I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.

Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
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KL: He did it. But it was harmless.

White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern.

Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted.

Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED

for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations

Every American needs to watch this:

Cincinnati enquirer headline about how Ohio depends on immigrants for growth

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today

This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get

& they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Dems should be explicit that when they retake Congress and the White House they will be stripping his name off of everything.

The ego damage would be significant

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

holy shit

I found a PDF of the Hitler's Willing Law Professors book chapter that Vladeck mentions. If you'd like to read here it is

VIl. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ana C. Reyes Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — KNOXVILLE students shake off discipline warnings and walk out to protest ICE…

We’re told 1000+ are there 👀 💪🏽

www.knoxnews.com/story/news/p...

“After their humans were disappeared by ICE”

As institutions have buckled under Trump’s pressure, @radleybalko.bsky.social has been inspired watching communities stand up.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown

Schumer caved.

Congrats MAGA and ICE.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

A Well Regulated Militia is Not Terrorism Anti-Ice Protest Open Carry Douglas County Fairgrounds Jan 31 - 1 pm

Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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We probably would not see eye to eye on a lot, but serious props to the Cato Institute for their absolute pile of great, full-throated defenses of immigration. They’ve done impressive work in this area for years now.

Underneath the name Charlie Hebdo is a pile of bloodied dead bodies representing US citizens killed by ICE. The pile of bodies are collected in one corner to represent the stars of the US flag and the streaks of blood caused by them being dragged across the ground form the red and white stripes. In the foreground an armed skinhead officer with an ICE vest is dragging his latest victim with multiple gunshots to join the pile. The world is watching in horror.

Wow.

The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

JFC. For all you assholes that clacked about Trump changing, and Bonino's relocation meaning something, get your heads out of your asses:

Terrorist attack in Minnesota:

A Trump Zio MAGA attacked US Rep. Ilhan Omar ( @IlhanMN ), the terrorist sprayed her with an unknown substance and was quickly taken down by security. The terrorist timed the attack at the mention of Trump’s ICE paramilitary force. #3E #GoodVsEvil

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

The social contract obliges us to respect the policy that is set by elections

It does not oblige us to accept a government making war on us

I mean this very sincerely. What are we doing here if we don’t stand up for the basic rights of our friends and neighbors and the rule of law?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.

After Trump is gone, one of things I’m going to remember is the cowardice of the people who knew better but went along.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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