Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids

Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

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New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids

Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

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I’m sure Charles Murray gets just as exercised about depictions of Jesus as a white guy.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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A shift of 1.47 logits is, you know, *unheard of* in election results. It would take a 50-50 split in a prior election and return an 18-81 result. It would take a 81-18 split in a prior election and return a dead tie. This is EXTRAORDINARY. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen@wikisteff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Minnesota state house seat goes from 16.6% Republican in 2025 to 4.4% in 2026. That's a logistic shift from -1.61 to -3.08, a change of -1.47. Applied to a 50-50 split arrived at in 2025, that would lead to a 18-81 split today. Absolutely ridiculous shift in urban Minnesota.

I mean, they just lost 1.47 logits in a special election in Minnesota. You better fucking believe Plan A is "steal the 2026 midterm elections".

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )

Northern AZ, atop the mountain: Heating Degree Days since 1 July: 3098; norm: 3826; deviation -728; ~19% deviation. HDD are a measure of mean ΔTemp from 65 ºF each day summed over a period. See example in next post. The trend for our winter months is down, which means our winters are warmer.

Sarah Tuttle@niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 8mo ago

We were just talking about this last night! This winter in Seattle is HOT AS SHIT. yesterday the high around is was Fifty Seven Degrees. in January. We have been here a decade. It's an incredible and horrifying deviation from the norm.

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

propublica.org

And the ticking time bomb of SSPE (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacut... ) where 1 in 600 infants who get measles get a ticking time bomb planted in their brain that kills them YEARS later publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

California child dies from measles-related complications

A school-age child who contracted measles as an infant died from a rare complication after initially recovering from the infection.

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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

No. “We” are not. 👀🤣 Yall forget PEOPLE WERE HERE ALREADY AND PPL WERE STOLEN FROM AFRICA PLUS— the Mayflower folks were definitely immigrants. Why do yall try to change History? For who? Those white ppl are immigrants too.

Dee Chan@deechan17.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are all immigrants. Unless you came over on the Mayflower. I am an immigrant to Canada having grown up in the US. America was built by immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

And the R is an “anti-DEI, anti-trans” schools freak leader! This is a DISASTER for them.

AndyC@andyc300.bsky.social · 8mo ago

32 point swing in a Texas election with the winner being outraised 2.3 million to 350k. That is difficult to encapsulate. There are people in the republican infrastructure *freaking* out right this second.

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

Alex Baumhardt@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Called it.

Sarah Longwell@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The situation in Minnesota is so bad they’d rather talk about Epstein.

This

Over 200 arrested in Maine immigration sweep; families say process is confusing, painful Relatives of those detained describe frustration, lack of information, and rapid transfers that make legal help . www.newscentermaine.com/mobile/artic... If ICE was legitimate they wouldn’t keep moving detainees

Over 200 arrested in Maine immigration sweep; families say process is confusing, painful

Relatives of those detained describe frustration, lack of information, and rapid transfers that make legal help difficult.

newscentermaine.com

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school. Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools. “I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take

Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

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Whereas other authoritarians eroded institutions and asserted control over the course of years, trying to maintain a sense of normalcy, Trump is acting like a man trying to make up for lost time. His governing ethos simply rejects some of the criteria that experts use to assess authoritarianism.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

Hope is not a strategy. But Hope is essential. The world has seen these losers before. You have ancestors who faced similar oppression and yet... YOU. ARE. HERE. We must work to save the world we hope for. But we must hope for a future someone to say their ancestors faced oppression and yet...

It's wild is that the Epstein document dump is clearly intended as a distraction from their failing military takeover of Minnesota and Maine. Yes, they're still doing evil things to people. But they're also losing so badly that every wild swing is meant to recover from the previous disaster.

This week has been a lot. It’s overwhelming. But what is in those files the DOJ released today is a scandal of monumental proportions. People fear that it is “too big to fail.” Maybe. But Congress must act. Yes! we need all the files. But what has been released is already a four-alarm fire.

this is what’s happening everywhere they go in force ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been we are going to win

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

Look. There's no question. I love Bruce Springsteen. He is, without question, The Boss. And his new song, Streets of Minneapolis, is absolutely, without question, an homage to Bob Dylan's Desolation Row. That's a good thing; it's not a dig at Bruce Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=exSt...

Desolation Row (Take 1, Alternate Take)

YouTube video by Bob Dylan - Topic

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Tell me five classes you took in college: History of Culture and Civilization in North Africa History of the Holocaust Jazz History Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces Planetary Global Tectonics

Dr. Adeene Denton@spacewhalerider.com · 8mo ago

Tell me five classes you took in college: Cold War US Foreign Policy Four Modern Revolutions The Cryosphere Antarctic Marine Geology History of 20th Century Science

Perhaps not a huge surprise Elon Musk is in the Epstein files

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.