Nina Berman
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Photographer, filmmaker, Prof at Columbia www.ninaberman.com
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âTerroristâ: How ICE Weaponized 9/11âs Scarlet Letter
Podcast Episode ¡ The Intercept Briefing ¡ 02/06/2026 ¡ 39m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercept-briefing/id1195206601?i=1000748513492
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2 days ago
Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property
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unraveled
4 days ago
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
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Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...
https://unraveledpress.com/identified-the-el-paso-bortac-crew-rampaging-through-the-midwest/
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Nathaniel Rakich
4 days ago
To anyone laid off from the Post today, we are hiring:
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Christopher Webb
5 days ago
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. Itâs powerful. Itâs gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GOâźď¸
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Robert Reich
6 days ago
ICE is running a âconveyor beltâ of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.
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âICE conveyor beltâ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/28/ice-detaining-moving-minnesota-children-to-texas-faster-than-courts-can-respond
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Dante Atkins
6 days ago
Having a hard time distinguishing this from actual 1930s German propaganda now
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Catherine Rampell
7 days ago
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
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ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measlesâ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dilley-center-texas-measles-cases/
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Seth Cotlar
7 days ago
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say thereâs nothing they can do.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
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U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see âpapers,â union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
https://www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u-s-citizen-injured-by-federal-agents-in-salem-who-demanded-to-see-papers-union-says/
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Jose Pagliery
9 days ago
I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are âhunting down their family members.â
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Minneapolisâ Hotel Workers Are on Edge
Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. âIt's frightening,â one said.
https://www.notus.org/immigration/minneapolis-hotel-workers-ice-federal-operation
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
7 days ago
The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd âTo those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed childrenâ
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Imani Gandy
9 days ago
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.
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ndndad
15 days ago
Nearly half a dozen agents wrestling one individual to the ground and then one of them just starts shooting in the dog pile, steps back and unloads on the guy on the street.
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Guardian US
18 days ago
Donald Trump turned up in Davos wielding an insult bazooka, writes David Smith, with an anti-Somalia tirade and insults to European leaders that were in line with aide Stephen Millerâs worldview.
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Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech
Presidentâs anti-Somalia tirade and insults to European leaders were in line with aide Stephen Millerâs worldview
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/trumps-davos-speech-stephen-miller-white-identity-politics?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1740769161-1
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d
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Taniel
19 days ago
Siegel won an overwhelming victory in Novemberânow this.
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Even the Euro Nazis find Trump toxic
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MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europes-far-right-and-populists-distance-themselves-from-trump-over-greenland/ar-AA1UERN4
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Tom Nichols
18 days ago
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Aaron Rupar
19 days ago
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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If only the leaders of US institutions (law firms, universities) and companies had equivalent moral integrity
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19 days ago
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Aaron Rupar
20 days ago
I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.
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Donate to Support ChongLy Scott Thao's Family After ICE Raid Trauma, organized by LOUANSEE MOUA
Support ChongLy Scott Thao After Traumatic ICE Raid On⌠LOUANSEE MOUA needs your support for Support ChongLy Scott Thao's Family After ICE Raid Trauma
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Joe Sudbay
20 days ago
Maine pauses issuance of undercover license plates after request from CBP âThese requests in light of rumors of ICE deployment to Maine and abuses of power in Minnesota and elsewhere raise concerns"
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Maine pauses issuance of undercover license plates after request from border security
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Saturday that her office wants 'to be assured that Maine plates will not be used for lawless purposes.'
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/17/maine-pauses-issuance-of-undercover-license-plates-after-request-from-border-security/
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Sharon
21 days ago
mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent
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21 days ago
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William Gibson
22 days ago
Just saw it noted that 100% of the worldâs Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the worldâs insulin. Almost as if itâs really quite a small world!
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Minnesota Star Tribune
22 days ago
Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. Heâs soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him.
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Progressive News Service
24 days ago
Minneapolis groups call for âgeneral strikeâ. "...several local unionsâincluding Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28âhave lent their support to the strike."
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Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out | Common Dreams
Minneapolis labor unions and community groups call for a general strike to push out federal immigration agents.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-general-strike
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Jameel Jaffer
24 days ago
The import of this ruling: Foreign citizens in the United Statesâincluding green card holdersâcan be arrested for political speech and imprisoned for months or even years before being given a meaningful opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and imprisonment.
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Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalilâs Rearrest
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-detention.html?utm_sf_cserv_ref=did%3Aplc%3Aeclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r&utm_sf_post_ref=652089043&smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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The Lincoln Project
25 days ago
A group of Epstein survivors just formally demanded that the DOJ Inspector General open an investigation into how the heavily redacted Epstein files were released. Theyâre demanding action now to release the files and we stand with them.
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Jon Collins
25 days ago
The number of federal agents is "close to the total headcount of sworn officers among the regionâs largest 10 law enforcement agencies and equals nearly one agent for every 1,000 of the Twin Citiesâ 3.2 million residents."
www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...
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Kevin M. Kruse
26 days ago
Only Bari Weiss would come up with the brilliant idea of turning your professional looking set into a shitty looking bar, so that your news anchor comes off like the guy on the last stool muttering "and I'll tell you sumthin' ELSE!"
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Eric Umansky
26 days ago
The story
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. âI felt like I was going to pass out and die,â said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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Eric Umansky
26 days ago
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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Minnesota Reformer
27 days ago
A U.S. Border Patrol agent kneed a man at least five times in the face while several other agents held him pinned facedown on the pavement in south Minneapolis on Friday, according to multiple witnesses who shared videos with the Reformer.
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U.S. Border Patrol knees man in face in Minneapolis as other agents hold him down ⢠Minnesota Reformer
A U.S. Border Patrol agent kneed a man at least five times in the face while several other agents held him pinned facedown on the pavement in south Minneapolis on Friday, according to multiple witness...
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/12/u-s-border-patrol-knees-man-in-face-in-minneapolis-as-other-agents-hold-him-down/
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Nicole Foy
26 days ago
Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. âI felt like I was going to pass out and die,â said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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Joey Scott
30 days ago
From Echo Park Tenants Union, 10 people taken today in Echo Park/Silver Lake. Some were gardners, painters, and workers. All of them my neighbors.
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Aaron Rupar
30 days ago
Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."
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svart flagg
30 days ago
DHS has again tweeted literal nazi propaganda. "We Will Have Our Home Again" is a popular slogan used regularly within the white nationalist sphere, based on a song of the same title. In Portland 2022, now-defunct nazi group RCN hung a banner with the phrase. Antifascists repainted it the same day.
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
A tenured professor who was briefly fired by Austin Peay State University in Tennessee in September for what the schoolâs president said was an insensitive social media post about the killing of Charlie Kirk will get a $500,000 settlement and his job back.
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University to Pay $500,000 to Professor It Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post
Austin Peay State University in Tennessee also reinstated Darren Michael, a tenured acting professor whose post about Mr. Kirkâs killing inflamed conservatives.
https://nyti.ms/3Z2wBsU
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 1 month ago
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
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Five years on and the GOP can't even post an honorary plaque. What a disgrace
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Molly Ploofkins
about 1 month ago
Man conducts regime change in his neighborhood in the spirit of Trump's takeover of Venezuela
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
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Brandon Friedman
about 1 month ago
DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
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Christiaan Triebert
about 1 month ago
A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike â and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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Grim Evidence of Trumpâs Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.1IKj.Zs7We_PwLjpT
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
about 1 month ago
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 months ago
Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law.
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE wonât release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0
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Itâs so good to see political photography command so much attention. Thoughts on why Chris Andersonâs work has had such an impact. The subjects consented and no doubt imagined some glamorize treatment since itâs VF. Instead they were kicked to the curb which is thrilling to see.
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