Riots
May 30, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the UK Sun, Chaos erupts in Paris as cars ablaze & flares set off with riot cops arresting over 235 after Champions League final. As the UK Daily Mail reported earlier in the day, the rioters didn’t wait for the final result, Riots break out in Paris within minutes of Champions League final kicking off. If you don’t know, and you shouldn’t, the “Champions League” refers to a European-wide
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March 29, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, ‘No Kings’ protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn. The Post reports, No Kings demonstrations in Portland, Oregon got out of hand in the evening with protesters sporting gas masks attacking police officers who were trying to control the crowd, according to video posted on X by FreedomNews.tv. There was no immediate word on arrests. The
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February 11, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Joel Kotkin takes up a question that has lately been on many minds: “Why are young white women so angry?” He notes that the cities that are most violently left-wing are also the whitest: [T]hey remain predominantly white at a time when most big cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston – are roughly two-thirds non-white. White people represent 60pc of the populations of Minneapolis and Seattle, while in
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February 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Joe Thompson was the Assistant United States Attorney who prosecuted the Feeding Our Future cases and who led the investigation of fraud in other Minnesota welfare programs, with regard to which indictments are expected before long. He resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office last month and, we now see, has hung out a shingle as a criminal defense lawyer. His first client? Don Lemon: Just days after forming his own
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February 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon concisely deconstructs Don Lemon’s claimed First Amendment immunity to violate the law. There is no such immunity. The only question is whether Lemon’s conduct in connection with the Cities Church riot violated the law: “Whether you’re a journalist or not, you can’t break into a church. You can’t make children cry. You can’t prevent parents from getting to their children in Sunday school to rescue
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February 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
My friend and lodestar Victor Davis Hanson is back on the case. He returns with a few words about the battle of the Twin Cities: Victor Davis Hanson RETURNS: Surgery, Cancer Battle, and Minnesota’s ‘Hypocritical Insurrectionists’ There is “no coherent principle” to the left’s ongoing “utterly hypocritical” “insurrectionary movement” in Minnesota, argues Daily Signal senior contributor @VDHanson in his first post-surgery video appearance. Nearly five years ago, these same people
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February 4, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon continues its investigation of the Twin Cities anti-ICE riot brigades in “Anti-Israel Group That Stormed University of Minnesota Building Now Leads Illegal Anti-ICE Agitation” (“The school’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter is one of several far-left groups that have shifted their focus to ICE in recent weeks”). Jessica Costescu reports (links omitted): A University of Minnesota student group has emerged as a leader behind illegal—and
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February 4, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In yesterday afternoon’s Wall Street Journal Best of the Web column, James Freeman asks the question: “Who watches the ‘ICE watchers’?” The answer to Freeman’s question is Christina Buttons/City Journal. Another answer to the question is not the Star Tribune. That much I can tell you. I’m afraid Freeman would include the Star Tribune publisher, editors, reporters, and columnists among “the incurious media” to which he refers at the top
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February 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune has failed to cover the organized resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities, or the support of the DFL establishment for it. That is in part because the Star Tribune is itself a component of the DFL establishment. If you want to learn about the organized resistance, you have to go elsewhere, as I have done in several posts highlighting stories such as the Washington Free Beacon’s
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February 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Friends from around the country have asked me how Tim Walz could possibly think he could win a third term, with perhaps the worst record of any governor in American history, topped off with the $10 billion (my conservative estimate) Somali fraud. Simple, I would respond: he won’t say a word about his own record, and will run against President Trump. Eventually, the national Democrats got worried that Walz was
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February 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Well, we do, of course. But the New York Times disapproves: The Times disapproves of the language of war and wants “civil debate”? Great. I look forward to their denouncing everyone who says the Trump administration is fascist, or Trump is another Hitler. I can’t wait until they excoriate Tim Walz for musing about calling out the National Guard to battle ICE, or saying that Minnesota is “at war with
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January 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson
A Minnesota grand jury indicted nine defendants in the Cities Church riot. The indictment was unsealed yesterday. I posted a copy here. All defendants are charged with violation of the law against conspiracy to violate the civil rights of third parties and with violation of the FACE Act. The indictment specifies the statutory provisions in issue. Two of the defendants are journalists: Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. The fog machine
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January 30, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Jake Tapper has made the text of the indictment against Don Lemon et al. for their participation in the Cities Church riot accessible via the X post below. Lemon is not indicted as a journalist. He is indicted for his participation in the conspiracy to deprive the Cities Church worshipers of their First Amendment rights (Count I) and for violation of the FACE Act (Count II). The conspiracy count is
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January 30, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The first three defendants charged in the Cities Church riot were arrested under a criminal complaint approved by a magistrate judge. The magistrate judge did not approve five other charges for which probable cause was made out, in my opinion, by the underlying affidavit. That was also apparently the opinion of the United States Attorney for Minnesota and a Minnesota grand jury, which has now indicited Lemon. He was reportedly
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January 28, 2026 — Bill Glahn
In the street of Minneapolis, the Cold Civil War runs hot. I’ve begun collecting the stories of those arrested and charged with assaulting federal officers in the riots. Another batch made their first appearances today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. First up was a minor celebrity. Nasra Ahmed. you may recall, appeared on video extolling the wonders of bananas and rice and Somali culture in general. You can contribute
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January 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn
We are way beyond “protests” in Minneapolis and are into full-on, organized, professional insurgency, as Scott has noted. I recommend reading this entire X post on the subject. A former Green Beret writes, What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. They aren’t kidding. If/when the insurgents succeed in driving out the feds, they will next turn their
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January 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn
As the crisis rages in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with no relief in sight, I offer my proposed solution to ending the mayhem. As John points out, none of this unrest is occurring anywhere else in America, or any other city, other than Minneapolis. Gov. Tim Walz has proposed as a compromise solution that all federal law enforcement should leave the state, immediately, so that no federal laws will be enforced. In
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