Lydia Polgreen

The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push Trump officials are touting 12,000 new hires in four months. Getting them onto U.S. streets may take longer.

Some ICE regional offices where staffing levels are poised to double don’t have enough desks, body armor, and parking spaces for everyone, agency veterans told @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

I would like to co-sign that some of the people in my group chats who don’t really follow politics closely are sending texts that sound like John Brown tonight

A screenshot of a post from the account repmgp on a social media platform, likely X (formerly Twitter). The post text reads: "It's unacceptable to have another needless death in Minnesota, and it's unacceptable to have elected officials, candidates, and administration officials continue to throw gas on this fire, or tacitly encourage assaults on law enforcement and anyone else. The situation is un-American and Secretary Noem needs to step down." At the bottom, the post shows: * 379 Likes * 1.8K Comments * 110 Reposts * 33 Shares The profile picture for repmgp shows a woman with dark hair and bangs in front of an American flag. Would you like me to find more information about the context of this specific post?

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez expressed shock at ICE murdering Alex Pretti despite voting to fund ICE just this week.

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

Imagine going to this screening on a night like this one. The blood of an American civilian runs on a Minneapolis street. These people have no shame.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.

There is nothing wrong with protesting - it is a good thing to do! But calling these acts protests is incomplete and diminishing. They are motivated by protesting the acts of the federal government but ultimately amount to much more.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Good luck painting a nurse who looks like Dr Robbie's slightly geeky but endearing younger brother as a domestic terrorist.

Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design" "What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

Another civilian gunned down by federal agents in Minneapolis, the day after several Democrats, including moderate media darlings, voted to give ICE another $10 billion.

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.

Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene:
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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

Trump privately frustrated that he risks losing control of immigration message amid Minnesota chaos | CNN Politics The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the ch...

Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

Um, not exactly! Here's my dispatch: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

Amanda Seyfried was robbed.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

"A review by the editorial board relying on analyses from news organizations shows that Mr. Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1.4 billion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

The world is terrible but the kids (of St. Paul, MN) are alright.

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

We have journalists on the ground here, who live here, and others who have been here covering the ICE onslaught. I am an opinion columnist so my role is not day to day coverage.