In May, I told Rubio that locking up students for exercising their free speech rights was outrageous & unlawful. He scoffed. Now, a judge has said he & others engaged in an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to take away those rights. We must defend our freedoms at every turn.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Poor billionaires. Their ideology is so toxic and repellent to normal humans that they have to purchase themselves a fake university in order to obtain academic legitimacy for their sociopathic ideas. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just a little anecdote to support the polling that shows Trump's ICE violence is souring independents and even some republicans: I'm currently on a train with a south shore family, one of whom is wearing a state police shirt, and they're saying what's happening in Minnesota is "a little extreme"

Gotta hand it to Trump. He's not only evil. He's also incredibly stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...

I dislike this monster (who is one of two people responsible for us not getting childcare or housing in the inflation reduction act) as much as anyone but is being a ho civilly actionable? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Just for once, I would love a reporter to ask a cop who is doing this: "Are you law enforcement or do you make the law? I've heard many police officers say 'Don't blame us, we just enforce the law.' But you're trying to stop lawmakers from imposing police oversight. Explain."

In the event that ICE tries to flash this at you, look for the caption at the top. See where it has United States District Court and below it all the )))))s, along with a case number? ICE's administrative warrants don't have that.

📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media. I was the ME of S&S. It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops. So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.

ACLU sues Trump administration over unconstitutional stops, arrests of Minnesotans by federal agents www.courthousenews.com/aclu-sues-tr...

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The library ebook business is such a scam. Good to see dem state lawmakers are considering banding together to negotiate fairer deals.

The Make-A-Wish President

This reminded me of something @laurajedeed.bsky.social was told at an ICE recruitment event months back: slate.com/news-and-pol...

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

On the long history of this kind of relationship to the state in the Black community: under the mailbox, “We don't dial 911”

Trump’s regime is going after a Maine school because there’s a trans kid on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/15/n...

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

They're going to start using the Kirk witch hunt strategy.

If you don’t want people to hate you, don’t oppress them.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

Silicon Valley over twenty years went from “we’ll help you have fun with your friends on the computer” to “we must clear the way for the inevitable machine master race.”

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is

New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.

This is what American patriotism looks like and it's going to win.

Good thing elections are run by state and local governments and not this fucker

See some chatter about violence v non violence. Have whatever opinions you like about the morality of violent resistance. The plain and simple truth is that non violence is the only way to win, strategically and practically speaking.

They've been doing everything possible to provoke violent reprisals against ICE and it's not working. So they're just skipping to the next part of the plan, without waiting for the pretext. Impatient little monsters, aren't they.

This is so dangerous! Trump is threatening to deploy the Insurrection Act because people are mad at ICE. He calls protesters insurrectionists after leading an actual insurrection himself.

Major Minnesota employers including Target, General Mills, Caribou Coffee, Best Buy, 3M, UnitedHealth Group, Ecolab, and Hormel have yet to comment on the federal surge of immigration enforcement despite workforce impacts, economic harm, and traumatized communities.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Thanks so much, John Roberts!

Past time for Dem govs to create a mechanism or lead a movement aimed at withholding blue-state federal tax dollars. No straightforward way to do this, but it’s a solvable problem.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This good-natured, 34-year-old, Muslim, immigrant man—who the Times bemoaned was too young and radical to “get anything done”—has accomplished more good governance in a *week* on the job than most liberal politicians accomplish in their whole careers. With a smile & a joyful heart. A blessing.

In fact, Trump was like the only person in American public life who *praised* the Chinese government for its Tiananmen crackdown.

The entire city of Minneapolis should converge on this home in protest

Another brazenly illegal move that will kill people. Who’s gonna sue over this one? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Last night (1/13) a noise demonstration at the Graduate by Hilton Hotel went until late - it was eventually pushed out of the area by police in riot gear.

Death camps involve mass execution at scale. But historically the majority of deaths in most *concentration camp* systems have come from disease, lack of medical care, hunger, and physical abuse. This is the stage we're at now, and we should shut it down before our system can devolve further.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

“Honestly, I was one of those people that believed, ‘well, if you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s the big deal?’ But here’s a situation where I was doing absolutely nothing wrong, and I almost lost my entire career over this.”

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Excellent thread on important labor and immigration history.