So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

This is from THE CATO INSTITUTE, people. A right-wing think tank. www.cato.org/commentary/e...

This is precisely what polling places were like for part of the 19th century. People often traveled long distances by horse to vote. It was a big deal when folks got together this way.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others

NEW: Insurrectionist pardoned by Trump has been arrested for child sex crimes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

Immigration crackdown: Two people who have been on the front lines are Ben and Sam Luhmann, a pair of homeschooled teenage brothers from the Chicago area. The brothers joined “Chicago Tonight” to talk about their work.

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

LFG

Someone set up a GoFundMe for Ben, 17, and Sam Luhmann, 16. They observe and document ICE and CBP agents’ actions. They traveled from their home in West Chicago to Minneapolis to observe and film www.wbez.org/immigration/...

This is a good point, and only emphasizes that how those who resist Trump report RIGHT NOW on threats he and his supports make to election integrity matters. These threats work by being spread, creating a fear they cannot back up. DO NOT DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM.

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

Well, people were curious on January 15, 2012, when 65-year-old Horner married Vanessa Weaver, a 19-year-old Montana State University undergraduate paleontology student and volunteer in his lab. dailymontanan.com/2026/02/02/f...

my dude gotta be profoundly rethinking his answer to the "would you rather fight one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses?" hypothetical rn

criminal law prof here. There are laws against homicide, and federal agents are not in fact above them. Supremacy clause immunity is limited in scope, not an absolute barrier to state prosecution.

ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises Staff claim promised bonuses and insurance have failed to materialise, with some reporting they cannot afford medical care for sick children www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-employee...

Losing loser loses again. Turns out that the key ingredient in defeating Trump is fighting back instead of immediately giving in. Who knew? (Michael Roth knew. #Wes)

I think rural, perhaps gun-toting, conservative doesn't like the idea that flash trained government thugs can make up cause, escalate things, pin you down, clearly disarm you, and execute you in the street before driving off into the mid-day with full gov't support as much as online fascists do.

Portland's Mayor: “To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children." “Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets.” www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

JD Vance in 2021:

Don Lemon has been released without bail, and his next court appearance is Feb. 9

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Yesterday CBS reported that an AUSA quit this week, and much of the MN office was threatening to do so as well. Which sort of explains this.

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

It’s time for a #nationalshutdown - THIS FRIDAY THE 30th - to support all the citizens in Minnesota, Oregon, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Maine and everywhere else they are pushing back against the ICE Gestapo and the trump GOP. Please repost if you support this. nationalshutdown.org

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

It's the end of the month. Lots of folks haven't been able to work all month because of ICE. They will be evicted in a few days. @governorwalz.mn.gov could stop this right now.

"'We lost all trust,' a current ICE official added. 'I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.'” If an ICE official can see there being a world without ICE, there's no reason any of us shouldn't be able to do the same thing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“I think it’s no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity...” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Showing up in Montana montanafreepress.org/2026/01/26/m...

The U.S. Government intends to force visitors to submit their digital history and DNA as the price of entry. With this much data AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock details of your life for border and immigration agencies. www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

A lot of out of state media are parachuting in and making outrageous demands or requests of organizations doing mutual aid. Asking to connect with or directly observe people working with the vulnerable. Have some fucking respect for the work and realize the stakes are life and death.

If you're in that Signal chat, you should start posting excerpts from that NYTimes expose with all the FBI agents mocking him.

The MN Department of Corrections has posted its own website to counter DHS lies… mn.gov/doc/about/ne...

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

Democrats should respond to Trump’s victim blaming, 2nd amendment denying with, “We look forward to hearing the President’s new gun control proposals.”

TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Safe Haven MN Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc www.gofundme.com/f/safe-haven...

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...