“Like, it was the most miserable day of my whole life. But I would do it again because I think that people need to know how evil ICE is and that this is happening." www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-tran...

The only lawless behavior I see in this video is ICE harassing and threatening people for no good reason. ICE authority is limited by federal law. They exist for immigration enforcement only. They do not have general police powers. (8 U.S.C. § 1357)

Some good news to close out the week! apnews.com/article/minn...

A week after an ICE agent murdered an American mother in Minneapolis, the DOJ has pursued investigations into her, her partner, the Governor, and the Mayor. Still zero updates on an investigation into the ICE agent who killed her.

VFRL was honored to attend a great event in Georgia today with @ossoff.bsky.social and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social. They both spoke clearly about the threats that Trump poses to our democracy and future. We must stand up and fight back and have an overwhelming victory in the midterms.

There is no scenario where Tricia McLaughlin would not blame the victim, would not allege, with zero evidence, that they have assaulted the DHS agent. It his her default setting.

A powerful column from Corpus Christi AFT Pres Nancy Vera about how the school closures in CCISD were a choice, not a necessity, after years of administrative failure, and it will hit the most vulnerable students and neighborhoods the hardest. www.caller.com/story/opinio...

it's easy to start an investigation of walz and frey. indictments & convictions are orders of magnitude harder. but the goal is what's important and it's nothing that breaking the power of the states which is the only brake on trump's attempted tyranny

More than half of Americans believe that ICE is making people less safe. ICE's unchecked and violent use of force against our communities must be reined in. www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/p...

Oh yeah it's not really a war in Venezuela🙄 The John Fugelsang Podcast: Peeking inside the Colon of Colonization Starting from: 00:12:43 Episode webpage: art19.com/shows/sanity... Media file: rss.art19.com/episodes/4e8...

Trump’s attacks on child care funding hurt children, endanger early educators, and raise costs for families. We should be strengthening child care, not destabilizing it. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

In communities across the country, we've seen the horrific consequences of intensified immigration enforcement that is making us less safe. Join AFT for a webinar on Jan. 28 to discuss response and resources for educators, healthcare workers, students and families. sharemylesson.com/webinars/imm...

Who says kids don’t have good manners anymore?

Paid parental leave for educators isn’t a luxury, it’s a smart, long-term investment in our schools. Supporting teachers during major life moments strengthens retention, reduces burnout, and creates stability for students. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Funny how the Fourth Amendment keeps getting treated like a suggestion box.

Whiskey Friday

Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to hold his tariffs unconstitutional 🤔🤔🤔

"The internet blackout in Iran has stanched the flow of reliable info re: the political unrest roiling the country. Filling the void has been a deluge of propaganda, disinfo & influence campaigns from countries or parties trying to shape the outcome of the conflict." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...

On MS NOW in a few, if you are too cool to be out having fun on a Friday evening.

Wildly corrupt. The president should not personally profit from mergers the executive branch must approve. Though if he’s making money from Netflix buying Warner Bros., Paramount and the Ellisons aren’t getting it.

The legal term for this is that she is just making stuff up.

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At any given moment, in any place in Minnesota, this can roll up on you. Snatching people from the parking lot of Burger King. The drop off line. From work. It’s fucking bonkers

Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.

Yard signs are restocked and ready to aid the resistance!

Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights. We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs. Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.

DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee. In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.

"They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. 'I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be.... You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.'"

Within moments of arriving to protest a massive ICE presence in a shopping mall with Somali-owned businesses, armed agents got out of a car nearby. When her gf Sofia asked what the guns were for, an agent shoved her. “I say, ‘Don't shove my fucking girlfriend,’ and he shoves me,” Alice recalled.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

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ICE are thug scum

"I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous" theconversation.com/i-used-ai-ch...

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Yesterday Minnesota state Republicans filed articles of impeachment against Walz. Now Trump's Department of Fascist Justice is investigating him and Frey. We're not even one month into the new year, and the media know damn well that it's our democracy that's being obstructed by Trump & his thugs.

"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things." Read @mjtoma.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/205379/...

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Put the Nobel Peace Prize on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

Minnesotans are peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights. What concerns me is ICE's policy of provocation. Reckless, unreasonable, and poorly trained ICE agents are escalating situations that don’t need to escalate. That’s exactly why this surge needs to end.

There’s a clear pattern to how Trump has long been building toward the Insurrection Act. He isn’t “unhinged”—his horrid responses to ICE shootings, assassinations, and mass killings are by design. National traumas are his ammo. I document his method here 👉🏻 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

“Did the ice agents check her pulse” seems like an important question whose answer is incredibly damning either way.

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They began to look for the button in the tall grass.

JUST IN: Judge Stearns has issued an order requiring DOJ to request that Secretary of State RUbio issue a student visa to a Babson student inadverntetly deported to Honduras. The admin has apologized for the error in court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is like a satanic parody of the best moments of Reconstruction, which saw the DOJ using federal power to break up white supremacist conspiracies against civil rights. Here, white supremacists in the DOJ are using conspiracy law to attack civil rights.

Establishing a law enforcement initiative led by the president personally wasn’t the Trump administration’s first violation of the longstanding firewall between the White House and the DOJ. But it was perhaps the most egregious and clearest yet. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...