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-...

Case in point for why top two jungle primary is terrible. It can produce perverse results and CA should repeal it. Unfortunately that'd take a constitutional amendment. But... the legislature can right now avoid the worst-case scenario simply by restoring write-in votes as an option in the general.

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

The irony is that I assumed if we got to the “show your papers/people getting kidnapped” stage I would leave the country and build a new life abroad. But morally I can’t leave my vulnerable neighbors to suffer alone. I try to remind myself many famous good figures in history were just regular folks.

Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes

If you see someone being taken, get their name. GET THEIR NAME. Call out, "what's your name?" or "como te llama?" and record or write it (or both, ideally both) and then call Monarca at 612-441-2881 with the person's name.

You really can’t avoid this, unless you think that rapid responders need a fake license plate, burner phone, face mask, which means we’d have far too few to even do the job effectively. As someone said, your safety comes from DDoSing them: making the list so huge it’s useless.

This is a broader problem laid out in a slightly outdated but still excellent book by Harvey Silverglate, "Three Felonies a Day": federal criminal law is now so swollen and byzantine that you can plausibly argue virtually anybody is guilty of SOME sort of crime if you're willing to dig enough.

Things worth really hammering to any family and acquaintances whose reflexive attitude is “but we gotta enforce the law”: (1) Lots of the folks being targeted came here legally; the administration has retroactively declared them “illegal” despite having done nothing wrong

Rabbis, reverends, activists, & others rallied outside San Francisco City Hall on Thursday, decrying in-custody deaths at the hands of ICE. ICE's totals are at two-decade highs, & the faith leaders said they would go on a 24-hour hunger strike in protest. missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-i...

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

ICE pulling US citizens who are POC out of TSA lines at La Guardia and subjecting them to racist questioning www.tiktok.com/t/ZThDNQu5V/

ICE used a warrantless forced entry to arrest a US citizen with no criminal record. Rather than acknowledge error, they smeared the family, saying they were harboring sex offenders and critics were defending sex offenders. Turns out that one of their targets was already in jail. ICE never checked.

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Federal judges in Minnesota have several times in recent weeks rejected arrest warrants for people protesting a surge of immigration officers in that state, finding that federal agents do not have sufficient evidence .. @ms.now www.ms.now/news/minneso...

Incredible. It’s -12° (-24.4° C) at MSP airport right now.💪

Nuremberg for this ghoul

The violent radical paid leftist Minnesotans have brought out their most lethal choral traditions bsky.app/profile/jack...

🚨"I'm seeing icicles form on people's eyelashes out here, on mustaches, on eyebrows, from just the condensation from their own breath freezing against their own face," - @jtcestkowski.bsky.social from Minneapolis ICE protests in MINUS 20 DEGREES (-38 wind chill). LIVE NOW ⬇️

nine years old

So, so depraved. ICE continues to terrorize toddlers in Minneapolis, according to local news reports www.kare11.com/article/news...

something I've noted pretty frequently is how much normie liberals now talk in a way that would get you banned on here in day to day offline conversations about politics people are really, deeply furious

the incredulous "this is bullshit, are you fucking kidding" tone here is a sign that you have turned someone into a lifelong radical against you and people like you this is a stupid tactic used by stupid people who don't have any other ideas

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

Monsters

When these fascists say it's okay to kidnap, abuse, and terrorize people because they're "illegal," please think of them saying it's okay to kidnap, abuse, and terrorize people because they have "parking tickets." Same goddamn thing.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

This is such an important point. This family tried to follow the rules. The distinction is going to get more important when they start mass deporting the people whose TPS status Trump revoked. They’ll call them “illegal” too, even though they were here legally until Trump yanked the rug.

Your city is next. Be ready in advance.

Beyond the insanity of this interaction, we should talk more about how ICE vests all say “police” on them — when they are VERY much NOT police and don’t have actual police powers. They are federal immigration officers, with highly limited authority.

MPR News photojournalist Ben Hovland observed the arrests and said the agents appear to have rear-ended a silver-colored SUV carrying the two minors. Agents took a teenage boy into custody. The driver, a teenage girl, was seen handing agents a U.S. passport youtu.be/_O5IF0Ld8L4

Hi, this is what I've been working on this week.

A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).

There is one word in the English language that explains what Minneapolis is experiencing right now: tyranny. We are under assault by a tyrannical government and its little jackbooted commandant. We are going to keep fighting, and we will win, stand with us.

They are trying to whip people into a frenzy, in the hopes that someone will do something violent, or we’ll riot, and give them an excuse. It’s not a coincidence that JD Vance is coming tomorrow. Again, every journalist on the ground knows this, but we’ll see if their editors will let them say it.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

If you’re on the ground, it is absolutely unmistakable what they’re doing. Bovino has gone to multiple gas stations, with a massive convoy, gotten out of the car, and strolled into the street and posed for ten minutes at a time. No gas, no food, no bathroom. Just over and over in sequence.

I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.

🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️

You know real courage would be a news station or newspaper just dedicating a space in their coverage every day for 1) an act of violent sadism by DHS goons and 2) the name, face and story of a NATO soldier who died in Afghanistan. They would not soon run out of either.

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

Thinking of my nieces, my little cousins, my godchildren, my friends' kids, and how the natural thing for an adult to want to do is protect a child. It takes a lot of dedication to losing that instinct and working against basic humanity to do something like this. This is depravity.

Could a Democrat, any Democrat, release a statement actually thanking the people that have been out there doing the fucking work instead of this constant scolding tone for the love of God

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.