We’ve covered lots of losing local teams on the back page of this paper. But none with a record as bad as the Chicago DOJ during Operation Midway Blitz: 0 convictions 11 charges dropped 3 no-billed cases 1 jury acquittal

ICE are scum thugs. #ICE #AbolishICE www.vocesunidas.org/post/ice-lef...

ICE officer charged with misdemeanor for attacking immigrant rights activist in Chicago suburb From @sophiesherry.bsky.social and @schuba.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/01/23/i...

Trump and Vance have already lost. They thought Americans would embrace their policy of sending masked ICE agents to terrorize communities across the US. Exactly the opposite happened. Americans are standing up and saying NO. ICE is now at 63% disapproval and only 36% approval.

ICE OUT NOW MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN

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

The Senate will vote on the DHS funding bill next week and it can’t pass without Democratic votes. That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing. A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."

The leaders of Albania & Azerbaijan were filmed mocking US Trump for claiming he ended a war between the 2 countries, even though they have never fought each other. The world thinks that the occupant is a joke. He’s destroying our country. Congress must act.

ICE is too busy harassing children to pick up the criminals our sheriffs are asking them to take. www.fox9.com/news/mn-sher...

No link found between routine childhood vaccines, aluminum adjuvants, and epilepsy risk Children who were up to date on vaccines, or who had higher aluminum exposure, were no more likely to develop epilepsy than those who didn’t. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Nobody will forget nor forgive this.

NEWLY UNSEALED: Trump administration acting based on what looks like core 1st A activity. Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Early press accounts, presumably informed by DHS, claimed that the teenage girl in the first photo and another teen passenger were arrested after "colliding" with a vehicle driven by federal immigration officials. The second photo depicts the "collision." (Both photos via Getty Images)

The perils of ambidextrous handshaking? This is Trump’s left hand. If there’s something wrong with the President’s health, the public needs to know about it.

BREAKING: Jack Smith Live - read his remarkable opening statement open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon. Video by Ben Luhmann.

Elements of any number of nondemocratic governing philosophies have arrived in the U.S.—but none has taken hold entirely, Marc Novicoff reports. He explores exactly what kind of government America has now:

Whistleblowers say multiple DHS personnel faced retaliation for balking at DHS's unconstitutional new policy, and one instructor resigned rather than teach agents to comply with it. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Minneapolis, today. Note how three agents holding the civilian down. Why spray? www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

BREAKING: Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now denying entry to @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to speak with media after Fortune — the official media partner — invited him to speak.

I hope Trump’s remarks were met with silence, or if not silence, some jeers and cackles. He hates a lack of response.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

This is what cowardice looks like

In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis

SADLY, AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0, THIS AGED WELL: The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

"A year ago, we were still asking whether the country was in a constitutional crisis. Today, that question feels quaint. In many domains of American life,...we are already living under authoritarian conditions." open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Hi @weissmann.substack.com and @rgoodlaw.bsky.social 👋 Time for another frame-by-frame analysis

Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.

These numbers are a shitshow. The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it. That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.

Mark Carney: "Stop invoking the “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion."

My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/text-messa...

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a 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" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

South Carolina measles outbreak expands by 200+, reaches 646 cases The South Carolina outbreak is now the largest in the country and will likely surpass the 762-case West Texas outbreak that began one year ago today. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them." www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."

Prime Minister Carney's speech at Davos is sending a message of Canada's determination to the world. Canada is united at this time in the face of staggering levels of threat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5aQ...

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

You’re a US senator, sir. Do better than this.

That's the Constitution.

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

Again, we're kidding ourselves. A constitutional order that can't immediately end this, today, has totally failed. Presidentialism was a grave mistake, & the idea that impeachment would ever work was the worst error. The Founders simply couldn't fathom the mass oath-violating cowardice we see now.