Through the winter’s ice and cold Down Nicollet Avenue A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘Neath an occupier’s boots King Trump’s private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law Or so their story goes Against smoke and rubber bullets By the dawn’s early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing through the night And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis
Trump’s federal thugs beat up on His face and his chest Then we heard the gunshots And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead Their claim was self defense, sir Just don’t believe your eyes It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Crying through the bloody mist We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis
Now they say they’re here to uphold the law But they trample on our rights If your skin is black or brown my friend You can be questioned or deported on sight
In chants of ICE out now Our city’s heart and soul persists Through broken glass and bloody tears On the streets of Minneapolis
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis
NFL great and human rights activist, Alan Page, protesting ICE killings and abductions, is pictured above.
Democracy Dies Democrats, Cops Supine in Response
Commentary
Watched video of second ICE shooting Saturday morning.
Sick ICE bastards.
We no longer live in a classical liberal democracy.
At moment, ICE is bombarding citizens in Minneapolis with gas after ICE shot and killed a man on the sidewalk.
"They're not cops; they're not ICE; they're NAZIs," a witness told Status Coup News.
Facebook videos below show some eight ICE personnel shooting another protester. Another video shot multiple ICE shootings, as an ICE conspirator claps.
US President Donald Trump speaks at press conference at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, January 3, 2026. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) "We are going to run the country," Trump said.
Trump Declares U.S. 'In Charge' of Venezuela
Democrats Offer Weak Response Netanyahu Calls Trump 'Bold and Brilliant'
Commentary
UPDATED - Madison, Wisconsin — President Trump launched another illegal U.S. regime-change war and invasion of a sovereign country — Venezuela.
Netanyahu dubbed Trump a leader for Peace this week.
Congressional Democrats' reaction is muted, often veering into legality and calls for Congressional movement, avoiding moral condemnation prominent among the American people.
Wisconsin's Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin (D) is silent today, obeying her political instinct to gauge the political terrain first before commenting.
Jake Johnson in Common Dreams reports on exceptions to Baldwin's timidity:
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he will force a Senate vote next week on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution to block additional US military action in Venezuela. 'Where will this go next?' Kaine asked in a statement. 'Will the president deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies? Trump has threatened to do all this and more and sees no need to seek legal authorization from people’s elected legislature before putting servicemembers at risk.'
Quagmire Seen
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin), an AIPAC political foe, writes:
Trump continues to ignore the US Constitution and lie to Congress and the American people. Bombing and occupying Venezuela is an illegal act of war against a sovereign nation.
Only Congress has the ability to declare war, but Speaker Johnson and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate have rolled over and gave up our Article One powers.
Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told Members of Congress their illegal attacks on boats was not about regime change, but capturing a sitting leader is the literal definition of regime change. Trump and his band of misfits seem to have no endgame to this potential quagmire.
Mainstream corporate press and social media have blacked out Israel, which controls U.S. foreign policy, and its political work with Trump for this latest military action.
๐ป๐ช Venezuela President Maduro on Israel:
“They have sown an ideology more dangerous than Nazism.
They justify raids, extermination, genocide, and atomic bombs"
Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice. I salute your decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers.
— Benjamin Netanyahu - ืื ืืืื ื ืชื ืืื (@netanyahu) January 3, 2026
Marine Reconnaissance troop on guard duty, Vietnam
Veterans, Fighting Forces Are Imperiled by Trump, Lindsey Graham, Chickenhawks, and Liars
Commentary
We salute our veterans, and we call out our veterans' enemies today, chickenhawks, who are at it again, crawling out from under rocks mocking virtues of our military forces — service, honor, guarding our freedom.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), always desperate to prove his manhood in his perverted method of chickenhawk acts, celebrates Donald Trump's killing, bringing "death" to the world, (Yahoo).
"[Donald] Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs, we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II," Graham noted to celebrate increased killing enacted by the current administration, (Yahoo).
Vietnam veteran Don Kosterman of Fitchburg, Wisconsin was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in May 2023. Veterans are honored each year in the Badger Honor Flight. Don was in-country, Vietnam, 1965-66. Don Kosterman is a man of honor.
We need more war, more killing. This is how we honor our veterans and servicemen and women, Trump and Graham believe.
Our federal government now has the Department of War, a new undertaking, but a transformation in name only of the massive national security state erected by Democrats and Republicans.
War president; war footing; strutting egotism, permanent war, and a pathological inability to speak the truth—this is the government we have today to honor our veterans.
Sixty-four years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about war as an anti-democratic, corrupting domestic force in his Farewell Address (1961), as peace is deterred, and atrocity continues.
"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
Vietnam veteran Patrick Newberry of Fitchburg, Wisconsin was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in April 2023. The veterans were honored during the 46th Badger Honor Flight. Patrick was in-country. Vietnam 1967 (WMTV-Madison) Patrick Newberry is a man of honor.
The world is a free-fire zone for President Trump; and our active-duty forces are sometimes transformed into war criminals by their commander-in-chief.
Billions of dollars for Israel, and a perverse crusade to block SNAP for our veterans the weekend before this Veterans Day, with a late assist to Trump from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). This is the terrain today.
The national security state budget surpasses $1 trillion each year, viewing with suspicion those few seeking elected office and calling out the perils to our democracy of the security state that lives through secrecy and lies, with no accountability.
Marines like Graham Platner, oyster farmer, and Democratic Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026 fight back. "I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war," vows Platner.
Platner has drawn the enmity of Sen. Chuck Schumer and other liars in Congress for standing for freedom and truth.
Our country is a betrayal to the people who guard our freedom.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.
Veterans, thank you.
We as the American people should honor you by ensuring you have the country you served. --- Anyone ever see a veteran in the days back home from a Honor Flight? It's wonderful; veterans glow with an expression that appears a mixture of pride, solidarity, even elation.
I think we can match this glory, or at least come close enough, in the performance we demand from those in government.
