ICE agents in Eagan, MN, just told me I was “helping criminals” by driving journalists around. What a country!

RIP Greg Bovino

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 story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

They radicalized a full population to understand what a real mutual aid network could be. We won’t stop.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Happening now: nurses and staff at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle are holding a vigil for Alex Pretti. Some are out here in their scrubs. People have brought flowers and are writing notes to add to the candles.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Federal officers just came in and cleared the protest with tear gas. One officer asked press why we didn’t call 911 when the protesters were destroying the hotel and told us that we are bad Americans. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

"Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Pam Bondi said ICE can leave Minnesota if the state government allows the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to access Minnesota’s voter rolls to confirm the state’s voter registration policies comply with federal law. www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was telling someone there is no chance in hell I’d ever go back to prosecuting today. However….there is ONE chance.

Street corners in every neighborhood tonight across Minneapolis. This is Prospect Park, and the wind chill is -16.

Minneapolis is showing the world how to oppose tyranny and the tide is turning.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Published this @stateline.org piece a few hours before feds shot and killed another person: The Department of Homeland Security repeatedly insists its officers acted in self-defense in violent encounters, despite contradicting video and witness statements. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/24/r...

… and if you’d like to send money so we can buy wholesale, we’ve got that setup now too:

Looking for something to do while snowed in tomorrow to respond to the horrors in Minnesota? Join Pramila Jayapal’s virtual #ResistanceLab training with @keithellison.bsky.social to learn nonviolent resistance tactics that we urgently need in this moment. www.mobilize.us/pramilaforco...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse

Al’s 4ever

Minor point here but Eat Street, where this happened, got that official nickname because it's lined with restaurants from all over the world. It's a beloved symbol of immigrant cultures and a place that showcases pluralism in a state (wrongly but frequently) stereotyped as a land of low-key Swedes

We need all of the dashcams we can get in Minnesota ASAFP for ICE observers. You can shoot us cash with a few taps via this link and we’ll order them wholesale and get them deployed to Minneapolis, the suburbs, and beyond: ottergoose.net/dashcam/

DOJ going to extraordinary measures trying to charge people who protested in a church against a pastor’s affiliation with ICE

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The chief judge of the federal Minnesota district court writes a startling letter — to explain why he hasn't responded to the U.S. government's request that he override a magistrate judge's refusal to arrest protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

and all it took was crystal clear footage of the entire incident to be filmed and disseminated widely on social media

If you like people that get shit done, help my friends at Mi Casa feed and help Shakopee during this ICE occupation. Donate food and $$ -> www.givemn.org/organization...

Just got off the phone with Opus - we stepped up and prevented an ICE facility in our community which would have harmed Minnesotans. Great work, all!!!

I’ll personally vouch for Nick if you’re thinking about supporting his project to keep cameras rolling on ICE.

Star Tribune confirms the man shot by ICE this morning is dead. ICE reportedly tried to order MPD to leave the scene but the chief of police refused and preserved the scene. BCA reportedly en route.

Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.

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Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

We need sustained national coverage to amplify pressure on ICE thuggery. Your legal observing and videoing is really helping with that, as this pithy New York Times compendium shows: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just watched video of the latest ICE killing in a Minneapolis neighborhood I frequented when I lived there. It looks like an execution. Abolish ICE and bring wrongdoers to justice. This has got to stop.

Today was MSP's 31st ICE flight of the year; MN50501 observed 58 deportees boarding, bringing the estimated total for January to 2,021. The photo below, at 1:28 PM, was the 2,000th estimated deportee of the year was hobbling up the steps. Please join us at MSP's Terminal 1 tomorrow to protest.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...

"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." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Front page of tomorrow's Star Tribune.

Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

It is a weird thing I never expected but scrolling here between actions during the day’s terror knocks the stuffing out of me, but as evening rolls people gather their strength, share their condemnation, hope, bravery and commiseration and it’s like a battery charging me for the next day