damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

HARD TRUTHS

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent," Isaac Asimov wrote, but it may also be the last refuge of those whose lives are ruled by incompetents

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

Which we knew at the time, have always known, and tbh the only people who ever pretended this was not the case were corrupt judges and justices who did so as a pretense to justify making America more dangerous for the rest of us

Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.

Nothing is going to stop the people of Minnesota and America from defeating this criminal President, his administration, and all the traitors who enabled it. Not ICE terrorism. Not the insurrection act. Not martial law. Not a second civil war. Nothing. No matter what happens, they are going to lose.

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.

Rachel Cohen: “Greg, I hope you fucking eat shit, I hope this keeps you up at night for the rest of your life, and no one fucking wants you here” Greg Bovino: “Oh, fantastic language” Cohen: “ ‘Oh, fantastic language’—there’s children in here? In your fucking vehicles, assholes?”

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

Hard same

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

ICE in Minnesota is reminiscent of the firehoses used during the Civil Rights era. Images are compelling evidence that words can't compete with

How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.

This dude rules

I hear what you’re saying, Frey, you don’t have enough men to stop ICE. Sounds like a good reason to ask Walz to mobilize the National Guard.

Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever. If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.

Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back. Stomp the cockroach.

Funneling all transit to 1 downtown street is just bending the knee to cars who are mostly trying to plow through the city or get out of town. Such a silly mistake.

Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.

That Rogan clip has some legs. @nbcnews.com #gestapo www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Deploying tear gas is an act of war. People have become inured to it but it is toxic and harmful. issuu.com/projectnia/d...

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Enten: "Americans at this point do not like ICE. And that's very different from what we saw during Trump's first term. We're talking about -17 approval rating. That's a 17 point drop from where we were during Trump's first term. Among independents, the number is even lower."

I'll be there, how about you?

Europe having to perform military exercises against their primary threat, the United States.

Think mass protest & non-cooperation doesn’t matter? @jiggygero.bsky.social says: “When researchers looked at 35 cases of democratic backsliding from 1991-2021, only 7.5% were successful with no civil resistance movement while 51.7% were successful with a mass civil resistance movement.” Keep it up!

"Go WoKe Go BrOkE!" still isn't a thing no matter how many times they chant it. If anything, "Go fash, lose cash" is more accurate. You only need to look at the reactions to Target, Tesla, Twitter, Disney (during the Kimmel fiasco), and now CBS News for that.

I can guarantee you an increase in CBS rating if you let me launch just one show: "Randomly Selected Members of the Audience Kick Tony Dokoupil in the Nuts"

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Friends, please take a moment and read this piece by poet, children's book author (and fellow South High grad - go Tigers!) Bao Phi. It's wonderful and moving and necessary. time.com/7345628/anti...

Something folks can do in the coming weeks is to organize Ice Watch Training in your communities. There's an excellent resource that can help you to do this: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - Get five people together in person or virtually and get skilled up together.

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boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

NEW: Restrained by three white men for attempted shoplifting, a Black teen died from asphyxiation. His father refused to accept that no one would be held responsible. More than a decade later, his idea of justice has shifted — and may finally be achieved.

Over 50 Dems have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Noem. Use the link below to demand your members of Congress to get behind this!

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For once, I agree with you.

Hot off the presses: the @theurbanist.org interview with new Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/13/o...

The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services. The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart

Goldman: Until DHS reins in this rogue and authoritarian ICE secret police force, there should be no more funding provided to DHS.

Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."