"There is too much Democratic talk about “asking” the administration to do an investigation or “working with” Republicans to come to agreements...Moments of crisis are fluid and unpredictable. At such moments, it’s foolish to start by compromising with oneself." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Gov. Janet Mills: "Congress needs to stand up today and and tell this president that Kristi Noem must go and ICE must be withdrawn. They're only creating problems."

Short & concise & accurate reporting by BBC.

Susan Collins, Jon Husted, John Cornyn, Dan Sullivan are making it clear that they think protecting ICE's ability to murder Americans is worth shutting the government down. Voters in Maine, Ohio, Texas, and Alaska will remember it this November.

1. The Trump administration is not conducting its deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis alone Major corporations, including Amazon, Citizens Bank, and AT&T, are enabling — and profiting from — the operation. popular.info/p/the-corpor...

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

I just...

One year into his second term, President Trump has pardoned an unusually high number of wealthy people accused of financial crimes. And about half of the pardon recipients are either business executives or politicians. What a coincidence...

"This is a criminal president and a criminal administration. This is straight-out fascism. This is about ending democracy. These people are destroying the Constitution. And if we say it in words that are any less blunt, we are not telling the truth." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

What the hell is this, @cnn.com? Are you telling me that the people who work in your editing bay don't know that the word is "Democratic," and that using "Democrat" as an adjective in this way is a slur with a long history? Get your shit together. You are embarrassing yourselves.

WSJ: “A preliminary analysis of the video’s audio suggests a total of 10 shots were fired from a single semiautomatic firearm.” Suggests among the 8 officials, only one fired all the shots.

“In Ron DeSantis’s Florida…parents at one Miami school received a notice that their first graders would need a signed permission slip to “participate and listen to a book written by an African American.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/b...

This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:

We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.* The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Scalise lies: "The want to defund ICE. They defunded police. The police chief of Mpls said yesterday multiple times how stretched thin his department is. They don't have enough people because Mpls defunded the police." (Police were not defunded and MPD is stretched thin bc of unrest caused by ICE)

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. This is backfiring against Republicans. .. Americans don’t want law enforcement shooting people in the street or arresting five-year-old boys.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/time...

cut off funds to the Minn deployment absent a request from the governor; limit CBP operations to the border (as used to be the case); require body cameras, immediate suspension of any agent after firing his/her weapon; eliminate masks; install an IG; etc. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Is the government ever going to release the name of the masked agent who killed Alex Pretti or are we going to continue to have a federal secret police in this country?

Fox did big purges of the more credible (for fox) reporters after the 2020 election and replaced them a bunch of gop campaign/trump admin types, Sean Hannity’s longtime exec producer runs the digital operation.

New: “By insisting that details of two killings that millions of Americans saw on cellphone videos did not take place, senior administration officials are fracturing reality and implying that their brazen power can be wielded with impunity.” By Stephen Collinson www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...

I am underwhelmed by “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” The minimum demand should be all ICE and CBP agents off the streets of Minnesota. The minimum. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

“these people are malignant narcissists, whose lives are all about displaying dominance…climbing down after you’ve murdered people and lied about it would be humiliating — and humiliation is their greatest fear.” Was This a Murder Too Far? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

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

"Separate analyses by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, CBS News and other organizations all concluded that the videos contradict the Trump administration’s description of the killing." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.

3-Senate Dems will try to advance the other five spending bills (which are relatively bipartisan) without DHS. 4-All of this would require Senate Republicans to agree, and the House to come back and pass before Friday. Both unlikely.

NEWS from inside the Senate Dem meeting tonight: 1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill 2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas. (cont'd)

“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.”

The attacks on Somalis, like the old "welfare queen" allegations, twisted some real facts and mainstream policy arguments into a fictional tale that leveraged ugly sentiments against a minority group in order to promote a more radical agenda.

Point blank. 10-shots. Execution. A US citizen, a VA ICU Nurse. Then lying. Blocking a real investigation.

Statement by President Clinton

BILL CLINTON: "Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back."

Remember www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/p...

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

Implying that a man had it coming because he lawfully brought a handgun to a peaceful protest is a profound moral failure. Constitutional rights do not cancel each other out, and exercising them does not justify state violence.

This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already. They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.

Wolfers: This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you are not the ones who should be tearing down your existing institutions. But that’s exactly what this president is doing

“President Trump and his appointees have demonstrated themselves to be unconcerned with truth and willing to lie to serve their own interests. Congress therefore must step in. The Constitution vests it with the power to hold hearings, issue subpoenas and demand answers.”

He died because he stepped forward instead of away, because he put himself between human beings and monsters who wanted to hurt them, because he did the thing we teach, the thing we praise, the thing we raise our children to believe still matters. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Every day makes clearer that ICE and CBP are the type of domestic enemy that every federal employee swears an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" against.

Non-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?

Very good framing by @ejdionne.bsky.social capturing the urgency of the Trump threat: "Failing to confront what’s at stake would be a generational failure. The danger now is not alarmism but complacency." EJ marshals lots of evidence of this from many different places and presents it well here:

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Hugo Lowell told MSNOW that the Trump administration expects that the murder of Alex Pretti will "blow over and go away." They believe that Americans will forget about it in a week or so.

Bovino: “ICE are the victims”

A standing reminder: a small handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.