NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published Jan. 2026)

🚨 My best friend’s sis, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, phone just got turned back on. US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, said she was not transferred to Broadview, now she's in a detention facility in WI.😡

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent." But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

Make it stick.

We have heard from migrants subjected to ICE flights that guards/federal agents lay out the WRAP on the tarmac as a threat: Do what we say on the flight or you're gonna get put in a straitjacket.

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

Last month, 22-year-old Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later. Before the officers could handcuff her, Maria Estrada Juarez asked if she could hug her daughter one last time.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

In his press conference today, Pete Hegseth "used the deaths of U.S. military personnel to air his own grievances with the press," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Still time to sign up for tomorrow's @50501movement.bsky.social mass call on how you can stop 21st century American concentration camps in your hometown. Warehouses being leased as immigration detention sites. Hear from local activists and author @andreapitzer.bsky.social. bit.ly/march5masscall

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, a major motel chain regional manager, “said federal agents with no identification or marked uniforms cuffed her feet and hands, ‘like I was the most wanted criminal in the whole United States. I never felt so humiliated,’ she said emotionally.”

NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up. Really. Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

USAID: Cut to save money, >762,000 dead SNAP: Cut to save money, 40M lose access to reliable food VA Cuts: 63% increase in backlog, >134k claims unfulfilled But there's plenty of money to blow up schools in Iran?

Let me be crystal clear on something: were this law to be passed, every one of the 13 states with Freedom to Read laws would cease to have those laws to protect them anymore. We have poured so much energy into those state laws–which matter, hear me–but they are not going to solve the big issue.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Join us for NOT ON OUR WATCH: Fighting (& Winning) Against ICE Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer on March 5th, 7 PM ET/4 PM PT

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Let's hit the streets on Saturday, March 7th! The mission is simple: Save Science, Protect Health, Defend Democracy. Find a rally near you, start your own, or just get some friends together and have a pop-up protest! Links in bio, or visit standupforscience.net/march7 #science #standupforscience

Students lose opportunities to see themselves reflected. Readers lose the chance to engage with complex truths. Communities lose access to conversations that literature helps us have. Silencing stories doesn’t protect people, it narrows their world. #BlackHistoryMonth

We went out to visit California City Detention Center and found a whole new fleet of vehicles waiting in the lot. @lataco.bsky.social

After pointing at Democrats and saying they are "crazy," Trump says, "We’re lucky we have a country, with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we stopped it, just in the nick of time." Just insanely destructive. Indefensible — but Republicans stood and clapped.

Powerful piece hitting on one of the drivers behind ICE's strategy: arrest immigrants & put them in awful places so they lose hope & "voluntary" leave: "...voluntary departures increased 21-fold during the first nine months of 2025, according to an analysis from the Deportation Data Project."

The Trump tariffs are the highest tax increase on the American public since World War II Yes, you read that correctly What's worse, he did it while taking health insurance away from 20 million people And giving $75 billion to ICE so they can hunt US citizens #TrumpTariffChaos

Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal. Vast majority of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time from January to August last year had no criminal convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Morning update: bsky.app/profile/gbro...

ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia. The cruelty is boundless.

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Please research Kessler Syndrome & visit the FCC public comments to voice your disapproval. Space is infinite but the area surrounding earth is very finite.

see also why your school and library boards have been hijacked and you didn't know. it's because it's not being reported on, repeat, repeat, repeat. the local news landscape is bleak.

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care. Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting. He never returned to her that day. 1/2

Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law" Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"

It is with much sadness that we learned about the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who helped take up the mantle of civil rights leadership after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination and was a longtime faithful champion of the farm workers’ cause. ufw.org/ufw-mourns-t...

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Imagine taking a vacation abroad & being disappeared to a jail for 40+ days for no reason. That’s what this Admin is doing to foreign tourists. It's outrageous & hurting our businesses.  When will other nations start holding the Admin accountable for mistreating their citizens?

ICE thugs pulled over and threatened a University of Scranton employee “I hear one in the back say ‘I think we got the wrong person,’ and the other one says ‘They all look the same, we gotta get this one.’” aquinas.scranton.edu/post/living-...

BREAKING: MeidasTouch and MoveOn are hosting the People’s State of the Union on the National Mall as Dems boycott Trump’s address. Hosted by Katie Phang and Joy Reid, it will feature lawmakers alongside federal workers, immigrants, and Americans impacted by Trump’s policies. Watch on our YouTube.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...