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nslayton.bsky.social
I say this often but it beats repeating: the United States is a signatory to international law protecting and defending the right to seek asylum.
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
paigeridder.bsky.social
I didn’t think they could surprise me with cruelty anymore, but here we are. #AbolishICE #impeachNoem #impeachthemall
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
“After a Springfield pogrom, JD Vance will have his first namesake policy. “JD Genocide,” or perhaps “Genocide Vance” -- if all this happens, the sobriquets will write themselves.” This prophecy must be prevented from becoming a reality. If it isn’t, God help us.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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parkermolloy.com
Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it
I haven't liked to talk about politics on this account. I wanted to have a fun spot for Vikings fans, like me. Many have been scared of backlash, losing friends or followers... but I am saying clearly: 1 am NOT okay with reckless violence condoned by the Trump Aministration. I am NOT okay with people being murdered in own own communities. 1am NOT okay with people being taken from their homes and families being ripped apart. lam NOT okay with people being denied due process.
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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young25tim.bsky.social
If you want to know more about Operation PARRIS — a concerted effort to question the lawful status of thoroughly vetted refugees — here’s an explainer from @globalrefuge.bsky.social, a national refugee resettlement nonprofit. 👇

www.globalrefuge.org/news/operati...
January 25, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge.

A federal judge just ordered the man's release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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startribune.com
Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler bit.ly/3LKWxGC
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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startribune.com
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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alicemiranda.bsky.social
The anti-abortion group "Rescue Resurrection" is currently blocking the street outside HHS and chanting "Ban the abortion pill." Police will soon make arrests. The group includes several activists whose prior felonies for breaking into and blockading abortion clinics were pardoned by Trump.
January 22, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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apnews.com
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"Graham, a 34-year old Greensboro, North Carolina police officer, is the seventh instance ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care..."

www.propublica.org/article/nort...
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
www.propublica.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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lizszabo.bsky.social
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota:

youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU
Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
January 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
paigeridder.bsky.social
This man is brave, and impressively funny in the face of fascism.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28d
“Criminals are doing uber? That’s not how it works, brother. Maybe criminals are doing ICE. How bout that?”

🔥 Somali-American Uber driver in Minneapolis cooks Bovino and his racist goon squad to their faces as they harass him at work
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
paigeridder.bsky.social
He is so absurd.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d
COLLINS: Minnesota officials say the FBI isn't sharing evidence with them. Do you believe the FBI should do that?

TRUMP: Well normally I would, but they're crooked officials. Minneapolis and Minnesota are being destroyed. I feel that I won Minnesota all three times. I won Minnesota three times.
January 10, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Maybe this is naive, but I really do believe that I will live to see justice.
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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startribune.com
Scenes from south Minneapolis Wednesday, Jan. 7 after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Photos by Alex Kormann and Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
January 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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erininthemorning.com
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.

The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
Coyote in the snow.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM