In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.

In case you missed it last night: No, it is definitively not defamation to call Jonathan Ross a murderer, and people who say it is are liars or ignorant or both.

I’m outside of the Canopy by Hilton hotel, where protesters have gathered for a noise demonstration after learning DHS agents may be staying here.

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

🚨"I worked in corporate news, I can tell you what the coverage of this will look like on evening news tonight. It will be 45 seconds, an anchor reading there were some people who made noise outside of a Hilton," -our JT Cestkowski reports as thousands protest ICE hotel in Minneapolis.

Bringing Cory Doctorow to the Amazon ces exhibit is like summoning Bahamut in FF7 against a single enemy with 1 hp

The new video makes the execution look even worse and the right are sharing it to set a narrative that it was justified because the person who was killed was a liberal LGBTQ+ woman

@jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/iiUmg...

I live in Minnesota. I’m going to my kid’s school when it lets out today. Parents are making sure kids get safely to buses and cars so they get home. We’ll be filming. We’ll be there to protect our children from our government. It’s come to that. I expect it will be a huge crowd.

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

As Sharyn Alfonsi's “60 Minutes” report remains shelved, Status has learned that an Anderson Cooper piece is also caught in a prolonged editorial review process, frustrating the veteran producer attached to the story. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

It is, literally, a never ending process of fits and starts, progress and regression. Little things matter. Expecting a giant sudden change is only going to lead to disappointment.

Maduro Is Gone, but Repression in Venezuela Has Intensified www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.

By now you've probably seen the tragic video of an ICE agent shooting a Minnesota woman as she tried to drive away.   The agent responsible for this tragedy must be brought to justice, and it's time for Secretary Noem to resign.

Police states are only rarely openly violent. It's all about scaring people off from asserting their rights. The fact that Trumpism--which has to my knowledge openly celebrated violence since the first rally I reported, Spring '16--is increasingly openly violent may signal something even worse.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

When you’ve lost the glaze king

WIRED interviewed me extensively for this piece and the recommendations still stand. Please share with anyone who might benefit

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

Woman fatally shot by ICE agent in Minneapolis identified as resident "out caring for her neighbors," local officials say.

It was not "domestic terrorism.” It was state sanctioned violence. A family will forever live with the pain caused by the admin's reckless and deadly actions. Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Minneapolis.

Wow

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

ICE OUT NOW

Thousands of US protestors gathered at the site where Renee Good was murdered by Trump’s ICE regime troops, have a message for the rest of the United States: “Rise up, Take a Stand” #3E (🎥 @ScooterCasterNY )

The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Per prem I just got a Zeteo update that the victim was a legal observer. This continues to get worse.

This is the video.

Scenes from south Minneapolis Wednesday, Jan. 7 after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Photos by Alex Kormann and Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."