Tea at Trianon: Turnabout in Minnesota

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Turnabout in Minnesota

From Tierney's Real News:

What happened next? 6 people in the US Attorney’s office in Minneapolis resigned because they said they don’t want to investigate Becca. Why not? Will it tie that office, or the Minnesota authories, back to the money laundering and fraud and violence? Of course it will! That tells you everything you need to know.
EVERY DEMOCRAT in Minneapolis is likely corrupt including the politicians, the US Attorneys, the MPD and the FBI!
PM: “Six federal prosecutors in Minneapolis resigned on Tuesday rather than conduct an investigation into Becca Good.”
On January 13, 2026, six career federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis resigned in protest.
Joe Thompson served as the acting U.S. Attorney of Minnesota and he led the office until Bondi replaced him with Daniel Rosen as U.S. attorney in Minneapolis in October.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was involved in Renee & Becca’s investigation for the US attorney’s office, was one of those who resigned in protest. (Read more.)