This weekend, we kicked off our neighborhood walk on Devon Ave at Ghareeb Nawaz Restaurant, where they said yes to putting up our sign! We are building support one conversation at a time.

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

"Juan" is preparing Merced CA sweet potato fields for the start of the season. He gets paid hourly to make hotbeds so the new harvest can start. He wakes up early in the morning and drives to work in dense fog. #WeFeedYou

This is who runs this account

George Carlin always nailed it.

Armenian Worker in Van Nuys Responds to Dr. Oz: I’ve been an American citizen for 26 years. We are hardworking. I’ve worked here almost 20 years. We are in the United States. It doesn’t matter if you are Mexican, Armenian, Russian—we are all American.

ICE tear-gassed families and community members during a memorial bike ride and march for Alex Pretti in Southwest Portland, Oregon. A young girl is seen in need of medical assistance.

Amy Poehler is right. From housing to groceries to health care, the cost of living is out of control. Young people are working twice as hard just to get half as far as their parents – they deserve a fighting chance, and I’m ready to fight for them.

The federal government has no authority to demand confidential voter information from the states. Making it a bargaining tool to stem the violence in Minnesota is a gross abuse of power. bit.ly/4bj8dL3

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home. Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

Time for another movie.

Pissed-off immigration attorney details ICE abuses and lawlessness.

How products and customer service have degraded over the years, demonstrated in under 35 seconds.

Happy Black History Month, Boston.

ICE using handicap hang tags?

“I was raped three times a day and I wasn’t the only girl. It was a conveyor belt of abuse.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

Context matters… Dr Oz is using his position with the US gov to target the Armenian community in LA. He’s of Turkish descent and has publicly engaged w/Turkey and Erdoğan. Armenians are victims of genocide at the hands of Turkey. A historical fact they deny. Oz doesn’t acknowledge the genocide.

Farewell Finnegan Fox Save A Fox

This year, we're using every tool at our disposal to protect our democracy. We're making historic investments nationwide to ensure that everyone has the right to vote freely and safely without intimidation.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

straight up Gestapo shit

MY LATEST: It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...

HARVEY LEVIN, with an impassioned response to Don Lemon’s arrest: “.. It is obvious what's happening in this country, people. LOOK at what is happening.” @tmz.com.web.brid.gy @meidastouch.com

🚨"One of our friends who was there when Alex Pretti was murdered—he was arrested and they beat him! He had to go to the hospital and get stitches the next day," one of THOUSANDS of Minneapolis ICE protesters describing 73-year-old man ICE beat. LIVE NOW ⬇️

My Congressman’s office put up “no trespassing” signs prior to our protest.

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Maria Santay, a U.S. citizen and community observer, live-streamed masked ICE agents detaining her after they boxed in her car from all sides and smashed her window. Local police showed up and did nothing. She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.

“This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement”

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

Greetings from Kyiv. Saturday morning. No power. No water. No heating. I’m reading that similar problems are reported across the city. Total blackout in Kyiv.

WATCH — @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social’s daughter: “This goes against her first amendment rights as a journalist… this doesn’t just affect me, it affects my little sisters. My father woke up today without his wife. I’m demanding my mom gets released.” (H/T @mercadomedia.bsky.social )

It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black. And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act. Sit with that.

WATCH— @krystalball.bsky.social on Lemon: “Trump’s trying to silence dissent. I won’t hold my breath for free speech bros to be principled here, but they should be. You either support these rights or you don’t.” She points out Lemon humanized the churchgoers too.

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Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Gene Wilder sings the Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley composition "Pure Imagination" from the 1971 🇺🇲American musical fantasy film "WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" dir. Mel Stuart 🎬 Paramount Pictures 🍫

Donald Trump and Pam Bondi once again violated the Constitution. They’re wasting your tax dollars arresting journalists — while protecting pedophiles and the murderers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. That’s authoritarian bullshit.

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 163 Active Redistricting Cases: 46 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 87 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 25 Stay informed. Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

We've seen a significant uptick in ICE activity in Phoenix Arizona. Restaurant chains, grocery stores, and neighborhoods have all seen a rise in ICE abductions. This article was just posted yesterday to our local news.

NEWS: The Trump regime has arrested Don Lemon in its latest crackdown on journalism after he reported from inside a church protest in Minnesota—despite a magistrate judge previously rejecting the case against him as unsupported by evidence.

This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.