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Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Grassley is another argument for age limits in Congress. Should have retired 20+ years ago, and is just showcasing lazy cowardice from his position of power these days.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A Trump & Putin picture now hangs in the White House, above one with T’s granddaughter (thanks to reporting from @elizlanders.bsky.social) The Times writes: “Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s key negotiator, welcomed the news, saying: “Good. A picture is worth a thousand words.””

Interesting article by @owasow.bsky.social “The political question is not whether there has been disorder, but rather whom the public holds responsible for the killings in Minneapolis.” I’m not as optimistic though that enough people have shifted to blaming ICE as much as is needed for policy change

I guess he just got lucky.

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

State violence in Minneapolis shows we do not know who is next, which is the point. Read M Gessen on the difference between authoritarianism & terror: “A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.” (Gift link)

Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there.

Good Lord, the shooting victim was a registered nurse at the VA.

Must read from Radley Balko: “The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power.” (Gift link)

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

This is really good

Happening right in front of us

A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

They called us hysterical when we said there would be concentration camps

Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."

"Don’t kid yourself, folks: There is no magic bullet here," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation. "There is, instead, a long hard slog ahead of us—a long hard slog of elections, advocacy, protest, litigation, and people fighting for their rights."

This has been a completely random 45 minutes of slushy mumbling. If this were any other president, networks would be cutting *in* and covering this with doctors and experts trying to explain what they're seeing.

It just keeps getting worse. Trump admin further insults European states in advance of meetings to avert war against allies and destruction of NATO, which is obviously a massive gift to Russia & China. Where are other US leaders?! Now is the time to stop this insanity!

This is one of the ten people in the country who could put an immediate stop to ~90% of the things. Today. Just absolute Profiles in Cowardice.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

MLK 1968: It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me.

Imagine if there were even 5 Republicans in Congress that would put their country before Trump...but nope.

I'm sorry, but if you can't understand that Russia is *of course* going to encourage Trump's madness, and think this is part of a grand design instead of Moscow can't believing how lucky it is, maybe touch grass for a while

“The combination of extreme cold and wave after wave of Russian attacks are pushing Ukraine’s energy system to the edge,” Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, the largest private energy company, told FT. “We are facing an unprecedented threat and fighting for every megawatt.” www.ft.com/content/ec1b...

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez: “A US invasion of Greenland would make Putin the happiest man in the world. Why? Because it would legitimise his invasion of Ukraine. If the US were to use force in Greenland, it would be a fatal blow to NATO. Putin would have double reason to rejoice."

You don’t know true bravery until you decide to ride an elevator in Kyiv during emergency blackouts which means even if light is on for the moment there is no way of knowing when it’s gonna go out again

the fantasy of homogeneity at the heart of ethnonationalism is a species of violent (right-wing) utopianism, and like other such fantasies it has to be forced upon society from the top down, against resistance rooted in the rhythm of everyday life and everyday forms of local social order

Will not be surprised if some of these "influencers" are located in or working for Russia, China, & Iran

Joining Morning Joe at 9 to talk about this:

Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society, University of Toronto, 2026-2027. Deadline: February 16, 2026 Consider applying! munkschool.utoronto.ca/petro-jacyk/...

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The main reason Trump has failed so pathetically to end the war in Ukraine over the past year is that he pressures Ukraine but fails to pressure Russia. It seems he is not learning from this mistake, as he plans to keep doing the same

Authoritarian regimes create pretextual reasons to harass, investigate, and prosecute their opponents

"The U.S. military also used cyberweapons to interfere with air defense radar, according to people briefed on the matter" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

This is a crime against humanity. Since October, russians have conducted 256 attacks on Ukraine's energy grid and heating system. The terrorists targeted 11 hydro power plants, 45 largest combined heating and power stations, 49 thermal power plants, and 151 substations.

Once a cozy, peaceful Kupiansk. Today, a town that russia has turned into ruins and utter desolation 😢 When Kupiansk was liberated by the Ukrainian army, it was intact. Our forces did not bomb it to drive the enemy away. But years of daily Russian attacks followed.

Yes, this is just terror directed at people in a blue state, b/c they tried to resist

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering www.vox.com/politics/475...

The key point is this: 77% of Republicans think the shooting was justified, and among all who were polled, only 53% think it was unjustified. So we’re still in a situation where nearly half the country holds highly undemocratic views.

The “justice” that Miller speaks of is summary execution at the discretion of any ICE officer