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Judge: Explain to me exactly which policies are causing the harms that the surge is meant to fix.

Mayers cites detainers.

Judge: What else?
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Judge:

"I have all of these quotes in the record. You're telling me that I'm reading them wrong."

That the surge isn't to coerce a change of the policies but to make up for the policies' harm

"What do I have in the record to show that the surge is to make up for the harms caused by the policies?"
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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JUDGE: "Your position is that it doesn’t matter how clear that the quid pro quo."

She asks whether the government claims it "cannot involve anti-commandeering" if it’s in the law enforcement arena.
January 26, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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The judge presses DOJ about Bondi's letter making three demands:

How are those not demonstrating that the purpose of the surge is to effect those changes?
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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"All rise."

We're back.
January 26, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Analysis:

Judge Menendez appears skeptical of her power to order immediate relief in this unprecedented situation.

But her comments about developing an evidentiary record COULD suggest receptiveness to the state's anti-commandeering args down the line.
January 26, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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NEW: Minnesota's federal judges have been inundated — and become increasingly alarmed — by cases stemming from the Trump administration's deportation surge in the Twin Cities.

Now they're poised to decide whether the surge can continue at all.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 26, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities. 
Tech workers’ call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti | TechCrunch
More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities. 
techcrunch.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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A hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) on the state of Minnesota's request to halt the ICE surge in the Twin Cities.

I'm covering the proceedings remotely.

From the state's memo:

buff.ly/ub2bHso
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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When Homeland Security pushes ridiculously false accounts of its murders of 2 people in Minneapolis, it’s reminiscent of the absurd denials by Vladimir Putin and his authoritarian enforcers when Russians are mysteriously poisoned or supposedly fall out of high-rise windows. 6/10🧵
Putin denies involvement in poisoning of Kremlin foe Navalny
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected allegations that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of his top political foe, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and accused U.S. intelligence ag...
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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#ICE is using Palantir to mine Medicaid data for deportation targets - boingboing.net/2026/01/26/i... and #reform will do this with #NHS data if #palantir is given contracts to manage it
ICE is using Palantir to mine Medicaid data for deportation targets
ICE's Palantir tool ELITE pulls from Medicaid databases to build dossiers on deportation targets with address scores.
boingboing.net
January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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When the system of checks & balances fails, the last line of defence is the people. Things will keep getting worse until there is large scale disruptive direct action and civil disobedience that doesn't stop until all the criminals in power are out.
DOGE stole millions of Americans’ personal data. Palantir is surveilling us all. ICE now has more funding than most countries’ militaries. US citizens are getting kidnapped off the streets. Public broadcasting is being defunded. Shows that criticize Tr*mp are being cancelled.
July 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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In honour of Bovino's Italian descent, let's call them "squadristi".

Squadristi, as every Italian knows, were members of Mussolini's "squadre d'azione", which raped, tortured, mutilated, murdered opponents of fascism... but in Italy the government never paid the squadristi a salary.
January 26, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Huge mistake’: Labour in turmoil as Burnham blocked from byelection race.

Under Starmer everything is centralised. Local party emasculated, candidates parachuted by hierarchy.

Conference resolutions ignored, unions alienated, left purged, poor policies.
‘Huge mistake’: Labour in turmoil as Burnham blocked from byelection race
Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Almost boring at this point to note the “who knew?!” that is entirely predicated on ignoring vulnerable groups who weren’t just saying this before the last election but before 2016. Trump is the man who tried hard to get a group of innocent black and brown teens executed in 1989. We told everyone.
We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Goedemorgen! Mijn naam is Marjolein Jacobs. Ik werk als collectiebeheerder bij het Gelders Archief. Deze week ga ik jullie meenemen in mijn werkzaamheden!
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Some ICE observers have found their Global Entry status has been revoked after having interactions with DHS officers.
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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NEW: In a court hearing for a TRO against the feds in Minneapolis, the plaintiffs just said one of their exhibits contains a recording of a federal agent saying "Well, this person is gonna have a hard time traveling from now on" after taking a photo of an ICE observer's license plate. 1/
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Scalise lies: "The want to defund ICE. They defunded police. The police chief of Mpls said yesterday multiple times how stretched thin his department is. They don't have enough people because Mpls defunded the police." (Police were not defunded and MPD is stretched thin bc of unrest caused by ICE)
January 26, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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“The white supremacist administration, in an excess of bloodlust and rage, has therefore decided to treat white people in the city as race traitors, subject to the same kinds of violence and smears as non-whites.”
New in PN: The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic

"The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so."
The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.
www.publicnotice.co
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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On top of everything else noxious about this appearance, Blanche is lying about cooperation from MN, as DOC set up a dedicated website to explain.
Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Had Republicans had just stuck to hammering Democrats on fraud they would've had a potent political weapon. Instead they turned it into a hate campaign against Somalis and an orgy of violence against Minnesotans and now we're getting statements like this 👇
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
January 26, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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We have received 0 assistance from occupied Poland.
Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."
January 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our videos went from tens of thousands to 0.

(seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)
January 26, 2026 at 3:29 PM