"The thing I found most inspiring in Minnesota was watching all these people who were so committed to helping the people around them. It was a politics of love." On the pod, @adamserwer.bsky.social is just brilliant all throughout. One great insight after another: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

ICE is violating court orders at a record pace but, sure, some additional training and a few administrative rules will bring them to heel.

RAND PAUL: What if a country indicts our president for violating a foreign law -- should we extradite him or be okay if they get him by force? RUBIO: We're always going to act in our natl interest PAUL: What I'm saying is our arguments are empty. It's a ruse. We do what we do bc we have the force

She’s right

BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

Been fascinating with this since I saw it last night. A bunch of ICE morons basically stormed an Ecuadorian Consulate building before someone explaining how diplomatic immunity and extra-territoriality works. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/ic...

Rand Paul: "There has to be an investigation. I don't know who trusts an investigation done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an 'assassin,' a 'domestic terrorist,' saying he was assaulting police. How can they be in charge of an independent investigation? Something's got to happen."

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"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

Mayor Mamdani is on the scene of the Chabad-Lubavitch attack.

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight. Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things. That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution. The video changes nothing.

Amd in case you need a refresher diagram on where fhe Italian satellites and Hugo Chavez fit in (I forgot Chinese bamboo, too)

ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force—It Is One, and That Makes It Harder To Curb talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/ice-is-...

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

Generally speaking, policies to raise birth rates don't result in large or sustained increases. But the ones that are most consistently shown to have a positive, albeit modest, impact are those that help people combine work and family. So, this is a step in the wrong direction. 1/2

Love some quality goalie-on-goalie violence

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Do you feel safer that this administration has decided to bypass nuclear protocols in order to build a bunch of experimental nuclear reactors? Do you think they are competent to create a safe and successful program? 🗽

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Read @people.com's story of the Tarabishis to the bottom. Then just sit with it for a few minutes and ask yourself what we, as a country, stand for right now. people.com/ice-denies-d...

As others have aptly pointed out, police forces have been murdering people for a long time, especially POC. This terrorism from ICE is only a continuation and newest version of what we have been seeing for a long time.

These clowns are a complete and utter embarrassment. Nothing is too stupid, petty or cruel. I assume this would have to be approved by the Secretary of State? If so, just further debasing himself in the service of this Evil Clown Posse

You see ICU Nurse Alex Pretti assisting veterans learning to walk again. Donald Trump sees a domestic terrorist and suckers and losers.

SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million? RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar? RUBIO: Yes

Nothing has changed 🍊🤡 will double down

DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act? RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war? R: No

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help:

"Let his legacy continue to heal" -- Elizabeth Warren reads quotes from Alex Pretti's final student into the record

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

A president who combines hostility with intellectual emptiness isn’t just controversial...he’s structurally dangerous. It’s hard to tell which is more alarming: the policies or the lack of comprehension behind them.

While Minneapolis mourned a man killed by federal agents, Trump’s elite gathered in black tie to celebrate a Melania vanity film. This is what a ruling family looks like. Let them eat cake. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Problem is, "medical freedom" folks are also free from any penalty (monetary, legal, or social) when their selfishness and/or ignorance hurts someone else. I don't know how to set up a FAFO system w/o creating worse problems, but trying to get selfish people to care about strangers seems hopeless.

US District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz ordered acting ICE director Todd Lyons to appear in court Friday & warned he could be held in contempt for repeatedly failing to comply with court orders. ICE has repeatedly ignored or delayed bond hearings & release orders for detained immigrants.

“.. The review makes no mention of the Department of Homeland Security’s earlier claims that Mr. Pretti, a U.S. citizen, “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

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.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...

Trump: "China will be sending me a bill very shortly supporting year round E15 to my desk, and I will sign it without delay"

Trump: "It's a word they came up with -- 'affordability.' They're the ones that caused the problem. The first time I heard about it was like a few months ago."

I don’t even think the regime foolishly believe everyone was as racist and violent as they are, and so are shocked they aren’t on board—I think they’re angry and scared that their opposition came out to meet them in the streets, that the regime can’t punish people who oppose them into complicity

Real Minnesotans who helped jump a car would demand that you not give them credit for this kind of basic decency.

Rep. Veronica Escobar on a homicide in a Texas immigrant detention facility: "I've learned nothing else from DHS, and I think what's also very telling is DHS tried to deport the witnesses to this homicide"

While we should be thrilled that Minneapolis effectively killed ICE there with their kindness, we should be ready for them to find a new site that will react as they're clearly hoping we'll react -- with some kind of violence they can use as a pretext for cracking down.

There is a reckoning coming alright, Bovino is only the first domino to fall. We want the names of all agents who pulled the trigger and we want them now! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...