I don’t know, ICE taking babies off the street and imprisoning them seems like a kitchen table issue.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

My favorite Bob Kane story:

The Washington Post isn't covering the Olympics

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

Sorry/not sorry for the title I came up with for my Comics Journal Scott Adams obituary. www.tcj.com/i-have-no-mo...

The ICE deaths we're not talking about Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...

Eike Exner’s COMICS AND THE ORIGINS OF MANGA is among the finest of scholarly works on comics; now, in his new book, MANGA: A NEW HISTORY OF AMERICAN COMICS, Exner errs on the side of broadness, trying too much with too little space. My first review of the year, for TCJ: www.tcj.com/reviews/mang...

Welp

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

"Chapman creates rich characters, and she mirrors that richness in her art, using lush colors throughout the work, giving the visuals a density that matches the characters' depth." The Comics Journal recommends The Pass by Katriona Chapman! https://ow.ly/Iipx50Y0ru1

Elizabethtown High School students (PA) are tired of showing up to board meetings and being ignored, so they protested the cruel policies being enacted there. I hadn't realized that the board doesn't allow middle and high school libraries to buy new books now. lancasteronline.com/news/local/s...

"This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism."

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”

THE PASS is a great graphic novel about the intense competition and community in the restaurant world, but, more importantly, Chapman "doesn’t provide easy answers for her characters’ lives, leaving certain questions open-ended, but she makes living with them for a while worth the reader's time"

Issue 52 of Comic Interview the Lone Wolf special is so good it interviews people from every level of that production all the way back to Koike and Kojima, excellent stuff.

Heroes www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.

Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The mainstream media has collapsed in 2 ways: Gradually, then suddenly Whatever was expected with the right-wing capture of CBS News...it's worse. I looked into its MPLS shooting "internal bleeding" propaganda, a historically bad act of journalism My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Well, if it’s the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Cary Grant, it must be time to tell the story of the time he went to an Alice Cooper concert and likened the experience to shitting himself

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists, pelting them with water balloons in the freezing cold

On January 17, 1929, the character Popeye first appeared in the newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre. He was created by Elzie Crisler “E.C.” Segar.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

The Trump administration acknowledged it mistakenly deported a college student flying home to Honduras for Thanksgiving. But the government has not moved to drop the case.

Folks the man illegally taken when ICE rammed through the door on Sunday is free!!

1. It's been more than a day since 2 of America's most storied newsrooms, CBS and ABC, reported that killer ICE agent Jon Ross suffered "internal bleeding" based on unnamed sources Since then - No other news org has confirmed the story - No evidence (photos, medical records) has been produced

St. Paul Public Schools said today that two vans operating under contract to carry students and staff have been pulled over by federal agents while enroute to school this week.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

A couple of days ago, Wrecktangle Pizza in Minnesota raised $83k to donate food and other essentials to immigrants and other people trapped in their homes. Very soon, ICE showed up at their door. The agents got chased off by employees and locals, though not before dropping some tear gas.

Pitched and landed this story for @NBCNews.com: 24 members of Congress are 80 or older. More than half are running for re-election. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from January 15, 1911.

Elon Musk’s xAI is disabling the ability for people to use its Grok AI chatbot to create sexualized images of real people, following widespread criticism that the company was allowing women and children to be victimized by the tool

At roughly 7:35 this evening it is now being confirmed ice shot two people at 610 N 24th Ave observers are on scene as well as police ice and others still in the area be aware it is an active scene.

We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.

Star Tribune has a post up. Not many details yet www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Hi, hello, I wrote a few words today about Silent Pictures, a pair of no-dialogue color comic albums which represent the final works of Kevin O’Neill, co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Silent Pictures by Kevin O’Neill (Knockabout, 2026), reviewed by TCJ first-timer Joe McCulloch www.tcj.com/reviews/sile...

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”

I'm proud to say that my first piece for @comicsjournal.bsky.social is now live! So, join me as I dig into the first issue of Annihilator: Rainbow of Death by Josh Simmons... www.tcj.com/reviews/anni...