🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Here's a "holy shit" sentence for you: "In the past year, the federal workforce lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s, according to an analysis in Science." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Award-winning Palestinian journalist regains account with 1.4 million followers after surprise removal from platform.

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

A 5-year-old boy seized by ICE and transported more than a thousand miles from his family home is reportedly very sick in a Texas detention facility.

My colleague @mford.bsky.social called for this during Trump’s first term in the @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1470...

“Government-sponsored violence by Israeli settlers, 'apartheid roads' and Palestinians being displaced from their homes. Peace Now provides a somber day trip in the occupied West Bank.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I once had an immigration client that had been in Richmond, VA disappear for a few days then pop up again in Tacoma, WA. We had to engage local counsel in Washington State to continue to represent her. This was during the Obama administration.

Yep. Pretty much everyone in MAGA is convinced that the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar is a lib plant as part of a "Somali False Flag Scam" orchestrated by the congresswoman. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year? My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive. www.science.org/content/arti...

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Where are the Muslim leaders?

NEW from @rns.org: A full gallery of photos documenting religious responses to ICE in Minneapolis —> religionnews.com/2026/01/26/p...

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

When Alex Pareene writes, pay attention

MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

The flagrantly fascist actions of the Trump White House have upended even the milquetoast logic of traditional Democratic acquiescence, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social. The moral case for dismantling ICE is beyond dispute. https://bit.ly/3M35Gua

This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0

I ended up writing about this: newrepublic.com/post/205675/...

maybe the best reporting i've seen yet for sharing with normie church members, family, friends, etc., who are trying to understand what's happening. Inspiring, sobering, spine-starching. (note: gift link)

It gets even crazier: He launched his campaign for governor as a staunch defender of law enforcement and had recently provided legal counsel to Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

Medical charity will hand over details of its Palestinian staff to Israel, which targeted aid workers during genocide.

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

He was directing traffic and filming. They started assaulting and pepper spraying him. And it led to them murdering him. It's murder.

FEMA staff was told to avoid using the word "ice" by their Homeland Security bosses because they didn't want to mocked and memed online. newrepublic.com/post/205644/...

On the money from @gregsargent.bsky.social: Vance "largely putting a softer face on Miller’s police state. And no one should let him get away with it." In a normal administration, top officials express some concern with the victims of govt abuses. Vance blames them. newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”

And yet Newsom was pandering to the right with Ben Shapiro last week

CNN reports today that Kamala Harris' presidential campaign also asked Tim Walz if he was ever an agent of China— debunking Josh Shapiro's claims of exceptional scrutiny due to his Jewish identity.

People have left for India and other places. Also, the people that can't afford to have their healthcare needs in America can't afford to leave either

This is hugely important information A letter from an official in Guinea-Bissau confirms that the trial was canceled

Federal judge William Young ripped Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio apart for their efforts to deport pro-Palestinian students/academics — accusing them of "an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people." "These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution."

“‘I’m so happy about the news,’ Dong said in Mandarin, choking up with tears in her eyes. ‘It was really tough after everything that happened. We thought our life savings and our hope were all gone.’”

🔴 UN reports 300 separate civilian-casualty incidents in Gaza in a single week — the highest weekly figure since the ceasefire. The warning comes the same day that US envoy Witkoff hailed the success of the “ceasefire” saying it had been successfully “maintained” through phase one. The New York...

That is what was relayed

This didn't get coverage in regular media, but this week Christian Zionists held an invite-only gathering at Mar-a-Lago, and Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Shah of Iran, spoke to them cbn.com/news/israel/...

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The military's newspaper, Stars and Stripes, is turning its journalists into propagandists for the Trump-Hegseth war machine. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I wonder how @scottblanchard.bsky.social feels about this

🔴 BREAKING: A settlement with NY Atty. Gen. Letitia James has effectively forced Betar US, the N.Y.–based extremist organization, to shut down its nonprofit operations in the state. The agreement bars Betar from instigating or encouraging violence, harassment, or intimidation after investigators...

"Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses..."

Just a reminder that the senior VP of Third Way put one of the most embarrassing moments in political history at the top of his bio. These people do not know how to win.

We did a ride along. Not with law enforcement. But with the Minneapolis residents defending their communities from those very officers. @premthakker.bsky.social's front-row seat at ICE's psychological warzone in Minnesota — and how residents are banding together against it: