SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Mask off

Scott Adams was responsible for one of the top 5 worst pile ons I experienced on Twitter, for having the temerity to contradict some covid nonsense. Bye Scott.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Incredible word salad “this is not about identity or dissent but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia's worst terror attack in history.”

It’s 2026 and the ex mayor of NYC just rug-pulled his own meme coin www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurr...

I wouldn’t trust Jeanine Pirro to order takeout correctly and yet we live in a world where she can do this on her own authority

Love having a bit of tear gas in my rental car.

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

Absolutely true. I was once in a heavily-armored vehicle driven by one of these merc outfits, blasting down the road from Kabul to Ghazni. We were in the wrong lane, forcing ongoing traffic out of our way at gunpoint. An Afghan driver veered off-road and crashed. Just an ordinary day.

Strong imperial boomerang vibes for anyone who remembers US contractors firing on traffic and running people off the road in Baghdad

Adelaide writers week organizers FAFO www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

It would be easier to buy Ackman’s occasional hand waving about bipartisanship and civility if he hadn’t bankrolled doxxing vans, given everything he could to force Cuomo on NYC and generally tried to use his money to get the country to submit to the oligarchs

Expecting ‘the markets’ to discipline insane policy implies that participants are actually informed

I guess now he’s messing with the money, it’s time to find out how much personalist autocracy the markets are comfortable with

Pouring one out / dropping a tab for Erich von Däniken. How could Our Primitive Forefathers have known what the skeleton looked like before X-rays? Aliens, that’s how.

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

Palestine Action activist Heba Muraisi, 31, said to be “near death” after 70 days on hunger strike,

Only meaning I can glean from this is a threat.

“Bowie taught me that when they demanded your identity papers, you didn’t have to comply” This is a beautiful articulation of that thing about Bowie that many millions of us feel, but- like me- are perhaps unable to adequately say.

Ten years since David Bowie died, and the algo has served up the tribute I wrote at the time (headline very much not mine) mostly about 12/13 year old me buying a reissue of Ziggy Stardust ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

stunningly prescient from the writer @harikunzru.bsky.social way back in 2016! What stands out now in 2025 but could be divined through close attention in 2016: 1 libertarian Silicon valley wanting much more state power through AI, and merging their goals w MAGA 2 Trump's ideal of great power deals

Minnesota begins collecting evidence into ICE shooting following ousting by feds minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/09/m...

This bizarre and dangerous claim violates literally every section of our Constitution, which was built by geniuses explicitly to limit individual power. Those entrusted with enforcing our Constitution have a duty to every Conservative and Liberal American. A duty to act. Now.

“The aim is to prevent the world from turning into a den of thieves, where the most unscrupulous take what they want…”

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

Not sure that making CSAM a premium feature for your paying customers is a legal or moral fix for your problem

I am only now catching up with the theory that Trump's fixation on Greenland is because of its enormous size on Mercator Projection maps

One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

This is not the law.

When Kristi Noem says state police have no jurisdiction, remember that she was also unable to define Habeas Corpus at a hearing.

Report that CBP shot two people in Portland this afternoon katu.com/news/local/i...

I mean, I’d remove him for the dress sneakers alone

If there is the slightest possibility that an agent’s decision-making would be affected by a previous incident (let alone PTSD) then obviously he shouldn’t be on duty, let alone armed

The murder and now the cover up.

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

This picture, from Karem Yucel, on instagram. Outside Roosevelt high school, At dismissal. AFTER Federal agents KILLED A WOMAN EARLIER IN THE DAY The parents.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

2026 is really going to be grim

I think if the Federal government hides the ICE agent murderer from Minnesota authorities and withholds Medicaid because of the hallucinated fraud story then the union is no longer intact.

This shameless liar

Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"

I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why

Newsmax: "ICE agent in hospital after car ramming attack"

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...