Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

This is a war almost 40 years in the making. Trump said in *1987* that the US should attack "horrible, horrible" Iran, "and take over some of their oil." In the years since, Trump talked about seizing oil from Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Libya. www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy...

“Right now, we’re seeing our rights trampled on around the country. Depending on how this case turns out, some precedents could be set that will haunt us for decades to come.” @stevanzetti.bsky.social on the new red(/black?) scare: www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Omg! Local San Antonio news is at a protest in Dilley, Texas at the Family Prison where Liam Ramos is being held. Y'all I'm crying so hard. These young people are so brave. I'm guessing most are from San Antonio. Absolutely clear video proof that the cops were the only violent actors here.

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

The MAGA guys on X who defend the executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti would do that with mass murder on a scale you can’t even imagine. They are beyond reason or empathy. Completely brain poisoned, tribal fiends.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

BREAKING: Pam Bondi has sent a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz demanding, in part, that state officials turn over voter records to the Justice Department.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

NEW: Dozens of detained immigrant families braved the cold outside the Dilley, TX facility to protest conditions and long detentions, sparked by the recent arrest of 5 y.o. Liam Conejo Ramos. A detainee said the boy & his dad briefly participated. apnews.com/article/texa...

TONIGHT: Organizers in Minnesota are asking you to shine a light for their state.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

If you believe anything DHS says about today's shooting after their near-instantaneous fabrication about the shooting of Renee Good, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad. Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS. This smoke is from tear gas:

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Put another way, mass protests are making the White House nervous, causing even Vance to tone himself down www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

There’s video now. Worst thing I’ve ever seen. The entire ICE contingent needs to be arrested

It looks like this man was shot for getting back up after being beaten in the face with a can of pepper spray. I counted 12 shots. ICE is a derelict extra-constitutional occupying force that must be abolished. Solidarity forever with Minneapolis.

This is all EXTREMELY fluid right now. The situation is very bad, that much is clear. But this is all initial reporting from observers. There will likely be video, maybe a lot of it.

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

If initial reports are true, they shot someone who they'd wrestled to the ground. Potentially an observer. These agents must be arrested and brought to justice.

Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.

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About 30-40 folks in front of the J.J. Pickle Federal Building (which houses an ICE processing center) in Austin on a third night of protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and Portland. State troopers and APD have formed a police line in front of the building. 🧵 #ICEOutForGood

This. We can break the videos down frame-by-frame, but as long as they show a woman who rejected the authority of a fascist state, fascists will say she deserved it—and so, in their view, does anyone who isn't actively assisting the fascist state in body or, importantly, belief.

Someone who calmly tells you she “isn’t mad at you” isn’t signaling murderous intent. Someone who calls you a “fuckin bitch” seconds after shooting you in the face, on the other hand, is clearly signaling murderous intent.

Didn’t film, but this action got rowdier. Folks took the parking lot and starting beating on the building/windows.

About 100+ folks have gathered to mourn Renee Nicole Good outside an unmarked ICE facility north of Austin in Pflugerville that agents have been using as a temporary holding facility. #AustintoMinneapolis #AbolishICE

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

Our latest from Special Investigative Correspondant @candicebernd.bsky.social ...

New from @candicebernd.bsky.social: At a time when the globe is warming at alarming rates, Venezuela's oil reserves represent a "climate bomb" waiting to go off. Here are the Gulf Coast companies hoping to tap into that blood money ...

New: I spoke to Rice University Latin American Studies Professor Luis Duno-Gottberg and @sdonziger.bsky.social about the history of U.S. oil adventurism in Venezuela and the role Chevron is set to play in Trump's blood-for-oil imperial venture. www.texasobserver.org/houston-oil-...

The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Minneapolis, once again, taking no shit.

Right, when you compare the two DHS statements, it looks like cut-and-paste language cooked up in advance in the expectation of incidents exactly like these.

These frames don't show intentional weaponization of the vehicle. They show an ICE officer who shot to kill rather than move his torso ever so slightly out of the way.

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...

Chevron stock jumped up this morning in the wake of Trump’s attack on Venezuela.

Pics from today’s No Blood for Oil protest at Austin City Hall, led by activists with @austindsa.bsky.social, and Students for a Democratic Society, among others.

Rather than properly lying us into a war, they’re lying about the war altogether.