Huge news! They actually released Liam Ramos and his father! Please remember that ICE is abducting more people - including children - all the time. And they will no doubt keep trying to harass and destroy this family. Defund and abolish ICE and support immigrants! kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

The right way to get into the Epstein files.

Let them all out. According to @themarshallproject.org, there are up to 400 children in this prison alone at any given time, if not more.

1920s and 2020s have some echoes. More from Sarah Churchwell's BEHOLD, AMERICA: "Threats against their once unquestioned political and economic hegemony made the Klan cast themselves as victims, as they offered any number of justifications 1/

More Churchwell from BEHOLD, AMERICA: "GATSBY's famous ending, in other words, describes the narrowing of the American dream from a vision of infinite human potential to an avaricious desire for the kind of power wielded by stupid white supremacist plutocrats 1/

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

They indeed didn't disband; they just moved to Washington with Trump.

Sarah Churchwell on THE GREAT GATSBY: "Fitzgerald captures a moment when materialism was taking hold of the [American] dream - he registered it, and saw what it's costs would be: the death of hope, and endless disappointment; the loss of wonder, 1/

10/10 ICE protest sign

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

A #PrettiGood bike ride with 50+ friends in #rochmn. Rest in Power Alex . #AbolishIce

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

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”

"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how the #climatecrisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk - As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions Story by me and and Steven Morris www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

To be clear, we're in such bad shape because the U.S. regime has been a detention regime for a very long time. Now the long-term crisis is getting exponentially worse, with funding already allocated to do incalculable harm. But not all the necessary materials are at hand yet, and we can still act.

Phoenix Arizona turning out! #ICEOut

"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."

This is...truly delusional on the part of the one-letter-named platform.

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

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As more reporting emerges about the Dilley uprising led by children, I think reporters must clarify what family detention is. These are jails where children and their parents are detained together, and there is a long history of protests at these facilities because of horrendous conditions inside.

Ontario wastewater levels were just updated. The graph for London Ontario is below. So, “during COVID” was when, exactly?! Today, during COVID is today. 😷 wwater.ca/Ontario

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I know it isn't fun to find out that lots of people in this country can't wait to cash in on concentration and death camps but it's true and you can't ignore it. Same goes for our reps in Congress. You can't claim you didn't know. The bar is now at "don't sell your warehouse to become a death camp"

These allegations (again, from an apparent tip line) include: – Trump and Epstein participated in measuring children's genitalia; with Elon Musk in attendance – That Trump raped girls as young as 13 – That Trump would auction off children

Tulsi Gabbard’s job is to keep us safe from foreign adversaries. Instead, she’s spending her time raiding the Fulton County, Georgia election center to feed Donald Trump’s delusion. Trump LOST the 2020 election.

All that has happened with the killings of Good and Pretti is that the US federal government now knows what it cannot - yet - get away with: murdering civilians while being filmed.

The Mayor of NYC is an important job. But I wonder if the world would be better off if Mamdani was instead given control of all of the Democrats messaging and social media.

Spotted today in South Minneapolis

Violence and impunity are baked into the Custom and Border Patrol’s culture. Now, we’re all seeing—and feeling—what border communities have known for decades. trib.al/fzQvFbj

This just in from Amnesty International: "U.S. authorities must immediately release journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting journalists for their reporting is a clear example of an authoritarian practice."

‼️‼️‼️This is verified. I can add buildings in Philly, San Francisco, Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas that we know of. SSA folks chime in if your office has been closed or evacuated please!!!!!!

"Journalists have not only the right, but the responsibility to observe and report events in the public interest. It is not illegal to document a protest against the federal government. The fact that the protest took place in a church does not negate journalists’ First Amendment rights to report."

I wrote last year about the growing movement against empathy from both the Christian nationalist right and the Elon Musk/techno-pseudoscientific right I called it an attack on “our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering” and “a flashing red light warning of fascist intent”

Our community has already noticed a number of the documents released today have been removed from public access.

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BREAKING: Hundreds of Asheville High School students walk out of class to demand a general strike, joining the national shutdown today to protest ICE operations and Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.

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