@essentiale.bsky.social
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According to DHS, about 3,000 ICE and federal agents are operating in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. THREE THOUSAND! The entire Minneapolis Police Department only has about 580 officers. This is outrageous and unnecessary.
Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.
Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.
January 17, 2026 at 7:44 PM
According to DHS, about 3,000 ICE and federal agents are operating in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. THREE THOUSAND! The entire Minneapolis Police Department only has about 580 officers. This is outrageous and unnecessary.
Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.
Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.
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Make no mistake, he is justifying violence if he objects to the outcome of an election. Keep that in mind as we prepare for 2026.
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Make no mistake, he is justifying violence if he objects to the outcome of an election. Keep that in mind as we prepare for 2026.
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How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
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“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” one Harvard neurologist told us. There is no “method of applying pressure on the neck that is foolproof in terms of avoiding neurologic damage.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
www.propublica.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” one Harvard neurologist told us. There is no “method of applying pressure on the neck that is foolproof in terms of avoiding neurologic damage.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com
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And in this moment, this beautiful child would be falling into his mother for comfort but she has been taken.
We are raising a generation of children who are being traumatized by the state, and some of them will grow up angry because their parents were ripped away by force.
We are raising a generation of children who are being traumatized by the state, and some of them will grow up angry because their parents were ripped away by force.
January 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
And in this moment, this beautiful child would be falling into his mother for comfort but she has been taken.
We are raising a generation of children who are being traumatized by the state, and some of them will grow up angry because their parents were ripped away by force.
We are raising a generation of children who are being traumatized by the state, and some of them will grow up angry because their parents were ripped away by force.
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DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
Breaking news: The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that they are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state.
Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation into impeding law enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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ICE IN LOS ANGELES
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
January 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
ICE IN LOS ANGELES
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
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Dunno, extortion seems pretty inelegant to me.
EISEN: Didn't you admit what Trump is doing to Powell is coercion?
CRAMER: It's no secret he would like Powell out. So would I. This would be an elegant way out
E: You think it'd be 'elegant' for Fed chair under threat of indictment to step down? That doesn't sound elegant
C: Ok. So you disagree
CRAMER: It's no secret he would like Powell out. So would I. This would be an elegant way out
E: You think it'd be 'elegant' for Fed chair under threat of indictment to step down? That doesn't sound elegant
C: Ok. So you disagree
January 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Dunno, extortion seems pretty inelegant to me.
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ICE was holding a 5‑yr‑old autistic child on the street as bait to get a mother to leave her house.
PAXIS can help in this situation with clear instructions of what to do and what not to do— help fund it here: gofund.me/f7c8e7424 and get it into the hands of millions.
PAXIS can help in this situation with clear instructions of what to do and what not to do— help fund it here: gofund.me/f7c8e7424 and get it into the hands of millions.
January 15, 2026 at 2:08 AM
ICE was holding a 5‑yr‑old autistic child on the street as bait to get a mother to leave her house.
PAXIS can help in this situation with clear instructions of what to do and what not to do— help fund it here: gofund.me/f7c8e7424 and get it into the hands of millions.
PAXIS can help in this situation with clear instructions of what to do and what not to do— help fund it here: gofund.me/f7c8e7424 and get it into the hands of millions.
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), to Bloomberg TV:
“If there is military action against #Greenland, I will be one of the first people to file and co-sponsor a War Powers Resolution. It will pass.”
“If there is military action against #Greenland, I will be one of the first people to file and co-sponsor a War Powers Resolution. It will pass.”
January 15, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), to Bloomberg TV:
“If there is military action against #Greenland, I will be one of the first people to file and co-sponsor a War Powers Resolution. It will pass.”
“If there is military action against #Greenland, I will be one of the first people to file and co-sponsor a War Powers Resolution. It will pass.”
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The "King of Peace" has declared war on his own country.
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The "King of Peace" has declared war on his own country.
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Meet Marley and his Sister Mila
They are from Greenland
Their Message for Trump
Did you know Indigenous People in Greenland are overwhelmingly the Inuit, primarily the
Kalaallit, who make up 90% of the population
They have lived in Greenland for thousands of years
Please listen to them
⬇️⬇️⬇️
They are from Greenland
Their Message for Trump
Did you know Indigenous People in Greenland are overwhelmingly the Inuit, primarily the
Kalaallit, who make up 90% of the population
They have lived in Greenland for thousands of years
Please listen to them
⬇️⬇️⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Meet Marley and his Sister Mila
They are from Greenland
Their Message for Trump
Did you know Indigenous People in Greenland are overwhelmingly the Inuit, primarily the
Kalaallit, who make up 90% of the population
They have lived in Greenland for thousands of years
Please listen to them
⬇️⬇️⬇️
They are from Greenland
Their Message for Trump
Did you know Indigenous People in Greenland are overwhelmingly the Inuit, primarily the
Kalaallit, who make up 90% of the population
They have lived in Greenland for thousands of years
Please listen to them
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Day #358
Take note of what the GO☭ does quietly. Quietly restoring slashed funds. Why the secrecy?
Will funders of supremacist totalitarianism birthing be unhappy?
Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood - POLITICO share.google/cxwa7Jb85mQ9...
Take note of what the GO☭ does quietly. Quietly restoring slashed funds. Why the secrecy?
Will funders of supremacist totalitarianism birthing be unhappy?
Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood - POLITICO share.google/cxwa7Jb85mQ9...
Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood
Progressive groups dropped their case against HHS over the withheld family planning funds, but other challenges continue.
share.google
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Day #358
Take note of what the GO☭ does quietly. Quietly restoring slashed funds. Why the secrecy?
Will funders of supremacist totalitarianism birthing be unhappy?
Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood - POLITICO share.google/cxwa7Jb85mQ9...
Take note of what the GO☭ does quietly. Quietly restoring slashed funds. Why the secrecy?
Will funders of supremacist totalitarianism birthing be unhappy?
Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood - POLITICO share.google/cxwa7Jb85mQ9...
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always read @lawdorknews.bsky.social
Here's my full report at Law Dork on today's big Supreme Court arguments: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-lik...
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
always read @lawdorknews.bsky.social
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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*
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*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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*
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*
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ICE agents are stalking the streets of Minneapolis demanding that random brown people provide proof of citizenship.
We good with that, America?
I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.
We good with that, America?
I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.
January 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM
ICE agents are stalking the streets of Minneapolis demanding that random brown people provide proof of citizenship.
We good with that, America?
I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.
We good with that, America?
I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.
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ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
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Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver
ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.
sahanjournal.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
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Something horrifying is happening in America: Because he was filming ICE Nazis, whuch is protected under the constitution, an American citizen in St. Paul, Minnesota was brutalized to the point of becoming unresponsive. What happened in Nazi Germany is happening in America. 😳👇
January 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Something horrifying is happening in America: Because he was filming ICE Nazis, whuch is protected under the constitution, an American citizen in St. Paul, Minnesota was brutalized to the point of becoming unresponsive. What happened in Nazi Germany is happening in America. 😳👇
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
January 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...