In a press briefing after the hearing Rep. Jayapal said no more $ to ICE w/o reforms. The hearing itself concluded a/o 1:35 EST and former Live link to that has expired but recording below.
I had part of the hearing posted before, but it looks like this is the ENTIRE hearing as posted by AP
3:26:23
> and meanwhile added some more ICE news below <
A few notes: LARGE panel of D Reps
Organized by Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar
Things I heard live included
Jasmine Crocket compared ICE to domestic abusers
Very moving testimony from local authorities, ACLU, others
As well as some very strong and moving statements by Reps.
News:
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“One of the bombs rolled under our truck, and within seconds our truck lifted up off the ground, and the airbags deployed, the car doors locked themselves, and the car began to fill with the powerful tear gas. We fought hard to get the doors open and get all of the kids out. Bystanders had to help.”
— Bruce Little (@brucedlittle.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T08:46:07.460Z
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T17:16:33.495Z
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21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T19:24:38.971893457Z
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In the past week alone, ICE boxed in a Woodbury real estate agent recording their movements from his car, slammed him to the ground and detained him at the Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling for 10 hours. A teacher said she ICE ran her off the road into a snowbank for laying on her horn.
— Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com) 2026-01-15T19:40:17.665Z
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Gov. Tim Walz said the state is creating a "database of atrocities" by federal agents against Minnesotans.
The Minnesota Attorney General's Office has launched a form where residents can share information about the actions of federal agents in Minnesota: www.ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Acti...
— Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com) 2026-01-16T03:30:10Z
INVESTIGATION: Turns out Renee Good was shot four times
Bogus Homan (screen shot from Bluesky)
ResistICE:
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"The first thing I noticed when I got to Minneapolis last weekend was the new language: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars." slate.com/news-and-pol...
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T11:58:06.376Z
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Federal agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul on Jan. 11 as patrons shouted at them, saying they weren't welcome and needed a judicial warrant.
In a post on Facebook, the restaurant thanked customers who "stood strong and protected our community."
Video by Aldora Gutierrez via Storyful.
— Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com) 2026-01-15T21:49:31Z
OPPORTUNITY?
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(SUPERSEDED material, just leaving here for the record)
UPDATE: As of 1:10 EST still continuing
FINISHED a/o 1:35
The first 45 minutes has been posted.
About 45 min
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