Laura Conaway
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Maddow/MS NOW. (↖️ In this picture, I'm the cyclist.
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www.pressherald.com/2026/01/24/l...
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Lewiston anti-ICE protest draws about 1,000: ‘It’s scary to see in our backyard’
<br>The Agora Grand Event Center was overflowing with demonstrators protesting a recent surge in federal immigration enforcement activity in Maine.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/24/lewiston-anti-ice-protest-draws-about-1000-its-scary-to-see-in-our-backyard/
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I've tried to raise my kids to stand up for what's right, and it's hard now not to fear what might happen to them when they do.
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Minor point here but Eat Street, where this happened, got that official nickname because it's lined with restaurants from all over the world. It's a beloved symbol of immigrant cultures and a place that showcases pluralism in a state (wrongly but frequently) stereotyped as a land of low-key Swedes
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Headlines on the Minneapolis Star-Tribune right now point toward a lack of trust.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
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ICE Agent Charged With Misdemeanor Following Scuffle With an Activist
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/ice-agent-charged-illinois.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1A.z20Y.fChGhJGn1eS9&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Hopkins, Minnesota: "He’s a legal, documented worker here. He pays state taxes and federal taxes, went through the process to be able to do that." A judge has ordered DHS not to move the family. Their lawyer doesn't know where they are.
www.hometownsource.com/sun_sailor/f...
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Hopkins family detained by ICE
A Hopkins family was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the morning of Jan. 22. The incident was confirmed in a Hopkins Schools email from Superintendent Rhoda Mhiripiri-Reed
https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_sailor/free/hopkins-family-detained-by-ice/article_4a7edf99-2df9-43cd-bc36-afdbf2c991ae.html
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>>“This is a warning,” an agent told her. “We know you live right here.”
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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring ICE activity in Greater Portland.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/
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Federal judges to ICE: Do not move these ICE prisoners. Sheriff in Maine: ICE moved them anyway. "The move came just hours after Joyce criticized the federal agency’s practices at a news conference...."
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The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
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Brent Toderian
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Here’s a very readable new book with an unusual potential to make an impact on the conversation about better cities — “Life After Cars: Freeing Outselves for the Tyranny of the Automobile” by
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Five DHS agents to arrest one corrections officer w/a "squeaky clean" record. His boss, the sheriff, says they left the man's car running on the side of the road: “When I say bush league, I mean bush league. . . .We don’t do that as law enforcement officers.”
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/22/c...
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Cumberland County sheriff: ICE arrest of corrections officer was ‘bush league’
Kevin Joyce said the officer, who was detained Wednesday night in Portland by several agents, has a 'squeaky clean' record.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/22/cumberland-county-corrections-officers-ice-arrest-prompts-criticism-from-sheriff/
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He showed up for his asylum check-in. ICE arrested him. A federal judge wants to know why.
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/i...
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ICE ordered to explain why Portland resident was arrested during routine check-in
Yanick Joao Carneiro, an immigrant from Angola, was detained Tuesday when he went to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Scarborough, according to court documents.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/ice-ordered-to-explain-why-portland-resident-was-arrested-during-routine-check-in/
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‘We know you live right here,’ ICE agents tell Maine woman who followed them
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‘We know you live right here,’ ICE agents tell Maine woman who followed them
The confrontation was condemned by Westbrook's mayor and came after parents blew whistles and honked horns at an agent who was parked at a school bus stop.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/01/21/mainefocus/mainefocus-government/we-know-you-live-right-here-ice-agents-tell-maine-woman-who-followed-them/
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"Care during chaos" -- Minnesotans are in it for the long haul.
www.startribune.com/people-find-...
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People find ways to help as ICE surge continues in Twin Cities
From food shelves to community days and comedy shows, Minnesotans organize care during chaos.
https://www.startribune.com/people-find-ways-to-help-as-ice-surge-continues-in-twin-cities/601564938?utm_source=gift
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Meanwhile, in Maine, a college kid with no criminal record tries to call his mom: >>“They’re taking me,” Obiang said. >>“Where are they taking you?” she asked. >>The call suddenly ended once again.
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ICE detains 18-year-old USM student in Westbrook
Sandrine Koumba said she doesn’t know why her son, who has no criminal record, was detained after a minor car crash Tuesday.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/ice-detains-18-year-old-usm-student-in-westbrook/
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Matt Novak
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Steve Vladeck
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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.
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From the live blog:
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Appeals court pauses order mandating ICE not ‘retaliate’ against protesters
A federal judge previously issued an injunction meant to prevent immigration agents from detaining and pepper-spraying ‘peaceful’ observers.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Among the first arrests in Maine: A mother of four who had just dropped her kid off at high school. Her older daughter says her mom has a pending asylum application. I've heard this before, that people who are trying to follow the law are getting picked up.
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They are calling the surge of agents in Maine "Operation Catch of the Day." Already, students are missing school. Businesses are bracing. DHS says the target list for Maine is 1,400. For comparison, in Minn, it has taken DHS since Dec 1 to arrest 3,000 people.
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Homeland Security confirms ICE operations are underway in Maine, targeting ‘criminal illegal aliens’
A spokesperson said 'Operation Catch of the Day' launched Tuesday, following days of rumors that federal immigration enforcement would be ramping up in Maine.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/homeland-security-officially-confirms-that-ice-operations-are-underway-in-maine/
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The Minneapolis paper tracks down what we know about the (very small) portion of people taken by ICE whose names the administration has released -- about 240 of 3000 or so people.
www.startribune.com/the-trump-ad...
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Rachel Maddow
4 days ago
www.reuters.com/world/us/tho...
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Thousands protest against Trump immigration policies
Thousands of U.S. workers and students marched through cities and university campuses on Tuesday in opposition to the immigration policies of President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-protest-against-trump-immigration-policies-2026-01-20/
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The War on Cars
5 days ago
New episode up! We talked with Dr. Bruce Appleyard about the importance of livable streets in fostering a healthy society and the legacy of his father, Donald, who literally wrote the book on the subject.
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Married father of three drowned while fleeing immigration enforcement in Louisiana: "Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera drowned in his white shrimp boots after 20 years working on oyster boats around Hopedale. He was 48. Friends said he couldn’t swim."
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Oystermen grieve Honduran deckhand who drowned fleeing feds during Louisiana immigration sweeps
Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera drowned in his white shrimp boots after 20 years working on oyster boats around Hopedale. He was 48. “They’re all good people, really good people,” said a longtime oys...
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/louisiana-seafood-worker-dies-immigration-crackdown/article_75201a16-5e2e-4d29-95f2-83c0c36789d9.html#tncms-source=dontmiss-1
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First CBP made a rush order for cold weather gear in Maine. Now, a request for undercover license plates. The Maine secretary of state hits pause. "We want to be assured that Maine plates will not be used for lawless purposes.”
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Maine pauses issuance of undercover license plates after request from border security
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Saturday that her office wants 'to be assured that Maine plates will not be used for lawless purposes.'
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/17/maine-pauses-issuance-of-undercover-license-plates-after-request-from-border-security/
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Sarah Goodyear
8 days ago
My first job out of college was working for the Bettmann Newsphotos archive. I spent 2 years deep inside nearly a century's worth of press photos, and it gave me the utmost respect for the people who do the work of documenting human history as it happens. The best of them rescue truth from oblivion.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
11 days ago
Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota.
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Eric Umansky
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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.
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One thing I love about autistic Barbie is that people are using the language she prefers. Barbie is autistic because she says she is. She's making it easier for other people to feel comfortable saying it. No euphemisms, no "having" something layered onto herself. Barbie is just gloriously autistic.
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"The video shows that person dropping to the ground after being shot, holding their face as the crowd retreats. The same agent then drags the protester by the hood of their jacket; they appear to be choking, grasping at the jacket binding their neck as blood pours from their left eye."
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Minnesota Star Tribune
12 days ago
Reporter Louis Krauss saw this. An agent apparently dropped a flash grenade that was left with the pin still in it on Park Avenue after driving away in a squad car.
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Laura G Mitchell
12 days ago
This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
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Putting three stories together -- MS NOW, Washington Post, New York Times. First, the first one, my own MS NOW:
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The War on Cars
12 days ago
Taking Brightline from Orlando to Miami for our show with
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See you on Thursday evening. Get tickets!
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When I tended bar, the only reasonable way for me to go about it was not to drink. Otherwise, it's a sip of this, a sip of that, the shift drink, the drink after the shift drink.... Much respect.
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/13/f...
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For some Maine bartenders, sobriety on the job is a growing trend
Hospitality workers who don't drink say it's getting easier to avoid temptation even though alcohol is all around them.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/13/for-some-maine-bartenders-sobriety-on-the-job-is-a-growing-trend
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David Laufman
12 days ago
When DOJ attorneys resign as a matter of principle, it underscores just how corrupt the administration of “justice” has become. Kudos to the Civil Rights Division lawyers who made this wrenching decision for their integrity and dedication to the rule of law.
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DOJ’s top civil rights prosecutors depart as office is cut out of key probes
Prosecutors resigned from the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota as well amid turmoil over an investigation into a shooting by an immigration officer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/13/justice-department-civil-rights-resignations/
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Friday night, Concord, NH, Episcopal bishop Rob Hirschfield: "Now is no longer the time for statements, but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable."
www.wmur.com/article/ice-...
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In wake of ICE shooting, NH Episcopal bishop urges clergy to have wills ready
In a speech delivered during a vigil for a woman killed last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Manchester urged clergy members to get their a...
https://www.wmur.com/article/ice-shooting-nh-episcopal-bishop-speech-011226/69980984
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Ashley Pratt
13 days ago
If you don’t know, I am not sure I can fully describe the entire universe of losing a Torah — the spiritual injury, the communal injury, the stress and financial strain of acquiring a replacement for this extremely expensive and difficult-to-ensure holy ritual object…
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New: "the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February" -- after the Civil Rights Division would not investigate the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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BREAKING: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting
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A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
https://www.ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights-division-officials-quit-harmeet-dhillon
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Bill Pulte Seen as Key Instigator Behind Powell Subpoena
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte was a driving force behind the Trump administration’s decision to subpoena the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar with the matter, intensi...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/bill-pulte-seen-as-key-instigator-behind-powell-subpoena?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2ODIyNzcyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzY4ODMyNTI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFFBSVRUOTZPU0cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBNUNGQUE3MDhDQ0Q0OTdFQkVDQjFCNkRDOTIwNEM3MiJ9.gPBU0kYi8LNe-DSF5e-7v-vpbQ1-DoVIaLIrZpsijxk
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Federal Reserve
14 days ago
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
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After our staff “holiday” party last night in Jackson, we woke up to news of the Beth Israel synagogue arson. For detailed history of what it’s faced over time to stand for human rights, read piece Shaunicy Muhammad and I did after a bomb threat there:
www.mississippifreepress.org/the-kkk-bomb...
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Threat to Beth Israel A Reminder of 1967 KKK Bombings
Beth Israel in Jackson, Miss., canceled services after someone emailed the synagogue a bomb threat on Dec. 17, 2023.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/the-kkk-bombed-jacksons-beth-israel-in-1967-it-just-received-another-threat/
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14 days ago
Horrific
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14 days ago
Also horrific this weekend in Mississippi
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Wes Burdine
14 days ago
If you sit on any major street in the Twin Cities, within 5 minutes you'll see black SUVs racing around, doubling the speed limit. Passing on narrow two lane roads. It's absolutely insane right now.
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Nick Bednar
15 days ago
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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This happened in my hometown, down the street from my church. Beth Israel, I stand with you.
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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/fire-damages-mississippi-largest-synagogue/
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