White woman shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis.

Only because she was trying to do her part to help protect Somali immigrants who have made Minnesota, including Minneapolis, a better, varied and more interesting place to live over the past decades.

Somalis Fled Civil War and Built a Community. Now They Are a Target. (Gift Article)

A fraud scandal has made the Somali community in Minnesota a focus of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

www.nytimes.com

GlasgowJohn , it is appalling how trump and his regime immediately put out a fabrication to blame the victim. Had they waited until the multiple videos giving lie to their tale were seen by the public, they might have crafted a less unbelievable story (though still blaming the victim, of course).

Update: today it was a white man executed by ICE or CBP in Minneapolis. Like Renee Good, a citizen.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads

There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.

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I was speaking to some friends in Minneapolis tonight. The situation is very tense..

i used to laugh at people who would say civil war is closer than we think. i'm not sure i would laugh at that anymore.

In this morning’s Contrarian —

“… late Saturday, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, telling him ICE would pull out if he met a list of unrelated demands, including the release of voting files. Any shred of doubt that this had nothing to do with immigration or safety vanished in this shameful act of what amounts to extortion.”

Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

www.theatlantic.com

Analysis of the military equipment on those streets

Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis

Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used…

www.nytimes.com

Hypocrisy explained: Rules, laws, norms, and freedoms are for others, not for current administration.

The Trump administration has begun buying warehouses in small towns and cities as part of its $45 billion push to rapidly expand immigration detention space. It recently purchased two warehouses — one in Hagerstown, Maryland, and another in Surprise, Arizona — for a total of $172 million. A third in El Paso, Texas, could be among the largest jails of any kind in the US, with 8,500 beds.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

Ethical questions aside (because all ethics and morality have been discarded), I wonder how all this new spending on building up ICE, new detention camps, exportation of immigrants to South American and African detention camps, paying these countries to hold the prisoners, etc compares to the money Elon Musk’s DOGE team “saved?”

I think Trump has unfriended Elon long ago! This was to be expected, as there isn’t enough room for two big egos in the oval room.

Unfriended? Not at all. Trump needs the financial support of the World’s Richest Man. In turn, Musk needs the billions of dollars he receives annually in the form of government contracts.

You are right, serafina , about the colliding of their egos. But theirs is a biology textbook example of a symbiotic relationship.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IlA.emYa.-LLxjW2bBffe&smid=url-share

Now we know, right?