Over 35,000 munitions have been sent to Minneapolis "intended to battle protesters": “Fucking overkill,” a homeland security official said of the inventory. “I’ve never seen this amount of shit being used.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin responded to my colleagues' story on X, repeating that they arrested "2 confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members" in the raid and that ProPublica "conveniently" left that out. @jodiscohen.bsky.social responds to that response:

The building owners are now under investigation by the state of Illinois. From one tenant: “We were paying our rent, doing things the right way... Then suddenly, boom, the government comes in and takes us out. I don’t understand." dhr.illinois.gov/content/dam/...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

The Minnesota Star Tribune is hiring an investigative reporter — it's an incredibly important time for this kind of journalism (like, no doy). Apply here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobB...

ICYMI

1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views. It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Is America gonna to get bored and bail on us?” one.npr.org/i/fis-125854...

At least two letters in EGOT required. You will work for exposure.

I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.

Hey, what did I just say? www.startribune.com/mark-anderso...

From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

Hm. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

OK fine, I have to post one thing: he was legendary for his roundups of the best-worst T-shirts at the Jersey Shore every summer. This is just one example, Google to find more. A good reminder that even though this is incredibly sad, Dan was always had us in stitches: deadspin.com/a-guide-to-w...

I was going to post the poignant, funny essay he wrote about his diagnosis, but honestly, read anything he wrote (the essay was pubbed in September, just scroll down). He was so fucking funny, he made me actually read about sports which I typically have no impulse to do: defector.com/author/dan-m...

This hit me like a truck. Whether you know it or not, you probably read or knew of Dan's work. We called him DMac in college. He was the funnest and kindest and the raddest and the best. This sucks. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

This is a big deal. Read the whole 🧵

"Federal court records show no formal charges have been filed against Javier. He said he was held here first by himself, then with almost two dozen others from the scene. They were given water, food and medical attention before being released" www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

A thing that keeps happening to me is when I hear people chanting "ICE OUT" I immediately get "Hey Ya!" stuck in my head. Now, what cooler than being cool? (ICE OUT!) I can't hear you I say what's, what's cooler than being cool? (ICE OUT!) Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright

Make Minnesota Boring Again

BREAKING: The petitioner ("T.R." or Juan Tobay Robles) whose non-release prompted Chief Judge Schilitz to threaten ICE director Todd Lyons with contempt has now been RELEASED, according to what the civil chief of the US Atty's office has told his atty and his atty has relayed to me.

Border Patrol shooting in Arizona: abcnews.go.com/US/person-sh...

Thinkpieces: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Local journalists: www.startribune.com/how-immigrat...

"Many of them figured their children would fit in and thrive here, so long as they gave their children Western names and made sure they could speak perfect American English. I always felt they went overboard [but] maybe my parents were onto something." www.startribune.com/yuen-my-pare...

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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

He is dead www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

“A folk song is whats wrong and how to fix it, or it could be whose hungry and where their mouth is is [sic] or whose out of work and how to fix it or whose broke and where the money is or whose carrying a gun and where the peace is — thats folk lore.” — Woody Guthrie blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

"In one case, a Minnesota-based judge rejected an effort to arrest and charge a protester after they had thrown an egg at a law enforcement vehicle, according to one person briefed on the case." www.ms.now/news/minneso...

Wind chill as low as -30

Important by-the-numbers analysis/fact-checking of Metro Surge:

For context re: ICE quotas, the Washington Post broke news of the use of quotas almost exactly a year ago. Back then it was 1,200-1,500 arrests a day, now according to WSJ it's 3,000 www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“Chemical weapons have no place in our neighborhoods or schools. They can have life-threatening effects on children,” she said. “It’s only a matter of time before a child dies.” minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/20/m...

"He was singing karaoke when there was a loud noise at the door as agents broke down his door with guns drawn...'I was like, God, please help me, I didn’t do anything wrong.'... Thao immigrated to the United States from Laos in 1974 and became a citizen in 1991." www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

I am really interested in what federal officers’ daily quotas in Minnesota are www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

The Minnesota Star Tribune has reporters write about the ICE crackdown in Minnesota, then emails the next day’s layouts to Des Moines, Iowa, to be printed, then trucks the printed papers back to Minnesota for delivery, then can’t get the newspapers delivered because of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota

If an arrest happens in the forest...: "An untold number of immigrants, like the man in the bus shelter, have been arrested without the whistles and cameras — plucked out of their lives in an instant. 'Moments like this ultimately and quietly change how safe people, including myself, feel'"

During major news-cycle-dominating, breaking events, images can give the impression that an entire city is engulfed in chaos. That's often false. In Minnesota, according to my colleagues, friends and family, the impression these images give is 100% accurate: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Read this entire thread, Nicole's contact info is at the end:

Hey Minnesota, Nicole and Mac are top-notch, trustworthy ProPublica reporters. Share your experiences with federal agents through Signal: nicolefoy.27 and mckenziefunk.01

ProPublica reporters have gone deep on the implements that ICE and other federal agents are using on the streets of Minneapolis. From 2020, on tear gas: "It has been found to cause long-term health consequences and can hurt those who aren’t the intended targets" www.propublica.org/article/tear...

“A man was shot in the leg Wednesday night during a federal immigration enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.” www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

This also represents an enduring commitment on ProPublica's part to covering the state of Minnesota with boots on the ground. Right now, I can't think of anything more important. Send us tips, Minnesota

As some of you know, I've switched roles from covering Minnesota to hosting ProPublica's forthcoming podcast (launch date TBD). It gives me great, great, great, GREAT pleasure to announce that my replacement is none other than the inimitable Andy Mannix: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

WHOA www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Whoa. www.startribune.com/joe-thompson...