A great explainer from @vermontgmg.bsky.social about the differences between ICE, CBP, and investigators and why they're exactly wrong for good law enforcement.

Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Unidentified Woman (High Forehead, Thin Eyebrows), 1980 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1227589

this was good, actually www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

What a time to be alive

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

taylor swift reading that kyrsten sinema lawsuit

Everyone welcome Mazeppa, MN

St. Paul Public Schools said today that two vans operating under contract to carry students and staff have been pulled over by federal agents while enroute to school this week.

We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.

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...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Important to be clear-eyed about what this FBI search means. The Trump administration is going after a journalist for doing journalism. "A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press."

The FBI searched the home of Hannah Natanson, a reporter for The Washington Post who has closely covered President Trump’s dismantling of the federal government. https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/fbi-washington-post-reporter-home-search

A small bit of good news.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

“.. Federal agents grab a woman to drag her away from her car, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

Journalists identifying high-ranking US government officials in charge of world changing events is not "doxxing," nor is it illegal. Read about that and more in our @freedom.press newsletter this week: freedom.press/issues/ident...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Change in Headline

holy shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

This is a jaw-dropping piece about ICE recruitment.

A Minnesota state representative said two Richfield Target employees detained by U.S. Border Patrol on Jan. 8 were U.S. citizens and were both brutalized. www.startribune.com/target-emplo...

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the Trump administration's handling of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer, according to three people briefed on the departures.

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates. share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...

The Pentagon is said to have used a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft in a boat strike. The law prohibits combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

"Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area." But in Trump's America, laws do not apply. 1/2

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

One-column headlines are very hard to write, but yikes this one is awful

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

Great news! I want to see more McGirt v. Oklahoma plot lines.

Just looked at a restaurant that offers a six-hour tasting menu, and even I can't imagine sitting through that.

What IS on people’s bingo cards?

finally, we're living through precedented times

Mao, 1972 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1243977

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." -- James Baldwin

A brutal thread that goes on and on (and you’re sorry when it’s over)