Marsh Family--If You're Going To Minnesota

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveils new proposal to 'stand up' to ICE

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has debuted a new proposal, the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which would bar police departments in her state from forming partnerships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

During a news conference on Friday, the Democratic governor said she was sending a “strong message to ICE” and showing the Trump administration that it could not “weaponize local police officers against their own communities in the state of New York.”

On Monday, Hochul sat down with “Morning Joe” on MS NOW to discuss the proposal. She talked about the fatal shootings of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old boy who was sent from Minnesota to an ICE facility in Texas, and said the country had become “unrecognizable” amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

“In New York, we know who we are, and I have to stand up and forbid these agreements,” Hochul said.

The legislation would eliminate 287(g) agreements, preventing state and local police from acting as federal agents or using taxpayer funds to carry out civil immigration enforcement. It would also prohibit the federal government from using local detention centers.

https://www.ms.now/news/new-york-kathy-hochul-state-fight-ice-trump-immigration-crackdown

Yes Ma'am!

Mother of Savannah Guthrie, NBC News anchor, missing in Arizona

The mother of US news anchor Savannah Guthrie has gone missing, officials in Arizona said on Sunday.

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News host, was last seen outside Tucson, Arizona, according to missing persons flyers.

Her family reported her missing on Sunday afternoon, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said, noting that parts of the scene at Nancy Guthrie's home caused "grave concern".

"We can confirm this is a missing persons case, and the family is working closely with local law enforcement," the Guthrie family said in a statement to NBC News.

"This one stood out because of what was described to us at the scene and what we found and located just in looking at the scene," Nanos said.

The sheriff did not offer more details about the cause of their "grave concern".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14rd1ny5gdo

Surprised no one had posted anything about this. The BBC had the best article.

Out with the old? Young Democrats are trying to convince voters to send a new generation to Congress

Mai Vang wouldn’t be born for another seven years when Bob Matsui was first elected to Congress from California in 1978. By the time Matsui died in 2005 and was replaced by his widow, Doris Matsui, Vang was still studying biology and sociology in college.

Now a member of the Sacramento City Council, Vang, 40, is mounting the first serious challenge that 81-year-old Matsui has faced since she began representing the area two decades ago. Vang is among a nationwide cadre of young Democrats who are trying to oust some of their party’s most stalwart figures in Washington, channeling angst that an aging generation of lawmakers is unable or unwilling to mount a bare-knuckles opposition to President Donald Trump.

“I’m not waiting for permission,” Vang said. “Because our communities are under attack, and we need leaders in this moment that understand the day-to-day struggles of our working families, and I believe that I could be the leader in this moment.”
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“No more wash, rinse and repeat,” said Abbie Morrissey, who works at the University of California, Davis, and attended Vang’s event. “We need to find young, engaged, energetic people that understand their young, engaged and energetic populations.”

https://apnews.com/article/young-democrats-incumbents-veterans-election-midterms-9d56be522bea570f586037a6895ff82a

I'm 82 and I tend to agree. What we lose in seniority we make up in vitality. We need more representatives with the vigor of AOC.

Inside The Secretive Operation To Stop Fascism In Its Tracks

At a diner next to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, five men took turns loudly saying a racial slur to prove they are bona fide members of Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization.

Sometime later, one of them returned, alone, with a $300 tip and a message for their server, a woman of color: “Those guys aren’t my friends.”

The man, “Vincent,” was one of several “antifa” spies around the country who had gone undercover in fascist groups. Over several months, he worked out, hiked and camped with a group of committed white nationalists. He joined them as they dropped propaganda banners and vandalized public artwork depicting people of color.

Months later, in the middle of a nationwide Patriot Front video call, Vincent started playing a recording of “Bella Ciao,” the Italian anti-fascist anthem. “You guys really forgot to remove the antifa spy’s access?” he taunted them.

While embedded with Patriot Front, Vincent expropriated reams of previously unknown membership data and logistical information that allowed other anti-fascists, in anonymous collectives around the country, to “dox,” or publicly identify, the group’s members. These collectives vandalized extremists’ vehicles, alerted their neighbors and employers — and, step by step, worked to shrink their influence in American public life. Similar infiltrations have hit several neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups around the country over the years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/to-catch-a-fascist-christopher-mathias-book_n_697b92ece4b0b14e6786b71a?origin=home-zone-d-unit

Anti-fascists just quietly doing their job

Come Out Ye Cowards ICE--Ben Grosscup

Tuskegee basketball coach 'violated' after being handcuffed by police at end of game

Tuskegee men’s basketball coach Benjy Taylor is considering legal action after being handcuffed and led off court at the end of his team’s loss to Morehouse College on Saturday.

Tuskegee athletic director Reginald Ruffin said Taylor had attempted to make sure protocols were followed when opposing Morehouse football players joining the basketball players in the postgame handshake line.

“You don’t do that … that’s a security breach,” Ruffin told HBCU Gameday. “We have security measures for our protection of our officials, our student athlete coaches and spectators.”

Videos of the incident soon spread online. Taylor is clearly animated in the footage, but did not appear to be physically aggressive before he was handcuffed by a police officer and taken away from the court.

Taylor’s attorney, Gregory Reynald Williams, said the coach was “concerned about a group of players from Morehouse’s football team who were acting aggressively towards the Tuskegee players and their parents.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/01/tuskegee-basketball-coach-violated-after-being-handcuffed-by-police-at-end-of-game

Doesn't say if he was charged with anything. This is pretty weird all around.

A Letter to our Fellow Americans: a Joint Statement from 150+ Episcopal Bishops on ICE actions

US is in talks with Cuban leadership, says Trump, after blockade threats

Washington is negotiating with Havana’s leadership to strike a deal, Donald Trump has said, days after threatening Cuba’s reeling economy with a virtual oil blockade.

“Cuba is a failing nation. It has been for a long time but now it doesn’t have Venezuela to prop it up. So we’re talking to the people from Cuba, the highest people in Cuba, to see what happens,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday.

“I think we’re going to make a deal with Cuba.”

Trump gave no indication what such a deal might entail.

The US president had said on Saturday: “It doesn’t have to be a humanitarian crisis. I think they probably would come to us and want to make a deal … They have a situation that’s very bad for Cuba. They have no money. They have no oil. They lived off Venezuelan money and oil, and none of that’s coming now.”

Trump’s second administration has been ratcheting up pressure on the communist-run island nation off south Florida since it ousted the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, whose country was a close ally of Havana and a crucial source for oil exports to Cuba

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/us-is-in-talks-with-cuban-leadership-says-trump-after-blockade-threats

Cuba was the Second Big Mistake post-WWII. Thank you, Allen Dulles. Fry in hell.

Kyrsten Sinema gave $9,000 to man she's accused of having an affair with

A man identified in court filings as having an affair with former senator Kyrsten Sinema received almost $9,000 from Sinema’s former campaign committee in October, according to newly filed documents. The filings come just weeks after the man’s estranged wife accused Sinema of wrecking their marriage.

According to a report from Notus, which cites a newly filed Federal Election Commission (FEC) document, the recipient was Matthew J Ammel, who worked as a security guard for Sinema. He was paid $1,815.91 on 15 October and $7,136.14 on 31 October in payments listed as “payroll”, according to a filing submitted on Saturday by Sinema for Arizona.

FEC records show that between July 2024 and October 2025, Ammel received a total of more than $128,000 from Sinema for Arizona and a separate political action committee tied to the former senator.

The filing also shows that Sinema has formally shut down her Sinema for Arizona committee, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars last year on expenses that appeared to be largely unrelated to campaign activity.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/kyrsten-sinema-senator-bodyguard-payment

What's the female equivalent of a john? A jane? This girl is going to prison and that's a good thing!