JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Brett Ratner, Director of Melania Trump Doc, Seen in Photo Released from Epstein Files

Minneapolis, MN - The vigil for Alex Pretti on E 26th and Nicollet currently. Every day I’ve visited, it noticeably grows. Several stores here are still closed for businesses; a few of them have switched into mutual aid centers and continue to provide hand warmers and the like.

NEW: An informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a "personal hacker," according to a document released today. The document does not name the hacker, but says he is Italian, developed and sold zero-days (iOS and Blackberry) to governments such as the U.K. and the United States.

so six months after epstein expressed concern about patricia kluge’s real estate problem in charlottesville, donald trump swoops in and gets a sweetheart deal on the property?

Apparently Trump is speaking at a banquet tomorrow that commemorates Robert E. Lee's birthday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa...

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...

This and a reminder Sean Feucht is heading to Minneapolis next week

The zip for 9 is now up, and it's about 185 GB www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

As I pointed out in ctl alt speech yesterday, the guy who runs the app appeared to be ridiculously naive about what it takes to run a social media app. Everything he's said to the press has raised serious questions so this is not too surprising

English, Spanish, Somali, and Hmong versions of the community warning poster for 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐳, an ICE kidnapper from Miami, FL, who threatened a Minneapolis observer by saying "You raise your voice, I'll erase your voice." Please print, distribute, and post. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE #MPLS

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Federal officers just came in and cleared the protest with tear gas. One officer asked press why we didn’t call 911 when the protesters were destroying the hotel and told us that we are bad Americans. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

More TK from the Ten Four, and likely a few other outlets. If you’d like to support me and the Ten Four directly, you can do so here: venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews

Minneapolis, MN - Many many more agents filing into the area around the hotel. Minneapolis PD announcing everyone is under arrest, telling them to sit down with their hands up. An ad hoc journalist squad being told to go further down the street. Chemicals irritant deployed in the road.

Anti-ICE activists found the hotel a bunch of CBP are staying at. Unclear what happened next but CBP tear-gassed the street and are now all outside both sides of the hotel in their gear and blocking traffic.

National Guard trucks pulling into parking lot across from the Whipple building tonight. J

We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Greetings! I’m here in sunny Minneapolis, where there are hundreds of protesters marching against federal deportation raids and recent fatal shootings by federal agents.

When authorities used ICE's facial recognition app on a detained woman, it returned two different and incorrect names, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the app. Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate. www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

Flashback to earlier this week:

Cool times, normal times

AP reports on how an ICE agent, after the shooting, told “Boo hoo” to protesters. apnews.com/article/immi...

Please reshare the below post, unfortunately some accounts with lots of followers have reposted the false claim and loads of people are falling for it.

Don't believe your lying eyes:

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’ Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota. Read now: zeteo.com/p/dhs-shooti...

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

The incident occurred just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

ProPublica reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained by immigration agents. “The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief writes. (Published Dec. 2025)

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies. “At the end of last year, after his father's arrest, his family said he had been rushed to the hospital twice.”

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

If your workplace has purchased stop-loss insurance from Chris Rosati, and you're concerned about his membership in Patriot Front, a group that has a $3.15mil judgement for civil rights violations hanging over its head, TMHCC can be reached here.

Tobias Kinter Bencosme, 44, of Miami, FL, is an ICE Supervisory Detention Agent who participated in the illegal home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly American citizen in St Paul, MN on 1/18/2026. Bencosme dragged the Hmong grandfather outside in the frigid air wearing only boxers and a blanket.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

ICE is investigating - and issued a rare condemnation - after a Colorado nonprofit said agents left behind branded “death cards” in vehicles abandoned after their owners were arrested in the state’s high country: www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...

Minneapolis, MN - Dozens of protesters are in the street outside of the Target Center (the anti-ICE event inside recently ended). Smashing blocks of ICE, chanting “fuck Donald Trump.”

Statement from Rep. Alma Hernandez saying that ICE took a family who are currently in the asylum process from her neighborhood in South Tucson this morning. Rep. Hernandez says this also occurred in front of an elementary school as children were outside.

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

i made a YouTube version of my 2025 year-end wrap-up of the U.S. Far Right if you missed it between the all the news, or just prefer to watch videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMm...

Get connected IRL. 🧵 1) If you are savvy at keeping up with current events & haven't connected with anyone locally, it's time to do that. Make a point of finding a local group to join for an event. Show up. Your own knowledge & skills are valuable, and there are so many folks happy to mentor and

Affected communities and people with health conditions deserve accurate information. It is good and necessary to correct one another about these things:

A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.