New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

sometimes Irish teenagers just ran away from home

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

This is a huge win for the Bay Area. Thanks to hard work and persistence with allies including @spur-urbanist.bsky.social @transbaycoalition.bsky.social @transformca.bsky.social, Bay Area transit will keep moving as we work on the Connect Bay Area ballot measure to keep transit moving and improving

I would like an enterprising journalist to get on the phone with a bunch of 11-13 year-olds and ask them the hard questions about why The Great Meme Reset didn’t work, and why nobody talks about it any more.

I also think this concept is one of the uniting ideologies between MAGA and Silicon Valley money, the terminal point of SV’s class revolt against its own labor force

I’ve been going back and forth on this but this clinches it—I think these guys really want a Persian Gulf labor model in the US. It’s not a coherent philosophy—nothing ever is with these assholes—but I’ve worked on Gulf labor stuff and I’m seeing more and more of it here. Long thread 1/

Some interesting stuff in here about how the Iran regime is trying to manipulate pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist sentiment to their own benefit in a low-information environment.

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

was reminded that I did a joint interview with Catherine O'Hara and Cecily Strong in the midst of the pandemic. a small but great insight from O'Hara about why she loved playing characters who were oblivious to how they came across to other people. www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/a...

If you have never lived in MN, you have no idea how far out there Wilmar is. Nearly 100 miles from Minneapolis.

here's a picture i took at work nine years ago, during the airport protests after the muslim ban. anyone who showed up to an event like this at google today would be fired.

This is a thread where you are can share places to donate in MN that are NOT in Minneapolis (unless North Minneapolis) Saint Paul and outstate/greater MN. Please follow directions for once. Please.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The plan: convince John Fisher to buy the Seahawks

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/m... [gift link]

huge move for the millenials at the deadline

This story about David Brooks is one of the most brutal takedowns I’ve ever read. By the late Tony Judt

“It’s worse than people think,” said attorney Eric Lee, who tried to visit clients at Dilley on Saturday. “The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”

Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.

This is one of the most basic principles of politics, and the Democrats have failed to do it for as long as I can remember. The other side gets to be babies, but we are the adults in the room, so it's up to us to clean up their mess. Surely they'll respect us for that later, right? Get out.

It's a 58-page paper on why the FCC should be abolished that spends 2 pages on the actual details of which functions should be abolished and which should be spun out to other agencies. That isn't the balance I'd have chosen if I were making a serious policy proposal. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

sounds like Thee Parkside is done www.instagram.com/p/DUESlpKki-h/

So close, James, but the word you were looking for was “community”

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

An idaho hot dog is exactly what you think it is.

SF: City of predators

Been thinking about this for a week and have decided: Alex Garland is our dumbest smart guy, Danny Boyle is our smartest dumb guy, and that’s why their synergy is beautiful

In videos posted on social media, one employee can be heard saying: “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.” The agent responds, “If you touch me, I’ll grab you.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

its been so good bsky.app/profile/wimb...

The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

Interesting piece. I had never considered that Google (who started doing the same thing 20 years ago for Google Books) might have already fed that entire library into Gemini. I wonder if they already have?

these idiots have still got it www.instagram.com/p/DT_FML6kp8k/

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

"There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street. The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child." www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

As much as it pains me to say it, the man has earned this victory lap

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez has been a hero throughout, advocating, witnessing, speaking up, getting assaulted by ICE thugs, but still never failing to help the people he represents. Bravo @jchavezmpls.bsky.social

RIP Greg Bovino

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired