Andy Craig

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

I don't know much about auto racing but I don't think these sorts of cars usually do hard 90° turns through intersections on city streets.

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.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

@kenwhite.bsky.social Reminds me of how you can't defame the dead, but is it right the government categorically can't obtain a warrant when the only PC for evidence of a crime is for a crime by a dead person? More normal scenario: mass shooter who's already dead, for their home and records and such?

Yeah, it's full-blown legitimacy crisis territory. I think in the hypothetical of them holding the line it's likelier Congress would still ultimately win, but it'd be a hot mess.

The party having to coordinate to clear the field and elbow out candidates before any votes are cast is also the exact opposite of how top two proponents sold it as intended to work.

I would definitely bet it's likelier Dems won't be locked out, but that it's even a serious risk is insane and unacceptable.

Refusing to fund the Executive Office of the President and the entire White House staff, for instance. Constant and aggressively enforced (i.e. inherent contempt, not toothless civil litigation nonsense) subpoenas. Tools like that if they were really determined to not back down until he's gone.

It's more complicated involving more contentious and uncertain routes, but there are plausible ways a determined Congress by simple majorities could ultimately prevail. A determination of 14AS3 disqualification is part of it. Appropriations, inherent contempt, among other such tools to back that up.

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

Yes, it's basically the one electoral reform idea that's even worse than the usual American system. In part because it is still a kind of first past the post primary, the two Republicans in that scenario would advance on ridiculously tiny pluralities and no actual majority support.

Nobody said being familiar with and influenced by these ideas makes him smart.

The state constitution's top two provision doesn't ban write-ins in the general election, that's a policy decision set by statute and it could be undone by statute. This should be an obvious, urgent thing to do right now before it's too late.

Under current law, if Dems are locked out, that's final, one of the Republicans will be elected. With write-in as a fallback option, the party could unite behind that for whoever the top-performing Dem from the primary was and almost certainly win, even w/ the disadvantages of write-in campaigns.

CALIFORNIA POLL: Governor (top two advance) - Katie Porter internal 🟥 Chad Bianco - 18% 🟥 Steve Hilton - 17% 🟦 Katie Porter - 14% 🟦 Eric Swalwell - 11% 🟦 Tom Steyer - 8% 🟦 Xavier Becerra - 6% 🟦 Matt Mahan - 5% 🟦 A. Villaraigosa - 2% 🟦 T. Thurmond - 1% —— PPP (Dem) | 1/20-21 | 1,001 V

Case in point for why top two jungle primary is terrible. It can produce perverse results and CA should repeal it. Unfortunately that'd take a constitutional amendment. But... the legislature can right now avoid the worst-case scenario simply by restoring write-in votes as an option in the general.

If they're not getting it directly from the sources, and I'd bet Miller himself does, then they get the same substance by way of second-hand middlemen, which amounts to the same thing. They aren't coming up with it on their own and just randomly happening to converge on the same ideas.

"Do you want Donald Trump to not be president anymore?" fares better than "Do you like the Democrats?" and it's not even close.

This whole premise that impeachment is unpopular or risks backlash or rallies his base is a baseless assumption with no hard evidence to back it up and a fair amount pointing in the opposite direction. If anything, support for it doesn't meaningfully diverge from his disapproval ratings.

That is not true. It's true of Trump in particular, who is functionally illiterate. Probably some others. But it's not inherently true of all of them. People who read books can be fascists. There are fascist books.

The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller's Immigration Crusade: Part II He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestors

Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social.

I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview

Opinion | Stop sanewashing Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings It's well past time to call Trump’s stream-of-consciousness monologues exactly what they are.

Excellent from @anthonylfisher.bsky.social :

NB there are all kinds of good reasons for your personal security to take steps for digital privacy, that's all well and good. But your protest movement of many thousands of people is, by its very nature, effectively transparent. And that has some advantages! But it ain't gonna keep secrets.

Most of the time they aren't actually watching, of course. But they always could be. And that's not just true in a dystopian surveillance state sense, it's true under any modern government with a reasonable modicum of state capacity. Which this one still does, fast as they're burning through it.

Sound thread. You're not going to hide who you are and what you are doing from the US government if it decides it wants to know. For the most part, it should be taken as read that everything you do, anything you put to digital writing, any group chat you're in is legible to the feds, because it is.

Sigh.

The district court pretty quickly rejects the absurd claim from prosecutors that protesting during a church service (charged conspiracy against rights) is a "crime of violence."

Two Iranian men, who are gay, told their lawyer Bekah Wolf with the American Immigration Council that they were set to be deported on the Sunday flight. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death in Iran, which executed two gay men in 2022 and is considered one of the world's most repressive countries for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "They're terrified," Wolf told MS NOW. One of her clients "calls every 45 minutes begging me to save his life." "We need a court of some sort to fully hear their claims before they're sent back to a country where being gay is punishable by death," said Wolf. She said her two clients have no criminal convictions and entered the U.S. in early 2025 on asylum claims. Both were in the middle of appeals though did not have stays of removal, Wolf said. Ultimately, Wolf said, "they did not have full hearings of their asylum claims in any meaningful way."

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process.

They are terrified.