Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

Hours before a man was found dead on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk, a bldg super called the city for help Police say they drove by but didn’t see the man, who had an apartment a mile away More on how 1 person in crisis slipped through gaps in NYC’s social safety net gothamist.com/news/mans-de...

We are OUTRAGED and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and by the government’s escalating effort to criminalize and threaten press freedom under the guise of law enforcement. The First Amendment is not optional and journalism is not a crime.

BREAKING: Dismissal of indictment against George E. Norcross III has been upheld by the appelate division. whyy.org/articles/geo... @whyynews.bsky.social #NewJersey

As mounting economic pressures push more people into homelessness, volunteers and outreach workers traversed NJ this week for the state’s annual count of the homeless. NJ homelessness is on a five-year upswing, according to Monarch Housing Associates, and advocates expect another increase in 2026.

Late to the party but this is a nuts story. Great work by OPB

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911! “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

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"They shot him so many times. I don't know why they shot him," says one witness. "none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR," says another. "Instead...ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."

Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

NEW: Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.

A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.

State officials detailed exactly when buses, trains and other service will stop on Sunday.

The EPA relied on a report by a group of “independent scientists” to repeal its previous ruling that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment. New details show that the Trump administration unlawfully kept the group secret and influenced its findings.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says —- from @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ice-...

NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg

Fantastic farewell to Brenda Flanagan and a great trip through some of the top news stories in NJ over her storied career.

Honored to have worked the past few years with @bflanagannj.bsky.social — today was her last day before a well deserved retirement. What a career, we’ll miss you! youtu.be/HyY2dJAGTo8?...

“We're going to deport ICE” - Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley A Pennsylvania county is evicting the US Department of Homeland Security for failing to pay rent. www.lehighvalleynews.com/elections/we...

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Journalists — a friendly reminder: Applications for the $20,000 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the $10,000 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism, are due by Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. We’re eager to read your best work. nieman.harvard.edu/awards/

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

Federal agents’ use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools. This includes a 6-month-old, whose mother was forced to perform CPR on him after being exposed to ICE's tear gas.

ICE agents detain Navajo man in Arizona, ignoring US, tribal IDs by @abecenti.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

A Liberian man is back in custody in Minnesota, a day after a judge ordered him released because agents broke down his door to arrest him without a judicial warrant.

On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge. He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus. newsguild.org/guild-member...

Insane life this guy lived Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

It's big day for offshore wind! Just hours after a judge ruled Empire Wind could resume construction, Vineyard Wind jumped on the lawsuit bandwagon Now, all 5 projects that were halted by the Trump admin in December have pushed back www.wbur.org/news/2026/01... @wbur.org

New from @hmnorthey.bsky.social: the DOE is planning to transfer money set aside for carbon capture tech to revive coal plants from the dead. When I said carbon capture was being used to keep the fossil fuel industry alive I hadn't quite imagined this lol subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Spotted in here: Andy Kim www.eenews.net/articles/sen...

A barely altered play on "Which Way Western Man?" a foundational white nationalist text arguing Jews, racial mixing & equality are destroying society. DHS prev tweeted in August. It required no interpretation, but the media's role was to pretend it was a Rorschach test and help surface WH denials.

“Journalists have the right to do their jobs without fear of government interference,” said President Jon Schleuss. “Today’s FBI raid on a journalist’s home is a direct assault on the 1st Amendment and a threat to every working journalist. @postguild.bsky.social newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

Outrageous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gov. Murphy’s final State of the State address is set to begin at 3 pm EST. Stay with @njspotlightnews.org as we continue to cover the speech live and with additional coverage throughout the week.

I am taking on earthquakes for @kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social this yr I'm tracking the earthquake swarm in San Ramon & looking for people to record voice memos when they feel a jolt. I'd compile all these voice memos into a story. Anyone interested can email me at [email protected]

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

Sergei Izbitski, without Kazakh citizenship despite leaving the Soviet Republic 34 years ago, faced deportation. He was put on supervision, became a NJ contractor, but was arrested on June 9 by ICE and is now detained in New Mexico with over 100 others.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Listen to Powell here. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

RIP, Gov. Codey: www.nj.com/politics/202...

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

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...

This work by @godin.bsky.social is a great synch of all the video we currently have.

"The signal from the administration is: we’d rather spend our American money on propping up a Venezuelan oil business than supporting our current independent businesses,” said Kirk Edwards of Latigo Petroleum, a private producer based in Odessa, Texas. www.ft.com/content/f498...

Lively scene at the IBEW Local 25 hall on Long Island, where Hochul, union leaders, enviro groups rallied with several hundred workers in support of offshore wind. IBEW’s Kevin Casey: “If there’s any politicians in the back there that don’t support it, don’t call me up to support your reelection”