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A federal agent sprays chemical irritant directly into the face of a protester pinned to the ground in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 21, 2026. | Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Over the past few weeks, ICE’s actions have gotten a lot of attention — and if you step back, a disturbing picture is starting to emerge. What’s happening? In the just over two weeks since an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, we have seen the Trump administration:  Wrongly arrest a US citizen at gunpoint and without a warrant, and parade him out of his house in his underwear in freezing weather. Take a 5-year-old child into custody and, according to a Minneapolis-area school district, attempt to use him as “bait” to detain others. Pepper-spray a man already detained by federal agents in the face at close range. And bring federal criminal charges against three Minneapolis-area activists after they interrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, over the weekend (in addition to digitally manipulating an arrest photo). This week, ICE also launched a new immigration operation in Maine — disturbingly named “Catch of the Day” — that is targeting Somali communities in Portland and Lewiston for no clear reason (other than, perhaps, President Donald Trump’s oft-expressed hatred for Somali people). Why does this matter? There’s a pattern to the many, many individual outrages perpetrated by ICE and other federal immigration agents. As we wrote last week, what ICE is doing in Minneapolis already doesn’t look like immigration enforcement so much as a military occupation. But as it expands, and as the Justice Department is used to target peaceful protesters — and even Good’s widow — while refusing to investigate her killer, the more apt comparison may be a lawless security state that is feeling increasingly emboldened.  A memo shared with the AP by a whistleblower this week, instructing ICE agents that they are allowed to enter homes without a judicial warrant to carry out immigration arrests — seemingly in defiance of the Constitution — gives further credence to that image. What’s the big picture? We’re not there yet, but in the unchecked federal power on display in Minneapolis, the outlines of Trump’s nascent MAGA police state are coming into focus. And with that, it’s time to log off… It’s almost time for the Winter Olympics — and if you’re like me, that means it’s time to start getting up to speed on sports and storylines that you might not follow outside of a four-year cycle. I’ve really enjoyed Kathryn Xu’s figure skating coverage over at Defector, including these great pieces on Amber Glenn and the “Quad God” Ilia Malinin. As always, thanks for reading, have a great evening, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow!

MAHA’s new food directives want you to know “food is medicine.” | Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images If there is one universal treatment that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again sees for all of the country’s medical problems, it’s food.   Borrowing a phrase that has become ubiquitous in health policy circles and the influencer ecosystem that drives so much of our discourse these days around health and wellness, Kennedy has declared: “Food is medicine.” And this month’s release of new dietary guidelines for the country portrayed better eating as the cure to America’s chronic disease crisis. “My message is clear: Eat real food,” Kennedy said when announcing his new inverted food pyramid. It is a message that resonates — and for good reason. Many chronic health problems, from hypertension to diabetes, can be the consequences of a poor diet. Ultra-processed foods have been the target of criticism not just from Kennedy but a wide range of medical and public health groups in the past few years.  But there’s a major problem with Kennedy’s vision: Simply insisting that people “eat real food” does not make it any easier for them to find or afford nutrient-rich meals in a country where most grocery stores are awash in fatty, sugary, and salty treats and over-processed foods.  Instead, he places the onus for healthy eating on the consumer rather than focusing on improving the food environment that makes it so hard for many Americans to eat healthy diets in the first place. “It’s part of the whole MAHA movement to promote individual responsibility. That’s the constant mantra. Do your own research and make your own personal decision about how you feel about these things, irrespective of the science,” said Marion Nestle, a long-time nutrition policy researcher at New York University. “But we know from decades, and decades, and decades of research that individual responsibility is not enough.” The hidden meaning in RFK Jr.’s “food is medicine” message Even though doctors and nutritionists have been clear about the negative impacts of consuming too much ultra-processed foods, Kennedy’s were the first federal guidelines to discourage eating them. He gets credit for this.  But the guidelines themselves are still a bit wacky. They overemphasize protein based on the latest nutrition science, set unrealistic expectations around a “zero sugar” diet for kids, and endorse certain foods — specifically beef tallow — that continue to befuddle even the nutrition experts who largely agree with the recommendations. Sign up for the Good Medicine newsletter Our political wellness landscape has shifted: new leaders, shady science, contradictory advice, broken trust, and overwhelming systems. How is anyone supposed to make sense of it all? Vox’s senior correspondent Dylan Scott has been on the health beat for more than a decade, and every week, he’ll wade into sticky debates, answer fair questions, and contextualize what’s happening in American health care policy. Sign up here. By adopting fairly conventional dietary advice, Kennedy has attracted widespread support for his food agenda. I spoke with a number of nutrition experts who, while uncomfortable with Kennedy’s actions on, for example, vaccines, still feel his tenure represents an opportunity to improve people’s eating habits and, as Kennedy himself would say, to address the underlying issues driving up rates of diabetes, hypertension, and more.  Ideally, they told me, we could have the best of both worlds: a healthy eating agenda that everyone from Kennedy and MAHA to the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics could get on board with, while embracing the best public health practices that have proven their value over the last half century. But there’s a very real risk here, too. The problem with labeling food as medicine, as Kennedy does, is it could be construed as meaning food instead of medicine. And…