2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

Just unspeakably cruel

chicago

A thread on escalations in ICE tactics I've noted, that struck me as over & beyond what we saw them do in Chicago. (Besides the murders. I don't think I have to mention that, but they did that in Chicago too.) For my own reference & preparedness

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

Unbelievably honored to be endorsed by the Girl, I Guess voter guide! As establishment forces rush to anoint the same tired power brokers, GIG does the opposite. It looks past the status quo and asks a more important question: Who will actually fight for real change?

It's NOT eerie. It IS intentional. The ones in Pennsylvania are very near tracks too. www.reddit.com/r/Pennsylvan...

this is fucking metal and i love it

Totally forgot to add this but someone mentioned how eerie it is that a train track is running near the area and it actually runs directly behind the proposed concentration camp. This video is from the parking lot:

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

This is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

Awful: On 1/6 around 6:34 AM, a tow truck driver struck and killed a pedestrian on 4-lane Touhy at Kildare in Lincolnwood. abc7chicago.com/post/lincoln... Tuesday around 6:08 AM, an SUV driver fatally struck a man, 84, crossing 5-lane Touhy at Central in Niles. abc7chicago.com/post/niles-i...

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

Google complies with administrative warrants for Gmail accounts? Is that what this is saying?? That’s horrifying

ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed. If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.

NEW: A lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Friday asks the courts to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate "unlawful conduct" by federal agents, since Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has "taken no action whatsoever."

Informer systems are the traditional tool used by repressive regimes for domestic intelligence gathering to penetrate organizations and social circles. I view Palantir as the modern analog because it seeks a technical substitute for the same problem of capturing presence, identity, and association.

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

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.

Huge news! They actually released Liam Ramos and his father! Please remember that ICE is abducting more people - including children - all the time. And they will no doubt keep trying to harass and destroy this family. Defund and abolish ICE and support immigrants! kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

did he actually... shit himself? am i living in a fever dream

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

In an interview with MPR News, Liam's mother gave an update on her son and her own safety. She said Liam asks again and again, “Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?” Or “Mommy, we don’t want to be here anymore. This place is ugly.”

Local advocacy matters.

I couldn't go to this for logistical reasons but I am, as ever, so fuckin proud of Texans who are standing up against this fuckery

“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day

In Maine:

He shot her in the face in her own kitchen.

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

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Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

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.

sure kristi noem could be impeached but what if... stephen miller died

Here are some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people here in Minnesota. Photo courtesy of the @startribune.com.

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

Meanwhile, Politico is reporting that Noem’s pick for acting cybersecurity chief was caught uploading sensitive CISA documents to the public version of ChatGPT 🤡 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good was part of Trump’s ICE, Biden’s ICE, and Obama’s ICE.

Details for the memorial ride for Alex Pretti in Chicago this weekend. - Meet at 1:15pm, Roll at 1:30pm - John Walsh Park (E end of The 606) - Route to come, we will roll @ party pace (casual, no drop) toward the VA on Damen where a memorial is set up for Alex. See you Saturday.

in ≈20 states this year, sheriffs who have joined ICE's 287(g) program are up for reelection i found that a small number of sheriffs are actually representing counties that rejected Trump & voted Harris in 2024. and they're up for reelection in 2026. Learn more: boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

WBEZ and the University of Chicago made a deliberate choice to limit their debate to just 3 candidates. In doing so, the chose to exclude the only veteran, CPS teacher, and union member on the top of the ballot.

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

And he kept going out there. A hero.