Larry Ferlazzo

Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage

Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

New York school violated civil rights law by changing name from ‘Thunderbirds’ to ‘T-Birds,’ US says Federal education officials say a New York school district is “erasing its Native American heritage” and violating civil rights law by changing its team name from the “Thunderbirds” to the “T-Birds.”

New York school violated civil rights law by changing name from ‘Thunderbirds’ to ‘T-Birds,’ US says

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A home is a castle. It’s the most private place of any we know in law, and the Supreme Court has said it over and over again,” Gershman said. “You need a warrant, consent or an emergency, that’s it. There is nothing for administrative warrants here.”

How officers used new ICE memo to forcefully enter a Minneapolis home www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump’s Chilling Weaponization of Confidential Government Records Remind me—who else in history made lists of Jewish intellectuals and people with disabilities?

Remind me—who else in history made lists of Jewish intellectuals and people with disabilities? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...

this guy is a terrible liar who genuinely believes he is great at lying

It’s been growing exponentially. As of this morning, there are 12,000 people across Minneapolis on the multi-neighborhood rapid responses. That’s 3.46 percent of the adult population of Minneapolis, and that’s people who can tolerate these giant Signal group chats with a thousand people—most can’t. I would say there’s at least three times that many people in their individual neighborhood groups, block groups, and school patrol groups doing rapid response and ICE watch. And then I would double that number again for the folks who are giving rides, bringing food to people’s homes, going grocery shopping for targeted communities, doing fundraising for rent and other material support. At this point, I don’t know a single person in Minneapolis who isn’t involved in this work.

Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour 'They are circling our schools,' superintendent says after 5-year-old detained by ICE

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An F.B.I. agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis this month has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross, according to one of the people. Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings. Ms. Mergen’s resignation was only the latest shock wave to have emerged from the Justice Department’s handling of the shooting of Renee Good, an unarmed mother who was killed on Jan. 7 as she was behind the wheel of her Honda Pilot. After the incident, several Trump administration officials described Ms. Good as a “domestic terrorist,” accusing her of trying to ram Mr. Ross with her vehicle. But a video analysis by The New York Times showed no indication that he had been run over.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Whether it’s liberals peacefully protesting a murder and a child abduction in Minneapolis or conservatives threatening a bloody insurrection in Washington DC, both sides have shattered the norms of civilized behavior

Thousands rally against ICE in Minneapolis amid below-zero temperatures In the morning, thousands gathered outside the Minneapolis airport, forming a picket line so long it spanned the length of terminal for departing flights.

Thousands of people have been gathering outside the U.S. Bank Stadium amid subzero temperatures for a march against the federal government’s immigration crackdown.

“and then our goons will kidnap that life and send it to a concentration camp if we deem them the wrong color”

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

Parts of the city seemed like a ghost town on Friday morning, with many cafes and local coffee chains shuttered, signs posted in their windows expressing solidarity with the strike.

‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

The clergy who did the assigned reading have entered the chat

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

Tell me your pet's name in a gif

This would be hilarious if only the reality was not a tragedy for kids

Whether it was Jimmy Carter going to Florida to help rebuild houses after a storm or Ted Cruz going to Florida to flee storms in his home state of Texas, leaders from both parties have dealt with storms in unusual ways.

Of course, one difference is with ICE, they don’t need a protest to be provoked - they’re so unhinged that just standing there and watching them will do it

One of key strategies of the civil rights movement was, thru nonviolent protests, provoke the racist police so public could c violent reaction on tv. Didn’t work in Albany where police didn’t react.Trump administration people obviously know nothing about history & how it’s repeating itself w/ICE (1)

ICE Will Come to Your City, Suburb, or Town. Here’s How to Prepare. Residents of Minneapolis have advice for the rest of us.

Minneapolis Is Just the Beginning
Here’s what to do when ICE comes to your neighborhood slate.com/news-and-pol...

‘There are kids not going to school’: fear of ICE is keeping children from classes in Connecticut In New Haven, where one in six residents is foreign born, children’s education suffers as they are afraid to step out

There are kids not going to school’: fear of ICE is keeping children from classes in Connecticut www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve talked to kids who’ve told me that they look outside in the morning before their undocumented parent goes to work, and they watch them walk out the front door, walk to their car and that they monitor their parents obsessively all day on Find My on their iPhones to just try to track their parents’ location. So it’s just this 24/7 paranoia that people are dealing with. I’ve talked to law enforcement officials about this, too, specifically about Renee Good’s death. I spoke to a bunch of officials who reviewed the video. From the very beginning, the first officer runs up to her car, uses expletives, tells her to get out, starts trying to force open the door. And these officers said to me: There’s no reason to not approach her and say, “Ma’am, can you shut off your car and please open the door?” That’s, in fact, how you want to approach a civilian. Someone who has never been arrested before isn’t used to being screamed at in the face by police. But they’re coming at people in these arrests with such aggression that it’s making people panic. And I think that is leading to some of the more violent incidents that we’re seeing, of people getting hurt and thrown to the ground or worse.

The Staggering Scale of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

Philadelphia sues after slavery exhibits were taken down from President's House site The lawsuit says the National Park Service removed the displays referring to slavery "presumably pursuant to the mandate” of an executive order from President Donald Trump.

Philadelphia sues after slavery exhibits were taken down from President's House site www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

38 “Best” Lists About Artificial Intelligence & Education Here are all my regularly updated “Best” lists on AI in education: The Best Posts On Education & ChatGPT. THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING WITH AI ART GENERATIO…

38 “Best” Lists About Artificial Intelligence & Education larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/01/23/3...

A Look Back: Was This The Biggest Teaching Mistake I Made This Year? For the next month or so, I’ll be republishing my best posts from the last half of 2025.     I make lots of mistakes when teaching, though I think most of them are small ones and easily r…

A Look Back: Was This The Biggest Teaching Mistake I Made This Year? larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/01/23/a...

Sentences Of The Week I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful.  A…

Sentences Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/01/23/s...

Commentary: The myth of anti-white discrimination in L.A. schools — and the politics behind it A legal challenge with a single, anonymous LAUSD parent included, is seeking to dismantle protections for disadvantaged students of color.

The myth of anti-white discrimination in L.A. schools — and the politics behind it www.latimes.com/california/s...

Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia Park staff dismantled an exhibit about George Washington’s slave ownership amid a wider push to remove information on racism, sexism and climate change.

Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE An image like this could once change history. Can one still?

The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...