A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

We are now in a full-blown constitutional crisis. That’s why following the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, I sent three separate letters demanding the dismissal of all charges, a congressional hearing, and a DOJ Inspector General investigation.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Thread. And yes it seems like the big project that brought most of the Trump regime together, where they forged bonds, was either f-ing young women and girls with Epstein, or trying to cover it up.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

DOJ: Can we get an arrest warrant for Don Lemon? Federal magistrate: No. Federal district court judge: No. Federal appeals judge: No. Federal appeals judge: No. Federal appeals judge: No. DOJ: Don Lemon, you are under arrest.

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

The FBI went into Georgia, Fulton County and seized the original documents - not copies - ORIGINAL documents from the 2020 election which allows them to create the narrative they want with no ability to refute it. Just like Epstein files, these documents are lost forever. Never forget.

Kremlin asset Tulsi Gabbard in a truck loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub in Georgia. This is fucking ominous. They’re stealing the voter rolls. Just like they’re blackmailing them from Minnesota with ICE.

This is a tipping point. - 61% have an unfavorable opinion of ICE (The Argument/Verasight) - 59% say ICE is too aggressive, up 10 points since July (Fox News) - 58% say ICE has gone “too far” (Reuters/Ipsos) - 55% have very little confidence in ICE (YouGov)

Former FBI official: Tulsi Gabbard should have nothing to do with law enforcement operations whatsoever. She was in a truck with boxes of what are apparently ballots. She is gonna need to be on the chain of custody for those ballots and explain why she was with them and what she was doing.

A federal appeals court in California has ruled that Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, exceeded her authority when she sought to end TPS for Venezuelans and Haitians, saying people have lost jobs, homes, and their ability to provide for their families. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

Sen. Ossoff: "Much of the American public are quite reasonably alarmed and asking questions after the Director of National Intelligence was spotted bizarrely and personally lurking in an FBI evidence truck in Fulton County, Georgia yesterday."

And this … lots of resources being used …

Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is an extraordinary story. Republicans in Congress should be shouting, loudly, to Trump-Vance-Miller to call off this deeply inhumane attack next week.

🗣️ @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “The idea we’re just going to move past this… since Trump ‘took down the temperature’ an ICE agent said ‘you raise your voice, I erase your voice’, they tried to go into the Ecuadorian embassy… 2300x since July a judge ruled ICE illegally detained someone.”

Since the first of the year.

“You can’t bring “transparency and accountability” to an organization whose agents defiantly wear masks while filming citizens and openly threatening them with political violence.” The tide is turning by @playtyperguy.com in @atrupar.com’s PN. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

“In court on Wednesday, prosecutors asked Judge Foster to order the defendants not to contact the federal agents whom they are accused of assaulting. The judge refused, because prosecutors have not revealed the identity of those agents.”

Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that

Ghislaine Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim that four potential "co-conspirators" and "25 men" scored "secret settlements" tied to Epstein's abuse — without facing any indictment. "Who are these men, and why are they still being protected?" www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-ma...

Over the next nine months, pay attention to what Trump's friends in social media—Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison—choose to censor. In the past 48 hours, it's been information about Epstein and ICE: two topics critical to 2026 GOTV efforts for Democrats. These men work for the regime.

REPUBLICAN @SenThomTillis rips Noem & Stephen Miller — He says @KristiNoem is ignoring her job and the Trump regime isn’t helping Americans with disaster relief, and Stephen Miller “never fails to live up to my expectations of incompetence” (From CNN)

CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

“In the past week alone, the world witnessed the murder of Alex Pretti at the hands of Border Patrol agents & the abduction of 5yo asylum seeker Liam Ramos in Minneapolis, & learned that ICE officers choked Geraldo Campos Lunas to death inside ICE’s East Montana Detention Center at Fort Bliss, TX.

Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.

BREAKING: The New Hanover County Schools has officially terminated an attorney representing the board for his public denigration of people with intellectual disabilities. www.wect.com/2026/01/27/n...

GOP president: You can't have guns.

No- this is unacceptable

I had to pass a criminal background check, mental health eval and take state approved training to get my concealed carry permit. In Feb, the #NC House will vote to override the Governor’s veto of their law that will allow mentally ill, untrained, and criminals to conceal carry. #NCpol #ncgopsucks

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

One simple thing Senate Democrats could demand is: ICE agents cannot under any circumstances be masked. (No, that is not the only thing. No, that is not enough. Yes, I want ICE abolished. Yes, I know "they won't" is a distinct possibility. I hope that saves some of you some time.)

With Greg Bovino being shown the door A reminder of how he and Kristi Noem have been in lockstep in responding to Alex Pretti's murder⬇️ (and what lead up to it).

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I want to go back to Marimar Martinez' request to lift protective order in her case. She was shot by CBP in October. As w/Good & Pretti, they lied to cover up shooting. As a threshold issue, Bovino was just 1-degree of separation from all 3 shootings. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

That Miller is responsible for Trump’s terrible poll numbers is something that should be shouted from every rooftop if we want him out.

So simply naming someone is doxxing, but taking photos and license plate numbers to create a database of the opposition for government stalking and harassment purposes is not? Naming someone is not doxxing them, and moving them to another city to kill more is conspiracy against rights.

“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.” — President Bill Clinton, 1/25/26

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

Election integrity means not pardoning Tina Peters, Governor Polis.

Statement by President Clinton

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

OKLAHOMA GOV. STITT: “.. “Americans are asking themselves, ‘What is the endgame? .. Is it to deport every single non-U.S. citizen? I don’t think that’s what Americans want.” @thehill.com #OKgov thehill.com/homenews/sta...