Good lord. Yes, staggeringly illegal in more ways than one, but we owe whomever leaked it a huge debt of gratitude. Strengthens the litigation challenging this already ongoing. Strengthens the resolve of resisters. Makes plain for every member of Congress that ending this is a job for policymakers.

Currently, restrictions on cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers and the transgender athletes law are set to expire Aug. 28, 2027. #moleg #mogov

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

My heart breaks

For the first 22 years of my life I thought Golden Earing was saying "Red Hot Love" instead of "Radar Love" Today I learned that Dire Straits is in fact saying "Walk of Life" and not "Walk On By" My encyclopedia of grocery-store anthems continues to evolve. Never grow old.

Brick by brick folks did this in Virginia. Virginia was deep red and then became purple, and is like blue violet (because occasionally it elects Republicans statewide) Places were 10 people constituted a Dem committee, became hundreds of people working to flip local & state elections

This is a U.S. citizen. No criminal record. No search warrant. No excuse. Unabashed cruelty & indiscriminate violence is ICE’s point & purpose.

Terrorizing families (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

I check in on Tom Nichols every once in a while to see if he gives us permission to call him a fascist yet. He's my doom barometer. If he ever admits that Trump is a fascist then I will know we are too far gone to save. That's when I pack up and head for the countryside.

Re: the discourse

I'm in a 'purple' area in a blue state, and I started showing up to local democratic party stuff last year, and at 40 have been the youngest person there by at least a decade, usually 2-3 decades most of the time. Even if you live in a blue district, showing up will do a lot more than you think.

How to get involved with the local Dem party: -Locate you nearest central committee. Hopefully your county has one, if it doesn't then find the nearest county that does and go to their next meeting. -Arrive 10 minutes early -Find somebody who looks like they are organizing -Introduce yourself

If you are: -a leftist -who does not like the DNC -and lives in a red district -that is rural or suburban I encourage you to check out your local Dems and maybe get involved. Red districts are often ignored by national Dems; you may have more influence to push left locally than you think.

I know people may get mad that there isn’t a Dem running against these assholes for STC County Exec. That is because it is really hard to be a Dem in STC and they don’t have a functioning pipeline to fill big races, YET. They are building it. Support your local party. Especially in R areas. #BlueMO

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

NEW: @wired.com spoke with 10 people living through the ICE operation in Minneapolis. The fear and pain is palpable. Lina Misitzis and Katie Thornton report: www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

3. Several of the deaths, according to advocates, are related to substandard medical care. Popular Information reported on Monday that ICE stopped paying for third-party medical treatment for detainees on October 3, 2025.

1. In 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody. That figure was the largest in more than two decades and tied for the highest number of deaths among ICE’s detainee population ever. 2026 is only three weeks old, and it’s already shaping up to be much worse.

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

this quote by John Bingham quote still goes so fucking hard and genuinely remains radical to this day

Lots of you know, but it's rare to see in mainstream media & edu: US conservatism (in practice) has nothing to do w/ skepticism about change, limited gov't, states’ rights, individualism, or free markets. It's all class, race, gender, & religion hierarchies. News & edu need to stop misleading ppl.

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Trump posts what appears to be a private text message sent to him by Macron

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

“.. The Trumps have generated about $1.4 billion from crypto projects that are new to his second term, a Bloomberg analysis shows. These have gotten a boost from Trump’s own policies ..” @bloomberg.com #Crypto www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed

Closing massive capital gains tax loopholes'd promote fairness & investment in Americans. Antitrust fights unfair biz practices that harm competition to juice profit at American workers', consumers', & innovators' expense. Labor rights empower workers to organize to bargain on more balanced ground

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

This is extraordinary. They aren’t just kicking the ICE agents out. They’re temporarily closing the hotel altogether due to “heightened safety concerns in St. Paul.”

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

We were snowshoeing across a lake in WI one winter and there were 3 snowmen built out on the ice. They were WAY out in the middle, a good 15 min walk from shore. They were kinky weird guys performing strange sex acts on each other. Only other things at the scene were footprints and 4 empty Hamm’s.

I think it’s fair to say that under any previous president a White House staffer who spoke about a NATO ally like this would have been hog tied and throw bodily out over the White House fence in propitiation of the ravening congressional committees marching down Pennsylvania Ave to investigate.

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

No federal judge has the power or authority to make DOJ comply with the mandatory provisions of the Epstein Act, says Pam Bondi. It's unenforceable and meaningless. Essentially, DOJ is a lawless if not criminal enterprise, not a law enforcement agency, at this point.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

Clear language from a Reagan appointed judge that, alone, is grounds for impeachment... even without *waves hands frantically at the window* all of this

Before Trump took office, Treasury and State regularly targeted hundreds of war profiteers across the globe who tried to undercut the impact of U.S. sanctions and export controls. Now, the President is throwing away leverage that could've helped achieve a just peace.

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.