Minnesota has quickly rejected Pam Bondi's request for the state's voter rolls: "The answer to AG Bondi's request is no. Her letter is an outrageous attempt to coerce Minnesota into giving the federal government private data on millions of U.S. Citizens in violation of state and federal law."

Minnesota Gov. Walz to AG Bondi's demand letter: "There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those."

Chris Madel didn’t just exit the Minnesota governor race, he walked away from the Republican Party itself, saying he cannot support “retribution” against the people of this state. When punishment replaces governance and fear replaces law, even party insiders bolt. The cracks are widening🔥

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it." Thomas Paine December 23, 1776

📍 Minneapolis

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

I think Sen. Tillis is trying -- from the sidelines -- to coach some of the 'players' in the West Wing on a game plan that might work (e.g., the last sentence).

Giving new meaning to 'blue balls'...

Tell the District Court Judge at Monday's 2:00 hearing.

Hey Dems, see what can happen when you *start* listening to the People and you *stop* listening to consultants? Who'd a thunk.

Assuming Cruz really said this... Has he *finally* decided to stop being a 'servile puppy dog?'

There are several descriptors for this. "He's lying" is the most succinct one.

'All of the news that's fit to print' shouldn't mean hedging. It should mean FACT.

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

One of those times when it just takes a woman to boil things down to their essence. Well said!

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

REMINDER: If you want Dem senators to shut down ICE/DHS funding here are the Senators to focus on: Cortez-Masto Fetterman Rosen Shaheen Hassan King Gillibrand Peters Murray And also probably Durbin, Schumer, Schatz. Light up the phone lines on Monday am: (202) 224-3121

A call to Federal law enforcement officers: I have represented countless of you over 20 years. I personally know many of you. I have had civil and professional interactions with untold numbers of you throughout my time as a practicing attorney. I never cared about your party affiliation.

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

This is horrific. RN here. This is an abomination. I saw the video. He was trying to help the woman they threw on the ground and pepper sprayed. May his murderers spend eternity in Dante’s circles. My heart is broken for all of Minnesota

On DOJ's effort to get others arrested for the church protest. The Eighth Circuit — including two Trump appointees — denied DOJ's request to order the additional arrest warrants to be issued after the magistrate said no. [Note, though, that Judge Grasz's concurrence is a very limited denial.]

So, if multiple agents tackle a person to the ground, beat him, and then shoot him repeatedly, they cannot later say it was ok cause they later found he was armed - which is neither a crime nor one that carries the penalty of immediate execution. There's no Nobel prize for killing civilians.

" ... If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence...it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "Our demand today is for those federal agencies that are operating in our city, to do so with the same discipline, humanity, and integrity that effective law enforcement in this country demands."

BREAKING: The Minneapolis Police Chief says of the shooting victim: "Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident." He adds: "We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."

Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.

I told the White House the state must lead the investigation. Let state investigators secure justice. As we process the scene, stay peaceful and give them space. The State has the personnel to keep people safe – federal agents must not obstruct our ability to do so.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

dear God

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 51-year-old man shot Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/immi...

> @startribune.com www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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.

Another horrific ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Man wrestled to the ground by federal agents, then shot multiple times. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli... @startribune.com is there: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Or doing what his mother, Queen Elizabeth, did on September 13, 2001. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEC...

I can’t keep repeating this over and over. They are coming for everyone.

Remember this the next time someone tells you to 'vote blue no matter who.' Or you see reports of yet another abuse by ICE.

Dem House Leader Jeffries refused to whip the vote against funding for ICE. The quid pro quo was GOP leaders letting Dems express their "unhappiness". This is what collaboration looks like.

This is what solidarity looks like.

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

THREAD I did some research on Troy Nehls. Here's a factual summary and the links to the sources I used for the information. 1. He was fired in 1998 from the Richmond, TX Police Dept. b/c in *one year* he'd committed 19 violations (from improper arrests to destruction of evidence). When he was...

'Paige Bueckers, the burgeoning WNBA superstar from Hopkins [Minnesota], has pledged a $50,000 matching donation to the Hopkins Strong Relief Fund to support children and families struggling with “the heightened stress and uncertainty” in her home state.' sports.yahoo.com/articles/pai...

Jack Smith: "If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat."

Jack Smith: "I love my country & believe deeply in the core principles on which it was founded. For nearly 3 decades I've served as a career prosecutor in both Republican & Democrats administrations... I have no partisan loyalties. My career has been devoted to upholding the rule of law"

BALINT: Do you believe that President Trump's DOJ will find some way to indict you? JACK SMITH: I believe they will do everything in their power to do that because they've been ordered to by the president

Would we be shocked to learn that the evils put on trial at Nuremberg had their roots in US laws & practices relating to Native Americans? Perhaps. We must confront such facts, not run away from them, if we are to prevent "America's dark history" from repeating itself in whatever contexts.

there are zero things about America’s dark history that make me not want to fight to build democracy and defeat its enemies here, and we don’t need to lie about that history or avoid it on the basis of fears that normies will run like frightened children

"Perhaps there are deeper lessons in these histories to understand U.S. authoritarianism, as well as forms of resistance." --Prof. Blackhawk It's not "fake-educating" to admit there's a pattern & to try to understand *why* it exists. Until that occurs, history will keep repeating itself.

At a time when federal agents are taking "non-citizen" children to detention camps in Minnesota, I offer that Minnesota has been here before. My ancestors have been here before. Perhaps there are deeper lessons in these histories to understand U.S. authoritarianism, as well as forms of resistance.

You voted to fund evil. Where was your conscience?