Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

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my heart.

Donald Trump knows accountability is coming and he is panicked. Same with Bannon, Miller, Bondi, Noem, and all the rest. They will do anything at all to avoid accountability. What I want to hear is a steady and increasingly loud drumbeat from Dems making this clear.

This is not so much an “I told you so” as much as it is a reflection on the utterly sad and naive path of normalization that got us all to this point. The rules of the game are changing by the minute.

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

With all the arrests, re-upping my piece on how the church protesters are in the right — and this church is worse than you imagine.

This week forced us all to ask: what kind of American are you? My latest: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Heads up Minnesota

“Trump Pretends To Deescalate, Hopes Dems Fall For It”

A truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.

I'm not familiar with the name Trahern Crews, but Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are both journalists, and Jamael Lundy is a DFL candidate for State Senate in SD65 (Saint Paul).

Just to post a few of the books that are coming out One that’s already out: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

Sydney Sweeney: 👁️ 👄 👁️ Giancarlo Esposito: And for me, I have to speak out. If the whole world showed up... they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world]. This is time for a revolution, and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting.

The vigil for Alex Pretti at the VA Medical Center in San Diego turns into a short march to a nearby bridge over the 5

“Kuhlman said the children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling because there were no family members in Minnesota to care for them.”

This place is a treasure. A little mall filled with vendors - delicious food, fun wares, kind people. A real heartbeat of a place. If you care about saving immigrant heritage in this fucking monstrous thing, please help them. I am.

I have become aware of a website attempting to draft State Senator Erin Maye Quade to run for Governor. www.draftemq.com

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

They are not De-escalating! We had a Neighbor abducted at 6:30 in the morning yesterday we had two observers detained and another maced at 7:30 AM this morning, blocks from an elementary school. And then we had the same fuckers three or four of them all hanging out in the same spot all morning.

And let that include calling your senators again. Don’t give them a moment of peace until we get a moment of peace in Minneapolis. Anyone who votes to fund ICE has blood on their hands—no matter how they rationalize it. Make sure they know.

Minnesotans don’t want ICE to abduct our neighbors a little differently. We want all of it to stop. And we’ll keep doing everything we can to make that happen. If you’re outside of the state, you should too.

Schumer’s statement today is just another reminder that the real change comes from communities—often with resistance from the people in power, even if they claim to be on our side.

I can’t emphasize enough that the press (and likely our national elected officials) believe people in Minneapolis are doing all this to try to get their attention. But actually, we’re resisting this way because we lost faith that anyone would come to save us but each other.

The international politics of this is - pardon my French - fucking perfect www.thenation.com/article/acti...

remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”

🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠 let's keep folks in their homes, together and warm and safe as we possibly can! folks needs help and we need an eviction moratorium NOW, @governorwalz.mn.gov! 🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠❤️🏠

If anyone has money to spare, please donate to the Immigration Rapid Response Network, a coalition of trusted, local funders in Minnesota. They are collecting funds to help families pay their rent. Help keep folks in their homes! www.standwithminnesota.com/rent

Excellent explanation of how ICE moves immigrants from one prison facility to another to deny them access to justice.

Tighten rules on warrants? Body cameras? HOW ABOUT A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT FOR EVERYTHING! HOW ABOUT THEY LEAVE MINNESOTA AND NEVER CARRY OUT ANYTHING AKIN TO MINNESOTA IN ANY OTHER STATE. I DON'T WANT BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE ATROCITIES I WANT THEM TO STOP. I AM SO FUCKING FURIOUS!!!!

This continues, with Tom Homan arriving in MN to replace Bovino - Tom Homan, the architect of the family separation policy. Liam has fallen ill in detention in Texas. We need schools to extend & continue online learning options beyond February.

This is what I need in a governor!!!

I'm increasingly concerned about a lack of protection for Minnesota families from eviction. Not protecting them would make them low-hanging fruit for predators. I messaged Walz & you can too: mn.gov/governor/con... I'm calling tomorrow (staffed office hours 9:30a to 3:30p). Join me! 651-201-3400

Sen. Doron Clark says ICE has not retreated from Minneapolis www.mprnews.org/live-updates

i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist. please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.

Heartbreaking news after Rep. Castro's visit this morning, 5-year-old Liam Rmaos is in poor health www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Eric Lee, an immigration attorney out of Michigan, reports that the Dilly center has been put on lockdown

They do this to migrants now, dissidents tomorrow.

Oh no, my neighbors will know? You mean those people I went to the vigil with on Saturday? Or the ones who picked up whistles from my house? Or do you mean the ones I met with to talk about how to start a mutual aid fund?

Trump talks “a little de-escalation” while the DHS ask DoD for and receives access to troop barracks, munitions store, hangars and maintenance for air assets. They aren’t leaving. They’re reloading.

The attack on Ilhan Omar happened only days after an attack on Maxwell Frost.

Trump’s stochastic terrorism has had its intended effect.

There has been a lot of chatter out of DC about unmasking ICE agents and I don’t think anyone in Minnesota thinks that would end the violence. It might just make it easier for people outside of Minnesota to look away.

People outside of Minnesota should know that a lot of ICE agents are harassing, assaulting, and abducting people in plainclothes and unmasked. Plainclothes ICE agents are especially likely to be in places people visit out of necessity—like hospital lobbies.

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