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“#Ring has a history of #privacy violations, enabling #surveillance of innocents & #protestors, and close collaboration with law enforcement…. The cameras, which many people buy & install to identify potential porch pirates or get a look at anyone that might be on their doorstep, feature microphones that have been found to capture audio from the street. In 2023, Ring settled with the FTC over the extensive access it gave employees to personal customer footage.” | EFF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

Ars Technica: “Capture it all”: ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters. “Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny the existence of a ‘domestic terrorists’ database that lists US citizens who protest ICE’s immigration crackdown.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/09/capture-it-all-ice-urged-to-explain-memo-about-collecting-info-on-protesters-ars-technica/

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#ICE being violent against #protestors is part of the script! #Project2025
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Heightened national tensions have fueled fears of #federal agency murdering potential #protestors after awareness of hundreds of armed #ICE troops invited by #NFL to provide #SuperBowl #security.

#Football league officially issues #NoComment regarding the invited #LEO agency presence in #SantaClara & #SanFrancisco #BayArea for events surrounding annual big game. #DHS govt official states "Those who are here legally and are not breaking other laws have nothing to fear".

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/28/dhs-confirms-super-bowl-security-role-amid-fears-of-ice-enforcement-but-details-remain-unclear/

"#Congress should also be taking immediate action, rather than simply waiting for the #President to settle on a new suite of falsehoods pulled from thin air. As the New York Times editorial board put it: '[...] Congress ought to investigate both the circumstances of the recent killings in #Minneapolis and the broader conduct of the federal agencies engaged in Mr. #Trump’s #immigration crackdown, including their treatment of peaceful #protestors.'"

If only the #GOP in Congress could manage to locate a spine.
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Even Trump Is Clearly Scared of the #AlexPretti Shooting Fallout - https://www.jezebel.com/alex-pretti-shooting-killing-border-patrol-ice-trump-statements-political-fallout-polling-immigration

#uspol #defunddhs #abolishICE #impeachNoam

Three Protestors Arrested Last Week at OSU Career Fair - Ohio Capital Journal

Churches should be off limits

We’ve reached the point in America’s polarization story where not even churches are sacred spaces. Protesters angry about…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #church #CitiesChurch #firstamendment #Minnesota #protestors #ReneeGood #St.Paul #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/368068/

The groups are also advocating for a strike in Gainesville this Friday, similar to a general strike that will be occurring in Minneapolis ...#protest #ice #protestors #martinlutherkingjr #gainesvilleprotests #martinlutherking #illegalimmigration #immigrationsandcustomenforcement #topstories #usimmigrationpolicy #partyforsocialismandliberation
Local organizations partner to bring anti-ICE protests to Gainesville - The Independent Florida Alligator

#Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in #Minnesota, Then Backtracks

#KristiNoem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

By Minho Kim, Reporting from Washington, Jan. 18, 2026

"Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, denied in a televised interview on Sunday that her department had used pepper spray and similar tactics curtailed by a judicial order issued last week, then backtracked and blamed protesters after being confronted with a video of federal agents deploying such measures against crowds in Minnesota.

" 'That federal order was a little ridiculous, because that federal judge came down and told us we couldn’t do what we already aren’t doing,' Ms. Noem said on CBS’s 'Face the Nation.'

"But after being pressed on a video that backed up the accounts provided to the court, she changed course. Protesters were to blame for the use of force, she said, adding that federal officers 'only use those chemical agents when there’s violence happening and perpetuating.' [BULLSHIT!]

"The ruling on Friday by Judge Kate M. Menendez of the Federal District Court in Minnesota said that chemical agents had been used against protesters on at least four separate occasions and called the evidence of their use 'uncontroverted.' "

#KrustiGnome #ICEOut #ICEOutForGood #USPol #TearGas #Protestors #SilencingDissent

#StPaulMN - US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search

By JACK BROOK
Updated 2:18 AM EST, January 20, 2026

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — "Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his #Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

"ChongLy 'Scott' Thao told the AP that his daughter-in-law woke him up from a nap Sunday afternoon and said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were banging at the door of his residence in #StPaul. He told her not to open it. Masked agents then forced their way in and pointed guns at the family, yelling at them, Thao recalled.

" 'I was shaking,' he said. 'They didn’t show any warrant; they just broke down the door.'

"Amid a massive surge of federal agents into the #TwinCities, immigration authorities are facing backlash from residents and the local leaders for #warrantless arrests, aggressive clashes with #protestors and the fatal shooting of mother of three Renee Good.

" '#ICE is not doing what they say they’re doing,' St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, a Hmong American, said in a statement about Thao’s arrest. 'They’re not going after hardened criminals. They’re going after anyone and everyone in their path. It is unacceptable and un-American.' "

#USPol #ICEOut #ICEOutForGood #ICENazis #Fascism

Why #nonviolent #protest in the #US matters more than ever? Because it is the most effective at countering the narrative that #protestors are violent, professional disruptors. When you see this video of #Minnesota's creativity with their homemade #ICE sleighs, it's impossible to believe anyone would get paid to have as much harmless fun. Oh wait, they are all actors pretending to have fun? Yeah that's it and they are absolutely having zero fun, just dreading it all really.
(#MAGA eating itself)

🧵 1) Because a Dementia-addled toddler wants a peace prize he never earned, we will be going to war.

Donald sent a letter to Greenland's Prime Minister, in which he admitted he was threatening them purely over the Nobel Prize. In the letter, he whined because they won't give him an award for something he never did.

The White House says they are preparing "paratroopers with special arctic training" to deploy against #Minnesota #protestors .

They don't need special high-skill "arctic training" to handle protestors in the streets, and they don't need to parachute into #Minneapolis .

But those kind of troop preparations would be very helpful when invading #Greenland .

Apparently, María Corina Machado's attempted bribe to get Venezuelan leadership was not enough, and only made the baby more upset.

#51stState #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize #TrumpNobelPrize #Invasion #Military #MilitaryDeployment #DementiaDon #TrumpLunacy #MaríaCorinaMachado

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg1jg8xkmo

So, what I've read is that #JakeLang and his gang of #WhiteSupremacists were outnumbered by #AntiICE #protestors, and he was injured during the scuffle. Lang got to walk away alive, which is more than #ReneeGood was able to do! #ICEOut! #ICEOutForGood !

Washington Post version:
Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter leads Minneapolis march, outnumbered by counterprotest

The provocateur known for incendiary rhetoric and his dozen or so supporters were outnumbered by a large crowd of counterprotesters.

January 17, 2026

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/17/minneapolis-protests-jake-lang-somali/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/3Lnm9

NY Post version:
Lefty protesters allegedly stab Jan. 6 rioter, GOP candidate who shouted ‘we deserve a future for white Americans’

By Shane Galvin
Jan. 17, 2026,

https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/minneapolis-protesters-attack-jake-lang-as-he-shouts-we-deserve-a-future-for-white-americans/

#USPol #Minneapolis #Resistance #ResistICE #ResistWhiteSupremacists

Inside #Iran’s #protests: ‘Either we overthrow the #regime, or we are destroyed. We have nothing left to lose’

#IndependentPersian has received messages from #protestors within Iran via Starlink satellite that describe a ‘war-like situation’. Amirhossein Miresmaeili reports

Saturday 17 January 2026 14:14 GMT

Excerpt: "Mobina, a 33-year-old woman in Tehran, told Independent Persian: 'You cut our internet and phone lines? We’ll bring hell down on you. We have nothing left to lose.' "

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-protest-starlink-satellite-pahlavi-b2900273.html

#Persia #IranProtests #RegimeChange #WorldPol

#ICE is wrongly using private personal information to harass and stalk #Minneapolis #protestors. License plate readers and personal data in people’s car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation. #Flock is suspected of illegally giving ICE this information.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-data-to-intimidate-observers-and-activists-advocates-say

#minnesota #privacy