“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

WSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

"And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man."

(3/3) It can't go on forever because it would eventually wreck FEMA and airports. But it means we aren't putting SSI or Section 8 recipients in the crossfire of a govt shutdown. It's a position where Ds can hold out much longer, so it's a place that maximizes leverage, if Ds are willing to use it.

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

I love our country

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

All that I work on must be subordinate to filibuster abolition, prosecutions, a truth & reconciliation commission, DHS demolition, congressional primacy, impeachments and disqualifications, treating the admin and its pardons as legal nullities. There will be no governance without accountability.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is absolutely what the video shows. A person is wrestled to the ground by 6 ICE agents and then executed at point blank range.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Thousands of Americans will lose power in this winter storm. Sadly, some will die. Journalists and politicians should keep this in mind: The Trump admin spent the past year doing anything they could to squelch investments in T&D infrastructure, microgrids, battery backups, and home weatherization.

DHS doesn’t want to warn Americans about dangerous storm conditions because they are afraid of internet jokes. Clown car government.

NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.

Thousands of Americans will lose power in this winter storm. Sadly, some will die. Journalists and politicians should keep this in mind: The Trump admin spent the past year doing anything they could to squelch investments in T&D infrastructure, microgrids, battery backups, and home weatherization.

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

A very popular (and substantively good) platform for Congressional Democrats to run on is: We are going to name and investigate every sleazy billionaire, fraudster, and drug kingpin who bribed their way out of federal prison. There are quite a few of them!

A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison. Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared. How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.

NEW: The ICE List website listing thousands of ICE employees cites LinkedIn as the source of much of its info about ICE agents. Despite DHS's threat to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime, it's trivial to find their profiles. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

From a former DOJ lawyer

Oh wow. The Washington Post editorial board is GONE gone. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Scoop: The Trump administration is preventing Vineyard Wind from implementing major safety fixes to its offshore turbines, threatening public safety and the environment An absolutely massive story in collaboration with @emilypont.bsky.social who took the lead for @heatmap.news

Worked with @dataforprogress.org on new polling around industrial policy & Y/NIMBYism. This is my favorite chart. Voters clearly want gov't investment in their communities. But they are least jazzed about data centers (20-30% less support than clean energy, housing, factories, or transit).

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community

This comes after two other offshore wind projects - Revolution Wind & Empire Wind - won legal battles to lift pauses in the last week. Standing up against arbitrary targeting by a rogue government matters and gives other people courage pt. 9,000.

Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says ugh, horrific video www.latimes.com/california/s...

“Defendants concede that the political identity of a terminated grantee’s state, including the fact that the state supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, played a preponderant role in the October 2025 grant termination decisions.”

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.

The only synagogue in Mississippi’s capital - and the largest in the state - is in ruins after a suspected arson. A Torah that survived the Holocaust also survived Saturday’s attack.

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Bills Jags was almost too close to call…but both @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I landed on an X factor that could end up being the difference…. 🎧: apple.co/4qHdDDQ 📺: youtu.be/dR1-Ngh_6wY?...

Appreciate not only the display of humanity here, but also @pbump.com taking a second to note that there have been many other instances this year where other families probably felt the same way he does now.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

MPR news on the Minneapolis incident

Republican plan for health care is “simply load up a duffel bag with cash before heading to the hospital”