Mackenzie Carpenter

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Efforts to keep Pittsburgh Post-Gazette operating appear to stall In less than three months, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is scheduled to close up shop and go out of business.

"We own it, we're ending it, and we don't want to talk to anyone who wants to buy it. Don't call us; we won't answer you."

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That appears to be the current status of the Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh. Via @dankennedy.net

The Blocks used to be good publishers. Then the failson generation took over.

As Bezos's Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs this morning ...

Both today:

Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it.

Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”

Good luck with that.

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

Kristi Noem and Kash Patel are right: Alex Pretti had no right to possess a gun during a protest. What if he had killed someone?

by Kyle Rittenhouse

greg bovino next to stalin, in an image from stalin era infamous for removing the person where bovino is standing

Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...

BREAKING: Bovino is leaving MN: "Administration officials were left deeply frustrated this weekend over how Bovino and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handled the fallout from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis." www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Minnesota lawyers argue Trump’s ICE invasion is ‘extorting’ state for voter rolls demands “It’s a shakedown letter,” one attorney said of Attorney General Bondi's list of demands to the state.

🚨BREAKING: Minnesota state attorneys alleged in a court hearing that Donald Trump and the Department of Justice are attempting to force the state to surrender its sovereignty — in particular, its control over elections — through the massive federal immigration operation in the Twin Cities region.

DHS/ICE seen going door to door in St Paul, MN 1/26/26

Portland, Maine, Feels Like a Small Town — And ICE Isn’t Welcome

DHS said ICE is targeting “the worst of the worst,” including people convicted of aggravated assault, false imprisonment & endangering child welfare. Maine’s governor said many of them appeared to involve people with jobs, kids in local schools & no criminal records.
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C’mon Pittsburgh, let’s follow the Inky’s lead!

Elizabeth Hughes: There is a path for Pittsburgh to save its newspaper As publisher of The Inquirer, I believe that our own experience over the past decade offers a template for success.

some (rare) good news for the journalism industry: The Philadelphia Inquirer is profitable
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He’s too measured, too careful. He lays out all the facts but he seems to be hiding his light under bushel. Let’s see some FIRE!!!

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Obama is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party — need to utilize all the tools in their arsenal to fire up the nation. I am reminded of how subdued Obama was after Trump’s first victory. He disappointed me then; he disappoints me now.

Peaceful protest, fine…but our leaders — and Obama is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party — need to utilize all the tools in their arsenal to fire up the nation.

Obama needs to tap into his brilliant command of language — so often demonstrated as candidate and president —more effectively and GALVANIZE those who might hesitate to rise up…

A clear sign there is trouble ahead for the puppy killer

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Not impressed, Barack. Failing to meet the moment.

Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice