Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...

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THIS IS CRUCIAL

Flipping the script, turning their violence into our power, is the only path forward

Summary of 5 principles to make political violence backfire - reveal, redeem, reframe, redirect, resist.

The 123-page doc by @hardymerriman.bsky.social goes deep on this framework with examples and practical advice for assigning roles, designing campaigns, and doing the work with your own local community. Highly recommend.

Cover page of the HOPE guide - "Harnessing our power to end political violence"

If you want to go deep on the theory and strategy, this resource on how to make political violence backfire is informative and practical. static1.squarespace.com/static/666b7...

Sam Bagenstos on Project 2029 · A2D2-Ann Arbor inDivisible for Democracy A2D2 is happy to welcome Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University ofMichigan, as a speaker. He spent 4 years serving as the general counsel to theOffice of Management ...

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The world tries to make you do this but never let the cowardice of elites make you cynical towards the courage and goodness of normal people

International Law and the U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Operations in Venezuela Experts survey the international law issues of Operation Absolute Resolve.

Great piece explaining the how the Maduro arrest violates international law. @Just_Security. www.justsecurity.org/127981/inter...

Today is the fifth anniversary of one of the darkest days in U.S. history, an attempt to use brute force to block the lawful transfer of presidential power. We are a nation of laws, not violence.

January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.

The White House revision of the 5th anniversary of January 6 is less about remembering 2021 than it is about conjuring 1984.
www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Heritage paper on families calls for ‘marriage bootcamp,’ more babies The conservative think tank aims to boost U.S. marriage and births through discouraging online dating, restricting pornography and creating tax credits for families.

If policy makers are genuinely concerned about loss of population in the United States, the easy answer is immigration. What they really seem to want is more white people.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bravo, Minnesota. This shooting was completely avoidable. Officers are trained to de-escalate, not to callously kill civilians. When our streets are militarized, the loss of innocent lives is inevitable.

Those are the words of a dictator.

January 9, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

Here is a must read on the US view of fascism during WWII. Sounds chillingly familiar.
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It doesn’t take a trained ear to hear the deflections. Homan does not deny taking a bag of money. The public deserves answers.

What’s behind the highly unusual move to block Minnesota officials from investigating ICE shooting | CNN Politics Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the...

The State of Minnesota is a separate sovereign, entitled to enforce its own laws. Feds are certainly entitled to conduct a parallel investigation, but not to freeze out state investigators.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/p...

U.S. Prosecutors Are Investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell The criminal probe looks at Powell’s testimony on building renovations. Powell said it was part of Trump’s campaign to pressure the Fed to lower interest rates.

It’s hard to see Trump DOJ investigation of Powell as anything other than a pretext to intimidate the Fed and control interest rates.
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi

Criminal investigations must be predicated on a good faith belief of violations of criminal law. They are not a tool of coercion.
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

This is a meaningless trick. A court cannot violate rule 6(e), which prohibits public disclosure.

In some much needed positive news coming out of Washington, the House took a bipartisan step by forcing a vote to advance legislation that would renew enhanced ACA tax credits. Nine Republicans defied GOP leadership to join Democrats, using a rare discharge petition to push the measure forward

AG Dana Nessel challenges DTE's backroom approval of massive AI data center power deal report by Distill Social

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a petition for rehearing with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) relating to their recent approval of “special” contracts for DTE to service a 1.4 gigawatt hyperscale AI data center in Washtenaw County.

For the third night in a row Detroit, Michigan joined in solidarity for Justice for Renee Good after her brutal murder in the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota by an ICE agent.

Donald Trump is making his first trip to Michigan in 2026 next week on Tuesday. He's headed to Detroit’s MotorCity Casino Sound Board Theatre to address the Detroit Economic Club, an exclusive business-elite forum that’s hosted presidents and CEOs and has repeatedly given a platform to Trump.

Uk considers sending troops to Greenland if us strikes

Facing an alarmingly self-inflicted crisis inside NATO, the UK is now considering sending British troops to help defend Greenland, a drastic step prompted not by an external invasion but by Donald Trump’s renewed threats to take control of the Danish territory & refusal to rule out military force.

BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data

NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore

BASH: You are the government

(From 2/9/25)

Kent county commissioner Robert Womack in Grand Rapids, Michigan on January 08 at the rapid response rally for Renee Good.

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We’re hosting an emergency call to talk through a nationwide response to this killing and ongoing ICE terror in Minneapolis and across the country. Please join us to discuss actions you can take to address ICE abuses and demand accountability: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good during an operation in Minneapolis needs to be a galvanizing moment for every American to join the activists who’ve been fighting this brutality day in and day out for years in saying: ENOUGH.

GovTrack.us Tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

Periodic reminder:

You can check bills being introduced in Congress at www.govtrack.us, including:

1. Who is sponsoring the bill,
2. When the bill was sponsored,
3. Where the bill is in the process,
4. And an estimate of the likelihood of the bill passing.

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

Cross-posted at the Guardian.