Good on ya, UN! Gee, why couldn't Trump do this?

Federal agents working in Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota are not allowed to arrest peaceful protesters or stop people in their cars without cause, among other items, a US district judge ruled in a preliminary injunction today. https://cnn.it/3NpkzaI

Tensions between residents and federal immigration officers continued to rise in the Twin Cities area after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.

Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters, a U.S. judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.

Two men disrupted a panel in Salt Lake City by claiming they’d had affairs with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who was sued this week by the ex-wife of a Senate bodyguard who alleged Sinema ruined her marriage. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01/16/former-sen-kyrsten-sinema 

As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure. Interviews by The Associated Press of more than a half-dozen fired employees offer a snapshot of the toll throughout the Justice Department.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is not happy with President Donald Trump's U.S. Agency for Global Media, accusing it of backing down from giving vital information to protesters in Iran.

ICE is a reproductive justice problem. Experts warn that pregnant immigrants and their babies may suffer complications from chronic stress of ICE raids. At least two doctors say they're already seeing warning signs in patients, like high blood pressure & deteriorating mental health.

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced | Behrouz Boochani and Mehdi Jalali Tehrani

Small Minneapolis businesses hit hard by ICE crackdown, while corporations stay silent reut.rs/3Lxihpk

Republicans are trying to scare Trump back to reality as he talks about taking Greenland by any means necessary. GOP Rep. Don Bacon predicted it would lead to impeachment and calling Trump’s Greenland obsession “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor is spending her retirement tending to a new puppy, and fighting to preserve the judicial branch of the United States. via @ohiocapitaljournal.com

OPINION: Catholics can have good-faith disagreements about the best way to have a just immigration policy. But the inhumanity and violence accompanying this administration’s immigration enforcement is not something Catholics should see very differently. religionnews.com/2026/01/09/a...

An ominous plot to paste images of ICE protesters across TV and pressure employees to fire anybody opposing the immigration agency's presence in American cities has been announced by President Donald Trump's administration.

As mass protests erupted over the past week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed Renee Nicole Good, thousands of Americans hoisted signs and marched to thunderous chants of “abolish ICE”.

A new investigation by @propublica.org has found over 40 cases of immigration agents using chokeholds and other potentially fatal breathing restrictions, including during the ICE arrest of 16-year-old U.S. citizen Arnoldo Bazan in Texas.

Five days into the New York City nurses’ strike, only one of the three hospital systems affected by the walkout had returned to the negotiating table as both sides appeared to dig in for a protracted battle.

“The enormous rise of inequality radicalised me,” said economist Gabriel Zucman “It’s very extreme that you have the wealthiest people on the planet, and next door, tens of thousands of homeless people in the Bay Area.”

Sacked TikTok workers in UK launch legal action over ‘union busting’

Wild Bees US/CAN gifts for our friends in Ukraine wildbees.us/printing-sup... Your donations make this possible! #Ukraine #Wildbees

This is a pretty good list. theweek.com/culture-life...

this american citizen & nurse in scrubs, obviously commuting from/to work, had her ID and this is what happened to her. from December 2025.

Monsters.

That's weird...😆 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery. While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."

Pls share your letters to congress etc. Mine today to Senator Tillis-"... Today I heard that ICE agents are trained for 47 days only-- in contrast to police etc. Why 47? In "homage" to the 47th President. STOP this insanity please.

A young Santa Ana protester suffered a fractured skull around his eyes and nose after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range. The family said that doctors said he had permanently lost the vision in his left eye. www.latimes.com/california/s...

🪶With the exception of the indigenous peoples we all all descendants of immigrants. Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it! 🇺🇸 #ICE 🧊 #Trump🖕

wegotthiscovered.com/news/were-do... Detaining citizens is now legal?

We are now up to 70 co-sponsors in the effort to #ImpeachKristiNoem

Here's an update from the post I shared a few days back. The 21 year old youngster who protesting peacefully & holding a speaker and was shot in the face by #ICE point blank has been permanently blinded in 1 eye! Please share this story widely!

Let’s get more Dems hyping each other like this. The best thing I’ve seen in ages… “Third, fourth, fifth” ☠️🤣 @kamlager-dove.house.gov @repmoskowitz.bsky.social

ProPublica Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing ICE also mugged a 10th grader, stole his phone, and sold it. www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Legend

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

The good news is that SIX seasoned federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned rather than engage in a bogus 'investigation' of Renee Good and her wife rather than investigating Good's killer. The bad news is that there are now six fewer honest, dedicated federal prosecutors with DOJ.

The most powerful animating force in my former political party is white Christian nationalism.

Pope Leo bringing some whupass to Mar-a-Lago?

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"The likely result of removing Maduro is either continued but somewhat destabilized authoritarianism under mostly the same people, or chaotic instability that undermines democratization or any of the Trump administration’s stated goals." Easy to see coming. If anything, that makes it even worse.

Paramilitary forces reportedly on Venezuela's streets, as the US State Dept tells Americans to leave the country. Not regime change, not democratization, not a US-friendly coup, not even successful resource theft. Regime decapitation with no follow-on plan, creating instability and nothing else.

Not even two weeks later