“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom....So it was last week in Selma, Alabama." Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.

Bondi’s outrageous demand for Minnesota voter rolls in exchange for ICE leaving is smoking gun showing their plan to rig midterms. They’ll stop at nothing to spread false claims of voter fraud, wrongly purge eligible voters from rolls & challenge election results www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’

Wrote this paragraph 17 days ago, about the killing of Renee Good.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

NEW: Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence www.wired.com/story/the-in...

If you're looking for independent Minneapolis media specifically, check out the Minnesota Reformer(minnesotareformer.com), Sahan Journal(sahanjournal.com), and Racket(racketmn.com) (full disclosure: I've done some posts at Racket, I don't care if this is a shameless plug).

If you’re outraged over ICE and you want to do one thing tonight where you don’t even have to leave your couch, subscribe to a local, independently owned newspaper. Having reporters who can be relied on right now to ask questions and actually report the truth is essential.

when the feds essentially abandoned the scene today after gassing us, we saw upon returning to the intersection this pile of what we were pretty sure was alex’s coat & some of his clothes, a lighter & a crampon, with crime scene tape in it we created the barrier to preserve likely evidence

man.

The nurses are pissed

Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living. The winter storm got 8 minutes. NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing

this is kind of crazy to see

January 24, 2026

Really hard to put into words how much this TRO says about how lawless the Trump administration is, but I tried to do so tonight at Law Dork — discussing the many lightning-fast litigation moves today in Minnesota after the ICE killing of Alex Pretti. www.lawdork.com/p/the-ice-ki...

“It’s history, you know,” said Juan Suarez, a Delaware County resident who was visiting President’s House with his family. “The fact that they are going to erase this — this is outrageous.”

The “Know Your Rights” trainings, which have served over 1,000 people, provide information and tactics for interacting with ICE. Residents say they’re needed and useful.

Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says

Imagine you're a scientist trying to publish a new study, and being told you can't, unless you do background checks on co-authors who aren't U.S. citizens and send their names to national security staff. Also, studies about climate change or DEI written w/foreign scientists = rejected. ⬇️

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe put out a memo stating, “federal officials told us that the Tribe could access that information if we entered an immigration agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.” www.kron4.com/news/nationa...

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

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.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Several military service members have sought legal counsel starting around the end of September, after the U.S. military had killed 17 people in a series of extrajudicial strikes. trib.al/PTC0XZK

SCOTUS ruled Wednesday that candidates for office have standing to challenge how a state counts votes—in a major blow to mail-in voting, a particular target of Trump’s. Justice Brown Jackson warned this move would be “destabilizing” for future elections. trib.al/HXc6RDG

As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public that may no longer believe in its ideals. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

ICE is holding Native Americans hostage as a bargaining chip to raid reservations, saying they won't release them until the tribes give up sovereignty. www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

1. U.S. govt did similar smear of MLKJr, civil rights activists. 2. Trump/Bondi/GOP reveal their & ICE agent's ire at widow talking back 1st place as woman, lesbian. 3. Will they kidnap Renee Good's child, terminate her & grandpa rights, traffick w conservative fam? newrepublic.com/post/205244/...

In the aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good, Trump's admin smeared her as a “domestic terrorist." That’s despite video evidence to the contrary. Today, we joined the Manhattan thong for one of many dozens of protests held around the country this weekend. We asked protesters: What did you see?

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

How it’s going

As the adage says: women fear being murdered by men, men fear being laughed at/made fun of by women. Too many people view a wounded ego as equal to violence in order to justify their own/their loved ones' violent response.

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

There is so much attrocious shit going on we’re not even talking about the dude who stole like 100 skeletons from a Philly cemetery. That should be the story of the week and we’re like “not now creep-o, we got bigger fish to fry.” UGH.

Suffragette Alice Paul’s Jersey roots and brutality faced while protesting for women's right to vote are on display in the theater tour of this Broadway show — urging theatergoers to imagine, and fight for, a more equal future. billypenn.com/2025/12/29/m...

House Minority Leader Angela Romero said Trevor Lee’s bill “infuriates her.” “It’s so mean-spirited that you’re going to pick on children to push this political rhetoric.”

It's remarkable how every time WH & DHS release info they think helps/defends the ICE agent who shot Renee Good, it actually makes it worse for him legally & in public opinion, & reinforces criticism of his intent, excessive force, remorselessness, and unfitness serve in law enforcement.

It was big news when Trump took over the Kennedy Center. But for some Black Washingtonians, it's even bigger news that he's taking over D.C.'s public golf courses – including the Langston Golf Course in Northeast, a historic course for Black golfers. In @51st.news: 51st.news/trump-take-o...

There is no such legal thing as absolute immunity in the U.S., except to the extent that SCOTUS controversially granted Trump.

Voting has begun for the 2026 Pennsylvania River of the Year! We broke down why the Lower Schuylkill River should be this year's winner. billypenn.com/2025/12/25/p...

NEW: House will vote shortly on whether to override President Trump's veto of a clean drinking water project in Colorado. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) is outlining Trump's support of the project prior to her call to release the Epstein files and his feud with Colorado over Tina Peters

Nothing says law-abiding like coming up with the legal justification post-hoc …

This year’s flu season just surpassed a grim new record. Nearly 1 in 10 doctor visits in late December were for flu-like symptoms—the highest level recorded in nearly 30 years. To date, the U.S. has seen 120,000+ hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths, including children. bit.ly/3LkZiOI