MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.
He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.
He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
07.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 17901 🔁 9179 💬 494 📌 703
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
30.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 15204 🔁 8352 💬 207 📌 335
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
30.01.2026 20:31 — 👍 29869 🔁 6495 💬 461 📌 446
ICE detains 18-year-old USM student in Westbrook
Sandrine Koumba said she doesn’t know why her son, who has no criminal record, was detained after a minor car crash Tuesday.
ICE agents in Maine kidnapped a college student after a minor car crash. They ran his plates, shoved him into a car, and shipped him down to Burlington, Massachusetts. ICE agents refused to let him call a lawyer.
22.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 238 🔁 109 💬 1 📌 10
Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
16.01.2026 23:37 — 👍 10992 🔁 4791 💬 520 📌 236
Never been more proud seeing these American people
10.01.2026 16:05 — 👍 32 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
08.01.2026 01:32 — 👍 4366 🔁 968 💬 15 📌 30
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
07.01.2026 20:54 — 👍 11846 🔁 4362 💬 22 📌 47
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
27.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 5099 🔁 1840 💬 71 📌 36
Pop crave posting this and not like the times or the post is everything we need to know about the medias complicity
17.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 269 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 0
Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson, Caroline's son, posted this photo. I strongly recommend following him, "jackuno."
So much of this gorgeous photo, bulldozed & covered with slabs of concrete. Soulless. Empty.
This photo is all about life, color, beauty, promise.
Now bulldozed & drowned in cement.
24.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 355 🔁 110 💬 11 📌 4
Rigged poker game: BAD
Rigged crypto scheme: GOOD
23.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0
Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:
A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.
Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
07.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 13338 🔁 4240 💬 706 📌 318
Democratic Party congressional leaders aren't speaking out against Trump's deployment of the military to U.S. cities because the DC consultant class has told them that to do so would risk appearing weak on crime.
These people are cowards.
30.09.2025 16:51 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
30.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 15337 🔁 6962 💬 750 📌 446
michael keaton IG post. image of tom homan on MSNBC with text “MSNBC EXCLUSIVE
TOM HOMAN WAS INVESTIGATED FOR ACCEPTING $50,000 FROM UNDERCOVER FBI AGENTS. TRUMP'S DOJ SHUT IT DOWN.”
keaton added the caption “hahahaha!”
25.09.2025 02:34 — 👍 497 🔁 47 💬 22 📌 2
This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
18.09.2025 17:19 — 👍 7874 🔁 3042 💬 230 📌 160
Bitchmade, Inc
18.09.2025 18:52 — 👍 163 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
you'll never get fired for posting a robert redford quote
16.09.2025 17:16 — 👍 1933 🔁 289 💬 43 📌 9
🎯!!!
14.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 13193 🔁 2290 💬 179 📌 39
Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting
13.09.2025 04:36 — 👍 4092 🔁 661 💬 34 📌 20
They won't be and it's too late and they knew exactly what they were doing I'm so tired of the whoopsie shit just own up to the fact you're pieces of shit and lean into it at least the administration makes it clear who they are
12.09.2025 02:22 — 👍 216 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 0
but ah oh wha
12.09.2025 01:27 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
“Someone has to be held accountable. I hope change happens in the way that ICE goes about their business. I hope they get proper training. I hope that they’re just not able to racially profile people and just take people off the streets. I hope the government acknowledges that they could do wrong.”
11.09.2025 06:57 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This is not the message the country needs. We need unifying leadership to take down the temperature, not exploitative blame-seeking that falsely pins all political violence on one side of the spectrum to fit Trump’s narratives. Enough. Americans are tired of the divisiveness.
11.09.2025 01:24 — 👍 2378 🔁 427 💬 167 📌 26
Cuz he went out of his way to make sure that there were very small breasts on it where he says yes there is but I won't tell you what it is
08.09.2025 22:17 — 👍 112 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 0
The United States Supreme Court saying that it's perfectly fine for federal agents and the police to make indiscriminate stops and interrogations of people based on their color, race, ethnicity, and the language that they speak is the effective end of civil rights in this country.
08.09.2025 16:24 — 👍 778 🔁 275 💬 38 📌 26
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