Exclusive: ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' in new orders

https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-officers-minnesota-directed-not-interact-with-agitators-new-orders-2026-01-29/

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - ICE officers in Minnesota were directed on Wednesday to avoid engaging with "agitators" as they carry out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, according to internal guidance reviewed by Reuters.
The new guidance, offering the most detailed look so far at how operations would change after two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens protesting in Minneapolis, also orders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers only to target immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions.

That would mark a departure from the broad sweeps that have provoked backlash and legal challenges in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.
"DO NOT COMMUNICATE OR ENGAGE WITH AGITATORS," said an email disseminated by a top ICE official. "It serves no purpose other than inflaming the situation. No one is going to convince the other. The only communication should be the officers issuing commands."
In response to a request to the White House for comment, an administration official said, "There are ongoing conversations on how to most effectively conduct operations in Minnesota. No guidance should be considered final until it is officially issued."

The operational shift comes after Trump said this week that he aimed to “de-escalate” tension in Minneapolis and St. Paul after federal immigration officers killed two U.S. citizens there this month. In both cases, Trump officials swiftly portrayed the deceased as aggressors, an assertion undercut by video evidence.

Also, there was mosque school booming last month in Indonesian by a teenage, which his fake gun has “For Agartha” written on it

https://gnet-research.org/2026/01/07/the-jakarta-bombing-youth-digital-radicalisation-and-the-urgent-need-for-adaptive-pcve-responses/

> https://www.aol.com/articles/87-republicans-vote-democrats-fund-232931289.html

Dozens of Republicans joined all voting Democrats on Wednesday evening to reject a GOP-led effort to eliminate federal funding for a nonprofit organization accused of bias against conservatives.

Lawmakers voted 127 to 291 to strip $315 billion in funding for the State Department’s democracy promotion programs, including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), out of a government funding package, falling well short of a majority. Republican Arizona Rep. Eli Crane, who offered the amendment, argued that although NED has the ostensible goal of promoting democracy, the organization has repeatedly promoted “anti-American objectives” and undermined freedom of speech. (RELATED: House GOP Moves To Prop Up Anti-Conservative ‘Democracy’ Org Trump Wants To Defund)

The vote split House Republicans with 127 GOP lawmakers — mostly members belonging to the conference’s conservative flank — supporting the amendment and 81 joining Democrats in voting “no.”

“Tonight, the Uniparty rejected my amendment to defund NED,” Crane wrote on X after the vote concluded. “[Eighty-one] ‘republicans’ voted with democrats to fund this rogue organization that fuels global censorship and domestic propaganda.”

“Although its name suggests a force for good, its mission has drifted far from its Cold War origins. This is a classic tactic of the swamp, where bad policy and corruption hide behind a noble title,” the Arizona Republican said on the House floor Wednesday, before the vote.

“We’ve learned that this organization has engaged in global censorship, domestic propaganda, and regime change politics,” Crane added.

The White House recommended completely defunding NED in May, citing reports that the organization doled out money to entities that attacked Republicans and sought to blacklist conservative media outlets.

The political world was rocked on Friday morning by the arrest of former CNN star Don Lemon by federal agents in connection with a protest that saw its participants storm a Minneapolis church during a Sunday service.

In a statement, Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, revealed that he had been taken into custody in Los Angeles on Thursday evening.

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” asserted Lowell. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like Don to be doing this work.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/horrifying-deserved-outrageous-political-world-rocked-by-stunning-arrest-of-don-lemon/

Ladies and Gents. Could I please shift your attention towards Cyprus?

An island in the Mediterranean sea. We are situated on the South of Turkey on the west of Lebanon and on the North of Egypt.

Currently Cyprus has ≈1M population and is devided. In the Reecent couple of months it has been noticed that Isralei investors have been mass buying heaps of both occupied land (has been occupied since the Turkish Invasion of 1974) and Greek Cypriot land, to the point where a real threat is rapidly emerging. What kind of threat? one might ask, a threat of Cyprus becoming a second Palestine, a country that will again be illegally occupied and be consumed as a whole.

Our government and president, clear as day, continue to ignore this issue, while also signing strategic treaties together with the Zionistic State of Israel. To us Cypriots who are a Christian and survivors of losing our homes to an illegall Turkish invasion, is unacceptable. We wish for our country to be free. We wish for a state: without Brittish sovereign military bases, without a buffer zone and without any occupying forces.

Unfortunately not enough light has been shed onto our issues and all I ask is that you people of this world just spread the word, make sure that our story and our struggle is known, or at the very least heard.

Thank you for your attention dear 4chan users.

https://www.hlrn.org/activitydetails.php?id=qG9lbA==&title=Israelis-Massively-Buying-Land-in-Cyprus

Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 31 rose by 22,000 to 231,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s significantly more than the 211,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.

Applications for unemployment benefits are seen as representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.

A number of high-profile companies have announced job cuts in the past year, including UPS, Amazon and Dow just last week.

Mounting layoff announcements in the past year, combined with the government’s own sluggish labor market reports, has left Americans increasingly pessimistic about the economy.

Last month, the government reported that hiring remained subdued in December, capping a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers. Employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, according to the Labor Department.

The 2025 numbers represent the smallest annual job gains since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the job market in 2020. Outside of recessions, it’s the slimmest annual increase since 2003.

The Labor Department also recently reported that businesses posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-applications-jobless-benefits-jump-22000-231000-week-129880470

I'm sure some of you guys have seen this post about Epstein being seen recently on a dock in a small Greek town. I saw it and scrolled past, seemed baseless. Next time I saw it, I've realized I personally have some context that makes it plausible.

He also did try and buy an island in Greece in the past: https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/07/jeffrey-epstein-onassis-skorpios-doj-files/

My brother in law in Greece works in a managerial/ maintenance position at a resort for the ultra wealthy. He makes it clear he is very stressed having to do work in these peoples homes. The way he talked about it was unnerving, so when I saw this post I naturally checked if they were close, and they are.

Costa Navarino is basically considered the most luxurious and elite resort in Greece. They are known for their privacy and pure size of the resort. Starting prices for a residence is $10m. The town in the reddit post would be the exact sort of dock you'd use if you wanted to be discreet, the main port is in a cove being overlooked by the resort.

A few bits of info

-My brother in law believes his phone is tapped. He refuses to talk about who owns residencies there, except he did mention the Greek president has a spot. Looks like ted cruz does too, or at least visits there. You will struggle to find any confirmation on who owns a resort there, rarely even pictures of famous people on the property. This is supposed to be their getaway from the world, privacy and security are serious. I am trying to find out more about who frequents there.

-As of a few days ago, my wife talked to him and he mentioned it is extraordinarily empty and he's had very little work to do. Not normal, it was busier during the worst of winter.

This is very little to go off of, but a couple things don't sit well. Costa Navarino is the exact sort of place Epstein would visit to see his pals in a normal environment. If the post is fake they chose an incredibly well thought out town to use.

Trump touts 'softer touch' on immigration as federal force is reduced in Minnesota

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5nx130neo

US President Donald Trump has said immigration agents could use a "softer touch" as his administration began pulling about a quarter of its force out of Minnesota, where two American citizens died last month in confrontations with federal officers.

"I learned that maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch," Trump told NBC News, adopting a rare conciliatory tone on his political touchstone. "But you still have to be tough."

US border tsar Tom Homan said earlier 700 federal immigration agents would be withdrawn from the Minneapolis area.

He said 2,000 agents would remain, and that he aimed to cut their presence in the city to its level before Operation Metro Surge began in December.

In his interview with NBC News, Trump insisted that his operations were highly targeted at criminals.

"We are totally focused on criminals, really bad criminals," the president said.

The president also said he was "not happy" with the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

"He was not an angel, and she was not an angel," Trump said. "You look at some tapes from back, but still, I'm not happy with what happened there."

When pressed whether that justified what happened to two American citizens, Trump said, "No, it should have not happened. It was very sad to me. It was a very sad incident. Two incidents."

During a news conference on Wednesday, border tsar Homan said that the US government had made providing body-worn cameras to all officers in Minneapolis a priority, and was planning to deploy the equipment to agents across the country.

Homan said federal immigration agents in Minnesota had been arresting "bad people" in the Minneapolis area, including 14 charged with homicide and 139 with assault, as well as 87 sex offenders and 28 gang members.

TrumpRx, the website launched by the Trump administration Thursday to sell discounted prescription drugs directly to consumers, is offering a whole lot less than advertised.

The drugs offered on the site are all from brand-name manufacturers, making them more expensive than generic brands. Almost all of the drugs are also covered through insurance already. The product pages on the website even say, “If you have insurance, check your co-pay first—it may be even lower.”

One X user fact-checked Trump’s claim Thursday that TrumpRx will lower the cost of inhalers from $458 to $51. In reality, clicking on the link on TrumpRx redirects the user to the manufacturer’s website to see if the buyer qualifies for hardship discounts. As the user pointed out, these discounts are available regardless of whether TrumpRx is involved.

Another X user pointed out that the lack of generic drugs on TrumpRx makes prices higher than on prescription comparison sites such as GoodRx.

“There may be patients who think this is a good deal and then end up financially worse off,” Rachel Sachs, a law professor studying drug pricing at Washington University in St. Louis who advised the Biden administration on drug policy, told The New York Times.

“TrumpRx is a sideshow,” said Sean D. Sullivan, a health economist at the University of Washington. “I consider it not a real, serious effort in service to lowering prescription drug prices for Americans.”

>https://newrepublic.com/post/206265/trump-prescription-drug-website-trumprx-scam