WATCH: Stephen Miller Says Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Have Incited an Insurrection
January 18, 2026
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has accused Minnesota Democratic leaders of orchestrating an “insurrection” by protecting criminal illegal immigrants and allowing violent mobs to obstruct federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.
Miller discussed the issue during an appearance on Saturday’s episode of Fox News’ My View with Lara Trump.
Minneapolis has been plagued with protests and riots since December, when ICE agents began a massive operation in the city.
The riots have been escalating in severity since the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent as she plowed her car into him earlier this month.
Miller placed the blame for the chaos and violence directly on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
“Foreign illegals who rape children… are protected at every level by Minnesota leadership,” Miller stated during the interview.
Miller continued, “When ICE goes to arrest them, they unleash violent mobs to attack and impede officers!”
He described the actions of Walz, Frey, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison as a deliberate “violent insurrection” against federal immigration enforcement.
Miller argued that allowing cities and states to nullify federal immigration laws undermines the republic, accusing the leaders of inciting “outside agitators” to violence.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Stephen Miller publicly accuses Tim Walz and Mayor Frey of INSURRECTION
“Foreign illegals who R*PE children… protected at every level by MN leadership. When ICE goes to arrest them, they unleash violent MOBS to attack and impede officers!” pic.twitter.com/CcgpPaoU3k
During the riot on Wednesday evening, militants reportedly destroyed multiple ICE agent cars, stealing items, vandalizing them, and even breaking into an agent’s gun box in the street.
“Anti-ICE rioters tied a TOW ROPE to a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and RIPPED IT OUT with a pickup truck, as Minneapolis PD REFUSED to respond,”
BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters tied a TOW ROPE to a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and RIPPED IT OUT with a pickup truck, as Minneapolis PD REFUSED to respond
President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if state leaders continue to “obstruct” ICE operations, but has not done so as of Saturday evening.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump wrote a post on Truth Social on Thursday.
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January 18, 2026
Burma’s Conscription Law: Destroying Education and Accelerating Brain Drain
January 18, 2026
Students helping to build a new dormitory. Photo by Antonio Graceffo
The Burma (Myanmar) military junta activated its conscription law on February 10, 2024, requiring men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27 to serve in the military. Professionals, including doctors, engineers, and technical specialists, can be conscripted up to age 45 for men and 35 for women.
Those conscripted are required to serve a minimum of three years. This includes educated adults with engineering, medical, and technical skills, further draining Burma’s already collapsing education and professional sectors.
Conscription means serving a junta that seized power in 2021 by overthrowing the elected government and arresting pro-democracy leaders. It also means being forced into a civil war in which as much as 80 percent of the population opposes military rule.
For ethnic minorities, who make up roughly 40 percent of the population, conscription is especially devastating. It means being ordered to participate in widespread atrocities, including murder, rape, and the burning of villages, directed against their own families and communities.
The International Labour Organization estimates hundreds of thousands have fled Burma to escape conscription since February 2024. Fear of being drafted drove so many young men to flee to Thailand in 2024 that they set a record for the highest annual number of undocumented Burma migrants to arrive in Thailand. The International Organization for Migration estimates over 4 million Burma migrants live in Thailand, about half of whom are undocumented. In addition to the personal hardship, they face as undocumented aliens in Thailand, separated from their families, the conscription law is decimating Burma’s education system.
At the beginning of the revolution, thousands of students walked away from junta-run universities and schools as part of the civil disobedience movement. Many shifted to alternative education options, including community-run higher education institutions in ethnic minority areas and online programs. The conscription law, however, made it unsafe for them to remain in Burma while completing these programs.
As a result, the Thailand Education Fair held in April 2024 saw overwhelming attendance, and the November 2024 fair was extended to two days as attendance doubled. Students whose families can afford it, or who secure scholarships, are fleeing to study at Thai universities. As Burma’s economy collapses, however, this option has become increasingly out of reach. Annual tuition of roughly $3,000 represents about two years’ salary for Burmese families fortunate enough to still have employment.
The law has exacerbated a brain drain that was already causing young people to leave Burma, impacting education and the labor market.
The United States Agency for International Development funding freeze suspended the Development and Inclusive Scholarship Program, affecting more than 400 Burma students pursuing degrees in the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Inside Burma, parents are pulling children out of school and sending them to neighboring countries to look for work, driven by fear of conscription. Both inside Burma and across the region, child labor violations involving children aged 12 to 16 have increased as youth fleeing the country or joining resistance forces have created labor shortages.
The crisis extends beyond students. Teachers and professors have either fled to the jungle to join the resistance or escaped the country altogether in search of work. As a result, educated adults and former professionals now find themselves in Thailand and other countries working as day laborers alongside young people who fled before finishing university, or in many cases, even high school.
Students helping to build a new dormitory. Photo by Antonio Graceffo
For a growing number of Burmese students whose education was interrupted, the American GED exam has become a last remaining option. Numerous small-scale programs, many of them faith-based, have emerged in Thailand, offering free preparatory courses, with some even providing meals or housing for undocumented Burmese youth. Completing the GED, however, can feel like a hollow achievement for students who cannot afford to continue on to university.
About 100,000 Burmese in Thailand qualify as official refugees and are able to live in UN-sponsored camps where they receive food, housing, and access to education. However, they have little freedom to leave the camps or to work. These camps are generally designated for specific ethnic groups, but the Shan people, one of the largest ethnic minorities from Burma, have no such UN-recognized camp.
Instead, many Shan live in an unofficial settlement known as Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp, located along the Thai–Burma border. While official camps often house thousands or even tens of thousands of people, Koung Jor is home to only a few hundred. Residents live without UN support and under an ambiguous legal status, fearing deportation at any time. Because they lack official status, they are not authorized to work.
Though grim, the camp represents the lesser of two evils. Life there is defined by a combination of insecurity, poverty, and legal uncertainty, yet it is still preferable to remaining in Burma, where families were subjected to airstrikes and other atrocities, and teenagers were being seized by the junta’s army and forced to fight.
Inside the camp, a boarding house provides shelter for orphans and children who fled as unaccompanied minors. The facility has been operating for more than 20 years and is supported by non-governmental organizations with very limited funding. Although the Shan are the predominant group in the camp, the boarding house serves children from multiple ethnic backgrounds, including Shan, Lahu, and Lisu.
The school survives through private donations and limited NGO support and maintains a long waiting list, as desperate parents seek a safe place for their children to live and study. Sai Bee, a 40-year-old Shan man who oversees the school, said he was hopeful that after months of scrambling to secure additional donor funding and discounted construction materials, they were finally able to expand the school and its dormitories. He explained that during school holidays, the children help with the construction work, which kept construction costs down.
When asked why he continues to accept more children despite the severe limitations in shelter space and funding, Sai Bee replied, “When these children come seeking help with tears in their eyes, it is very difficult to ignore them or turn them away.”
Two of the boys helping with the construction are Sai Harn Khur, a 17-year-old Shan boy, and Sai Lao Kham, 16. Both are originally from Na Kong Moo village in Mong Ton Township, eastern Shan State, near the border with Thailand’s Chiang Mai Province. When asked why they came, both said the situation at home had become unsafe. In addition to the dangers of the war, their parents feared they would be conscripted.
Although the law sets the minimum age at 18, it is not unusual for boys as young as 14, or even younger, to disappear and never return home. Parents later learn that their sons were forcibly recruited. In many cases, agents ambush, deceive, or drug boys and then sell them to the army to collect a bounty. Desperate parents are therefore looking for any way to get their children, especially boys, out of the country.
Both boys said they were grateful for the boarding house because it allows them to live in safety while continuing their education. However, this also means they will likely be separated from their parents for years, possibly for the rest of their lives, as returning to areas controlled by the regime would be unsafe.
Because of the years of education they missed in Burma and the language barrier, newly arrived Burmese children are typically placed in much lower grades. Although Sai Harn Khur and Sai Lao Kham had completed grades 10 and 9 respectively in Burma, they were admitted into grade three, primary school, in Thailand’s education system.
Many undocumented Burmese in Thailand are effectively stateless. The only way for them to obtain a passport would be to return to Yangon, Burma’s former capital, and apply through a government office, where they would almost certainly face arrest or forced conscription. As a result, their future remains deeply uncertain.
For Sai Harn Khur and Sai Lao Kham, perseverance may allow them to complete high school. Beyond that, no clear path exists. Every displaced Burmese person carries some hope of returning home after the war, yet the conflict has continued in some form since 1948, with little indication it will end anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the best and brightest, the youngest and most capable, continue to pour across the border, draining the country of the very population needed to rebuild it.
PURE PROJECTION: Gavin Newsom Says ‘Trump is Trying to Stoke a Civil War’ (VIDEO)
January 17, 2026
Screencap of Twitter/X video.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is now accusing President Trump of trying to ‘stoke’ a civil war. Democrats sure are good at projection, aren’t they?
All Trump is trying to do is clean up the mess created by Joe Biden’s open border and deport the millions of people who illegally entered the country. Trump is following United States immigration laws.
What is Gavin Newsom’s party doing? They’re rioting in the streets, harassing and attacking ICE agents, and threatening people. Who is really trying to stoke a civil war? It’s the left, and Newsom knows it.
Gov. Newsom: Donald Trump Wants ‘Civil War’ for ‘White Supremacy’
President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security are trying to start a civil war for “white supremacy,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters as Democrats escalate their rhetoric to prevent the enforcement of federal law in Democrat-controlled Minnesota.
“He’s trying to stoke a Civil War in this country,” he said, adding:
It’s a disgrace what he’s doing in Minneapolis. It’s a disgrace what his DHS [Department of Homeland Security] is putting out. Very intentionally stoking tensions. White supremacy being promoted. None of this is normal and it cannot be normalized.
Roughly 700,000 Americans — and the sitting President — were killed in the U.S. Civil War. That is the equivalent of six million dead in the United States’ 2026 population of roughly 320 million.
Newsome is already running for the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination and is trying to build support among the party’s chaotic array of diverse, pro-migration activists. Newsom did not explain why the enforcement of the nation’s border laws encourages “white supremacy.”
Here’s the video:
Donald Trump is trying to stoke a civil war in America.
This is all about Gavin Newsom’s political ambitions. He is running for president in 2028 and everyone knows it. He has to get out in front of this and signal to the left that he is on their side, but as is typical with Newsom, it comes off as so slimy and inauthentic.
Michael Shellenberger on ICE Protests: ‘The Left is Getting People Killed’ (VIDEO)
January 17, 2026
Michael Shellenberger with Jesse Watters – Screencap of YouTube video.
Writer and political analyst Michael Shellenberger appeared on the Jesse Watters show this week to talk about the unhinged anti-ICE protests and the consequences of them.
He correctly points out that the left is getting people killed, case in point, Renee Good in Minnesota. Democrat leaders are whipping their mob up into a frenzy and it’s costing lives.
Shellenberger also makes a great point about these protests being anti-democracy, the very thing that the left constantly claims to care about. The people of America voted for this, but the left doesn’t care. Like spoiled children, they just want their own way, right now.
WATTERS: Founder of Public News, Michael Shellenberger.
I mean, Mike, did you see Wolf Blitzer? It’s like day 10 of this, and he still thinks this woman was just randomly caught in traffic after dropping her six-year-old off at school?
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, FOUNDER, “PUBLIC NEWS”: Hey, Jesse, it’s good to be with you.
Look, I think left is getting people killed at this point. There’s no other way to say it. I mean, these are not difficult issues, legally, morally. The public voted for a president who is implementing his policies, it’s undemocratic to halt the implementation of those policies, which is what is happening.
A year ago, we were talking about the left setting Teslas on fire. Obviously, between then and now, Charlie Kirk was murdered, the radicalization of the left is ongoing here.
I mean, Renee Good, the woman that was killed, is a victim of all this herself. She’s in the grip of a delusion. Her partner afterwards said that she couldn’t believe that they were using real bullets. They’re not in reality. They’re in some total fantasy universe.
They imagine they’re fighting Nazis. They don’t understand that a majority of their fellow Americans, you know, voted to implement the policies that ICE is implementing, and they imagine the police would use fake bullets.
I mean, it’s a dangerous moment, Jesse. I hope this will finally serve as a wake-up call to the left, because, yes, they’re getting people killed. It’s as simple as that.
Watch the clip below:
Michael @shellenberger: The Left Is Getting People Killed
“I think the left is getting people killed at this point. There’s no other way say it… Renee Good… is a victim of all this herself. She is in a group of a delusion. Her partner afterwards said that she couldn’t… pic.twitter.com/KOagDpsZI9
The worst part is that it seems like the left wants people to be harmed. You get a very real sense that they are actively looking for their new George Floyd.
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