“He said the boys cried when he told them what was happening and were frightened and asked to hold a school nurse’s hand when they walked into the Whipple Building.”

Ragebaiting and outragefarming accounts for clicks and clout. They're basically mirroring the rightwing griftosphere now.

NEW: Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Just got out of a faculty meeting. It’s incredible how out of touch some faculty are.

This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth. The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point. The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE. First no funding. Impeach Noem. Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN. Demand that Miller resign. Don’t let up.

Glorious Europe folks. Can we please stop acting like Europe is the monolithic foil of perfection to be used against the United States?

Don’t waste your time on this Earth complaining that Barack Obama Suggested a podcast. Do your own life. It’s your moment.

Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

Stancil said something I’ve been thinking about for the past two days. He said he’s getting tear gassed basically every other day at this point because after a standoff with neighbors, agents “all kind of load into a convoy of cars, and then as they leave…toss a bunch of tear gas out the back.”

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Ilhan Omar spent four years in a refugee camp and ended up becoming a Congresswoman. She represents the best of America, while Donald Trump represents the worst.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

This week, federal agents have reportedly started making house calls on volunteer ICE watchers they hope to intimidate.

And now this story from the AP regarding this incident: bsky.app/profile/apne...

Haha he’s getting his juice back

“There’s a kind of moral infantilism, in contemporary left-of-center culture, that pretends that feeling angry is the same thing as doing politics, that catharsis is indistinguishable from strategy, that letting people vent their righteous rage is itself a form of justice." – Freddie deBoer [1/3]

The Trump administration is going after voter rolls in multiple states. This is a prelude to major bad stuff coming.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Rep. Veronica Escobar on a homicide in a Texas immigrant detention facility: "I've learned nothing else from DHS, and I think what's also very telling is DHS tried to deport the witnesses to this homicide"

Suggestions for the next few weeks. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Any examples of an American politician at the national level who led a charge for change that wasn’t pushed and prodded by movements out of politics? I feel the ven diagram of “civil rights hero” and “successful legislator and politician“ character traits has little overlap. We need both. 1/2

-Bovino will leave MN and may lose his job -Noem will face a Senate hearing and possible impeachment -Senate Dems will oppose unconditional extension of DHS funding The pushback is working. We must keep standing up and speaking out against Trump's regime.

I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.

"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports

“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🇺🇸

“Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me”

Notable Modern Heroes Good Petti Abrego-Garcia Whitehouse Smith Who else?

The fact free discussion of political history in the Dem-bashing discourse I see on this site is really a problem. People are repeating things that are false and making all sorts of sweeping conclusions. Seems like a pretty good targetting of the only existing opposition party in America

Spot on

Here’s the Minnesota voter rolls

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

He didn’t have a gun. Anyone who says different should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

You cannot repeal the Fourth Amendment with a memo. You cannot repeal the Second Amendment with a tweet.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."

So ICE isn’t actually there because of “criminal immigrants“ . They are admitting now it’s because the state doesn’t vote Republican.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Holy shit.

The nurses are pissed

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...