“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.

The Allegheny Valley rift over the detention of immigrants deepened last night, as Oakmont council voted against collaboration, Springdale Borough officials declined to discuss their ICE pact and another school moved to keep federal agents out www.publicsource.org/springdale-o...

What should the future of local journalism in Pittsburgh look like? We @publicsource.org want your thoughts. We're holding 7 events in 7 days starting March 12, across Allegheny County. Here are the details: www.publicsource.org/you-have-the...

The pundit case for Fetterman is he's independent and willing to buck his own party. But the party isn't just Chuck Schumer. There are actual voters with actual concerns who supported him. And every day he shows himself to be uninterested in or hostile to their interests. Should they be grateful?

SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI! Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

DHS will almost certainly shutdown tomorrow morning. We need lawmakers to reign in ICE and enact safeguards that will protect our communities. We demand accountability for ICE's lawlessness. Dems are standing firm: no ICE reforms, no DHS funding.

Leading the Clairton dive is @quinnglabicki.bsky.social, who has been capturing the city's spirit and its skepticism through pen and lens for five years.

When Nippon Steel bought U.S. Steel, it took on the Clairton Coke Works' safety record, emissions challenges and complex history with regulators. @joshkelety.bsky.social and @quinnglabicki.bsky.social explored the plant's future 6 months after a deadly explosion www.publicsource.org/us-steel-cla...

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Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

We've reached the Orwellian stage of the ICE discourse in which Democratic politicians are asking their liberal fans to believe that the big problem with masked men committing violence and murder is the masks, not the violence and murder.

liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

"The Homeland Security Department also spent nearly $10 million [to] allow it to delve into people’s cellphones....One of the tools ... lets people take control of phones or remotely hack into them to read messages or track locations." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

If media is going to claim a "pivot," let's stipulate some threshold questions: Is ICE still treating US cities like occupied territory? Will there be serious governmental investigations into ICE killings? Any accountability for them? If not, nothing is changing. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2057...

“Liam is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality ... He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.” Body cameras on ICE/CBP agents are not going to fix this.

Haha boy did this post make no discernible impact whatsoever!

Fetterman now calling for the firing of Kristi Noem this morning, accusing her of "trashing" Trump's border legacy. Fetterman is one of 7 Dems who voted to confirm her as head of Homeland Security last year.

Note to fellow journos: Just because Fetterman would like everyone to forget he broke with his party to confirm Noem in the first place ... that doesn't mean you have to oblige when you write stories about his tweet.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Remember them 🙏

Minnesota ICE-watchers did this. By relentlessly documenting ICE/BP/DHS abuses—taking on personal risk to do so—they’ve gotten the horrors into more information streams. Got more people to pay attention, undermined Trump regime lies, and shifted the stances of some Democratic officeholders.

HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

PRT info (9:27am update)

As more than 2,000 federal agents surge in Minneapolis in an immigration crackdown and clash with protesters on the streets, countless residents are also quietly resisting the operation through grassroots networks sheltering and supporting immigrants.

“The people of Minnesota are showing us what must be done now. It is time for the rest of the leadership of the Democratic Party, from all across the country, to ‘abandon caution’ and join them…history tells us that appeasement never works, and only encourages authoritarian escalation.” #AbolishICE

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day. #WeFeedYou

Heartbroken. Help the Pretti family tell the truth about Alex. “The sickening lies told by the administration about our son are reprehensible and disgusting.” Help Alex’s family as they grieve. Share this.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

A lot of the media has messed up in describing all of these folks who are observing as protesters, they’re neighbors who quickly come out of their homes to document ICE presence knowing that their privilege is the only thing possibly standing in the way of a neighbor being disappeared or brutalized.

Outrage over a protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul Sunday -- which attorney general Pam Bondi says will be "met with the full force of federal law" -- recalls even MORE disruptive church protests led by angry steelworkers in PGH in 1984. (Thread) www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/u...

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.