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Everyone, please take precautions against the cold.

Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, the top federal judge in Minneapolis, rips into ICE: "ICE is not a law unto itself." "ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence." tinyurl.com/y4kujkzj

Can't enjoy haiku Until I do the counting Trust but verify

the orchestra’s makeup artist uses a tuba mascara

Underappreciated banana-pants news of the day. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

As Border Patrol invades communities, Rapid Response networks try to prevent as many abductions as possible by monitoring federal activity. The full story: lataco.com/how-cluster-... By Izzy Ramirez

Los Angeles

REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefully—and importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants or cause in their homes or on their way to religious services or to buy groceries.“

One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." https://to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd

I felt obliged to write up an overview of all of the Fulton County fraud claims that have already been made — and dismissed. Let me know if I forgot any. www.pbump.net/o/some-thing...

I’ve seen a lot of really profoundly miserable and anxious looking dogs at protests lately and idk man, they’re not known for enjoying tons of loud and unpredictable noises and movements

please do not bring pets to protests even though they’re cute, it is not gonna be fun for them

Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, John Ford, and Bruce Springsteen. Fashion the American culture in which you want to live.

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Star Tribune has a report on the earlier video of Alex Pretti being tackled by goons (after he kicked out their taillight). www.startribune.com/bystander-vi...

My replies are full of people saying we should abolish ICE, and as someone who has publicly said we should dismantle DHS altogether, I think that's right. But I also don't think that's possible right now. I'm not a "nothing can be done" doomer, but ambitious goals still need to be feasible.

Andy McCarthy lays out why having DHS investigate Alex Pretti's murder is so problematic. But there's another now: the goons that assaulted Pretti 11 days before CBP murdered him are HSI, the subpart of DHS purportedly investigating the murder. www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/trum...

That is, I have suspected Andrew Bailey, installed to be able to replace Kash or Bondi when Trump gets bored of them, was chasing the VERY BIG Trump conspiracy theories -- 2020 and Russia Russia Russia. Hell maybe Trump has made them the same thing.

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Tulsi lurking around this GEORGIA election office raid means we should all not take this story lightly Trump’s plot to overthrow our democracy continues 🇺🇸

Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an elections office in Fulton County?

This story shows an ICE detention center in the middle of the Mojave Desert isn’t even operating legally and that it denies care to people with serious medical conditions to get them to “self deport”. archive.is/hHhJA

A consistent theme of ICE: murdering people and/or denying them life-saving care. “I have learned that Karam’s experience of medical neglect there is pervasive…detainees refer to C.C.D.F. as a “torture chamber” and “hell on Earth”” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

That is not an acceptable use of pepper spray & likely qualifies as assault. @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social recently posted links to a website where agent misconduct can be reported.I hope the victims in that video have reported it there AND asked Santa Barbara prosecutor to press charges

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.

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Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Very cool to live in a police state. From a fitness place in Dallas.

And here's a fund for impacted families facing eviction in Maine:

Mutual aid for preventing evictions and homelessness among people impacted by ICE raids is absolutely critical right now. A list of Minnesota-based rent relief funds can be found here:

Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work. This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time. People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.

Terrorist attack in Minnesota: A Trump Zio MAGA attacked US Rep. Ilhan Omar ( @IlhanMN ), the terrorist sprayed her with an unknown substance and was quickly taken down by security. The terrorist timed the attack at the mention of Trump’s ICE paramilitary force. #3E #GoodVsEvil

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

If you didn't think that Prosecutor and Sheriff elections were important before, you must believe they are now in this era of Trump's ICE. It's time we all learned about these crucial criminal justice elections in 2026. boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...

This is great! @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org are putting together a big Q&A for people who want to know more about state and local response to ICE operations. Send them your questions!

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Decent people are eager for ways to help and support their neighbors. pasadenanow.com/main/expecti...

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

"In his second term, President Trump has cut more than 300,000 federal employees and stripped more than a million workers of their collective-bargaining rights." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...

I've been thinking about how many videos I've watched that started like Renee Good's & Alex Pretti's. People pulled from cars & accused of obstruction, grabbed after filming agents, accused of punching agents, ramming cars despite video evidence. Shot. They survived. But the arrests were brutal

My story. www.propublica.org/article/eric...