ICE kidnapped and disappeared a car full of activists, at gunpoint, who were peacefully watching ICE activity in St. Paul, MN, (1/16/26).

ICE sightings have been around the northwest suburban metro area so far today including Robbinsdale, Coon Rapids and Brooklyn Park.

Dr Oz: "One of the areas we use most favored nation drug prices is fertility drugs. That's why we're going to have so many Trump babies."

The Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy is feuding with neo-Nazis online as to whether Jews are responsible for letting “barbarian rapist hordes” (her words) into Europe.

A federal court today dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking to compel California to turn over the sensitive personal information of 23 million registered voters. Elias Law Group has moved to intervene on behalf of voters and pro-voting organizations in all of the DOJ's voter data lawsuits.

Be aware if you are in the city that a whole host of fascist and neo-Nazi agitators are in the city and looking to cause chaos. This photo is from a little before eight this morning at the vigil site where two neo-Nazi streamers showed up and started making extremely grotesque threats of violence.

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

After 56 years, Indiana University is canceling the MLK dinner hosted by their Black Student Union.

On a QAnon podcast a few days ago, election denier David Clements said he met with U.S. Agency for Global Media's Kari Lake "for about an hour" & she told him that if VOA got more money than she wanted, she'd spend the funds on "content to the rest of the world about how rigged our elections are."

And they've launched gas.

Feds realized they weren't going to have an easy time getting through. Can't see what's happening on other end of the road. They're reversing out.

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

The Labor Department in recent days has done multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases. QAnon influencers in response have declared vindication. One of them wrote the department "is Q posting. … This is not debatable now. If you like it, cool. If you don’t like it, too bad. It’s happening." My latest:

Source: granitepostnews.com/2026/01/14/l...

Holy. Shit.

Can confirm I have personally seen three attempts just today of agents in a convoy of ICE vehicles trying to snatch random POCs along Central Ave - and then being chased off by neighbors with whistles. It's blatant racial profiling. Minneapolis city council member says POC should stay home:

This week: Heritage published its blueprint for federally subsidized "marriage bootcamps" run by churches. The White House rewrote January 6 as a peaceful stroll. And U.S. forces dragged Nicolás Maduro from his residence in a raid that Project 2025 had been telegraphing since 2023. Read more:

This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

REMINDER: Stephen Miller is not a lawyer.

Pay close attention to what they do folks. Very close attention.

I'm currently reading Kristin Downey's excellent The Woman Behind the New Deal. At the head of the Labor Dept (where immigration was housed) Perkins was a strong voice for Jewish refugees, creatively navigating and subverting the limits imposed by a strongly anti-refugee Congress and State Dept ...

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A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

“She also claimed that the officers did not immediately call paramedics after he was struck, and instead pressed his face into a pool of blood. ‘The other officers were mocking him, saying, You’re going to lose your eye,' she said her nephew told her.” people.com/protester-21...

Puyallup turned out to demonstrate against far-right "Constitutional Sheriffs' and conspiracy mongers. www.king5.com/article/news...

Puyallup, WA protesters rally over ICE shooting, sheriff’s remarks www.fox13seattle.com/news/puyallu...

Racist Pierce County, WA Sheriff on killing of Renee Good, “PSA: if law enforcement tells you to stop. STOP. You can always sue later if your rights were violated. Even if you are right, do you want to be dead right?” www.chronline.com/stories/thur...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Im flabbergasted we don’t retract and shame folks who regress y ~ f(y,x).

We are posted up outside LC High School here in Spokane, where hundreds of students have walked out of their class in protest of ICE. LC is one of six schools across the Spokane participating in the walkout, which was organized at a lunch table last Thursday.

"Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision."

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

Mike Johnson on Renee Good: "This woman was taunting ICE officers. She was impeding law enforcement. She was violating a number of laws. They were very patient ... what I saw was she hit the accelerator and hit the ICE officer and he reacted in a split second."

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

After his arrest, Stephen Spencer Pittman, 19, confessed again. He called the place of worship the “synagogue of Satan.” The synagogue was bombed in 1967 by the Ku Klux Klan. Arson Suspect Targeted Mississippi Synagogue for Its ‘Jewish Ties,’ F.B.I. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

This article is wild. The video is wild. The goal is fear and they're mad they're not getting it.

Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.

Here are videos sent to me of the incident Frey details (1/2)

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Residents of Colorado Springs expressed their shock and outrage during three separate events since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good, a legal observer, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. pikespeakbulletin.org/news/co-spri...

Democratic leaders in the Washington state Legislature said Friday they have no plans to hold hearings on two conservative-backed initiatives focused on parental rights of students in public schools and banning transgender athletes from playing girls’ sports.

V wapo: 'Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted' wapo.st/4syrYUW #GiftLink

People are fed up!!!’ A great turnout in Salem today, especially on such short notice! We estimate about 1000. #ICEShooting #ICEOut #Minneapolis #MinneapolisShooting #Accountability #ICEAccountability #StandWithMinnesota #StopICETerror

Oh, yeah, this a thousand times over. It's a frame that automatically makes bothsiderization a LOT harder to do. It puts right in the term the fact that the problem isn't the RELATIVE GAP between parties, but the ABSOLUTE GAP between the GOP and liberal democracy.