Correction: strategic mistake
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Correction: strategic mistake
That's not what SBU is for! That's not what any of this is for!
Wow — Newly-released State Department documents show that the Trump-Vance-Rubio administration literally only abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk because she co-wrote an op-ed urging Tufts to follow student resolutions to acknowledge genocide in Gaza & divest from companies tied to Israel.
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
That's not what SBU is for! That's not what any of this is for!
When the PDO is in charge of drafting the Embassy ICS
"Now social media dominates and controls the perception of what we should be doing. It’s incredibly hard — whether you’re an operational support technician or a special agent or op assistant director — not to let it get to you. It’s all we’re hearing." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
When the PDO is in charge of drafting the Embassy ICS
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1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
Members of Congress have Absolute Immunity for the words they speak in carrying out their oaths. It's called the speech and debate clause!
The president is now demanding the investigation of a member of Congress for “Political Crimes”
January 23, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Members of Congress have Absolute Immunity for the words they speak in carrying out their oaths. It's called the speech and debate clause!
The Minnesota Star Tribune:
Yesterday's News, Tomorrow!
Yesterday's News, Tomorrow!
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 12:51 AM
The Minnesota Star Tribune:
Yesterday's News, Tomorrow!
Yesterday's News, Tomorrow!
Birthright citizenship is the United States' greatest gift to humankind
January 23, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Birthright citizenship is the United States' greatest gift to humankind
Tomorrow will be a Good Day
January 23, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Tomorrow will be a Good Day
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You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 AM
You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
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No gloves and an open coat in an MSP winter? That's a show of dominance, if it's not obvious
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 1:01 PM
No gloves and an open coat in an MSP winter? That's a show of dominance, if it's not obvious
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Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.
Supreme Court says this is a-ok
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 22, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Supreme Court says this is a-ok
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its just evil - ICE is simply evil, there really is nothing else to say, to do this to a child is unconscionable
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:03 PM
its just evil - ICE is simply evil, there really is nothing else to say, to do this to a child is unconscionable
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Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
Crime against humanity
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
www.mprnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Crime against humanity
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It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
Apropos of everything, jamming to Herbert Groenemeyer's "Amerika"
January 21, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Apropos of everything, jamming to Herbert Groenemeyer's "Amerika"
Correct
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Correct
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I really think Hubert Dreyfus nailed this in On The Internet (2002) and I’ll keep posting this page until everyone has seen it. Key para in alt text.
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I really think Hubert Dreyfus nailed this in On The Internet (2002) and I’ll keep posting this page until everyone has seen it. Key para in alt text.
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Imagine worrying about how it's disrupting law enforcement rather than how it's brutalizing residents. This is not what I want from an elected leader.
Today I talked with police chiefs from across the metro area. This isn’t just happening in Mpls and St. Paul. The 3000 ICE agents are in the suburbs and across our state. The surge is disrupting the work of local law enforcement.
January 20, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Imagine worrying about how it's disrupting law enforcement rather than how it's brutalizing residents. This is not what I want from an elected leader.
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It's always been abolish ICE.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
It's always been abolish ICE.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
So before the market crashes over unwarranted US aggression against Greenland and Europe, should I shift my TSP into the G fund, backed by US securities?
January 20, 2026 at 11:47 PM
So before the market crashes over unwarranted US aggression against Greenland and Europe, should I shift my TSP into the G fund, backed by US securities?
Reposted by Graham Lampa
this is just pure terror theatre, because all of us are photographed at multiple points inside the airport, as we check in, as we go through security, as we wait and as we hand in our boarding passes to board.
Pure terror theatre.
Pure terror theatre.
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:34 PM
this is just pure terror theatre, because all of us are photographed at multiple points inside the airport, as we check in, as we go through security, as we wait and as we hand in our boarding passes to board.
Pure terror theatre.
Pure terror theatre.