I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now. Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

NEW: Defense attorneys for a Minnesota man convicted last year of dragging ICE officer Jonathan Ross are seeking access to training records and other files tied to him killing Renee Nicole Good, arguing the files could affect post-trial motions and sentencing. www.wired.com/story/jonath...

In June 2024, pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the Stanford president's office and caused what the university said then was $250k in damage. Some of those students are now on trial. And a university official testified the damage came to ... around $10k. 1/ stanforddaily.com/2025/11/13/f...

NYT: 12 Columbia Professors and Students Are Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest By Sharon Otterman and Olivia Bensimon Demonstrators, who were demanding that the university provide more protection for international students, blocked Broadway. Gift link! @oliviabensimon.bsky.social

Sheriff Dawanna Witt told reporters Friday she’s met with federal officials four times but is still unsure about how much to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

If you can remember a world before “lose yourself” from Eminem, you can remember a world without ICE. www.startribune.com/minnesota-im...

Meanwhile at Target, the BHM collection:

UPDATE: The court granted Ramos' family a continuance at today’s asylum hearing, per school officials in his district. "Today’s ruling provides additional time, and with that, continued uncertainty for a child and his family," says Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights public schools.

To have a labor organizer who fought against forced labor with construction workers, then be locked up in a CoreCivic-run detention center—when detained immigrants have also been fighting CoreCivic over forced labor in detention centers… www.impactfund.org/legal-practi...

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

can't say which i find more appalling, remnick handing him a "fair enough" on the left and right being equally antisemitic or saying there was "no immigration policy" under dems. either way, super embarrassing for remnick to get steamrolled this hard by the right's pre-eminent midwit

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

fascism can still stump me, which is kind of an issue these days.

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

We’ve seen lots of reports of legal observers being arrested in North Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, and Eden Prairie. Exercising your first amendment right to observe is not a crime. This is exactly why congress can’t give another penny to DHS.

Trump was polling best among divorced men www.americansurveycenter.org/newsletter/d...

the entire family got taken out by some sort of super stomach bug. first the little one, then me, then baba. it's a hot mess and no one is well enough to take care of anyone else. the cat seems to be fine, but will not fetch me what i need.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Just left STIPC Detention Center. This is a prison. youtu.be/WX1g-h4o5Dc?...

sure, it's just that you haven't advertised on instagram yet! one of the core classes includes a lecture called, "Why Capitalism Rocks!" fellow_kids.gif

Hundreds of people are protesting in Milan against the presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Winter Olympics. [📸: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

The Iowa Lege is more interested in C Kirk than just about anything. www.legis.iowa.gov/publications...

Friend who's part of a neighborhood watch group says their car was just surrounded by ICE. Is fine but obviously rattled.

RFK Jr said during his Senate confirmation hearings that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a devastating measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines." Documents obtained by @us.theguardian.com and @apnews.com undermine that testimony. Details here, by me and @aliswenson.bsky.social ⬇️

"Natalia Bonanno’s family owns 200 apartment units"

The feds say the release of a Border Patrol agent's texts could "sully" his reputation. But a judge says they're fair game, partly because Homeland Security has shown "zero concern" for the rep of Chicago's Marimar Martinez. UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...

some context: a lot of democrats in the Bay Area are in fact, not actually that. SF DA Jenkins came to power after helping push a recall of a progressive, Chesa Boudin, who came to office on a wave from 2020's racial reckoning & was promptly the victim of a campaign of misinformation...

There's a fascist near me -- hyper-armed former leader of the local Klan -- who flies a confederate flag. In Vermont. (More of em than you might think.) I asked him why, he said "heritage," of course (he'd never been south of Boston), & that slavery was, like, 400 years ago. Fascist time.

Pennsylvania GOP state rep. Joanne Stehr on the concentration camps being built in her area: “I’m saying ICE has a job to do, and it’s going to get done. We are taking out the trash.”

Eric Hoffer writes a lot about the roles of failed creatives in mass movements in The True Believer

Learned from the Posting Through It podcast just how many MAGA-era influencers turned to politics after failing at more glamorous pursuits — theater, comedy, fashion, TV, movies, music. Knowles, if I’m not mistaken, had dreams of Broadway.

And don't think I can ignore the dynamic that nearly all of the feds present (so far) are white... and every county employee and cop is black. The entire episode feels invasive. Pins and needles, and that's just 12 minutes in.

Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

Just heard back from DHS on why they abruptly expedited Ramos' asylum hearing: “These are regular removal proceedings. This is standard procedure and there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process." (This is not standard procedure.)

DEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...

Happening Now: Six people have chained themselves together outside Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota, saying they won’t leave until President Rebecca Cunningham meets with them and declares the campus a sanctuary and ends all cooperation with ICE.

A Minneapolis woman immigrated legally to the United States and was in the process of acquiring her green card, but was detained through Operation PARRIS. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social and Anshu Patel sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

MAGA troll Brenden Dilley attacks Sen. Tim Scott for being outraged by the racist clip posted on Trump's account: "Your people went through a thing and we're all supposed to give a shit": "People did something and it was terrible 400 fucking years ago. Jesus, no one cares."

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?

Chicago Police Dept leaders knew cop proposed hiring hitman to kill fellow detective, new federal lawsuit alleges I missed this when it was initially reported by @unraveledpress.com in Dec ... just wow

More on cops and dogs and it’s not pretty: “The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year.”

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

NEW: A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents [VIDEO below] MORE: unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal...