As usual, if any other president had made a statement this delusional and racist, they'd be institutionalized within a day.

Kari Lake of the Isles

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.

I’ve been thinking more about this nonsense and what it means. I don’t think it’s a flex — a performative expression of power and intimidation — like the advertisements for ICE positions. Too obscure and lacking in flair. Instead I think it likely reflects real internal problems.
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Stop calling us names or we'll keep killing you.

Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...

NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below.

Link:
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I can’t get over how increasingly desperate and worried district judges are — they are doing all the right things — and how they’re being betrayed by appellate judges and a Supreme Court, both too cowardly to stand behind their decisions.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Interesting strategic decision.

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

The Whipple Building was named, at the suggestion of Walter Mondale, for Bishop Henry Whipple, an advocate of Native American rights, and not for Mr. Whipple, a bizarrely fixated grocer.

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The Utah governor just signed a bill to expand his state's supreme court by two seats.

Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.

Federal judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos 5-year-old Liam Ramos being detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 20. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery on Saturday morning issued a ruling demanding

Yes!

“District Judge Fred Biery on Saturday morning issued a ruling demanding the release of 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy Liam Conjeo Ramos and his father by Tuesday from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas”

www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

Hahaha I know :)

👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home

Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state

In MN they may be Phipps whistleblowers.

The combination of low grade mortification and labor law?

As soon as I hit send, I realized the trolley is probably municipal and governed by applicable state labor laws. Argh.

But will an ethical problem resolved under the RLA come out similarly under the NLRA?

I'm not sure this has precise relevance to labor law, but I'm definitely putting it in my slides.

#135 in State of Minnesota v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00190) – CourtListener.com ORDER denying 5 Plaintiffs' Motion for TRO. Signed by Judge Katherine M. Menendez on 1/31/2026. (LC2) (Entered: 01/31/2026)

U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez denies Minnesota’s request to put an end to the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...

Absolutely wild that while * gestures broadly at all this * is happening, ICE leadership is still actively telling agents oh I'm p sure you have the legal power to just arrest people willy nilly, go for it

Carol Leonnnig, MS NOW Senior Investigative Reporter and Melissa Murray, NYU Law Professor joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the arrest of journalists and activists, including… 'A line we as a country cannot uncross’: Nicolle Wallace reacts to Don Lemon’s arrest over protest

Carol Leonnig: Acting chief of Minneapolis FBI field office has been removed. And MN US Attorney's Office, usually about 80 prosecutors, is down to half strength (35-40) since Trump took office. Trend accelerated by recent resignations.
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Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.

When formerly incarcerated people are able to obtain work, it tends to be a low-paying position, keeping them well below the poverty line. “The No. 1 contributor to recidivism is poverty,” says a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.

These consolidated cases are about the limits of the President's power to dictate the rules of federal elections. The Framers of our Constitution recognized that power over election rules could be abused, either to destroy the national government or to disempower the people from acting as a check on their elected representatives. See, e.g., The Federalist No. 59 (A. Hamilton); Federal Farmer No. 3. Accordingly, they entrusted this power to the parts of our government that they believed would be most responsive to the will of the people: first to the States, and then, in some instances, to Congress. See U.S. Const. art. 1, § 2, cl. 1; U.S. Const. art. 1, § 4, cl. 1. They assigned no role at all to the President. Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures. Upholding our Constitution's separation of powers in the election context is a matter of substantial importance. The Supreme Court long ago recognized that the right to vote is a "fundamental political right" because it is "preservative of all rights." Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 370 (1886). Our Constitution's careful allocation of power over election regulation helps to preserve that bedrock right. Now pending before this Court are several pending cross-motions for summary judgment implicating these important principles. Plaintiffs mount a variety of challenges to Executive Order No. 14,248, in which the President has purported to direct several changes to federal election procedures. Upon consideration of the parties' submissions,' the relevant legal

authority, and the entire record, the Court shall GRANT IN PART, DENY IN PART, and DEFER IN PART each of the parties' motions and shall DISMISS certain claims in part. Because the record in these cases continues to evolve, many of these denials and dismissals shall be without prejudice. The Court shall DECLARE that two provisions of the Executive Order-both purporting to impose new requirements for verifying the U.S. citizenship of people registering to vote or applying to receive absentee ballotsare inconsistent with the constitutional separation of powers and cannot lawfully be implemented. The Court shall PERMANENTLY ENJOIN the relevant Defendants from taking any action to implement or give effect to those provisions. The Court shall also DECLARE that, in the course of implementing provisions of the Executive Order that call for federal agencies to access and share sensitive personal data, the Federal Defendants must strictly comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. Finally, the Court shall direct the parties to propose a schedule for further proceedings.

BREAKING: Federal judge issues permanent injunction blocking part of Trump’s elections executive order that was challenged by LULAC, DNC, and League of Women Voters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing."

They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns the wrongful arrests of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for reporting on a church protest in St. Paul.

Read our full statement here: www.mnspj.org/2026/01/30/m...

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

I don't want him to take any more brain scans. I want him to take a 9th grade Econ test live on camera.