Thank you Minnesota.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -George Orwell, 1984

NEW: "The government didn’t just use masked, armed, unidentified agents of the state to execute a citizen on the street, in broad daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses—it lied about the victim and what happened in the most brazen manner possible." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

And he had a legal permit to carry. They wrestled him to the ground, disarmed him, beat him, and then executed him Wake the fuck up Americans. No one is coming to save you.

The United States has left the World Health Organization.

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!

Best sign💔

Release the EPSTEIN FILES!

“The rule of law is not self-executing; Democracy is not self-executing.” @chrislhayes.bsky.social on #JackSmith

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

NEW: The House just passed the DHS funding bill. Seven Democrats voted yes: Henry Cuellar of Texas Jared Golden of Maine Laura Gillen of New York Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington State Don Davis of North Carolina Tom Souzzi of New York Vincente Gonzalez of Texas

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.

are they not monsters?

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.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

ICE goons abducted a Minneapolis family at gunpoint today in a lawless, early-morning raid.

Sadly, this failed to make it into the President’s speech today. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

How fares the King

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social tonight: “Donald Trump - an open sore of narcissism.”

Inciting chaos, destruction, and corruption.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Nazis

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

👀 @warren.senate.gov

The same people who said the government was tyrannical for requiring proof of a COVID vaccine are awfully quiet about American citizens being told to carry their papers.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.

Fundamental point made here. The one advantage we have over people in the past is that we can learn from them. Since we can we should. That’s the premise of my book "On Tyranny." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

The American people want the Epstein Files, not Greenland.

Unbelievable. Troops from France, Germany, the UK, Norway, and Sweden are arriving in Greenland right now. Trump has turned our allies against us.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

WATCH— @niallstanage.bsky.social : “It’s surely better for 🇺🇸 democracy that people protest a government agent shooting someone in the head than to be docile or acquiescent to those kinds of actions.”

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

It seems pretty clear Trump intends to bomb someone soon. I just can’t tell if it will be Iran, Greenland, or Minneapolis.

The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

The Director of the FBI has to be Senate confirmed. I don't know what Bovino's title is, I don't know if he even knows what his title is, but he is without a doubt in control of CBP and CBP is without a doubt operating with more power and authority than the FBI. This should be Senate confirmed.

Former special counsel Jack Smith to testify publicly about Trump probes www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”