"The Trump administration plans to redirect $2 billion that Congress appropriated for tackling malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, nutrition, global health security, HIV/AIDS and more..." www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/w...

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The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost

1. Don’t go to school or work. 2. If you must, then don’t buy. US activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’. Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdown www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the future of birthright citizenship, the justices kept returning to one name: Wong Kim Ark. For over a century, Ark’s case has served as the definitive interpretation of the 14th Amendment. That is, unless President Donald Trump gets his way.

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Ready for Saturday. I'm proud of this sign.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

When the U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke… there is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot. Stacey Abrams Voting-rights expert

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com Just in case Etsy doesn't approve my review of your whistles, this is what I said: These cheerful and colorful whistles can be attached to a coat in case you get lost in the woods or encounter a band of fascist paramilitary goons trying to abduct your neighbors.

Looking forward to the grand opening of TFG Station

The big need at the moment is rent support. Many people in MN can’t safely get to work and rent is due in a few days. Unless there is an eviction moratorium, lots of vulnerable folks could end up homeless.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help. We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today. Let’s make a list of things that could help.

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Minneapolis is about to do something big. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cold-city-...

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

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words: The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters 1/2 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

@tkingfisher.com I wanted to thank you for the Saints of Steel books, which have kept me sane these past few months when I was immobilized for long stretches from medical procedures. Just what I needed--engaging, heartwarming, with an interesting set of puzzles and characters I came to love. Thanks.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I feel like the Guardian is usually better than this. What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Finally got to read Wild Faith by Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social and it's unbelievably prescient Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

Grok is off the rails 🥴

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

I was literally eating a donut when I read this, so perhaps I'm biased. But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?