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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Allow inspections at Dilley 💔
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Allow inspections at Dilley 💔
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Worth every second
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Worth every second
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CNN: You're seeing people really trailing these law enforcement vehicles and throwing snowballs…
January 7, 2026 at 8:24 PM
CNN: You're seeing people really trailing these law enforcement vehicles and throwing snowballs…
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Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
January 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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Chuck Schumer: The Trump administration lied to me in three separate briefings about their plans for Venezuela.
The Democrats: WE DEMAND A FOURTH BRIEFING IMMEDIATELY.
The Democrats: WE DEMAND A FOURTH BRIEFING IMMEDIATELY.
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Chuck Schumer: The Trump administration lied to me in three separate briefings about their plans for Venezuela.
The Democrats: WE DEMAND A FOURTH BRIEFING IMMEDIATELY.
The Democrats: WE DEMAND A FOURTH BRIEFING IMMEDIATELY.
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ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
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“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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Let's play "spot the outlier" on four different LLMs from the major labs:
July 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Let's play "spot the outlier" on four different LLMs from the major labs:
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Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
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NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Good day to cancel a paramount+ subscription
July 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Good day to cancel a paramount+ subscription
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sometimes as a nation you just have to choose between funding free school lunch or concentration camps for day laborers
July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
sometimes as a nation you just have to choose between funding free school lunch or concentration camps for day laborers
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“He stole money from the bank, which is at odds with a law that bars people from stealing money.”
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“He stole money from the bank, which is at odds with a law that bars people from stealing money.”