Thinking a lot right now about this crisis of trust. It’s a new world for Americans to not be able to trust what their government tells them. Not to say that the government has never lied or misled the public before. Obviously it has. But this is a new, Soviet-style level of lies and fabrication

I really dislike all the fast and loose Nazi analogizing, but Gestapo is the best word to describe these people

Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there.

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

There should be no police force that looks anything like this domestically.

The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

BREAKING: The Minneapolis Police Chief says of the shooting victim: "Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident." He adds: "We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

There’s a reason “Reject false choices” is such an important phrase for me. Read this, up and down. I am so tired of being put on the wrong side of a false choice just by describing my own pain and perspective.

!!!! "Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Sigh. I don't know why I'm commenting on the comments section of an Instagram post of a children's entertainment influencer (!), but such are the times I suppose, and I do think it reveals something important about the broader I/P discourse >

"I'm sorry for any harm I may have caused to the Jewish community and I have to do better" is the apology people were looking for, I think.

I really love seeing this, but it’s kind of a bummer to see so many PSL signs out

Free speech is not a deportable offense. DHS built dossiers on pro-Palestinian student activists for speech alone. A federal judge called it unconstitutional. As Jewish Americans and supporters of democracy, we reject this dangerous abuse of power.

Interesting development today in Israeli politics: A full-page ad was published in Haaretz calling for the creation of a "Jewish-Arab peace, equality, and partnership party". English translation is at www.citizens.org.il/en/post/a-pe...; the Hebrew, with list of signatories, is at www.hope26.org

Probably the best and most important thing you can read about the new decolonial antisemitism, as Ben calls it 👇🏼

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

The DA and County Commissioners' work won't undo this wrongful execution, but it mattered to the family and is critical to helping us understand how fallible our criminal justice system is. Hat's off to Dallas and the lawyers at @innocenceproject.bsky.social innocenceproject.org/news/tommy-l...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is slander, TJs babka is incredible (at least the LA version)

The thing that makes this even more disgusting is Grim has repeatedly argued that Ukrainian provided casualty numbers are fake and they're hiding them to keep the war going but he's deciding to use "the propaganda number" here

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community

PER @cnn.com "Federal agents pulled over 2 vans of students/staff on their way to school in St Paul, in separate incidents this week, a school district spokesperson said. 🚨👉🏼 Starting next week, students “who do not feel comfortable coming to school” can participate in virtual learning"

Immigration attorney: The arrest "during a Minnesota immigration crackdown that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever, was a “blatant constitutional violation,” since the agents did not have a proper warrant..." www.minnpost.com/public-safet...

The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.

This one I find particularly disturbing. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu / Getty)

Frey: "This is not sustainable. This is an impossible situation our city is being put in. We cannot be at a place in America where we have 2 governmental agencies literally fighting one another. We are put in this position b/c we have approximately 600 police officers & there are 3,000 ICE agents."

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

/3 This is more the sentiment “anything recognizably Jewish is also necessarily Zionist and therefore properly vandalized” which is firmly antisemitic. The New York Times will reliably get this sort of thing wrong, to a degree of reliability that is somewhat unsettling.

DOKOUPIL: When I travel the country, they tell me they don't feel it because grocery prices are up-- TRUMP: They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months. I inherited a mess. If she got in, you wouldn't have this job right now.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

"One of ours, all of yours" - origins and comparisons brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/one-of-our...

It would be great if Jews were even permitted to mourn undisturbed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

What’s so funny about this is how it poses as sophisticated leftist theory, when it’s just conspiracy theory and violent affectation disguised in a bunch of leftist gobblygook

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

We've said it before, and we'll say it again. Calls of violence outside a synagogue, like "death to the IDF" and "we support Hamas here," heighten real-world risk for American Jews. This poses an immediate threat to Jewish safety and should be unequivocally condemned.

One reason left opposition to Trump’s immigration policy is so incoherent is because “no one is illegal on stolen land” and “no settlers on stolen land” can’t both be true at the same time. Unless of course there is a special exception for one Eternal Settler

So it's supremely fucked that people are now depicting *Klan members wearing the Magen David*. What is WRONG with you people, why can't you be fucking normal?

With thanks to @igneoussigil.bsky.social

I mean given that he is constitutionally barred from re-election what exactly can you call this other than legalized bribery?