Grabbing breakfast at Hot Plate in Minneapolis. Carmen, the owner brought over some amazing cinnamon bread from scratch for a table of journalists. Amazing. Please if you’re in Minneapolis go here. The coffee and food is amazing and the service is off the charts.

Don't steal good journalists work and spread it out on bluesky pretending it's your own original work. At least have the dignity to do a podcast and steal the way thousands of others do. JFC.

My latest dispatch from Minneapolis. Minneapolis Dispatch: Jake Lang's U-Haul and Operation Dildo Blitz - Minnesota law enforcement can't handle it, so they arrest dozens. visunews.substack.com/p/minneapoli...

My latest dispatch from Minneapolis. Minneapolis Dispatch: Jake Lang's U-Haul and Operation Dildo Blitz - Minnesota law enforcement can't handle it, so they arrest dozens. visunews.substack.com/p/minneapoli...

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Minneapolis: A protester near the Whipple Federal building lies on the ground bleeding after being thrown to the ground by Minnesota State Patrol... more to come at VisuNews.Substack.com and Patreon.com/ZDRoberts

Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If you live in Norfolk, VA start warning your neighbors that ICE is there kidnapping people #virginia #norfolkva youtu.be/qkc_C6Vu8Zk?...

Posters near the Alex Pretti memorial in Minneapolis. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social art in the first image.

"Limited interactions," as in forming a limited partnership or LLC

Hey, checking in with Minneapolis residents... do you not want press covering ICE? Because we got screamed at by an observer today that "we weren't helping."

Just left Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht’s “Riots to Revival” in Minneapolis. There were people speaking in tongues, songs and political messages. I’ll have a photo essay at Visunews.substack.com and patreon.com/zdroberts tomorrow morning. Please subscribe!

The racist video posted by the President is perhaps the most egregiously racist thing shown in the White House since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915. Here's an article from Denver's Black newspaper in 1915 calling for Americans to denounce such racist imagery.

Time for her to retire.

MINNEAPOLIS: Vehicle with smashed window left on street With door open. Observers tell me that is was “one of theirs” that was taken by ICE. 2/6/2026

Back on the ground covering Minneapolis response to ICE in their neighborhoods. Seems like a lot of bait cars.

During the week after Pretti was killed by DHS, Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence.

The New York Times has finally covered the Trump video of Obama as an ape — and they are still providing cover for him. Fuck the Times.

"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." Great read.

NEW VIDEO: Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: ‘The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.’ Two observers talk with this agent who mentions “blue state media” and “voting rights.” Recorded at 4 p.m. on February 4.

I'm sorry when was AOC a "left-wing agitator?" She was an elected member of congress. She didn't harass fellow members like MTG did/does. Is being left of Pelosi considered being an "agitator" by the NYT's? Does Kellen know what being a "left-wing agitator" means?

Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah... Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.

Scoop: A white supremacist accused of arson of a civil rights landmark in Tennessee has now been charged with providing material support to Hezbollah for allegedly giving the group a list names of individuals associated with Israel. www.courtwatch.news/p/162-nazis-...

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

It's a moral injury, yes, just like people who help with executions. Turns out, concentration camps are bad for lots of people idk what else to say.

En route to Minneapolis as I type this. Here’s some of what I’m reading before I land. open.substack.com/pub/visunews...

This is actually fascinating.

This is a clear-cut scenario where the press can definitively say either the president or his chief intel advisor is lying. This isn’t a debate over internal states. There’s no room for self delusion here.

National Guard still occupying DC as well

Bowden has realized that I am leaving tomorrow. Also yes, he needs a haircut.

Medgar Evers was assassinated in his own driveway while his wife and kids were inside the house. Klan member Byron De La Beckwith shot him in the back and it took 31 years to get a conviction!

Will be back in Minneapolis tomorrow.

The most "don't threaten me with a good time" of all time

My God, we’re ruined.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

There are so many ways for local law enforcement to "collaborate" with ICE because the systems are basically the same. (Yes, immigration is civil, but it hasn't been treated as civil law for decades.) I am working on an explainer, so let me know if you have specific questions I should address!

Anyone pretending that this is about the WAPO losing money…

look i know it's a very raw moment for folks in the wapo universe, but @ruthmarcus.bsky.social there's no reason to pay lip service to the "enormous" losses bezos sustained running the paper, and if you insist, you gotta compare them to his actual fortune. these sums are nothing to him!

Bukele warming up the crowd for Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast really captures this era's caustic cocktail of racism, Christian nationalism, and authoritarianism. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...

Proud to play a role in helping get this together for @justsecurity.org. It provides you with details from the sworn declarations filed in support of the ACLU's lawsuit in Minnesota, Hussen v. Noem. The details of abuses by federal agents across the 29 declarations we looked at are chilling.

It will in fact be quite boring like every other Tucker Carlson interview. There be a moment that goes viral, like the Cruz interview but that’s it.

Shocked. Shocked I say that venture capital has a large number of names in the Epstein Files.

Democracy died in the pages of the Washington Post years ago. It didn’t even need Bezos to kill it. The journalists that worked there made sure it would happen by their day to day compliance of the Trump admins fascism. Never following up on questions, using BS headlines. The WaPo committed suicide.

I don’t believe that ICE is organized enough to do what Bannon says. They will do in 2026. That said, right wingers will 100% take their place on Election Day. Only after other people write stories about it will The NYTs OpEd page come around to this being an actual thing that will happen.

I’m objectively fascinated by everyone’s immediate support for Washington Post journalists, who this site has continually and regularly criticized as not up to the job. Do you all think it was Bezos that caused them to write pro-genocide news reports or copaganda or Trump friendly headlines?

It’s cute that anyone still thinks that Iran or Russia are the nations biggest threat. It’s conservatives and billionaires.