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Shawn "Smith" Peirce
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🚨ICE violently dragged a U.S. veteran out of her car near Minneapolis

ICE: Get out of the f*cking car!
Vet: You know I'm a Marine Corps veteran?
ICE: I don't care what you are!
[ICE drags her from car & then points taser at passenger]
ICE: "F*cking move I'll f*cking taze you!"
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
discosaurus.bsky.social Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 16h
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Every American - Republican and Democrat - should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy.

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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money. It’s no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government. Quote The Associated Press @AP · 1h BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. 5:50 PM · Jan 21, 2026 · 476 Views
January 21, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers.

Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
blumenthal.senate.gov Richard Blumenthal @blumenthal.senate.gov · 13h
I’m demanding Sec. Noem provide an explanation for this abhorrent policy & that my Republican colleagues hold hearings & join me in demanding the Trump Admin answer for this lawlessness. 6
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted - in state or federal court - and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
January 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Whistleblower exposes Trump Admin. internal ICE memo that asserts sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment
apnews.com/article/ice-...
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
apnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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“.. Denmark would give the United States sovereignty over small pockets of Greenlandic land where the United States could build military bases, according to three senior officials ..”

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January 21, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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If ICE thought this was constitutional, it would have made horrifying social media content about it.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
May 12, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y) Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S. Arrow) district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.23 ICE immigration officers should consider all available enforcement mechanisms, including the use of a Form 1-205 to arrest an alien in their place of residence, to achieve the requirements of E.O. 14159 in accordance with applicable law and policies. This guidance informs the use of Forms 1-205 and provides to ICE law enforcement personnel a reminder of the general limitations and exceptions that may apply when effectuating arrests in an alien's residence. General Guidelines ICE law enforcement officers receive extensive training on the legal and procedural requirements for making administrative and criminal arrests. ICE personnel must remain cognizant of all existing laws and policies pertaining to arrests when carrying out civil immigration enforcement actions. Prior to entering a residence to conduct an administrative immigration arrest pursuant to Form I-205, officers and agents must ensure the Form 1-205 is properly completed and is supported by a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the BIA, a U.S. district court, or a magistrate judge. This is essential because that order establishes probable cause. Officers and agents must also have reason to believe that the subject alien resides at and is currently located in the address where the Form I-205 is to be served.
January 21, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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This is absolutely true
charlottegarden.bsky.social Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 12h
If ICE thought this was constitutional, it would have made horrifying social media content about it.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Not unlike Trump (and Epstein)
hunterub.bsky.social Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 12h
ICE has been making a special effort to go after children. We can all speculate as to the reasons why, but at the very least it's because they like hurting children.
smith.senate.gov Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12h
A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).
January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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I do not understand why every Democrat isn’t hammering away at the clear mental decline of the president. He couldn’t even get right the name of the country he’s trying to seize today on the biggest stage in the world. Everyone else is talking about it. Why isn’t the US?
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h
AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
January 21, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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While doddering Donald is destroying the post-WWII world order & siccing his ICE monsters on Americans, Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social is back at the bar & in no mood to forgive the idiots who put Trump back in the WH. We'll talk about it tonight. Join us! www.thepoliticsbar.com
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January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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While the news is swirling, today’s “News On Tap" is smooth & steady. We've got your updates on Doddering Donald in Davos, the ICE monsters in Minnesota, the Fed at SCOTUS, & more. Read up & get informed! www.thepoliticsbar.com/p/news-on-ta...
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January 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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While doddering Donald is destroying the post-WWII world order & siccing his ICE monsters on Americans, Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social is back at the bar & in no mood to forgive the idiots who put Trump back in the WH. We'll talk about it tonight. Join us! www.thepoliticsbar.com
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January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Some political monsters are so evil they seem to be immortal. Rest assured, even the worst among them are mortal…https://www.thepoliticsbar.com/p/dotd-for-wednesday-january-21-2026
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January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Psst hey folks this is tonight (9 p.m. ET) and you should totally tune in!
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Federal Oversight & Accountability Town Hall | January 21, 2026 | Portland, OR
Federal Oversight & Accountability Town Hall | January 21, 2026 | Portland, OR Join Attorneys General Dan Rayfield (Oregon), Rob Bonta (California), Anne Lopez (Hawaii), Aaron Frey (Maine), and Keit...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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The gentleman who ICE hauled without cause out of his home in his underwear into the icy Minnesota winter (after terrifying his 5-year-old grandson) was from Laos, one of the Hmong hill tribes people of the then-Kingdom of Laos.

You should know a bit about the background of those people.

🧵
January 21, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Here's Bovino throwing gas at Americans.

Weird how all these big men are in tactical gear, afraid of unarmed American citizens.

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From the minnesota community on Reddit: Bovino Throws Tear Gas In Minneapolis (1.21.26)
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January 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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The American government is gassing its people, and the people elected to lead are fine with this.

How Democrats and Republicans in Congress stomach this is distressing.

My lord.

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From the minnesota community on Reddit: Heavy green gas permeates a Minnesota neighborhood, crawling along the ground as a suspected carcinogenic agent.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale.

It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment.

Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing.

At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
Consciousness of Guilt: An Opaque and Secret Memorandum with Threats of Reprisal 13. Despite the May 12 Memo being addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the memorandum has only been distributed to select DHS and ICE officials. Furthermore, our clients have been told that the May 12 Memo must be treated with unusually strict access control for a document without any confidentiality markings. 14. To wit: one of our clients was allowed to view the memorandum only in the presence of their supervisor. They were handed the Memorandum, allowed a few minutes to review it without the ability to take notes, and were directed to hand it back. They were also informed that another employee had been reassigned for contradicting a supervisor about a different ICE policy. Our client understood their supervisor shared this piece of information as a warning that expressing disagreement with the new arrest policy could result in adverse career consequences. 15. Together, our clients are aware of multiple DHS employees who faced retaliation for expressing their concerns and/or disagreement with the May 12 Memo’s policy change, likely constituting prohibited personnel practices. One client is aware of a seasoned government instructor, tasked with teaching this new doctrine, who chose to resign rather than be forced to teach what they understood to be unlawful.
January 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
In short, this secret memo explains SO MUCH of what we've been seeing over the last months, including this raid of a home in Minneapolis where ICE officers presented no judicial warrant before breaking in the door.

Turns out they were secretly told they don't need one!
A picture of heavily armed DHS officers smashing into the house of a person. All are masked, all carry long rifles but the one man who's holding a battering ram. A sobbing woman cries in the arms of another person. Her husband was arrested in the raid.
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.

Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!
This guidance addresses only the use of administrative warrants to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal issued by an Immigration judge, the BIA, or a U.S. district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence. This scoping is not intended to concede that an administrative warrant would be insufficient to arrest an alien in his or her place of residence prior to a final order of removal or where there is a final order of removal issued by an immigration officer.
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM