A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

We have to stop this.

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

When authorities used ICE's facial recognition app on a detained woman, it returned two different and incorrect names, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the app. Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate.

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“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ARTE

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

When these fascists say it's okay to kidnap, abuse, and terrorize people because they're "illegal," please think of them saying it's okay to kidnap, abuse, and terrorize people because they have "parking tickets." Same goddamn thing.

In December, I noticed a pair of curve-billed thrashers gathering nesting materials out in a patch of desert near my office. Being new to Arizona, I was surprised to see nest-building going on in winter. The reprieve from scorching heat does make this time of year feel like spring...

The White House is posting fake images of real people and mocking anyone who calls them out

Responding to local officials’ criticism of federal tactics, [Gregory] Bovino* said that “those tactics are born of necessity” and that “what we do is legal, ethical and moral.” *the accomplished liar whose false statements are well documented by a federal judge. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

From the land of sky blue wah-ah-ters

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

that *shoebill* 😍

That spoonbill 😍

Update: Now 120 cities are holding Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions paydayreport.com/minneap/

2026: the year so bad that even the Third Amendment is suddenly relevant

While Australian heatwaves were some of the very first extreme events attributed to climate change, people still underestimate how much worse they got - killing more people than all other natural hazards combined. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images this month, research says

So Trump will chicken out and back down on everything except detaining 5-year-old children

ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds. Deporting children with cancer. Shooting moms. And now, using a 5 year-old as “bait” to detain his family. It’s far past clear: ICE must be abolished. Congress should not give it any additional funding. And the people responsible for its crimes should face charges.

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.

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

BREAKING: The House passed H.J. Res. 140—stripping protections from the Boundary Waters and handing 225,000 acres to a Chilean mining corp. The Senate is our last chance. 📞 Call: (202) 224-3121, say "Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140." Final stand. friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action

Useful tips for those looking to help Minnesota residents under siege

It is instructive to compare @hunterw.bsky.social’s report on the deranged Trump press conference with Luke Broadwater’s article in the @nytimes.com, which saw fit to mention Trump’s comments about his Little League career but to leave out his racist rant about Somalis and other immigrants.

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”

BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

“To us, as Latinos in Minnesota, this is worse than Covid,” he said of the enforcement surge. “This is a bigger pandemic.” “Our community is traumatized,” he added. “People that are born here are traumatized.”

“This is literally racism in the name of patriotism — and a conservative guy is telling you that,” he said. “I feel betrayed by Donald Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

Regular people in Minnesota standing up to ICE and protecting their neighbors. Denmark and Belgium taking the strongest stances of European countries against Trump’s Greenland threats. Amazing how those with less power take action and sacrifice, while so many of the powerful equivocate and cower.

Hey Jersey: @govmurphy.bsky.social has til Tuesday noon to sign the Immigrant Protection Package into law. He says he's still undecided. Please text 732 605 5455 or call 609 292 6000 (and wait thru the muzak). In my call, I invoked Murphy's friend Bruce Springsteen:

Yes, 30% of Republicans would approve illegally attacking a peaceful NATO ally to annex territory. Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump to lower prices! You’re now paying more for everything so Trump can feel better about himself bsky.app/profile/twse...

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

I love that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”

100% what Jesus would do!

Miller couldn’t pass the LSAT for a reason. He’s a fucking moron. This is legally false. In fact it’s total bullshit. Territorial sovereignty is not based on who can “defend” land militarily. By this logic, all small nations don’t exist. This is just imperialism with a TV chyron.

ICE abducted two members of CWA Local 7304 at their workplace, New Flyer in St Cloud. Both men had come to the US from Laos legally as small children and had worked at New Flyer for over 20 years.

🙃 This FB post is public.