A protest broke out in a Saint Paul (Minnesota) church today after citizens learned that the pastor was also the director of the Field Office for ICE.

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News, there's a development. @brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176... This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."

“Conservative influencer Jake Lang led a small group of fewer than a dozen people with his “March Against Minnesota Fraud” outside Minneapolis City Hall. A second protest, organized by the People’s Action Coalition Against Trump, drew overwhelmingly more people, who chased Lang to a downtown hotel.”

From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.

This IS Stephen Miller's ideology. Full fucking stop. I won't even bother to pull out the salient quotes. Just click the link and read the whole thing. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

3:45 ET today will be a livestreamed memorial for Bob Weir. #GratefulDead www.youtube.com/live/sQRJmHV...

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

Dark hilarity from Brazil where the prison system permits inmates to reduce their sentences by reading books! For each title read—and reported on convincingly to officials—four days can be shaved off. Jair Bolsonaro has applied for the privilege, though the title… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Hahahahahahahaha

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Here’s the British library confirming what I’d posted about last week—they have acquired the archive of Ronald Blythe, author of the modern classic Akenfield.

This-Must-Stop-Now

An essay on a fave book in my home library, W. H. Auden's "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book." Uncommon now, commonplace books have been kept by many writers—Milton, Coleridge, George Eliot, Emerson, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, C.S. Lewis, and Auden. #BookSky philipsturner.com/w-h-audens-a...

Thank you Governor Walz. #Minnesota #Democracy youtu.be/Gd8MircG5Dg?...

Dear God! Trump defends these abusers and he threatens conscientious citizens who can't stand by and watch the abusers. Think of that old abuser defense: "You're made me do it." No, we didn't "make you do it." This is a choice. An evil choice to blame the victims.

I'm so worried. Todd Blanche and Tr*mp are giving every indication they plan to invoke the Insurrection Act, as @davidkurtz.bsky.social demonstrates here. #Minnesota #Democracy

The one thing authoritarian leaders usually have going for them is the general apathy of the majority when they make a move solely against a marginal group in society. But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.

My dog trying to cleanse the timeline

I’ve now seen videos from both the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor Tim Walz, and both of them look like they have not slept in weeks

#Iran #Minnesota #Democracy

This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time. Some thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

#Insurance #Minnesota

What too many people refuse to admit is while they search around frantically for signs that Trump will help Ukraine, what has really happened is that Trump has protected Putin while the Russians have criminally attacked Ukrainian civilian life. This foolishness must stop now.

NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).

Deep breath.

Does anyone think setting up a "working group" is going to satisfy Trump's bizarre imperial cravings?

Wow, that's good. Look at it enough and you'll see why. #ICEGoHome

This.

In the latest constitutional outrage by the Tr*mp admin, the home of the Washington Post reporter who published a 12/24/25 story on how she became a trusted figure for Tr*mp admin whistleblowers has been raided by Kash Patel's goons, who took Hannah Natanson's phone, files, etc. wapo.st/49BQBrh

Jack Smith, live testimony Jan 22.

Wow.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

A @propublica.org investigation found that federal immigration agents are using dangerous chokeholds on detainees and protesters prohibited by many police departments. 👇😡

Lovely—the archive of Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield, the classic portrait of a British village—is going to be housed at the British Library. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

BREAKING: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

I emailed this message to my Minnesota friends and friends with Minnesota roots tonight. #Solidarity

Wild reporting from Bloomberg. Jeanine Pirro apparently freelanced the subpoenas and criminal investigation of Jerome Powell.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

When militaries remove national identifiers from their kit, there's a word for it in the laws of war: Perfidy. That's what Tr*mp and Kegseth are engaged in here, perfidy. I'd say perfidy perfectly describes these bastards. "The Pentagon used a secret aircraft... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

This is a police state occupation and terror campaign that has nothing to do with immigration. I don’t see how courts haven’t already stepped in Minneapolis to stop this in the way they did in Chicago?

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

Good 🧵 on #Greenland. 👇👏

Nurses show up in our darkest moments. 9/11. The pandemic. Every illness and emergency. Their worth is not negotiable. Fair pay, safe conditions, dignity now. NYC stands with nurses and demands good faith bargaining for justice and care for all.

Sentiment check: r/wallstreetbets is absolutely libbing out, indistinguishable from Bsky.

This is an excellent column in the WSJ by my agency client Amy Knight. So much is tilting in the wrong direction for Putin, which she assembles coherently and concisely. Well done, Amy Knight! #Russia #Putin #Ukraine www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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