Karen Bearden
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenNew, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
- “This is my land. This is where I belong. Why should there even be a question of leaving or staying? The settler, the illegal settler who came here, is the one who must leave.” Inside a West Bank Community Encircled by an Illegal Israeli Settlement truthout.org/articles/ins...
- “Operation Metro Surge has forced undocumented families in the Twin Cities into a cascade of difficult decisions, and activists warn that without an eviction moratorium, the region faces an impending eviction catastrophe.” truthout.org/articles/as-...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenI hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
- Reposted by Karen Bearden"NBC’s Softball Trump Interview Normalized an Abnormal President" I fact-checked Tom Llamas’s deferential interview with the president, in which the 'NBC Nightly News' anchor did not ask him even a single question about the Epstein files.
- Reposted by Karen BeardenWe should’ve known when they brought in Tom Homan The “draw down” of ICE in Minnesota is nothing but a hoax -They’re still threatening protesters at gunpoint -They continue to conduct warrantless arrests -Kids are still being detained It’s only a matter of time before they kill somebody else
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by Karen BeardenShirtsleeve weather today in Great Falls MT...which happens to be farther north than Caribou ME.
- Great Falls MT tied its all time February high temperature today with a high of 70F. To demonstrate how unusually warm this is, here is a side by side comparison of what the Missouri River looked like today versus around this time last year #mtwx
- Reposted by Karen BeardenOne of the largest oil drilling rigs in the U.S. (nicknamed “the beast”) crashed to the ground half a mile from an Alaska Native village. The Village of Nuiqsut is concerned that warming temperatures and shifting ice might have caused the fall.
- Reposted by Karen Bearden🚨 120+ groups just sent a letter to EU leaders demanding an end to reliance on US fossil fuels. The EU is at a fork in the road: it can follow the US down its destructive path or forge its own course to stability and energy security through a just transition to renewable energy. bit.ly/4bpGw3l
- Reposted by Karen BeardenAttending another data center meeting and I'm not shocked that the city is being shady about this. Doesn't want to comply with the FOIA. Doesn't want to have meetings with the public. Just want to usher in the data center and get the rest of us to shut up.
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenRemember the hog #CAFO whose biodigester ruptured in 2022 and released millions of gallons of waste, liquified dead hogs and castoff deli meats, some of which reached a wetland? It has a new owner, and the company already has 7 violations insideclimatenews.org/news/0402202...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenWhat should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
- Reposted by Karen Bearden'Where is the Ceasefire?': Israel's Bombing of Gaza Kills 23, Mostly Women and Children
- Reposted by Karen Bearden"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home." More: propub.li/4acxEeY
- Reposted by Karen BeardenThis is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
- NEW: Meta paid an income tax rate of just 3.5% last year. That’s the company’s lowest tax rate since it went public. Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant avoided $13.7 billion of federal income taxes in 2025. itep.org/meta-tax-bre...
- Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize! actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenThis may be hard to believe given how cold it’s been, but the coldest air of the season is still to come in the Northeast this weekend. Wind chills to -30°F or lower Sunday morning. -22 in NYC!! Holy moly. #cold #winter #ArcticBlast #snow
- “Violence by ICE echoes of centuries of violence against Native people by the U.S. government” @rebeccanagle.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenProfessional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
- Reposted by Karen BeardenThis is huge. Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenApparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it. Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenNew — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenSeems like pretty big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 — who helped elect Trump & Vance — repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island. Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenLiam made people look. Now don’t look away. We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive. #FreeTheChildren
- Reposted by Karen BeardenIn many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
- It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Karen BeardenBREAKING: 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 Karen Beardenliam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
- Reposted by Karen BeardenIn Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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- Reposted by Karen BeardenNo need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
- “Time is running out, and the climate doesn’t negotiate. Physics doesn’t care about political convenience “ @hartmannreport.com open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenLike many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.
- Reposted by Karen BeardenThe president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
- Reposted by Karen BeardenCorporate media is leaving out a big part of the FBI raid on Fulton County election offices. I discuss with @asharangappa.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
- Reposted by Karen BeardenHere’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.
- Reposted by Karen BeardenJust experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Karen BeardenA little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
- Reposted by Karen Bearden@handsoffnyc.bsky.social held an at-capacity training today for nearly 1,000 New Yorkers, covering Know Your Rights, ICE Watch, and organizing & mobilizing strategies. Then, they connected everyone to local neighborhood groups so they can work together to protect their neighbors. We’re going to win.
- Reposted by Karen BeardenPlease read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social books including They Knew. Because…they did. And yet they did nothing. She explains why even as she hoped to be wrong.
