Medieval hall discovered in Northern England by @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medi... #archaeology #England

A hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) on the state of Minnesota's request to halt the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. I'm covering the proceedings remotely. From the state's memo: buff.ly/ub2bHso

Great cartoon. But the curious thing about it historically is that Madison originally thought that the greatest threats to rights would arise from popular majorities acting within the individual states to influence their legislatures to adopt unjust laws--the opposite of what exists now. /1/

JUST IN from Judge Michael Davis (not to be confused with @mrddmia ) scolding DOJ for suggesting judges in MN weren't giving serious consideration to ICE's position: "Since November 2025, the courts of this District have thought of little else." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawsuit seeking an end to Operation Metro Surge, plaintiffs submitted two new declarations—one from the Minn Commissioner of Public Safety and one collecting Bondi's letter and Trump admin statements about Pretti's killing and other surge-related issues.

In new update to its request for a preliminary injunction, MN submits a list of Trump, Bondi, & Vance's outlandish statements, highlighting AG's Bondi's demands for MN's unredacted voter rolls and Medicaid & Food Nutrition records.

American University library staff detail culture of bullying by supervisors 📚 www.theeagleonline.com/article/2026...

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

Finnish Military Intelligence Review 2026 has been published puolustusvoimat.fi/en/-/finnish...

UPDATE: The judges in MN are working Sunday. Judge Menendez — who issued last week's injunction against ICE's retaliatory use of pepper spray – just ordered the release of a Kenyan woman arrested while picking up seizure medication at CVS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge. A federal judge just ordered the man's release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Federal judge Indira Talwani (Obama/MA) issues pre-midnight ruling blocking Trump admin bid to end "family reunification parole" for Colombians, Cubans, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Hatians, Hondurans & Salvadorans. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

holy shit, Xi purged Zhang Youxia. that's pretty much a clean sweep of PLA senior leadership at this point.

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawyers escalate their request for an immediate TRO to temporarily halt Operation Metro Surge following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti — noting three shootings by ICE in the past three weeks, after 11 months of no officer-involved shootings in Mpls.

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The chief federal judge in Minnesota lit into DOJ for portraying the church disruption as an urgent matter. "There is absolutely no emergency," George W. Bush appointed Patrick Schlitz wrote, calling the arrest-warrant effort "frivolous." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

BREAKING The Eighth Circuit REJECTED Pam Bondi's mandamus request to issue more arrests warrants in the St. Paul church protest. At the district court level, the chief judge found "no evidence" Don Lemon and his producer "engaged in criminal behavior."

Knowledge unified under the outstretched arms of Philosophy BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v

Link here: 3/ media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/...

All three people arrested by the feds in connection with the protest at the ICE pastor's church — Nekima Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen, and William Kelly — have now been ordered released. Judge's order as to the first two: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Edgy

Complaint, via CNN: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

1/Historical method is accountability. I once spent 10 pages of 1 article outlining my historical method; if you are to do legal history, you need to say why you are using a method lens, and how your evidence support this method lens.

For what very little it’s worth today in America, Lord Coke thought that barring a felony, “neither the Constable, nor any other can break open any house for the apprehension of the party” even if a warrant was issued.

“By the laws of England, every invasion of private property, be it ever so minute, is a trespass. No man can set his foot upon my ground without my licence… some positive law has empowered or excused him.” Entick v Carrington (1765)

#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

The lion of Brabant, carried around during the funeral of Albert, Sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands, in Brussels (1622). The lion is still very much a key symbol of the Kingdom of Belgium.

The AP just uncovered a whistleblower memo that says the ICE has authorized agents "to forcibly enter into ..homes without a judicial warrant." And ICE told agents not to distribute these instructions, but to verbally pass them along. Link to the memo ⤵️ www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 1/

In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

BREAKING: Magistrate judge halts government's access to devices/data seized from Wash Post reporter Hannah Natanson in leak probe, sets Feb. 6 hearing on newspaper's request for return. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod... #france

BREAKING: Federal court in Virginia—noting DOJ's filing "falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice"—rules that Lindsey Halligan cannot hold herself out as "United States Attorney," striking that language from case filings.

BREAKING A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one. Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD Background buff.ly/Ay2iB6u

NOTE: After the SCOTUS decision ending "universal injunctions" in Trump v. CASA, DOJ is now trying to go much further—arguing class-action relief sought in Minnesota "violates CASA because it goes beyond providing targeted relief to the named Plaintiffs specifically." www.lawdork.com/i/184842027/...

For the record, George III was perfectly lucid during the Revolution proper; his madness came much later. I did publish an op-ed in Le Monde last summer on America's Mad King Problem. But it dealt more with the irrationality of his thinking (e.g., tariffs are not taxes) than madness or dementia.

📸 Bruno Braquehais. Débris de la colonne Vendôme après sa chute durant la Commune insurrectionnelle Mai 1871. Paris Civil War

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At UVA, it's particularly important that she deposed the board members who played a critical role in deposing the previous president under direct political pressure. These appointments cannot be made non-political; the only question is whether you want to unilaterally disarm (and no, you don't)