I thank my lucky stars every day that the autocrats we are dealing with in this country are very impatient, and not very bright.

First paragraph of the lede story in the main French daily, the very straight-laced Le Monde: "One shouldn't forget to say this when describing what's happening these days: a social experiment by the Trump administration that involves pushing a city to its limits." www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Minneapolis, MN - Very developing situation here. FPS agents ran into the hotel. Tear gas deployed. Hotel patrons forced to put their hands up. One agent’s nose bloodied.

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.

they were, in fact, pretty direct

REV. SCHENCK: “I’m making up for the errors of my past— I spent 35 years as an activist for the religious right doing a lot of damage, inflicting suffering, contradicting the message I thought I was promoting.”

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

It is important for the reality-based media to report on how Fox lies to its audience. More of this please. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/b...

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

🔥MINNESOTA MAN to @stoneskynews.bsky.social : “The mood is anger. We’re angry with our federal government for invading us for no good reason other than Trump wasn’t backed here— it’s a violent, brutal fascist administration. Trump’s a terrible bully. We’re defending this place against him.”

New poster is pretty slick and to the point

[cynic’s heart melts] Americans are good actually.

Can’t get over that Pretti’s parents yesterday woke up thinking everything was normal and by the end of the day they were watching the federal government trash their dead son.

being heckled at a restaurant for being in the gestapo and being beat up by 6 gestapo agents, bear sprayed, and shot 8 times with zero accountability is equivalent to these freaks

Steph Curry on watching the protests from his hotel window: "In negative 10-degree weather. It was beautiful to see that turnout. That speaks to how important people felt to have their voice heard. In those elements and whatever streets outside our hotel, they were out, and it was amazing to watch."

Remarkable stat.

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove. people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

COACH KERR: “Their group (the Minnesota Timberwolves) was suffering. It was one of the most bizarre, sad games I’ve ever been a part of.” (From Anthony Slater)

To all my friends and colleagues still in the cult - today is an especially good day to leave.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

Incredible. Right wing influencers spent a whole day trying to convince everyone this was a good shoot. Meanwhile, Trump won’t say he supports it, and ICE sources are telling Fox News that it’s a bad shoot and the admin’s (Miller, Noem, Vance) messaging isn’t helping.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

Happy that their support is caving in. But also, what a stark illustration of moral cowardice. Two residents of your state blown away by armed thugs, and whether or not you excused it depended on how the polls looked. She should resign and seek forgiveness from whatever god she prays to.

There have been 3 homicides in Minneapolis this year. Trump’s agents committed two of them: a mom and a nurse who cared for our Veterans. Stay the hell out of our cities.

Courage is largely a product of empathy, which they deride as a weakness.

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

No trace of grace anywhere in this administration.

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

"having DNA from...Roman times" honestly the participation trophy to end all participation trophy. you did it, man. you had ancestors.

literally everything i’ve seen this month makes me want to move to twin cities and build a life there

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

Hurting people is easy. It's lazy. Anyone can do it with the right tools and the wrong morals. Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

cooked

The GOP and conservative movement is the pro-death party.

Target Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts

Pretti was lying down in the street, disarmed. At that moment, he was defenseless. Renee Good was trying to leave the scene when she was shot.

Oh my God, what an incredibly real and incredibly terrifying story. These grown men were locked inside a restaurant? Wow. It's hard to say where that ranks next to the state-sanctioned murders and the kidnapping of children, but gosh, they were briefly locked inside a restaurant? Heaven forfend.

Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary. Should’ve been a warning.

Gawt DAMN. What’s the name of his store? Wanna send him some signed goodies.

Holy shit.

Love you KAT.

Alex Pretti did not “tragically die. He was murdered.

i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...