To all the politicians out there madly texting me multiple times a day. I totally understand money is tight and even moreso if you don't take corporate bribes. There are some of you I would absolutely love to give big contributions to, but sadly I have little money myself. Still, I'll do what I can.

Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested. While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.

ICE is already turning its surveillance state on U.S. citizens. Are any of the “free speech absolutists” going to defend the 1st Amendment? Hello?

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?

Any charges are utterly baseless. This is an open and close case of a would-be fascist, very racist regime taking wildly illegal actions to try to suppress dissent and fuel fear.

An ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, threatening the staff member who prevented him from entering. Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law. Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.

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The regime is trying to dissuade people from doing what Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and thousands of patriots are doing: Exercising their First Amendment rights to protect their communities from DHS. Join the next ICE watch training to exercise your rights as federal agents terrorize our communities.

I'm pinning this after having posted it previously. I think this is very important and could easily be a way many in this country are wrongfully denied the chance to vote this coming November. open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.

Violence at the hands of the state is nothing new and has been the reality for many non-white Americans since the very beginning. This needs to be top of mind when confronting what happens next and where we go from here.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

I think this is super important, and while this is the first I've heard of the possibility nothing surprises me coming from the fascist administration now in office. open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...

This country, the USA, is one of them. We have become yet another mess that doesn't respect the rights of the "least among us" Not only doesn't respect, but often celebrates hate and brutality. How very sad... xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

I'm increasingly convinced that if social media existed in the 1930s Germany, there would be endless videos of Jews being hauled out of their homes while people watched like this. People let this happen because they can't fight the state and it effectively encourages learned helplessness.

Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Donald is an international demented pedo gangster. One man threatening the stability of the entire world while republican leaders cowardly twiddle their thumbs. God help us.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

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Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good's queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

At just 15, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman. Her story went long untold, but her actions changed history and paved the way for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. We mourn her loss and honor her as a civil rights leader.

Want to do something *good* today? Send a note of support to Becky Pepper-Jackson from WV, who's standing up to anti-trans bigotry in school sports at SCOTUS today. All messages are approved by my friend Mollie of WV ACLU, so only positive messages will get through! padlet.com/mkennedy243/...

Norwegian cartoonist called it 9 years ago...

Candlelight service in memory of Renee Nicole Good in Anchorage tonight.

It’s amazing how many people with crosses in their bios are like “fuck yeah they shot that soccer mom in the face!”

Violent CBP goons beat up homeless legal resident Kneeing someone in the face while they're restrained is not law enforcement. They are taunting the public. They want us to react with the same energy so they can really let their dogs loose on us. a gofundme for his injuries gofund.me/0e461c4bf

Accurate.

We need more prominent national lawmakers speaking out against this act, which from my understanding is a violation of ICE policies on shooting people in vehicles.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

A Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE. Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.” The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSO...

In Donald Trump’s America — beating law enforcement with flag poles gets you pardoned, but attempting to drive away from law enforcement gets you punished by death.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

One from five years ago on the first Whiteteenth