Chaos is a ladder.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

I'm thinking there's some stuff to be discovered that the 2A crowd won't like at all. Noem and Bovino came out very quickly with talking points aimed at explaining why an armed individual was killed. Did they prepare for that contingency?

This is the man ICE executed today. www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Good Lord, the shooting victim was a registered nurse at the VA.

Once this video and another one from reddit are synchronized it will become obvious that an agent unholstered his weapon and fired after the victim was disarmed. www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."

NEWSNATION: There's new video of a woman in MN saying she's trying to get to a doc appointment & federal agents bust into her car. Is it fair to say some of these operations are going too far? REP. MARY MILLER: If you break the laws & resist arrest, it's not going to be pretty. This is what happens

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

“A Maryland man is navigating two devastating blows to his family after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested his wife just days before their 15-year-old son’s death from cancer.” www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/12/t...

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Trump is clearly not well. At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

That was my takeaway too. She's clearly turning the wheel to her right. I've slowed the video down here.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

AP News photo clearly shows bullet hole in windshield that, based on the firing officer's stance, indicates he was aiming for a head shot. Source: apnews.com/article/minn...

This is the video.

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

ICE shoots pastor directly in face with flashbang grenade—from just 5 feet away. "I'm in a lot of pain," he said. "They clearly were aiming for my face." Rev. Jorge Bautista is the pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ in San Mateo.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Germany could have gotten rid of coal by 2023 if it hadn't shut down its nuclear power plants. The German nuclear phaseout (Atomausstieg) was decided in 2002, with the first plants shutting down in 2003 and 2005. After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the […] [Original post on greennuclear.online]

This kind of fell under the radar because this week has been insane. But....wow. www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

Some real Gilded Age stuff going on: Trump says Union Pacific's president urged him to send troops into Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago, which are all important interchange points between UP and Norfolk Southern, the railroad UP is attempting to buy out

A plurality of voters think nuclear plants should be publicly built, owned, and operated And they are right!!!! www.dataforprogress.org/memos/7/27/v...

Nukebros to the windbros

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

Worse than that. Read this EO carefully, it says anyone they see as essentially out of their mind OR homeless. It’s repeated under every point they make. This here allows to take anyone they see as a “threat” and put into an institution.

A primer for the civically ill-informed.

Oh.

You cannot even go to a doctor’s appointment. This happened at a surgical center in Ontario, California, yesterday.

PAY ATTENTION: L.A. just got a little preview of what’s coming. No arrests. No real “threat.” Just cops in riot armor playing soldier. Martial law isn’t a conspiracy anymore, it’s a countdown.

A great example of someone falling for potential social media manipulation, then limiting replies by manipulating their social media. :) bsky.app/profile/tkin...