Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

AP: Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission Tuesday.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

Alex Pretti was AFGE Local 3669 federal employee union, VA hospital. His union 820,000 members now demands Noem AND Stephen Miller resign or be fired. They're naming Miller as "architect" of the policy that killed their brother. Labor. Faith leaders. 120 Democrats. Cracks forming.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Ellison: "The Bondi letter reveals what this is all about. This is not about fraud and it's not even about immigration, and it's certainly not about law enforcement. It's about handing over documents of the state of Minnesota, private information, including voting information, to the federal govt."

"Minnesotans are out in the streets calling for action." "[N]ot getting much material support" from Democrats. "[C]ommitting to anything that might alienate mythical moderate conservative voters or, more importantly, donors, is anathema." #Minnesota #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Noise demonstration at hotel. 🧵

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

With ICE thugs surging in Maine, the Portland @pressherald.com joins The Minnesota @startribune.com in publishing a non-paywalled live blog for breaking news. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/26/l...

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," writes Neil Young. “The president's international policies and his support of ICE, make it impossible for me to ignore his actions.” He also announced that anyone in Greenland can access his entire catalog for free at his site.

So. To date, I have seen ONE Dem Rep in Congress call for ICE to be abolished. Ilhan Omar. Not defunded. Not trained and restrained. ABOLISHED. Are there any others? If so, post them and let's get a count on the number of Dems in Congress.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Echoing the pope’s moral warnings, Tobin says the “lawless organization” is perpetuating a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has explicitly called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold. As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-on-minneapolis-residents-to-stop-obstructing-murders/

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Alex Pretti never brandished a gun. His firearm, for which he had a legal concealed-carry permit, was removed from his person and then, afterward, he was shot multiple times at point blank range in the back. This was an execution.

“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸

Schumer is the wrong leader.

I am so mad im out of words

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CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

A stark moment in this morning's hearing in Minnesota when an attorney for the state is staying this:

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

Only political cowards “struggle” to respond...

Just kinda seems like refusing to tell us which ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti undercuts the idea that they’re wearing masks to protect themselves — rather than to be able to kill people with impunity.

The BBC is the world's most respected broadcaster. @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social is its most respected fact checker. Here he analyses, frame by frame, what happened in Minneapolis. Border Patrol removed Alex Pretti's gun, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 shot him — TEN times in five seconds. The Trump regime is lying to us.

You can all just quit your jobs. I want you to remember that. You don't have to go try and do pointless stooge shit in a city that already hates you more than you've ever hated anything and will sniff you out as diaper baby cowards before your rental van gets over the Ben Franklin Bridge.

A video has leaked from an immigration detention center believed to be at 31 Hopkins Plaza, in Baltimore Maryland where legal immigrants are not even allowed to bath for over 10 days. The person speaking Spanish is saying the following: "Look at how they have us here. Look at how immigration is

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

Not trying to stoke division, but underline a lesson. Remember the high-decibel whining over the years about the Minneapolis City Council expressing solidarity with various oppressed people? ”Stay in your lane!” Remember how sustaining this outside support feels right now as we face the gun barrels.

these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY

“Harness the energy or die,” Democratic leadership. Learn this lesson, tonight. The left/liberal majority in this country desperately wants a leader. Who will that be?

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

Chicago

Finally made it to the head of the column. The lead vehicle is leading a chant of "abolish ICE, it's not that hard!" Meanwhile visibility is dropping as the snow keeps coming down.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Before Kent State, there was the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State. We're not trying to one-up you. We're demanding that you put the pieces of the puzzle together.

The gaslighting is not effective. It doesn’t work on this, especially when it’s coming from the likes of JD Vance, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and Todd Blanche. Disgusting liars, all of them.

“de-escalate tensions” is a phrase institutions use to normalize existing power arrangements by pretending they’re concerned about public safety.

Joel Berry, Managing Editor of the Babylon Bee, wrote this AM that: “If we lose heart every time a feral Communist commits suicide by cop, our country isn’t gonna make it *** I’m so beyond letting my Christian compassion get weaponized by Leftist death-worshippers…” (His “Christian compassion”) 1/

Another example of EMPATHY BEING THE ENEMY "Compassion being weaponized"