Brigham Narins
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Once at the ICE detention center, Alice and Sofia were questioned separately. An agent asked Sofia if she had had a sex change and if she had a penis. Sofia told Alice back in the cell that she answered truthfully to both questions to avoid the officers from groping her for answers.
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Once at the ICE detention center, Alice and Sofia were questioned separately. An agent asked Sofia if she had had a sex change and if she had a penis. Sofia told Alice back in the cell that she answered truthfully to both questions to avoid the officers from groping her for answers.
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The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which aren’t actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?
January 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which aren’t actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?
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“The same administration let Republican-led Mississippi off the hook last year for one of the biggest welfare fraud scandals of all time.”
Where was Nick Shirley on this one?
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...
Where was Nick Shirley on this one?
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...
January 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
“The same administration let Republican-led Mississippi off the hook last year for one of the biggest welfare fraud scandals of all time.”
Where was Nick Shirley on this one?
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...
Where was Nick Shirley on this one?
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...
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It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on.
John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:38 AM
It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on.
John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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Kristi Noem has been a complete and total failure at her job. She has violated her oath and has allowed ICE agents to terrorize our communities.
That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.
We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.
We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
January 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Kristi Noem has been a complete and total failure at her job. She has violated her oath and has allowed ICE agents to terrorize our communities.
That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.
We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.
We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
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He is going to try something along those lines. It is going to go *spectacularly* badly for him.
Folks, Trump has brought the full force of ICE to bear on a mid-sized city and he can't even stop the demonstrations there. He's not going to be able to cancel the midterm elections by fiat or station his goons outside more than a handful of polling places.
January 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
He is going to try something along those lines. It is going to go *spectacularly* badly for him.
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ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
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There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
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ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
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RFKJ once again scrapes the bottom of the medical barrel to find two anti-vax OB/Gyns to add to his Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Let's hope the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology is the latest professional society to ignore HHS 🗣️✋
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
Let's hope the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology is the latest professional society to ignore HHS 🗣️✋
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
RFK Jr. appoints 2 vocal opponents of vaccine use in pregnancy to federal advisory board
One appointee has erroneously claimed COVID-19 vaccines cause miscarriages.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 PM
RFKJ once again scrapes the bottom of the medical barrel to find two anti-vax OB/Gyns to add to his Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Let's hope the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology is the latest professional society to ignore HHS 🗣️✋
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
Let's hope the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology is the latest professional society to ignore HHS 🗣️✋
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
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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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The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
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So, if I'm reading this right:
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting
Six lawyers from US attorney’s office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ’s civil rights division
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
So, if I'm reading this right:
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
JFC. If you're still clinging to a shred of doubt as to whether the trump admin cares at all about your life, stop. They don't give a fck.
"The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses."
Properly disposing of this hexavalent chromium costs millions. Dumping it in the river is free. Therefore, EPA says do the latter.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Properly disposing of this hexavalent chromium costs millions. Dumping it in the river is free. Therefore, EPA says do the latter.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:43 AM
JFC. If you're still clinging to a shred of doubt as to whether the trump admin cares at all about your life, stop. They don't give a fck.
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In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
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Any other administration, this is an era-defining scandal.
But just another day with the Trumps.
"Donald Trump’s family business has announced $10bn in luxury developments in Saudi Arabia as it expands its footprint in the Gulf."
www.ft.com/content/c493...
But just another day with the Trumps.
"Donald Trump’s family business has announced $10bn in luxury developments in Saudi Arabia as it expands its footprint in the Gulf."
www.ft.com/content/c493...
Trump Organization deepens Gulf push with $10bn in Saudi projects
Hotel and golf development mark first time US president’s family business has partnered with kingdom’s wealth fund
www.ft.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Any other administration, this is an era-defining scandal.
But just another day with the Trumps.
"Donald Trump’s family business has announced $10bn in luxury developments in Saudi Arabia as it expands its footprint in the Gulf."
www.ft.com/content/c493...
But just another day with the Trumps.
"Donald Trump’s family business has announced $10bn in luxury developments in Saudi Arabia as it expands its footprint in the Gulf."
www.ft.com/content/c493...
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I long for a world in which you can catch up with a month-old unread magazine* without it seeming like a quaint artifact created by people who didn't yet know about the current horrors.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I long for a world in which you can catch up with a month-old unread magazine* without it seeming like a quaint artifact created by people who didn't yet know about the current horrors.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
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WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
January 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
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Make no mistake what this is: a deliberate effort to make SNAP benefits harder to use.
There are a million ways to improve access to healthy foods; this isn't one of them, this is a penalty aimed solely at stores which accept EBT cards.
There are a million ways to improve access to healthy foods; this isn't one of them, this is a penalty aimed solely at stores which accept EBT cards.
RFK Jr: "One of the things we're doing is Brooke Rollins is requiring that any facility, and store that accepts food stamps will have to double the amount of whole food that is now available to recipients. So that will change the marketplace around the country."
January 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Make no mistake what this is: a deliberate effort to make SNAP benefits harder to use.
There are a million ways to improve access to healthy foods; this isn't one of them, this is a penalty aimed solely at stores which accept EBT cards.
There are a million ways to improve access to healthy foods; this isn't one of them, this is a penalty aimed solely at stores which accept EBT cards.
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NEW
An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found:
In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.”
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An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found:
In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.”
🧵
January 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
NEW
An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found:
In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.”
🧵
An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found:
In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.”
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This video is going viral on FB, X, and other sites. It’s AI altered and people are falling for it. Please repost this. Right-wing haters are pushing this out everywhere.
www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...
www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...
BBC Verify Live: Misleading ICE footage spreading after night of protests
Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.
www.bbc.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
This video is going viral on FB, X, and other sites. It’s AI altered and people are falling for it. Please repost this. Right-wing haters are pushing this out everywhere.
www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...
www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...
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Jon Ross was stationed in El Paso, Texas from 2007 to 2015. The El Paso border patrol office was under review in 2010 to 2012 because they intentionally stood in front of vehicles to justify shooting. There were 62 accounts of border patrol officer standing in front of vehicles and shooting
January 10, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Jon Ross was stationed in El Paso, Texas from 2007 to 2015. The El Paso border patrol office was under review in 2010 to 2012 because they intentionally stood in front of vehicles to justify shooting. There were 62 accounts of border patrol officer standing in front of vehicles and shooting
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The people who called social distancing government tyranny are cool with the state execution of citizens committing no crimes
January 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
The people who called social distancing government tyranny are cool with the state execution of citizens committing no crimes