Patrick Kelly

Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

Immigrant skull broken in 8 places during ICE arrest, says beating was unprovoked

“throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.”

How Big Is MAGA, Really? Trump is governing like he has a huge mandate. The numbers disagree.

How Big Is MAGA, Really?
The Bulwark

Trump voter breakdown:
29% MAGA
21% Anti-Woke Conservatives
30% Mainline Republicans
20% Reluctant Right

Cut that approximately in half as a representation of the overall voting populace.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

I expected them to disappear people to concentration camps. What I didn’t expect was for them to execute people in the streets. I can’t contain my anger about this happening to our people in my state and my city. 🤬💔

The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of The documents confirm what many have long assumed: elites live by their own special rules and codes of immunity

The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of

“an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.”

Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis pointed out that Martinez is "presumed innocent of any offense of which she has not been convicted." Martinez's attorney said the text messages and other evidence ...

Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her

“Now we’ll pull the curtain back, and you guys can see how the government itself responds and interacts with these agents in the moments after these shootings happen.”

Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...

Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE

“Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods.

The organizers call them filter blockades, they’re essentially pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets”

How It Stops, How It Ends UPDATE: A generous donor has asked I make this post public.

“These laws, born of the first Reconstruction … movement that brought us the Civil War, provide the criminal framework to prosecute any official who willfully conspired to “injure, oppress, or intimidate” citizens in the free exercise of their Constitutional rights.”

Trump says he’ll free infrastructure funds for New York if Penn Station is renamed after him Trump also demanded Dulles airport be given his name in exchange for funding NY-NJ tunnel and subway extension

Trump says he’ll free infrastructure funds for New York if Penn Station is renamed after him - The Guardian

Extortion much?

WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him — PBS News President Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed he had eliminated a provision of the U.S. tax code that bans 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing politi...

Panic over the 1st amendment much?

"We worked hard in getting rid of the Johnson Amendment," he said. "It's gone as far as you can say anything you want."

"Now if you do say something bad about Trump, I will change my mind, and I will have your tax-exempt status immediately revoked," Trump added

'Prosecute ICE' sculpture destroyed outside State Capitol hours after unveiling The sculpture was installed by members of a veterans organization and other community leaders in protest of federal immigration operations.

'Prosecute ICE' sculpture outside MN State Capitol destroyed hours after unveiling, by Jan 6th insurrectionist and right wing provocateur Jake Lang.

Lang was taken into custody shortly after and taken to Ramsey County Jail for suspicion of criminal property damage.

Leave it to Shakespeare and Ian McKellen to so eloquently speak of man's mountainish inhumanity. See Ian McKellan in AN ARK, a new play for mixed reality, at @The Shed now! #Colbert #IanMcKellen #Sh... TikTok video by colbertlateshow

Ian McKellen - Shakespeare monologue he premiered to the world in 1964, on tolerance of immigrants.

Fascism: www.google.com/search?q=fas...

Fascists: Hitler, Mussolini

Anti-Fascist: literally anyone against fascism

Anti-fa = Anti-Fascist

Why is this administration trying so hard to target ‘Anti-Fascists’?

DHS Panics After ICE Barbie’s Fourth Amendment Assault Flamed — The Daily Beast Kristi Noem’s comms team launched a desperate containment effort after she was criticized by former DHS lawyers.

DHS Panics After ICE Fourth Amendment Assault Flamed

“It is not the so-called deep state that has restrained ICE from entering homes using only administrative warrants. It is the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution—and the lawyers who took an oath to support and defend it”

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are — WIRED ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

ICE/CBP App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

“Every manufacturer of this technology, every police department with a policy makes very clear that face recognition technology is not capable of providing a positive identification, that it makes mistakes, and that it's only for generating leads”

🎯 🎯

JACK REED: Being the senior person here, your behavior to some of my colleagues is absolutely childish

BESSENT (with a shit-eating grin on his face): Thank you senator. Good to see you.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

YouTube video by Kyle Hansen Tom Morello Killing in the Name Of from Rage Against the Machine First Avenue on January 30th 2026

Tom Morello cover from Rage Against The Machine at First Avenue in *Minneapolis* on January 30th 2026

Definitely worth a listen; amazing crowd participation!

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow.

Read the full story below. 🖇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

PM Tusk on Epstein: it is very likely that this was a planned operation by the Russian KGB.

More and more leads are pointing to suspicions that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was co-organized by Russian intelligence services.

“A U.S. citizen suffered a concussion, a torn rotator cuff and bruised ribs after immigration officers stopped her on a Salem street, broke her car window, pulled her out and then left abruptly after discovering her passport in her purse”

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings — WIRED Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.

The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings - WIRED

“These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century.”

The U.S. needs snap elections.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon — The Washington Post Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone.

“Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”

Can we just admit that the Trump tariffs are only about extorting other countries?

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Mom Confession - SNL

Mom Confession - SNL

Is it (finally) time to review our choices?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQh...

Tolkkinen: After childhood under dictatorship, 97-year-old Detroit Lakes woman has a warning for America Masked federal agents dragging people from homes reminds her of growing up in Austria in the late 1930s.

Masked federal agents dragging people from homes reminds her of growing up in Austria in the late 1930s.

www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-af...