Doing more digging on the list dumps I’ve been able to find of this and yeah the “leak” angle here is complete bullshit. It’s a scrape of anybody that has had ICE, Border Patrol, FBI in their linkedin profiles combined with a dump of Brady List databases.

📣 DID YOU KNOW? 🚁 Ongoing aerial surveillance and "crowd monitoring" by the MN State Patrol in coordination with the MPD is shared directly with federal forces, including DHS & ICE, with no local oversight. Here's what that means, and what we our state and local officials must do about it NOW.

There are so many chemical weapons hanging in the air it’s just ambient out here. Go outside to take out the trash or check the mail or whatever and you start coughing and your eyes start burning

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

Guys I think they're instantly getting DVS data. Pulled up next to this guy on central going south in Columbia heights, followed him, they turned around, got on 694, crossed the river, and went straight to my house in Brooklyn center.

Apologies if you know this or it came up already but you can get query logs of your DL#, plate#, VIN, or permit to carry # from DPS/DVS/BCA. They have to turn it over within 10 days of request. It will identify the agency who did it, with a timestamp, what they asked for, what they got in response.

The interpretations are (1) thuggish and very stupid ICE agents stole the phone and tried to sell it or (2) thuggish ICE agents kidnapped and brutalized the kid and threw his phone out the window or dumped it in the gutter, laughing, and someone else found it and tried to sell it.

It's time to officially let X/Twitter go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience. I’ve already in this great community & look forward to continuing our conversations. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Mother Nature says: fuck ICE.

So she was an everyday American hero, got it.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

In the Star Trek timeline, the 2020s included violent riots against government interment and also WWIII and a nuclear holocaust. So…

"The capability is powered by both Motorola Solutions and Thomson Reuters"

The Third Klan Act of 1871 also became the statute people still use to sue government officials for violating their rights: 42 USC §1983

they did, in fact, take decisive action. in the midst of these hearings congress passed the third enforcement act, called the Ku Klux Klan Act. the grant administration used that authority to virtually eliminate the klan, which did not resurface for another 50 years.

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

this wasn't just fact-finding, it was a form of what @joshchafetz.bsky.social calls "congressional overspeech." the testimony from black americans was dramatic and divisive. it captured the attention of the public and helped build support for aggressive action against the klan (2/?)

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Fucking hell: 8 uni libraries with bomb threats YESTERDAY: U of Nebraska Omaha, U of Nebraska Medical Center, Harris-Stowe State U (Missouri), U of Louisville (Kentucky), Murray State U (Kentucky), Suffolk U (Massachusetts), Missouri Southern State U, Southeast Missouri State U.

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

willamette week nicely ties together two (three?) separate threads in local politics in this follow-up www.wweek.com/news/2026/01...

Unfortunately, the massive underreaction to Jan 6 means we are currently living out the prolonged suffering and instability

Call me crazy, but I don't think the question of whether or not Bovino belongs in his job depends on whether or not he deletes the tweet he made calling protesters "cannon fodder." Making the tweet (along with many other things he's done) should disqualify him from any law enforcement job ever.

Trump admits that this is nothing but political retribution. Minnesota voted against him three times and now he’s punishing us – putting lives at risk and wasting enormous resources in the process.

howling at the fact that someone just took photos of this man's phone from behind him. he was talking shit with his phone font set to large and screen at max brightness

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

"If you're a US citizen, you'll be free to go after they briefly destroy your car, injure you, and spray pepper spray everywhere. Also they can kill you" -Brett Kavanaugh

In addition to its internet blackout, the Iranian government is jamming Starlink to prevent news protests and crackdowns from getting out: restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...

Did they forget to renew the trademark, or did they simply let it lapse because they were no longer using it? In the United States (unlike in many other jurisdictions), trademark rights arise from use, not registration. To renew a mark, the owner must show that they are still using it #trademarks

As an act of retribution, approximately 1,000 more US Customs and Border Protection officers are being sent by the Trump administration to join the 2,000 or so immigration officers and agents that the DHS has already moved to Minnesota. Via: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Evergreen tweet.

Said it a year ago and I'm saying it now. Governors in blue states should have been gaming this situation out as soon as Trump was fucking with FEMA money during the fires. This was always the end point. "Gotta pay the king! No mechanism not to pay the king!" is not an answer.

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

Replay the horrifying videos coming out of Minnesota to their constituents on the floor of Congress, to constituents back home, and to any reporter that talks to them. *Make* indiscriminate violence by ICE an issue.

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

Trump made being a racist a**hole socially acceptable again. Depending on one's social circles, I guess, but a lot of previously disguised racists seem to be coming out of hiding.

Sen. Kevin Cramer: "Maybe the point should be if you're the attorney for Jay Powell and you want to avoid an indictment, how about you go to Jeanine Pirro and say, 'I'll make a deal. I'll step down today if you drop the investigation today.' To me, that would be a win win for everybody."

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

ICE treating Holocaust education as a how-to manual

I have been thinking this same thing. If you drive the speed limit, or a little below the speed limit, if you slow down for stale greens just in case they're about to turn yellow, if you're extra patient with bikers and pedestrians, you're actually following the law AND slowing down ICE.

Markey: This administration has proved time and time again that it is only interested in vengeance, that it lies and lacks all humanity. Today, six federal prosecutors resigned because the DOJ wants to investigate Renee's widow rather than Renee's killer

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

Not to mention Star Trek is and has always been woke as fuck

In a recent symposium on M&A, I heard something really striking: firms contemplating deals have created go-teams of lawyers in the event that Trump becomes interested. They’re ready to negotiate directly with the White House. My brain kept picking over exactly what was wrong with this.

“How to write a syllabus with nothing but earned media”

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

These names should have been public record anyway. A name without some correlating info like an SSN or birthdate or address isn't even considered PII. Yes, there are exceptions, but they're intended for stuff like CIA undercover operatives, not to enable domestic terrorism like this.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday