Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Kelly’s call for Noem’s impeachment follows that of her Illinois colleague @ramirez.house.gov who last month grilled Noem at a contentious hearing. open.substack.com/pub/danvock/...

Feds' statements after Minneapolis driver killed by ICE officer echo pattern from Midway Blitz in Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/07/f...

Two U.S. citizens allege they were detained and removed from their vehicle by ICE agents after arriving at a work site in Salisbury, NC. “They kept saying, ‘You’re not a citizen, you’re not a citizen,’ to me, even when I told them I was,” www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/nor...

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

He literally walked away. If he was injured at all it's not clearly apparent in any of the videos.

The shooting today comes at a critical moment in negotiations on the fiscal year 2026 DHS budget.

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

This is the ICE agent President Trump says was "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over ... hard to believe he is alive."

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.

Federal prosecutors acknowledged for the first time Wednesday they have no direct evidence that a Chicago man accused of putting a bounty on the head of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino is actually in a street gang.

Minneapolis Chief Brian O'Hara confirms that the FBI is in charge of the investigation. He says MPD role is maintain the security of the crime scene.

Rep. Robin Kelly, who’s running against Krishnamoorthi for a Senate seat

This is Donald Trump’s America: a woman is dead after an ICE operation in Minneapolis. This senseless loss of life demands full answers and accountability. My statement:

NOTE: This news immediately followed a Supreme Court order this morning denying the paper's shadow-docket efforts to block an injunction issued by the Third Circuit that was enforcing an NLRB unfair labor practices order relating to the paper's health insurance plans.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of Pennsylvania's largest newspapers, will cease publication on May 3

Flashback to two months ago: A federal judge in Chicago said immigration officials had lied about the nature of local protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Transpo Secretary Sean Duffy: “American manufacturing is back.” @economist.com: Since Trump took office, “the two-year manufacturing contraction is now hitting its third, and factories have continued to shed jobs; employment fell by 0.6% in the year to November.” economist.com/finance-and-...

Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.

ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.

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Mayor Frey of Mpls calling for ICE to leave the city.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ICE reportedly shot someone at Portland and 33/34. Mspt saying bullets, could be less lethal 20+ agents on site, MPD and ambulances responding. Helicopters overhead

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

It's great to hear that Pope Leo is going to focus on more fully implementing the reforms of Vatican II, which is still so opposed, and arguably increasingly so, by many conservatives in the Catholic Church. apnews.com/article/vati...

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Now that AI-generated fake news video is everywhere, I think it's notable that its main function didn't turn out to be sophisticated and unpredictable deception but rather just more soothing, hermetic propaganda for willing rubes and ideologues nymag.com/intelligence...

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Is Leaving Boat Strike Survivors to Drown The Coast Guard called off its search for people who jumped into the sea after watching the U.S. military destroy another ship. theintercept.com/2026/01/07/b...

A fundamental uncertainty that hangs over all of this: Will Congress ever approve a supplemental disaster aid package for the Los Angeles fires and how might Scott’s investigation affect those efforts? www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

The Americans. An almost perfect show with an almost perfect finale.

“Teach western civ” “So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…” “No not like that”

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

"and the Plato readings that may include these." Could I assign Lincoln's Second Inaugural under these conditions?

Rather than making it more affordable for families, Trump is stripping away child care from those just trying to go to work. Thousands depend on these programs, and now their livelihoods are at risk. It's wrong and cruel — we'll take every step possible to defend Illinoisians.

"To be a single person, being up against the Trump administration and the federal government, is hugely stressful," Catherine "Cat" Sharp told the @chicago.suntimes.com.

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the biggest creator of sexualized deepfake images

I live right next to Langston, I like that driving range and I cannot imagine that the Trump administration has plans for a predominantly Black golf course on Benning Road

President Trump is considering using military force to acquire Greenland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells CNBC. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/trump...

@lkatfield.bsky.social has been studying what led up to January 6 and the birth of the MAGA movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiWX...

5 years ago, I was locked in my office after Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection in an attempt to overturn the results of a free & fair election. Congress passed a law to honor those who protected our democracy that day by displaying a plaque in the Capitol recognizing their service. (1/2)

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

BREAKING: At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, officials said.

“Patriotism and loving America, whether in journalism or politics, does not mean ignoring some of this country’s biggest problems, from racism to income inequality to an authoritarian president.”

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

Northeast corner outside: Police seem to have been ordered to abandon that position and reinforce further in. MAGA on that approach advance without resistance.