Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Trump: “Grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down. Rent is down. Airfares are down. Hotel rates are down. Cell phone prices are down." No they aren’t.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

They say they witnessed guards kill an ICE detainee. DHS wants them gone: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Make no mistake, he is justifying violence if he objects to the outcome of an election. Keep that in mind as we prepare for 2026.

The markets did everything they could to hold steady in the face of the Jerome Powell subpoenas, but I’m not sure they’ll do well with this news.

I’ll never get over this. Trump unfairly pardoned someone, they turned around and committed a new crime, and Trump pardoned them again. You can commit any any crime you want as long as you have the money, power, and connections to get yourself a pardon. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/17/p...

The details are horrific. “He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”

Omar: "We have a president itching to have a riot in the city so that he can invoke the Insurrection Act. That is not something that we want. We want to make sure that he's not going to use the anger MN residents feel after they watched their neighbor get shot in the face to bring about more pain."

In 1916, the US was worried that Germany might take control of the Danish West Indies to use as a submarine base. So, Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the USA, with the colony becoming the US Virgin Islands. In exchange, the USA acknowledged Denmark's complete sovereignty over Greenland.

Rep. Robert Garcia: "This is an administration that is so inherently corrupt. And they have turned our federal law enforcement agencies against our own people. That's what should be very concerning to everyone ... Kristi Noem should be removed from office."

This map exposes the Greenland lie. The US used to have a massive military footprint here. Today, they operate just ONE base. If Trump were actually worried about Russian vessels, he would simply open more bases, which Denmark allows

Trump has transformed the justice system into a Putin-style autocratic protection racket. The wealthy are not audited or investigated, if convicted they are pardoned. Political opponents are targeted. Unidentified masked agents grab people off the street, and protesters are shot.

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

*much of America will be punished with a 10% tax hike on European goods for Europe not giving us Greenland

{gift link} wapo.st/49B3hPa

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

NEXT FRIDAY: Minnesotans are joining together for a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action. There will also be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com

The Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity for using his official powers even for the most corrupt reasons ever, including to criminally investigate state and local chief executives for using their official powers to serve their constituents

Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”

This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.

Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

"There comes a point where we have to start questioning whether or not he’s actually aware of what’s happening around him & the harm he’s doing. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over & they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place."

New in PN: @simonwdc.bsky.social on Trump’s very bad year “It’s an issue of who he’s become — a vain autocrat who's building himself a gilded ballroom and falling asleep. He’s implicated in the Epstein affair by Epstein himself. It’s just too much. It’s grotesque. He’s become a grotesque figure.”

NEW: A federal judge today blasted Secretaries Noem and Rubio, saying they led an 'unconstitutional conspiracy' to violate the free speech of foreign students with pro-Palestinian views. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social @hassankanu.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

DHS said the man died while he tried to commit suicide and “violently resisted security staff.” A medical examiner called it “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression.” A witness told the Washpost *on the record* that guards choked him as he said, “no puedo respirar.” Gift link⤵️ wapo.st/49FW4NG

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block California’s voter-approved congressional map after a federal court firmly rejected their challenge. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I appreciate how the writers keep giving us callbacks to the white nationalist past, like Special Order 191 here.

One thing that people don't understand is that the community base opposing ICE is extremely committed to avoiding anything that could trigger rioting, I think largely because of the 2020 experience. Trump thinks he can redo 2020 but shoot the protesters this time, but Minneapolis isn't the same.

Don't worry everyone, Karoline Leavitt promised that Trump was just joking about cancelling the midterm elections.

Pathetic.

Non-transferable. Definitely pathetic.

Trump as the Florida Panthers stand behind him: "What's going on in Minnesota -- we're taking out some of the worst criminals in the world are being taken out of our country. Murderers, drug dealers. We have the best crime numbers we've ever had."

A federal court dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking access to California’s full voter registration database Thursday, warning that the government’s bid for the voter records “threatens the right to vote which is the cornerstone of American democracy.

"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said Wednesday that “we shouldn’t even have an election,” as he complained about the political risks his party faces in the 2026 midterms and boasted about his accomplishments. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Just an FYI: my Get Out the Vote efforts do not belie the fact that Trump will do everything he can to stop the midterms, and do not in any way intend to imply that voting is our ONLY cause of action, or that we must do nothing until we vote. Despite Trump's efforts, we still need to vote.

Trump is polling terribly on every key issue for 310 straight days. His numbers are underwater because the American people don’t like anything he’s doing.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

Save us the outrage, sweetie.

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Trump has a ten-month plan to ensure further elections are impossible. It's *not even halfway through January* and his paramilitary is occupying a city and killing protesters as he prepares to invoke the Insurrection Act and floats canceling elections. Wake up: fascism is here.

Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"

Stop saying we shouldn’t impeach Nazis because they’ll be replaced by someone worse. We should never stop fighting to remove these evil monsters. Don’t obey in advance.