{"id":17728,"date":"2026-01-19T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17728"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:58:04","slug":"ice-violence-in-minnesota-stephen-miller-ratchets-up-the-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/19\/ice-violence-in-minnesota-stephen-miller-ratchets-up-the-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red;\"><strong>ICE Violence in Minnesota: <\/strong><\/span>Stephen Miller ratchets up the fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autocratic talk is spewing from the White House: <em>Mediaite<\/em> reports &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/stephen-miller-says-mn-authorities-ordered-to-stand-down-and-surrender-to-federal-officers-as-anti-ice-protests-intensify\/\">President Donald Trump\u2019s top aide, Stephen Miller, shockingly declared that local and state law enforcement have been ordered to &#8216;stand down and surrender&#8217; as anti-ICE protests continue to grip the state<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>NY Times<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/19\/us\/minnesota-hospitals-ice-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlA.pGpW.fhl6nnLt5yMH\">As federal agents swarm the Twin Cities, their presence has also grown in medical centers. Health care workers are pushing back<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AP reports on a New Hampshire bishop who is warning clergy to prepare for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2\">new era of martyrdom<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>At <em>Crooks and Liars<\/em>, watch Democratic Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego come &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/Democratic Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego came just short of saying that ICE should be abolished completely, instead calling for the agency to be \"totally torn down\"\">just short of saying that ICE should be abolished completely, instead calling for the agency to be &#8216;totally torn down&#8217;<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Also at <em>Mediaite<\/em>, Colby Hall explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/opinion\/ice-lost-the-renee-good-narrative-battle-polls-show-why-it-will-get-worse\/\">how ICE lost the narrative war &#8211; and polling indicates the situation will worsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and this rightwing influencer with White House ties and alleged violent tendencies is trying to lie about\u2026 erm, turn the focus to Minnesota.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/19\/nick-sortor-rightwing-influencer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not as if we did nazi that coming\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17745,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions\/17745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}