There’s an ‘intimate connection’ between the workings of the US empire and the UK media. And they didn’t just batter the left in the Jeremy Corbyn years. They also set us up with a cold, rotten dish of Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson, and their ilk of soulless corporate stooges.

Filmmaker Victor Fraga made the film The Bad Patriots, which is now available on major streaming services. And to mark the occasion, he told us about how establishment propagandists got away with smearing prominent left-wingers Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn.

This is a film for everyone because, as Fraga asserted:

I’m not asking people to love Ken and Jeremy… It’s not a film about their ideas. It’s a film about misrepresentations.

He added:

We like to believe Britain is free, but it really isn’t that free.

UK Media and legal collusion blocked the left

Having previously made a documentary about media enabling of countless coups in Brazil, Fraga followed up by looking at the same dynamic in the UK. Through his film about Loach and Corbyn, he said, a key focus was to show:

how the British media has consistently and promiscuously attempted to defame and degrade Ken and Jeremy, paint them as antisemitic, spineless, fruitcakes, too old, … not being patriotic enough

As an establishment mouthpiece, he stressed, the mainstream media played a “crucial role” in the propaganda war on the left that put the right back in charge of the Labour Party:

Keir Starmer would have never been elected without the support from the media. I mean, the Sun supported Keir Starmer and Tony Blair. That says a lot, doesn’t it?

Imperialism and media bias, meanwhile, are “intimately connected”. As he insisted:

You can talk about imperialism without talking about the media, but I don’t think you can talk about the media without talking about imperialism. Obviously, the media attend to the interests of the few, not the many…

The objective of the media is not to inform people. It’s to control people. And most mainstream media, virtually all of them, are owned by millionaires.

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And the people the media smears target struggle to fight back because of how expensive it is in the UK, where the law favours obscenely wealthy actors over ordinary people. At the same time, the smears were so systemic in the case of Corbyn that it would have been almost impossible to challenge them legally. As Fraga asserted:

The legal costs are so high that even when you win, sometimes you lose…

So, yeah, the justice system is complicit.

And it’s not just the legal system playing along. Because as the Canary has detailed previously, there is a whole infrastructure of repression against the left in the UK, including the political policing project that unjustifiably spied on hundreds of left-wing groups for decades.

This infrastructure isn’t always obvious for everyone, because of the veneer of freedom and democracy that our establishment sells us. But there are times, like with the Peter Mandelson scandal (connecting into the whole anti-socialist offensive to put Keir Starmer in power), where the dark dealings of establishment politics and media come out into the light.

The interests behind the misrepresentations

The empire and its propagandists want to sell an upside-down view of the world — as we’ve seen during the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and the repression surrounding it. As Fraga stressed:

In the same way Keir Starmer purports to be left-wing (someone who supports foreign invasions, who’s deeply xenophobic, and who shudders at the thought of anything vaguely socialist), Jeremy is painted as an extremist for wanting to nationalise rail and for policies which are widely implemented in France and Scandinavia. They paint a pacifist such as Jeremy Corbyn as an extremist, and a warmonger like Tony Blair as moderate. That’s pretty sick.

Corbyn was certainly a concern for the US empire and its junior partner in the UK. Ex-CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo admitted as much when he promised to “push back” to undermine Corbyn’s chances of winning the 2019 election. Figures in the British army and secret services also briefed against him.

And whether or not there was direct coordination, the establishment media was absolutely singing from the empire’s hymn sheet. It played a key role in smearing Corbyn and ensuring his loss in the 2019 election. And even the biggest supposedly left-wing paper, the Guardian, was in on it. As Corbyn later told Declassified:

I do not trust the Guardian… it’s a tool of the British establishment.

Prominent filmmaker Loach also represented a concern for the powers that be due to his longstanding critique of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, racism, and state repression. And he has faced significant attempts to censor and silence his work as a result.

As Fraga summarised, the whole country should be aware that the media’s behaviour is “not an accident”:

On many occasions, they do know they’re lying blatantly. They do know what they’re doing.

And that intentional behaviour serves the interests of the rich and powerful, undermining what limited democracy exists in the UK even further.

This matters to absolutely everyone in the country, and Fraga hopes The Bad Patriots can help to ‘burst the bubble’ and get people talking about the media’s actions more. So invite friends, family members, and anyone you can to watch the film. Because only by facing this issue head on can we stand a chance of changing things.

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The Leicestershire Police and Crimes Commissioner and proud Reform UK supporter Rupert Matthews needs a hard drive check it seems. On January 4 he sparked fury when he changed his profile picture on Twitter to ‘Amelia‘, an AI-generated CHILD used by extremists to promote hate.

Reform UK’s PCC @Rupert_Matthews has set his profile picture to a still of the deeply racist AI video that was doing the rounds recently.

‘She’ uses the terms “paki wankers” and states that the Church and BBC are a bunch of “queers and nonces” and makes a strange remark about… pic.twitter.com/dR7UV2eulH

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) February 4, 2026

Even AI kids aren’t safe from the far right

The disgusting irony of a PCC using a child as their profile picture is disgusting. Amelia was originally a character for Pathways, a government-funded video game. She was designed to warn other children of the dangers of radicalisation. Yet the far-right have taken Amelia and made her some kind of figurehead:

Wake up, Britain, We Are at a tipping point. #Amelia #Ameliasong #UK #UniteTheKingdom #UnitedKingdom https://t.co/k5YJWnwLDm pic.twitter.com/porTirrNtr

— Amelia (@makeukgood) February 1, 2026

So of course the far-right took her image, adopted it and sexualised her:

They can’t conceal ya Amelia!

This is really good Ai music video from Skyebrows.@TRobinsonNewEra #UKPolitics

A Million Amelias – Skyebrowshttps://t.co/2X1SV49MHd pic.twitter.com/dbBHW2yHKh

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— Jack Shepard (@JackShepardNow) January 31, 2026

Can Amelia be the worlds first AI PM 😁pic.twitter.com/IOiAa025JR

— Mist 🇬🇧 (@DontFearTheMist) January 31, 2026

I am shaking with anger writing this. Yes, she may be AI generated, but she is still meant to represent a child.

Reform’s Matthews needs a hard drive check. Now!

Matthews is now promoting his political brand with a picture that was meant to warn kids about everything Reform UK represents. It’s so weird, when this purple-haired goth aesthetic is one that the far right usually mocks. Yet here she is, standing as some kind of nationalist e-girl icon.

This move is particularly alarming for a man who is in charge of policing. By adopting Amelia, not only is he signifying an alignment with far right ideology, he’s also sexualising children.

Hard drive check needed.

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Police in Las Vegas have arrested an Israeli citizen in an armed raid after an illegal ‘biolab’ made several people exposed to it ‘deathly ill’. 55-year-old Ori Salomon aka Ori Solomon was arrested on charges “disposing of and discharging hazardous waste” charges – and later also charged with illegal possession of six firearms – including an assault rifle of Israeli make.

Police recovered more than 1,000 samples of likely hazardous material after finding a freezer, multiple fridges and other laboratory material including:

biosafety hood, a biosafety sticker, a centrifuge, multiple refrigerators, red-brown unknown liquids in gallon-sized containers, and refrigerated vials with unknown liquids.

Bizarrely, it was not the first such raid. A Limited Liability Company tied to the county’s record of the property has the same name as a company named in an ongoing federal case in California involving a similar biological laboratory.

Israeli biolab raid

The Las Vegas raid followed a tip-off that lab equipment and hazardous materials were being stored at the residential property. The weapons charge was added later because the original warrant for the raid did not include firearms. The charge sheet says that Salomon/Solomon:

knowing that he was an alien admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa, knowingly possessed the firearms below, which were in and affecting interstate commerce, all in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5)(B) and 924(a)(2):

a. a Springfield Armory SA-XD ACP 45 caliber bearing the serial numberUS734441;
b. a Savage Mark II .22 caliber rifle bearing the serial number 399291;
c. a Euroarms Brescia-Italy .36 Navy bearing the serial number 30614;
d. a Springfield Armory XD-9 9mm Handgun bearing the serial numberXD193283;
e. an IWI US Tavor-x95 5.56 bearing the serial number T0066621; and
f. a Glock 19 9mm Handgun bearing the serial number ANK965US.

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The IWI Tavor-x95 ‘bullpup assault rifle’ is made in Israel and used by Israel’s military. The Austrian Glock 19 is also widely used by Israeli armed forces.

Court documents state that after entering the garage, several people became “deathly ill,” and “could not get out of bed”, according to local TV station KLAS. Samples have been taken by FBI aircraft to the National Bioforensic Analysis Center in Maryland.

Local media have speculated that the Israeli biolab may have been involved in the production of counterfeit medicines. However, there is another possibility. Islamophobic Israel advocates have claimed that ‘Iranian’ cells in the US were planning terror attacks.

The claims appear to be an attempt to fuel US aggression toward Iran and led to warnings that Israel itself is planning ‘false flag’ attacks in the US. The colony has a long and proven record of using such attacks to achieve political and military ends.

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Keir Starmer has ‘apologised’ for Peter Mandelson in a speech in Sussex. Kind of, but not really. You know the kind of thing. The “I’m sorry people felt offended” apology that puts the blame on others.

Starmer turns on Mandelson after it’s too late

Starmer said he was sorry for believing Mandelson’s lies — ‘Peter’ was never added as Starmer tried desperately to distance himself. Distance himself from the man he took on as his senior adviser when Mandelson’s closeness to child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein was already well known. From the man he then appointed as ambassador to the US, despite knowing the same.

From the man whose protégé he still has as his chief of staff.

Despicably, Starmer then cynically exploited Epstein’s victims to try to get himself off the hook. It was the first time he’d mentioned them since Mandelson blew up in his face. It was only to use them, shamelessly, to excuse not releasing what pre-ambassador vetting had told him about Mandelson and Epstein.

The Met Police, very conveniently, announced that the Mandelson vetting records can’t be released because releasing them might compromise an investigation. Everyone understands this, surely correctly, to mean the supposed investigation into Mandelson’s insider trading and leaking of state information to Epstein.

Starmer claimed he was deeply frustrated by the Met’s decision. Yeah, right. But then he claimed that he accepted it because releasing the Mandelson files might rob Epstein’s victims of justice for Epstein’s crimes. Exposing Starmer’s decision to ignore Mandelson’s ardour for the child-rapist poses zero threat to the US investigation into Epstein’s crimes against children and young women.

It was an appalling, disgusting, entirely cynical ploy

And then, out of nowhere, Starmer began attacking the hundreds of thousands of people who march against Israel’s genocide. He repeated the Israel lobby’s lie that marching against genocide makes UK Jews scared. Nonsense. UK Jews are front and centre of every march and rally — so much so, that the BBC and others have to hide them. Leaving them in would expose that lie and the lie that all Jews support Israel, you see.

To reinforce his smear, Starmer reminded his listeners that Jews suffered the UK’s most recent terror attack. He left out that the Jewish casualties at the Manchester synagogue attack were shot by armed police. Also left out that the people of Palestine continue to suffer daily terrorist attacks by Israel — including many bombed and burned this week. Also ‘forgot’ to mention the 1.5m Palestinians starving and freezing in Gaza under Israel’s blockade. He ‘forgot’ to mention that the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ is a sick joke. He ‘forgot’ to mention that Israeli extremists are attacking Palestinians in the West Bank and burning their homes.

Of course he did. Starmer is too determined to criminalise pro-Palestinian speech and protest. He is holding anti-genocide protesters in prison without trial, arresting grannies for opposing genocide. He sends his lawyers to try to ensure journalists who support Palestinian rights and freedom are locked up.

And he doesn’t give a flying you-know-what for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein beyond their usefulness to keep the Mandelson files hidden. To anyone watching closely, he made that perfectly clear.

Watch below:

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Jeffrey Epstein and the far-right figures around him wanted to push US war with China. And elitist bigotry was very much part of this.

Today, the US Cold War against China is escalating, particularly in Latin America. But with Donald Trump trying to assert US dominance and reduce Chinese influence in the region, he’s also been showing the world his clear disdain for international law.

And as past chats between Trump associates Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon show, that’s not the only disdain within these circles of power.

From Epstein to Vance — a swamp of racism and classism

The idea that a Global South nation could become an economic superpower within decades clearly causes discomfort among Western white supremacist elites. In particular, it has increasingly exposed US decadence, amid extreme militarisation, growing wealth inequality, and political capture by misanthropic billionaires.

The first Trump administration didn’t just further empower racists. Its public demonisation of China also coincided with increasing hate crimes against Asian communities in the US.

Epstein and Bannon — both millionaires — referred to the Chinese government as “peasants”. And current US vice-president JD Vance has said the same thing. (Vance rose to prominence thanks to billionaire Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, who also appears in the Epstein files.)

Interestingly “peasants” to describe the Chinese is the exact same term that JD Vance used 👇🤔pic.twitter.com/Wl0N8CinRJ

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) February 3, 2026

Other messages from Epstein snootily suggested a lack of civilisation and intelligence, while encouraging a “military display” to show China who’s boss.

As Jacobin wrote back in 2019, Epstein’s racism and classism was:

a case study of the abuses and pathologies inherent to extreme wealth

And the hot topic in these circles was clearly China, and how to defeat it. It was the enemy, Epstein said, and he wanted the US to treat it as a “piñata”. He also suggested working with far–right Indian leader Narendra Modi on the “China problem“.

One step China has been taking in Latin America was to build links through investment, which could aid access to resources and markets. And Epstein noted in particular the importance of China’s support in Venezuela, with its massive oil resources.

This is where we come up to the current day, with Epstein’s old friend in the White House taking steps in Venezuela and elsewhere to try and push out Chinese influence.

Trump’s campaign to stop countries dealing with China

The US, under both Republicans and Democrats, didn’t like China — its main global competitor economically — forging links in Latin America. But Trump has gambled that China won’t get into a full-blown war to protect its interests in the region. And in Venezuela, he seemed to be right.

China had invested a lot in Venezuela. But when the US illegally invaded the country in January 2026 to abduct its leader, there was no meaningful response from China. Trump made it clear this military action was to try and replace Chinese influence in Venezuela with US influence. And China may now struggle to recover billions from the country.

Trump has essentially said the same about Cuba. Cutting the island’s access to Venezuelan oil was the first step. But the big picture is to challenge China in the region. Because Cuba has also received Chinese investment, and the ambassador there has even called Cuba:

a model for China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean

As with Venezuela, China has expressed its concern about US efforts to strangle Cuba. But the question is, would it actually challenge US military action there?

Elsewhere in Latin America, Trump’s behind-the-scenes pressure has been enough to get what the US wants.

Panama, for example, had also received Chinese investment. But the country has now left China’s Belt and Road Initiative (which also included Venezuela, Cuba, and others) and has just annulled port contracts with a Hong Kong company that has been operating at the Panama Canal for decades.

Could Trump’s bullying backfire, though?

Billionaires, imperialists, colonial war criminals, and the far right have worked hard across the West to develop a powerful, toxic alliance. Trump is part of this, just as Epstein was. But by actually turning on his usually compliant allies, he may actually have weakened their commitment to the project he’s heading.

There are many legitimate criticisms of China’s government, from death penalty numbers to poor treatment of certain groups. And Western propaganda outlets are all too quick to amplify these more than the crimes of Western allies. But in comparison to Trump’s shameless and openly predatory behaviour, China is looking more and more like the ‘adult in the room’.

Trump may plead with allies not to cosy up to China, but even junior partners to US imperialism in Canada and the UK have recently been hedging their bets by improving relations. And as Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has said:

I used to advocate that Western leaders should publicly condemn China on human rights. But today I have completely changed my view. The West is not even qualified to criticise China.

China itself, meanwhile, is presenting itself as a safer pair of hands for the global economy. President Xi Jinping, for example, wants the country’s currency to “become a global reserve currency” and has criticised the greedy disconnection of Western financial markets, calling for an alternative that can:

avoid the Western predicament of financial oligarchs hijacking public policy and deepening social division.

And with the rule of racist, classist sex-offenders in the West becoming more and more obvious, that argument certainly sounds appealing.

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Keir Starmer’s Number 10 is refusing to say whether new peer — and ‘Labour Friend of Israel’ member — Matthew Doyle ended his friendship with paedophile former ‘Labour rising star‘ Sean Morton after Morton’s conviction. The PM’s office is also refusing to say what Starmer knew about the status of the pair’s friendship before Doyle was made a peer last month.

The 2018 conviction

Morton is a Scottish former Labour councillor convicted in 2018 of counts of possessing serious child sexual abuse images and extreme pornography. He was placed on the sex offenders register and, in another example of light sentencing of Labour paedophiles, made to do 140 hours of community service.

The questions come as Starmer admitted this week to knowing about Peter Mandelson’s ongoing, ardent relationship with serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer knew about it when he appointed Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US. He must also have known about Mandelson’s insider-trading with Epstein.

It’s already a matter of record that Starmer gave Doyle the peerage despite knowing Doyle campaigned for Morton’s election after Morton had been charged. The refusal to deny it also strongly suggests that Doyle continued the friendship after conviction — and that Starmer knew. It suggests it so strongly that even liberal Zionist Gabriel Pogrund finds the silence “weird”. Pogrund said that:

This is getting weird now

In response to @TomTugendhat, Darren Jones doesn’t even acknowledge question re Lord Doyle

PM/McSweeney warned about his links to paedophile Sean Morton, so ordered investigation before peerage approved

Yet zero info on what it found, inc when… https://t.co/lNmsewhBbb pic.twitter.com/x6iGMC4a3c

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) February 3, 2026

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As well as being another example of Starmer appointing friends of paedophiles, the Doyle-Morton case is the latest in Labour’s long list of Zionist child abusers. Former Blair and Starmer adviser Doyle is a member of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), the Israel lobby group connected with Israeli embassy cash and anti-Palestinian racism. He has also been a listed speaker at events held by notorious lobby group BICOM.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is under pressure to kick MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy out of the party altogether for her friendship with Sean Morton. Duncan-Glancy resigned her front-bench position and said she will not seek re-election, calling the friendship a “serious lapse in professional judgment”. Right. Sarwar appears no better than Starmer, but Duncan-Glancy at least fell on her sword.

But all this is just the tip of a very large nonceberg of the overlap between paedophilia and ‘Labour’ support for Israel.

Starmer about to hit the Nonceberg

Starmeroid MP Dan Norris’s recent arrest for rape was his second on suspicion of sex offences. The first, in 2025, was for alleged rape and paedophilia and is still under investigation. As we’ve seen, Starmer’s mentor and chief adviser Peter Mandelson resigned over his notorious links with serial child rapist and Israeli agent Jeffrey Epstein. In early January, Israel fanatic Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) organiser Liron Velleman admitted child sex offences.

We’re just getting started.

In January last year, former Blair minister Ivor Caplin was arrested in a sting operation as he allegedly attempted to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex. Local police went after local left-winger Greg Hadfield for exposing the explicit content Caplin posted on his X feed – Hadfield defeated the ‘vexatious’ charge in November 2025. However, no charges have yet been brought against Caplin and a court did not impose bail conditions after his initial bail expired. Despite the ongoing police investigation, Caplin was recently invited to speak on LBC about Keir Starmer’s move to block Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham’s bid to stand in a parliamentary election.

There’s more

Hackney councillor Tom Dewey, an organiser in pro-Israel group ‘Labour First’, admitted possession of the most serious category of child rape images in 2023. The party knew of his arrest when it allowed him to stand for election. After his conviction, it blocked local women members from its systems to prevent them discussing the case.

And in March 2025 Sam Gould, who worked for Starmer’s health secretary Wes Streeting, quit as a Redbridge councillor after being convicted on two separate counts of indecent exposure to a 13-year-old girl.

The LFI/JLM paedophile issue mirrors the even wider issue in Israel itself. The regime is currently ignoring well over 2,000 extradition requests for alleged and convicted paedophiles. In April 2025, Shoshana Strook, the daughter of Israel’s far-right settlements minister fled to police and asked them to protect her, accusing both her parents and one of her brothers of raping her as a child, over a period of years, and filming the rapes.

Jewish anti-Zionist academic Norman Finkelstein says Israeli society is “rotten to the core”. That sickness doesn’t stop at the border.

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Mass arrests by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are overwhelming the US court system in Minnesota.

The Trump administration’s massive deportation spree in Minnesota – pompously titled ‘Operation Metro Surge’ – created a corresponding surge in emergency legal cases. This left courts so short-staffed that several top lawyers quit outright. Still others have voiced their intention to follow suit in recent weeks.

The Minnesota US attorney’s office stated that:

The Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in this district has been utterly overwhelmed by the number of recent habeas petitions in Minnesota, during a time when the Office is short staffed.

ICE flouting orders

Justice Department records show massive numbers of legal violations by ICE, including violations of judges’ orders, illegal arrests, and botched court filings.

Minnesota judges are particularly alarmed at defiance from Homeland Security and their Justice Department counterparts in Washington. In particular, ICE is regularly flouting orders to bring their detainees before a judge when ordered – a legal right and duty known as habeas corpus.

Politico described one situation in which:

In one recent case, ICE arrested a man with no criminal record who was residing legally in Minnesota on a rare “T” visa, meant for victims of a severe form of human trafficking or who aided law enforcement in a trafficking investigation. A day after a magistrate judge inquired about the case, the Justice Department said it should be dismissed because the man had been released. Four days later, however, DOJ sent a cryptic filing misidentifying the man as “she” and suggesting he had been relocated to a detention facility in El Paso.

DOJ then blew off the deadline to clarify what had occurred, leading the judge to conclude that “ICE transferred Petitioner from Minnesota to Texas without notice and indeed, from this record it appears that even [DOJ] may not have known about the transfer.”

‘Broken system’

Underscoring the depths of the crisis, on Tuesday 2 February, a judge asked prosecutor Julie Le why his federal court orders were being ignored by ICE. Le, in apparent distress, said:

The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need.

She went on to add that:

Sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.

Le argued that ICE officials simply ignore her and other Justice Department lawyers when they tell them to obey the courts. Even simple inquiries went completely unanswered, and Le’s threats of legal repercussions made no impact.

The prosecutor branded the situation a “broken system”, and even revealed that she’d tried to quit – but there was no-one ready to replace her.

Open authoritarianism

However, Trump’s team are denying their responsibility for the situation. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), tried to blame the judges themselves for the crisis:

The Trump administration is more than prepared to handle the legal caseload necessary to deliver President Trump’s deportation agenda for the American people. It should come as no surprise that more habeas petitions are being filed by illegal aliens — especially after many activist judges have attempted to thwart President Trump from fulfilling the American people’s mandate for mass deportations.

This line of reasoning is severely faulty. It is a court’s role, when necessary, to determine the legality of an individual’s actions. If the state could ignore a habeas petition on the grounds of an individual being “illegal”, it could simply declare anybody illegal without trial.

This is both clearly a monstrous abuse of power, and precisely what the Trump administration is doing.

A Justice Department spokesperson likewise blamed “rogue judges” for the massive increase in detention cases. They argued that without the judges rulings, there wouldn’t be any “concern over DHS following orders.”

That is to say, if the judges didn’t demand that ICE follows the law, there would be no issue. Again, an openly authoritarian proclamation.

Shock and awe

The fact that Minnesota’s courts are overwhelmed is not a glitch in the system. It’s not a result of the Justice Department being understaffed, or – God forbid – ICE being under-resourced. Rather, this overwhelm is part of the plan.

Trump has always relied on shock and awe tactics. He perpetrates as many open crimes and heinous violations of basic human decency as quickly as possible, such that his opponents barely have time to muster a reaction before the next onslaught.

Because the courts are overwhelmed, ICE and the Trump administration can act with impunity. The administration has said outright that if it’s allowed to break the law, then there won’t be any issues. It intends to break the law; it intends to ignore basic legal rights; it intends to deport anyone it sees fit. This was always the plan.

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