Imagine if there was no video

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This video appears to be Alex Pretti reading a brief statement of eulogy over the body of a veteran who apparently died in the VA hospital ICU where Pretti worked as a nurse. This is the man the Trump administration labeled a "domestic terrorist" and an "assassin." www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

“I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me... I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.” This is chilling.

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory

Wholeheartedly agree

January 23, 2026

This is a kitchen table issue in our house! @booker.senate.gov @andykimnj.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social

FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing. A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

January 22, 2026

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

***DEEP SIGH*** This is just the latest in our centuries-long fight over how to commemorate George Washington's involvement in slavery. It began while he was still alive, and continued immediately after his death, in the lead-up to Civil War, through Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Lives Matter.

"They left (his car) right on the street, (Sheriff) Joyce said. "Folks, that's bush-league policing." This would be a lot funnier if it weren’t so evil.

Every American - Republican and Democrat - should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Also, less relevant but still worth pointing out, immigration judges are not administrative law judges. They are technically just senior attorneys working for the Department of Justice; a level of independence below that of a standard ALJ. They have no power to issue warrants.

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Q: Did you uncover evidence to prove Trump knew his claim the election was stolen was false? SMITH: Yes Q: And Trump claimed it was stolen while he privately acknowledged he lost? SMITH: Yes Q: Yet on the 5th anniversary of J6, Trump still promoted the stolen election theory on a govt webpage

🚨“Rebecca Santana of the Associated Press reported that ICE has been breaking into homes under the authority provided by a secret memo of May 12, 2025, signed by the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, saying that federal agents do not need a judge’s warrant to force their way into people’s homes.”

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).

Abolish ICE

The gentleman who ICE hauled without cause out of his home in his underwear into the icy Minnesota winter (after terrifying his 5-year-old grandson) was from Laos, one of the Hmong hill tribes people of the then-Kingdom of Laos. You should know a bit about the background of those people. 🧵

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump

“We know the old order is not coming back,” Carney said. “We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.“ This is true for the US as well. We can’t go back to the way things were before Trump.

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This is actually an understatement—the response was totally unhinged—but I'm glad Judge Novak is highlighting the Justice Department's venomous rhetoric.

I know the story is going around. This is Morristown, New Jersey. Half an hour from Newark Airport. Its on the hinterlands of New York City. It's a fight I know ICE isn't ready for. Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Applebaum implored Republicans in Congress “to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in Greenland and doing permanent damage to American interests.” “They owe it to the American people,” she writes, “and to the world.” The Republicans in Congress own all of this.

“People are wrong to say that we have no heroes left. Just as they have always been, they are all around us, choosing to do the right thing, no matter what.”

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

For MLK Day, re-upping this longish-read in which I went back a half century to delve into why my white suburban high school hosted two Black "exchange students" from the Deep South. Revelatory history through my eyes and theirs, and why this history must be taught. www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opi...

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Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah. It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

How is Trump pardoning a republican rep's meth dealer son not a major story at every media outlet right now? Given the pearl clutching over the pardon of Hunter Biden, has the GOP and corporate media suddenly started caring about addiction? Or is there just a double standard? (Rhetorical)

People need a plan that does not depend on Democrats winning elections forever. Your plan for American democracy needs to work even if different parties win the presidency and Congress over time. Democracy is a system in which people have freedom, participate equally, and power alternates.

You cannot have a taxpayer funded and equipped partisan militia and expect your democracy to survive.

“But already the new reality of CBS News as a kind of a state media for the Trump era has been worse than anyone could have feared, now creating “fake news” in the term’s original clear-eyed meaning and not its bastardization by Trump’s MAGA movement.” We’re living through the cautionary tale.

In the last 18 days alone: - Two men in ICE custody have killed themselves (jails are supposed to protect against this) - Two men died of cardiac-related issues - One man was reportedly choked to death by a guard - One man died of fentanyl withdrawal (family question the medical care provided)

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

“Sixty-six percent of Americans think Trump doesn’t care about people like them.” You don’t say 😏