Federal police in Minneapolis will be issued bodycams.

 

Federal police in Minneapolis. AP. 

Federal police, including ICE, CBP and other Homeland Security officers, will be issued bodycams. AP. Secretary Kristi Noem said that the program will be expanded nationwide as more funding becomes available. The policy comes in the wake of two officer involved shootings in Minneapolis during attacks on federal law enforcement. No bodycam footage was recorded in the Renee Good shooting, but several CBP officers had bodycams on during the Alex Pretti shooting, but they were not released yet. Legislation has been proposed to fund more bodycams but is currently held up in the Senate. President Trump endorsed the idea, saying that it was up to Noem but that he liked them because they generally made it hard to lie about what happened during an incident. 

My Comment:

I absolutely support bodycams. Trump was right, they absolutely prevent people from lying about what happened during a police encounter and they have vindicated officers a lot more often then they condemn them. 

Indeed, though there was not bodycam footage in the Renee Good shooting, there was cell phone footage from the officer that vindicated his actions, showing without a doubt that not only did Good hit him with her car, but that she was happy about it. That didn't stop the dedicated folks on the left from not believing their lying eyes, but it had a major effect on the perception of the case from people that weren't dedicated political pundits. 

I generally think that no policy has backfired more for the left than bodycam footage. The Black Lives Matter narrative was that police were shooting innocent people. That narrative was proven to be ridiculous when dozens of cases showed how out of control criminals are. 

It’s actually insane how every single body cam video looks exactly like this https://t.co/wwsuEtdKo5 pic.twitter.com/OY382gw4EU

— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeaceful) September 3, 2025

I think that's a reason why Black Lives Matter is a spent force. Folks saw how these cases went down and folks realized that BLM was full of it. And the same thing happened in these cases. More than one person said that what you thought about the Renee Good shooting depended on how much bodycam footage you have watched. If you are someone that views it regularly, you have seen video of officers being hurt or killed because they hesitated when someone drove their car at them.  

I also think that if people really saw raw, unedited footage, of how insane these leftist protesters are they would lose a lot of sympathy for them. Indeed, that's what happened in the Alex Pretti case. Pretti was filmed 11 days before he was shot and he was utterly deranged, spitting on officers and kicking the taillight of a police SUV. 

MUST WATCH: Footage of an a man who looks like Alex Pretti with a gun in his waistband, spitting on and attacking federal law enforcement officers and kicking the tail light of their vehicle on January 13.

Bombshell report from the BBC.

Important context: Pretti was not a… pic.twitter.com/snzEO8rU8w

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 28, 2026

I do wonder why federal police didn't have bodycams in the first place. It sounds like it is a budget issue. It's frustrating as bodycams should be something that everyone supports. I would think though that the Democrats are willing to block it because as demonstrated above, it hurts their cause. 

Indeed, the Democrats hate this kind of transparency. They don't want the public to know just how badly their activist base acts when the cameras are off. That's they antifa and other protest groups often attack journalists and why Will Stancil, one of the more famous activists in Minneapolis and a lolcow beloved by the right, got kicked out of the movement. Stancil had the temerity to film what he was doing and regularly talked to journalists and now he's persona non grata in the movement, to the point where he was punched. 

 

ANTIFA PUNCHED WILL STANCIL pic.twitter.com/u55XO4SWYE

— Aetius (@AetiusRF) February 2, 2026

So yes, I fully support bodycams for ICE, CBP and any other federal officers. They are absolutely going to show that their actions are legally justified and that the leftist activist movement is totally out of control. In theory, if an officer does screw up, they will be held accountable too. It's win win for everyone but the activist left.  

Despite saber rattling on both sides, Iran and the United States appear ready for high level talks to avoid conflict.

 

President Donald Trump and Ayatollah Khamenei.. Times of Israel/AP. 

Iran and the United States appear ready for high level talks in Ankara Turkey to avoid a conflict. Times of Israel. Tensions between Iran and the United States have been high ever since wide scale anti-regime protests broke out and were put down by the Iranian government. The United States has deployed significant forces in the region, including a carrier strike group. However, reports from sources in the Trump administration say that a meeting is being arranged between Iran's diplomats and Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff. Both sides are still publicly saber rattling, with Iran saying that a regional war could break out and President Trump agreeing with the statement. 

My Comment:

I am guessing that diplomacy will win the day here. I know that both Trump and the Iranian government are yelling at each other right now, but anyone who knows anything about how Trump does things understands that he often does that. Trump and Kim Jong Un were pretty acrimonious before their meeting and despite that they had a pretty productive meeting. It doesn't always work, Trump ran into a brick wall in trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but it does appear to be what is happening here. 

That doesn't mean that there isn't a risk of strikes. We do have large forces in the region. In addition to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which has an air wing, supporting warships, and, most likely, cruise missile submarines, we also have a few squadrons of F-15's in the region as well. Not to mention our long range strike capabilities using B-2 bombers. 

It's also important to note that Iran's defensive capabilities have been greatly reduced by Israel during their 12 day war last year. Their air force, already obsolete with outdated MIG29's and ancient F-14 Tomcats, was largely grounded during that conflict and they lost quite a few of their jets through airstrikes. And their air defenses? Blown up as well. They have managed to rebuild some of those forces, but not anywhere near enough to actually defend themselves against an American attack.  

Iran is probably also receptive to diplomacy after the successful raid in Venezuela that saw President Maduro reduced to a federal prisoner. Such an operation targeting Khamenei isn't at all likely given that Iran is a lot more formidable than Venezuela even in it's reduced state, but it does show that Trump is crazy enough to try something with Iran and have a real chance of pulling it off. And it's not like Iran found out for themselves just how bad it could go after their nuclear sites were wiped out last year. 

Though the protests in Iran probably caused this, any talks would likely not be about them. The protests have winded down, at high cost in terms of human lives, but they are over now. The real problem is the nuclear deal. Though effective, the strikes against Iran's nuclear sites were not enough to end the nuclear program entirely. A deal, that would involve inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, is what is needed to ensure that the program doesn't start up again. 

I do think that Diplomacy will win the day. Iran is in a very bad position right now. They are practically defenseless and barely survived the latest round of protests. They are also crippled economically, I have mentioned in their past that their inflation was running around 40% a month, and that's not counting food inflation being even worse. Their capital even has a water crisis. They have every incentive to make a deal here. 

And we also know enough about President Trump that he wants a deal as well. He's not afraid to saber rattle, but he is absolutely willing to talk as well, and his whole personality is built around making deals in difficult situations. It's what fuels him and I think he wants to be the one that finally brought peace to the middle east. And I think as long as nothing goes wrong, he will probably pull it off. 

President Trump risks alienating young people over comments about keeping housing prices high.

 

President Trump. USA Today/Reuters.

President Trump said that he wants to keep house prices high in remarks today. USA Today. Trump said he wanted to make it easier to buy a home by lowering interest rates, but did not want to lower prices as it would affect current homeowners. Trump has made some efforts to make housing more affordable, such as banning investors from buying family homes and purchasing mortgage backed securities to lower home loan rates. But prices remain high and the median age of a new home owner is now 40. 

My Comment:

I am mostly happy with President Trump. He's done a lot of things I like in foreign policy, immigration and social policy. But every once in awhile he says something ridiculous and this is one of those times. Nobody that doesn't currently own a home wants to hear the words "higher prices" unless it's is followed by "won't be a thing anymore". 

I think it is an example of how Trump's age is a liability to him. He's a member of the Silent Generation, a generation that came up with low housing prices. I am not sure Trump realizes just how desperate it is for people in the Millennial and Zoomer generations. I know as an older millennial myself that still rents, the last thing I ever want to hear is that prices are going to not only remain high, but go up. I saw this headline and rolled my eyes and swore out loud. For me, it really seems like there was a window for me to buy a house and I may have missed it. For the Zoomers, they realize that they are never going to be able to buy one as the window closed years ago for them. 

I do understand that any policy to lower home prices is also a liability for the Republicans and Trump. The Boomers, the remaining Silents and the Gen X and older millennials that got out on the last chopper from Saigon (or Kabul) want these prices to be high. Should prices drop to affordable, many of those people would lose their shirt. 

That's little comfort for people like me though. As someone who has been financially responsible and worked very hard to get a large down payment for a house, it does feel like a slap in the face to say that prices should stay high. I don't really care if the boomers lose their shirt, it's well past time I get some of the prosperity and luxury they took for granted for decades. 

Some of this is just optics though. Folks would absolutely be helped by lower interest rates. Indeed, that's my problem. I have a rather huge down payment secured but with the interest rates the monthly payments (along with insurance, utilities and things like association fees) are well above the amount I am currently paying for rent. Lowering the rates would bring the loan cost down and it would help me afford a home, even in a hot real estate market where prices are likely to increase no matter what Trump does. 

Had Trump waited to mention this after interest rates had been reduced it might not have been so poorly received. But his timing couldn't be worse. Though rates have decreased slightly since their high, he made the announcement right after the Fed said they wouldn't reduce the rates for awhile. Trump's other actions might help but the timing could not have been worse. 

And I do think that both Trump and the Republicans underestimate the anger over this issue. It's one of those things where people might be willing to compromise on what they are willing to tolerate from the Democrats if they just vow to lower home prices. The Democrats are just as out of touch on this issue as Republicans so I don't expect them to pounce, but there is a potential for defection here. If the Democrats would ever get smart and drop their insane opposition to popular things like deportation and social issues like transgenderism, they could actually make gains because of gaffes like this. 

FBI had raided Georgia election office searching for evidence of 2020 vote fraud.

 

FBI agents raid the Fulton Country election office. New York Post/AP.

The FBI has raided the Fulton County election office searching for evidence of 2020 voter fraud. New York Post. The agents were acting on a search warrant but very little else is known about their objectives and discoveries. Fulton County was a firestorm of fraud accusations in 2020 after election monitors were kicked out over a burst pipe claim. Trump lost Georgia by 12,000 votes and Trump has claimed that the irregularities in the country, which covers most of Atlanta, were large enough to change the results of the election. Georgia and national news media have denied that any fraud happened in Atlanta. 

My Comment:

Very interesting. I have always maintained that the powers that be never even attempted to prove that the 2020 election was legitimate because they didn't do things like this. In a sane world, accusations of voter fraud would be taken serious as not doing so will damage the legitimacy of elections. 

Does that mean that fraud is going to be found here? I have no idea. Georgia was an absolute mess in 2020 but that could have been due to incompetence, not malfeasance. The Coronavirus Pandemic screwed everything up and it allowed people to vote in ways they weren't able to before and haven't been able to do since. 

Given the large number of mail in ballots and votes coming in after the election was over, it's very possible that there was fraud in the state. Indeed, fraud happens in every single election. Husbands and wives fill out forms for their spouses, family members fill out ballots for their senile relations and people double register, voting in two states in the same election. All of these things happen fairly frequently, but aren't usually cared about because it's not enough to change the results of an election.

But given the circumstances in 2020 where election laws were changed on the fly and thousands of voter registration forms and ballots were sent out, it is certainly possible that there was more fraud than usual. It is certainly plausible that there were more than 12,000 false votes, but without actually looking at the ballots, it was impossible to prove. By looking at these ballots that should no longer be a problem. 

I don't think the Trump administration has anything to lose by looking into 2020 voter fraud. The worst case scenario is that no fraud is found. That's status quo ante right now and all it wouldn't change much. The powers that be already say that the 2020 election was secure so the only effect would be people trusting elections a little more, an outcome the powers that be should like. 

But if voter fraud is found? It will be an earthshaking revelation that could change how elections are run in the United States. Reform would have to be put into place and things like the SAVE act, that requires voter ID/proof of citizenship in order to vote. Current law has the only requirement for citizenship in most states being a checkbox that can easily be checked fraudulently. 

It would also totally change the context of Trump's four years in the wilderness and the context of the January 6th protest. If it turns out that there was indeed voter fraud in Georgia, even if it wouldn't have been enough to get Trump into office, it would mean that Trump's complaints were indeed valid and that the Biden led government's attempts to imprison him were part of a coverup. 

Of course even if rock solid evidence of voter fraud is found and it is enough to show that Georgia went to Trump in 2020, I think a large portion of the left would reject it out of hand. To them, voter fraud doesn't exist. This isn't just a belief, it's almost a religious belief, and questioning it would bring their whole narrative crashing down... 

Regardless, I don't expect any revelations from this for a long time. Criminal investigations take time and I doubt that Trump and his administration would want to go off half-cocked on a story of this importance. Either we will hear more about this case in a few months or it will quietly be announced that nothing was found. Time will tell. 

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar attacked at a town hall...

 

Bystanders restraining the suspect. AP. 

A man was arrested after spraying Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with an unknown substance at a Minneapolis town hall. AP. The man was tackled by members of the crowd who were watching Omar talk about ICE. The man sprayed something onto her with a syringe. Omar was not injured in the attack and continued her speech. The man was charged with 3rd degree assault. The incident was condemned by politicians of both parties. 

NEW ANGLE: A man sitting in the front row of Rep. Ilhan Omar's town hall was tackled after he appeared to spray her with an unknown substance. pic.twitter.com/rqKbOUp1Do

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 28, 2026

My Comment:

I obviously condemn this attack. I generally think that Ilhan Omar is the worst member of congress, she's likely corrupt and she has no business being in this country. In a sane world she wouldn't have ever been allowed to visit the country, let alone become a congresswoman. 

Of course that doesn't mean that this should have happened. I don't support violence against elected officials and even though I despise Omar, I do not wish to have any harm to come to her. Attacking anyone for using speech, even if it's speech I find totally reprehensible, is beyond the pale. It was true for Charlie Kirk and it's true for Ilhan Omar. 

I also think that it's going to give Omar some sympathy that she would otherwise not deserve. It's going to be harder to criticize her now because some moron decided to attack her. And it doesn't even matter why she was attacked, people will blame Republicans for it regardless. Not that you are going to find any real Republicans that would support attacking a member of congress, but it won't matter regardless. Even the AP article was attempting to blame Donald Trump for the attack. 

I was also kind of impressed with Omar. She didn't seem afraid of the attack and even walked forward as he was getting tackled. Though I dislike Omar, I can admit that I do think it was admirable that she did not show any fear and that she continued her event. I said when Trump got shot he got up and said "fight" that he showed actual courage and though the situation here is different, I do have to give Omar credit for showing the same virtue. She absolutely should be credited for not backing down during this attack. 

How serious was this incident? I am not sure. We don't know what kind of fluid was actually used by the attacker. She wasn't harmed, just sprayed with a foul-smelling liquid. That does count as assault, but I do wonder if his original plan wasn't to inject her with something. Given the video though, it seems unlikely. Regardless of his intent, this attack is not something to laugh off in any case, even if there was no real threat of harm, it was still assault on a member of congress. 

As for the suspect, reports have him as a local anti-Omar crank. Every political group has it's crazies and this one does seem like he was on the right, ostensibly. Nobody on the right is really going to support this, but you can't control the actions of every crazy out there. I have zero sympathy for this guy and I would not have been upset at all if Omar's team or the police had used lethal force on him. As it stands now, I hope the book is thrown at him and he faces as many charges as possible. Indeed, he seems to have been overcharged as well, this doesn't meet the legal definition of 3rd degree assault, but he got charged with it regardless.