Jeremy Pressman

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) to Face the Nation:

“I don't have any obligation to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is violating the law every day, just like I don't have any obligation to support this war that is illegal as well.”

spot on

YouTube video by 13 ON YOUR SIDE Activists raise concerns about ICE arrest in Grand Rapids, call for investigation

If it weren't for activists, we wouldn't know most of what's going on in our country.

State troopers used pretexts such as bent license plates, unlit temporary tags, and dark window tints to pull people over, so that ICE, which can’t make routine traffic stops, could check their immigration status—and bypass constitutional and legal protections in the process. (3/x)

A must read. Both for the call to the media and for the brutal details and links gathered in this Froomkin post.

Tracking the Economic Impact of the Trump Tariffs The Trump tariffs are the largest US tax increase as a percent of GDP since 1993 and amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,500 in 2026.

"The Trump tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026."

Crowd Counting Consortium – Ash Center Publicly available data on political crowds in the United States, including marches, protests, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.

And as always, if you think we’re missing a record, you can scroll down on this page and submit it here: ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...

I just want to add that the CCC is now in its ninth year, and it takes an extraordinary team effort to keep up with all of this. Very proud of and amazed by the exceptional work of this great team and our dedicated research assistants.

This one is in Longfellow

How Minneapolis taught America to fight back Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.

What has it really been like to experience the ICE terror campaign in Minneapolis? Do not miss these perspectives from postal workers, nurses, chefs, and journalists who grew up there—a tour de force of vivid reporting from our CIR colleagues on @revealnews.org revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

excellent column. A lot to think about. One of Mejia's points: secure borders and abolish ICE can go hand in hand.

10/ We’re not done reporting. Please get in touch with us via Signal at 917-512-0201 if you or someone you know:

• Has worked at an immigration detention facility
• Has been detained at such a facility
• Has info about the companies contracted to build and provide services

Luis A. Ubiñas is Chairman of the Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of AT&T. AT&T has a contract to provide IT for ICE, current expiration date is Sept 2025. But contract can be extended. Quite the combination.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up.

Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.

Ms. Rahman’s powerful testimony explicitly places her experiences within the long pattern of both ICE and police violence against Americans

Seriously, it shouldn't be hard to identify the other reporters in the Oval Office and to ask them why they remain silent when the president of the United States verbally attacks one of their colleagues.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Again, you don’t have to believe me. You can just listen to the guy who literally invented the concept:

Have same drawer. Always a source of emotional sustenance.

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ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten...

#RIP_Alex 💔

Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25 January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Maybe this spring there will be a national hiking day in memory of Alex Pretti.

You can complain about Schumer and Jeffries and the way they have utterly failed to meet the moment, but credit, too, to New York for providing two of the most insightful, outspoken pols of our day, Mamdani and AOC.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:

‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

Will candidates commit to
1. investigate and prosecute criminal misconduct by ICE and others
2. abolish ICE.
3. establish Federal fund to compensate 1000s of people whose constitutional rights have been violated
4. build national memorial to remember the brave people killed by ICE

The left didn’t make the men you ordered to occupy the city for no reason shoot a man in the back. The left didn’t tell a bunch of masked armed yahoos that they had “total immunity” and you would let them get away with murder if it came to that.

This mirrors the analysis of the vast majority of historians and political scientists who have studied authoritarianism elsewhere. Successful authoritarians still need to look at polls. They still worry about popular opinion.

Trump has authoritarian ambitions; he doesn't have the skills.