Nick Cunningham

Live updates: More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says The uptick in federal immigration activity in Maine continues to unfold after a 2nd U.S. citizen was fatally shot in Minnesota.

With ICE thugs surging in Maine, the Portland @pressherald.com joins The Minnesota @startribune.com in publishing a non-paywalled live blog for breaking news. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/26/l...

“I think it’s time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost.”

“Fuck this,” a senior ICE officer said about the shooting of Pretti.

A big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Thank you to the many folks in Minnesota, LA, Chicago, Charlotte, and elsewhere for your courageous efforts.

lmfao get wrecked

YouTube video by Billy Bragg BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Germany’s Fed Foreign Office has issued updated travel advisory for US, citing risks linked to immigration enforcement and public-order situations.

The update follows recent incident in which reporters from RAI, Italy’s state broadcaster, reported being threatened by ICE while working.

Rutte working hard to ensure that Europe remains a US vassal. Rutte thinks only "daddy" can protect them

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Non violent protest works. The people of Minnesota are showing the way. Trump and his Gestapo wanted a war. Now Republicans are leaving their party.

“National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,” he said.

The European Parliament is keeping the EU–US trade deal on ice - at least for now.

Seems sensible to me. Until it’s clear what the Greenland framework actually entails, and whether it credibly takes coercive US tariffs off the table, Europe would be unwise to put that leverage away.

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Wow: A top GOP candidate for governor in Minnesota just announced that he is dropping out from the race. *And* that he is leaving the Republican Party.

He blamed the GOP's "stated retribution on the citizens of our state."

www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

the same guy who bribed the Trump's with $40 mil for Melania the movie wont pay for his newspaper's sportwriters to go to spring training

Tom Suozzi, one of the 7 House Dems who voted for the DHS bill: "I failed to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis... I have long been critical of ICE’s unlawful behavior and I must do a better job demonstrating that."

"You take that 9mm and you start to engage with ICE officers, and then you resist arrest"

again, this is not what happened and it's a deliberate lie

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

A Crisis of Confidence for ICE and Border Patrol as Clashes Escalate

ICE is cooked.

“We lost all trust,” one current ICE official said. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.”

TikTok censorship

“The nuns were not just nuns. The nuns were also political activists.” These infamous words were spoken in 1980 by Jeane Kirkpatrick, one of the top foreign policy advisors to incoming President Ronald Reagan, after the brutal murder of four American women, three of them nuns, by government forces in El Salvador. The four—Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan—had been raped, killed and dumped in a shallow grave on Dec. 2, 1980, by soldiers of the Salvadoran National Guard on orders from higher up. Ms. Kirkpatrick sensed, correctly, that such a savage crime might turn public opinion against the massive military and economic aid the United States was providing to the brutal junta ruling El Salvador. So why not put the responsibility on the unarmed, defenseless nuns instead? After all, they were already dead.

Really great piece on how State victim-blaming has a longer history in the US.

From earlier this month and sadly relevant again:
www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...

Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads through local law.

www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...

Venezuelan Oil Revitalization: Paid For With Your Taxes - The American Prospect The biggest oil companies will immediately profit off Trump’s Venezuela coup, including via American taxpayers’ money.

We'll have more on Minnesota in a moment but this shouldn't get lost: despite the protestations, oil companies are fine with extracting crude from Venezuela as long as the U.S. government guarantees the profits. Those guarantees are in motion, writes @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social.

U.S. gas prices spike on winter storm - Gas Outlook Freezing temperatures and disruptions to the electric grid and gas system have caused U.S. gas prices to shoot up.

U.S. gas prices spike on winter storm

Freezing temperatures and disruptions to the electric grid and gas system have caused U.S. gas prices to shoot up. The impacts are being felt in Europe.

gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...

CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

In a five-minute telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Trump didn’t directly answer when asked twice whether the officer who shot Alex Pretti had done the right thing. Pressed further, the president said, “We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination.” Administration officials have publicly defended the officer. The president criticized Pretti—the 37-year-old who was killed by a federal Border Patrol agent Saturday morning on a Minneapolis street—for carrying a gun during protest activity. “I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” Trump added. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.” Trump also signaled a willingness to eventually withdraw immigration enforcement officials from the Minneapolis area.

Trump knows he's losing?
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Europe is moving to reduce reliance on US tech, as EU Parliament pushes for digital sovereignty. Jan ‘26 resolution urges prioritising non-US providers in public procurement and building “Eurostack,” as firms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud currently control 70–80% of Europe’s cloud market.

Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue.

"A neighbor was taken here" "Abolish ice"

Minneapolis January 25, 2026

Quite the video

HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.