‘ICE bounty hunters’: Small businesses win contracts to track undocumented immigrants

‘ICE bounty hunters’: Small businesses win contracts to track undocumented immigrants

  Scripps News reports: The Trump administration has offered open-ended contracts to 13 private companies for help verifying where suspected undocumented immigrants live and work. A Scripps News investigation found that some of the companies have no record of previously doing business with the government. Some also list post office boxes or residences as their main office addresses, raising questions about their qualifications to handle sensitive personal data and to conduct in-person surveillance of migrants. Just before Christmas, Immigration and…

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India and EU announce ‘mother of all trade deals’ amid Trump tariff tensions

India and EU announce ‘mother of all trade deals’ amid Trump tariff tensions

BBC News reports:The European Union and India have announced a landmark trade deal after nearly two decades of on-off talks, as both sides aim to deepen ties amid tensions with the US. “We did it, we delivered the mother of all deals,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a media briefing in Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the pact “historic”. It will allow free trade of goods between the bloc of 27 European states and…

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Alex Pretti’s final nursing student: ‘Caring for people was at the core of who he was’

Alex Pretti’s final nursing student: ‘Caring for people was at the core of who he was’

Jessica Hauser, Alex Pretti’s final nursing student, posted this on Facebook: I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs…

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Through its lies, the Trump regime is giving the green light to more extrajudicial executions

Through its lies, the Trump regime is giving the green light to more extrajudicial executions

Noah Berlatsky writes: The regime’s mind-blowing dishonesty is ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary. Trump lies about so many things and with such frequency that it can start to seem like a gag or a joke. He lied about the crowd size at his first inauguration. He lied that a hurricane…

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Our Gettysburg moment in Minneapolis

Our Gettysburg moment in Minneapolis

Jonathan V. Last, after summarizing the events immediately leading up to the Civil War’s pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, writes: It’s not clear why the Trump regime chose to invade Minneapolis. Maybe it was animus toward the city’s Somali population. Maybe it was because Gov. Tim Walz had run against Trump and Vance. Maybe it was because they believed the state’s welfare fraud investigations made Minneapolis favorable terrain on which to fight. But when the regime’s forces occupied the city they were surprised…

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Yes, it really is fascism

Yes, it really is fascism

Jonathan Rauch writes: Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump. For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit. For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action. For yet another, the term is hazily defined, even by its adherents. From the beginning, fascism has been an incoherent doctrine, and…

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Trump and Bondi’s threats and demands fuel legal case against Minnesota surge

Trump and Bondi’s threats and demands fuel legal case against Minnesota surge

Politico reports: President Donald Trump’s threat of “retribution” and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s explicit policy demands may be undercutting the federal government’s legal arguments defending its immigration crackdown in Minnesota. A judge hearing a lawsuit seeking to halt the ongoing surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the Twin Cities repeatedly cited Trump’s and Bondi’s statements Monday as evidence that the massive “Operation Metro Surge” in the Twin Cities isn’t aimed solely at enforcing immigration laws. Rather, their comments…

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Lawyer representing Jonathan Ross, the agent who killed Renee Good, thinks ICE has gone too far

Lawyer representing Jonathan Ross, the agent who killed Renee Good, thinks ICE has gone too far

The Wall Street Journal reports: Chris Madel was distraught as he left last Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial debate at a suburban movie theater, where he had squabbled onstage with six other candidates ranging from the speaker of the house to the embattled founder of MyPillow about nearly every major political issue but immigration. It rattled Madel that no one mentioned the thousands of federal agents stationed in and around Minneapolis. No one mentioned the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old…

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Minnesota’s mealy-mouthed corporate cowards call for calm during ‘this difficult moment for our community’

Minnesota’s mealy-mouthed corporate cowards call for calm during ‘this difficult moment for our community’

The New York Times reports: Chief executives of Target, Best Buy, General Mills and Cargill were among more than 60 large Minnesota companies to issue a public letter on Sunday calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state. The letter marks the first time the most recognizable businesses in Minnesota have weighed in on the turmoil in Minneapolis amid the aggressive crackdown by federal immigration agents, which have sparked widespread protests throughout the city. It comes one day…

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Why Minnesota can’t do more to stop ICE as Trump’s actions threaten to destroy the United States

Why Minnesota can’t do more to stop ICE as Trump’s actions threaten to destroy the United States

Garrett M. Graff writes: America has never seen a moment in modern history like the federal occupation of Minneapolis. Thousands of masked federal officers with uncertain authority are rampaging through the region, assaulting protesters and innocent people, abusing constitutional safeguards, staking out daycares and schools, snatching people off the streets in unmarked vans based on the color of their skin or their accent, and recklessly, relentlessly provoking violent confrontations with civilians—all against the loud, repeatedly expressed wishes of local and…

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As Trump loses support from defenders of 2nd Amendment, his last redoubt is unbridled fascism

As Trump loses support from defenders of 2nd Amendment, his last redoubt is unbridled fascism

Funny how the “shall not be infringed” crowd suddenly forgets the Second Amendment the moment it’s inconvenient. The man had a carry permit — and now Trump’s line is “only criminals carry guns.”So which is it? A constitutional right, or a talking point you drop when the facts… pic.twitter.com/68HitgmUnl — House Of Carter🇺🇸 (@House0fCarter) January 25, 2026 Kristi Noem’s 2023 NRA Speech: Noem 2023 NRA Speech: We have been here before. Violence in our streets and in our schools. Families…

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In Trump’s ‘dual state,’ dissenters face extrajudicial executions, while loyalists enjoy protections

In Trump’s ‘dual state,’ dissenters face extrajudicial executions, while loyalists enjoy protections

Kyle Varner writes: The concept of the Dual State, first articulated by the jurist Ernst Fraenkel, one of the few Jews in Germany who was allowed to temporarily practice law during a ban on Jewish lawyers due to his status as a World War I veteran, describes a system where two parallel governmental structures inhabit the same body. On one side is the Normative State—the administrative body that handles the routine, non-political business of a nation through predictable laws and…

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Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil

Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil

Will Bunch writes: In the waning days of the worst January any of us can remember, I desperately wanted to tell a good story about America, and then on Friday, I watched one unfold in frozen Minnesota with an abiding love and white-hot intensity that seemed to melt the subzero air. The sight of as many as 50,000 people packing the downtown streets on a minus-9-degree day to demand that federal immigration raiders leave Minneapolis was a high watermark for…

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Congress can either rein in ICE or be complicit in the violence

Congress can either rein in ICE or be complicit in the violence

Mike Zamore writes: A 5-year-old child detained and sent with his father to a Texas immigration detention facility. Minnesotans shot – and even killed – at the hands of federal agents. U.S. citizens arrested by masked officers in broad daylight. These headlines should be enough to make anyone rethink their support of President Donald Trump’s immigration agencies. The death of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday – caught on camera from multiple angles — must finally shock this country’s…

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