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Wm.son
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I'm Steven. CHARACTER MATTERS # Retired from # Healthcare career. # Progressive . Loathe, entirely, the current GOP. # Volunteer # Gardening # Caregiver # Food # Atheist # Puns # Equality # Quotes # Movies # Respect # FredRogers # TransRightAreHumanRights # Kindness
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Jan 29, 2026
#TFG #NOTUS
NOTUS news briefing---bloody hands pointing fingers:
The White House’s spin conundrum: Tom Homan is scheduled for his first press conference from Minneapolis this morning, after days of shifting messages from Donald Trump and top White House officials about the killing of Alex Pretti.
How we got here: Just before midnight Tuesday, the White House sent NOTUS’ Adora Brown an uncommon clarification on Stephen Miller’s statement that the federal agents who killed Pretti may not have been following “protocol.”
What he meant, the White House spox said, was that “officials would be examining why additional force protection assets may not have been present to support the operation.” You know, as opposed to saying that specific federal agents were violating any rules.
This administration is trying to untangle itself from CBP’s enforcement approach. The complication is that the agency’s approach is what the Trump administration said it wanted. Remember: “The mentality is CBP does what they’re told, and the administration thinks ICE isn’t getting the job done,” a DHS official said to NBC News in October. “So CBP will do it.”
“I think ultimately it’s unfair to the agents on the ground,” Tim Quinn, a former top CBP civilian official who left the job in May, told Jasmine. “You have this sort of situation where leadership at all levels is sending conflicting information and seems to be in conflict with each other,” he said of how the administration’s ongoing spin efforts are landing with agents.
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