Neither myself nor any of my friends would hit on minors or eat people or whatever the fuck those psychos got up to on that island. When we take a beach vacation, we generally just play board games and go swimming. Like most normal people who don't traffic or eat other people.

SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/air-wisconsi...

The House will vote next week on one of several extreme anti-voter bills recently introduced in Congress. The so-called SAVE America Act could block over 21 million eligible citizens from voting by forcing in-person citizenship document requirements. Tell your representatives to vote NO.

Only recently started watching an ICE report map (rather than just happening upon posts) and, like, I knew it was bad but I didn't realize how bad. If you're in the US and don't think there are abductions happening near you, you're just not correct.

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

A few years ago, the IRS got additional funding. What happened? More audits of wealthy tax cheats and better customer service for everyone else. Fast forward to now and the IRS is so understaffed and underfunded that it’s using HR employees to process tax returns. Trump delivers for the oligarchs.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Wrote about some of the history of the Wyden Siren from @wyden.senate.gov and why we should take it VERY seriously when he sends a cryptic letter like he did yesterday.

The fact that this is the conversation and not abolishing the entire agency is absurdity. This is not the defund the police argument again, but they're treating it that way. They learn the wrong lessons far too late and try to apply it to the wrong situation. Fire your consultants, gents.

ProPublica workers have been at the bargaining table for *two years* and are still waiting on management to step up with a fair contract. They're at over 80% on their strike pledge, which is how you know it's serious. Show them some solidarity! Strike fund is here:

At the very least, I’m begging folks to keep the pressure on - even if you think this is a good first step, even if you think that we won’t have a chance to abolish ICE for another three years - don’t let them persuade you back into compliance.

Sorry, but it’s hard to take this in good faith at all after having watched how successful they were at defanging ‘defund the police’ until they were funding the police more than ever.

The fact that people who previously just started to warm to the idea of abolishing ICE are now walking that back to defend these demands makes me think that this is doing exactly what Schumer & Jeffries want it to do, tbh.

STOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates: Walz is PERSONABLE Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED AOC is CHARISMATIC Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL Newsom Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions. Children do not belong in government detention.

Second, this Bouie video about the Fugitive Slave Act It reminded me that the Act made it easy for slave catchers to kidnap any Black person they saw and drag them south. Free Blacks were enslaved. Some (like Henrietta Wood) who had escaped bondage were kidnapped and reenslaved

First, a story about a St. Paul woman who was detained by ICE. They keep coming back to her house

"My daughter is only 6 years old. She should not know chains or handcuffs or the terror of her family being torn apart. She should never have been...locked in a detention facility for 2 months. She should be in school in the US, playing with her friends and receiving the medical care she needs."

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

Martinez is recounting her harrowing experience: after being shot by CBP agents, she drove a mile to the safety of an auto shop where she called 911, got treatment at a hospital for 7 bullet wounds, then was immediately taken into custody by federal agents.

Blumenthal: "Some day we should have a truth and justice commission to investigate the systematic failings." For now Blumenthal says he will not support another dime for DHS "unless there is fundamental far-reaching reform and restraint—in effect, a rebuilding—of the agency."

Already seated, listening to Garcia and now Sen. Blumenthal, are two of Renee Nicole Good's brothers, Luke and Brent Ganger. Blumenthal says Good and Alex Pretti, while here in spirit, "should be here in person, but they were murdered. They were murdered by their own government, in cold blood."

Garcia, holding up photos of Trump and top administration officials: "These people, every single one of them, has to be held accountable for the crimes, for the terror, and for the murders that are happening to our own people in this country."

Garcia: "...we've seen people dragged from cars, beaten, gassed, attacked with crowd control weapons, blinded...left with broken ribs, run off the road...[DHS] officers have been ordered to enter homes without warrants" and the "federal government has labeled US citizens domestic terrorists"

Garcia is holding up a chart that shows how the Trump administration made "ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States" and says this funding has been used "to terrorize, disfigure, and in some cases kill" US citizens.

Rep. Robert Garcia opens the forum, which he says will look at the "use of violence in immigration enforcement" and calls it "a very important moment for us to understand what is happening across this country." Garcia says we're here because ICE and DHS are "completely out of control."

Generally, yeah.

Hey let’s check in on the the health of the First Amendment…

Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

I did a lot of work as a GM, and my players are giving me ALL the levers to pull. If you like actual play D&D, I think this series will be a treat for you. :)

This is Bowie. He overheard you talking about his rubber ducky jacket. Jealousy is a disease. Hopes you get well soon. 12/10 (IG: bowiethegoldenbear)

Lmfao subscribe to be able to read @cnn.com? To be blessed with milquetoast articles that are always basically like "Administration breaks law. Is it illegal? Experts say Maybe"? Are you serious? It's like legacy media WANTS to go extinct Jesus Christ

Seems like the exact wrong time to look for ways to compromise with Republicans and exactly the right time to go for the jugular and secure the thousand year woke dynasty

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

Informer systems are the traditional tool used by repressive regimes for domestic intelligence gathering to penetrate organizations and social circles. I view Palantir as the modern analog because it seeks a technical substitute for the same problem of capturing presence, identity, and association.

I am so glad that sweet little boy is home safe with his loving family, where he belongs, but devastated and furious in a way I cannot express that 3800 other little children are being starved, sickened and abused in ICE custody, many with no-one to fight for them.

Reminder that this is an absolutely urgent need in the Minneapolis area and rent is due TOMORROW. Families in hiding aren’t working and can’t pay rent. Ashley Fairbanks is a locally trusted person and this fundraiser is real.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional. Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."

The first episode of our D&D actual play is live now! Watch me torture my husband and three close friends with plot twists and feelings! I have described this game as "if Jim Henson directed Dragon Age". If that sounds like your vibe, check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE4e...

This is a funny looking deescalation. Sure looks like they're ramping up their capacity to arrest, detain, deport, and terrorize Americans exercising their constitutional rights. Should Senate Dems give the regime the benefit of the doubt and agree to more funding for DHS?

Students at the University of Minnesota, united with hundreds of groups across the country, are imploring people, young and old, to join a general strike on Friday. No school, no work, no economic participation, all toward the goal of ceasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another. linktr.ee/twincitieste...

In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...