ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

So dark — Tennessee-based @CoreCivic wants to be making even more money on ICE detentions.

“ICE was our first customer 43 years ago, and has been our largest customer for over a decade,” CoreCivic CEO Patrick Swindle said on the earnings call.

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

I can imagine, and I like it.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Important. There has not been a deescalation.

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Minneapolis Minnesota lawmakers demand
ICE OUT OF HOSPITALS!

Today the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on Governor Walz to enact an eviction moratorium to keep Minneapolis families in their homes to protect them from ICE.

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

I say his gently, but…

There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.

Not because its government doesn’t fix it —

but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.

That’s the part that sits wrong.

In the History Repeats Itself category:

A Secretary of "War" with crusader tattoos would kill Muslims on Christmas Day is pretty much the most predicable thing ever.

In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

Also, many of us didn't "smell" the fascism; we painstakingly researched & reported on the infrastructure of the growing anti-democratic movement, starting well before 2015 & with relative restraint. Some Very Serious Editors called us "shrill" and "resistance-y." newrepublic.com/article/2042...

The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It. A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family.

The Trump family has amassed a $4 billion fortune since his re-election.

During my time as Ambassador, I was accused of "focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption." There's no such thing.

We need leaders who serve the people — not themselves.
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BLACK FARMERS AREN’T TAKING THE BAIT

Rejecting Trump’s bailout as structurally racist.

The $12 billion runs through the same USDA systems that systematically locked Black farmers out for decades. Loan denials, delayed paperwork, acreage rules, enrollment hurdles. The discrimination is documented.

“EPA’s latest proposal - to eliminate industrial reporting of greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate the climate crisis – is a broadside against climate science and policies to protect human health. Measuring and reporting climate pollution is a critical step in reducing the deadly impacts of climate-driven extremes that cause more pollution, catastrophic weather events, health emergencies, and deaths. Ignoring this reality is a deadly choice, and not one that EPA should be making for American families.”

INBOX: The American Lung Association calls out the Trump admin move to stop greenhouse gas reporting from big emitters, calling it a "deadly choice."

From Will Barrett, assistant VP for the ALA's Healthy Air Programs:

I’ve learned a new history lesson—our US democracy is 60 years old. We didn’t really become a democracy until the Voting Rights Act became law. Now we see our foothold in 60 years of democracy slipping away. There is still time to claw it back and build on our boldest dreams for the common good.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.

We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

SEIU is flooding Chicago to say HELL NO to Trump's Big Ugly Bill: the worst grift ever. F that.

They're marching for Medicaid. For food assistance. For childcare. For families.

This is the Families First Day of Action-and the people are done being robbed to fund yachts
#SaveMedicaidSaveFamilies

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

Or health care services….

Another spends $26 billion to create a new $1,700 credit for people who give to groups providing scholarships for children to attend private school.

People voted for the destruction of the social safety net (& it will result in deaths), decimation of due process, ineffective courts, & funding of a masked police state.

Ignorance (& frankly too much denial, comfort & distance from the P2025 rollout) did this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The evil that men do lives after them

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Bishop Danny Garcia of Austin: “We live in a time of great suffering and hurst…We cannot profess to be Catholic and Christian, yet see one another as enemies or strangers. The poor, the weak, those that live on the margins of society and life cannot be forgotten in our policies and practices.

City leaders react to vote in favor of ending ICE agreement The day after the Key West City Commission voted 6-1 to end the city’s 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), residents and leaders expressed their pride in the

This reporting from the Keys Citizen will give you a great feel for the kind of humanistic Americans that call Key West home as they prepare for battle with the DeSantis administration over 287(g).