also, this is more politics posting than i wanted to do today, but if you feel crazy, if all of this makes you feel unmoored and insane and unbalanced, understand that this is a normal reaction to all of this. none of this shit should be happening.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

This has been the Fairbanks News-Miner's editorial page on most days this month. Fairbanksans are pissed. We don't take kindly to fascists.

An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Matt. 25:40-45

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

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.

They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us. We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.

You and I are watching protests and babies being tear gassed on social media. They are not. And part of that is because the media they consume - like the NYT - isn't really showing it.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

ICE abducted a 5 year old boy and put him in a Texas detention center. A 5 year old. Liam Ramos. His family was following all legal asylum parameters and were not under deportation orders.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social We The People are SUPER DISAPPOINTED IN OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.

Our constituents are being surveilled, threatened, tear gassed, shot, subjected to warrantless arrest, kidnapped, and disappeared. 35 people have died in detention in ICE’s deadliest year yet. ICE’s terror and violence need to end.

I'm calling it: within a week, trump will be talking about annexing greenland again.

reupping this in response to the ICE memo news. this is absolutely what they're doing.

We are building and financing a corrupt detention/industrial complex. It’s human trafficking, and it has to end.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

I think this is right. So much of how they’re going about this, from the needless brutality to the masks and unofficial gear, really only makes sense if the calculated goal is to provoke violence against ICE agents.

They hid this memo by the Acting Director that they could break into people's houses without a judicial warrant. You know WHY they hid this memo? Because they KNEW it was unlawful on its face.

This is life now. I just did art for an hour. Did anything happen?

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

"Seething" Watch.

We have reached the stage where we maintain the exact status quo but Trump gets convinced that his bluster and threats worked to obtain something. Meanwhile, the rest of the world will continue decoupling from the US and gravitating toward relations with an actually stable world power.

Just when I had been convinced it's over .... Thanks, Andy.

This is a phenomenal critical profile of the infinitely detestable Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

Imagine you are driving by and notice some MAGA thug violently attacking peaceful protestors. Protesters as old as 91. Yeah this happened in Texas but lucky for them a bystander stopped by and put an end to this. This was Paul Schroder. Also known as Texas Paul, who I follow: realtexaspaul.com

Every time I see a photo of these Nazis all geared up they're standing across from some mom in a puffy winter coat and they just look so pathetic.

“A 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and in a state of medical distress is being deported from Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon. Her attorney says her client has shooting pain in her abdomen and her back, and is suffering nausea and vomiting.”

ICE deputy assistant director Patricia Hyde's remarks offered the first confirmation from the agency that it is intensifying operations in the state. Hyde told Fox News her agency has a target list of 1,400 people in Maine.

HUGE: With the inaugurations of Governors Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill, Democrats now hold 24 governor’s mansions nationwide, up from 18 held ten years ago. This also marks the most Democratic women serving as governors at any time in our nation’s history.

Here's a quick and easy personality test. If you weren't throughly embarrassed by Trump's performance at Davos, then you're a Nazi.

Trump just openly declared that invoking the Insurrection Act will let him implement his immigration crackdown without going "through the court system." That's nonsense, but it's telling: Trump *thinks* it allows him to rule like a military dictator. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2055...

Dear God, man. You are Speaker of the House. Third in line to the presidency. Have some fucking dignity.

You know who else targeted higher education There’s a headline from the 1930s for every single thing that’s happening here today

Professor of rhetoric: ad baculum. It's a classic Trump threat - mention the thing he "won't" do as an implied threat. Media reports it out as "won't do it," target of implied threat understands, "he might."

HOLD UP. One of the biggest agitators in the Trump admin (and that is saying a lot!) is going to an occupied city for a chat and a speech? COME ON. He's going there to stir things up even more. Say that.

Interesting exchange between a NewsNation reporter and the White House press secretary re Iceland.

Basically correct I think

Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.

I quite like the idea that a mass of headlines saying he said he wouldn’t do X might mean that he now he can’t do X.

"Don't punish people for doing the thing you want them to do" is such key advice