DHS is using explosives on people’s homes??? “Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy

“I’ve read stories of folks rounded up who were seeking asylum with no order to leave the country, no criminal record, and consistently check in with authorities. Literally no reason to be rounded up. Surely we aren’t helping do that?” I have some bad news for this Palantir employee.

Having spent some time recently in an ICU -- these are just the most extraordinary people. Staggeringly committed. Thank you for your service.

more democrats should be pointing out that "illegal immigration" is not even a crime

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Let me get off here before I lose my Black southern lady training & completely get out of character.

I know these White folks saying “you don’t know what it feels like to have your community terrorized” are not talking to ME. I’m from Georgia & Alabama. My mama remembered a lynching in 1943 a couple counties over from her. There’s a book about it: Fire in the Canebrake. Y’all need to quit.

I know you’re not talking to anybody but other White folks. I know you are not talking to Black & Indigenous folks. I know that.

What, is he fled?

"I will have my vengence, in this life or the next" --Kristi Noem's puppy.

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling? #WorldCup ⚽️

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.

Even removing Miller is just the beginning.

I don’t want to be the skunk at the garden party. I truly hope things will calm down in Minneapolis, but remember that White supremacist brutality doesn’t admit defeat easily: They are already in other cities.

Keep your powder dry.

I am trying so hard not to yell at people but every day is a sojourn through reminders that they were fine as long as it wasn't them

White folks online saying “how can I explain this to my children?” What do you think Black folks have been explaining to their children—for centuries? Do you know how y’all sound?

Do y’all even see Black folks? Or do you just like our music & the latest TikTok dances? Jesus Christ.

Nearly every Black person online is trying to keep from flipping tables over the incredulity of White folks over what police forces can do—over White folks saying “this is just like the Nazis” when Nazis used southern Jim Crow as their model. I am infuriated. Where the **** have y’all been?

Demand the name of the shooter.

"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

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It's no coincidence that on the same day we learned there are *4,000* ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis rather than the 3,000 we were told, Trump tells Walz he might be willing to reduce the 4,000 slightly. He's giving up nothing. And Bovino getting moved out of state is just an "optics" decision.

Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.

I was thinking today about how the Feds organizing out at fort snelling, a place of horror historically, a place separated from the city, made it easier to stay united and focused outward on the occupying enemy.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

A Republican attorney in Minneapolis who gave legal counsel to the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race today, because “national Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota.”

’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes

It would be unwise to explain the extrajudicial killings by ICE as the result of untrained or rogue agents. This is a massive, heavily armed paramilitary type force loyal to the president, which is carying out the regime's stated policies.

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

Running list of athletes who have spoken out or taken action amid the Trump-Vance administration spending billions of US tax dollars on masked agents who have racially profiled, beaten, and kidnapped thousands of people — and murdered Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti:

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

"We've never been a 'show your papers' country." *stares in African American history* #Blackademics #EduSky

“Long before ‘CRT’ became the favored rhetorical weapon used to silence objective critiques […] Derrick Bell was telling a quieter, sharper story: progress arrives, recedes, and leaves a bill someone else must pay.” Read the full story at www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/26/d...

You are so welcome! I felt so seen when reading your book! I wish you so much success and I can’t wait to read more of your work!

and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you

they are running concentration camps, I am being told it's gonna get so much worse because the entire chain of command is raving psychopaths

Dems are gonna miss last week when they could've grabbed for "abolish ice" sorry now it is "imprison ice" keep up

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

I’ve been physically exhausted & didn’t know why. Today, the wave of crushing despair hit & I realized the last time I felt this way was in the days following my mama’s passing. This is grief. I can’t watch the news for a while, so I’m immersing myself in Toni Morrison’s new book of lectures.

Not only is authoritarianism not new, it is still in our living memory. Southern racial apartheid is more recent than the Nazis, and more relevant to understanding our current politics. As American politics have nationalized, the South anchors one of the two parties and exported its politics 5/x

These amendments were efforts to end Southern authoritarianism and had some initial success under Reconstruction, but were subsequently abandoned after Hayes made a deal with the devil to end Reconstruction in 1876. The result was Jim Crow, which lasted until the 1960s! 4/x

The end result of this compromise was the Constitutional failure in 1860--the Civil War. After the Civil War, which killed more Americans than all other wars combined, the Constitution needed to be remade. This effort culminated in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. 3/x

The South has been an authoritarian enclave for most of American history. Madison and Hamilton, despite very different ideological outlooks knew that 1.) slavery could stop the constitution from being ratified, and 2.) the "compromise" over slavery made the Constitution unstable. 2/x