Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."

AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

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NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

And don't worry, you won't miss it when an ICE agent inevitably eventually encounters an actual threat because literally it's all they and the media will be talking about, 24/7, for months on end.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Read it. Read it all.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

Alternatively: “Yes.”

“MAGA-aligned military commanders” shouldn’t even be a thing

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

New PR and didn’t die. Win!

Happy Friday

Paul Brown, the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Office, was forced out of his job days before this raid because he pushed back against this probe.

“ICE booked about 3,800 minors into immigrant family detention from January to October 2025, including children as young as one or two years old” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Ceasefire in effect as of 6.56pm EST

Let's ask Billy what he thinks of all this

It’s state terror, not state-sponsored, since these acts are being conducted directly by agents of the state.

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

The testimony was harrowing; you can watch it all here www.youtube.com/watch?v=UagE...

Hello Seattle. It’s been too long.

Remind me again which homeland security scholars confidently proclaimed the solution to be “more training?”

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options lowers your morale. that being a fascist is miserable, since it requires you to believe that you are being dominated by the weak and unworthy in everything you do.

Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

No. Absolutely not the case. They know full well how it works, which is precisely why they continue to subvert democratic functions nationwide.

Getting officers out of combat gear will help cooler heads prevail. Our DHS secretary cosplaying in full combat gear and ICE and CBP officers costumed like Delta Force have only raised the temperature in what’s already a heated situation. | Karl Marlantes https://ow.ly/zP7j50Y7otc

Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.

Of all the extremely concerning developments, this one is…. well, it’s only Tuesday

The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Guardian: Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Everyone in the entire country should be aware of this.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

Queen’s University Belfast cuts ties with George Mitchell, denaming research centre www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Academics were fired for quoting Charlie Kirk’s own words.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.