This is purely retaliation. Trump & his gestapo got embarrassed by the outpouring of support for Liam’s family & the backlash against the government’s cruelty, so now they must suffer. Our government is run by schoolyard bullies. We have to keep hitting back—that’s the only thing bullies understand
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report
www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
Oh for the love of god IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY IT’S ABOUT CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
"the invading force will draw down when the occupied people stop resisting" ok bro
Border czar Tom Homan said a drawdown of federal agents will be tied to an end to civil disruption involving community members against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers.
As an immunocompromised cancer survivor, the riskiest things I do are go for my 6 annual cancer surveillance appointments in crowded medical offices full of unmasked patients and staff. I should not have to risk death by respiratory illness in order to not die of cancer, but the system is failing us
this is like if your flood relief plan was to subsidize paper towels
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees
By a vote of 54-40, the
#Senate confirmed the nomination of David Clay Fowlkes to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas.
Dems voting in favor: Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Shaheen, and Whitehouse.
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
New — 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:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
One of the things about chronic pain/illness that is truly torture is that you never know how long a flare will be. I'm on day 25 of an awful migraine episode. It's hard not to think that this level of pain & nausea is just my baseline now, and from there to wonder if it's worth going on.
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"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005...
"Over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves"
Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:
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Also, more practically, people are getting fucking tear-gassed indiscriminately. That shit is extremely toxic!! Respiratory protection is good!
Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
A lot of people predicted, based on his past actions & stated beliefs, that Trump would go full Hitler if nobody stopped him. We were called hysterical and told to calm down.
BIG news from
@bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
masking up is a tangible act of resistance we can commit to today and tomorrow. go beyond a one-day strike. go beyond the protests. because we keep us safe, every day. right?
Absolute tin pot dictator shit
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"people said mean things about ICE so it's not our fault we shot them" is textbook abuser bullshit & a nakedly transparent ploy to get media to both-sides ICE's murders of civilians & detainees, but i fear that because he wears a conservative suit & tie & speaks in a somber tone, they'll fall for it
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
the demands schumer laid out, in light of existing rules and current ICE practices, are not a serious effort at modifying ICE’s behavior in any meaningful sense. they’re an attempt to mollify the base with meaningless bullshit without actually changing anything so they can move on to affordability
Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.
This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/
Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
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ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.
oh get fucked. these positions are to the right of the majority of americans. the bare minimum position is to abolish ICE. the better position that would shift the overton window is (1) abolish DHS entirely; and (2) tribunals for everyone involved with ICE top to bottom.
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
Your apparently weekly reminder that pepper spray and tear gas can cause permanent disability (blindness, irreversible respiratory issues) or death (total sudden respiratory failure). This casual, unprovoked, and unnecessary use of it is extraordinarily dangerous and damaging.
they're going to dox dissidents to foment stochastic terrorism. more people are going to get murdered for opposing the regime.
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
What's the statute of limitations on figuring out light switches in a new house? I've lived here since June and there's at least 5 switches that remain an utter mystery. Are these just enigmas of the universe I am not meant to know?
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
Y’all I saw a doctor today who spent an HOUR listening & asking questions & genuinely caring about what’s happening & who came up with a plan to try new treatments while also doing further tests to get a better understanding of what’s going on and MY GOD is this what medical care is supposed to be??
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Greg Bovino seen leaving Minnesota after his demotion (photo: AP)
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We are all desperate for leaders who believe government can and should make people’s lives safer and better
would genuinely love to know when was the last time
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social talked to an actual voter who doesn’t live and work inside the beltway
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
When you're a paramilitary force, they let you do it
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
I can’t believe it needs to be said but some jobs are fundamentally immoral and nobody is obligated to do those jobs or support those who do
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“The real issue is that people can’t afford to go to the doctor after they get brutalized by federal agents.”
@schumer.senate.gov, probably
Unfuckingbelievable. For the second week in a row
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social’s weekly blast makes no mention of ICE/CBP. On today, of all days, after they murdered Alex Pretti.
(Yes I know these things are prewritten and schedule sent. It’s not that hard to fucking redo it.)
Unfuckingbelievable. For the second week in a row
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social’s weekly blast makes no mention of ICE/CBP. On today, of all days, after they murdered Alex Pretti.
(Yes I know these things are prewritten and schedule sent. It’s not that hard to fucking redo it.)
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
At this point I need every Democratic state attorney general and governor to get arrest warrants and mutual extradition agreements for the arrest of Donald Trump for directing a criminal conspiracy to murder at least two Minnesotans.
Legally enforceable? I don’t know. Let’s find out.
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i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
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ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters.
file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS MURDERING OUR NEIGHBORS IN THE STREETS. THEY ARE KILLING US FOR STANDING UP TO THEIR TYRANNY.
No one is safe. There are no sidelines. At this point, anyone not speaking out and resisting in whatever way is accessible to them is a collaborator.
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"despite a court ordering her release." an agency that consistently violates court orders, federal laws, and the u.s. constitution is not a law enforcement agency, and no serious person can conceivably argue otherwise at this point
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release:
www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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who gives a shit? you can oppose ICE even if they are technically or legally classified law enforcement, because they are brutalizing and terrorizing a civilian population. why are we so afraid of people saying mean things about us? they're going to no matter what, so just fucking do the right thing
ICE is not law enforcement, they are not police, they are paramilitary. Opposing ICE is not against law enforcement, it is not against police, it is against paramilitary.
@georgetownlaw.bsky.social, my alma mater, is apparently allowing ICE to participate in their Public Sector Recruitment Program. It’s shameful Georgetown is allowing an organization that’s trampling the rule of law & the values Georgetown teaches. I sent this email to the public service coordinator
My migraines are debilitating. Intense pain, nausea, light & sound sensitivity, temperature dysregulation, brain fog. On my worst days, I wonder why I bother to keep going. I used to say I wouldn’t wish this torture on my worst enemy. But now I do actually wish it on everyone at ICE. They deserve it
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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I moved & am trying to find medical providers closer than a 6 hour drive, so I tried to make a neurology appointment at Mass General Brigham for my debilitating chronic migraines. The literal first available appointment with any provider is Nov 20, 2026. Health care in this country is a fucking joke
If you need some hope, read this whole thread. The people of Minneapolis are showing what community means, what it means to fight with love. We can win this.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
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