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"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
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Many have observed the similarities between Noem's ICE and the Proud Boys.
But folks, I have the receipts. I reviewed tapes from 2016-2017 of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.
Everything Noem is doing in Minneapolis is laid out in his vision from then.
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/h...
But folks, I have the receipts. I reviewed tapes from 2016-2017 of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.
Everything Noem is doing in Minneapolis is laid out in his vision from then.
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/h...
How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys
Footage shows the right-wing group’s founder developing the “recruit giant losers” strategy
www.salon.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Many have observed the similarities between Noem's ICE and the Proud Boys.
But folks, I have the receipts. I reviewed tapes from 2016-2017 of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.
Everything Noem is doing in Minneapolis is laid out in his vision from then.
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/h...
But folks, I have the receipts. I reviewed tapes from 2016-2017 of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.
Everything Noem is doing in Minneapolis is laid out in his vision from then.
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/h...
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We built Post WWII Europe. Our allies want to know why we've abandoned them.
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/a...
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/a...
As Trump rants and threatens, our allies fear the worst
The president and his “den of robbers” are putting American lives and NATO at risk
www.salon.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
We built Post WWII Europe. Our allies want to know why we've abandoned them.
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/a...
www.salon.com/2026/01/16/a...
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REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners?
TRUMP: I don't talk about that
REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
TRUMP: I don't talk about that
REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
January 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM
REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners?
TRUMP: I don't talk about that
REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
TRUMP: I don't talk about that
REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
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Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
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"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things."
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...
We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds
The United States is now closer to Assad’s Syria than to anything we recognize as fitting within the understood norms of American history.
newrepublic.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things."
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...
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He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
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We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
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Trump to @reuters.com: "It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms." He boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." @jamesoliphant.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
Five takeaways from the Reuters interview of President Trump
Reuters sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump for an interview in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Here are some takeaways from the 30-minute exchange:
www.reuters.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Trump to @reuters.com: "It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms." He boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." @jamesoliphant.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
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Introducing the highest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression, President Trump made a clear promise in the spring: “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.”
They haven’t.
They haven’t.
Trump’s promised manufacturing boom is a bust so far
Manufacturing employment has declined every month since April, when the president said tariffs would bring factories “roaring back.”
wapo.st
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Introducing the highest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression, President Trump made a clear promise in the spring: “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.”
They haven’t.
They haven’t.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize
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BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Who honestly supports this shit?
They gave this woman about 8 conflicting commands, broke her window and drug her out of her car.
They gave this woman about 8 conflicting commands, broke her window and drug her out of her car.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Who honestly supports this shit?
They gave this woman about 8 conflicting commands, broke her window and drug her out of her car.
They gave this woman about 8 conflicting commands, broke her window and drug her out of her car.
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There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
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Never comply in advance: Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Never comply in advance: Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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JUST IN: Rubio tells Judge Boasberg that there’s no way to retrieve the 137 Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act — or even offer them due process — given the delicate negotiations with Venezuela’s new post-Maduro regime. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Declaration of Secretary of State Rubio – #229, Att. #1 in J.G.G. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00766) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE of Response to Court Order by PAMELA J. BONDI, PETER B. HEGSETH, KRISTI L. NOEM, MARCO A. RUBIO, MADISON SHEAHAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURI...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 AM
JUST IN: Rubio tells Judge Boasberg that there’s no way to retrieve the 137 Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act — or even offer them due process — given the delicate negotiations with Venezuela’s new post-Maduro regime. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play.
Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 12, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play.
Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
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"'Can I check a pulse?' yelled the bystander, standing across Portland Avenue from Good’s lifeless body inside her crashed SUV, video footage of the exchange shows.
"'No,' an agent replies. 'Back up.'
"'I’m a physician!'
"'I don’t care.'"
apple.news/Ab6SscT80QIW...
"'No,' an agent replies. 'Back up.'
"'I’m a physician!'
"'I don’t care.'"
apple.news/Ab6SscT80QIW...
‘I’m a physician,’ he said. ‘Don’t care’ was the reply. — The Minnesota Star Tribune
Bystander medical assistance was declined to George Floyd and Renee Good. Medical experts say ICE agents and a physician observer likely acting within their training after recent shooting.
apple.news
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
"'Can I check a pulse?' yelled the bystander, standing across Portland Avenue from Good’s lifeless body inside her crashed SUV, video footage of the exchange shows.
"'No,' an agent replies. 'Back up.'
"'I’m a physician!'
"'I don’t care.'"
apple.news/Ab6SscT80QIW...
"'No,' an agent replies. 'Back up.'
"'I’m a physician!'
"'I don’t care.'"
apple.news/Ab6SscT80QIW...
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once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated'
Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act – the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination – was “unfair i...
www.rawstory.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
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if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”