Tracy
American living in Switzerland with my husband, dog and 2 cats. A little concerned that my goal in life is to spend as little time as possible dealing with humans.
- Reposted by TracySo much of ICE and CBP’s violence is just them doing the violence — no even pretense that they’re under threat or that force is justified. They’re using pepper spray and tear gas to express annoyance.
- Reposted by TracyThe Trump administration is considering opening an ICE facility in a Mississippi warehouse that would hold 8,500 people—far more than any current ICE facility. But local opposition is growing—including from Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-proposal...
- Reposted by TracyIs your county electing its sheriff or prosecutor this year? These are critical officials for criminal justice and law enforcement, and our database flags where these races are happening in 2026.
- Reposted by TracyAlarming new details about ICE facial recognition: -DHS secretly rolled back its rules on the tech (which forbid current uses) -No gallery of potential matches or confidence threshold ratings (standard practices for the tech) -Agents told to prioritize it over fingerprint (which is more reliable)
- Reposted by TracyEXCLUSIVE:Marsha Blackburn faces allegations of 'flagrant violations' of campaign laws in race for Tennessee governor www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
- Reposted by TracyBREAKING: The Senate just confirmed Justin Olson to a lifetime judgeship in Indiana. Party-line vote. Olson is one of the most extreme judicial nominees of Trump's second term. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/justin-ols...
- Reposted by Tracy“The Lake Street Council estimated that the corridor’s more than 1,000 immigrant-owned businesses lost a cumulative $46 million in December and January.” 1/ www.startribune.com/ice-economic...
- Reposted by TracyA dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”
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- Reposted by TracyWhere’s Kushner’s FARA filing on the billions he receives from foreign governments?
- Reposted by TracyWhat an incredible message to put out into the world while heading towards the midterms. "Republicans 2026: Donald Trump demands that you pay him $10 billion."
- Reposted by TracyNo one should be opposed to this.
- Reposted by TracyRFK is using his position to push things that have never shown any benefit in autism & have shown serious harms, including numerous dead kids thru the years. Why push for things known to harm instead of looking for things that could actually provide benefit? Because the harmful things are profitable
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- Reposted by TracyCivil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
- Reposted by TracyWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by TracyUsed to be that the NPB was a time that Rs and Ds purported (yes, purported) to set aside their partisan differences to pray together. It was bullshit then, but now, you *cannot* set aside "partisan" differences to pray with a dictator running a concentration camp that our dictator sent people to.
- Any Democrat at House-led National Prayer Breakfast is giving credibility not just to #ChristianNationalist event that undermines American values but is also providing "bipartisan" platform for Trump & Bukele to bask in fake piety while pushing their authoritarian visions.
- Reposted by TracyWrote about the pleasure that conservatives took from the killings by ICE recently open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
- Reposted by TracyAs The Washington Post goes dark, today is a good day to give your money to nonprofit newsrooms like @mississippifreepress.org. Far from laying people off, we're hiring *more* journalists and growing vital, democracy-building work. And we have no paywalls! Give here: givebutter.com/mfpdonate
- Reposted by TracyThere is no way to really separate these two parts of the Minnesota occupation (the ethnic cleansing and the ideological terror). Both of these two things are central to how ICE operates, so we’re going to see Homan saying how ICE is normalizing to make everyone forget about the ideological terror.
- Reposted by TracyAfter 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
- Reposted by TracyYou have to read this. Must read this. Nick Shirley is taking his vigilanteism across the country, terrorizing childcare providers well beyond Minnesota. This is how the American right works. Vicious losers like Shirley get elevated, profit from terrorizing innocent people. ⬇️
- After Trump elevated a video with unfounded claims of fraud in Somali-American run childcares and used it as context for the ICE occupation of Minnesota, childcare providers around the country have been subject to vigilante harassment and surveillance www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- Reposted by TracyFrom 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters. (H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social) www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
- Reposted by TracyNew: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer” www.propublica.org/article/why-...
- Reposted by TracyIf you're thinking to yourself that prayer and praise for Pete Hegseth is some kind of cognitive dissonance, you need to listen to the Reign of Error episode with @julieingersoll.bsky.social, in which we discuss Hegseth's Christianity and his God of War: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...
- Reposted by TracyThis speaks volumes about the so-called “Christians” who host this event. Disgusting.
- Reposted by TracyI’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
- Reposted by TracyReddit’s conspiracy theory board, which boasts 856,000 active weekly users, has long been unabashedly pro-Trump. That blind loyalty is now cracking, @rothschildmd.bsky.social explains.
- Reposted by Tracy(First term, this would have been a story. Second term, I'm wondering if it was even worth my time to post on social.)
- Reposted by TracyThree Trump Administration members and two GOP senators also among the speakers. worldlibertyforum.com/speakers
- Reposted by TracyFIFA president Gianni Infantino is among the speakers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago for a forum hosted by Trump's crypto venture.
- Reposted by TracyHard to imagine an event more effective at discrediting organized religion
- Reposted by TracyThe only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
- Flooding the zone with shit, but for the legal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by TracyRep. Ben Cline at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We are reminded that leadership is not only about policy and power, but about character, conscience, and the recognition that all authority that all authority is ultimately accountable to God. We are honored to welcome President Bukele."
- Reposted by TracyThe Trump admin is ALSO changing the rules so that rather than 30 days to file a Notice of Appeal, people will now only have 10 days (in most cases). That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!
- Reposted by Tracy🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
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- Reposted by TracyYour reminder that you should avoid reading Politico, Axios and Senator pieces as they seem almost deliberately designed to mislead and provoke outrage. I've blocked them all here so I don't even see the rage-bait social media posts. It's improved my mood considerably.
- Reposted by TracyAgain they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad
- Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by TracyIn all its link cruft glory www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by TracyI'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
- Reposted by TracyYou can use this information to contact your Senators. Please do it! 2/
- Reposted by TracyVia NCR Opinion - A wealthy pair of Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will the non-profit institutions they support care? #ICE #Missouri #Trump #Catholic www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
- Reposted by TracyI think it's important that people know that the institute where this guy--who argues that ICE needs to be MORE like the Gestapo--is a fellow also runs a program to help educate sheriffs on political thought. That's ... not good.
- Reposted by TracyStriking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)
- Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by TracyEventually, counsel for the detained individuals gets their say. Among many other thoughtful things, they suggest that DHS is making it impossible to comply with the Court's orders and discuss the extreme efforts they had to go through to get anything from the other side.
- Reposted by TracyYou should read all of it because it makes clear that there is nothing to the Metro Surge operation other than terror. There is no planning, no infrastructure, no legal basis, nothing other than go out and terrorize a community, the constitution be damned. Everyone involved should be behind bars.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Reposted by TracyNew from Montserrat Garibay: "I know exactly what message the recent deportation of an Austin mom and her 5-year-old sends to kids. They learn that calling 911 is dangerous."
- Reposted by Tracy"I'm worried that if I'm the only one that goes, my kids will still be in this country and if I go, how am I supposed to live? That's what I think about," said Vang, through an interpreter. (Notable that local TV stations link to a Go Fund Me in stories. They're covering this like a disaster).
- Reposted by TracyFirst, a story about a St. Paul woman who was detained by ICE. They keep coming back to her house
