In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors

Approved by Plan Commission tonight. This will NOT need separate rezoning approved at Common Council.

At Madison Plan Commission tonight, 87 units in 5 stories proposed at 2103 Sherman in the parking lot next to Banzo. Initial plan was 6 stories and 20 more units but cut it after neighborhood concerns of height (city plans call for 4 stories), & cut footprint to allow Banzo access.

Greater Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization, 6:30 Wednesday www.cityofmadison.com/city-hall/co... - Discussing resident feedback on Beltline expansion - WisDOT is requesting a cost-sharing adjustment on the I90 project that would leave Madison unable to use federal funds for its portion

This week in #Madison Plan Commission, 5:30 Monday madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=... - Multi-use plans for 2103 Sherman Ave 🌶️ Urban Design Commission, 4:00 Wednesday madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=... - 999 S Park St 👇 🌶️

When you are throwing out stuff in the basement and you discover a house you thought was kind of expensive at the time - this was a nice place!

Just the President saying he wants to make housing as expensive as possible & thus continue the massive wealth transfer from young to old due to not building nearly enough homes.

Maybe Madison Common Council was right.... madison.com/news/local/c...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

The country is messed up, but we still have Madison Common Council! I just learned that it is illegal in some German cities to salt your sidewalk and you can be fined 10k-20k euros...yeah...that's why I haven't salted my sidewalk..the lakes....that's the ticket! www.cityofmadison.com/city-hall/co...

Boy, I am just a former state public defender and federal criminal investigator but someone is going to have to explain to me how federal agents who are not on federal property are able to block state law enforcement from accessing a crime scene Sounds like pretty clear Obstruction of Justice to me

In better times they had good breakfast.

The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti. Read their words: "I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

I didn't know him, but a guy I went to high school with and lived in my neighborhood was murdered by a federal death squad in front of my donut shop.

The guy ICE murdered went to my high school.

Fox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Watched the vid. Honestly, it’s probably what a lot of lynchings looked like. 8 guys pummeling a dude who is on the ground before someone shoots him 8 times.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

ICE is DETAINING WITNESSES. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's pure police state tactics.

Mark Pocan's office number: (608) 258-9800 Tammy Baldwin's office number: (202) 224-5653 Ron Johnson's office number: 202-224-5323

They’ve been murdering and raping people in concentration camps for months. THIRTY TWO PEOPLE (that we know of) have been executed in those camps. The complicity line was crossed and LONG time ago.

Deeply inappropriate for ICE to detain witnesses to a possible crime by one of their agents

In all seriousness, sheriffs in dem states should consider deputizing, training, and arming people now to increase their numbers and make sure that local laws (like murder) are enforced. The fact that federal agents outnumber local police allows them to intimidate them, making obstruction easier.

Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

What the hell is going on in Shorewood Hills?!!!!! "Officers were dispatched to a report of a disturbance where a resident had locked a contractor in the basement. Charges are being referred to the Dane County District Attorney's."

30 minutes into Shorewood Hills Board meeting: one trustee (Falk) has already said he isn't running again because the public is uncivil and focused on conspiracy theories; a very white public speaker invoked MLK in her quest to prevent someone from building a single-family home on an empty lot.

The great state of Minnesota welcomes this proposal. L'Étoile du Nord!

NO ICE GESTAPO graffiti seen on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis on January 16, 2026.

Minneapolis tonight.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

One of our brown-skinned children, who was born in another country but is a U.S. citizen, lives in a suburb of the Twin Cities and is attending graduate school at a university in central Minneapolis. She feels real fear about what ICE agents might do to her.

Q: Do you believe there any cases in Minnesota where ICE agents have gone too far? KRISTI NOEM: Our ICE agents are following the law and running their operations according to training. Last night what we saw was 3 individuals weaponize shovels and brooms and attack an ICE officer

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Common Council unanimously passes a resolution to assess possible reimbursement for extraordinary costs during mutual aid, especially high-speed pursuits. Some frequent conservative public speakers and a Monona alder objected to it, but no objections from any alders.

I get that reporting standards can be vague but I doubt that this is just a statistical artifact captimes.com/news/public-...

Time for Madison Common Council. Public speaker supporting moratorium on new data centers in Madison, notes how good the ice boating is here, says "We don't want Elon Musk controlling robots in our houses, and the one he's got right now looks like the Terminator." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbHq...

Plan Commission approves unanimously revised conditional use to construct 4 apartment buildings and 62 units on an existing apartment complex site at 3205 Stevens St.

Madison Plan Commission unanimously recommends a 12 month moratorium on new data centers > 10ksqft to Common Council. This would allow for a study of possible changes to zoning codes to accommodate data centers.

Madison Plan Commission tonight starts with consideration of a 12 month moratorium on the approval of new data/telecom centers > 10ksqft. The plan is to study what changes might need to be made to zoning code to accommodate the use. www.cityofmadison.com/city-hall/co...

Shorewood Hills Plan Commission member quitting because she has been "wildly uncomfortable with this communities communication and apparent outrage...The nasty comments and thinly veiled threats to village staff, volunteers, consultants, and other community members have been so disheartening."