Akoto Ofori-Atta

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.

Important story from @alibreland.bsky.social about how the us government now speaks in the voice of an incel groyper www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

How Baltimore organizers are preparing to fight back against ICE As social media and news coverage is flooded with a relentless stream of images showing immigrants being rounded up, masked federal agents shooting rapid responders, and government officials defending...

Thank you @BaltimoreBeat baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

Tesla profits slumped 46% last year, as it lost its crown as the top EV seller The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots.

The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots. n.pr/4c4Qzea

‘They killed her little by little’: Parents speak out after daughter died in border patrol custody | CNN CNN’s Rosa Flores speaks to the parents of the 8-year-old who died in the custody of US immigration authorities in Texas in May, 2023 after the family made repeated requests for medial care for the gi...

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’ After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve

“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”

How convenient for ICE

MAGA wants you to believe there’s only one angle The clip of the shooting MAGA wants you to see

MAGA and the Trump admin will no doubt comb through video of another ICE killing to find the one clip that they can use to justify shooting someone at point blank range. They’ll try to use video to sow doubt about what you see with your own eyes. Don’t fall for it.

www.theverge.com/tech/858710/...

Inside of April 1976 Ebony article: Paul Robeson Farewell to a Fighter

Cover of April 1976 Ebony Magazine with headline: Paul Robeson - Farewell To A Fighter on top right corner

Various works on Paul Robeson, including a biography of his wife Eslanda Robeson and a book by his son Paul Robeson Jr

Paul Robeson died 50 years ago today.

Can you imagine being the most famous Black person in the world at one point, only to die in near obscurity?

The American government made sure no one would remember one of the greatest Americans to ever live.

He was 77

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'"

They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

“.. Federal agents grab a woman to drag her away from her car, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.”

@reuters.com

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who've used them.

"After George Floyd's murder by a police officer 6 years ago [..] police departments and federal agencies banned chokeholds."

"ProPublica found more than 40 cases over the past year of immigration agents using these life-threatening maneuvers."
#USA #Media #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

They said to him, after handcuffing him and putting him in a SUV, “Well, you’re white. You won’t be any fun anyway.” And that’s why they let him go.

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

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Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE.

How much has ICE officer training deteriorated under Trump?
New deportation officers at ICE used to receive about 5 months of training; Academy training has now been shortened to just 47 days, a number "picked because Trump is the 47th president."
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Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social and @capitalb.bsky.social have consistently been doing some of the best reporting on data centers and environmental racism, btw. If you want to support independent journalism, throw them a couple of dollars if you can

Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025

- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions

none of them happened
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