Tag: Somalia

Trump Announces DOJ Probe Into Ilhan Omar as White House Trashes Her

“Let me be blunt. If you blink in Minneapolis, they’re gonna overwhelm you, and they’re gonna win. You cannot blink in Minneapolis. That is one of the festering sores of this country, and that’s where they all come together…. You have to lance the boil there,” Bannon said, calling for even more targeted militance from […]

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Trump Unveils Investigation Into Ilhan Omar as His Team Torches Her

“Let me be blunt. If you blink in Minneapolis, they’re gonna overwhelm you, and they’re gonna win. You cannot blink in Minneapolis. That is one of the festering sores of this country, and that’s where they all come together…. You have to lance the boil there,” Bannon said, calling for even more targeted militance from […]

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ICE Launches Crackdown in Maine Called “Operation Catch of the Day”

Last week, Trump had threatened to impose tariffs against European countries that opposed his plan to annex Greenland. He may have been persuaded otherwise after European pension funds began divesting from U.S. Treasuries and the European Parliament suspended a possible trade deal with the U.S. Wednesday over his threats. Despite Trump’s post Wednesday, his dream […]

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ICE Agents Reportedly Asking Minnesotans Where the Asians Are

The full list of countries subject to the freeze is: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, […]

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Top Trump Official Threatens Even More Aid Cuts in Minnesota

“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote. “Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, […]

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Dr. Oz Threatens Medicaid in Minnesota—and Warns It’s Just Beginning

“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote. “Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, […]

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ICE Barbie Pushes Unhinged Defense for Minnesota ICE Shooting

“What’s allowed him to escape, you know, Houdini-like, is the Roberts court and the fact that he’s been able to manipulate the levers of power to keep himself going,” Raskin said. “I mean, if he put, you know, a fraction of that energy into trying to actually do something for the American people, we might […]

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Trump Insists Ilhan Omar Is Part of Minnesota Fraud in Racist Rant

“As far as American citizens, the vast majority of American citizens, especially that the U.S. Border patrol has arrested, many of those citizens assaulted federal officers, assaulted border patrol agents, in the performance of our duties,” Bovino said. “Anyone that assaults a federal officer, you’re gonna go to jail.” The Homeland Security Department released a […]

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Republican Forced to Answer How Many Somalis He Represents Are Garbage

One email reportedly states that at one point, the FBI’s Washington Field Office did “not believe (and has articulated to [DOJ]), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar a Lago.” Another email states that the bureau thought a raid would be “counterproductive,” suggesting “alternative, less intrusive and […]

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Mike Johnson Whines He’s Always Asked About Trump’s Wild Comments

Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year.  In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]

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Mike Johnson Accuses Reporters of Baiting Him When Asked About Trump

Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year.  In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]

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Trump Threatens to Fire His Treasury Secretary Over … Immigration?

“I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks—Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results,” Trump wrote. “I do these Tests because […]

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Minnesota Somali Community Already Targeted By ICE At English Speaking Classes And Places Of Worship, Leaders Say

Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty We’re barely even a whole week removed from the day President Donald Trump declared during a Cabinet meeting that he doesn’t want anyone from Somalia in the U.S. because “they contribute nothing,” and not even a whole week removed from officials in Minnesota announcing that the Twin Cities were preparing […]

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GOP Senator Makes Pathetic Excuse for Trump’s Anti-Somali Hate

“When can we see that video? When will you release it?” Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson asked Hegseth at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Hegseth was noncommittal. “We’re reviewing it, right now, to make sure, sources, methods—I mean, it’s an ongoing operation—TTPs [tactics, techniques, and procedures]. We’ve got operators out there doing this right now. […]

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Rep. Ilhan Omar And Somali Immigrants Aren’t ‘Garbage.’ Trump’s Presidency Is

Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty First, it was “piggy.”Then it was “ugly inside and out.”And now, our Racist-in-Chief says Rep. Ilhan Omar is “garbage.” Garbage. When a sitting president calls a Black woman in Congress garbage, that isn’t shade. It’s a political act designed to tell the country which kind of people […]

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Minneapolis Will Prove It’s Better than Trump’s Sick Somali Smear

The caricature of Jews as crooks coexisted for such bigots with the stereotypes of Jews as both rapacious capitalists and violent revolutionaries. The irreconcilables somehow reconciled in just the way that Trump has pilloried Somalis as both cunning con artists and Islamist terrorists. And then as now, the point of instrumentalizing racial or religious hatred […]

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Trump Official Forced to Clarify Exactly How Many Somalis Are Garbage

The order banned citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from traveling to the U.S. It also placed restrictions on travel for citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. At the time, people from all of those countries who […]

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Twin Cities Prepares For Immigration Raids Targeting Somali Migrants Following Trump’s Anti-Somali Hate Speech

Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty Listen — all hate speech is dangerous, but it’s especially dangerous coming from President Donald Trump, because we know it’s only a matter of time before his hateful and oppressive speech becomes hateful and oppressive policy. For example, over the past week or so, Trump has been […]

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Trump Trashes Somalis as He Orders ICE to Hunt Them Down

Hegseth wrote that he pulled the platoon aside after the briefing and told them, “I will not allow that nonsense to filter into your brains. Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat. That’s a bullshit rule that’s going to get people killed. And I […]

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Trump Trashes Somali Immigrants as He Orders ICE to Target Them

Hegseth wrote that he pulled the platoon aside after the briefing and told them, “I will not allow that nonsense to filter into your brains. Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat. That’s a bullshit rule that’s going to get people killed. And I […]

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Trump Calls Ilhan Omar “Garbage” as His Team Breaks Out in Applause

Hegseth wrote that he pulled the platoon aside after the briefing and told them, “I will not allow that nonsense to filter into your brains. Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat. That’s a bullshit rule that’s going to get people killed. And I […]

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In Response To National Guard Shooting, Trump Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar And Somalia In Another Racist, Irrelevant Rant

At this point, it’s the most obvious of “water is wet” news to say it, but it still needs to be said as often as possible: President Donald Trump is an old, white bigot. Not only that, but Trump is an old, white bigot who is possibly suffering from dementia. Not only that, but President […]

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Trump Insults Democrats by Comparing Them to an African Country

Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn’t work now we know their eyes don’t work. pic.twitter.com/G4m6uDMnrI — Acyn (@Acyn) October 6, 2025 Setting up Miller for a chance to respond, Ingraham made fun of Ocasio-Cortez for wearing a sweatshirt […]

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Trump Issues Sweeping Travel Ban Full of Contradictions

Chris Whipple, who examined Biden’s 2020 win, wrote a slim investigation called Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. Another book, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, is the result of more than 300 interviews conducted over an 18-month period. It’s […]

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Trump Signs Travel Ban Full of Contradictions

Chris Whipple, who examined Biden’s 2020 win, wrote a slim investigation called Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. Another book, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, is the result of more than 300 interviews conducted over an 18-month period. It’s […]

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