seriously

What on earth is that headline? The claim that Pretti wanted to “massacre” federal agents wasn’t “misleading.” It was a slanderous fabrication with not the slightest basis in 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.

Of course. But that’s also why people need to call them up and tell them to do their fucking job.

Looks like elites are updating their view of public opinion on immigration bc of recent events. They’re right, but late. Polls have shown Trump underwater on immigration since last summer, esp on deportations. Some of us have been saying this for a while! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Brittany Mahomes is reposting conspiracy theories about the catastrophic snowstorm being “manufactured”, most cooked WAG in pro sports I’m afraid

All so that Acting Director Lyons doesn’t have to appear in person before Chief Judge Schiltz on Friday…

eleven points under with “men” seems like a bad spot for a Republican

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X

BTW, if Senate Dems want technical reforms, here's one: amend 8 USC 1357 so DHS agents do not have power to arrest without a judicial warrant unless they are GS-1811, grade of GS-13 or higher. Real criminal investigations would be unaffected, but CBP & ICE goon squads would be severely limited.

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

you have to USE impeaching Noem to make a BROAD public case to dismantle DHS.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

Another day harassing random people on the street in Minneapolis. It’s time for me to deliver the badass threat I’ve been rehearsing in my head. I’m going to say it clearly and without my voice breaking at all. Okay, here goes:

bars

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

while i do appreciate a technical correction the proper response to "this is not like anne frank, actually" is "if you are making legalistic arguments to distinguish your actions from hitler you are already losing"

I have consumed a lot of right wing media for work purposes and the primary difference I've seen is that journalism, even bad journalism, regards the truth as something important, and right wing media generally does not.

Body cams are definitely going to fix this.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Like is it good the trenchcoat nazi is gone? Yes. But let’s remember he was always a ridiculous member of the supporting cast.

Type: PERMABAN Date: 01/26/26 7:14pm User: GBovino Punishment Reason: You have failed us for the last time, Gregory... Requested by: SMiller Approved by: SMiller

The dam is breaking, GOP senator from Utah edition...

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

This hit so fucking hard today.

This is what I'm talking about. They don't recognize what they're looking at because fundamentally they reject the concept of social fabric. Morality is keeping yourself safe, your neighbors are not your concern.

In a world where violence had been met with violence, the major newspapers would not be publishing articles helping the citizenry understand what was being deployed against them and how to stay safe.

One thing I hope people take the time to acknowledge: The sea change in public opinion has been achieved because violence, though encourage by a lot of people here online, was never once employed by the movement. Violence was solely the purview of the state and that is why the state is losing.

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Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

Col Lockjaw will pop up somewhere else, but now there's a template to humiliate him.

Fetterman will never ever vote for any bill that defunds or abolishes ICE but it says something that he has to talk like this.

Suozzi claiming he didn’t understand what he voted for. MGP hiring a new comms director. Pundits saying “yeah it’s fascism” finally. Centrism is in shambles.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

For the umpteenth time, Brian nails it. House Dem Leadership screwed up big last week. This isn't "I told ya so." There should be some real reflection within the Dem Caucus about the systemic error in judgement that dismissed all efforts aimed at getting them to make the right call last week.

The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.

If you're looking for a bellwether....

it is telling that he left the race _after_ speaking with Renee Good's murderer

Alex Pareene byline alert

Snow days were removed from the schedule in the covid-era because "remote school" - Blame deBlasio Secondly, NYC used to famously not call snow days. From 1990-2000 NYC public schools had a total of TWO snow days IIRC. Both for the Blizzard of 96 which dumped like 20 inches of snow in 24 hours

“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

blackout drunk with an automatic weapon and qualified immunity