Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I encountered paramilitary goons who looked and acted just like this in Bosnia, Iraq, and other conflict zones. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026. 📷: WCCO-TV

Just this past weekend, a NJ man allegedly robbed two people while impersonating an ICE agent:

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A lot of people predicted, based on his past actions & stated beliefs, that Trump would go full Hitler if nobody stopped him. We were called hysterical and told to calm down.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Like please explain why I should pay my taxes while this criminal is in charge

I feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.

This line ought to set off a huge alarm at MLS HQ: "The Loons were negotiating transfer deals with Slovenian midfielder Tomi Horvat and Dutch defender Cherrion Valerius, but both players cited concerns about life in Minnesota for them and their families as why they declined contracts with MNUFC."

“In theater”? Is that used outside of war?

I am happy for people in Maine if this is true. ALSO, this suggests that the administration is unleashing ICE in blue cities and states as punishment for political reasons. Collins is up for re-election and they need her to keep their control of the Senate. This is GROTESQUE.

“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

Updated running list of athletes who have spoken out or taken action as the Trump-Vance admin's masked DHS agents terrorize communities across the US:

There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/

I don’t have children but, in the Baldwin tradition, I understand this to mean every child is also mine to value and dignify. I don’t think you need to be a parent to understand how evil this is, but I don’t understand how you can be a parent, see a child like this, & think that’s a job well done

Today’s moment of calm comes to you from my studio. I see a wren in my peripheral vision, she flies from stem to stem. Distracted from my work by her movement, I am drawn into a moment of her life. A moment of grace. I feel my connection to this place, to the fields & hedges, to the birds & trees 🩷

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Still seeing lots of posts eagerly talking about all the fun stuff that's gonna happen when ICE comes to Philly. Here's what's gonna happen: families will get torn apart, entire neighborhoods will be terrorized, people will be blinded and maimed. That's a guarantee. Stop rooting for it.

before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

This is too charitable; the nature of the mistake hints very strongly that the columnist either wrote the entire piece with AI or at a minimum that they used quotes from an AI researcher and that neither they nor the editor nor the fact-checker bothered to double-check them.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

Minnesotans have all "studied the playbook." (Please quote repost with your playbook, Minnesota. Have at it.)

Ex-NYPD deputy commish Kaz Daughtry is joining the Homeland Security Dept., @nytimes.com reports. Last year, @propublica.org investigated the secretive police unit he helped run and found it was so aggressive that it alarmed NYPD leaders: www.propublica.org/article/eric...

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pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Agents keep detaining Native Americans— especially if they live outside the reservation boundaries. (This Standing Rock tribal member in Minnesota was released at 5 am the next day.)

Since this is going around, for added context, he posted this to his IG after Renee Good was shot and killed. I have not seen the team circulate this message as suggested by the graphic. The original IG post: www.instagram.com/p/DTPD3TpDCht/

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

A history 🧵for Buffalonians and Bills fans: bsky.app/profile/lets...

No game for my beloved Buffalo Bills today after heartbreaking loss last wknd (that was NOT an interception). Instead of drowning in sorrow, gonna tell story of a great Buffalo victory: when city got together to unmask white supremacists. No, not ICE (we’ll get to them later) but the 1920s Klan.

They call it "pulling a Vatican"

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

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"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

Children shouting "let us out, let us out" so loud you can hear it from the parking lot.

The whole interview is worth it

The package with ICE funding will be in the Senate this week and will need Democratic votes to advance.

Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position

from what I can see, the video shows a beating followed by an execution.

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.