Yesterday, the State Department expanded the immigrant visa ban to half of all legal immigrants, including all immigrants from 93 countries. No law was passed. Not even an executive order was signed. They just did it. Tweeted it. Banana Republic. www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...

Iran’s merciless rulers have nowhere to turn and nothing to offer their people but violence. The days ahead are fraught with uncertainty and danger. This is what the collapse of the regime would mean: econ.st/3LNM4tQ

Uganda has shut down the internet again - ahead of tomorrow's elections. This is bad news for those monitoring the elections, it is bad news for the spread of rumours, and it is bad news for holding perpetrators of election-related violence accountable.

Some protesters have reported being hit with rubber bullets close to the scene of a reported shooting in north Minneapolis involving federal agents in the area of W. 25th Street and Lyndale Avenue N. Federal agents have deployed chemical irritants. Updates here: bit.ly/4sI4z3q

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.

Read for an account of how dramatic and scary ICE in a small city has been—tear gas in a school, rammed cars left in the street, a kid dumped bloody in a parking lot. Read it also for hope. People organize, they stand up and resist. They deserve to know they don't stand alone.

"“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.”"

The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services. The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart

Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.

You need to understand the heroism of these everyday people in Minneapolis minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...

Today, January 13, 2026, is day 17 of the protests in Iran. The situation has escalated into total confrontation and information war. The regime is even shutting down Starlink - which means they must be using new electronic warfare (which could have been received from Russia or China).

Russia unleashed a major attack on Ukraine’s energy generation facilities and substations overnight, causing what President Zelenskyy described as “extensive destruction” even as the US presses ahead with efforts to end the war. www.ft.com/content/8b60...

Dark, dark stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

This would be a war crime. Gift link.

My thoughts on the latest attack on the Fed in @nytopinion.nytimes.com. So far it is backfiring--and for the same good reasons the Fed was made independent in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Credible reports given multiple videos that ICE (or CBP?) in Minneapolis is going door to door, breaching doors when residents will not open, and searching homes with no warrant or even statement of a particularized suspicion, and trying to prevent residents from recording. Flagrantly illegal

“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed’s headquarters” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On Sunday, human rights groups began reporting a sharp rise in the death toll as accounts trickled in amid a three-day communications blackout imposed by the Iranian authorities.

This by @martinsandbu.ft.com nails it: Europe doesn't just have ample cause to become geopolitically independent - it has the necessary tools, too. What it lacks is self-belief. www.ft.com/content/1da0...

The majority of people with Somali heritage in the United States are US-born, and more than 92 percent are US citizens. But a fraud scandal has made the Somali community in Minnesota a focus of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

"Protesters in the city of Yasuj recently chanted, “Their children are in Canada! Our children are in prison!”

"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scenes of protest at the #ICEOutforGood happening in Portland

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Remember Viola Liuzzo? You should. It's happening again. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...

America’s unemployment rate is low. But so is its job growth. That means many Americans are locked out of stable, full-time jobs, and many are struggling. “We just want work,” said Glenn Jones, who is on a waiting list for to drive for DoorDash. “Any work.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

In a deadly start to the year, ICE announced the agency’s THIRD detention death of 2026 late Friday night. People are dying in detention at a rate of one every three days right now. open.substack.com/pub/detentio...

10 years ago “Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border”

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 3.9% to 4.3% while native-born employment has decreased by a similar amount

“In its international relations and actions, the Holy See consistently takes a stand in defense of the inalienable dignity of every person. It cannot be overlooked, for example, that every migrant is a person and, as such, has inalienable rights that must be respected in every situation.” - Pope Leo

Pope Leo in State of the World address: “War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.  The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.) (Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)

Let's call a spade a spade: Kristi Noem watched the videos and doesn't want an impartial investigation because she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bullshit. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

Ninth in four months

Here’s an eyewitness account from @mprnews.org

Now that DHS has acknowledged that the ICE shooting in Minneapolis has killed a woman but are saying it was a legitimate act of self defense, let's recall that DHS repeatedly lied about the circumstances when a woman was shot by a federal agent in Chicago: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Witness describes an ICE murder in Minnesota today. If police won't arrest him, DHS will lie about it and destroy evidence as they did during murders and attempted murders elsewhere in the United States

ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.

The Trump administration's deportation hysteria is making America less safe. 28k+ agents diverted to ICE. Child exploitation cases abandoned. 80% of ATF reassigned. We need politicians to work together to get this country back on track. Good work by Sam Levin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Under a state of emergency that the government declared after Maduro’s capture, security forces were ordered to hunt down U.S. sympathizers, according to the Official Gazette, where the Venezuelan government publishes new laws and decrees. www.wsj.com/world/americ...