finally, the ICE reform we’ve been waiting for: no masks unless you really want to wear them

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Body cams on ICE isn't going to change anything. It's just another way for them to gather images of people's faces so they can refine their lists. They won't increase accountability or prevent ICE agents from shooting people. They've already done it on camera every time.

i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!

I stand corrected. Four out of 5 Democrats want to abolish ICE. Any elected Dem asking for less is outside the mainstream of their party.

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

They have a go fund me to assist with legal fees. gofund.me/c58716223

Go Fund Me about the young person arrested on Monday in MN along with Lemon and Fort.

“I’m so grateful for all the street medics and folks directing traffic out there yesterday, especially for the pets and kids and elders who were caught in the gas, and those of us who were retching and blinded.”

Regardless, for at least tomorrow, 350,000 people can breathe a sigh of relief and go to work or school tomorrow without suddenly having been rendered "illegal" and forced to either go back into danger or risk being rounded up by ICE agents on the street.

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

This isn't a win. It's a systematic way to catalog protesters and legal observers into the Palantir database. It's not even tinfoil hat category to claim this any longer. We're being targeted and added to watch lists.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

The recent, hard-hitting campaign to pressure Target into better behavior, has been exceptionally well-coordinated and inventive.

Minneapolis friends (and everyone else!), there's so much in here to energize and inform us! In particular, the Junauda Petrus poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” is guaranteed to crack your hearts open with beauty.

Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll. And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration. This is digging deep into Trump's base. We detail these numbers on today's pod: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.

Reminder to Texans that tomorrow (Monday) is the last day to register to vote in the March elections

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I learn so much from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and his interview (newrepublic.com/article/2059...) read with @hammerandhope.bsky.social's great interview with Doran Schrantz are a must

4/4 out of the shooters of Martinez, Pretti and Good are current or former Border Patrol agents

One thing I said with Hasan today is that under the Homan standard of targeted operations toward "real criminals" (which somehow includes anyone charged with a crime), no roving patrols, etc., you wouldn't need the surge funding. So why should ICE still have it?

The New Democrats & the Progressive Caucus just put out a joint statement with a list of demands for immigration enforcement reforms... 2 things on this: 1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this 2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE

there’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

A lot of people in the immediate aftermath of that press conference kept trying to tell me that Biden was talking about the Gaza Health Ministry. Putting aside that the GHM has now been proven repeatedly to have been correct, the then-president himself *did not say that*. He said *Palestinians*.

New in IL-9: Fmr. NY Congressman Jamaal Bowman is endorsing @katmabu.bsky.social. Announcement highlights AIPAC's big investment to primary Bowman in 2024, a clear nod to the org's current support for her opponent, Laura Fine.

NEW: Special elections in the razor-thin Democratic majority-Houses in Maine and Pennsylvania. Billions of dollars in funding for school. A congressional primary. There are plenty of important elections right around corner, in FEBRUARY. So i put together my monthly guide of elections to watch:

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

"ICE has definitely gone too far but we still n-" no we don't. Whatever the purist version of what you think their job is supposed to be is, we don't need them for that. We can just get rid of all of it and put that money towards some, anything else.

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state? HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down

The murders will continue until submissiveness improves

As @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's weirdly not talked about enough that the majority of AIPAC's money comes from Republican donors and yet the organization positions itself as nonpartisan and is considered close to both the House and Senate minority leaders.

The news from Minnesota is rightly in all the headlines but the news from Maine is terribly ugly as well: wgme.com/news/local/s...

"I didn't say I wanted to. I said I will" got damn

Kind of crazy that all that stands between us and fascism…whistles and the decency of regular people. Opposition party? Weak! Institutions? Easily disregarded! Democracy? Baby, she’s been in hospice for a minute, barely breathing… Keep showing up, it’s the only way we will win.

“Minnesotans’ relentlessness offers a blueprint for how to react when ICE inevitably arrives to stir up trouble where there was none; how to look violence dead in the eye and say not in my town; how to provide aid laterally when you know those at the top won’t be passing any down.” My latest—

Deleted TikTok and I don’t know what to do with myself… They basically broke the app…fyp was a mess…but I will definitely miss what the app was…rip the comment section…the best part of the app.

We are going to win.

there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now

RIGHT NOW ICE escalating against non-violent protesters outside Dilley, TX facility where immigrant kids and families are being held: www.instagram.com/lidiaterraza...

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

Check out my latest for @racketmn.com I spent a day riding around with Will Stancil looking for ICE agents.