New: Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is leading an administration-wide effort to probe the 2020 election for fraud and regularly briefing Trump and top White House officials on her progress. Officials are discussing EOs on voting ahead of midterms. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Just, you know, going out on a limb, but if states constitutionally don’t have to act as instruments of federal law enforcement, seems like a campaign of terror against the civilian population to coerce them to do so ought also to be unconstitutional.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump, Rep. Mace, and other GOP leaders have incited with lies about Ilhan Omar for years, even doing a Two Minutes Hate about her at Trump rallies. Given that, I guess it’s better to see Mace worry that the attack on Omar could reflect badly on her, rather than laugh, celebrate, or lie about it.

And there you have it. As an economist I warned about this and was told I was allowing passion to cloud my reason.

Incredible 20-minute interview by Anderson Cooper of the woman who witnessed, with her camera rolling, as federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minnesota. She says she was terrified but also felt she had to document what was happening in her community: www.facebook.com/share/v/1J5g...

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.

Reminder of the pattern: when the real trump falters, he is removed from the news and replaced my in headlines by a fake, imaginary trump who is instead doing reasonable and popular things.

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

"Come on. It's just -- if you lost, you lost. OK, Trump? If you lost, you lost. I'd respect him more if he came out and said we are paralyzed and incapable of doing anything. I respect that more. All we see is Trump not taking it seriously. Because this, all of this, has been miserably bad."

On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Given the scope of the discussion in this St Paul courtroom over the handling of the evidence in Alex Pretti's killing, there's a distressful realization that's coming into view. If the feds want to cover up a crime, they can.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

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?

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

mayor mamdani has been so comforting managing this snowstorm. like, i forgot that was an emotion an elected official could evoke.

chip you put this on your website roy.house.gov/media/in-the...

A call to Federal law enforcement officers: I have represented countless of you over 20 years. I personally know many of you. I have had civil and professional interactions with untold numbers of you throughout my time as a practicing attorney. I never cared about your party affiliation.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

“There’s a time to stand up for things, and this is it,” said Alison Kirwin, the owner of Al’s Breakfast, a Minneapolis restaurant that closed on Friday. “If it takes away from a day of our income, that is worthwhile.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Venezuelan family seeking asylum -- entered legally, both parents with college degrees -- took their 7-year-old to the ER for a nosebleed and fever. ICE, which is now targeting hospitals as well as churches schools, blocked the child from getting care and detained them instead

lol

"Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history." Donald Trump, July 2020

Statements here. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

A lot of people are mocking JD Vance for comparing our economy to the Titanic, but it's a great analogy -- the wealthiest survived in half-full lifeboats while the rest of the passengers drowned and froze.

Q: Did you uncover evidence to prove Trump knew his claim the election was stolen was false? SMITH: Yes Q: And Trump claimed it was stolen while he privately acknowledged he lost? SMITH: Yes Q: Yet on the 5th anniversary of J6, Trump still promoted the stolen election theory on a govt webpage

With every one of Trump's big, aggressive moves it's a question of whether we're gonna get TACO Trump or Jan 6 Trump and the answer lies in how much resistance he faces.

Imagine, speaking German in the Graubunden Canton of Switzerland

Fifteen minutes into his Davos speech, he’s already called Greenland “Iceland” at least twice.

This alone should have triggered the 25th Amendment months ago. It's absolutely imbecilic.

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When the racist meme becomes national policy

A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered Yet: “Many Republican voters in the area who disagreed with the veto said they were past second-guessing their support for Mr. Trump” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

“A majority, 58%, calls the first year of Trump’s term a failure.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

Sure seems like ICE is gping into a violence spiral in MN. They act out, people monitor and protest, they get madder and more agitated, people monitor and protest more. They‘re going to kill more people, administration’s going to congratulate and encourage more, they’re gonna kill MORE people.

Border Patrol circulated a “Legal Refresher” on the First Amendment to its agents on Monday.

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery. While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."

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Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.

ICE shut down the oldest Mexican restaurant in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota -- a city that voted overwhelmingly for Trump (and Pete Hegseth's hometown too) Feel safer yet?

Remember: you're not going to do anything to stop ICE if you go to jail. If you physically interfere with or impede them, you may well go to jail! But what they're doing is so dubious that you can substantially restrain them by closely monitoring them and alerting the neighborhood to their presence.

Still have yet to see reporting, but here’s a Reddit thread with almost 4K comments about this: www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...