Gavin Newsom just announced that California will be the first state to join the World Health Organization. This is in direct defiance of Donald Trump, who just pulled the United States out of the organization.

Liam Ramos on many people’s minds.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Clergy at a news conference yesterday. Today, clergy were at the airport, supported by 1000's of protesters. The person speaking in the picture is Bishop Budde, who preached courageously after Trump's inauguration. Behind her is Bishop Nagel of the ELCA's Mpls synod.

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

School district leaders tell MPR News that they have verified incidents in which children, parents and school staff members have been pulled into vehicles by masked agents or detained in other ways.

Cartoon by Steve Sack

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

To the British parliament (I think)--treat Trump like the bully he is. Kudos to Ed Davey.

BREAKING: The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, just delivered the strongest rebuke of Donald Trump we’ve seen yet regarding Greenland. Wow.

im starting to think this country has bigger issues than pronouns in bio and corporate diversity training videos

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So the DOJ is going to investigate protesters who interrupted a church service, but not the ICE agent who killed a citizen? DOJ investigation: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... Church protest: www.youtube.com/shorts/Tk3b6...

Hilarious.

Of course. Grift with impunity is the reason he ran again.

It's three weeks after the deadline to release the Epstein files.

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

Thank you to the those in the rest of the country and the world who are supporting Minnesota.

Oh, kudos to Mayor Frey. I love his response.

Pastor: I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. I said, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The next thing I knew, they put handcuffs on me and put me in the back of an SUV. I asked if I was under arrest. They said to me, 'Well, you're white, you won't be any fun anyway.'

More bad policy news: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Who could have guessed, besides everybody? ICE has murdered a woman in Mpls. Will there be accountability? Will Trump simply pre-pardon whoever it was? Will we ever even know who it was? Don't believe HS's story-it's counter to eyewitness accounts. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The technical term, in international law for this is "a smash and grab"

The GOP drive to suppress eduction moves ever onward...

This is an interesting thread exposing misinformation about the Venezuela strike. Of course, I personally can't verify that the thread isn't also misinformation.

Prof Eliot Jacobson: And it's a wrap. The year 2025 came in at 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the 3rd warmest year on record behind 2023 (1.48°C) and 2024 (1.60°C), and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years.

“Why was Trump suddenly interested in allegations of fraud under investigation for years? If you think it’s because some Somali Americans have been involved and Trump wants to foment racist and anti-immigrant hatred… you’re absolutely right.”

Holy wack a moley!

We had Christmas yesterday, while my son and my SO-in-law were here. I forgot the most important picture, one of all of us, but we had a nice time and played a new game that Silas got for Ashley. Fittingly, Ashley won. We had a wonderful wonderland for our Christmas, too. 🥰

Kudos to CBS for debunking Nick Shirley's video, but if it doesn't play on Fox, Trump will never hear about it.

I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

My first direct tariff--you know, the ones we won't have to pay.

This is vile. (And it is real--I checked.) It is also evidence of whatever is going wrong with his brain, though his brain wasn't right to start with.

Now that I know its current meaning, slop is a great word of the year. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

Kill it, please!

BREAKING: Democrat Eric Gisler has won the GA HD-121 special election, Decision Desk HQ projects, flipping the seat from red to blue Just last year, Gisler lost this district by 22 points. The district was Trump +12 in 2024.

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.