The use of a 5-year-old Minneapolis child who was grabbed off the street and used as bait to arrest his immigrant father by an ICE agent has set off a wave of outrage comparable to the shooting of 37-year-old mom Renee Good, which prompted a Hofstra law professor to warn the child's health and life are both at risk.

Appearing on MS NOW, legal expert James Sample grew emotional after host Chris Jansing put the photo of Liam Conejo Ramos up on the screen, wearing his blue bunny hat, and proceeded to rip into the Department of Homeland Security with a highly charged attack.

After it was pointed out that witnesses have blown apart ICE excuses for grabbing the child, who has already been moved to Texas, off the street, Sample told the host, “But let's focus not on narrative but on objective facts."

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“One objective fact right now is that Liam is in Texas; he's been transported from Minnesota to Texas. And you remember back in the Trump administration, 1.0, as far back as 2019, the Department of Justice lawyer Sarah Fabian made a lot of headlines by arguing in court that children detained in immigration detention facilities don't really need things like toothpaste and blankets.”

“The scenario here is, I mean, not only is Liam not the ‘worst of the worst,’ but think about and let's be clear, ICE has, in addition to unsanitary, unhygienic conditions for children, ICE has lost thousands of children over the last decade.”

“The inspector general report on the lost children of ICE is one of the most harrowing documents you will ever even cursorily review. It is terrifying,” he exclaimed.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Maine was captured on video adding an onlooker recording their activity to a supposed “database” of domestic terrorists, drawing alarm from political experts and journalists alike.

Uploaded to social media Friday by freelance reporter Nathan Bernard, a contributor to the Maine Morning Star, the video depicts an ICE agent approaching an onlooker filming their activity and proclaiming that it’s “not illegal to record.”

“Why are you taking my information down?” the recording onlooker can be heard saying.

“Because we have a nice little database,” the ICE agent is heard responding. “And now you’re considered a domestic terrorist!”

The recorded encounter drew swift condemnation among journalists and political experts, such as independent journalist Glenn Greenwald.

“Having armed, masked federal agents roam the streets and threaten American citizens that they're being put into a ‘database’ and are being deemed a ‘domestic terrorist’ for the crime of videotaping them should disgust everyone,” Greenwald wrote in a social media post on X Friday.

The recorded encounter is consistent with a joint FBI and Homeland Security memo leaked last year that broadened the definition of domestic violent extremists – the government’s stand-in phrase for domestic terrorists – to include protesters taking “advantage of First Amendment-protected activity,” which includes recording members of law enforcement.

First reported on by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, the leaked FBI-DHS memo further warned that so-called domestic terrorists had frequently “leveraged large, lawful protests” in “multiple cities,” sparking fears that lawful protesters could be classified as domestic terrorists under the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump has put the world on a trajectory toward a "crackup" that would be as predictable to the nation's founders as it was to ancient philosophers, according to a new column.

New York Times columnist David Brooks argued the world was in the midst of four unravelings – postwar international order, domestic tranquility, democratic order and the unspooling of Trump's mind – and he said the last one was driving all the others.

"Narcissists sometimes get worse with age, as their remaining inhibitions fall away," Brooks wrote. "The effect is bound to be profound when the narcissist happens to be president of the United States. Every president I’ve ever covered gets more full of himself the longer he remains in office, and when you start out with Trump-level self-regard, the effect is grandiosity, entitlement, lack of empathy and ferocious overreaction to perceived slights."

Trump has grown quicker to resort to violence in his second presidency, Brooks wrote, and he argued this tyrannical degradation should be familiar to ancient philosophers.

"Tyrants generally get drunk on their own power, which progressively reduces restraint, increases entitlement and self-focus and amps up risk taking and overconfidence while escalating social isolation, corruption and defensive paranoia," Brooks wrote. "I have found it useful these days to go back to the historians of ancient Rome, starting with the originals like Cato and Tacitus. Those fellows had a front-row look at tyranny, with case studies strewed before them — Nero, Caligula, Commodus, Domitian, Tiberius. They understood the intimate connection between private morals and public order and that when there is a decay of the former, there will be a collapse of the latter."

Trump's lust for power personifies their warnings from the past, wrote Brooks.

"Those historians were impressed by how much personal force the old tyrants could generate," he wrote. "The man lusting for power is always active, the center of the show, relentless, vigilant, distrustful, restless when anything stands in his way."

Trump's psychiatric crackup has seeded the destruction of the post-World War II international order, Brooks wrote, but he expressed confidence that the U.S. would avoid a Rome-style collapse.

"Our institutions are too strong, and our people, deep down, still have the same democratic values," wrote. "But I do know that events are being propelled by one man’s damaged psyche. History does not record many cases in which a power-mad leader careening toward tyranny suddenly regained his senses and became more moderate. On the contrary, the normal course of the disease is toward ever-accelerating deterioration and debauchery."