“This is a horror that is a parent’s worst nightmare ... All they want is for this little toddler and her dad to come home safe after they’ve been unlawfully detained by the government." - Irina Vaynerman, the CEO of Groundwork Legal and an attorney for the family.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

The local sheriff was horrified by the arrest of his recruit, and said the federal government is telling a different story of what’s really happening. trib.al/gbJ2xIU In the video, the man can be heard shouting, “What’s wrong? I’m just coming from work. I don’t understand this.”

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"Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser rolled out a new online platform for residents to report misconduct by federal officers on Wednesday amid growing public concern about overreach and violence by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agents."

But wait, there's more: Judge William Young also issued his long-awaited judgment in the case, which covers every noncitizen member of the two leading plaintiff organizations. First, he vacates the enforcement policy. And second, he gives future ideological targets a right to quickly go to court.

Reminder that DHS eagerly engaged in crimes against humanity by stealing kids away from their parents as a deterrent tactic under Trump 1 And that one Trump admin worker tracked minor girls’ periods creepily while in detention That is the ‘expertise’, it’s abuse and torture

“The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.” This is absolutely amazing and inspiring and oh it is -10 degrees (that’s right negative) in Minneapolis today.

NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father. They remain in a Texas immigration detention center. The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Donald Trump is a liar and a draft dodger who dishonors the military in almost everything he does.

Train! cc: @peterorlowicz.bsky.social

THAT IS NOT A CAUSE OF ACTION THAT EXISTS IN THE NORMAL WORLD. Sorry, now I'm just shouting things.

Imagine Heinrich Himmler insisting that Germany's allies' spy chiefs go jet skiing with him.

Important to know that Armstrong is a reverend and that she and the protesters felt compelled by faith as well their commitment to civil rights. This is the state choosing which Christians they will support and which part of the 1A they will defend. Christian nationalism in action.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota this week, taking him and his father to a Texas detention center. No one, especially a child, should be arbitrarily detained. Actions like this further terrorize families of color across the country.

This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.

#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

Earlier this week, a local police chief warned that federal agents’ racial profiling is so pervasive that many of his cops are being targeted while off-duty. trib.al/m1rWhD5

The DHS funding bill passed 220-207, with 7 Dems voting “Yes.” If they had voted “No” it would have failed. Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez m, Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Tom Suozzi care more about keeping their jobs then doing them. Shame.

BREAKING: House of Representatives Republicans narrowly defeated a resolution that would have barred President Trump from further military action in Venezuela without the authorization of Congress, days after a similar measure failed in the Senate reut.rs/49OLhRp

Vice President JD Vance will visit Minneapolis today to show support for immigration agents, whose aggressive tactics have drawn weeks of outcry since an ICE officer shot dead Renee Good, a 37-year-old citizen and mother of three reut.rs/4jTntQR

ICYMI- Buddhist Practice for Building Bridges to Peace and Justice with Gil Fronsdal and Moshen Mahdawi, from our friends @saticenter.bsky.social sati.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...

The new chair of the #ACIP was on the Why Should I Trust You? podcast. The interview was ... enlightening. Among other things, Kirk Milhoan seemed to question whether kids still need to be vaccinated against polio & said he doesn't like “established science.” www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...

Macron's 'Top Gun' look gives glasses maker's stock $4 million bump reut.rs/49Rp2u4

Oh, Chris. You're better than this.

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

"Vance, speaking in Toledo ahead of his Minnesota visit, said the church protesters scared “little kids.” Oh, they scared little kids, did they?

After nearly 3 hours of emotional public comment from Coloradans across the state opposing a new ICE facility, Hudson Mayor Joe Hammock said “Let’s move on.” www.denverpost.com/2026/01/21/h... via @denverpost.com

Coloradans who want to report claims of federal agent misconduct can do so through a new complaint filing system with the state’s Department of Law, officials announced Wednesday. coloradosun.com/2026/01/21/c...

US appeals court lifts order curbing immigration agents' tactics against Minnesota protesters reut.rs/4jPw9rL

No just society is possible as long as our government abducts 5 year olds and sends them to detention facilities across the country. The media should be running an ongoing tally of ICE kidnappings on the top of their webpages.

Demonstrators are lined up outside a defunct private prison in northern Colorado this afternoon, @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social reports from Hudson. They're protesting what ACLU-obtained documents confirm are ICE's plans to move forward with a new immigration detention center

I have said bitch a dozen times today.

As a legal professional, I can say that the hallmarks of a solid legal opinion based in fact and good law are "no you can't have a copy" and "no you can't take notes, just read it once and you're done".

C’mon, ICE: you are a civil enforcement agency.

I was literally going to sit down and have my RAs sit down and track all mentions of the Mobile Fortify database in the Federal Register and these schmucks are handing a memorandum out like a mash note in 8th grade. This is a perversion of the Administrative Procedure Act.

So, how is the research on Mobile Fortify coming along? Is there a secret memo that is only passed around orally explaining that ICE can take pictures of American citizens and place them in a database?

As a point of comparison, the infamous torture memo used strained logic, ignored obvious counterarguments, and omitted relevant law, but it at least engaged in legal analysis of existing precedents and doctrine. This ICE memo just declares a new rule w/out a hint of existing law.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.

1/2 I obviously support ending qualified immunity, but that's not the barrier to holding federal officers—including ICE agents—civilly liable. For federal officers, the issue is the lack of statutory cause of action, combined with the Supreme Court's gutting of Bivens claims.

Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.

The lawsuit alleges Children’s Hospital Colorado doesn’t face an immediate loss of federal funding, and, even if it did, cutting off care to transgender and nonbinary children constitutes discrimination under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.

Almost 60% of Kyiv without power as Russian strikes shatter grid reut.rs/3LQMorI

This is a five-alarm fire. Last time I checked, there were filings against at least 8 different judges for holding against the administration. An independent judiciary is not a luxury.

Absolute lunacy. In a state with a population of 500,000, they've approved a project that will require sufficient generation to power a million homes. Using massively polluting natural gas turbines. And requiring incredibly amounts of water in one of the dryest parts of the US. Wtf are we doing?!

Which cities/states have effective watchdogs that analyze and scrutinize major development schemes by city government and development authorities? Orgs that pay attention not just to megaprojects like stadiums but also tax increment financing, abatements, housing subsidies. Names/links of orgs? thx

The Trump administration started an immigration enforcement operation in Maine, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said, targeting a state that is home to several refugee communities, including Somalis reut.rs/4jOE08M

I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.