SHABOOZEY: “Immigrants built this country.”

From yesterday's Irish Times.

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Imagine the mindset of someone who would do this.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

This is horrific. Totally peaceful march with families gassed in Portland.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Reminder that this is an absolutely urgent need in the Minneapolis area and rent is due TOMORROW. Families in hiding aren’t working and can’t pay rent. Ashley Fairbanks is a locally trusted person and this fundraiser is real.

Hey powerlifters, what do we think about starting a campaign like "Deadlifts Against Detention and Deportation" and make a fundraiser for immigrant/refugee legal and community services?

Sign spotted after a student-organized protest in Nyack, NY today.

Scenes from Rockland Lake’s Knickerbocker Ice Festival in suburban NY today. Ice from this lake once supplied the world, with shipments going as far as India and South Africa. It was known for its purity and so popular that a lake in Sweden was renamed “Rockland Lake” to trade on the name.

I went to Catholic mass today and the priest personally handed out this poem in memory of Alex Pretti to every parishioner…never seen this happen before

It's #Imbolg this weekend,so some pictures from Bridget's Well in Clare from a few years ago.

Happy 3rd #pubday birthday to my @lsupress.bsky.social book “Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty and Nationhood”! Available from the press & all good bookstores. If any Civil War era/Irish Studies folk want me to talk about it/review it, get in touch! lsupress.org/978080717793...

Huge work to do on the experience of Irish-speaking emigrants to Britain, especially in the 19th century! An example of the untapped richness of the archive 👇

This is so horrific- they are going to declare these valuable community members “illegal” and immediately rush ICE in to violently deport them.

Are we great yet? Are we safer?

“I really hope that the recognition of the human dignity of others is important. And when we see that dignity violated sometimes in a very egregious and even fatal manner, then we have to say something.”

Vaccines work, kids.

“The world is a gift we build for each other, friends. Glory to the martyrs who defend the republic.” A beautiful tribute to Alex Pretti and a blistering condemnation of those who killed him.

Come out, ye Black and Tans, Slip on ice and do a dance, Show your wife how you won medals for Blackwater Tell her how suburban moms Have you barely hanging on While she says you're not allowed to see your daughter

This child should be home with both his parents.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Growing up in NY’s Hudson Valley, Holocaust education included yearly visits from survivors. “Never again” was a huge part of my moral formation. I didn’t expect so many could see acts of violence by authority (even against kids) and want more of that- yet still think of themselves as good people.

"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

Grateful to the Congressman for making this visit. It’s unconscionable that we are doing this to children, their parents, anyone.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

It’s comforting to hear the truth being told thousands of miles away while the Trump administration is brutality and lies 24/7 and Democrats tell us to calm down. This video was posted 19 hours ago and already has 325,000 Iikes. linktr.ee/mrcodydahler 1/3

This photograph is one more insane image of what is going on in this country. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

They are escalators. More and more community members have been trained in deescalation techniques and it pisses them off so they work harder and harder to provoke in their job as violence workers. We must immediately #AbolishICE

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity. They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability. My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

Good thread- I have been shocked by the number of people who seem to genuinely believe that all these people risking their necks are some kind of secret paid-protester gang. (“They have signs!” “There’s a website!”) Like it’s hard for them to believe people actually care enough to protest.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Every week I wonder what terrible things we’ll have found shocking by next weekend.

A statement from Alex Pretti’s younger sister, Micayla Pretti:

I just phoned my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. It was hard to keep the white hot rage out of my voice as I demanded that they defund ICE. You can sound any way you like, but you need to phone your senators about this.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I’m sure all of these external factors make things worse for them, but being a bad person and doing bad things is what’s really bad for the human soul. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

The songs are starting to show up. This is pretty great. youtu.be/4PUOhAJG5EU?...

for Alex Pretti

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

So many peoples' reactions seem to boil down to "lmao that's history book stuff not real life" as though history at some point was cleaved from us and we now live in some more sensible version of the world with nothing to glean from it

Final pics taken from tonight's protest against ICE in Boston.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

it's really convenient that ICE is supplying smoke to make this look like an 18th century battleground

Guys, ICE is attacking and harassing ANYONE WHO IS NOT WHITE, HAS A FOREIGN-SOUNDING NAME, OR HAS AN ACCENT. When they jump out and grab you, and carry you off screaming, it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not! They’re not asking! I’ve seen it happen multiple times with my own eyes.