The Prestigious Left-Wing Money Machines That Fund the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota
Plus, Trump tells Iranian protesters ‘HELP IS ON THE WAY’ while shutting door on diplomacy with Tehran
Left-wing activists in Minneapolis are targeting ICE with a highly organized on-the-ground harassment and tracking operation, complete with hotel and license plate lists, “noise demonstrations,” and training on how to “stop ICE.” The extremist groups at the forefront of this operation have received millions of dollars from the left’s most powerful money machines, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
At the center is the Sunrise Movement, which has shifted from climate activism into anti-ICE agitation in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Sunrise operatives on the ground in the Twin Cities are circulating lists of hotels housing ICE agents and coordinating late-night disruption campaigns—often involving noisemakers—aimed at coercing hotels and other local businesses into refusing to serve ICE personnel. Sunrise has received $2 million from Open Society since 2019, $150,000 from Ford in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, and $250,000 from MacArthur in 2024, according to grant databases and tax filings.
Sunrise Twin Cities works alongside two other local groups—Unidos MN and Defend the 612—known for “rapid response” efforts in which activists are dispatched to the scene of ICE activity. Both maintain ties to MN ICE Watch, a covertly maintained Instagram page that posts training slides calling on its followers—a group that reportedly included Renee Good’s wife—to block, push, and otherwise obstruct officers making an arrest. Unidos received $400,000 from Ford in 2024 and $150,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, while Defend the 612 fundraises through a Minneapolis-based “social and environmental justice” nonprofit that has received funding from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Donald Trump signaled Tuesday that diplomacy with Iran is dead—at least for now. Trump said he had “cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials” until the regime stops killing protesters. He also urged those protesters to “TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” and promised, “HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!!” In various remarks to the press on Tuesday, he also threatened military action against Iran if the regime continues killing protesters. His statements amounted to the most explicit encouragement yet of anti-regime action since protests began.
The regime in Tehran has taken a two-pronged approach as it faces the most serious threat to its power in many years. On the one hand, Iran’s rulers have reportedly floated negotiations with the United States over the country’s obliterated nuclear program in an attempt to deter another American strike. On the other, Iranian officials are openly mocking Trump, with one calling him someone who “talks too much,” another branding him a “delusional gambler,” and a former diplomat warning that Iran may launch an attack that would “discipline these bullies.” An Iranian cultural council member went as far as to suggest an operation against Trump akin to the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Trump’s statements come as the president weighs military options on Iran that reportedly include targeted strikes and cyber operations. Former NSC official Richard Goldberg argued the regime’s mockery is a sign of panic. “Khamenei is fighting for the survival of the Islamic Republic at this point,” he told our Adam Kredo. “It’s not so much calling Trump’s bluff—it’s a maniacal captain willing to go down with the ship and taking thousands of Iranian civilians with him. The old tricks aren’t working, the propaganda, disinformation and phony offers of diplomacy don’t work on Trump—and now Iran has no air defense and no nuclear program to threaten.”
New York University is scrubbing all traces of Zohran Mamdani’s left-wing extremist “tenants’ rights” czar, Cea Weaver, from its website as her anti-white and anti-homeownership remarks boomerang into public view. NYU quietly deleted the webpage for a fall 2025 class Weaver taught—“Community Organizing + Advocacy Skills”—after she faced questions over online posts calling private property a “weapon of white supremacy,” urging officials to “impoverish the white middle class,” and declaring that “homeownership is racist.” When reporters confronted her last week about those comments—and the inconvenient fact that her mother owns a $1.6 million house in Nashville—Weaver reportedly burst into tears.
That’s not to say NYU is embarrassed by its affiliation with Weaver, who has “paused” her teaching at the prestigious private university in order to focus on her government post, according to NYU sociology professor Gianpaolo Baiocchi, who worked with Weaver and served on Mamdani’s transition team. Baiocchi told the Free Beacon that the page about her class was removed to protect Weaver from “harassment.”
Archived versions of the course page remain online. They show a class centered on “community organizing as a theory of change” that aimed to teach students “powerful tactics that move your targets.” But there didn’t appear to be much teaching—the course had no public syllabus or reading materials and only met over two Saturdays in November.
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The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears likely to uphold state laws barring biological men from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. In one viral moment from Tuesday’s oral arguments, Justice Samuel Alito pressed an ACLU lawyer arguing against the laws to define what it means to be a man or a woman. The attorney had no definition.
The Trump administration designated three of the Muslim Brotherhood’s largest branches in the Middle East as terrorist groups, unveiling long-awaited sanctions aimed at financially crippling the Islamist organization, which is responsible for fomenting violence against the United States and its allies.
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Look, I was no fan of weaponizing the government against civilians or former officials who don't want to talk to Congress. Count me in a long list of folks who don't want to associate with those benighted 'eathens, much less serve as a backdrop for certain glory hounds robbing us blind while focusing their alleged 'work' day on calling people names and reciting bumper stickers instead of inquiring into relevant information or facts. But the last administration put people in jail, for months, over "defying" subpeonas. Billary* should be referred for prosecution, and the DoJ can decide. But referrals are a minimum response in context of the last 20 years.
*Honestly, I'd love never to hear of, about, or from either repellent entity, ever again. He looks like death warmed over, and she looked worse until she started shooting up with ozempic or the blood of virgins and/or the ashes of Dorian Gray's portrait.
Ty for this info!! We need to bankrupt and incarcerate the leaders of these anarchist organizations and the rich horrendous people behind these shady organizations!! Cowards like Ellison, Walz, Frey etc etc etc need to be locked up!! They all took massive kickbacks!! 💁🏻♀️