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We're gonna win
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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January 31, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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This is what “school choice” advocates want to bring to every state, because they hate that public schools are for everyone.
😳 Arizona is hemorrhaging $1 billion annually into a voucher program that primarily subsidizes families already in private schools while draining essential funding from public classrooms and state infrastructure.

coppercourier.com/2026/01/28/v...
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Goddamn - he (and his people) really know how to do this.
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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1/30: A large crowd gathered earlier today at the Amazon Web Services Headquarters in Santa Monica. Protestors say they want to hold Amazon accountable for providing web services to ICE.
January 30, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Local advocacy matters.
January 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Members of Congress were denied entry to an ICE facility in Minnesota, despite a valid court order.

We're working with Democracy Forward to represent more than a dozen members of Congress challenging DHS and ICE attempts to block this crucial oversight.
americanoversight.org/members-of-c...
Members of Congress Seek Court Order to Restore Oversight of ICE Facilities
We’re representing members of Congress in their case seeking to stop DHS from blocking congressional oversight of ICE facilities, after members of the Minnesota delegation were denied access to…
americanoversight.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Sen. Tillis: “Senator Graham mentioned a $10 billion lawsuit from the president. Really? Where’s that money come from, the money fairies or your pocket?…Seems silly.”
January 30, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.

DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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BREAKING: Hundreds of high schoolers are protesting outside of their school in Asheville, North Carolina today. Our next generation will save us!
January 30, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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NOW: National Shutdown Rally and anti-ICE protest fills Foley Square in New York City.

People gathered this morning to clear the square of snow 👏

There are protests happening right now in: LA, DC, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Charlotte, Asheville, Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Salt Lake City & more!
January 30, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Sen. Graham: “Donald Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion because somebody at the IRS may have leaked his records. You should sue. If our government can only be sued by people not in it, then people like us are lambs to the slaughter.”
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Hold on to your beer @proptermalone.bsky.social

*SEATTLE SEAHAWKS WILL GO UP FOR SALE AFTER SUPER BOWL: ESPN
January 30, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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High school students marching against ICE this afternoon in Detroit, Michigan
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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A U.S. federal court on Friday ruled the Department of Energy violated the law when it formed a climate science advisory group, potentially putting its forthcoming final proposal to repeal a key climate regulation at risk.
US federal court says Energy Dept climate group violated law
A U.S. federal court on Friday ruled the Department of Energy violated the law when it formed a climate science advisory group, potentially putting its forthcoming final proposal to repeal a key climate regulation at risk.
reut.rs
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Schools all over the city, public and private, are walking out today.
Happening now: Hundreds of students from Urban School of San Francisco walk out in protest of ICE.
January 30, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Happening now: San Francisco's Dolores Park has filled with demonstrators for the nationwide ICE Out protest.
January 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
ICE Detention Contractors Are Reaping Massive Profits
The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1
jacobin.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Church St., Burlington, VT
1/30/26
January 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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NEW: Enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest happening in Baltimore right now.

Crowd stretching back over the horizon.

(🎥 PSL Baltimore)
January 30, 2026 at 8:57 PM