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After not making the splash they expected to in Portland, ME, the CBP/ICE thugs went to the rural town of Skowhegan (pop. 8,600) to snatch up a busload of workers from "Backyard Farms", a greenhouse operation specializing in supplying fresh tomatoes year-round to residents and markets across Maine.

Rep. Dan Goldman to ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."

ICE is still very much in Maine. My latest on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Nothing to look at here, America... move along. --Epstein business partner Peter Thiel

This is partly what this Administration was counting on; people either not remembering or remembering it all differently. And it worked, unfortunately… …it’s like if they *do* remember it, it’s because it was initially working for them. They didn’t expect to be affected by it like last term.

Ten years after his first term, watching white folks clutch their pearls over Trump's racism feels disingenuous. It's like folks have no memory.

My latest on Substack, where I talk about ICE at the Winter Olympics and Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Tonight's Substack, on ICE "leaving" Maine. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Entire 🧵 is a must read.

This right here.

My evening thoughts on Susan Collins over on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

The performance activism that's emerging in this moment is annoying. So, I wrote about it. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

"Community and care are vital at this moment but so is the envisioning of something better that seeks to repair harm and create wellness. It is letting go of what no longer serves us, moving beyond fear and to a collective rage that allows for the creation of something better."

I deactivated my TikTok, and I'll miss my decompression scrolling.

Today's front page on @lemonde.fr

This is skin crawling to me because it’s being valorized as bravery But what it really is an admittance that she is so accustomed to the attacks she gets being minimized and their being no defense that there is no point in acting like any care for her would be respected

I wrote some reflections on what it feels like being Black in Maine during this ICE surge. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Absolutely support the Maine Solidarity Fund

I've suggested we point these folks to Mexico or Peru, Maine.

You are potentially marked for death just for showing up. @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social

I saw two off duty ICE officers over a week ago. These people truly stand out. Last night in Portland, two ICE agents were ran out of a local brewery.

Some thoughts on what's happening here in Maine with the ICE surge. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Jim Crow, which was the rule of law and the de facto law of the land until *very* recently, was coterminous with lynching. I have to teach my students about this, because it helps underscore how innovative nonviolent civil disobedience was. Among other things it made it clear who chose violence.

I'm not doing a lot of posting here, but I can tell you, Maine is absolutely under seige. When ICE comes in, they come bringing terror.

A lot of small sheriff's offices hire noncitizens (who are approved to work in the US) as detention officers because, they have told me, they are good workers and they cannot find people to hire.

For folks in Maine. Folks at risk of being targeted are being advised to stay off the streets. This includes Black, Brown, and immigrant folks. The ICE activity is truly all over the Greater Portland area.

"This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism." gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

When ICE arrives in your area, it's as terrifying as you imagined. Sheer terror here. I've been on with organizers and activists today, and the community is doing it's thing.

There are two types of Americans in 2026: The ones who would have hidden Anne Frank in their attics, and the ones who would have turned her and their neighbor into ICE. Eat shit, MAGA.🖕🧊

My latest across all platforms, inspired by current events and MLK day. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

What I’ve learned about American politics the last decade is there is an annoyingly sizable population that does not actually believe in anything and simply imprints on the latest thing they heard on the radio like a duckling

Yep!

Lmao someone threw an open bottle of piss into an ICE vehicle that was driving by

A local Maine writer here writing about what's apparently about to happen.

Watching people who are not in Maine talk about Maine is always interesting. By the way, most Maine folks today refer to themselves as Mainers.

They want us to starve.

Sunday night into Monday morning, I received several tips from credible sources that ICE was heading to Maine. Local mainstream media caught up today. Also heard that the feds have requested local law enforcement support. www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but protesting isn’t just something to do until *they* do something. protesting is a practice of discomfort together. it’s a place for normally unbothered people to practice feeling unsafe and being ok. it’s meant to help us be READY TO ACT when the moment comes

⚽️ @pabloreports.bsky.social on how Trump is ruining the World Cup: migrantinsider.com/p/the-empty-... Why would anyone come to this event, or the Olympics, under these circumstances?

Trump recently said white folks are victims of reverse discrimination. I had to write some thoughts about that. Latest on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Reading about how the administration thinks protesters are paid and that there's some shadowy machine that pays activists is comical to me. I just met with my board at @communitychangeinc.bsky.social and had to explain how year end fundraising was atrocious. Same story for most justice orgs.

just so we're clear on how stupid and unnecessary this is: the entire state of Maine is w/in 100 miles of an international border, meaning CPB already has jurisdiction to do whatever the fuck it wants anytime it wants this is just about fucking w/ a tiny blue city & a gov who protected trans kids

Nobody ever sees the way folks talk to Black women. They only see when we react. And so the people who come at us crazy get to slide on an assumption of civility and reason that we are denied. Even when it is seen, a certain level of hostility is acceptable when directed at us. We peep that.

I've been doing community based work in Maine for years. Prior to becoming the executive director of @communitychangeinc.bsky.social, I was the director of a youth drop-in center in Biddeford, ME, from 2008-2013. We had a community garden program. Great to be remembered. 💜

In case they ARE gearing up to invade New England next, here's a handy resource. maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc... H/t @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social on FB for this graphic.

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