ICE detained a healthy man with no history of serious illness and by the time he was deported to Costa Rica 10 months later he was brain dead and had conditions including sepsis, rhabdo, protein malnutrition, and toxic encephalophagy which is caused by prolonged exposure to METALS OR RADIATION.

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

Citizens are in the driver's seat now imho. It's cool if some politicians are quicker on the uptake than others but they are following us now, I'm not waiting for them anymore

I have a feeling that pretty soon ICE in Minnesota is going to find out how good their equipment really is.

I WANT THIS FIRE FROM EVERY DEMOCRAT!

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

This is the "gun" that Trump, Noem, Bovino, and every other administration official claims the victim was brandishing that justified him being pushed, tackled, shot, and killed. A phone.

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

So glad this is being used in schools and universities.

Roughly 100 clergy members were arrested at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during a demonstration against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, according to protest organizers.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Infantile as it shows me to be, Spidey’s thingie just gave me my first giggle of the day, so I’m sharing it. No idea who created it.

They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life. They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

I was told it was an outrage when prayer and worship is disrupted.

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

⚡️Fewer than 20% of Kyiv's apartment buildings remain without heating amid winter crisis, mayor Klitschko says. Kyiv's utilities workers have reconnected 650 high-rise apartment buildings in the past day, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Jan. 23.

1/ In Davos, @caolanrob.bsky.social tried to ask Steve Witkoff about his ties to Russia. Witkoff ran away - & is now in Moscow. @bylinetimes.bsky.social has detailed Witkoff's financial dealings with a man at the heart of Putin's mafia state. Why are so few other journalists digging into this?

Fascinating thread. Maybe we're going to be okay.

So you can't copyright anything you write with it, and if you use it to actually create something, they will own a piece. This company and this entire business model is for Suckers and Dopes only.

Some people in times of distress show themselves to be leaders of men. @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social have shown themselves to be leaders of meh.

No two movies have really devastated me more than Aftersun & Hamnet. Paul has knack for getting those good guy roles that rip your heart out. I love, love, love Jessie, but he’s the rock in Hamnet that can’t break, giving her the spotlight

This is where we are: the chair of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is questioning the #polio vaccine. Have we forgotten polio wards? Children in iron lungs. Vaccines stopped this. Questioning them risks bringing it back. How does this Make America Healthy? We should all be terrified.

And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...

Today was a personally all-around shitty day. My car was deemed totaled. I’m 3 days from eviction. My Internet is out & I can’t seem to get it back. I feel trapped with no path to simply getting by, let alone success.

Nothing worse than whiny fucking terrorists with a victim complex who won't shut up about how tough they are while they're complaining about soccer moms and accountant dads holding their fascist ass accountable.

Murder.

If you’re an elite athlete from another country, you should never come to the States now

Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

So the five-year-old boy in the knit cartoon hat and Spider-Man backpack is one of those dangerous criminals I've heard so much about? I don't know how anyone could look at that little face and not see this all as monstrously cruel and inhuman and unnecessary. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

#Peanuts #Peckinpah

"Portland + Lewiston represent the smallest metro area to become a target of the Trump administration's #immigration crackdown." BUT: Maine is a blue state. Red states Florida (1.6M) + Texas (2.1M) each have more undocumented immigrants than Maine has PEOPLE (1.4M). It's *NOT* about immigration.

Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.

His name is DAVID EASTERWOOD and he’s not just “reportedly associated,” he’s the Acting Director of the ICE Field Office here. They want to be badass warrior spies with no mercy, no rules until they face the *tiniest* bit of accountability, then they cry like babies who got their juice box stolen.

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This beautiful child, an American citizen just like his parents, is being bullied because Donald Trump is a racist piece of shit and white supremacy feels emboldened to act without shame. This hatred is taught and it is wrong.

Cuban expats getting a brutal lesson in leopard biology.

Whoever chose to make 'The Emperor's New Clothes' a parable for our times had acute, marvelous foresight. (Especially since the author of said fable was Danish.)

For those keeping score at home, ICE has no authority to detain U.S. citizens for any reason. It is NOT a law enforcement agency, it is an immigration enforcement agency. U.S. immigration laws are CIVIL code, not criminal code. Technically, ICE agents shouldn't even be allowed to carry weapons.

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.

US consumers and importers absorbed 96% of tariff costs. Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans. $200 bil in additional 2025 U.S. tariff revenue “was paid almost exclusively by Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.