Thursday, January 15, 2026

Knowing Our Rights


Related Off-site Links:
“Get ICE Out!” Protests Intensify After Another Shooting by Federal Agent in Minneapolis – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, January 15, 2026).
Trump Threatens to Use the Insurrection Act to “Put an End” to Protests in MinneapolisMPR News (January 15, 2026).
“Minneapolis Is the Test Case”: Trump Threatens Insurrection Act to Put Down Protests – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, January 15, 2026).
“Federal Invasion”: Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids and ArrestsDemocracy Now! (January 14, 2026).
“ICE Is Okay with Renee Good’s Killing”: Journalist Ken Klippenstein on ICE Tactics and RecruitmentDemocracy Now! (January 14, 2026).
ICE Agents Appear at Twin Cities Hospitals, Alarming Health Care Workers – Erica Zurek (MPR News, January 14, 2026).
“ICE Has Gone Rogue”: Rep. Ro Khanna Demands Accountability As New Videos Show Minneapolis Chaos – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, January 13, 2026).
“Where Were You Born?”: ICE Demanding Citizens Show Their Papers in Minneapolis – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, January 13, 2026).
ICE Using Private Data to Intimidate Observers and Activists – Jon Collins (MPR News, January 13, 2026).
ProPublica Finds More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing – Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk (MPR News, January 13, 2026).
Twin Cities Students Walk Out, Decry ICE as Surge Continues – Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles (MPR News, January 13, 2026).
Trump Vows “Reckoning and Retribution is Coming” to Minnesota as ICE Brutality Mounts – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, January 13, 2026).
Rep. Ilhan Omar Warns That Trump Aims to Provoke Enough Agitation in Minnesota So He Can Declare “Martial Law” – Jon Queally (Common Dreams, January 11, 2026). More Americans Support Abolishing ICE Than Ever Before, Polling Data Shows – Chris Walker (Truthout, January 12, 2026).
The Playbook of Every Successful Nonviolent Struggle – Jamila Raqib (Waging Nonviolence, November 21, 2025).


See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
Steven Donziger: “Let’s Get Real . . . ICE Is a Domestic Terrorist Organization”
Chris Hedges on ICE: “I Have Seen These Masked Goons Before”
Why Minnesota?
Omar Fateh: “Folks Are Waking Up”
Doing What We Can to Stop Unjust Arrests of Immigrants
Susie Hayward on What’s Happening in Minneapolis
“It Was Murder”: 12 Powerful Responses to the Death of Renée Nicole Good
“This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
Karen Salmansohn on the “Duel Citizenship of Being Alive”
“Most Revolutions Succeed Not Through Violence But Through National Strikes”
Chris Hedges on the End of the American Empire
Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”

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