North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

One GEO group ICE camp saw a profit increase of $254 million last year. That’s why there’s a quota. That’s why ICE grabs anyone they can get their hands on. That’s why they’re about to spend over $30 billion to build camps around the country. It’s a money making machine.

Whether or not Trump succeeds in canceling, rigging or suppressing the vote in November, it must be treated as an existential emergency NOW. The time to acknowledge and address the threat is *before* it succeeds, not *after.* Then it's too late.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.

Abolish and defund ICE, of course. Eliminate qualified immunity for all law enforcement, federal and local. Only institute "reforms" that include permanent removal of funding as consequences.

I gloried in the demotion of Bovino, but he’s still on the payroll. Whatever they say they’re going to change, it’s a lie. nothing except constant pressure changes the fact that they have billions of dollars to do horrible violent shit & expand the # of concentration camps. 80,000 pple in them *now*

The budgets for these lawless federal agencies are larger than the military budgets of many countries. Would love it if we used that money to fund libraries, to fund a social safety net, to make it so that that even well-known Hollywood actors don’t have to sell their shit to pay for healthcare. 🔥👊🏻

I think it's important to celebrate both. For the culture. (I am not even a tiny little bit Polish)

we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS

what if an environment where its possible to be functional

let me hop on this wave and recommend some good books on Puerto Rican history for people that feel inspired by Bad Bunny to learn about us, our history, and our culture

they are not drawing down, they are just trying to get better at getting away with it

Would this finally lose him the conservative Catholics?

Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it: Testilying. Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.

Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.

Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility. Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

This is the problem w/ discussing Puerto Rico in US media, there’s a severe lack of understanding of Puerto Rican realities, history, politics, & culture. The omission of these elements leads to folks like this to regurgitate colonial talking points & erase our Puerto Rican national identity.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Elecciones ¿Para qué?

Better yet, volunteer to be a poll worker if you can. Please. Fr, nearly every Registrar of Voters in the country was already hurting for volunteers, and then MAGA started harassing officials, Elon fired a bunch of government employees that used to fill in the gaps, and now there’s this ICE threat.

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

5. Subject the US to the International Criminal Court (and and the absurd US sanctions of the ICC & its staff). 6. Impose some control of the president's making billions of dollars on his job. The US is now the most corrupt country still claiming to be democratic. /3

Imagine stealing a little kids things and... throwing them away. Imagine locking up a little kid. Imagine denying a little kid health care. Imagine letting fucking MEASLES spread throughout your concentration camp for little kids. bsky.app/profile/jama...

I would love to see a chart of the volume of crowd control gas released by federal employees on American soil by year. I suspect this data likely doesn’t exist, but if it does, I think it would be very revealing.

One way you know America is not/no longer an actual democracy is that the Republican Governor managed to delay this election for almost a year, giving the GOP an artificial advantage in a narrowly divided parliament. This is something that does not actually happen in real democracies anywhere else.

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

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here is the video version of this post, with a few other thoughts as well. youtu.be/wBS13rx-M7s

Watching Gary Abernathy on PBS NewsHour being a full-on bootlicker for the Trump administration's false narratives while @jonathancapehart.bsky.social tries to remain calm, coherent, and respectful is sure something.

TIL, and am now furious all over again...

The office of Senator Jon Ossoff says it has identified more than 1,000 credible reports of human rights abuses inside the US immigration detention system over the course of 2025, including medical neglect, physical/sexual abuse, denial of food/water, and the mistreatment of children/pregnant women

This bill passed both chambers in Kansas today —>

January 21, 2026

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide. n.pr/49xRXVf

Good, it was the first thing I thought of after I read about the conditions in the building and tenants reporting they returned to find their possessions tossed into dumpsters in less than a day

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

The White House wants a civil war and they are taking steps to implement one. Democrats who can't recognize or accept that are incapable of leading.

“What makes me nervous is how I look,” said a legal immigrant with a green card. “The dark hair, the accent. That’s what they’re looking for, right? I’m afraid I would be approached because my skin is not white.”

Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

Democrats are simultaneously beginning to refer to ICE and CBP agents as "poorly trained." This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.