Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Politics over sound science kill people. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

Meat and ferments

This is great! I know everyone’s putting their back into mutual aid, but Mercado Central‘s could still use some love: www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

CDC study highlights growing threat of invasive E coli A US surveillance study found a higher estimated incidence rate of invasive E coli than expected, and worrisome levels of antibiotic resistance. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

UPDATE: 27 states + DC now reject all or part of CDC vaccine schedule. 23 states+DC reject the whole new schedule, following the American Academy of Pediatrics instead. Three states continue to recommend one or two individual shots taken off the CDC schedule. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

This is phenomenal work. Looking forward to more of this from the collaboration between @cidrap.bsky.social and @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

Pediatrics published the Vaccine Integrity Project’s hepatitis B birth dose vaccine evidence review online. The review looked at: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion was unmistakable. There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose. tinyurl.com/4kbsm49f

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID The low-cost drug may lower the risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 40% to 60%. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

At a time when many decisions are being made that will cause infectious diseases to surge (or re-emerge) in the US, here is some good news on a global scale to celebrate.

CDC data show decline in hospital-related infections in 2024 US acute care hospitals in 2024 saw lower rates of healthcare-associated infections compared with 2023, marking a continued decline from COVID pandemic-era highs. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...

Emerging bat virus found in stored throat swabs from 5 patients with suspected #Nipah infection The finding raises the concern that dangerous bat viruses may be silently co-circulating with Nipah virus. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...#Nipah Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard / Flickr cc

We had to say goodbye to our sweet little Frankie tonight. He was a prince among dogs, and the most handsome chihuahua mix west of the Mississippi. We’ll miss him dearly. RIP Frankie.

In any other administration, this story would dominate the news for weeks and likely lead to calls for impeachment. It’s barely cracking the top five right now.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

Liam Ramos’ classmates miss him, so they decided to write letters to the ICE agents who took him. “Dear ICE,” one student wrote, “You are scaring schools, people and the world.”

That is the most people I’ve ever seen on a bike ride. Had to be 1,000+ people. We’re pedaling for Pretti today.

Good advice from an ophthalmologist Dr Glaucoflecken (I know - still not sure it's a real name) on what to do if you get tear-gassed. Looking at you, #Minnesota Warriors for Democracy & Justice! Also #Minneapolis. Y'all know we always got you, right? Peace & love!

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026. 📷: WCCO-TV

This horrifying @mprnews.org @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social story should shake you to your core. It’s a tremendous piece of journalism.

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

cover of The Economist this week

Fuck all the way off, and then fuck off a little further, just keep going and fucking off until you're completely out of fucking off space and then fuck off just a tiny bit further.

The ignorance (or calculated evil) of RFK Jr. is astounding. Thimerosal hysteria is just as made up as vaccines causing autism. www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...

US pressures Gavi to phase out use of thimerosal-containing vaccines US officials say they'll withhold funding from the global vaccine group unless it develops a plan to end its use of vaccines containing the preservative. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a... Photo: WHO / Michael Duff

How exactly do you reform this?

Does anyone know what happened to Alex Pretti’s phone, or who has it?

I live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.

We profiled refugees who: Arrived in the country legally. Applied for green cards. Were arrested by ICE and detained. One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released. This is an unprecedented operation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

#AlexPretti @unite4vets.bsky.social

Sound up.

The world has lost a public health legend, but I have to say that writing about an individual who did so much good for the world was truly inspiring in the midst of all the tragedy and chaos.

Love you KAT.

The Timberwolves may have signed that insipid CEO statement, but their chaplain is spitting fire

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

He wasn’t “at a protest.”

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

They shoot nurses, don't they.

Volunteered to pack food at a church in Burnsville this morning, along with at least 50 others. It made me feel a little better about the world seeing how many people just want to help. And then I got in my car and heard ICE had murdered another person in the street.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

“The times they are a changin’”

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-...

Minnesota is the best of us.

Nothing about this appearance was aimed at the people of Minnesota. This was for a national audience. And nothing about it was meant to find any common ground with the people of Minnesota, it was meant to needle them.