NPR just referred to the Trump regime’s “willingness to push the boundaries of the law.” Trump keeps breaking laws, and the media keep saying he’s *almost* breaking laws.

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is

One thing I should have included in my look at how the ~$30 billion allocated to ICE in FY 2026 could have been otherwise spent: It could have covered extending the ACA enhanced subsidies. My piece: www.ms.now/opinion/ice-... Image source: www.crfb.org/blogs/unders...

The statement appears to challenge the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes, which while a part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity has long retained independence from editorial oversight from the Pentagon under a congressional mandate that it be governed by First Amendment principles.

you don't need an open tab of chatgpt, you need an open tab of GWAR singing "Pink Pony Club" www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...

When local newsrooms disappear, communities lose a shared source of information, accountability and connection. Public Source has your back. Subscribe now to our free newsletter to stay informed. buff.ly/BNl93z7

The American Immigration Council reported a 2,450% increase in people detained by ICE with NO criminal record. They aren’t after criminals—they’re after anyone who doesn’t fit their racist definition of an American. Accountability is coming.

Do you have federal student loan debt? The U.S. Department of Education intends to collect on defaulted loans by garnishing wages. buff.ly/0WwiMp2

Given events in Minneapolis, and DJT’s desire for military control, you’re going to want to read up on the Insurrection Act of 1807 (which actually started off in 1792.) The Brennan Center explains: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Say it with me: It is your First Amendment right to protest! You have the right to speak up and protest. It is your right.

Minneapolis Star Tribune says the Trump invasion of Minneapolis-St Paul must be brought to an end. www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...

A federal agent shot and injured a Venezuelan immigrant in the US city, heightening tensions after a woman was killed by a law enforcement officer last week. ft.trib.al/O4NlFWo

Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Who among us hasn't sold stolen oil and stashed the profits in a bank in the country that bailed out our son-in-law's building at 666 Fifth Avenue?

Frey: "I've seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting & intolerable. If it were your city, it would unacceptable there too. ICE can leave & this massive deployment can come to an end. We have filed litigation to hopefully make it so, but I'm deeply concerned we don't have that kind of time."

If this seemed like fever dream doomerism a few months ago, it increasingly looks like this is where they want it to go. Full on military occupation of cities. Posse Comitatus act, etc.

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.

The signs of possible life among Senate Republicans were apparently just a spasm. Nothing more. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Ah yes, the famous piece of chicken and broccoli taco.

Hawley and Young flipped after pressure from Trump: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The FBI’s raid today on the home of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s war on the press. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain how the DOJ is not only attacking the First Amendment but also ignoring federal law.

A federal judge has barred USDA from cutting funds to help Minnesota administer its SNAP program.

“She shouldn’t have been there.” She was a person who lived in that town, driving a car, on the road they built for the cars to drive on, maybe the cop-adjacent man shooting people in the road for problems that don’t exist shouldn’t have been there.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Chief Justice Roberts: Dont worry this wont open floodgates to tons of trivial cases! Candidates dont want to spend that kind of cash! Oh but they really do. Them and their dark money billionaire investors. Read more inside:

Pretty telling who thinks it’s ok to shoot an unarmed woman in the face three times while she is smiling and trying to drive away.

It’s not the lede here but motherfuck Stephen A. eternally for saying Renee Good’s murder was hunky dory. defector.com/stephen-a-sm...

Poland failed to win the Hitler team over

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

They don’t know who they’re taking because: -they don’t talk to them -they’re random pedestrians It is literally indistinguishable from a kidnapping when you see it, except there are so many of them, and they are more heavily armed and armored than any kidnapper would ever be.

Gift link to FBI-targeted Post reporter Hannah Natanson's sweeping look at how federal workers have been targeted by Trump. wapo.st/49BQBrh

Last week ICE altered contracts with the leading private prison companies that run its detention centers, wiping away all transgender protections, including safety measures to prevent against rape. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has the story. prospect.org/2026/01/14/i...

Gift link! FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most high-profile and sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration. wapo.st/4pFh6lw

A massive escalation in the Trump administration's effort to dismantle institutions that check its power.

Another day, another impeachable offense. Also, that Natanson "has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda" makes pretty clear that this is not about national security.

This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work: * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

Oh my god yes!!!!!

Cops are great Also: guillotines

The part where the ICE agents steal electronics from local middle school students and then sell them for cash, which they pocket (this is likely grand larceny under Minnesota criminal law) are especially revealing. bsky.app/profile/prop...

To be fair, these CBP agents are better equipped and have more tactical gear than the troops we sent into Baghdad or Kabul during our last occupations.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

ICE was sent in record force* to Minneapolis to carry out collective punishment* against a city held by the opposition party* to openly scapegoat a Black Muslim minority* & blamed a concerned citizen for her own murder* before threatening to prosecute her surviving spouse* -- *indicator of fascism