"Legal experts said it seemed the government’s claim that the couple was affiliated with Tren de Aragua was largely based on vague and unproven assertions there were gang members in their social circle." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Makeshift traffic calming in South Minneapolis where ICE vehicles regularly travel through at high speeds. “DHS was started in 2002. I remember a world before, let’s build a world after” “Dream of spring” “Neighbors say ice out!” “ICE OUT” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Window Into Solitary is a photography exhibition that documents the lived experiences of 17 men and women who survived long-term solitary confinement. Hosted by The BLACK Gallery PDX: Don't Shoot Portland. Saturday, Mar 14 from 5 pm to 8 pm PDT www.eventbrite.com/e/window-int...

A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not “following orders”. He couldn’t hear their orders. They denied him an interpreter. Denied him accommodations. This is who they are. They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

"These were not merely acts of charity. They were counter-institutions — infrastructure designed to keep people connected, informed, cared for, and protected in a system built to fragment and isolate them." truthout.org/articles/ant...

Farm workers in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org baristas. #DeleteTheApp

The Washington Post has been an essential institution for news and investigations and a pillar of democracy. But it’s also the hometown paper for the entire DC region, where we get local weather, sports, metro coverage, local events. These cuts leave DC without that major coverage.

At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...

The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

Precinct 10-1 unanimously (with over 130 people) passed a resolution to have the official @dfl.org position be “DHS must be dissolved,” along with resolutions to mandate an eviction moratorium, bar ICE from operating in schools, and cut all funding for ICE while they are operating in Minneapolis.

I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Ace of spades cards have historically been used by white nationalist gangs and anti-communist death squads to mark “kills” and issue threats www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Nathan Vasquez could’ve said this, and he didn’t, and that was a choice

Lol this shit is even worse, she's just peddling longform conspiracy theories about Islam written on Twitter now. This lady was Biden's top specialist on antisemitism.

It should inspire serious reflection among liberals and institutionally liberal institutions in the US that this woman was (is still?) considered a standard-bearer on the issue of what constitutes bigotry.

One of the biggest blows against the illusion of Western democracy in recent years has been that there is now more popular support for Palestine than ever, the tide has turned; and yet it doesn't make any difference whatsoever. Our leaders can entirely ignore us. We do not live under Democracy

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

In his 80s, W.E.B. Du Bois taught courses at the Jefferson School of Social Science, where he bridged Pan-Africanism with Marxism, Lorraine Hansberry was a student in his class, and he had exam questions about war as capitalist tool to maintain white supremacy. I love this man.

Previous coverage: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/23/i...

Oregon's U.S. Rep Maxine Dexter announced she's traveling to Texas on Thursday to perform an oversight visit at the Dilley detention facility. There, she'll visit the Oregon family detained by immigration agents in January on their way to the hospital. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/briefs/u-s-r...

More attention here, please.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”

I keep thinking about how some of these people really don’t think it will cause lots of people to die but many of them actually do and want that because they’re eugenicists

Judge Simon here in Portland just granted the TRO in the ICE use of force case. The first three sentences are pretty haunting.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Note: Speaker Johnson has since posted a lengthy theological argument on his Twitter feed about this (only part of it is below). He frames it as his response to the "insistence of the progressive Left" — but the impetus here is religious criticism of Trump's immigration policies from *Pope Leo.*

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Strongly encourage everyone to watch Rep. Morrison's video and read about conditions at Whipple. Detainees are being held in cramped makeshift cells without beds, blankets, or emergency care. Appalling human rights violations are unfolding right in our backyard. www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.

Secretaries of State could be revoking corporate charters for companies collaborating with ICE. There are so many state powers available. You just need to have politicians willing to use them and we mostly have loser ass Democrats who are slow on the uptake here.

Want to continue the work of building solidarity with immigrants? Join JWJ for our annual Faith Labor Breakfast, happening on Tuesday, February 17th, at St. Andrew Church. We're bringing together faith, labor, and community for immigrant justice. No one turned away for lack of funds. TIX below:

Your regular reminder that the Labour government continues to deepen the UK’s dependency on the US through contracts, many of which remain secrets, with Palantir. They’re bringing this nightmare here.

As Audre Lorde said, “Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do).”

“What is happening to us is like a school – a school of life, of struggle, of steadfastness, of how you can live and resist.”

Another key example is the COVID-19 pandemic - @victorialaw.bsky.social's book "Corridors of Contagion" offers an excellent, meticulous, completely infuriating explanation of this

This account from someone a few blocks away really gets at the sudden escalation. This was a family outing to a park on a relatively warm Sunday afternoon — kids on bikes, the family meeting up with grandma. Now you have to explain tear gas and police brutality to your 8-year-old.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

“In a little over a year, the number of detention facilities used by ICE *nearly doubled* to 212 sites spread across 47 states and territories. *Most of that growth* came through existing contracts with the U.S. Marshals Service or *deals to use empty beds at county jails.*” (emphasis mine)

The fight to stop ICE is also in your local jail.

We could have hundreds of mayors like this. Hundreds! We could just choose to be better at any time. There is nothing stopping us from being a better country.

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