Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

In a bizarre coincidence, in 1948 my father Bernard Arnest made a painting of the spot where Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE today. The location looks very different today than it did then. Bernard Arnest, "26th and Nicollet," 1948

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Better to be in the ICE database than in the Epstein files.

Proud that Ron Phares, our local Unitarian Universalist minister, is a part of this.

Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to

Breaking WaPo: The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

My mother, who cast her first vote for FDR and her last for HRC, said that the last candidate she voted *for* was Adlai Stevenson. But she never skipped an election.

You know, Machado had that trophy long enough to have a copy made.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

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

Trump isn't the first one to be gifted a Nobel. Goebbels got one that way too. h/t @deanbaker13.bsky.social

There is something pure, honest, tragic and beautiful in immigrants and folks of color in the USA who have loved America so well even when America refused to love them back. And if history is anything to go by, when Trump is gone, despite all of this, they will love it still, for what it could be.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

A man who was charged with a felony for allegedly shining a laser pointer at Trump's helicopter was acquitted in 35 minutes

I’d rather be in the ICE database than in the Epstein files.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The World Meteorological Organization said 2025 had continued a three-year streak of “extraordinary global temperatures” during which surface air temperatures averaged 1.48C above preindustrial levels. Current rates could breach 1.5C before the end of the decade” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

💰Money Quote:

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

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this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

We're utterly desensitized at this point, but I still remember when the richest man in the world retweeting "white solidarity is the only way to survive" would've caused major controversy. The type of blood-curdling white nationalism we used to only see on Stormfront

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

I don't think their policy of murdering innocent mothers in the street is having the intended effect.

Wait for it: A protester is going to get run down, and the same people saying the ICE agent was in danger are going to say, well, the protester shouldn't have been in front of the car.

Despite everything, my small, retired, gray-haired mother in Minnesota got in her car to go observe ICE agents today. Her friend, also retired, was teargassed. My dad bought her a gas mask. They have lived in Minnesota before ICE existed, and they'll be there after ICE is gone.

Job growth has stopped (and may even be in decline). It stopped right around "Liberation Day."

One year of Trump 2.0, and "Ruby Ridge was good, actually" is the right's new credo.

There is absolutely no theory or philosophy of US government where it is appropriate for the Department of Homeland Security to taunt, mock, and terrorize the citizenry of the Homeland. It's pure evil - an authoritarian campaign of vindictive terror.

An average loss of nearly $50,000 per day for 20 years is difficult to take seriously.

COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.

It’s clear that Big Broccoli got to RFK Jr.

It throws away decades of effort that was stunningly successful where we took it seriously, i.e. in Europe. A world that works this way is a terrifying place, and we and the Europeans somehow managed to replace it in a large and previously violent continent. And this idiot wants to throw it away.

Happy New Year … NOT!

I can’t remember if I posted this story before, but our dog Saoirse has saved two peoples lives.

Once again The Simpsons is prescient.

The English teacher in me loves this cartoon… From Benjamin Slyngstad.

In 2025, “US equities underperformed the rest of the world by the largest margin since 2009.” @thedailyshot.bsky.social

so much for checks and balances from eurasia group www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/Top-R...

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

The Epstein Files must be far worse than anyone imagined.

I have zero sympathy for Maduro and his regime, but there is no legitimacy in Trump deciding to bomb Venezuela. It’s pure imperialism, which gives imperialists in Russia and China an excuse to use whataboutism to justify their own insane actions

Comical, @wsj.com.

I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line. No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more. I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.

This was what life was like in those days