The Belfabulous
Account of Laura Martinez-Ortega. Border town girl in the US Capital. Retired anti-corruption lawyer, unknown author. Writes weird stories. Sometimes with ducks. #NetworkNova #WritingCommunity #SistersinCrime.
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousWe were outraged by Liam, but Diana is a young girl that has been in an ICE prison even longer. The wee girl still is in prison. Be loud! Share! Justice for Diana Crespo Gonzalez!
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by The BelfabulousTOMORROW: Get trained on the tools you need to exercise your constitutional right to monitor ICE and other federal agencies as they terrorize our communities. Over 200,000 people joined last week’s ICE watch training. Let’s make this call even bigger: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
- Reposted by The BelfabulousCome work with me! The Eastern District of Virginia Federal Public Defender's Office is hiring an appellate attorney! We're excited to find someone excellent to join our team doing the best law job around. Apply now! www.fd.org/sites/defaul...
- Reposted by The BelfabulousGuatemalans in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood are supporting each other amid fears of continuing ICE raids.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousJesus is 22. Shot in the eye with a pepper-ball while standing nearby. Not protesting. Just existing. Congress is voting to fund weapons that blind people instead of healthcare that heals them. #FundHealthcareOverICE
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousThese are the hotlines to report ICE abuse DHS Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 202‑401‑1474 DHS Office of Inspector General 1‑800‑323‑8603 ICE Detention Reporting & Information Line 1‑888‑351‑4024
- Reposted by The BelfabulousNew York to monitor Trump's deportation efforts with new legal observers reut.rs/3NVJnHp
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousA federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousWe know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousBREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by The BelfabulousIn Germany the camps did not begin as death. They began as temporary, legal and administrative. "For public order", they said. They grew because space existed, because citizens adjusted, because each step towards extermination felt small. It was built, justified, one "warehouse" at a time.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousI almost didn’t write this post because it was so obvious. But apparently it wasn’t. presswatchers.org/2026/01/jour...
- Reposted by The BelfabulousFive-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, boarded a plane back to Minneapolis on Sunday after a federal judge ordered their release from an immigration detention center in Texas. They are now back in Minnesota.
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousHow to film ICE agents in a manner that will make your film useful in their future criminal prosecution. A primer from WIRED. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
- And now, for some good news. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousSTATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL, ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON
- Reposted by The BelfabulousBREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousSeems like a good video for his trial
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousA lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousMassive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA where thousands of students gathered to show their solidarity with Minneapolis and Minnesota.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousConfronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousJust visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousIt’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
- So they sent them on vacation? Nice gig if you can get it.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousThe date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵
- Reposted by The BelfabulousThe regime is trying to dissuade people from doing what Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and thousands of patriots are doing: Exercising their First Amendment rights to protect their communities from DHS. Join the next ICE watch training to exercise your rights as federal agents terrorize our communities.
- Reposted by The BelfabulousIf a random stranger said this, it would be bad enough. But the fact a supposed Fed agent says this ON CAMERA with his face uncovered shows he doesn’t think there will be any ramifications. He’s forgotten that the arc of history bends toward justice. Many a Nazi camp guard found that out years later
- Reposted by The Belfabulous“If you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice.”
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousRead this beautiful commentary from Stacey Patton. substack.com/@drstaceypat...
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousHere’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
- “The president of the United States is like a Roomba. His actions are not strategic. They’re often not even particularly tactical. He simply pushes in a direction, consuming what he can. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction.”
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousI continue to see an IG pattern of a private account with few followers posting comments like "he shouldn't have attacked the agents". Then all these people reply with facts but THAT ENGAGEMENT elevates the first post -- which is a troll bot built to frame narratives. Block + move on, DON'T engage
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- Reposted by The BelfabulousTrump didn’t make America great - he made it skippable. substack.com/home/post/p-... pls read, subscribe, all that.
- Reposted by The Belfabulous"'What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist,' Tracht said, running out of breath as the car turned the corner. 'If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.'" religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
