A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

An ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, threatening the staff member who prevented him from entering. Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law. Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.

TWO SHOOTERS. Not just a lone dumbass in a panic, poorly trained, altho a gun expert claims they were running with fingers on triggers, so they are indeed lacking any real law enforcement skills. Taught to gun people down like it’s their Call Of Duty, the video game they gushed on afterwards,

Bruce names names here. Thanks, Bruce.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

BLACKROCK: “.. U.S. trade policy again ran into an immutable economic law: the U.S.’s need for sizeable foreign investment to finance its debt ..” 🤡 @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/-...

Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.

A man lunged at Rep. Ilhan Omar during a town hall and tried to spray her with unknown substance. Rep. Omar stepped to the man ready to swing. If anything, security protected him from her.

The piece of this no southern municipality understands is snow REMOVAL. In New England, they literally put the snow in trucks and haul it away, because those mountains of snow on the corners are deadly. Arlington, I love you but you have to take the snow AWAY. It’s not gonna melt anytime soon.

They said they'd stop insider trading. Then they introduced a bill to legalize it. Rep. Steil's bill lets members trade stocks they oversee & allows spouses to trade on their behalf. Why? It would discourage wealthy execs from "public service." Take action with @citizensforethics.org. Full post:

Scoop: Police have recently been ordered to be "as vague as permissible" in the Flock system about the searches they do in a message shared with several major police departments around the country by the FBI. Actively avoiding transparency is now the strategy: www.404media.co/police-told-...

It's really sweet of Secretary Noem to offer take Mr. Bovino for a ride out to her farm. She's a class act.

Last night’s snow shift had a total of 95 pieces of equipment and 80 people working to prioritize primary roads and school routes. In total, crews have used over 1,300 tons of salt! www.arlingtonva.us/About-Arling...

Thank you, Snow Crew! Our team is currently in their fourth 12-hour shift, working on making streets passable, including the cleanup of large snow piles, intersections & turn lanes along primary & secondary streets. www.arlingtonva.us/About-Arling...

Priorities in #arlingtonva? Can someone at @arlingtondes.bsky.social confirm if county plows are focusing on Rock Spring road with a whopping two houses and the county club on it and not my dead end street that has 10 homes? Happy to retract if a privately plowed, but this is ridiculous if not

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

The letter from corporations, including UnitedHealthcare, calling for "deescalation" in Minnesota is worthless. I've gotten many letters signed by UnitedHealthcare. First line is often "Your procedure has been approved." But before the letter is done, they add: "Approval does not guarantee payment."

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

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DHS has shot 12 people since September.

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

Murphy says Trump wants to trade ICE "murder and mayhem" for control of Minnesota's election. He also says yeah, that may sound conspiratorial but Pam Bondi's letter to Walz spells it out.

Trumpists’ view of the Second Amendment turns out to be no different from their view of the First: one whose protections apply exclusively to themselves, Jonathan Chait argues:

Bondi's letter—essentially offering to stop attacking and murdering citizens in Minnesota in exchange for the state's voter rolls—shows what Trump, Miller et al. are really after: They want to fuck with the nation's elections so that they never have to cede power or answer for their crimes.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Tell them not a DIME for ANYTHING until: • ICE stands down immediately & absolutely • Noem, Lewandowski, Lyons, Homan & Bovino OUT • No new detention facilities • Congressional right of entry to existing detention facilities w/o prior notice • You can think of more! Contact Senators!

This is America! 101 freeway in Downtown LA

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump is steadily DESTROYING the United States of America in every dimension On behalf of Putin The Billionaire Boys' club (aka Friends of Epstein) taking their cut While an array of hired sociopaths gleefully serve as subalterns Putin can't conquer Ukraine but takes U.S. from behind

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Hours after federal agents killed a nurse in Minneapolis, Bondi demanded access to MN voter rolls as part of her “restore the rule of law” demands. This was never about immigration. https://smpl.is/agrcr

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-...

Women, if you were foolish enough to change your name when you got married, read this now. Republicans Will Detonate Their Secret Weapon at the Midnight Hour to Stop Women from Voting open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...

Solidarity with Minnesota. An attack on one is an attack on all. #ICEOUT

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Q: What's the difference between someone in NATO and Donald Trump? A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.

Jared Kushner’s “Gaza Plan” has zero Palestinian input or benefit because it is premised on a post-Palestine future. Kushner is showing the glitzy Powerpoint slides to distract from the genocide. Neither Kushner nor Trump should ever hold power.

I voted against the House Republican bill to redirect federal funds to fraudulent so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are just forced birth clinics. The last thing pregnant women need is someone playing pretend doctor when they are experiencing a health crisis. youtube.com/shorts/mohwo...

All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Danish pension funds are dumping US debt because Trump wants Greenland. Europe's $8 trillion "Sell America" trade is live - and your grocery bill is about to feel it.

12 minutes past sunset tonight #columbiapike

Actually, correct me if I'm wrong, but if those 7 Democrats vote against the measure -- and with Massie breaking from the GOP -- it's 214 to 213 against funding ICE. So it's more than symbolic. It slows the murders and kidnappings on American streets. Fuck Jeffries. Enough is enough.

The band is back together again.

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

NEW: New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. A 2024 ProPublica and @capitalandmain.bsky.social investigation uncovered some of their companies’ business dealings.

Thank goodness. Generals still keeping us holding on by a thin thread.