Twin Cities home builders are falling behind schedule as the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota has fueled a shortage of roofing, drywall and other construction workers, according to developers and real estate agents.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

One really great use of AI would be to filter out the annoying drone noise from the audio feeds of the Olympics broadcasts. @nbcnews.com

BREAKING: Trump says he 'didn't make a mistake' with his racist video post. Q:  "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?" Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake." He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."

Today, construction on the nation’s largest infrastructure project came to a halt - with hundreds laid off - because Donald Trump is out of control. The good news: political pressure still works, and we can use our voices to make sure he doesn’t have the last word.

“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.” www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Trump is always focused on the issues important to ordinary Americans.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

If you’re not an angle it’s ok for the government to kill you?

I don't see how Will Lewis can effectively lead WaPo. Lewis did not save Bezos from himself on opinion pages. (375K+ cancelations) His innovations did not stem enough red ink. And he has not taken any ownership of the devastating ensuing cuts. He's making Murray own it alone.

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

Page One. @wsj.com

Lockdown Mode works. It kept the FBI out of the WaPo reporter’s phone when they raided her house over a bogus investigation.

The most predictable outcome of the Trump's hostility to immigrants is mass outsourcing of those jobs from the United States. This is another example of damage being done to the economy which will be hard to reverse in a few years when people finally figure out how badly Trump screwed things up.

$1.5T military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol (over 4 years) $100B on tax cuts for the 1% (per year) $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $496M to send National Guard into cities $200M for Kennedy Center renovations $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings Priorities.

"Doctors nationally are describing harrowing consequences for patients who delayed seeking care or skipped it altogether, including a child who suffered a ruptured eardrum and a patient with a burst appendix." www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Another @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger on how ICE is tear-gassing children and families turning out to protest, which is only serving to radicalize people even more. 'When Broeker had first been tear gassed, she had been terrified. But the fear has since faded, leaving only rage.'

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Trump DOJ sued DC like a month ago for having laws against semi automatic weapons

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

Nope! The whole Hollywood obsession with different aspect ratios has been nauseating. Same with the hours-long single-shot crap. You're just showing off to your peers and your actual audience would rather have a better-told story.

I've been posting about this for a long time. Time to raise awareness again: the SAVE Act would disenfranchise tens of millions of American women (including myself) whose legal names do not match the names on their birth certificates. Lawyers say a Real ID DL wouldn't suffice to be able to vote.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

This is so unhinged

What.

JUST IN: Judge Schiltz cancels Friday’s contempt hearing but lights into ICE, saying the agency may have violated more court orders this month than many others have in their entire existence. “ICE is not a law unto itself.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune has identified 17 instances of federal officials violating judicial orders related to people detained in Minnesota.

What's worse than state domestic terrorism? *Petty* *snowflake* state domestic terrorism.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

The federal government is treating the Constitution like it is optional in Minnesota. Like it is just a suggestion. If they can make that true here, it will be true for the entire country.

If I can get one thing across to folks: this is a crisis for the whole nation. This is a major breakdown in basic order, unlike what they’ve done before. They are lowering the floor for how bad things can get. This will ripple out across the whole nation if it isn’t stopped.

There is evil and then there is this

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

I’m not sure what time this was but the warmest it got today was -8°F. All of these people are out in that.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Trump has sent 600 CHILDREN into ICE detention. They are not going after the “worst of the worst” — they are ripping families apart and forever traumatizing children. This must end. https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

every democrat should be talking like this. all of them.

Science is on the cusp of saving so many lives but the richest country in the history of the world is like “nah…take supplements”

NYT Ed Board: One year ago, Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself. A review by the editorial board shows that Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1,408,500,000.