I shed tears from a quarter million miles away, so I can only imagine the emotions on board.

The human condition is a shared one.

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier

JUST IN: Another federal judge in Minnesota says ICE violated another court order. Judge John Tunheim, a Clinton appointee, says DHS missed deadline to give him a list of refugees in the state who've been arrested in recent crackdown. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Activating the anti-Wobbly, anti-Scandinavian socialist discourse from the 1910s Red Scare era in the Pacific Northwest. Rufo has clearly been mainlining some seriously high-grade, well-aged, artisanal American fascism from the deepest recesses of his historical cellar.

Screenshot from ArsTechnica article where we learn that our colleagues formally from CoalFire who were arrested on a legit pen test are finally over their ordeal with the conclusion of the civil matter

Hell yes!  Many of us have been following this story from the beginning, and I'm SO glad to see it resolved finally...

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Please read

One of my tasks this week has been compiling statements of small businesses who chose to close on Jan. 23 in solidarity with the General Strike. Here are my take-aways after reading more than 1000 of these statements from 79 cities and towns across Minnesota:

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Weird, I’ve taken pictures of people bringing firearms, loaded with multiple magazines to protests outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s home and the Minnesota State Capitol.

“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

For a second this looks like it's gonna be a dud and then all of the sudden it's a fire hose of whistles kind of at me. 😂 (I was right of the camera!)

If you'd like to support our hijinks, we have sent 166,246 whistles to 39 states. Buy filament for our printers here:

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picture of Alex Pretti

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

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.

Guys if you see observers thank them. There’s real stress and burnout in the ranks right now. People understand they are waking up every day to chase and monitor federal thugs who can execute them. But they keep doing it nonstop to protect their neighbors

Filming federal agents in public is not a crime, nobody should be harassed or restrained for doing so, nobody should have their phone confiscated for it, and nobody should get the death penalty for it. This is supposed to be a free Republic, not an authoritarian police state.

If you want to mass print whistles, this looks like a good choice.

Jesus Christ.

Multiple goons had a man on the ground but that wasn't enough brutality for them. One had to pull his gun and shoot someone who was prone on the sidewalk.

They're going to tell us the agent feared for his life and was justified.

There's a reason protests are also called demonstrations. Because they are how we show who we are, what we believe, and why we act. When orchestrated well, they allow us to take our rightful moral high ground - making it more difficult for the enemy to succeed in attack.

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Beyond the insanity of this interaction, we should talk more about how ICE vests all say “police” on them — when they are VERY much NOT police and don’t have actual police powers.

They are federal immigration officers, with highly limited authority.

The Twin Cities are clearly full of kind badasses. Their ability to pull together, speak up, and help each other should be a model for the rest of us. I hope we all learn from them.

This is so, so terrible. Say bye-bye to global emergency cooperation strategies with the US. We've got H5N1, measles, and Covid going hogwild, unprevented, and unsurveilled in the US with its population facing an unprecedented lack of vaccine access and DOA public health comms. Pandemic powder keg.

If it ever seems like GenX and elder Millennials are obnoxiously loud about queerphobia and, specifically, trans rights, you have to remember we grew up in a society saturated by homophobia and decided "never again". This shame and hatred must not simply be redirected. It must end with us.

"Minnesota is deeply grounded in the values of community, compassion, dignity, and solidarity. The violent actions of federal agents have had profound effects on families and communities across our city and state, creating an environment of chaos, fear, and disruption in our neighborhoods. This federal operation has made life difficult for many residents to shop for groceries, go to work, take their children to school, or keep their small businesses open. When residents are brutalized and profiled, families are torn apart, and children are arrested, our communities are not any safer. We continue to demand that ICE, and all federal agents leave our state immediately. Minnesotans have a long tradition of activism, protest, and civic engagement during significant inflection moments in our state. A broad coalition of labor organizations, faith communities, community-based organizations, students, small businesses, and workers have called for a statewide Day of Truth and Freedom as a time for solidarity, community, mutual aid, and protest. The Minneapolis City Council fully supports this action as a time to exercise your constitutional rights, to express support for our neighbors, and demand the end of this federal occupation. We acknowledge and respect the diverse ways individuals, families, essential workers, students, and businesses may choose to observe this day and support our community. Together, with our community, the City Council reaffirms our commitment to civic expression, community safety, and our immigrant neighbors. We will continue the work of ensuring justice, freedom, and dignity for all during and beyond this occupation."

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.