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BREAKING: A U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end protected status for about 330,000 Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status.
The Justice Department’s prosecution of the reporters Don Lemon and Georgia Fort is “best understood not as law enforcement but as propaganda,” Quinta Jurecic argues: theatln.tc/fcStyVnv
WATCH— @krystalball.bsky.social on Lemon: “Trump’s trying to silence dissent. I won’t hold my breath for free speech bros to be principled here, but they should be. You either support these rights or you don’t.”
She points out Lemon humanized the churchgoers too.
FIGHT BACK.
“The administration wants to try to criminalize journalistic behavior… Trump has cracked the code to hurt the media in this country.”
John Harwood & Jim Acosta break down their former CNN colleague Don Lemon’s arrest & Trump’s growing assault on the American free press.
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In addition to arresting Don Lemon, the arrest of my courageous friend and Emmy award winning independent journalist Georgia Fort for REPORTING the church protest in Minneapolis is what FASCISM looks like. This is video of Georgia reporting her own arrest as FBI agents were at her door. 1/2
Are we Putin’s Russia yet? Or maybe Xi’s China?
Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles on January 29, 2026, linked to his coverage of an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18.
His attorney, Abbe Lowell,
#UPDATE: Watch Don Lemon speak following his court hearing
Independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon speaks outside of a Los Angeles courthouse
www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/u...
FINAL UPDATE — Don Lemon has been released from custody and gave his first remarks about 30 minutes ago.
“I’ve spent my entire career covering the news. I will not stop now,” Lemon said to cheers.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Walz: "I'll continue to ask you for peace and I know the answer is, 'You ask us for peace and we give it, and we shot in the face on the streets coming out of a donut shop.' We cannot give them what they want ... thank God we have video ... this needs to be the event that says, 'enough'"
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency that this state is exhibiting and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional absolute abomination that is passing for what these ICE agents are doing on these streets."
This sweet face died protecting legal residents and citizens.
Never forget Alex Pretti.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.
It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.
Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.
Sources identify man shot as Alex Jeffrey Pretti of south Minneapolis The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Pretti, 37, has an address listed in south Minneapolis. At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed some parking tickets. Law enforcement sources said Saturday their records show Pretti had no serious criminal history.
The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame.
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Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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PolitiFact has named 2025 the year of Lies!
PBS has a 7min video on Instagram that goes into the whole report 👉 www.instagram.com/reel/DS-5per...
Basically, the Trump admin lied so much that PolitiFact changed 15yrs of reporting to just name the year “lies” stating they’re were just too many.
How people headlights be driving at night. If this is your car, fuck your car:
The struggle continues 😆 but I'm holding on. Very much looking forward to a new year of hope, goals and possibilities. Hope all is well with you!
Thanks! Happy holidays :)
With a capital T.
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. star in the Oscar winning classic, Porgy and Bess (1959) Directed by Otto Preminger
This is my life all over. Been laid up for 4 days with a swollen knee hardly able to bear weight. This is bullshit 😆 🤣 😂
Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
First rule of chat combat:
Anybody can get it.
