The Weekly Sift

Once again, I’m going to be focusing primarily on ICE and the protest movement to get that rogue agency back under the rule of law. Early in the week, you might have imagined that reason was prevailing: Greg Bovino was out, Trump was softening his rhetoric, and Democrats in Congress were digging in their heels. The anti-ICE movement was clearly winning the battle for public opinion, and the regime was retrenching rather than doubling down.

But it remains to be seen what, if anything, is going to change. For a while, it seems, DHS rhetoric will tone down. But will ICE begin obeying the laws and constitution of the United States?

On the positive side, protests continued this weekend without ICE murdering anyone else. But that’s a pretty low bar. More than two weeks passed between the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but that didn’t mean that the regime’s agents had learned their lesson. On the negative side, video from Portland, Oregon looks like it was filmed in Baghdad or Kandahar. Canisters emitting various colors of smoke rain down on protesters as a formation of heavily armed troops retreats into the shelter of a federal building. What exactly they are retreating from is totally unclear.

So this week’s featured post asks “Did We Win?”, and concludes “not yet”. I’ll try to get it out by 10 EST. The weekly summary will look deeper into what Congress is doing with DHS funding, the arrest of Don Lemon, why the FBI seized Georgia’s 2020 election ballots, and a few other things. It should be out a little after noon.