So ICE is Zero-for-3 on factually characterizing use of force incidents in Minneapolis.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Pressed for examples of broader cooperation from jails on Trump's mass deportion efforts, Tom Homan, said, “I have not met with one county jail that says no to us.” In fact, Homan has not cited any specific jurisdiction that has made a concession to assist more broadly with immigration enforcement.

On 1/6 @KevinOMcCarthy called Donald Trump to call off the #Rioters. He didn't call @SpeakerPelosi, #Antifa, #BLM or the @FBI. He knew who was responsible then and he knows it now.

Let's hope they also vote!

"Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses according to an internal DHS document." www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

If they’re going to name a NY landmark after Trump, how about the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, the largest sewage treatment facility in NYC, in Brooklyn? As for the D.C. area: Perhaps the Fort Totten Solid Waste Disposal facility, in northeast D.C.? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

There's some great writing here

Immigrant communities have helped Minneapolis prosper. The federal crackdown threatens to undermine that.

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

Deportation quotas are a 2026 version of Vietnam body counts

Just a normal day in the trump regime

Yep. And now about a dozen plus staffers in the US attorney's office in Mpls have resigned. The fraud investigation is deeply compromised. Trump never understands unintended consequences.

That fraud scheme in Minnesota involving Somali Americans that Trump has trumpeted? FBI agents were pulled off the case to do routine immigration work, delaying the investigation, according to this revelatory oral history by Emily Bazelon and @rachelposer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Attention Trump/Vance: you're deporting people who were persecuted for being Christians now (oopsie!) Just another example of lack of logic in this continuing atrocity.

We are living through one of the most shameful and dark periods in American history.

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

"In Minneapolis, it was the intruding federal agent, not the Somali American family next door, who was the real alien to the local way of life."

This seems to be the issue,lack if guts. No idea why though.

Speaks for itself

Those who oppose ICE in Minnesota are battling not for a political agenda but for the goal of dissidents throughout history: a normal life, Gal Beckerman argues. theatln.tc/XkX62TXA

Downtown Minneapolis today! ✊

“We’ve kind of gotten what we want, right?” Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys said. We were speaking about why his group had receded from the streets. He no longer felt compelled to show up with other Proud Boys to fight left-wing protesters.The federal government was doing the job itself.

Justice Department pulling down pages that mention Trump...

In case you're wondering why the FBI is seizing voting materials in Georgia and Tulsi Gabbard is ginning up a "foreign interference in our elections" story . . .

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

Believe it when you see it. Not the case in Minnesota today. More parents separated from children; more children put in detention. Neither mother with criminal record.

More kids also taken from Columbia Heights school today. Nothing has changed.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody

Seems kinda important

According to The Atlantic, Bovino is out. "Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change."

The UK 🇬🇧 understood the assignment.

Secretary Simon's "up yours" letter to Bondi is priceless.

Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams tapped into America's current period of struggle on her latest album, a collection of protest songs called "World's Gone Wrong."

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

The deputy White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, called Pretti a “domestic terrorist” and an “assassin.” In fact, Pretti was a registered nurse working in intensive care at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. This is who he really was.

From the former US Attorney here

Gov. Walz: "You heard the most powerful people in the world, certainly in this country — the president, VP, Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem — narrate to you what you were looking at, that this was a domestic terrorist…sullying his name within minutes of his death."

WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. a turning point in President Donald Trump’s second term. His mass deportation campaign has been a moral and political failure, leaving American citizens feeling outraged and unsafe.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Encouraging when this is happening in Idaho.

Same model employed by the Catholic Church with pedophile priests