RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

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

A call to action on the 23rd from our Chicago chapter‼️‼️

I am overwhelmed & exhausted by the amount of press we've gotten over this but also determined to continue speaking loudly against Trump's reign of cruelty & retribution. #AbolishICE

Over 150,000 people visit the breathtaking #BoundaryWaters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern #Minnesota there every year, drawn to its vast network of pristine lakes and rivers, beautiful boreal forests, rare wildlife like #wolves and Canada lynx, and the sheer solitude of its unspoiled landscapes.

This person who successfully committed suicide (something which jails are supposed to protect against) was being held at a random Georgia jail through a contract with the U.S. Marshal Service, which let ICE use its network of contracts with local jails. This is not a big detention center.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

Santa Cruz is the first city in California to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, the automated license plate reader operator. www.kqed.org/news/1207003...

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

NEW: Fast-breaking developments in MN tonight as judge limits federal agents' use of force against peaceful protesters (and ICE vehicle followers.) And feds launch probe into Gov. Walz & Minneapolis Mayor Frey. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social @hassanalikanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us

On my morning walk today I saw this one, which is one of my favs, on a power box. See many poster designs here: defend612.com/art/

In a Wednesday night address, Gov. Tim Walz spoke directly to Minnesotans. “Trump wants this chaos,” Walz said. “He wants confusion. And yes, he wants more violence on our streets. We cannot give him what he wants. We can’t. We must protest loudly, urgently, but also peacefully.”

New: “This is the modern Fugitive Slave Act,” said a judge when describing ICE behavior nationwide.

SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Project Blue opponents filed a legal complaint today alleging Pima County violated open meeting laws during a key rezoning vote for the data center

Over time, rather than re-evaluating the weapons’ use, law enforcement simply adopted new nomenclature: “nonlethal” became “less lethal.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/m...

Roughly 80% of immigrant-owned businesses along key corridors in Minneapolis and St. Paul have closed in the past week as employees and customers stay home in fear of ICE agents detaining them.

Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also for most individual Western states). It has been an extraordinarily sustained period of winter warmth, and this eerily balmy winter continues into Jan.

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

From Echo Park Tenants Union, 10 people taken today in Echo Park/Silver Lake. Some were gardners, painters, and workers. All of them my neighbors.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

We’re hosting a national rapid response call tomorrow night to go over concrete next steps. Please circulate - we need a national response. More details to come. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Your Social Muscles Are Wasting Away. Here Is How to Retrain Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

“It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe” A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:

The #ExoticPet trend is growing globally and setting off alarm bells among #WildlifeConservation experts. The U.S. is one of the biggest players in the exotic pet trade, and we published a report highlighting how this threatens global wildlife. Get the full report ➡️ bit.ly/4pT0Q1j

The president is eyeing another major project in the nation’s capital, planning to destroy some 13 historic buildings on the grounds of St. Elizabeths in order to expand facilities for the Department of Homeland Security. trib.al/IsC4L17

Tucson residents: I want to hear from you about how rising utility rates are affecting your community. Arizona families are already facing sky-high electricity bills, which is why I’m fighting APS and TEP’s pending rate cases. RSVP at bit.ly/1-13TucsonTownHall.

People love to hate wolves. They're the villain of old fairy tales — and today a bane for cattle ranchers But new research is helping rewrite the story of the big, bad wolf — with a surprise twist

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

the power of local news: "Steves said he learned about the hygiene center's impending closure by reading about it in a local online newspaper — just weeks before it was set to shut down." www.npr.org/2025/12/21/n...

What a crock of 💩

Yet another reminder that when billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. The super-rich won't hesitate to sell out the American public if it means getting merger approvals or deregulation that helps their bottom line.

Evil shit.

Clean energy jobs continue to outpace fossil fuel jobs 👷🌎 Source: @worldresources.bsky.social / @iea.org

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.

We must replace Thompson & Myers on the ACC. This article speaks volumes about their lack of credibility. When utility regulators celebrate proposals before review, Arizonans lose trust azmirror.com/2025/12/12/w... @nodesertdatacenter.com

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

NEW: Massive Logging Project Next to Yellowstone National Park Blocked by U.S. Court biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press....

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water. AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects. So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends. See how this works?

Scoop: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has launched an investigation into South32’s proposed Hermosa mine over a contaminant its water discharge. The mine was the first added to the FAST-41 program, which essentially fast tracks projects. insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)