BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

NEW: My dispatch from *inside* Minnesota's Whipple building today (the facility where ICE has rooted its operations in the region), where a group of clergy attempted to offer pastoral care to immigrant detainees. They were denied — an emerging national pattern. religionnews.com/2026/01/13/f...

Shouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS

Just another morning in the Twin Cities, keeping my eyes on the preschool parent signal chat to make sure none of my child’s classmates, their parents, or their teachers were kidnapped by the federal government in front of the school.

The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.

* GREENLAND GOVERNMENT: FROM TODAY THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED MILITARY PRESENCE IN AND AROUND GREENLAND -- IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH NATO ALLIES @reuters.com

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

as if this wasn't bad enough on its face, they didn't search a natsec beat journo like Ellen Nakashima or even defense Dan Lamothe/Alex Horton, it was Hannah Natanson, whose beat has been......DOGE and related abuses of feds guys I don't think they were looking for classified documents

The Michigan Ford autoworker who screamed “pedophile protector” at President Trump during his plant tour—eliciting a “Fuck you” and a middle finger from the president—has been suspended from work. trib.al/4tZpAub He believes he was punished for “embarrassing Trump in front of his friends.”

“It seems increasingly unlikely that the agent who fired three times at the unarmed woman, Renee Nicole Good, will face criminal charges…”

what it feels like to do anything rn

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."

The fascists don't have the culture. And THIS absolutely enrages them.

I think the DOJ criminal probe is the biggest threat to federal reserve independence since its formation. Hard to overstate the chill for officials making policy under threat of criminal prosecution. Shows there is no independent fed without an independent DOJ.

EVERCORE: ".. This is the first time Powell has decided to fight back. We are stunned by this deeply disturbing development .. the administration and the central bank are now in open war –- something Powell and .. Bessent have tried strenuously to avoid. .. This is unambiguously risk off."

This is an insane thing to say

John Roberts’ god-awful immunity decision made this possible.

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

German finance minister:

Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Or ... or you'll ... shoot the babies? DHS I don't know if you were all absent on training day but you can't shoot babies even if you don't like their parents. There is nothing that can be happening with a baby that makes it ok to shoot babies.

I think they really believe shows of force and executing people is going to make Americans more docile and compliant, and I also think they’ve got that backwards. Regular people are getting angrier, braver, and more resolute.

The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks: - Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela - ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota - Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally - Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell

Its so crazy that America is fighting a ground war with itself. Just full on troop movements happening between cities, reinforcements being shuffled around the midwest, all in an attempt to plunge a dagger into our own leg.

This is real Gestapo shit on the part of the ICE agents, and genuinely Christlike from the pastor.

Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on. 1/2

This is an ICE agent in Minnesota taking a BOUND woman into a Porta Potty, busting his ass on the way, which surely enraged him, while his partner sat guard. Where is this poor woman now and is she safe? PS. It’s not trans people women need to worry about in a bathroom. Keep your cameras rolling.

it is not better today. it is worse. friends in federal detention for observing. friends maced and attacked. friends in car chases with ICE. please keep your eyes open and keep listening and taking whatever action you can.

Wolves wearing shirts that say "the Time Is Always Right To Do What Is Right" on the back

They keep saying this “didn’t you learn your lesson?” bit like murdering Renee Good was a flex and we’re all supposed to bow to their dominance.

🚨BREAKING: Our cameraman Jon Farina was just struck in the leg by a flash bang ICE fired at unarmed protesters in Minneapolis. "My leg is hurting!" ICE also fired pepper balls and tear gas. This is happening in AMERICA. LIVE NOW ⬇️

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

a lot of people are being radicalized by ICE this week so please remember that the most important thing when someone comes to any kind of radical politics is to immediately scold them for doing activism wrong as someone who has been doing it much longer

Yet again, Elon Musk is pushing the insanely racist Great Replacement Theory that has directly inspired several mass murders from his fellow white supremacists. The richest man in the world who controls a massive media platform is *repeatedly* pushing this garbage and it should be a global scandal.

Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

NEW: An elder man was shot with pepper balls and arrested by federal agents after protesting ICE in the driveway of the Whipple Federal Building around 2 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2026. The man's car was driven into the parking lot by a DHS agent and then a tow truck came and took the car away.

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

so I'm just gonna pencil in time for protesting every free weekend for the foreseeable future and as each week goes on I guess we all collectively find out what we have to protest next

Sorry for party-rocking* but just to level set before Monday: - white supremacist secret police killing and abducting people - WH making arbitrary demands for an ally’s territory under the threat of war - DOJ extorting civil servants under color of law to manipulate the economy - ballroom *dooming

Steve Kerr took time at his press conference to address the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good. awfulannouncing.com/nba/steve-ke...

JPOW literally said

Not sure but ICE might have killed someone else just now

President Trump said that he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.

This is the kind of shit we need to see. The notion that being professional and nominally apolitical puts you in opposition to Trump as much as being a member of the opposing political party does.

Last night was Greenland invasion news and tonight it’s this. Not to mention invading Minneapolis. What an absolutely insane world we’re living in. I have to keep believing there’s just no way to maintain the vast variety of evil, because otherwise I will collapse from the weight of absurdity.