1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

‘This is sell America’ — U.S. dollar, Treasury prices tumble and gold spikes as globe flees U.S. assets www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/s... by Alex Harring @cnbc.com

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE

“We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy...” www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

"Cardinal Tobin said he was struck by voices in the Trump administration who seemed to be advancing a moral framework he described as 'almost a Darwinian calculus that the powerful survive and the weak don’t deserve to.' 'I would say that’s less than human'...” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...

lmao jesus christ

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I know we keep saying this, but this is legitimately insane…

Very important read… washingtonspectator.org/the-russian-...

"A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no consequence, his mom said." 1/ Gee, if only Black people had WARNED EXACTLY what would happen. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/probes-...

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.

Trying to provoke both a world war and civil war at the same time while demanding a Nobel Peace Prize is a level of insanity I've never seen before. - CC Ekeke

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

It's bizarre that some politicians are trying to behave as if the US president were sane, or capable of reason or moral judgement.

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Ukrainian intelligence reportedly stopped sharing high-value data with the U.S. due to leaks reaching Moscow. Citing a severe breakdown in trust, senior leaders moved to protect sensitive info. This French report has sparked new calls for Trump's impeachment.

There’s too much time between now and the midterms. Either the military needs to not follow his illegal, unconstitutional, international law violating actions OR Congress needs to STOP him.We are at a breaking point. #impeach #military #coup #endthis Military leaders, please stop this madman!

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

recorded this last week

This is deeply disturbing, especially after reports of growing concerns about the conditions at this facility. An investigation must take place. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Graham, a 34-year old Greensboro, North Carolina police officer, is the seventh instance ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care..." www.propublica.org/article/nort...

While we throw up barriers and initiate trade wars and unnecessary diplomatic crises around the world, other countries and trading blocs continue to strengthen ties to hedge against an unreliable US partner. This is generational self-inflicted long-term damage.

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

ICE again denies a delegation of three congresswomen access to inspect their Minnesota black site, and attacks the crowd that gathered to support them.

Now more than ever, we're a two timing, back stabbing, and disloyal nation without integrity.

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Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

Scanning faces. Building databases. Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 And all the “tyranny” “don’t tread on me folks” are silent. Turns out they meant “tread on them” 🤷🏼

NEW EPISODE: One year into Donald Trump’s second term, I discuss the collapse of democratic guardrails as big law firms, legacy media, corporate elites, and government institutions capitulate, collaborate, or stay silent while democracy is under sustained attack. Watch and share.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

Hillary Clinton warned us. Kamala Harris warned us. Fiona Hill warned us. Marie Yovanovitch warned us. Black women warned us.

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Putin is pleased.