What the fuck even is this party?

A joint City Council committee voted 19-3 to explicitly give the Civilian Office of Police Accountability authority to investigate whether CPD officers have improperly helped federal agents enforce immigration law. news.wttw.com/2026/01/27/k...

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Biden era officials continue to rage at Netanyahu for not acknowledging how unflinchingly and unconditionally pro-Israel the Biden administration was

Holy shit. The Biden DOJ investigated Ilhan Omar???

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

I'm sure actual journalists have already done this, but just for my own info: 9 with bylines or columns at The Free Press; 3 who are advisors, board members, or professors at the University of Austin; 2 health grifters; 1 cookbook author; 1 chef; 1 Abundance guy

Border Patrol shot someone in Arizona: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

Sexual harassment as qualification

"Return CBP to the border" Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?

"One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”"

One human rights observer in Maine said agents followed her home, blocked off her street, and came to her door to say they know where she lives. Her children are now staying elsewhere, to keep them safe.

Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown. Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.

He's not choking, this is just what his politics are.

lol he gave sworn testimony that he doesn’t run it

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

You can't really call yourself "abundant housing" if you endorse a politician who failed to oppose 92% of all homes in Gaza being destroyed.

I hope we don't end up in a George Floyd Justice in Policing Act situation where Dems propose ineffective or counter-productive reforms that assuage the media but don't fix anything. But everyone who failed then is still in charge now so that should be the default expectation until proven otherwise.

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

a theory about our great crime decline which, if true, could mean the conditions allowing it might not last much longer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

‘The destruction of Palestinian lives is now a base line in a holding pattern. The ferocious white heat of the past two years of unrelenting attacks has receded from view, but the genocide continues.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the situation on the ground in Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

They have spent the Trump administration, and really the past several years, following a playbook that treats politics as a solved game. It was plain all along that this approach would end with Dems voting to fund atrocities out of political expediency. www.offmessage.net/p/a-failure-...

The murder of Alex Pretti might prove to be a political turning point for the GOP. It should be a turning point for Dems, too. For the current leadership, and the consultant-industrial complex, which just fatally endangered the careers of seven members who chose to put morality last.

Alex Pareene byline alert

The DHS Pokemon "Gotta Catch 'Em All" video opens with federal agents blowing down someone's door www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VI5...

Voting and crying

In a democracy, the government is accountable to citizens. Trump officials believe citizens are accountable to them, on penalty of death.

It was kind of a tossed-off gag in a blog last week but the ICE/CBP forces in Minnesota really are an expansion team made up of the most readily available players in a depressingly glutted violence worker marketplace. Not even quad-A types. Independent league guys with well-known makeup issues.

everybody knows the key to negotiating is to not to ask for much

An eviction moratorium is necessary to limit the damage ICE is causing, but its also excellent leverage against the administration.

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

If not now, when??

Help the children in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1640...

Wrote this in late 2024 and think it still holds up

ICE officers began forcibly entering homes without judicial warrants last summer. An internal document — dated May 12, 2025, but just made public by two whistleblowers — told officers they could rely on an administrative warrant to enter homes if there was an order to remove someone from the U.S.

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

The regime is done for.

Democratic leadership are going to continue to hem and haw over their messaging strategy on ICE, whereas if you started the Abolish ICE Party today it would instantly be the most popular political organization in the country

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

‘I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened.’

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."