Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

The thing about Minnesota Lutherans is that while the U.S. military can deploy a functioning Burger King anywhere in the world in 48 hours, your local Mainline Protestant church's women's committee can do it in under 36.

I talked a little in this piece I wrote about ilhan last month that she’s a big fan of combat sports, and the way that influences her treatment of politics. Last night you saw her first response to a physical threat was to square up and cock a fist. Case in point. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies." - Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe

This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Lawyer Records Screams From Women And Children In ICE Detention Center www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapv...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

We’ve heard @SenBrentTaylor say some dark things, but using the struggle of Black Americans to justify the oppression of immigrants (and the overreach of the federal government Republicans claim to be against) is deeply twisted even for him. @MemphisHoller

Ilan Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won't mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone's favor, but certainly not a scholar's.

Richard Epstein is famous for thinking he's an expert on everything. In 2020 he was an expert on why COVID would only kill 500 Americans. Now he's telling SCOTUS why the Natural Born Citizen Clause does not apply to natural born citizens. This brief is a joke.

That’s my ballot they’re stealing.

The Trump Admin has withdrawn a Biden-era rule that required retail pharmacies receiving any federal funds to carry and dispense mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate—drugs used in medication abortions and, in the case of miso and methotrexate, the treatment of many other conditions including…

The chief federal judge in Minnesota excoriated ICE on Wednesday, saying it had violated nearly 100 court orders stemming from its aggressive crackdown in the state and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

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I felt obliged to write up an overview of all of the Fulton County fraud claims that have already been made — and dismissed. Let me know if I forgot any. www.pbump.net/o/some-thing...

A bit of math based on the appendix and we see that ICE is averaging 1.3 court order violations per case in 2026.

"At least 32 people died in ICE custody last year, the highest number since 2004. An autopsy... showed that Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban migrant held at Fort Bliss in Texas, was killed by his jailers. ICE had previously said he had committed suicide." www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Steve is bang on here. This is the exact reason that previous attempts were abandoned. The United States is such a massive country that this sort of defensive system doesn’t make sense. At. All. Besides, the term “Golden Dome” is stupid and makes me unreasonably angry.

You couldn't pay me enough to write "I'm afraid of white ladies yelling shame and throwing Aquafina bottles at me" in the paper

BE LIKE PHILLY! No masks, visible identification required, and arrests must be backed by warrants signed by a federal judge. Physical intimidation and assaults are explicitly barred. If agents ignore these rules, they won’t be protected - they’ll be arrested! www.phillyvoice.com/ice-out-legi...

New malaria vaccines helped Ghana slash child deaths. Then Trump, others cut aid reut.rs/4bZO8tt

Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

"Right now, the Democratic party and its leaders are trying to tell you 'oh, it can be reformed. Oh, it's this version of ICE that's the problem, but the reality is fascism is a virus and if you don't fucking treat it, to eradicate it, it will always be there to sicken and fucking slaughter you" 🔥🔥🔥

And while we’re at it, ask yourself why your favorite liberal commentator or personality is condemning ICE but never venturing to criticize Democrats and leaders who aren’t using their power to stop them and ask yourself if there’s a financial reason for it.

They’re now saying that Democrats tiktok page is getting suppressed and I have to say: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

The idea that body cams are supposed to do something is so absurd. The problem isn’t lack of documentation. Literally everyone is recording encounters with ICE. Just pathetic.

Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

This piece from @jamellebouie.net is worth reading www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

I’m watching Monday night’s #unrivaled games (had a meeting) and I’m just gonna say it: this male announcer ruins the entire vibe

dems can do a lot to stop this but only if they act now

haha. this sucks man. www.ft.com/content/11dc...

You know the tide is turning when Bill Kristol says, in his own way, abolish ICE

This is worse than Watergate imho

Let's also bring in the connection with tech giants: Google hosted a CBP app that used facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

More ICE tech: Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

In Minneapolis, far-right influencers posing as journalists are casting themselves as victims and labeling ICE-watch groups “terrorists.” Their big new evidence—“infiltrated” Signal chats—isn’t a secret, had no calls for violence and urged people to witness, not interfere. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Being a violence researcher means that basically everything I post here is some variant on: “The thing they said would make you safe is actually ineffective and/or dangerous.” “The thing they said is dangerous is actually a sign of the kind of big changes we need for a safer society for everyone.”

Trump Labor Dept evokes "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer." WH spox Abigail Jackson denies it, insists “It seems that the mainstream media has become a meme of their own: the deranged leftist who claims everything they dislike must be Nazi propaganda. Get a grip.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago? From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this. And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.