NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.

This is so cruel and infuriating. Missed anti-rejection medications and rejection episodes are no joke. This is heartbreaking and I’m livid our federal government is treating us this way.

"It’s illegal in Minnesota to use plates that aren’t registered to the vehicle using them, and that applies to unmarked law enforcement vehicles."

“There’s so much handwringing about what we can do to save journalism. I’d argue that the answer is right in front of us: It’s about embracing our values and making sure the public knows what we stand for.”

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

Expedited deportation proceedings for a preschooler in a bunny hat www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"and more" doing a lot of work here

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

New rule: any elected who wants to cut IRS staff has to go through the ordeal of correcting an IRS mistake on their taxes. It takes f o r e v e r, please fund them.

I started using "delve" after watching Fellowship of the Ring in the early 2000s and using an em dash at my first newspaper job in 2010 (my editor taught me the option-shift-dash shortcut lol) and I will never stop using either. AI can have "It's not X. It's Y." though, I'm tired of it.

i refuse to cede the em dash to ai. absolutely not you can pry that long thin line from my cold dead hands

If the news makes you wonder where the empathy and basic human decency are, the people of Minneapolis are showing that actually that might be the default, and in the long run the cruelty is gonna lose.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

ICE is still in Minnesota. ICE is still breaking down glass windows and doors. ICE is still separating families. ICE is still targeting our neighbors who need to go to work because they cannot afford food, rent, and basic living expenses. 1/

After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

”I am a prisoner in my apartment,” said the 30-year-old North St. Paul resident. “I am hiding in the shadows, not because I have committed a crime, but because the streets of Minnesota have begun to look terrifyingly similar to the war zone I escaped.” www.startribune.com/minnesota-re... (gift link)

Minnesota's four Republicans in the U.S. House proposed a bill this week that would withhold election funding to the state, unless Minnesota complies with the DOJ.

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

Nothing says "We're the good guys" quite like throwing around "death cards" every time you kidnap a five-year-old

Jon Collins's coverage of this has been outstanding, and this article, about ICE observers in the outer suburbs, is no exception. (No paywall because this is MPR.)

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The suburban observers, heavily women, say they share a personality type. “Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

An 11-year-old girl from Columbia Heights remains in ICE detention at the Dilley, Texas facility — where measles cases have been reported — sparking concern among family, community members and advocates.

According to this article from last week, they were down to 17 attorneys. So now just 9? In an office that usually has at least 50. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Eight more federal prosecutors set to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office

A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

How are people supposed to tell the difference between a random white man stopping people on the highway at gunpoint and federal agents like these stopping people on the highway at gunpoint? bsky.app/profile/jcol...

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

At time of publication “Sahan Journal had received responses from three [Republican] lawmakers.” Good luck! I contacted my state rep. and his LA five times over two weeks requesting a response about his stance on ICE. Crickets.

ICE/CBP have taken at least 3 Columbia Heights students and 25 families(it’s a small suburb) and they’re staging *in the school parking lot* www.kare11.com/article/news...

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Imagine if we finally got traffic calming in the Twin Cities because of ICE.

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

Media, journalism, and the press are not interchangeable terms. Yet they are bound up with one another. Media is the attention industry Journalism is a social practice The press is a key institution in a democracy Put it all together: Journalists who work in the media carry forward "the press." 9/

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

Trials.

There are currently 69,000 people being held in ICE internment w

In a scathing order, a judge orders the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father. “Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED.”

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

Never in my career have I had to write variations on this line so many times: "The woman, who did not want to be identified because she fears for her safety."

“A holding cell he estimated had a 20-person capacity quickly filled with 100 people. Some detainees slept standing up and in handcuffs. Excrement overflowed from the toilet.” www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Federal immigration agencies are using a vast surveillance network in Minnesota – from facial recognition technology to ‘stingrays’ that collect data by impersonating cell phone towers. Written by Shubhanjana Das

Do not underestimate how much this context adds to these arrests for Minnesotans. We lost one of our treasured leaders last year because she was tragically murdered and the tactics are being repeated. bsky.app/profile/atru...

These arrests are *obviously* unjust. Even in more peaceful times, we rely on a free press as a check on our government & institutions. During this heinous federal occupation? They are needed even more -- particularly local independent journalists like Gerogia Fort! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who accompanied protesters inside a St. Paul church and documented the action, have been arrested.