Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Opinion | I'm a pro-family conservative. Here's why I'm ok with Trump being best friends with a pedophile, Elon Musk creating a mountain of kiddie porn, and ICE abducting five-year-olds.

I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.

One of the most unexpected media events of this moment has been entertainment (Teen Vogue, People) & trade (Wired) publications accurately reporting the news & cogently calling out fascist falsehoods, while our Serious News Sources (NYT, WP, WSJ) avoid truth or sane-washes it, and publishes pablum.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

JUST IN: Judge William Young, who ruled Trump admin violated 1st Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian activists for deportation, enters order allowing @AAUP & @MESA_1966 members to block any deport attempt until feds convince a judge it's legit. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation. It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout: @peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE people.com/ice-detains-...

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)

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? No, seriously, though, where? Will they be here soon? Because the fucking country is sliding into moronofascism.

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

Independents are +12 on abolishing ICE

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Cops $7,338,600,3921 Utility $150 someone who is good at the cost of living please help me budget this. my family is dying

it doesn't matter if you don't want to have this fight, it doesn't even matter if it's not politically optimal to have this fight the fight is here and sitting it out is not an option if you can't see that get out of the way

Millions Of Americans With Public Humiliation Kink Praise Trump Davos Speech

Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy." (He means Greenland.)

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

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

We are all going to die of natural causes before Trump stops ranting today. This is incredible.

The S&P 500 has been falling ever since he started talking

Hey, your daughter was murdered by my guys, but will you still love me? I'm needy.

The president encounters a binder clip for the first time, then talks about it for a while. Remember when Joe Biden had a raspy voice and every major news organization created a 10-person Biden Is Old investigative team?

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

THE GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL.

This is how you know the entire thing is dogshit and not real. They squirt out a few stupid AI uses that makes normally intelligent people ooo and ahhh like cavemen seeing fire for the first time and hope it'll be enough to keep the shit machine running

This is kinda like the difference between "Surrender Dorothy" and "Surrender, Dorothy," isn't it.

Davos is going to go swimmingly…

Hey, remember when people used to say Trump wouldn’t be bought or corruptly influenced by wealthy interests because he was already so rich? That was fun.

That Heritage Foundation guy back in 2024 was talking about The Second American Revolution being 'bloodless, if the left allows it to be' and I'm increasingly feeling that was a Delphic oracle moment too

There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

I'm finding it very cognitively dissonant to see Dems navel gazing about how to "message" on grocery prices when the batshit crazy president is waging warat home and abroad. I guess that's all they believe we care about but it feels more and more like fiddling while the world burns.

Rasmussen Has Fallen

At about the 35-second mark the officer says "IF YOU FUCKING MOVE I'LL FUCKING TASE YOU," followed immediately by "GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR RIGHT NOW." Which contradictory order are you supposed to follow, knowing that either could get you tased? Or worse? bsky.app/profile/petr...

As everyone is talking about how insane Trump Greenland attack is, reupping this post about how badly NYT sanewashed Trump's comments on Greenland. He as much as told them he had to "possess" it bc he's a malignant narcissist worried about protecting his manhood. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...

I think of it as the shovel test. Because of your actions, I now have to shift a large pile of shit. Are you going to try to "manage" me or lecture me on proper shoveling technique? Or are you going to own up, pick up a shovel, and get to work? Shovelers welcome. All others can fuck off.

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.