ArchPundit
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Blog on Illinois, Chicago, national, and now Minnesota politics. Early local blogger and I chose the name long before the Gateway jackass.
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From my hometown of Forest Lake: "Ice is working with Forest Lake police. Police are asking apartment complexes for access to buildings for 'possible medical emergencies' shortly after they requested that ice was in my building knocking on doors."
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
From my hometown of Forest Lake: "Ice is working with Forest Lake police. Police are asking apartment complexes for access to buildings for 'possible medical emergencies' shortly after they requested that ice was in my building knocking on doors."
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They have counterintelligence people doing fucking immigration enforcement
January 22, 2026 at 4:05 PM
They have counterintelligence people doing fucking immigration enforcement
Why would we continue to fund an agency that is literally attacking the 4th Amendment? Not disagreeing with the edges or over a specific point but the entire 4th Amendment
Blumenthal: "Americans should be terrified that this secret ICE policy authorizes agents to break down doors and ransack through their homes, arresting or detaining people without a judicial warrant"
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Why would we continue to fund an agency that is literally attacking the 4th Amendment? Not disagreeing with the edges or over a specific point but the entire 4th Amendment
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2026: the year so bad that even the Third Amendment is suddenly relevant
In which I explain that the Third Amendment—the one nobody ever talks about—allows hotels to refuse to house Kristi Noem’s ICE goons.
Opinion: Hotels Have a Constitutional Right Not To House ICE Agents
The Third Amendment prohibits the government from forcing people to “quarter” troops. ICE is essentially a paramilitary force—so why would hotels let them stay?
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January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
2026: the year so bad that even the Third Amendment is suddenly relevant
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You're not ready for this lede.
Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids
ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:25 PM
You're not ready for this lede.
I’ve seen little evidence that people have an attachment to ICE and it’s not a tough case to make that we can replace it with an entirely different design for immigration enforcement. It’s a corruptted agency
I’m not saying Dems should focus on ICE exclusively. Politicians can and should talk about multiple things.
Nor am I demanding specific wording, such as “abolish.”
Just stop approaching the topic with fear, as if 2024 is the fixed and true public opinion, and nothing that happened since matters.
Nor am I demanding specific wording, such as “abolish.”
Just stop approaching the topic with fear, as if 2024 is the fixed and true public opinion, and nothing that happened since matters.
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I’ve seen little evidence that people have an attachment to ICE and it’s not a tough case to make that we can replace it with an entirely different design for immigration enforcement. It’s a corruptted agency
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I’m not saying Dems should focus on ICE exclusively. Politicians can and should talk about multiple things.
Nor am I demanding specific wording, such as “abolish.”
Just stop approaching the topic with fear, as if 2024 is the fixed and true public opinion, and nothing that happened since matters.
Nor am I demanding specific wording, such as “abolish.”
Just stop approaching the topic with fear, as if 2024 is the fixed and true public opinion, and nothing that happened since matters.
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I’m not saying Dems should focus on ICE exclusively. Politicians can and should talk about multiple things.
Nor am I demanding specific wording, such as “abolish.”
Just stop approaching the topic with fear, as if 2024 is the fixed and true public opinion, and nothing that happened since matters.
Nor am I demanding specific wording, such as “abolish.”
Just stop approaching the topic with fear, as if 2024 is the fixed and true public opinion, and nothing that happened since matters.
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But if we say ICE’s awful actions in Minnesota and elsewhere show that the agency is beyond reform and needs to be scrapped, with lawbreakers held accountable, the public will hear “all crime is now allowed and there will no longer be borders or customs checks”?
Why would they? Those are different.
Why would they? Those are different.
January 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
But if we say ICE’s awful actions in Minnesota and elsewhere show that the agency is beyond reform and needs to be scrapped, with lawbreakers held accountable, the public will hear “all crime is now allowed and there will no longer be borders or customs checks”?
Why would they? Those are different.
Why would they? Those are different.
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The stance from some Democratic leaders, strategists, consultants, and messaging experts is that they are incapable of getting the public to distinguish ICE from the general concept of law enforcement, despite ICE crimes.
It’s weak, self-indicting stuff. If that’s too hard for you, why do this job?
It’s weak, self-indicting stuff. If that’s too hard for you, why do this job?
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 22, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The stance from some Democratic leaders, strategists, consultants, and messaging experts is that they are incapable of getting the public to distinguish ICE from the general concept of law enforcement, despite ICE crimes.
It’s weak, self-indicting stuff. If that’s too hard for you, why do this job?
It’s weak, self-indicting stuff. If that’s too hard for you, why do this job?
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I must add: Nearly every time there is video when ICE claims someone “rammed” them, it’s a damned lie. They drive like maniacs, run red lights, and whack into whoever else dares to be out in the public roads. Then they break car windows, drag people out, & arrest them for no reason.
SEEING IS BELIEVING
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I must add: Nearly every time there is video when ICE claims someone “rammed” them, it’s a damned lie. They drive like maniacs, run red lights, and whack into whoever else dares to be out in the public roads. Then they break car windows, drag people out, & arrest them for no reason.
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You know, I was going to feel bad for the folks at the St. Paul church where there were anti-ICE protests, but then its founding pastor reminded me that empathy is a sin.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
You know, I was going to feel bad for the folks at the St. Paul church where there were anti-ICE protests, but then its founding pastor reminded me that empathy is a sin.
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I didn’t see this until a day after, but I got on the patrol chat and gave them the what for.
Native elders deserve a fucken parade.
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Native elders deserve a fucken parade.
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American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I didn’t see this until a day after, but I got on the patrol chat and gave them the what for.
Native elders deserve a fucken parade.
bsky.app/profile/pani...
Native elders deserve a fucken parade.
bsky.app/profile/pani...
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One of the things my extremely normie, conservative, David Brooks-reading parents have done in retirement is work at their church's food pantry a few days a week. This rogue federal force is coming for anyone who doesn't support their ethnic cleansing.
The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
One of the things my extremely normie, conservative, David Brooks-reading parents have done in retirement is work at their church's food pantry a few days a week. This rogue federal force is coming for anyone who doesn't support their ethnic cleansing.
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‘She Just Rubbed Me the Wrong Way’: Trump Suggests Swiss Tariffs Were Personal
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January 22, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Taxpayer funded treatment for what doctors are only beginning to label "Stancil PTSD" is going to be a huge chunk of the federal budget when the goon squads retire.
January 22, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Taxpayer funded treatment for what doctors are only beginning to label "Stancil PTSD" is going to be a huge chunk of the federal budget when the goon squads retire.
When they worship the Bible as an object and not a message
Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-17; John 2:14-17 say otherwise. St. Blondie is too stupid to breathe.
Thanks to my smart and funny Georgia cousin.
Thanks to my smart and funny Georgia cousin.
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
When they worship the Bible as an object and not a message
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The DHS explanation for today's Mueller Park gas attack is that someone spit on an agent at the gas station. The park is blocks away from the gas station. And somehow the most photographed people in the city have no visual evidence of the instigation.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:32 AM
The DHS explanation for today's Mueller Park gas attack is that someone spit on an agent at the gas station. The park is blocks away from the gas station. And somehow the most photographed people in the city have no visual evidence of the instigation.
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Listen.
The temp at 2pm tomorrow will be -8. That’s nothin
I’m asking privileged able bodied white people in the Twin Cities to bundle up LIKE YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO and show up down town tomorrow. Commons Park.
We need numbers like we’ve never seen before.
Shut. It. Down.
The temp at 2pm tomorrow will be -8. That’s nothin
I’m asking privileged able bodied white people in the Twin Cities to bundle up LIKE YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO and show up down town tomorrow. Commons Park.
We need numbers like we’ve never seen before.
Shut. It. Down.
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Listen.
The temp at 2pm tomorrow will be -8. That’s nothin
I’m asking privileged able bodied white people in the Twin Cities to bundle up LIKE YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO and show up down town tomorrow. Commons Park.
We need numbers like we’ve never seen before.
Shut. It. Down.
The temp at 2pm tomorrow will be -8. That’s nothin
I’m asking privileged able bodied white people in the Twin Cities to bundle up LIKE YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO and show up down town tomorrow. Commons Park.
We need numbers like we’ve never seen before.
Shut. It. Down.
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Attorneys say that ICE agents have “interfered” with the man’s medical care, including using handcuffs to shackle his legs despite warnings from staff. The man’s attorneys say he’s been declining since his transfer to the Minneapolis hospital, and that he’s only minimally responsive.
January 22, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Attorneys say that ICE agents have “interfered” with the man’s medical care, including using handcuffs to shackle his legs despite warnings from staff. The man’s attorneys say he’s been declining since his transfer to the Minneapolis hospital, and that he’s only minimally responsive.
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An agent told hospital staff that “he got his shit rocked,” but did not share other information. A CT scan found that the man had “life-threatening bilateral skull fractures and hemorrhaging.”
Petition: Agents say man injured in ICE custody ‘purposely ran headfirst into a brick wall’
ICE officials haven’t commented on the man’s injuries, but DHS attorneys say agents noticed the man had a head injury while he was being processed at Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling. The m...
www.mprnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:13 PM
An agent told hospital staff that “he got his shit rocked,” but did not share other information. A CT scan found that the man had “life-threatening bilateral skull fractures and hemorrhaging.”