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Ugh hadn’t thought of that, very fair point

Who knows, truly! But I have held this grudge against Wray for misleading Congress for five years and refuse to give it up

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

OPINION COMMENTARY Follow Why Pam Bondi Didn’t Publish All the Epstein Files in 30 Days The answer is simple: It was not possible. By William P. Barr Jan. 23, 2026 at 2:08 pm ET 1020

Byline like a horror movie jump scare

Oh my god she admit it

A big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.

It’s hard to overemphasize how incoherent the fed lawyers are in responding to this line of questioning, which is at the core of the coercion argument.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

Just a reminder that the paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world who recently paid $40 million to distribute a documentary about the first lady.

He’s going to be very disappointed when it turns out that it means “the National Guard writes you a traffic ticket”

Yep

1. Invoke Insurrection Act (based)
2. ?????
3. Eternal triumph

Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday.

Ridiculous behavior.

Putin is #grindmaxxing

I mean I don't think these dudes are reading benjamin! I honestly read it as a triumph of benjamin's argument—a fascism that is so focused on aesthetics that it forgets how to act on any other level

Born-on-third-base authoritarianism

even successful authoritarian leaders who have consolidated power are worried about shoring up their legitimacy through elections (putin, orbán, erdogan, etc). trump, who has not yet corrupted the electoral system and who still actually has to win votes, has decided he simply doesn't have to care

it's sort of fascinating (derogatory) how the trump administration is obsessed with copying the aesthetics of contemporary authoritarianism but doesn't seem to understand the factors that allow it to succeed

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Turn of the century urban scene with blowing snow

Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**

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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Re: In Re: United States of America No. 26-1135 Dear Chief Judge Colloton, I apologize for addressing this letter to you, but, for reasons I will describe, I do not have any other option. I am working from home today, as the program that my mentally disabled adult son attends each day is closed because of the extreme cold At 11:34 am, I received an email regarding Case No. 26-1135, entitled "In re: United States of America." The order in its entirety read: The motion of the United States to seal is granted. The Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota is invited to file a response, at his discretion, to the petition for writ of mandamus. Any response is due by 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 23. This is the first that I have heard of any petition for a writ of mandamus. The United States did not have the courtesy to tell me that they would be filing such a petition, nor did the United States serve the petition on me. I am unable to access any documents in Case No. 26-1135 because, at the request of the United States, the case is sealed-apparently even from me. So I have been given about two-and-one-half hours to respond to a mandamus petition that I have not read and cannot read. Apparently I am supposed to guess what the petition is about and guess what the mandamus petition says and then respond. I will do so.

The Honorable Steven M. Colloton January 23, 2026 Page 2 On the evening of Tuesday, January 20, the United States presented an application for eight arrest warrants to Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko in connection with the disruption of a religious service at Cities Church on Sunday, January 18. Judge Micko was the magistrate judge who was on duty at the time. Judge Micko found there was probable cause to issue warrants with respect to three of the suspects but not with respect to the other five. Minutes after Judge Micko signed three arrest warrants, the U.S. Attorney notified me that his office wanted a district judge to review Judge Micko's decision -either by hearing an appeal of that decision or by considering the application de novo. The first thing I did is ask our Clerk's Office to randomly assign a district judge to consider the government's request. I was the judge who was randomly assigned. It is important to emphasize that what the U.S. Attorney requested is unheard of in our district or, as best as I can tell, any other district in the Eighth Circuit. I have surveyed all of our judges — some of whom have been judges in our District for over 40 years —and no one can remember the government asking a district judge to review a magistrate judge's denial of an arrest warrant. I have also surveyed the chief judges of all of the districts in the Eighth Circuit. I have heard back from almost all of them, and all of those responding have said that, to their knowledge, no district judge has ever reviewed the decision of a magistrate judge to deny an arrest warrant. The reason why this never happens is likely that, if the government does not like the magistrate judge's decision, it can either improve the affidavit and present it again to the same magistrate judge or it can present its case to a grand jury and seek an indictment. On Wednesday, January 21, I informed the U.S. Attorney that because he was asking me to do something that was unprecedented, and because m…

A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest.

DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.

That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…

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Many of us have been pointing out that the readiness with which these agents have drawn weapons, and gotten their fingers anywhere near the trigger, is WILDLY contrary to best practices and the sort of thing that inevitably leads to people getting shot.

My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition

The Trump administration tried to detain two of the arrested church protesters charged under a little-used provision of the FACE Act but got shut down by a judge. One of the lawyers prosecuting the case is a former Republican congressional candidate.

Order Re: Appeal/Objection of Magistrate Judge Decision to District Judge – #22 in United States v. SEALED (D. Minnesota, 0:26-mj-00040) – CourtListener.com ORDER denying 7 APPEAL/OBJECTION OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE DECISION to District Judge as to Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong (1), Chauntyll Louisa Allen (2). (Written Opinion) Signed by Judge Laura M. Provinzin...

JUST IN: Judge OKs release of 2 MN church protesters charged w/civil rights viol, Nekima Levy-Armstrong & Chauntyll Allen. Judge Laura Provinzino (Biden) finds no 'serious risk of flight,' sets release conditions.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

typically, court records are publicly available unless the government can offer the judge a justification as to why they should be sealed. if the reason is operational security or something like that, blasting doctored photos of the arrests everywhere on social media seems odd