feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com

People should have questioned why media gave Rufo the time of day many years ago.

More training and guardrails would help the 23 year veteran of the agency

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

A tale of two screenshots.

The thing to understand here is that the DOJ tried to get a warrant for his arrest, failed, appealed the decision, failed there, too and they... arrested him anyway? Max's thread has some good info: bsky.app/profile/maxk...

I think it’s worth keeping in mind that the specific church that was protested, inspiring these outrageous constitutional violations by DOJ, is part of the network of Christian Nationalist churches tied to Doug Wilson and attended by Pete Hegseth.

Asked if he is pulling immigration agents out of Minnesota, as his border czar indicated Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said: "No, no. Not at all."

stephen miller frothing at the mouth loving it

Honestly, I do not think I have seen a more glaring example of media failure in this moment than this. To splash this headline across the front page—as if it is true—and then barely contextualize it in a font that is like 1/2Oth its size would be a joke if it weren’t dangerous propaganda.

What first amendment??

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

And Lemon wasn’t even opposing them. They want it to be illegal to REPORT on opposition to them.

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

Incredible. Incredible. "The most important thing we have right now is a national sense of immediacy and urgency, and the thing we need to do with it is piss it away."

Like I said, they're targeting children for a reason

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

guessing it’s never even occurred to schumer to demand the release of kidnapped people as part of this deal he’s negotiating

The War on Whistles. The Whistle War.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official

Pulling out of Maine for Susan Collin’s reveals indisputably this is a political project of violent retribution. And the message to ME voters is: if you vote against Collins we are coming (the unspoken part is: and probably even if you don’t and the election is over)

In a dense part of south Minneapolis as Homan's "draw down" news conference was occurring: "They took a guy in a red car infront and they stopped traffic and try to take another guy and they hit his car"

🗣️ @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “The idea we’re just going to move past this… since Trump ‘took down the temperature’ an ICE agent said ‘you raise your voice, I erase your voice’, they tried to go into the Ecuadorian embassy… 2300x since July a judge ruled ICE illegally detained someone.”

What

Let me help you out, man

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

Chuck Schumer has been around since the silent film era and he can't imagine a world without ICE which was invented in 2003 or whatever so it tells you that he must like ICE because he lived and served plenty long before they existed

They dismantled the Dept of Education, much of the CDC, NSF and nih in a year so it's totally doable to dismantle DHS. You can also expedite the process by treating those officials like the entire federal workforce has been treated. Make em miserable, and rip out wires at random. That'll do it.

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

This is very good and worth a read.

You can't reform this shit. This is a death threat.

basically a collection of weiss's friends and pet projects

I just tried to phone in a book order to DreamHaven & spoke to Greg, he's swamped with orders (book people are THE BEST) but the website's still down. If you're local and web-savvy and available to work with them to address the shop's web woes, give them a call—they could use some help!

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

We are so back.

I keep seeing 'what can they do? they don't have the votes.' The answer is NOT THIS. It's actually better to NOTHING than to push this list of pathetic "reforms." It's better to do NOTHING than this.

BREAKING: Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

Bovino's gone but it's not over: they're ramping up. They're going to use Fort Snelling for "parking approximately 300-500 vehicles . . . a ready room space for 500-800 CBP personnel . . . access to a magazine to store munitions."

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.

Fair play, "law enforcement losing the confidence of the community" is an unbeatable description of what happened in NI.

CNN reports that Bovino is leaving Minnesota

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

Carter says of Pam Bondi's letter to the state: "It’s a shakedown letter. It’s a ransom note." He says that Bondi demanded three things to end the surge. "Is the administration moving the field goal, moving the goal posts? Yes, they are. That’s what you expect from someone who is extorting you."