A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

ICE officers will be used as security for February’s Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, despite opposition from Italian government officials.

Ilhan Omar attacked and sprayed with a substance as she was calling for Secretary Noem to resign or face impeachment

What if we did not have those videos? How many Americans would have believed this? Or given the Administration the benefit of the doubt? This raises another — and rather urgent — question. What else is happening that we are not seeing on camera? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Alex Pretti's former colleague remembers him for his empathy and enthusiasm for being in healthcare.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic

#StreetArt by LIAM BONONI, #Liverpool 2026 @liambononi

ICE descends on Maine. "[Gov. Janet] Mills said, ‘Look, Maine knows what good law enforcement looks like because our law enforcement are held to high professional standards.... they don’t wear a mask..., and they don’t arrest people in order to fill a quota.’” abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-launc...

Lots of people are asking me why DOJ is leveraging the ICE deployment in Minnesota to obtain unreacted copies of the state's sensitive voter file data. I recently explained why this is the biggest legal story and may be the biggest political story of the year. Watch and share.

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Watching MAGA right now talk down the Second Amendment is interesting. They are trying to spin this in every way possible. In Trump’s America, the First, Second, and Fourth Amendment rights are now gone.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.

Presidents have broad, virtually unreviewable discretion to invoke the Insurrection Act but there has to be a threshold that says you can’t invade a peaceful city w/fedl law enforcement, kill 2 citizens & claim resulting protests merit sending in troops www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Here's the list of 7. 1 Retiree. 3 is past their deadline and will probably lose anyway because of gerrymandering. But 3 are competitive districts and could still be primary-ed this year. Anyone know an ambitious Dem in NY or Washington?

The Trump administration is a criminal organization.

Purple Heart Recipient Held by ICE for 8 Hours Says He Wasn’t Allowed to Call a Lawyer

These seven Democrats voted with Republicans to approve an additional $10 billion in ICE funding

Am I supposed to feel bad about this? Because I don't. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

FUCK yeah arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Republicans spent the entire hearing accusing Jack Smith of prosecuting Trump for political reasons and falsely claiming he was being directed by Biden and Garland. Ironically, while they were doing that, Trump was telling Bondi on Truth Social that she should prosecute Smith.

BREAKING: Jack Smith: "As I testify before the Committee today, I want to be clear: I stand by my decisions as Special Counsel, including my decision to bring charges against Pres. Trump. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Pres. Trump engaged in criminal activity."

Check out this story from Detroit Free Press: Washtenaw County sheriff: Local cops shouldn't work with ICE When local police work on ICE immigration enforcement, it undermines public trust, drains resources and makes communities less safe. www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to "overturn election results in certain states," and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls.

A memo was released by ICE instructing agents to violate the U.S. Constitution. ICE told officers and agents that they can forcibly enter homes without warrants signed by judges. The memo was from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, was shared with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) by two whistleblowers.

There are lessons for provinces from the US experience with data centres. They consume vast quantities of water & power. This causes consumer power rates to go up, way up in some cases. I'm proud that BC has taken a precautionary approach to them being built. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/18/b...

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Reborn black hole seen erupting across 1 million light-years of space like a cosmic volcano https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/420435/ Astronomers have discovered a once-dormant supermassive black hole springing back to life in a very dramatic and spectacular…

Their behavior is utterly inhumane. In Morristown, New Jersey, ICE abandoned a six-year-old girl on the side of a busy road after abducting and disappearing her father on January 18, 2026.

Last night's Aurora Borealis over Greenland.

Looking forward to hearing PIK Director Johan Rockström speak tomorrow during our Planetary Health event at 14h CET 📺Info & webstreaming: link.europa.eu/37Xkc4 #STOAevent #EUParliament

#Bolivia: Climate change & soil salinity are threatening livelihoods & cultural survival of Indigenous communities. PIKs M. Rahman: “This parallels rice crop losses in Asian mega-deltas, where high salinity in soil & water undermine agricultural productivity.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

You don’t need to read the article to understand the warning. When warming water meets nutrient pollution, ecosystems don’t “adapt.” They reorganize. Seaweed blooms aren’t recovery. They’re a regime shift. apple.news/AtjDnSY-7TVu...

Below I paste a message sent by Trump to the prime minister of Norway. This is an emergency. Every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic alike, must demand Trump's immediate resignation. He wants to destroy everything. “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel

From June 2025 financialpost.com/news/greenla...

📢 Power to the People: We Did Not Consent to This War on American Soil open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...

Trump agency's 'gross distortion' of law reveals a 'hidden agenda' for ICE: legal expert www.rawstory.com/trump-noem-h...

PBS is now noticing the official feeds have been posting white supremacist messaging for many months

We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes

Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)

Diné is also known as Navajo. Peter Yazzie was detained in January 2026.

Musk paid Trump $300M for this: a House bill removing any disclosures of miles per crash, etc., currently required for self-certifying as Level 4 autonomy. If this bill passes, it's a free pass for Tesla to roll out its deadly robotaxis from day one, unimpeded. open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...