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Shout out to all our Journalist colleagues in Minneapolis right now. I can't imagine how covering all this feels but your work is important even if it feels like insanity watching ICE have zero rules or humanity or basic intelligence.

A father says he was with his six children when they were hit by munitions deployed by law enforcement in response to demonstrations that turned violent in Minneapolis. Three of the children went to the hospital, including a 6-month-old baby, who stopped breathing after being hit by tear gas

Many states have a key deadline today for people to enroll in an ACA plan. But Congress let expire the enhanced subsidies that helped make some of those plans more affordable. For small business owners and self-employed people, it’s created chaos: 19thnews.org/2026/01/affo...

I had the honor to introduce my replacement on 9NEWS

The issue w/this is that's it's also a thoroughly American 'slogan,' too. Tulsa's Black Wall Street, the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philly, racial profiling in the streets and airports, surveilling mosques after 9/11, etc. It's been here before and after Nazis, it just has MAGA makeup on now.

Consideration of the Venezuela War Powers resolution has begun on the Senate floor:

"So how do you describe a hurricane while you’re stuck in its eye? How do you describe getting kicked in the teeth while you can still taste leather? You can’t, of course—not completely." open.substack.com/pub/discours...

Dropping this here from someone who knows what she is talking about to inform journalists covering this.

Lemon, It's January 14.

This is some colonial-era absurdity. And, feels like a means to justify decades of mass spending on the military from the OG 'war on terror.' We all need to read Rosa Brooks' How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything - and learn from it

Take a grain of salt given the source of this story but 'internal bleeding' could mean a lot of things - including internal hemorrhoids or an ulcer. You can function mentally - and mostly well physically - with that kind of internal bleed. You can certainly walk. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Been reading this over and over and can't for the life of me understand what he's even trying to say. This is a lot of words to say... nothing.

I thought LinkedIn was down and for a brief moment, a breath or two, I felt pure joy and freedom.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Zero coincidence that Minneapolis has a big Somali population. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

For people (and journalists) new to Minnesota. Here are some of the stories we did in December before the national focus shifted here. The first sign that things were really escalating was an ICE action in St. Paul, where St. Paul police tear gassed/used pepper spray. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Celebrities wear pins protesting ICE on Golden Globes red carpet buff.ly/dTZCNqy

I was wondering if my reading this year would have a theme and after there last 10 days of Trump: it's escapism with maybe some art thievery (simply bc it's fascinating) Also, I just got on the Empyrean/Rebecca Yarros train and need to talk about it with others! I know people are obsessed!

Anti-ICE protesters are having a rolling noise demo and protest in downtown Minneapolis targeting hotels where federal agents are reportedly staying -- starting at the Canopy by Hilton and going to the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel. Police have just arrived as we are posting this.

This whole line of denying what millions of people have seen very clearly on now, multiple videos of Renee Nicole Good's murder is gaslighting at its finest. An art form this administration has perfected since its origins with Sean Spicer and inauguration crowd size.

Um...is no one in that room going to ask about how this is going to happen if the US only has a few refineries for the kind of oil coming out of Venezuela? And, why these execs would bother with the other huge costs of doing business in a place with new/shaky colonial leadership?

Just yesterday Gov Hochul pledged support for Mamdani's 2Care program and the free 3K program that has had inconsistent funding. Her state budget still needs to be approved by Albany.

NEWS --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman are introducing a new bill to strip ICE officers of qualified immunity, making lawsuits and prosecutions easier. They also say agent who killed Renee Good should be prosecuted in Minnesota. They break this news on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

What in the waterline smudging is he talking about? No law enforcement officer or federal government employee has 'immunity' in the way he's talking about. Is he confusing them with foreign diplomats? This state-sponsored misinformation is dangerous for all of us - incl elected officials

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This is very good from WaPo. Note position of officer's feet to side of car when first shot is fired. I think everyone defending this should be asked: Was it not even an *overreaction* to fire those shots, especially 2 & 3, into her face point-blank with the officer clearly not in danger? Really?

We all saw multiple angles of the same video. This goes well beyond misinformation, it's manipulation of evidence.

This is well within the state’s jurisdiction. The government currently covering up a pedophile ring is now also covering up a murder.

I wish more people on here were adding this as a caveat: Hochul saying she'll support the 2-care program and universal 3/4K is great, but it's also dependent on negotiations with the rest of Albany on her proposed budget. Still huge, but not guaranteed just yet.

At some point, as someone who covered mayoral conferences for a while, I want to write in-depth about mayoral politics and why it's often misunderstood in national media. It's so much more dependent on personality vs power, IMHO. 1/x

Countries are not for SALE. Open a McDonald's there if you want some piece of the American economy stamped on it and leave the rest. Never did I think wanting the 80s/90s version of capitalist-empire making would feel quaint and...preferred. I'm grossed out by this feeling.

Some days it feels like January 6 never *really* ended. It's just been a slow burn of everything we took for granted in this version of democracy since then. But I suppose you could argue this is all a fever dream since June 16, 2015: the day Trump rode down the gold escalator and announced his bid

Some days it feels like January 6 never *really* ended. It's just been a slow burn of everything we took for granted in this version of democracy since then. But I suppose you could argue this is all a fever dream since June 16, 2015: the day Trump rode down the gold escalator and announced his bid

I think my least favorite quality in a person, one that is so often praised as an asset or virtue, is: "doesn't take no for an answer." We're living through an extended nightmare of what that looks like when brought to its logical conclusion.

The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed. Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened. I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.

He also looks like he collects and eats doll hair in his mom's basement.

Teachers having to explain how/why Trump became President after his role in this is going to be interesting for civic engagement gothamist.com/news/ny-stud...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Quote tweeted with alt text and also want to note that everything he's written is a lie. Colonization stole wealth from those countries and in the years since those countries ended formal ties neo colonization found new ways of continuing to mine those countries for their wealth

It's Temu Iraq.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

The first half of the first real working day of 2026 is hitting me like an 18 wheeler gone rogue. I was in the hospital like, a week ago, with an issue that is still an exhausting mystery so I wasn't really ready for Venezuela, managing gen z reporters, and job apps all at once.

another three years in this term, western hemisphere

What I'm most surprised by in this insanely illegal Venezuela issue is that the loud mouths in the Trump admin were able to keep quiet about it so much so that members of Congress didn't know beforehand. I'm also doubting this. There's no way Rubio isn't a gossip queen

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