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BREAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota barred immigration agents from retaliating against people peacefully protesting. He ordered agents not use pepper spray or other crowd control tools in response to protected speech, and not stop or detain protesters in vehicles.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
Judge Restricts Immigration Agents’ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:14 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota barred immigration agents from retaliating against people peacefully protesting. He ordered agents not use pepper spray or other crowd control tools in response to protected speech, and not stop or detain protesters in vehicles.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
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Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
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DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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This is a crucible moment. If this killing is allowed to pass, not because it has been fully investigated & found justified, but because it has been waved away, it will be a grave injustice to Good but also the nation.
A Prosecutor's Take on the Minnesota Shooting
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
A Prosecutor's Take on the Minnesota Shooting
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
A Prosecutor's Take on the Minnesota Shooting
I worked on the Rodney King case. Here’s how I see the Good Case.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
This is a crucible moment. If this killing is allowed to pass, not because it has been fully investigated & found justified, but because it has been waved away, it will be a grave injustice to Good but also the nation.
A Prosecutor's Take on the Minnesota Shooting
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
A Prosecutor's Take on the Minnesota Shooting
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
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damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
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NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
January 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
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This officially makes Trump a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
And if Jon Voigt gives Trump his Oscar, Trump would officially be the Best Actor of 1979.
And if Jon Voigt gives Trump his Oscar, Trump would officially be the Best Actor of 1979.
U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, White House officials tell Fox News.
January 16, 2026 at 1:39 AM
This officially makes Trump a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
And if Jon Voigt gives Trump his Oscar, Trump would officially be the Best Actor of 1979.
And if Jon Voigt gives Trump his Oscar, Trump would officially be the Best Actor of 1979.
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Local Fox News reporting on the tear-gassing of a baby.
www.fox9.com/news/childre...
www.fox9.com/news/childre...
North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van
A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during protests in north Minneapolis, leading to three of their six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.
www.fox9.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Local Fox News reporting on the tear-gassing of a baby.
www.fox9.com/news/childre...
www.fox9.com/news/childre...
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One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
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Frame by Frame Analysis: How Minneapolis Woman Exercised Her Rights in ICE Encounter
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
January 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Frame by Frame Analysis: How Minneapolis Woman Exercised Her Rights in ICE Encounter
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
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Renee Good's family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother of three as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and have now hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd's family to press for answers and accountability.
Renee Good's family hires George Floyd law firm to investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting
Renee Good’s family hired the law firm that represented George Floyd’s family to seek answers and accountability for the Minneapolis mother’s killing by a federal immigration agent
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Renee Good's family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother of three as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and have now hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd's family to press for answers and accountability.
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Law profs—share this with your 1Ls. This is the kind of thing that gives them hope and a reason to feel line there is still a reason to study law and develop legal writing skills.
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Law profs—share this with your 1Ls. This is the kind of thing that gives them hope and a reason to feel line there is still a reason to study law and develop legal writing skills.
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Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.
January 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
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MS NOW makes fun of Rollins' meal plan with "a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing":
I wonder about the Oliver Twist situation where, the kid asks, 'May I have a second corn tortilla?' And you have to say, 'No, the president said it's one corn tortilla for you'
I wonder about the Oliver Twist situation where, the kid asks, 'May I have a second corn tortilla?' And you have to say, 'No, the president said it's one corn tortilla for you'
January 15, 2026 at 10:24 PM
MS NOW makes fun of Rollins' meal plan with "a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing":
I wonder about the Oliver Twist situation where, the kid asks, 'May I have a second corn tortilla?' And you have to say, 'No, the president said it's one corn tortilla for you'
I wonder about the Oliver Twist situation where, the kid asks, 'May I have a second corn tortilla?' And you have to say, 'No, the president said it's one corn tortilla for you'
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“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”
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Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
wapo.st
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”
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Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD
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Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.
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Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
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Anyone with a shred of class and decency would have politely refused it, so naturally Trump took it.
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Anyone with a shred of class and decency would have politely refused it, so naturally Trump took it.
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Colorado SoS Jen Griswold (D) urged Gov. Jared Polis (D) to avoid granting clemency to imprisoned election denier Tina Peters after he signaled the possibility of doing so to end Trump’s retribution campaign against the state.
Colorado secretary of state urges governor not to pardon Tina Peters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Colorado SoS Jen Griswold (D) urged Gov. Jared Polis (D) to avoid granting clemency to imprisoned election denier Tina Peters after he signaled the possibility of doing so to end Trump’s retribution campaign against the state.
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Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
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For nerds like us, #ThePitt is life-giving crack and we are rearing for our fix tonight. Jimmy Kimmel and Noah Wyle recently did a 🔥 spoof -- see below. At this point, I think I speak for all of CDC when I say Noah would be a CDC Director upgrade. #SaveUs
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Noah Wyle is not a real doctor, but you should listen to him anyway!
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January 16, 2026 at 2:14 AM
For nerds like us, #ThePitt is life-giving crack and we are rearing for our fix tonight. Jimmy Kimmel and Noah Wyle recently did a 🔥 spoof -- see below. At this point, I think I speak for all of CDC when I say Noah would be a CDC Director upgrade. #SaveUs
www.instagram.com/reel/DTepy1D...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTepy1D...