The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

new: Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain and activist Matt Moberg FaceTimed me from an ICE blanketed parking lot about his empathy for Anthony Edwards, Wemby's provocative statement about the Spurs, and the value (if any) of athletes speaking out. we ended early because ICE tried to arrest his mom.

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Once again, with the nation in turmoil, key Minnesota women's basketball figures like Cheryl Reeve and Rebekkah Brunson are speaking out. Our @jacobmox.bsky.social reports: #WNBA www.thenexthoops.com/wnba/minneso...

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

Normally don’t do this, but the Twin Cities are occupied and there are a lot of folks I know who are helping people with very acute needs. I know a lot of good folks out there have offered to help or want to know how they can help, so I may occasionally boost fundraisers for folk or causes I trust.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life. They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

“The Star Tribune could find only petty misdemeanor convictions like speeding tickets or DWI for roughly a dozen people on the list. Others have criminal histories that are decades old and have completed their sentences.” www.startribune.com/the-trump-ad...

crying on the R train watchin this vimeo.com/1156345183

It takes $0 to go out on the street, which is what people are asking their electeds to do

From a Minnesotan: a hearty HELL NO to this. This man is a professional political consultant in DC raising $$ for a political party. There are endless better places to donate to actually help people here suffering and fighting against this nazi invasion. Here’s a start: www.standwithminnesota.com

Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

Protesters demonstrate an orange pepper spray stain:

The people of Minneapolis are hounding immigration agents wherever they pop up. Earlier today:

The WNBA and WNBPA did not agree to a new CBA or a third extension of the current one before the 11:59 p.m. ET deadline on Jan. 9. So what does this mean for both sides going forward? @jacobmox.bsky.social has all the details to catch you up to speed. www.thenexthoops.com/features/wnb...

You are what you fund. defector.com/ice-is-model...

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Just saw a picture of stuffed animals in the woman's car and man...I really am struggling to find the words right now. This is all just so unspeakably devastating, and I don't know how we come back from it.

no hell hot enough

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

This gofundme for families on the southside of minneapolis directly impacted by ICE's raids is still accepting donations

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

NCAAW nonconference play is quickly coming to an end, and several programs have outdone expectations thanks to their coach. @emilyadler.bsky.social breaks down which coaches have done the most impressive job so far. www.thenexthoops.com/features/wom...

So proud to have been elected the new president of AWSM and leading our incredible new board! It’s important to me that AWSM is an inclusive organization with the objective of uplifting women and queer people in sports media, www.awsmonline.org/latest-news/...

New developments are dropping in WNBA CBA negotiations, and @jacobmox.bsky.social breaks them all down: www.thenexthoops.com/wnba/wnba-cb...

Good morning! As the #WNBA considers changes to its CBA, what does the data tell us about injuries and the schedule? Our @seehafer.bsky.social and @jacobmox.bsky.social dig into the details www.thenexthoops.com/wnba/what-do...

I will keep on fighting

For those who want more detail on lottery odds than just the chances at the #1 pick, don't forget the table below. #WNBA

In this episode, Christy Winters Scott is joined by @jacobmox.bsky.social to discuss the ins and outs of his newsletters on the preseason Becky Hammon Mid-Major POY and Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major COY watchlists. 🍎 bit.ly/4qAc1g8 📺 youtu.be/ofKaoCgGbE8

It's been an eventful week in WNBA labor talks, sparked by comments from NBA commissioner Adam Silver. @jacobmox.bsky.social has the latest on what the WNBPA and WNBA said as we get one week to the deadline: www.thenexthoops.com/wnba/wnba-la...

Year 7 underway