Klein: People are afraid to come into clinics or hospitals because they’re afraid they’ll be snatched. So they’re staying home with acute conditions like appendicitis. They’re not going to their follow-up neonatal appointments. They’re allowing their jaundiced babies to go untreated.

Perfection

I have been waiting for this signal from Senator Rand Paul.

Senator Paul, Chairman of Senate Homeland Security Committee follows House committee. Sends letters to heads of ICE, CBP, USCIS to testify in public hearing.

AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

🚨BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

this is clear & expert reporting (by journalists trained in visual investigations at berkeley's human rights center) demonstrating ICE's execution of alex pretti

Propaganda-level lying and discrediting of DHS handling any investigation.

DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.

"Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the US Attorney’s office and FBI agents based in Minnesota to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good...

A federal magistrate judge rejected" a warrant for Good.

Election deniers want your data Their plans to use your voter information to subvert elections

The Trump admin’s attempts to accumulate your private voter data isn’t a good faith effort to root out fraud. Get smart on how the admin plans to twist voter data to lay the groundwork to contest the results of the midterms should Trump’s allies lose this November. https://protdem.org/4bM0h55

One year after she urged Trump to have mercy, Bishop Budde leads clergy protests in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — 'I don't think a year ago we could have fathomed how quickly and how dramatically this country would change,' Budde told RNS in Minneapolis.

Yesterday I got to sit down (well, stand in a crowd) with Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington who made headlines last year for her sermon asking Trump to "have mercy" on migrants.

A year later, she's in Minneapolis, preaching the same message. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/o...

what once was phony or fake is now "altered"

Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."

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An internal memo does not supersede the constitution.
We need a class action lawsuit on behalf of the American people. But, we also need MASS impeachment. This is intolerable.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say

If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

Opening an Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Analysis by a veteran of the Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division of the basis for investigation of ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

Emerging Evidence Provides Basis for Opening Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

By Julia Gegenheimer, over 10 years prosecutor in Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

Discussing new autopsy report and new video evidence

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Why Musk is Culpable in Grok's Undressing Disaster Grok’s functionality is not a black box, but the result of specific design decisions made by executives and engineers at xAI, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Elon Musk’s company puts the responsibility for Grok ‘undressing’ images on users who prompt the system. But that denies the many ways that engineers and executives shape generative AI outputs, writes Eryk Salvaggio (@eryk.bsky.social).

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to Trump administration executive orders and actions.

Want to see the court filings in new cases

Minnesota v Noem?

✅We've got you covered:
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Illinois v DHS?

✅Covered:
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Sen. Kelly v. Hegseth?

✅ www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

YouTube video by Ryan Goodman Initially-Secret Report: Customs&Border Patrol Agents Got in Way of Vehicles, Then Used Deadly Force

Here's an 8-min video on (initially-secret) Customs & Border Patrol report, which found: in many vehicle shooting cases, agents intentionally put themselves in exit path of vehicle, thereby creating justification for the use of deadly force.

youtu.be/izonttr5Tp4?...

It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Congress, the President, and Military Force in Venezuela Experts write the president did not have authority to undertake Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela without congressional authorization.

It was an honor to work with Brian Egan and Tess Bridgeman on this important piece.

- The President did not have constitutional authority for the Venezuela operation.

- It also violated the "supreme Law of the Land" - UN Charter, which the Senate passed 89-2.

Well-done and correct:

Joint Statement by Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Durbin

"President Trump and Secretary Rubio have stated that this was a law enforcement operation that was made at the" DOJ, FBI, and DEA.

“There is no legitimate basis for excluding the Senate Judiciary Committee."

Statement of UN Secretary-General being read out at UN Security Council emergency meeting

"I remain deeply concerned that rules of international law have not been respected with regard to the 3 January military action. The Charter enshrines the prohibition of the threat or use of force."

Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...

So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela.

And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript.

I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt."

And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas.

judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Now imagine those words spoken by Special Counsel Smith in a criminal trial.

Damning proof of criminal guilt.

Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) A comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes.

Reup of this public resource we created

Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)

with links to all the publicly available documents

As Putin Threatens Europe, Failure of Trump Peace Plan Laid Bare Peace games from the Russian dictator, who can’t win but can’t afford to stop fighting.

That Putin doesn't want the war to end seems to be the general consensus except in Putin-friendly circles. He sure isn't acting like he wants peace. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on the failure and farce of Trump's Ukraine-Russia peace plan:

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life - emptywheel Judge Kollar-Kotelly ordered DOJ to stop violating Dan Richman's Fourth Amendment rights. But her order is as interesting for all the squirminess it reveals as the order itself.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/07/j...