IT IS WORKING.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

They’re afraid. Hit them harder.

“White House press secretary…seemed unusually defensive”

“avoided the kind of victim-blaming tirade that has become de rigueur for Donald Trump’s administration“

”called Pretti’s death a ‘tragedy’

“refused to endorse adviser Stephen Miller’s slander of Pretti”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-analysis-white-house-alex-pretti-minnesota

[wrosecrans@mstdn.social]

@inthehands Yup. They are looking for an exit strategy where they can minimally save face and claim some sort of "win" because they are obsessed with form over substance -- The important part of which is that they are looking for an exit.

That's pretty much it. They know they can't sustain how things are going, and they aren't getting anything out of trying. TACO. If you stand up to the bully, they eventually give up.

[alter_kaker@hachyderm.io]

@wrosecrans @inthehands very important to not give them any space to claim victory

[astropug@hachyderm.io]

@inthehands

Out of curiosity: does it make more sense to leave them a message or to talk to their staff

Edit: there is a group of us here that has never called (just emailed) and we wonder if there is an inside perspective on what is best.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@astroPug
Either, and either is better than email because it indicates a higher level of engagement.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@inthehands They should be afraid. We should keep them afraid. What happens when nazis stop being afraid? I have a Pretti Goode idea…

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

They’re afraid. Hit them harder.

“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”

“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”

“sudden demotion”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@inthehands Oh go hard now, kick them while they're down they just admitted failure

[finchhaven@sfba.social]

@inthehands

El Centro El Centro El Centro

Was Bovino the freak who took an entire attack squad of ICE goons up California a couple hundred miles to Bakersfield (think it was) to harass Hispanic farm laborers out in the fields, completely out of the blue, a year ago or so?

Thought I'd heard of him before...

So Bovino's not "retiring" he's returning to his original post / field of operations

"On Jan. 7 [2025], the day after Congress certified Trump’s election victory, Bovino sent 65 of his agents into Kern County, six hours north of the border, to conduct a raid that has shaken immigrant communities and agricultural businesses across the state, and has set the stage for a legal battle over how the government carries out mass deportations."

Here: https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/

Read that: exactly the same modus operandi and exactly the same wording he and Noem and the rest of them use right now

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@inthehands 😆🤣 Bovino, "commander-at-*large*"?!?!

I don't *want* to make a short joke. I really shouldn't. I'm trying not to.

But I just can't *be the bigger man*. 🤣🤣🤣

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

My latest calls included: “Fewer agents is not enough. More oversight is not enough. Demoting people is not enough. Destroy ICE and CBP. Wipe them out. Burn them, bury them, and salt the earth. Eradicate them like a cancer.”

[rubixhelix@kolektiva.social]

@inthehands yeah they are just gonna modulate down the overt nazi shit a tad.

bovino is probably going to become a permanent public fixture on the right.

people gonna say he wasnt fired, too

[finchhaven@sfba.social]

@rubixhelix

Yeah I doubt he'll retire

That's just a cover story to get attention off him for a while

These are *all* pathological liars

cc @inthehands

[carpetbomberz@mastodon.online]

Prosecute and put them in JAIL, no different than,...

1.) John Erlichman
2.) Charles Colson
3.) John Dean
4.) John Mitchell
5.) HR Haldeman
6.) E. Howard Hunt
7.) G.Gordon Liddy

Start the trials NOW ‼️

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@inthehands I hope he's evicted upon his return to El Centro, or slapped with ridiculously high HOA/property tax fees.

Better yet, I hope someone has burned down his house. Let him be humbled by the homelessness he fought so hard to brutalize.

Fuck him forever. I hope he doesn't have to be on planet Earth for much longer.

[crispius@mstdn.fname.ca]

@inthehands
Bovino belongs in prison, not heading off into a cushy retirement gig.

[taschenorakel@mastodon.green]

@inthehands Will Homan really be much of a difference? I only reason Bovino was sacked, I fear: I produced way too many "unfortunate" pictures. His terror was total in line with the regime's doctrine.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@inthehands Emailed all 3 of my reps today. Defund, abolish, impeach.