Some good ideas how to help Ukraine here. We've donated to U24.gov.ua, President Zelenskyy's fundraising site. Often you can support supplies to help fight Russian aggression.

I enjoy this.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

“He remembers ICE agents pulling him from a friend’s car outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him & striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he was beaten again.”

Listen to him read letters from inside detention centers. These conditions are inhumane. ICE and the detention centers must be abolished.

LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations. The full story: lataco.com/lapd-arrests... By Izzy Ramirez

Something fun and interesting for today. There are three videos within the article, don't miss them.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One of her most important videos. We are never letting this go.

Every American needs to watch this:

🔥Senator Mark Kelly, Cpt., USN (Ret.) with messaging yesterday after leaving Federal Court yesterday. He continues to fight for the 1A and for honoring the Constitution. Messaging matters. Thank you, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/eP5Eg...

There is a great opportunity for journalists in other countries to investigate and find great scoops. Our main stream media won't do it. International journalists would have exclusives. I, for one, would appreciate to learn what they uncover.

People should be allowed to sue ICE agents for violating their rights & killing their loved ones.   That means closing the loophole that prevents federal officials from being sued & ending qualified immunity to hold federal agents accountable.

I'm so glad Rep Casten is in Congress.

Great idea! Thank you!

Turn it UP!

This won't stop until they are unfunded/abolished.

10 years ago, this would have been Satire.

#ProudBlue #Resist Listen to this video, this is the passion Dems need to speak up & out! Rs want people to believe Dems don’t care about women & children. Couldn’t be further from the truth! The vote was clear. Rs wanted to bury the files, nothing to see here! Ds said bring it on! Listen to her ⬇️

I look forward to more from Charlotte. Note, she has link in this substack to the DOJ released files and to a site where folks took the emails and makes it looks like your seeing them in an account.

1/5 MN is teaching us an important lesson about fighting fascism: you can't fight everyone at once, but you CAN pick your targets & win. They're using "pillars of support" strategy to cut off ICE's logistics.Hotels, rental cars, staging locations. 1 company at a time #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue

SEN. @hickenlooper.senate.gov : “Death cards left behind by ICE agents — cards with white supremacist history left in detained immigrants' abandoned cars… Imagine finding your brother's empty car with one of these in the driver's seat. Cruelty for the sake of cruelty." (H/T @lulacorg.bsky.social )

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

Important thread. Tyler McBrien live-posting the public forum about ICE. These attacks happened here, with no accountability! Abolish ICE. They aren't professional. They aren't law enforcement. They don't respect the rule of law. They are cruel and violent and seem to enjoy the cruelty and violence!

The notion that Trump's goons are anything but a force formed for the express purpose of extending his personal domination over Americans is, at this point, absurd. #ProudBlue

Feb 1, 2025, was the day Americans realized Trump was serious about implementing the full horror of “Project 2025” . . . . In less than a year, we have gone from shell-shocked to battle-tested, from leaderless to self-reliant, and from anxious and afraid to anxious and courageous. bit.ly/4tdZBfb

Stop saying underage women. They are children.

Cruelty is big business

How did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward.

Either inept or purposeful to intimidate. The victims deserve justice, not more abuse.

We need to get back to truly supporting Ukraine!

Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

The Judge who ordered the release of five-year-old Liam wrote quite an opinion. Come read it with me. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Abolish ICE/CBP

Reports are circulating about Craigslist ads offering $50 for people to watch the Melania movie 😂 and Snopes has confirmed the ad existed.

EPSTEIN SURVIVORS: “This is a betrayal of the very people this process is supposed to serve… This is not over. We will not stop until the truth is fully revealed and every perpetrator is finally held accountable.”

The victims deserve justice.

Good news for today! I hope the release of the rest of the children in Dilley comes next.

Stephen Miller agenda is always toward hate, violence and bigotry. schiffnotes.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The corruption just keeps coming.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

ICE is changing tactics to infiltrate. Looks like they are leading up to a full-scale opposition suppression effort. Please spread the word. I assume at some point, they will infiltrate and then start violence making it look like protesters are starting violence. bsky.app/profile/debb...

Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion of taxpayers’ money for leaking his tax returns during his first term in office. Any payout to the president from the lawsuit would effectively allow him to pocket tax dollars paid by Americans.

The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is a very powerful substack. This violence is not new. I know I have a great deal of work still to do to fully understand what it is like living in the US as a black person.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have