Democrats are 'alarmed' by one Tom Homan line in his big speech: journalist

[turbinetree]

By Matthew Chapman
Published January 29, 2026 10:10 AM ET

When President Donald Trump's border adviser Tom Homan spoke to the press about his plans for assuming control of the deteriorating situation in Minneapolis, he struck a balance between suggesting that a "draw down" is possible if local officials cooperate with him, and remaining adamant that the administration will not "surrender" to anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters.

One particular moment of the news conference, however, has Democrats particularly on edge, MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire said on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe."

"One last note about that Tom Homan news conference," he said. "A few Democrats have messaged me. One thing they found alarming was when he was asked by pretty partisan journalist, it would appear about the protesters, whether they've been organizing on WhatsApp or Signal and the like to interfere or observe ICE operations. And Homan said, yeah, we're monitoring that, and saying, quote, 'justice is coming.'"

https://www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-2675058359/

So Holman are you and your gang going into this phase of operation......you really sound like a third world hack, still like to know how you spent the $50,000 that was handed to you by the FBI...................ever read this book.........

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud

[dalton99a]

1. Homan is just a big fat version of Bovino

[turbinetree]

5. And just as corrupt, one hides behind a badge and the other one can't even get nominated for a job because

of his corruption..............he gets title from a "guy" that took classified documents and hid them on a toilet.........this country is screwed............

[Chasstev365]

2. And what are they prepared to about without "offending Republicans?"

Good God! Let's more than be "alarmed" by it!
"

[littlemissmartypants]

24. I'm just going to hide behind my protest sign. I guess... ok Tom?

[yellow dahlia]

3. He also said something along the lines of they are going to go after the money behind the agitators.

Are they gonna go to Staples and find out how bought poster board and Sharpies?

The local grass roots organizers handing out whistles?

The grass roots organizations providing printed and printable signs?

The PTA parents driving teachers to school?

The neighbors bringing food to peoples' homes?

Oh, and by the way - THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT AGITATORS!

These are people exercising their First Amendment rights and protecting their neighbors.

[littlemissmartypants]

23. Reminds me of the 1960s and "community organizers" during the civil rights movement...

Which somehow we let go by the wayside and nearly completely die. If we haven't actually been murdering it ourselves.

I'm sick of the me-me-me culture of constant skin care and influencers focusing only on themselves and striving to becoming billionaires.

Meanwhile, the billionaires want more and more and are killing our communities with the ammunition of their greed.

Bring back the hootenannys, I say!!!
That's what we need at the Kennedy Center!

Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
for Civil Rights

~Youngsters who began a hootenanny to raise funds for civil rights work in the South on Thursday in the Community Church Center continued it yesterday on the sidewalks of Boylston Street and raised 0 for their cause.

[ca. June 1964]

— (@2diamondeyes.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T18:12:08.254Z

Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
for Civil Rights

~Youngsters who began a hootenanny to raise funds for civil rights work in the South on Thursday in the Community Church Center continued it yesterday on the sidewalks of Boylston Street and raised $700 for their cause.

[ca. June 1964]

[FarPoint]

4. I often wonder....

Are they also monitoring DU?

[Duncan Grant]

13. There's no privacy on the internet, right?

Palantir, DARPA, …

[barbtries]

18. i expect they are.

not 24/7 by humans: they have AI scraping every little corner of the internet and pulling out key words. i think that is definitely happening.

We know from 2016 that russians are "on to us"

[CrispyQ]

29. Privacy is dead. We traded it for convenience.

Even now, knowing how invasive it is, would we give up our smartphones?

Here's a good starting place to improve your phone security. There's a section on burner phones, too, that people should read if their intent is to have a phone that isn't tracked to them, personally. How to buy it, how to activate it.

The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

[CaptainTruth]

39. Yes they are, absolutely.

That's why I use an alias here & don't post specific details about me.

[maxrandb]

6. Fuck Raw Story and the rest of the fucking media

I'm NOT "alarmed", are you?

Fuck the Nazi fucksticks attempts to intimidate.

Being "alarmed" would mean you would be "surprised", or "shocked" by ANYTHING this Nazi regime would do.

If you were "alarmed" by this, you're about 10 years late to the fight. Get off the sidelines.

If you didn't see this coming, you weren't paying attention.

So...DON'T be "alarmed".

"PISSED, ENGAGED, VIGILANT, DETERMINED, PREPARED, INFORMED and READY"?

Yeah, I am all of those, but "alarmed"?

Fuck that.

[CrispyQ]

36. I was alarmed back in 2015 when he announced he was running.

Even democratic friends told me I was overreacting. "He'll never win." When the Access Hollywood tape came out they told me again, "He'll never win." But he did.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. It was also about that time, at least before the pandemic, when I was at a reunion with the girls I grew up with

We've all grown up to be liberal Democrats. And I said to the others that I'd sooner vote for the next person who drives by rather than Trump. And they all agreed with me. *sigh*

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Ayatollah Time

Non-kinder gentler machine gun hand to mow down thousands at a time.

[Autumn]

8. Democrats are alrmed by one line he spoke ? WTF Every time I hear that fucker speaks he

scares the fuck out of me. There is no difference between him and Trumps other assholes. Their nastiness and lack of empathy is exactly why he picked them. He gets off on cruelty.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. That was NOT the only thing alarming in that debacle.

[MineralMan]

10. Yes. And he continued to try to blame it all on Biden.

So, nothing changes except the face. Now, we get to listen to "marbles-in-the-mouth Homan. Still lies and more lies.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Speech therapists are definitely having a big moment with this administration.

I'm seeing words like hypernasality (Bovino) and logorrhea (you know who) describing the speech skills of many of these winners of the MAGA lottery.

Brain damage is always my first thought when I see them.

[Duncan Grant]

11. Most annoying idea: Masked ICE agents believe they're victims.

God forbid these mfers coalesce into a private police force of hundreds of thousands…the atrocities will be invisible and countless. We’ll never know the scale of evil these f*ckers will perpetuate. F*ck ICE *and* their Magat enablers.

[Ferryboat]

12. Pegasus isnt brought up enough

Israeli Spyware. Tracks any phone number.
Used by the Saudis among others to arrest dissidents.

The phones we carry can be used to betray us. What will we do when it becomes obvious that it is indeed happening? Alternative means of communication need to be considered when the time comes.
FBI has capabilities to track every fax machine and copiers in the nation. Our dependence on tech is a weakness that should be addressed.

[Lonestarblue]

14. Israel developed Pegasus and has sold it to some of the most deviant governments to track and kill protesters.

I’m sure ICE and CBP have it. Such software should be illegal everywhere. Otherwise no one has privacy and can be targeted by rogue governments for execution.

[littlemissmartypants]

30. DUmail me your suggestions. Hunters use CB radios here where I live.

What else? Seriously.

[bpj62]

15. FBI is opening an investigation

Kash Patel just announced that the FBI is opening an investigation into the use of Signal and other secure communication applications by anti ice protestors. He stated that the apps are being used by the protesters to find and single out ICE agents for attack. I really want to be there when they ask for a search warrant with non existent evidence. My bet is that they will do it illegally because who is going to stop them.

[Melon]

22. It's always been possible. Signal groups have been infiltrated

The signal chats are coming out now on X.
The protester groups were infiltrated by counter protester and police individuals.

[bpj62]

16. FBI is opening an investigation

Kash Patel just announced that the FBI is opening an investigation into the use of Signal and other secure communication applications by anti ice protestors. He stated that the apps are being used by the protesters to find and single out ICE agents for attack. I really want to be there when they ask for a search warrant with non existent evidence. My bet is that they will do it illegally because who is going to stop them.

[littlemissmartypants]

31. Your reply accidentally double posted, bpj62.

But you also just reminded me of a post that I saw on Bluesky about... I'm going to look for it...

[orangecrush]

17. Why is it always Democrats who are "alarmed"?

It's long past time for these fuckers to be "alarmed".

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Exactly. We WAY OUTNUMBER them.

[tishaLA]

19. I worry that our lazy media will play along

If they use softer rhetoric, they'll behave as if what ICE is doing is perfectly reasonable, which will mean we have to be even more vigilant about observing them and documenting every instance of their excesses.

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Excellent points! ❤️

[MLWR]

20. Minneapolis had best not be willing to turn voter rolls over to the likes of Pam Bondi.

[bdamomma]

27. Pam Bondi

is another thug too!!!!! Stand up to these hacks!!!!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

34. What will they do with them? Does anyone know?

[Trueblue Texan]

21. Sounds very similar to...

"if the Left will allow it" rhetoric. Mr. Holman, the Left will NOT allow it.

[Fil1957]

25. The only reason anyone would be "alarmed" by what Homan said, is if they still have no idea what is happening in front

of their face. They may also think the Republicans and Maga are good faith negotiaters, and that they can cut some sort of a deal.

These unnamed Democrats have not been paying attention.

Wake up! Open your eyes! Do not listen to what the Maga Republicans say! Watch what they do!

This administration is in the process of trying to end democracy by ending free elections in the United States via ICE. They have to do this because it they lose power, many of them will go to prison.

They must be stopped and we cannot compromise on this issue, or we lose our country.

[bdamomma]

26. Homan

is a Nazi hack!!!!!! Just like Stephen Miller!!!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

37. And he's a man. I'm surprised Susie is still hanging in there. She

Must be getting some WHOPPING return on her investment (babysitter job) to still be there. Is Mel supplementing her income or paying her off, I wonder?

[2na fisherman]

35. "Justice Is Coming"

Homan said this because he is likely aware of some surveillance operations to target protesters who communicate with one another. Then they may more easily fabricate "conspiracy to obstruct" charges against them. We may soon see mass round-ups of regular citizens organizing gatherings to exercise their 1st amendment right to protest. And even though such "Trumped-up" charges against an "organized network of domestic terrorists" won't stick, there will be a media blitz of show trials designed to chill dissent.

[IcyPeas]

38. They are not "targeting criminals" !!!!!!!

I've yet to see them detain an actual gang member. They hold up pages saying this one is a murderer... etc. We know they lie.

They are not targeting individuals as they claim. If they are - show a warrant. Take off the masks. Take off all the war gear they wear.

THEY LIE.
THEY LIE

GET OUT OF MINNESOTA

[stage left]

40. The get out of the US

Russia can use some flunkies.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

41. Is "alarmed" stronger or weaker than "concerned?"

I'd ask Susan Collins, but she's not taking my calls.