Another secret memo guiding ICE agents to work around the Fourth Amendment in defiance of a district court judge's temporary restraining order

And the kids came out in Oakland oaklandside.org/2026/01/30/o...

"When [principals] Sherk and Kuhlman entered the building with the boys, they said they saw other children being held there. 'They have cartoons on the television for all the kids that are coming in there and waiting — a box of books on the floor for the kids that are in there,' said Sherk."

Meet the $711,000-a-year Oakland cop. And no, he's not alone. 58 officers in Oakland took in more than $100K each in overtime in a single year. oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

When even someone from the Family Research Council is saying this: “We don’t need guys in masks breaking down people’s doors to take American citizens out of their homes. This is what people think of when they think of fascism. It confirms their worst fears.” washingtonstand.com/article/crac...

Bush-appointed district court judge Patrick Schiltz: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

So Dan and Jane, suburban white grandparents in Minnesota, now see ICE as "the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo boys. They've given them uniforms and let them run wild."

Every day, a new kind of cruelty

Interesting strategy, though is 50% a bit low? www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Arresting the people who feed them, the people who house them

Quite the little aside in this NYT story about eugenicists stealing NIH data to create pseudoscience about race

This image.

Another failure to offer CPR or to promptly allow a physician bystander to do so

Devastating.

The stories keep getting wilder

Two Cybertruck owners have filed complaints with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration saying a Cybertruck latch malfunction has led to the vehicle's heavy doors suddenly swinging open. oaklandside.org/2026/01/23/t...

For those following Gavin Newsom's crime-fighting claims, Annie Gilbertson dug into the data on his "surge" of state troopers to Oakland. Violent crime arrests? Exceedingly few Disproportionate stops of Black and Latino drivers? Check oaklandside.org/2026/01/21/n...

“The author of a controversial memo telling Democrats to abandon the slogan ‘Abolish ICE’ and instead focus on reform and retraining is a former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official.”

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

A torah scroll is so sacred that when it is too damaged to repair, it has to be buried like a person. Seven scrolls were burned in this fire.

It’s been an awful week, and this at least is some pretty amazing News.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

In case you need a bit of encouragement after yesterday's frontal attack on trans youth, there's a movement catching fire in the Bay Area. oaklandside.org/2025/12/19/t...

I think anyone who has mental illness in the family recognizes the journey the Reiners have been on, trying & failing, giving up & trying again, worrying that the worst could happen, the worst being the death of their child. Trump fails to see how many people see themselves in this tragedy.

Funnest lawsuit of the week.

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

Major peer-reviewed research advance — out of a public university.

Fascism begets antifascism.

Many on the left have called for a general strike. Is the Trump Administration is starting to set one in motion?

There's little so pure as taxing the rich to feed kids lunch.

"I experience a lot of grief. Grieving not knowing my own family. I think a lot about how different our relationships would be if they had the ability to travel and I had the ability to go to Gaza." oaklandside.org/2025/11/03/g...

Oof.

... it's been close to or more than 62 days since Trump deployed forces to the Caribbean to engage in such strikes--which means that in addition to violating the Constitution, the assassination ban, two criminal murder statutes, and international law, [2] ... www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews. In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

There are people, many people, thousands of people, whose job it is to get up every morning and do this to families, to listen to the cries and screams, to go home for dinner, and wake up the next morning and do it again.

I'm helming as Oaklandside is posting live today from Coast Guard Island, where Customs and Border Protection is arriving for operations in the Bay Area: oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/l...

My mom was a planner in the National Park Service. The *years* that would go into review and incorporating community input for things like what interpretive signage should say.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

This is a seismic shift.

Things can be restored.

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Judge Illston’s temporary restraining order against the shutdown layoffs is scathing. “It is also far from normal for an administration to fire line-level civilian employees during a government shutdown as a way to punish the opposing political party …” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Swamp, drained.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

Judge William Young: “The case squarely presents the issue whether noncitizens … have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The court answers this question unequivocally, ‘Yes, they do.’“ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...