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Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

It appears a hospital in Teheran has now been hit.

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Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School

“How many more innocent will die?”

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Mind-boggling that the same day South Korea's former leader is sentenced to life in prison for leading an insurrection

—and the same day British police arrest a prominent royal over allegations of sick Epstein predation

—our own insurrectionist-leading predator is thus mocking the rule of law:

Apple Drops ESG Links From Top Executives’ Pay Packages The company’s retreat follows moves by Starbucks, Salesforce and Mastercard.

Apple quietly removes ESG links from top execs’ pay. My latest (gift link):

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EPA Reverses Climate Stance Underpinning Emissions-Cutting Rules President Donald Trump said his administration has rescinded the “endangerment finding,” a landmark scientific determination that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare.

Endangerment finding, and greenhouse gas standards for vehicles, officially repealed.

Story @bloomberg.com, with more updates coming: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Congress today that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked word of a raid, allowing gang members to clear out of apartments.

Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.

Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.

Ten years of fentanyl: How the deadly drug still has San Francisco in its grip A decade after fentanyl arrived, the city has made progress in preventing its worst impacts. Yet in 2025, more people died from the drug than the year before.

Ten years of fentanyl: How the deadly drug still has San Francisco in its grip sfstandard.com/2026/02/05/s...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Amazon’s Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives

“This has to be the most expensive documentary ever made that didn’t involve music licensing.-- said Ted Hope. "How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe? How can that not be the case?” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota

Via DonHarris4/X

“A battle over whether the sun is shining erupts; here’s an evenhanded summary of the arguments”

Just. Report. The. Facts. 🤦🏻‍♂️

These Sunday shows are very important to the Trump Admin, clearly.

So why don’t the hosts prepare more carefully and try to combat the lies and brazen inconsistencies?

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.

Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.

just amazing work by my colleagues at @wsj.com - a frame by frame analysis of the shooting

incredible that some continue to rationalize this

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This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

Another horrifying shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis (from The Economist) economist.com/united-state...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Videos on social media that were verified by The New York Times contradict the Department of Homeland Security's account of the fatal shooting of a man by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.

Sometimes it takes a bit for national (or really, any) media to catch up with a story but now the New York Times is noting the video did not show Alex Pretti brandishing a gun as ICE has claimed. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

After the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.

Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters (Gift Article) For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.

NYT breaks down ICE's brutal assaults. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Anti ICE protesters in downtown Minneapolis

It’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

"One of the two whistleblowers was allowed to view the memo only in the presence of a supervisor and then had to give it back. That person was not allowed to take notes."

Hell of a story, via Rebecca Santana / @apnews.com

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