"'The idea that they want to protect people’s freedom to worship and yet sit outside and specifically target their churches in the sixty days since they’ve been here goes against their argument.'" That's a nicer way to say it than they deserve.

In our latest episode of IYR, PRA researchers discuss the deadly ICE crackdown in Minneapolis and the powerful resistance we’ve seen on the streets. By contextualizing today’s anti-immigrant movement, they reveal lessons from Minneapolis that can help us strengthen our strategies for the future.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Can’t Wish Away the Fourth Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o... A very polite, civil liberties grounded critique of the DHS “the 4th Amd doesn’t apply to us” claim My word for this is monstrous. 4A applies most of all to DHS & co.

Alas.

The difference between when Trump calls someone a “fake x” (journalist, comedian, etc.) and when a just decrees someone is a fake US Attorney. www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

In a 2024 episode of IYR, PRA's Ethan Fauré examines how the push for increased anti-immigration policing outlined in Project 2025 advances the project’s broader authoritarian goals of consolidating executive power. Listen to the full episode here: politicalresearch.org/2024/09/26/a....

Warnock on the arrest of Don Lemon: It’s chilling, and I think that is the intent. They intend to send chills down the backs of journalists. The authoritarian march is happening in real time, and it’s way past the time to wake up.

In this episode of IYR, we discuss the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela, escalating conflicts with ICE across the U.S., and the protests in Minneapolis following Renee Good's murder with PRA's @vetanthropology.bsky.social. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/b....

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Latest from my colleague Ben Lorber. There are profound issues of values and personal philosophy that help to explain why the Right couldn't, but they all come back to their fear-driven being and constricted circle of empathy. religiondispatches.org/2026/01/26/r...

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says

Bipartisan negotiators released a DHS funding bill that does not significantly reduce ICE and CBP’s funding nor rein in the agencies’ abuses of power. Make no mistake: Any Democrat who votes for this bill is complicit in Trump’s campaign of terror. Grow a spine and vote no.

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

In this bonus episode of IYR, we talk to PRA’s @vetanthropology.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela and domestic clashes with ICE, including the Minneapolis protests over Renee Good’s murder. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/b....

The true purpose of the masked men terrorizing Minnesota, writes @polgreen.bsky.social, is "to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against Trump’s dark vision of America." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Call your representatives today and demand they stop ICE’s abuses of power: (202) 224-3121

Deus Vult: Pete Hegseth's Christian Nationalist Crusade to Remake the U.S. Military globalextremism.org/post/pete-he... New From colleagues at GPAHE

My latest is up on Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/2026/01/19/t...

If senior officers carry out what Trump is threatening against NATO, “the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command”—and “such an outcome would be a tragedy, and potentially a global catastrophe,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/OtxpMxan

Thank you.. FYI.. her are the real paid protestors!

Full order part of her opinion:

Can vouch for Jack being an excellent reporter — wicked smart, empathetic, and an eye for the stories behind the stories. If you’re in MN, drop him a line.

Monitoring required by law? They don’t care. Federal judge tells the agency to let monitors in? They don’t care. A member of Congress says to their faces that they’ve broken the law? They don’t care. Quite a spot we’re in, here.

“Feels like 6 degrees” Mad respect.

Don't know who needs to hear this, but a gentle reminder in response to statements from POTUS: Yelling is not a crime. Monitoring, filming, are not impeding. Even if yelling, monitoring, filming were a crime, summary execution is unconstitutional. Lying about what happened doesn't change that.

My thoughts in first comment. Content warning: rage and trauma-inducing video.

The depravity is a function of leadership. DHS, spurred on by the WH, is telling its agents they are up against lunatics and out to catch the "scum of the earth." Saying they are going into a war zone (and arming them as if). Reality, even IF you support the mission, there is no war, just people.

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

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.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that," Kelly added. www.npr.org/2026/01/05/n...

We must make it clear in every way we can that we oppose U.S. imperialism in Venezuela, the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and around the world. truthout.org/articles/tru...

According to the NYT (see thread), "More than 150 military aircraft, including drones, fighter planes and bombers, took part in the mission [to abduct Maduro], taking off from 20 different military bases and Navy ships." This should be astonishing! To arrest one dude (and his wife)?

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Another of my fabulously talented colleagues, Kitana Ananda, interviews Quinn Slobodia (author of Crack-up Capitalism) about his latest book: Haye's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books, 2025). Read the interview here politicalresearch.org/2025/10/14/h...

My colleague Ethan Fauré interviews Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket, 2024). Check it out at politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w...

Having an accent doesn't make you unqualified for your job.

www.meidasplus.com/p/25-worst-v... The badness is not contained to a few villains, but is systems, drawing on ideas developed in far right think tanks, and working from a premise that the country isn’t racist, sexist, and classist enough.

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Heritage is arguably the most influential policy shop in the conservative movement and these cracks in the ranks are worth watching closely—both where they happen and what the responses to it look like

This should be a very bad joke, the kind only a real jerk would tell, since the implication is they don't care if people live or die.

You can thank RFK Jr. for this.

ICE arrests two men near courthouses in Bellingham, apparently violating state law. www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/26/...