BREAKING: The chief federal judge in Minnesota has just ORDERED the Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appear personally in court, UNDER OATH, this Friday and warned that he could be held in CONTEMPT for the agency’s repeated violations of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.”

New in PN: Federalism can protect Americans from tyranny "The question we face is whether the nation’s sovereign states will use their constitutional authority to protect the rights of citizens against a tyrannical federal regime, including by holding federal officers responsible for their crimes."

GOOD NEWS: one by one FB friends who were silent, are beginning to speak up about Trump and fascism!!! ♥️🇺🇸♥️

Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov!!!

Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.

2025 was the deadliest year for those in ICE custody in decades. And just one week into 2026, ICE k*lled two people. Keith Porter. Renee Good. We honor them by joining together. We honor them by demanding: ICE OUT. NO MORE.

We’ve watched as my GOP colleagues have looked the other way while the President and his Admin have ignored the Constitution & rule of law & wreaked havoc on our country. If lawmakers won’t stand up for the American people, then the American people must stand up at the ballot box in November.

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@jtcestkowski.bsky.social: And you see in here a car drive by laying on its horn giving the finger to the Trump administration and its immigration enforcement agents...that was met with cheers from the crowd @statuscoupnews.bsky.social is capturing it all on-the-ground in Minneapolis

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BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis. Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio couldn’t provide a single legal rationale for President Donald Trump’s plan to put himself in charge of Venezuela. Rubio flailed Sunday during an appearance on ABC’s ...

So it’s going well.

Tomorrow the House Democrats will host a hearing with witness accounts from January 6th 2021. Watch here www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

Trump admitted oil execs were alerted to his plan to bomb Venezuela and kidnap Maduro before Congress, prompting Rep. Yassamin Ansari to call it “what an authoritarian regime run by oligarchs looks like.”

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

LOL

It’s the oil. zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

Trump says Maduro wanted to negotiate but Trump refused. This is a war of conquest. A smash-and-grab for oil.

Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next. charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

So fucking fascist!!!

What does a democracy-respecting citizen do when their government abducts the president of another nation? 😡🇺🇸😡

The 500 Worst Things the Trump Admin Did in 2025, Part 4. #301-400. June-Sept open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

The CIA carried out a drone strike bombing on Venezuelan soil last week, making it the first U.S. attack inside the country that we know of. The strike, reported first on Monday night by CNN, hit a...

If the United States had sensible priorities and taxed billionaires and didn't waste so much money on useless toys for Pete Hegseth to pretend he's a he-man warrior, our country could, instead, have beautiful, clean, high-speed trains like they have in Europe.

Breaking: Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.

Why does Netanyahu want to recognize Somaliland (the breakaway province of Somalia that no other nation recognizes)? Israel plans to forcibly move Palestinians from Gaza to Somaliland. Somaliland might take the Gazans, if they get recognition by the U.S. A quid pro quo?

The last five decades have been marked by an explosion in wealth inequality and a growing distrust of America’s institutions. Many Americans believe that the system as a whole is rigged against them. They're right.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — US government says ICE doesn't plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as judge's order banning it stands.

The president has repeatedly elevated posts made by a parody account mocking White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, suggesting that he either enjoys the hyperbolic messaging or that he isn’t...

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Shame on you @ABC. Trump illegally changed the name. He didn’t have the authority to change the name. So it’s not real. Just like the Department of War isn’t real. Fuck you ABC for being such cowards.

Pretty sad times we live in when it’s news that the government has agreed to follow a court order.

The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against Nicolás Maduro.

A federal judge in Boston ruled to stop the Trump admin from terminating temporary deportation protections for migrants from South Sudan. The order prevents removals just days before those protections were scheduled to expire, maintaining legal safeguards for roughly 230 South Sudanese nationals.

Always watch for the fascist signaling.

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He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

#trumpEvil 💩 🧠

This bill passed unanimously. Let's see if they override his veto. Bet they won't.

The Kennedy Center has been forced to cancel their annual New Year’s Eve concert as more artists pull out to boycott President Donald Trump changing the historic venue’s name to the “Donald J. Trum...

The American people are sick and tired of footing the bill for Trump’s habit of conducting government business at his personal resort.