I mean, he’s right about the world not going back…

A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.

Breaking: churches shut down for Jan. 23

This guy does this all the time on my paper’s FB page. Shoutout to him for committing to the bit.

Friday afternoon, ABC News ran an interview with one of Mischief Toy Store's owners about the store's practice of giving away free whistles. Hours later, ICE agents showed up at their door. Here's my story (gift link):

Hey, the dude with the gun has nothing to do with this story, so why you featuring him?

They really, really care about prices

It is completely fucking insane how many problems with the Trump era stem from "he's just trolling lol" when the person in question is the President of the United States of America who by definition cannot be trolling

Dow set to fall more than 300 points on Trump’s new tariff threat over Greenland: Live updates

The Legacy Museum, which is “perhaps the closest thing America has to a national slavery museum,” is free from government control and displays the “history that the Trump administration aims to de-emphasize—if not outright erase,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social argues.

Google obliterated their search function for this

Local news Fox9 reports: ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains. "He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview. hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

The rapidly increasing numbers of deaths in DHS custody is an enormous, stand-alone story in this moment of so many stories. In addition to that, however, I would like to note the horrifyingly deferential way this NBC News report presents information. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Now, I’m no military historian. However, I’m pretty sure that’s not a common Revolutionary war tactic (and that’s ignoring the one guy firing into the air).

90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

Rasmussen Has Fallen

Can't speak for these folks but my mind can't help but imagine what's running through theirs. Did they ever imagine that they would be preparing to defend their country against the US? What do they think of us now?

This is surreal. How is this real life?

Minnesota, home to the worst murderers and criminals in the world.

This wasn't just a meaningless gesture, either. The US had in the past made some noises about claiming all or part of Greenland, albeit not pursued that seriously. More seriously, the Norwegians would keep up a claim until it was settled in Denmark's favor by arbitration in the 30s.

MUST WATCH: Trump is talking about Greenland like it’s a piece of property he spotted on a map and decided he deserves. No respect for sovereignty, no respect for the people of Greenland, just raw entitlement.

Wonder how many of these troops previously served alongside Americans.

As expected, DHS’s claims were false. It’s still possible the men previously lived at the address, but it’s clear they didn’t even bother to check whether they still lived there before publicly claiming the men currently lived with Mr. Thao.

Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.

NEW — DHS just posted this as an apparent explanation for why they arrested an elderly US citizen with no criminal record (it's a quote post of a post about ChongLy Thao's arrest.) The implication seems to be that all Asian men look the same, and it's not their fault they mistook one for another.

DHS is out with a new explanation of this and "he's a brown guy who looked like some sex criminals who he allegedly lived with" (his sister-in-law's story suggests that last part is made up), and they claim he refused to be fingerprinted or "facially ID'd," which I do not in any way believe at all.

Headlines on the front page of Denmark's "Politiken" newspaper: "NATO is in mortal danger" and "Russia and China are having their heyday."

fwiw, i think part of the reason that trump's in such a hysterical panic about greenland is because he's been told behind closed doors that this is a line he cannot cross by people who can actually enforce that.

This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”

I've long wondered how NYMag's investigation managed to miss the extremely severe malfeasance their former star reporter committed on behalf of the child murder guy. The scandalously dismaying answer apparently is "they found out and they didn't care." www.telos.news/p/part-9-cov...

Americans will react to any booing at the Olympics, FIFA, etc. with pearl clutching and calls for civility and decency

i am not optimistic about how the average American (whether left-wing or right) is going to react to the ongoing Euro crisis once it reaches noticeable levels

There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"

Recommended reading.

Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.

ICE agents. are putting. stuffed animals. on dashboards. to fool children. into thinking. they won't be kidnapped.

Very cool how every Republican is allowed to just say this baseless and obviously insane thing and it's just fine and cool

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?"

It wasn't forwarded by State. Rubio put on his NSC hat to distribute this, possibly because he anticipated resistance at State.

A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

it specifically originally meant "articles on blog-like sites that are passing themselves off as reported news but aren't," with a side of "proto-AI slop". so, basically, what is normal news now

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

The New Right

Let's review the facts at hand here: A Democratic administration discovered and prosecuted a case of welfare fraud. Republicans are now using this case to smear hundreds of thousands of immigrants and militarize an entire city. And your conclusion is that Democrats need to do something different?

Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...