While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.

The contification of everything is awful, but the War for Content is next level evil, day upon day of it

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

The admin will continue to not only endanger American troops through their recklessness, but will use phrases like "in war (not war) soldiers die" to elide any responsibility for their poor planning and negligence. This was an unprotected command center, not a hardened defensive site. Avoidable.

Thune wrapping himself in the story of today, not what Marco said yesterday, says...?

A shortage of large passenger charter planes due to DHS paying 10x the usual rates to ferry kidnapped migrants is threatening NCAA Tournament travel plans

"This is world-changing for years to come," Sen. Joni Ernst said on Newsmax Saturday morning. Though Congress wasn't consulted about the bombardments, which killed hundreds, Ernst is gung-ho. "We are executing Operation Epic Fury, and ‘epic fury’ it is."

MPD body cam footage from DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace RECEIVED 😎 I'll be watching and sharing news and takeaways in the coming days. Stay tuned!

The betting market infestation of news orgs is an ongoing crisis, on top of the many ongoing crises.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

Iowa has an official language, English, thanks to Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack. But it was all Republicans who passed HF 2102, which reduces the 22 driving exam language options to one. “A driver’s license is not a luxury," opponent Rep. Jeff Cooling said, "it’s a lifeline.”

Wrote a few more words about it: www.startribune.com/anthony-edwa...

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Check this shit out:

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Rest in peace, Nurul Shah Alam. His blood is on border patrol's hands. www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Thank you @algreen.house.gov

“greatest privilege of them all, voting”

And yet 😜 bsky.app/profile/econ...

Good on the city government of Social Circle, GA for making these ICE documents publicly available: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

this is how i witnessed an ICE kidnapping in western mass, i paid a $250 bail for a woman accused of trespassing (right...) and ICE snatched her as soon as we got out the door

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Happy (real) Liberation Date 🇺🇸 2/20/26

“After reviewing the arrest statistics and some footage provided by the Banner, Ray said that the operation was a traffic enforcement equivalent of the stop-and-frisk approach used by law enforcement, often targeting young Black and Latino men.”

You can counter this cruelty by supporting the folks providing support, warmth, transportation, and connection to folks abducted by the president's private military. Donate here if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/safe-haven...

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Jesus Christ, Noem tanked a SAR mission for a missing Coastie so the plane could be used to deport more migrants. literal Cruella de Vil shit.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago institution who left footprints globally in his ardent advocacy for civil rights, has died. He was 84. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

This is insane. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

USAID money that saved people’s lives now reallocated to create a paid entourage for the guy who promised to put federal employees in trauma

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

This story about Lewandowski has a real "Nixon gives Elvis a DEA badge" kind of feel to it. Only in this case, it would be more like "Nixon gives Elvis's girlfriend a DEA badge."

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

Incredible update: "This article was updated to note that CNN reports there were at least four party balloons shot down by DOD, not just one." gizmodo.com/one-mexican-...

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.

When the party is bumping and a chandelier ride is called for, but there’s no way down in the morning (or ever) 🤣

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

The Iowa Lege is in overdrive trying to give the Laboratories of Democracy a lobotomy. The principle, always imperfect in its expression, used to be that the state sets the floor for rights. With this, the floor becomes the ceiling.

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

Appreciate that Jess Djukanovic is speaking out about what she went through trying to get an abortion with a non-viable pregnancy in Iowa: iowastartingline.com/2026/02/04/i...