Jeff Milchen
Advocate for inclusive democracy and civil rights through nonprofit leadership, communications, and everyday actions. Founder of the American Independent Business Alliance and Reclaim Democracy! Anti-fascist.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenA Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
- This @cato.org report provides great data for one crucial front in defeating ant-immigrant hate. So many people wrongly believe immigrants drain wealth when, in fact, they pay far more in taxes than costs they generate. Immigrants provide a tremendous net boost to our national finances.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenGood to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenThe two CBP federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been on the job for 11 and 7 years respectively. It’s not a lack of training issue, it’s a culture of violence and lawlessness issue. If you’re still voting to fund this, you’re condoning it. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenI get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
- Reposted by Jeff Milchen1. We have a new tool for exploring how corporate concentration has hollowed out grocery access in your region: an interactive map that shows food deserts along with the location of every grocery store in the US by type — independent, small chain, large chain, or megachain like Walmart or Kroger.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenWestbrook, ME community members form a human wall to keep local workers safe from ICE www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenHAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenI said what I said.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenThe rule the Supreme Court appears to be settling on is that Trump CAN fire independent agency heads if the Court doesn't like the agency, but Trump CAN'T fire independent agency heads if it would wreck the global economy
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenA history lesson reminder to the conservative Dems planning to vote for additional ICE funding: The German elected officials who voted to fund the Gestapo were viewed as Nazi collaborators.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenThe first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenIf you believe ICE would heed any sort of restrictions on use of its funding, I've got a complete Epstein file to sell you. MAGA doesn't follow laws, including ones it passes. The ONLY option is for 41 Senate Dems to show 1/1000th the courage of Minnesotans and block cloture vote for funding.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenHaving seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
- Reposted by Jeff MilchenIt would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
