ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis shows us the only way out Today, we will see the closest thing to a general strike in the US since 1946. Much of Minnesota will simply say, "Hell, no," to the lawless, vicious, and absurdly unnecessary assault on their neighbors by the Trump regime's Department of Homeland Security.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.

You've seen the pic of the detainee being led out in his underwear by ICE, who claimed they were after a sex offender. In typical incompetent fashion, they got the wrong guy. Their target has been in prison almost 2 years. If only there was a way to get it right… READ: https://tinyurl.com/48pxxh6y

In the face of cruelty and an attempt to install autocracy, note this: People are resisting. They are posting their horror. They are putting their bodes on the line.

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

They want us to deny #Jan6th and the murder of #reneenicolegood, both of which we saw with our own eyes, from multiple angles and perspectives.

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.

SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

Times to use a 5-year-old boy as "bait": * When attempting to capture a sex offender * Stopping a dirty bomb or mass shooting That's about it. And, after that, you wouldn't ship the kid to an out-of-state detention center.

Some teachers in Minnesota have started meeting busses at their stops and walking students home because ICE is taking people from bus stops… Schools are sending food home for families who are afraid to leave… Attendance is tanking.

Trump is building an army loyal to him alone, and paying them up to $250k/year. If you can’t see ICE for what it is yet, then you’re not going to until it’s too late.

Exactly what @ricosuavejd.bsky.social said here.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

"'Our operations are lawful, targeted and focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community,' Bovino said..." Again, Liam is **five**. Five years old.

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

What crime do you think merits this treatement of minors?

This happened to a friend of mine. Followed them home. Patrolled their neighborhood for a few days. Then there was a door-knock and an attempt to serve an illegitimate warrant. Friend knew their rights (and also had an attorney handy), and they've backed off for now.

I feel like the "Trump is senile" claims let him off the hook. He's been trying to destroy NATO for a decade and his latest actions are consistent with that goal.

The Pentagon is drawing up plans to invade a US city

Hundreds in OKC walked out of jobs and obligations Tuesday and marched to Scissortail Park, joining nationwide protests in opposition to the Trump administration. | Alex Gatley was there and reports: freepressokc.com/okc-walks-ou...

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

8 minutes!

From Blaine: "Grandparents were about to go outside for a walk. They came into our home ... My brother asked for a warrant. They showed a “warrant”, it was on a phone. He asked to see if it was signed by a judge they ignored him. They then only took my father and shoved him in the car and drove off"

As long as Trump remains POTUS, nobody can take the US seriously. Nobody can make any agreement with the US. The US has become out of bounds. In the long run, this madness will be vewry costly for the US. Don't US republicans understand that? Are they merely cowards?

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

"Battalions of armed federal agents are moving thru neighborhoods, transit hubs, malls & parking lots & staging near churches, mosques & schools. Strangers w/guns have metastasized in spaces where daily life should be routine & safe... like a military occupation." www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...

Haven’t read the piece, but I hope Schumer and Jeffries see that quote

A major US citizen is being terrorized by an arm of the federal government. I guess this is OK if you believe it’s a whole community of people who are a danger to the nation. But it’s not.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Free Minneapolis!

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

David Brooks: This is a war on blue states Bill Kristol: Abolish ICE Springsteen: ICE is the Gestapo Dems in Congress: Let’s talk body cams and QR codes

Like, if Dems value the Atlantic alliance, they’d better (1) speak the f–– up for it, (2) make clear the pendency of consequences if Republicans break our treaty obligations to upend it, and (3) show at least the level of concern as they do about the price of eggs.

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

Reporter: Francisco Longoria was stopped in his car with his son in the passenger seat. One of the Border Patrol agents smashes the glass, and then Longoria drives away. It's very clear that there were no federal agents in front of Longoria's vehicle, yet the agent discharged his firearm at him

A return to shaming and driving away Nazis would be very good for this country.

Photo by Joseph O. Holmes

If anyone believed ICE was actually just going after violent people who also broke immigration laws, there’d be very little outrage. But they are transparently just rounding people up, including US citizens.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.

Federal agents are assaulting people with chemical weapons for the crime of yelling at them.

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE NATO