Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

The death of a 55-year-old Cuban detainee who died on Jan. 3 at a federal immigration detention camp in El Paso was ruled a homicide Wednesday by the El Paso Medical Examiner’s office. buff.ly/tEQIiUQ

Data centers tied to artificial intelligence are expanding rapidly across rural Texas, drawn by available land and a business-friendly regulatory climate. But residents are raising concerns about electricity demand, water use, and strain on local infrastructure.

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

He's in the White House, JD

They deployed ten times as many agents to a city 40% the size and then had them drive around in military convoys publicly snatching random pedestrians before launching tear gas. Also, they shot a lady in the face

*record scratch* *freeze frame* newrepublic.com/article/2054...

According to rapid response ICE appears to be hounding a local elementary school with agents as the VP speaks in defense of ICE. Observers and parents organizing to get kids out safe

They're desperate to provoke a riot, shooting people in the face didn't work so now they're targeting children. There is no low to which these scumbags will not stoop.

This story really gets at a fundamental misunderstanding about ICE that I’m seeing outside of Minnesota. Folks think that ICE could terrorize undocumented immigrants and that it wouldn’t affect the broader community. But of course it does. The very fabric of social life is unraveling.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

The funny thing about this standard MAGA response to protest is that in this case not only is it once again a lie, but the people they’re protesting — immigration officers — are literally paid agitators and chaos agents from out of state.

remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures

for whatever reason, this specific post sent me into uncontrollable laughter just alone in my house, laughing loudly & exclaiming "my god, they are so fucking stupid"

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Link to pdf of my paper on Ea-Nasir aka the ur-meme, free to download and share: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

And yesterday on NPR: countless people who'd wrecked their lives by believing ChatGPT was a real person. Not even stupid people, really--just desperate for some change, some contact, they couldn't seem to find in life. One was convinced he had to save chatGPT from being murdered.

To all those listening or watching the Jack Smith testimony, remind yourself that at no time has any Republican offered a single piece of evidence that contradicts any of Jack Smith’s conclusions about Trump‘s criminal activity regarding the 2020 election.

The level of humility it takes to do the unglamorous, non-confrontational work is a story that people need to think about more. The shops that don’t get raided and might not be under threat! The people who follow ICE cars so they can’t do surprise stops. The people who you will never see.

🚨ICE violently dragged a U.S. veteran out of her car near Minneapolis ICE: Get out of the f*cking car! Vet: You know I'm a Marine Corps veteran? ICE: I don't care what you are! [ICE drags her from car & then points taser at passenger] ICE: "F*cking move I'll f*cking taze you!"

I sometimes think this website gets ahead of itself re: how much the rest of the country is ready to hear the ideas that are dominant here about how to respond to this or that thing. I do not think that here

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

“Our children are traumatized. The sense of safety in our community and around our schools is shaken... After our fourth student was taken yesterday, I just thought someone has to hear the story. They’re taking children.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing. Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion. Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/148814...

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

When a country with the world's strongest military, including nuclear weapons, puts a mentally deranged person in charge, it threatens the safety of the entire planet. The election of Trump was one of the most reckless acts in human history.

The biggest public health issue right now is that the Trump administration is kidnapping people, including kids, using chemical weapons on them, torturing and abusing them, putting them in concentration camps, & murdering them. Again, I ask: why are the physicians in the Trump regime OK with this?

If you’re on the ground, it is absolutely unmistakable what they’re doing. Bovino has gone to multiple gas stations, with a massive convoy, gotten out of the car, and strolled into the street and posed for ten minutes at a time. No gas, no food, no bathroom. Just over and over in sequence.

They are trying to whip people into a frenzy, in the hopes that someone will do something violent, or we’ll riot, and give them an excuse. It’s not a coincidence that JD Vance is coming tomorrow. Again, every journalist on the ground knows this, but we’ll see if their editors will let them say it.

It’s perverse beyond description: my own government trying as hard as it can not to protect my city, but to enraged, attack, and destroy it, I campaign of pure malevolent aggression, conducted by US government paramilitaries against its own citizenry.

They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us. We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.

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Abolish ICE is the only choice

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

Young people under the need to resist. #louisiana #NewOrleans #nola #immigration #abolishice https://www.wwno.org/politics/2026-01-21/new-orleans-high-school-students-stage-walkouts-protests-against-federal-immigration-sweeps

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

(4) If you are arrested, you simply must do the following: - Identify yourself - Prove or attest to your citizenship - Invoke your 5th Amendment rights and demand your lawyer - Literally do not say a single thing besides the above. Do not talk shit, do not mouth off. There's time for that yet.

The fundamental problem here is not one of bad apples. This is what the agency is designed to do. The barrel is bad to start with.

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

This new whistleblower report is on par with the Zelensky call - not just because it’s violative of law - but because they also tried to keep people from seeing it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is absolutely explosive news. Impeachable and criminal. Swift accountability must follow.

🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

I want you to hear yourself that when the KIDNAP A FIVE YEAR OLD IN SUB ZERO TEMPERATURES AND PUT THAT BABY on a plane to TEXAS after calling him IT I want you to say it to YOURSELF WITH YOUR WHOLE CHEST that I shouldn’t be telling my congressman to get of his ass AND THEN TELL ME WHY