Beth Brindle

America 2026.

“I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”
- Gustavo Santiago, age 13

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Replacing Bovino with Homan won’t fix it.
Replacing Noem with Noem 2.0 won’t fix it.
Replacing Miller in the WH with still Miller, but outside the WH won’t fix it.

Congress must impeach, remove, and prosecute every last one of them.

(And vote NO on the DHS funding bill, @fetterman.senate.gov)

Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’ After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve

“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”

How convenient for ICE

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,

"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

Yep. They just didn’t count on it being white people. 🤷🏻‍♀️
(See also: “I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face!”)

And I’m grateful for the observer who recorded and narrated. All these recordings will create a history for future generations, and they leave no question as to which parties are on the right or wrong side of it.

The courage of this man, Matthew James Obadiah Allen, is absolutely striking, especially in contrast with the cowardice of these masked agents, all of them armed and armored to the hilt as they pretend their fellow citizens are targets in Call of Duty. I’m so grateful he survived. #FuckICE #FuckCBP

It's the PTO moms and spreadsheet dads and other random-ass Minnesotans concerned for their neighbors. There is no one central organizing org, just a ton of people who give a shit. It's both beautiful that it's happening and laughable that anyone thinks there's some broader apparatus at work.

IRAQ WAR VETERAN: “I wouldn’t do that in a war. There are no rules of engagement I’ve ever had that would justify shooting someone in that situation… and he shot an American citizen. This should scare the shit out of everyone.”

(From Louis Laurant)

Video contradicts Trump administration account of Minneapolis killing Once again, DHS appears to be lying.

The video makes clear that Alex Pretti was not holding a weapon in the lead-up to the shooting, or when federal agents forcefully took him to the ground

JONATHAN ROSS THREAD: 🧵 I think a certain # of women have seen the video from Ross’s cellphone showing the taunts that led to Renee’s murder.

And we feel in our bones that we’ve left immigration officer territory and entered domestic violence territory very quickly.

Here’s why: 👇🧵

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

Please boost this folks, this is from a Minneapolis City Council person.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

This is the murderer that our disgusting excuse for a president claims is “now recovering in the hospital.” They are all a bunch of lying, murderous, cowardly fucking criminals.

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey after ICE just killed a civilian: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

This sort of news should be preempting every sports broadcast and TV show, but instead we’re all going about our business. The more emboldened Trump and his thugs become, the more difficult and dangerous resistance will be. Our best chance to stop them is *now*

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Funny you should ask. Jen Psaki noted that he could get the House back in right now if he signed the discharge petition to release the files. He’d be the 218th name, giving Johnson no reason to stall swearing Grijalva in. He danced hard around that one. Self-serving weasel.

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

🎯🎯

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Panoramic picture of large crowd at No Kings March in Wilmington. DE

Picture of protest sign, “my favorite season is the Fall of fascism”

Picture of crowd and protest sign: “Her Mike Johnson! I’m not being paid to be here! I’m here for free because I heart America”

Picture of elderly woman sitting in chair at No Kings priest holding an American flag and a sign that says, “Power to the People. No Kings”

No Kings in Wilmington, DE

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Federal judge further limits ICE ability to arrest without warrants, probable cause A federal judge's ruling is a legal win for people wrongfully arrested in recent ICE and Border Patrol sweeps.

incredibly important-- why not so much attention? BIG restraint on ICE: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...