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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

A screenshot of a medium blog by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb titled "Imagining 'The Alien'" which features a picture of a clay alien that looks like a Cornish pixie from Harry Potter, featuring two additional tentacles

Additional images of the clay alien sculpture. The top image is the same face down view of the sculpture, featuring an alien that looks like a Cornish pixie from Harry potter with two tentacles. The second photo shows the underside of the alien is bedazzles

starting the week off with a good laugh as Harvard astrophysicist shares his depiction of the aliens "aboard" the certified comet 3I/ATLAS: three-eyed Cornish pixies

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took on college.

- Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- Sports and Entertainment in Greece and Rome (yes, we were entertained)
- Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology
- Underworlds
- Advanced experimental physics

Seems like a good video for his trial

I’m glad there is an apology for posting Jew-hate on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but this is notably not an apology for the Jew-hate itself, just the timing of it. The article itself, which perpetuates ancient antisemitism, remains unchanged.

New job opportunity at @stsci.edu: Senior Astronomical Data Scientist for data analysis tools, working closely with my team and me.

This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

@andertoon.bsky.social

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

A crossstitch of a black bird taking a number off of a sign on a phone pole. The sign says, "Tired of being a bird?" and has a picture of a blue bird on it

1/9 - based on art by @anubiarts.bsky.social

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

Henry Cuellar (Texas), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (New York), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington), Jared Golden (Maine), and Don Davis (North Carolina)

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it.

News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

nine years old

"You can only preach against ICE for so long before God calls you to get out of the pulpit and get to the streets”

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

January 16, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stacie Balkaran — stacie@minneapolisunions.org / 971.291.9486 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING MINNEAPOLIS – The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with regional bodies throughout the state, including the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation, the West Area Labor Council, the North East Area Labor Council and the East Central Labor Council, have joined in solidarity to endorse a powerful unified statewide action on January 23: Day of Truth and Freedom. The Minnesota labor movement is united against the violent ICE occupation of our beloved cities that has directly impacted union members, our workplaces and our families. Workers are essential for our communities to function. Since the ICE campaign of terror began, both immigrant and non-immigrant workers have feared for their safety when going to work, being at work, and coming home from work. Union members and our families are being illegally detained at alarming rates, with workplaces and schools facing increased challenges. Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, shared why union federations are joining this call: “Working people, our schools and our communities are under attack. Union members are being detained commuting to and from work, tearing apart families. Parents are being forced to stay home, students held out of school, fearing for their lives, all while the employer class remains silent. Our labor federations are encouraging everyone to participate on January 23rd. It’s time for every single Minnesotan who loves this state and the notion of truth and freedom to raise their voices and deepen their solidarity for our neighbors and coworkers living under this federal occupation.”

I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is:

January 16, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM
NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING

minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

I'll say this very satisfying to watch.

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Hi! Jew here by raising if not by practice. We have seen massive antisemitism in this regime, so the reason behind this is clearly a lie. Also, we've been comparing Trump to Hitler for a while now, so anyone still denying it is, well, in denial.

a digram of exoplanet mass, in earth masses, on the x-axis and exoplanet radius, in earth radii, on the y-axis. the background of the plot is shaded by the relative number of planets. V1298 Tau bcde are highlighted as red circles. vertical lines are drawn to estimate how much these planetary radii are expected to evolve over 5 Gyr. the planets roughly go from radii of 5-10 REarth to 2-4 REarth, depending on evolutionary assumptions.

TTV masses for the 23 Myr gas giant planets V1298 Tau bcde and a [finally!] confirmed period for V1298 Tau e all in the same paper 😱 this is such a benchmark system for understanding planetary evolution. congrats to John Livingston et al. on achieving this feat! 🥳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...