Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

The majority of the leadership team inside Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from federal officials in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, according to sources familiar with the decision.

Whoa

I mean this is just flagrantly illegal *TRUMP THREATENS TO END SANCTUARY CITY PAYMENTS ON FEB. 1

Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says. Great reporting from my colleague Ruben Vives. www.latimes.com/california/s...

UPDATE: Judge Menendez makes it clear she intends to rule on the emergency motion by protesters — seeking to halt key police tactics by ICE in Minnesota — by Thursday afternoon.

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime. Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

Around 1,000 more U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are being sent to join the 2,000 or so immigration officers and agents that the DHS has already moved to Minnesota, according to The New York Times and CNN.

Sharing, or threatening to share, a deepfake intimate image without consent is a criminal offence. This offence, created by the Data Act last year, will be brought into force this week, and I will make it a priority offence in the Online Safety Act too. www.gov.uk/government/s...

JUST IN: Rubio tells Judge Boasberg that there’s no way to retrieve the 137 Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act — or even offer them due process — given the delicate negotiations with Venezuela’s new post-Maduro regime. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

But… but…

JUST IN: Minnesota sues Trump administration to block surge of federal immigration agents reut.rs/4sIahTg

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

And… it’ll be Monday soon

Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025: Trump appointees: 92% Other Republican appointees: 68% Democratic appointees: 27% @schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

“The Justice Department on Friday announced to employees it is creating an artificial intelligence taskforce to challenge state-level regulations so that AI companies can "be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation…”

In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

So X hasn't solved the problem, they've just monetized it

Mercator projection as doctrine

Page One. @nytimes.com

Rest of the world is moving on. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

(KATU) — US CBP agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, this afternoon, according to authorities. katu.com/news/local/ice-shoot...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Breaking news: Minnesota authorities said the FBI was taking over the investigation into an ICE officer's fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, freezing them out and blocking access to evidence. The latest here:

This is quite a sequence: —Trump asks aide for video of ICE shooting to convince NYT interviewers that driver tried to "run over" agent —They watch together —Interviewers note it shows nothing of the sort —Trump says "well . . . it's a terrible scene" GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I doubt he was recording for posterity. More likely it was part of the effort to collect protester faces for ICE's facial recognition database. We're told all the time that police officers have to make split-second, life-or-death decisions based a rapid processing of the information around them ...

Second, as the officer who killed Good runs up the passenger side of the car, *he is recording with his cell phone.* He literally has his gun in one hand is holding up his cell phone to record with the other.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Appears to be 66 agreements/organizations, and further actions are required, presumably in keeping with international law. "Withdrawal" means nonparticipation/defunding for organizations like the Venice Commission and the International Law Commission.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

absolutely unregulated surveillance tech used as blunt force instrument don’t forget

It gets worse.

omg

NEW: Border Patrol agents used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and a plainclothes videographer to covertly record protesters and arrests in Evanston, I found. It's "disturbing," @epic.org told me. Also @stopspyingny.bsky.social, @eff.org, @aclu.org of Illinois.

??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Oh no. Oh no. An ICE officer has fatally shot someone. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Seven days into 2026

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

“Acquiring”?????

Punchbowl News & Fox News are reporting that U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican, has died. LaMalfa represents a currently ruby red district (CA-01) that is becoming pretty reliably blue under the state's new map. There'll be a special to replace him under current lines.

Breaking news: Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-California) has died. He was 65 years old. His death further challenges the incredibly narrow House Republican majority.

Never forget. 🇺🇸