“Tackett and his wife Mendi, the organisation’s (See It Name It Fight It) sole members, now live in Fort Worth, where they’re part of a scrappy community of progressives and anti-extremist organizers who are building momentum amid their town’s deeply embedded Christian nationalism.” Heck yeah!

New from @jlbuch.bsky.social: “That facility is, like, terrible, horrible. There’s a lot of people in there. A lot. Each room has like 45 capacity. And they’re putting like 60 people in each room. The restroom is a mess. Dirty. People are sleeping on the floor, people are sleeping in the restroom.”

Our top story: Rehmet’s win was a 31-point swing from President Donald Trump’s victory there less than a year and a half ago—and a 37-point swing from the GOP incumbent’s margin in that district in 2022.

Our top story: “He’s a union leader, veteran, very disciplined on his messaging and very hyper-focused on the working class and making life better for people. Leigh is a zealot who spends all of her time denigrating public school teachers and trying to dismantle public school institutions.”

“For the first time in a very long time, Democrats were operating as a team, moving in the same direction with the same goal, and that’s to win an election.” New from Tyler Hicks: What can we learn from the historic upset in Tarrant County?

As JD Vance doubles down on his limitless support for ICE, he is also clarifying his next target: you. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

This admin says dissent is terrorism, and JD Vance has been the chief messenger of that idea. New @inkstickmedia.com story: inkstickmedia.com/with-defense...

US Vice President JD Vance wants to use law enforcement to punish his critics — regardless of any proof of criminality. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/with-defense...

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Sharing this crucial excerpt from my new @us.theguardian.com story. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@adamserwer.bsky.social said it best: The cruelty is the point. My latest for @us.theguardian.com.

Wael Tarabishi, who has a lifelong muscle disorder, died after Maher, his father and primary caretaker, was detained

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

In his new book 'The Long War on Iran,' former political prisoner and sociologist Behrooz Ghamari takes a scalpel to decades of misguided US policy toward Tehran. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/once-a-priso...

This is one of the reasons I have argued that ending immigrant jail should be a core demand. The capacity to hold people in jails around the country makes it easier to arrest and deport. (It also kills people and holds them hostage, but I digress). www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

We don't really know how many children are in immigration jail. A few thousand. Many are being held long past the permitted time (20 days, which, ...). Some are babies. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

"You can buy into the claim that the most powerful countries on Earth are the victims of invasions or remember that actual invasions and the military campaigns that create lethal cycles of mass displacement are happening in all too many places on this planet."

This is so good @attackerman.bsky.social

Border Patrol executed a man in MN. "Nobody is Protected" by @reecejones.bsky.social traces the history of this incredibly violent & racist agency (recall the agents on horseback whipping Haitians during the Biden admin), inc the 1970s Supreme Court cases that sanctioned its use of racial profiling.

The January 31 runoff pits Taylor Rehmet against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist and executive with Patriot Mobile, the Christian nationalist cell phone carrier in North Texas.

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

Wow. Anduril’s planned autonomous weapons factory in rural Ohio is projected to destroy/reroute wetlands and waterways - so the Ohio EPA went ahead and approved a “lowering of water quality” for the area. In order to protect “economic considerations” sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/01/16/o...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

One thing you can do today is buy a friend's book. Who cares if you even read it. Just buy to support art. Fascists hate poetry and short stories and books about joy and memoirs about compassion etc. Let's go.

When politicians tells you to fear something, they’re using you. Every time. When other people tell you to fear something because politicians made them afraid of it, you’re being used. When people you know tell you they’re afraid because of things they personally witnessed, it’s time to listen.

New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

IMPORTANT story: We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

For the @texasobserver.org, I covered a wild Texas Senate runoff that distills some of the biggest storylines in politics—including the rise of Christian Nationalism. www.texasobserver.org/sd-9-special...

Yesterday: The True Texas Project, whose endorsement Leigh Wambsganss lists on her website, is an influential Tarrant County-based organization that once claimed there is a “war on white America.”

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Local news is vital in moments like this:

New from @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social: Even some of his most passionate supporters were surprised by the number of votes Democrat Taylor Rehmet received in the November special election for Texas Senate District 9. ...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16. Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.

if you don’t want to spiral about current goings on, i’ll bump this one more time. 5 min of your time back if you click and read

This well-written piece by @jonnyauping.bsky.social will make you think, which is just what I want on NYE! mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/zone-one

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

I reported this Sunday feature for @rollingstone.com on the federal push to use immigration enforcement as a gateway to biometric surveillance. Read the full story here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A new Amnesty International report concludes, 'What we are seeing in Florida should alarm the entire region.'

Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”

For my latest story in @inkstickmedia.com, I dug deeper into how the lack of AI regulation leads to more harmful conditions for our immigrant neighbors inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...

Critics say the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is a “nightmare” brought about by unfettered mass surveillance and artificial intelligence. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.