GOOD. At the beginning, she claimed people were only asking questions because she was "helping" Somali children. At the end, she said she should get off easier because others got richer and the state didn't investigate like it should have. She was the ringleader, and she's still deflecting.

If "Tyrannosaurus" means "king lizard," does "Thesaurus" mean "THE lizard"?

After all that garbage about how everyone who protests Trump and ICE is a "paid agitator," we learn that they had to pay people to attend a Vance rally in Iowa. (Also available here: www.queerty.com/jd-vances-hu...)

It's important to understand a claim before you try to debunk it. Nobody says the shooter in Butler intentionally drilled Trump's ear at 140 yards. The claim is that the whole thing was faked. No shot, no ear damage, one dead patsy. Not saying I believe that, but it's not that stupid, either.

The cost of interest on the national debt is expected to reach $1 trillion this year. More than defense or Medicaid, similar to Medicare. This is our return on investment for cutting taxes on the rich for 45 years. Our other major expenses were much less optional and much more worthwhile.

There's a phenomenon in traffic where slower cars often catch up to faster cars after being overtaken. It's called the "Voorhees law of traffic," in reference to how Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th often catches people who are clearly going faster than he is. I love that.

The Iran War is a contender for dumbest thing Trump has done as president. He's now talking about leaving, and he could never articulate why we were there to begin with. We are in a much weaker position than we started with, having gained nothing. Governing America is not a reality show.

Trump may pull out of Iran without getting the Strait of Hormuz re-opened first. He's "bored" with his war. One might wonder what military objectives were achieved in this "excursion," if one believed there were any to begin with. He wanted to see a surge in the polls; he didn't; he's done.

The Trump administration says we are in talks with Iran. Iran says that's not true. If Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan weren't confirming the US position on this, I wouldn't know whom to believe. The federal government has always lied to us about some things, but under Trump, it could be anything.

If you want to understand Trump, understand that he is nothing but ego. Think of every stupid or nasty thing you've ever done out of selfishness, defensiveness, or the need for approval. Imagine those same traits preventing you from regretting or learning from those things. That's Trump.

To Kristi Noem: Let the door hit you on the way out. You deserve to be hit by a door.

I just saw an article in The Motley Fool that twice asserts, ". . . the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have soared under President Trump." Would it shock anyone to know that none of these funds have grown any faster under Trump than under Obama or Biden?

Terrible headline in the Sigma Xi SmartBrief yesterday: "Data show HIV, syphilis co-occur in 1 in 12 US adolescents." They mean that 1 in 12 US adolescents with syphilis also have HIV. The overall syphilis rate among U.S. adolescents (8.5 per 100,000) is about 1000-fold lower than 1 in 12.

Still my favorite Minneapolis-inspired song.

On the streets of Minneapolis, protesters call out ICE forces. Cellphone videos are a powerful ally. Bill Kurtis, remember him, is the author.

Since Metro Surge was SO popular and effective and the whole country loves ICE now, they're apparently planning to do the same thing in CA and NY. Several cities are listed in the article.

Border Patrol's now-familiar tactics under Greg Bovino. "ICE" had been a convenient shorthand for the two agencies combined, but CBP is, if anything, even more reckless and dangerous.

I don't know how one moves from regressive Christianity to progressive Christianity, especially in adulthood, especially as a minister, but this resonated anyway. Minneapolis has shown what beloved community might look like.

A design by my neighbor Ellen.

The administration lies constantly. This particular lie is the off ramp they have to create for themselves in order to get out of this fiasco without admitting any failure. But Trump's entire approach to immigration is both stupid and cruel, much like its architect, Stephen Miller.

The arrogance of these agents is fueled by a sense of impunity that comes from the top. In Florida agent Scott Deiseroth was stopped for driving drunk with his two children in the car. Instead of showing remorse he tried to intimidate the deputy arresting him.

I just read that the idea that the frontal lobe doesn't reach maturity until age 25 is a misinterpretation of a study in which the maximum age of the subjects was 20. Based on later studies, if there can be said to be a time when the frontal lobe reaches maturity, it's in the 30s.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

The Minnesota Department of Corrections has a website dedicated to combating misinformation from the federal Department of Homeland Security. They shouldn't have to, but they do.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has a website that debunks myths about them spread by the federal government and right-wing influencers. They shouldn't have to, but they do.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Seriously, watch this. It will be well worth 7 minutes of your time. Aliya Rahman's determination is as inspiring as ICE agent's abuse of her was disgusting.

ICE keeps detainees in undisclosed location, some for days at a time, without "access to clean clothes, edible food, and calls with their attorneys."

The right-wing media need their rural and small-town viewers to believe that American cities are post-apocalyptic hellscapes, their hellishness in proportion to the progressiveness of their politics. The myth rarely survives a couple days' visit to the actual place.

A Mexican immigrant was left with severe head injuries after ICE agents beat him during a Jan. 8 arrest in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Associated Press reports. Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, 31, was pulled from a car, handcuffed, & struck in the head w/ a metal baton, then beaten again at a detention...

No this is the problem

Watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, where, according to closed captioning, Andrea Bocelli is "singing in a non-English language."

Morale is LOW at ICE. They're not all mindless thugs who can't see the situation is fucked up. The administration likes to call them heroes, and they're treating them the way Republicans have always treated their working-class heroes.

The Trump administration's supposed "pivot" notwithstanding, conditions on the ground in Minneapolis continue to worsen. It's not everywhere around here, either. In my very white neighborhood, ICE isn't very perceptible. On the other side of Hiawatha, it's life during wartime.

@jessesingal.com "In light of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, I’m worried that it’s getting harder and harder to make the standard anti-violence argument in good faith." Is that what you would have said to Gandhi and MLK?

A story of three ICE vehicles following a white woman around North Minneapolis as she tries to bring medicine to an asylum seeker.

Metro Surge is a major screw-up on fraud in at least two ways. First, as this article details, it has undermined legitimate efforts to investigate welfare fraud in Minnesota. Second and more positively, it has also undermined the GOP strategy of using this fraud as an issue in the midterms.

One important point that isn't obvious from the headline: having a vicious president gives other people a sense of license to be vicious, too. People are showing us who they are. Some of them are beautiful. Some of them are hideous.

So, now Trump is saying that we can't have guns. I wonder how the NRA, who pumped nearly $30mil in 2016, nearly $17mil in 2020, and I-don't-know-how-much in 2024, into his campaign, feels about this. Right now. At this moment. I bet they feel...sad. heh

People here in Minneapolis are responding to what happens on the ground. The White House's "change in tone" will have no consequences here unless it comes with substantial changes in the real world. People haven't been defending their neighbors just because it's been Greg Bovino attacking them.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Hopefully, Trump does pull ICE out of Minnesota. Unfortunately, it would probably mean moving onto another victim. I mean, MAYBE he's giving up on his strategy of trying to provoke a riot in a sanctuary city, but he may just look for an easier nut to crack.

I hope the Republicans leaving their party in disgust will put their time and energy into helping Democrats win. But how many of them can put saving our democracy above depriving poor people of food and shelter? Like Pilate, they'll wash their hands of the crime and then let it happen anyway.

People are marveling at how the people of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul can remain peaceful in the face of the government tyranny. The more I think about this article, the more I think Dionne Sims has a big part of the answer.

The administration keeps saying its victims were engaged in "domestic terrorism." Her is an article about the September 25 executive memo that defines any impediment to Trump's agenda as "domestic terrorism." They don't call people "domestic terrorists" because that has a legal definition.

#minnesota #minneapolis 💪🤘

Another one shot in Minneapolis. AMERICA ALLOWS THIS TO CONTINUE. IT IS ALL THEIR FAULT. EACH AND EVERY AMERICAN IS GUILTY

This is absolutely outrageous and horrifying. DHS agents have killed someone again, firing multiple shots at the person even though he is on the ground surrounded by agents. This needs to be investigated, and ICE and CBP need to get out of MN NOW.