The situation in Minneapolis: even though the ICE presence in the city is greatly reduced, and national attention has moved on, a huge portion of our population remains essentially in hiding, devastating the schools and economy. In particular, much of the education system remains in crisis

Trite but true: If you ever wondered how German’s reacted to the whittling away of rights for Jews, Roma, gays and lesbians . . . you’re watching it happen in real time.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

Found the old band photo

After blaming a (non-existent) staffer for the Obamas-as-apes video, this is quite a remarkable statement by Leavitt.

Trump: It’s a hoax. We should move on. Trump’s DOJ: There’s nothing to investigate. The UN: The revelations suggest a global criminal enterprise…a number of the abuses meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

this is america

The problem for democracy is that it will not survive three more years of such a system. We cannot hold free and fair elections if judges blindly accept the word of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel’s minions. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/two-...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

We need to shout about closing the camps. Because by the time most of our public figures out what’s going on, the number of humans "detained" will be approaching, or possibly even quickly dwarfing, America’s first experiment with concentration camps, Japanese-American internment during WWII.

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

This raid didn’t get much press at the time because it’s Idaho. But it’s truly shocking. And it shows that these policies work like we’ve alleged in Alabama. The scale just makes it so much harder to minimize the harm of a show-me-your papers regime. These people weren’t let go “promptly.”

The new appointee in charge is learning the costs of politicization. He has no criminal justice experience. The people who know what they are doing are leaving. Actual criminal prosecutions are not being done. Authoritarianism inevitably bends towards incompetence.

A Trump loyalist took over the Minnesota office, and doubled down on the loyalist abuse of the law, trying to investigate Renee Good and her wife rather than the person who killed her. At this point, career civil servants left, and were immediately labeled "deep state" by the Attorney general.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

"This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction." Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron dismembers Jeff Bezos.

The Trump regime's plan to rig the 2026 election is becoming clearer: - Send ICE to polling locations to intimidate voters - Attempt to federalize the elections and seize control of administration in critical states - Cast doubt on the results and declare they've won - If needed, seize ballot boxes

like how do you just go on with questions after this like nothing happened? does anyone in the white house press corps have a spine? morals? anything?

“How many times, then, will Western journalists allow themselves to be fooled by Israeli propaganda – by military denials that later collapse under the weight of evidence?”

Hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991

I can’t get over how increasingly desperate and worried district judges are — they are doing all the right things — and how they’re being betrayed by appellate judges and a Supreme Court, both too cowardly to stand behind their decisions.

“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect

Mockler: Most Americans support the deportation of criminals who are here illegally. That is fine. But we don't support whatever the hell this is…

This is in small-town Minnesota. This is not in one of those demonic blue cities that the GOP talk about. This is pretty goddam rural. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Horrible people

Now that ICE has taken the extraordinary step of putting the men who murdered Alex Pretti on administrative leave, Democrats must respond by fully funding ICE.

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.

Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...

Sounds like Donald Trump wants to take away your guns.

This isn't fixed with better training.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt just stated that President Trump "doesn't want to see anyone get hurt." Same guy who, in 2020, asked authorities if they could shoot protesters in the legs, and called for law enforcement to handle protesters and “crack their skulls.”

If Alex Pretti had intended to use his weapon against Border Patrol officers, he would have. He did not. He was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. The last thing he did before he was executed was to help someone up off the ground.

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

Alex Pretti's parents live in Arvada, so this is also showing up for/with them.

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

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

National strike. Friday, January 30. Shut it all down. Pass it on.

Democrats must block the ICE funding bill

A lawless militarized federal agency is assaulting and murdering unarmed US citizens on the street in broad daylight for the act of documenting their unlawful activities, and the federal government is steadfastly lying about video evidence of summary executions that we've all seen with our own eyes

37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

He was filming him with the phone in his right hand. Hard to threaten anyone with a gun in that position.

They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence. newrepublic.com/article/2055...