This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

The fundamental problem here is not one of bad apples. This is what the agency is designed to do. The barrel is bad to start with.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Old video know your rights , and I know things are very fluid. Worry more abt what happened today at 25th and bryant since my son was coming back from cvs and yelled at them and gave them the bird but ran home to get to finnish class youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?...

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

Everyone’s just trying to live their lives the best they can. And these motherfuckers are just wilding out, marauding, terrorizing for no fucking reason beyond “they can.” This helps nobody. This benefits zero people. This is dropping entire communities into a nightmare for sport.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

These bastards think it’s okay because they think they’re at war. And they’re waging their war on us. You and me and our neighbors. Everyday people. Eternal shame.

This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting. In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old. www.kare11.com/article/news...

They’re still saying this as if he needs an excuse, as if he’s not already trampling our rights by other means

It’s so sad to watch someone succumb to the ravages of dementia. Donald Trump is not of sound mind. This makes him a real danger. He must be removed immediately.

this little man struggles to deploy the canister for 30 seconds and then throws it directly upwind

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas. These euphemisms have to die.

It seems to me Congress should hold off on funding elaborate conspiracies to violate the Constitution.

@gregsargent.bsky.social has this right. Republicans can’t scare freedom loving people into not standing up for their neighbors. But the absence of backup from Democrats is will demoralize some and tempt others to more radical forms of opposition. newrepublic.com/article/2055...

A neighbor to the South Shore building said they suspected this may be the case, back in November when the then-tenants announced they were unionizing. “This is an attempt at gentrification. Point-blank, period,” they said.

Between that and the 5-year-old, I'm broken tonight. Broken, broken.

That video on @allinwithchris.bsky.social of the 16 yo & his father being run off the road broke me. Just sobbing, sobbing. The sheer terror in that baby's voice & his father repeatedly, gently saying "cálmate, cálmate" - I've never had such fear for my children & my God, just the idea of it.

Never forget that ICE is headed by a woman who told everyone that she murdered her own dog for no reason, because she thought that story made her look good! Noem is a profoundly immoral person, and her immorality permeates the entire organization she heads.

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

the local DA should indict it. if they cannot serve the warrant because ICE has more men with guns, they should say so.

This is bad bad bad, but it’s worth noting that the memo’s from May 2025 and not this month. I think that’s useful information for limiting panic, because I read this headline and thought “oh this is about to get way worse”

I really don't like the fact that the world just keeps giving me more and more examples to point to for my class on whiteness this semester. Nope. Don't like this at all.

OH HEY FIFA

I am popping in to say this is why sports are political. Athletes are humans and subject to the same bullshit as everyone else. If you want to support your team, you can’t support policies that dehumanize.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

"School district officials in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, say their sense of security is shaken and their hearts shattered after four students from the district have recently been taken by officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

"Nice country you got there, be a shame if something happened to it." Headlines: TRUMP COMPLIMENTS NATION, VOICES CONCERN FOR ITS FUTURE

"vows" is actively disinformation from the AP. it's just a lie. he couldn't have done more the opposite

There is no chance that I'll be voting for the DHS appropriations bill that includes funding for ICE. Congress should be easing pathways to citizenship and impeaching Trump and Kristi Noem, not bolstering an undemocratic and rogue agency that targets our communities.

What if OJ Simpson wrote a book titled “If I Was Going To Do It,” and then everybody just stood by saying wow that guy’s weird, until . . . he did it.

Congress released a DHS funding bill that doesn’t rein in ICE nor significantly reduce its funding. Contact your reps to demand they vote no on any funding bill allowing ICE to continue its abuses: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-funding-for-ice/?source=group-ShortText

The greatest threat to the homeland right now is DHS under Kristi Noem’s control. Just last week, a parent in NJ-10 was detained by ICE after ordering food for his 6-year-old daughter. When her dad didn’t come home, the little girl was found crying and wandering for hours outside, parentless.

Basically correct I think

Transport this headline back in time exactly ten years to January of 2016 and try to get a single human being to believe that this is actually a factual for-real article posted in the Wall Street Journal.

Support independent media.

I also prefer the framing of this National Post (Canada) piece:

way too many outlets are running with "Trump says he 'won't use force'" headlines, when they should be more accurately representing the obviously implied threat - like this Sky News headline does pretty well.

Also can we point out he said Iceland like three times, his comments about Somalians were so racist it would get me banned from BlueSky to repeat them, and the bit were even his vestigial masks fell away and he hissed “you’ve been screwing us for years” oh yes and the squeaky Macron voice

CTU and IFT President Stacy Davis Gates reminds us that history isn’t just about the rise of tyrants. It’s about the power of the people who resisted them. Our anger is rooted in what we already had, and what’s being taken away.

an entire fucking year of this bullshit. we could have had peace and quiet and solar. instead it’s whistles and anxiety and coal.