“federal investigators have no documented chain of custody for Pretti's handgun, with officials saying the firearm was placed on the seat of a vehicle rather than sealed in a required plastic evidence bag and labeled with standard identifying details such as date, item description, and handler name”

Trump understands everything through the lens of TV. Bovino was ultimately reassigned because he couldn’t control the TV narrative to Trump’s satisfaction after Pretti’s death. We can still take Bovino’s ouster from Minneapolis as a win, but the mission is the same.

before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend

Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work. This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time. People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.

I want Democrats to use every lever at their disposal to shut things down. They have the power to obstruct and gum up the works, the only thing stopping them is outdated norms. People are being executed in the streets and if elected Dems aren't prepared to do dramatic things, they can fuck off.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

A Minnesota preschooler detained in Texas with his father cannot be imminently deported, a federal judge has ruled. https://cnn.it/49VG5Lx

He going to be mumbling this shit on his deathbed like Rosebud. *whispers* phony…….. polls *dies*

“MAKE IRAQ GREAT AGAIN!”

Sorry the story is now White House Softens Tone On Teargassing Preschools.

What do we want? End the violence! When do we want it? Forthwith!

They gave a bunch of roided up thugs weapons and made them immune from legal consequences. You can't really tinker around the edges of something like that, you have to end it

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

It's not the most important part of this obviously but I find it really funny that elected Dems are always talking about how lefties don't know how to connect with the average American and then their messaging includes shit like "this must end forthwith."

Breaking MS NOW: Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, and instead two units of DHS will investigate their own officers and the man they killed.

"I think it's no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity." Scoop from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

The only constant in Trump's politics is that he doesn't have any beliefs in the way that most of us conceptualize what "a belief" is. What he claims to believe at any moment is just what he thinks is necessary to say right then and there to gain advantage for himself.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

This all feels like uncharted territory.

We will crush the skulls of our enemies beneath our boots and hear the lamentations of their women. <loses humiliatingly> Look, I think it’s time to turn down rhe temperature a little. Why are you so divisive?

Central Texas Food Bank says it needs 250+ volunteers this week “We need to quickly get food out to our neighbors. When extreme weather hits, the need to eat doesn’t stop.”

"...about a week before [Alex Pretti's] death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals."

“braved sub-freezing temperatures” lol you mean it was colder than 32 F?!?!?

“Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice," they continued. "Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds. I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know.”

James O’Keefe responds to a comment “Figured they (ICE protesters) were being paid…” O’Keefe: “No, it's more terrifying than that. It's not transactional. They actually believe in their cause. That truth is going to be hard for most people to understand or accept.”

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

in Minnesota this is such an unremarkable act of basic decency that it's damning with faint praise to think that it warrants tweeting about. ICE passed a man a napkin after he spilled his drink ICE says "bless you" after woman sneezes ICE yields to motorist attempting to merge in traffic

Name names! We want to honor these selfless, nameless masked heroes

I emailed DHS yesterday to get the names and photos of the ICE agents here so that I could write about this heart-warming story. They didn't respond. :(

We are at a tipping point on ICE and immigration enforcement. The shootings are so unpopular that Trump appears to have lost his edge on both deportations and immigration more broadly. Abolishing ICE is net popular with independents. & Bovino is out! 2026≠2024 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

Literally every single time that people unite to tell dem leadership what they want, leadership comes back with 12% of what they want and says “you should love us now and give us more money” like fuck you guys, abolish ICE.

wild to see any Democrats “unite” around any bodycam proposal after DHS has said they’ve got multiple bodycam videos of agents killing Alex Pretti

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’m an eternal pessimist but Bovino getting run out of Minneapolis with his tail between his legs is a win. Celebrating a victory on Monday doesn’t mean you’re giving up the fight for Tuesday.

There have been three homicides in Minneapolis so far this year. Two of the three were committed by Trump’s fascist goons.

guys you’re not gonna believe this but I messed up real bad working for Mr Trump and he’s making me a made man anyway!!

They say we live in a bubble when there is a dude so fully ensconced in podcasts, twitter, group chats, and stimulants that he thought he could dress like a literal Nazi and start shooting people in the street and be remembered as a hero These people live in a shrinking and dying parallel universe

This is a problem that long predates messaging apps

My iphone's face ID is only recognizing me like 1 out of 10 times when I have my head stuck in a honey pot. They gotta patch this

January 29, 2026

And furthermore: One day, It will Happen, and you can start stocking up for when It Happens now! 🍾

Dear neighbor, It is not the time to let your guard down, nor is it the time to stop organizing. While Bovino will be leaving Minneapolis along with some U.S. Border Patrol agents, there is still no specific plan that has been communicated to the public. 1/