A federal judge on Friday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to limit their tactics against protesters in Minnesota, as federal immigration enforcement officers confront demonstrators rallying after a woman was killed by an ICE officer last week.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote in her order that ICE cannot retaliate against, arrest or detain "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity." read more
Episcopalians and faith partners gathered virtually Jan. 13 for an evening prayer vigil to mourn, lament and remember people who have died by immigration enforcement actions in and out of detention. read more
"Jan 16, 2026
Stranger Things
Let's talk for a minute about Kristi Noem, and the reason we need to do so is because of something she said yesterday, Thursday, January 15th.
Noem was speaking to reporters outside the White House, and she was asked if she expects Americans to be carrying around proof of citizenship in case they are stopped for questioning.
Listen carefully to what she said." read more
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires."
All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey.
But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. read more
"It Won't Matter" Elon Musk says saving for retirement is irrelevant because AI is going to create a world of abundance: It won't matter' read more
"At one point, he compared the Trump administration's immigration enforcement with the Fugitive Slave Act, an 1850 law that compelled law enforcement to return fugitive slaves to their "owners", even when they were captured in free states."
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85 year old Reagan appointed judge