Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.

His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.

Trump, and his supporters and apologists, are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Not enough bad things can happen to them.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

DOGE likely perpetrated the most serious, far-reaching data breaches in human history, and we will be dealing with the consequences for years. Many DOGErs should have been, and still could be, prosecuted for these crimes.

every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove. donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.

Wow who could have imagined this www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

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.

There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"

Let this radicalize you.

The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

Finally! the magic four words. this is the newspaper in actual Minneapolis, screaming for help. let's see who answers back.

He gave a bunch of Nazi salutes and out came the super soakers (pic from Mpls subreddit)

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn

I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.

I mean, c'mon

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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...

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

I don't think people realize how quickly self-sorting is happening as the middle evaporates. You're either 100% behind the resistance or you're a fascist collaborator.

"A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at an ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3."

I think we are getting close to the point at which the athletes on Minnesota professional sports teams should start refusing to take the field/court/ice Something has to be done to underscore the national emergency we are in, because I still do not think corporate media gets it

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

Good story from @asanderford.bsky.social about Gov. Jim Pillen giving a $2.5M no-bid contract to a consultant and lobbyist for....something. Auditor Mike Foley said the state received no apparent benefit in fed dollars. But make sure you read to the end. nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/01/15/a...

Where did we go wrong? Have we become so focused on “timeless” that we now only embrace dull, colorless decor? 😳

Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today. 5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1928, Nikola Tesla received U.S. #Patent 1,655,114 for an “Apparatus for Aerial Transportation”. A “helicopter-plane” concept for vertical takeoff, then forward flight. #OTD #PatentHistory #Tesla #AviationHistory

It whips that not only is this guy absolutely going to get reinstated with back pay thanks to UNIONS but he’s already made nearly $1mil in a GFM which means many, many people are now incentivized to scream at Trump that he’s a pedophile

UPDATE: Jack Daniel’s parent co. Brown-Forman tells me it has nothing to do with CBS’ “Whiskey Friday” concept. “Jack Daniel’s is not involved in any such segment, nor do we have any awareness of the segment and any potential partnerships or sponsorships.”

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

Some Democratic congress member needs to invite the “pedo protector” Ford worker to be their guest at the State of the Union.

Ford worker shoots to top of 2028 candidates.