ICE Storm Is Coming
Written by Goro, January 23, 2026
It’s time. American Civil War… Neptune… Return.
How surreal that we are seeing exactly what we’ve long feared and right on time? Many outside of STR didn’t think this was a realistic possibility until as late as this year. Things are moving toward American Civil War 2.0. Doesn’t mean it will happen, but we can all see that it’s a real possibility now. (Imagine a Cat-5 hurricane headed directly toward us which may or may not make landfall.)
Jan 21 Simulation Found Civil War Could Be Triggered by Exactly What ICE Is Doing Right Now
Since 6 January, roughly 2,000 ICE agents have been deployed to Minnesota under the pretext of responding to a fraud investigation. In practice, these largely untrained and undisciplined federal agents have been terrorizing Minneapolis residents through illegal and excessive uses of force – often against US citizens – prompting a federal judge to attempt to place limits on the agency’s actions. The Trump administration is encouraging the lawlessness by announcing “absolute immunity” for ICE agents. But if the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, does not heed the court ruling, the consequences may be nothing short of civil war. […]
As public outrage grows, ICE has escalated its actions, increasingly engaging in what appear to be random acts of violence regardless of immigration status. Governor Walz has placed the Minnesota national guard on standby to support local law enforcement, while Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act – an extraordinary move that would grant him sweeping domestic military powers and potentially sidestep recent supreme court limits on the use of federal troops in law enforcement. One thousand additional ICE agents have been sent to Minnesota, suggesting that Trump is essentially using ICE as a specialized paramilitary force to target protesters and suppress dissent. And the Pentagon has readied the army’s 11th Airborne Division – roughly 1,500 active-duty soldiers – to back up the president’s threat.
This scenario closely mirrors one explored in an October 2024 tabletop exercise conducted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), which I direct, at the University of Pennsylvania. In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s national guard. When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces. The core danger we identified is now emerging: a violent confrontation between state and federal military forces in a major American city.
While our hypothetical scenario picked a different city and a slightly different sequence of events, the conclusions we reached about the possibility of green-on-green violence are directly applicable to the current situation.
Over the next few weeks we will see the intense effects of the Neptunian “as above, so below”, the only (first) American Civil War Neptune Return of the heliocentric sidereal kind. Difficult to see this one ending up a dud. We will feel it. We’re feeling it already.
ICE storm is coming…
Jan 23 More than half the US threatened with ice, snow and cold in massive winter storm
Jan 23 Thousands rally against ICE in Minneapolis amid below-zero temperatures
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