Jess

Or “offensive strike”

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill 3 times more people than car accidents each year.

A recent Spanish study estimated health care associated infections caused >3x as many deaths as car accidents each year

We've normalized seatbelts.
So why aren't N95 masks & infection control in healthcare non-negotiable?

shorturl.at/EydJC

@crimsoncourage.bsky.social can you put out some guidance around the candidate pool?

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event.

They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

Mine says “2 min” and then takes 10 😮‍💨

How odd that no one is asking questions like

- Was he here legally from UK/Europe?
- Where/when was he radicalized?
- Does his religion promote honor killings? Are they spreading this radicalism here in TX?
- Why is his culture so violent?

🤔

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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:

Thank you CPD and Yi-An Huang!

If the test of a theory is its predictive power, then Trump-Russia is the most robust theory in all contemporary political science.

Democratic voters want actual common sense, though: no more ICE.

For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:

Haha right???

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX.

we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.

delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.

—
Langston Hughes

I, however,
Have such meager
Power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.

Poet to Bigot

I have done so little
For you,
And you have done so little
For me,
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

Hand drawn celebratory sign saying “Your’e better” [sic], decorated with balloons and exclamations of “Woo!” and “Yay!”

My kid is really cheering me through COVID 🥹

Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE (RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...

NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week.

It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

Unfortunately the way money held by women and people of color talks to white male supremacy is ultimately, “Take me! You deserve it.”

You mean “he shot her while she steered away from him, then he walked away, all while he was glibly recording on his phone”?

That’s not true as the animosity toward women and especially women of color is deeply entrenched - Serena Williams has shared about her struggle to get life-saving treatment.

💯

@wakeforest.bsky.social law

MAGA’s Response to Minnesota ICE Killing: Don’t Believe Your Eyes Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.

Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

The US is sanctioning judges among whose assignments is the legal reckoning with genocide.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

We are visiting extended family in Tennessee this week, and while I’m also clutching my passport (as one of the millions who doesn’t “look like my (married) last name”), I am heartened and encouraged just knowing people like you stand strong on behalf of goodness, kindness and truth in this state.