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📌TRUMP today: “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” Anybody who still supports this anti-American lowlife is actively contributing to the fall of our Democracy.

Russia is conducting a major terror attack on Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities at this very moment. Trump is a fool, a liar and a danger.

A whistleblower has alleged inappropriate conduct by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. It is so highly classified that it hasn’t been shared with Congress. Gabbard has been busy blocking its release. The national security concerns go all the way to the White House. #AnotherCoverup.

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to having a unique status among anyone born in a US state or territory.) Now the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. Months of reporting in this story:

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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Black History Month

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

It’s all connected. Abolish ICE and abolish DHS. www.propublica.org/article/vide...

January 30, 2026

Shout out to those people who are making sure good eats are delivered. By Jeff Danziger.

It's minus 12°C outside in Ukraine. The room where the youth orchestra rehearses is also cold, and due to the lack of electricity, they have to use a speaker and a battery to recharge it. But despite this, rehearsals continue. 📹: Garmoniya Orchestra/Facebook

So @gtconway.bsky.social had some things to say about Don Lemon‘s arrest youtu.be/y5AOUTbrEzg?...

“We’re born and raised here,” she said. “The cold doesn’t bother us.” As the students marched, passing motorists honked car horns to encourage the already energetic marchers. A few pulled to the sides of snow-clogged streets to watch and shout words of support." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

So many other facts go into one being in poverty. How about teaching about generational poverty & generational wealth? I am all for people having children surrounded with a support system, but you can be married & have no support & still be in poverty even if you did everything in the "right" order.

Reality Distortion in the Age of Trump and the Corrupt Court talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

HOLY CRAP! The US did this in Mexico last week! “If the U.S. government is unilaterally going into a sovereign country and apprehending somebody, you can understand the concern that sovereign entity might have,” Columbia said.

Mike Braun has a military police to use against citizens when he wants if this bill becomes Indiana law. It's the sneaky way around the Posse Comitatus Act, as it would be the state, rather than federal, gov't authorizing the NG to act as police against against it's own citizens.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I STAND WITH STELLA CARLSON (THE PINK JACKET LADY)

A federal judge told ICE: “The Court’s patience is at an end.” After ignoring dozens of court orders, the administration was forced to answer. But it doesn’t sound like the administration is committed to de-escalation. Read about what actually happened today. joycevance.substack.com/p/ice-gettin...

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day which marks the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp & remembers that 6 MILLION Jewish people & millions of others were murdered by state sanctioned violence, I WANT TO REITERATE: ABOLISH ICE Before it abolishes us! Resist tyranny!

This five year old is still in jail

Donald Trump is so demented that he thinks he needs to add extra ICE to the Winter Olympics

ICE agents are not local or state police and the agent had no authority over Roberts. The agent came out and confronted him with a weapon because he believes himself to be regular law enforcement. Were he afraid for his life maybe he should have stayed inside. *Firing a gun into the air was foolish

Russia attacked Ukraine with 165 drones of various types last night. In Mykolaiv region, energy infrastructure was attacked. A 59-year-old woman was seriously injured. In Lviv region, an infrastructure facility was targeted. In Kryvyi Rih, a nine-story residential building was damaged.

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“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy WH Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, Trump must dismiss them," AFGE NP Kelley

“Elected Republicans could stop this tonight if they wanted to. […] This is a country of 340 million people. 16 people could stop this tonight. 23 people could impeach and remove Trump. if they wanted to.” - @hcrichardson.bsky.social on YouTube #FundHealthcareStopICE youtube.com/shorts/DekIP...

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Today in Chandler Arizona (Phoenix area) high school students walked out to PEACEFULLY PROTEST ICE So proud of them STAND UP AGAINST ICE ICE RAIDS ARE ESCALATING IN ARIZONA OUR SENATORS KELLY & GALLEGO WILL VOTE NO FOR ICE FUNDING BILL Please call yours BLOCK ICE FUNDING 202 224-3121

"The regime’s mind-blowing lies are ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary."

Pamela Jo Bondi incriminatingly revealed (she's smart that way) that ICE in Minneapolis is *not* about immigration. It's about extortion to interfere with upcoming elections. And because Donald got his delicate feelings hurt that the city didn't vote for him.

So simply naming someone is doxxing, but taking photos and license plate numbers to create a database of the opposition for government stalking and harassment purposes is not? Naming someone is not doxxing them, and moving them to another city to kill more is conspiracy against rights.

how trump lost the battle of minnesota (debated between this and "the battle of the twin cities," which does sound more evocative) youtu.be/vxI8sR-I0ME

National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...

A message from Greenland 🇬🇱

January 25, 2026

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Leaders of the so-called “pro-life, small government” party who relentlessly warn of tyranny are standing by as masked agents roam the country and brutalize its people. The hypocrisy isn’t surprising — but it’s staggering. Remember this.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

Lies. The word is: lies.

“It doesn’t matter to them that the semi-auto ban gives jack-booted government thugs more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us,” Wayne LaPierre, then the executive director of the NRA..."

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L