The Guardian now has live feed tracking the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents: see /1 in this thread.

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/38

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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
/37

"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."

~ Minneapolios Star Tribune

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
/36

startribune.com/death-of-man-a…

"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
/35

hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-cou…

Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.

Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,

“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
/34

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."

Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
/33

"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."

The father, Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, was detained near Powderhorn Park on Jan. 22, while returning home from a grocery store with his daughter, according to lawyers for the family."

~ Susan Du and Mara Klecker

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty
/32

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"'Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,' the official explained.

The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct."

#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #immigrants #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/31

"The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to 'send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,' a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me."

~ Ken Klippenstein

#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/30

kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-maki…

"That threat relates back to a post I wrote two weeks ago about the risk Trump would use his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights as though they were terrorists. Now it’s a reality."

#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/29

"Today in Portland, Maine, ICE agents began videotaping people who were observing them. Apparently, they thought this was clever. When asked why they were doing it, the agent in the video below responds: 'We have a nice little database.' 'And now you’re a domestic terrorist.'”

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/28

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"ICE is the worst of America, indeed perhaps the worst of humanity – a window into the corruption that is possible in the human soul. They are animals with the gall to call themselves men."

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/24

"[Pictures of Liam used as bait by ICE] make plain the sheer sadism of ICE and their agenda, the smallness, cowardice and moral degeneracy of people who would arm themselves to the teeth and cover their faces in order to attack a child not yet big enough to tie his own shoes."

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/23

"It need not detract from the specificity of Liam and his suffering to say that his arrest and the photos of it that were released by the school that wants him back, are a potent symbol of what Trump’s ICE raids are doing, both to Minneapolis and to the country as a whole."

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/22

"Liam’s plain blamelessness, his innocence, the useless cruelty of his capture, the bald, shameless cynicism of his use as 'bait' to capture the adults who love him – these evidence an evil I was naive enough not to know about. I am not so naive anymore."

~ Moira Donegan

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/21

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"You're using a 5-year-old to to bait other adults to come out and then you still detain the 5-year-old while another relative is there saying if you've got to take the father at least leave the child with us and then refuses to do that. Like you you've lost your humanity. What on earth?"

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/20

Jemar Tisby comments on the story of ICE using five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to lure his family out of their house, then sending Liam and his father to Texas:

"You've lost the plot as a human being at this point."

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/19

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"No one in this family is a criminal — least of all, a five-year-old boy.

But what ICE did was not an error. It was the policy working as designed."

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/18

"And because they did everything right, ICE knew exactly where to find them.

Agents didn’t have to investigate. They didn’t have to dismantle a criminal network or put themselves at risk. They simply showed up at a home and detained a preschooler whose backpack was still on his shoulders, despite having no deportation order and no allegation of criminality."

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/17

"Liam is five years old. He wasn’t hiding and his family wasn’t evading the law. They entered through a legal port of entry and applied for asylum, checked in repeatedly with immigration authorities and did everything the United States asked of them — because that is what the law required."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/16

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/t…

Truscott enumerates the ways in which Trump is losing:

He’s losing his health.

He’s losing supporters.

He’s losing Republicans in the House and Senate.

He’s going to lose the midterms.

He’s losing it with ICE.

He’s losing it internationally.

He’s losing it with Wall Street and Banks.

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
/14

(continued from /12)

"he won the 2020 election that he lost; the prices of things like electricity and food and drugs and health care that everyone else knows are going up, he thinks are going down 400 or a thousand percent or whatever number he’s got stuck in his mind; he’s the greatest president ever, greater even than Washington and Lincoln; and on and on. But it’s not working, and he knows it, and his people know it."

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
/13

"He’s 'losing it,' as the saying goes. He is more and more visibly disconnected from the reality the rest of us, and the rest of the world, live in. They can still shoot him up with something that is not vitamin B and wheel him out in front of the public and the press and turn him loose to babble the lies that make him so happy to repeat over and over —" (continued in /13)

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
/12

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

"Trump is privately frustrated that chaotic scenes and protests in Minnesota are undermining his immigration message, with aides scrambling to shift focus from clashes and a fatal ICE shooting to highlighting arrests of alleged criminals, even as polling shows growing public concern that ICE tactics have gone too far and risks mounting political fallout ahead of the midterms."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #immigrants
/11

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/imp…

"Donald Trump has built what his first term only suggested-an interconnected infrastructure of fear aimed at mixed‑status families and immigrant‑heavy cities. It is not just hundreds of thousands of deportations with a goal of millions; it is the way government has been remade so that daily life itself is risky."

~ Mark Mansour

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #immigrants #fascism
/10

mmansour.substack.com/p/the-in…

"We should be filled with confidence in light of the example set by Minnesotans. But we must also be realistic. It will get worse before it gets better."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/9

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/m…

Rupar:

"Obviously we've had natural disasters, we've had, you know, different sorts of tragedies that have befallen communities, but when you're targeted by the government that is supposed to represent you for kind of pretextual reasons that are obviously very political in nature… It's a really, it's just really surreal to live through that. It's nothing that I expected to go through."

#Minneapolis #Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/8

David Nir talks with Aaron Rupar, who lives in Minneapolis and describes to Nir what it has been like living in a city occupied by lawless masked thugs. Nir states,

"This kind of collective punishment is absolutely part of the fascist playbook. It is something that Trump and Stephen Miller and Bovino all want."

#Minneapolis #Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/7

publicnotice.co/p/life-in-besi…

The interview Status Coup conducted with a protester, which Heather Cox Richardson transcribes in the thread above, is at the link below, starting at about the 1.04 mark.

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/6

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(continued from /4)

'"hit people with beanbag guns and batons for exercising their First Amendment rights, they don’t want people to, you know, exercise their Second Amendment rights, and certainly their Fourth, but also the Fourteenth, you know, basically, they’re attacking the whole Constitution.'”

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/5

"He continued: 'T]here was a memo that came out that said that they think they can break into people’s houses without warrants, you know, basically just like, trust us, which is, you know, fundamentally against the Fourth Amendment. And so if you look at the amendments, I mean, they’re trying to tear it down the First, they’ve gassed people, they’ve shot people, you know,'" (continued in /5)

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/4

"He explained: '[T]here is a minority who is trying to create a post-law, orderless, lawless society, where their might makes right. And because, you know, they have guns and are willing to use them, they think they can suspend the Constitution, suspend habeas corpus…, suspend civil liberties, generally speaking.'"

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/3

"Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St. Paul by federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Status Coup News interviewed a protester walking down the street holding a sign that said: 'CLASSIC NAZI BLUNDER: INVADING IN WINTER.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Minnesota #MaskedThugs
/2

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

Horrifying news just coming out this morning of armed and masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis and then shooting him several times. Reports I'm seeing in various places say that he has died.

There's video that caught the whole horrific scene.

huffpost.com/entry/video-shows…

See also bsky.app/profile/mattdelong.bs…

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/1

"Nearby, ICE officers ate at a local Mexican restaurant, then followed workers after their shifts ended and detained them.

This is the reality of America today."

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #fascism #Minnesota #violence
/3

"In Texas, a migrant died in ICE custody at an immigration detention facility. Witnesses say his final words were 'I can’t breathe' as five ICE officers placed their body weight on him. A medical examiner is expected to rule the death a homicide. In Minneapolis, a six-month-old baby was rushed to the hospital after ICE agents tear-gassed the family’s vehicle."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #fascism #Minnesota #violence
/2

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"Renee Good had two gunshots wounds to the right side of her chest, one to her left forearm, and a possible fourth on the left side of her head, according to a fire department report released Thursday along with police reports and 911 transcripts."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #murder #fascism
/1

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

"What’s happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports simply don’t do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities. …

Let’s be very, very clear" this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government."

~ Tim Walz

#Trump #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #ReneeGood
/33

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"A federal officer has shot a man in the leg during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, sparking protests in a city still on edge after the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent last week. ...

Multiple sources in networks of legal aid and mutual aid groups said they believed a pregnant woman needing medical attention was not able to get access to a physician."

~ Maanvi Singh and Gabrielle Canon

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota
/4

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

"In multiple confrontations in the Minneapolis area, agents repeatedly referred to civilians learning their lesson — in an apparent nod to the use of deadly force in Ross’s killing. In a video posted to Reddit, a masked ICE agent can be heard repeatedly admonishing a driver to 'go home to your kids.' ...

'You did not learn from what just happened?' the ICE agent asks. 'Go home to your kids.'”

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota
/3

"Amid heated protests in Minneapolis following the killing of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross, federal agents have repeatedly invoked Good’s death to threaten the lives of observers and demonstrators in Minnesota."

~ Noah Hurowitz

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota
/2

theintercept.com/2026/01/14/ic…

"Donald Trump is now openly threatening to invoke the insurrection act for Minnesota following a night of demonstrations across Minneapolis."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota
/1

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre…

"What kind of monsters grab children and take them outside without clothes? Who does that? What kind of governmental entity permits its agents to abuse American citizens and non-citizens without the slightest concern for their rights, their well-being, indeed their basic humanity?"

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #Chicago #violence #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025
/23

americaamerica.news/p/got-a-mi…

"To put those numbers into perspective, our current rating of 54 puts the U.S. below experts’ ratings of democracy in Mexico and Poland; the projected rating of 47 puts the U.S. on par with experts’ current rating of Israel and in the neighborhood of experts’ 2022 ratings of Brazil and the Philippines."

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #Chicago #violence #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025
/22

"But in response to Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and actions after taking office, the experts’ rating (the green line in the chart below) fell to 55 in February and to 54 in September. Experts also now project that the U.S. rating will drop further to 47 by 2027."

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #Chicago #violence #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025
/21

"Between the first Bright Line Watch survey in 2017 and 2024, which notably included Trump’s first term, the experts had rated the U.S. generally in the high 60s on a scale from zero (complete dictatorship) to one hundred (perfect democracy). As recently as the 2024 election, experts had given the U.S. a rating of 67."

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #Chicago #violence #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025
/20

"This week, a new A 'Bright Line Watch' survey of over 700 leading American political scientists found that their rating of the U.S. as a functioning liberal democracy fell precipitously since Trump took office in January."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #Chicago #violence #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025
/19

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"Such public spectacles are designed to send a message that 'we are all-powerful, we can humiliate and harm you' and terrorize the population. …

Chicago was a teaching moment for police and other state security forces nationally: they are being told by White House shadow chief Stephen Miller and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that they are now 'unleashed' and their hands 'untied.'"

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #fascism #MaskedThugs #RussellVought #Project2025
/18

"The Chicago assault reminded me of Pinochet’s attacks on neighborhoods inhabited by poor people, and more generally of the treatment the junta gave to 'enemies of the state' of all social classes. Not only were they arrested, but their books and other possessions were thrown into the street, and objectionable books were burned by Chilean soldiers."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #fascism #MaskedThugs #RussellVought #Project2025
/17

lucid.substack.com/p/war-on-am…

"Living in America today is like being in a permanent state of whiplash."

~ Alexandra Hall Hall

#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism
/16

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