tells how little they car about that.
Dunham said...
Why are you not insisting that Republicans try to calm their rhetoric or try to calm the divide that this President and administration continually try to make wider?
Because ALL that the President is doing to "make the divide wider" is doing his Constitutionally mandated job of "faithfully executing the [immigration] laws". The problem here is entirely with the Left.
It is almost impossible to believe that a sitting President uses words like "enemy from within" or "radical left scum" to describe American citizens that he is supposed to be representing.
H'es not supposed to represent criminal, America and American hating Leftists. He's supposed to represent real Americans.
You know, the people who believe that "no one is above the law", not even illegal aliens and their supporters.
You know, people who believe our democracy should be protected from those who want to destroy democratically enacted laws
Trum Got shot and got up.
The call went out in the 2022 red wedding speech
Her name was Robert Paulson
Ronald J. Ward said...
It’s called escalation. I think it’s the plan. Trump isn’t sending these untrained masked MAGA loyalists into Democratic cities for nothing.
The plan is to deport a bunch of illegal Democrat voters and turn Minnesota red by making sure only legal voters are there to vote.
I realize the situation you are in. The law is clear and it is time for your voters to go home. You wont be able to steal money from us to pay them to vote for you.
80% of the country wants these people out and they want the fraud to end.
The biggest complaint we have is that Trump is being too nice to you shitheads.
Kristi Noem will hang!
On far end of the Rainbow Bridge is Cricket, laughing like a hyena.
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