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FINALLY! But it’s only because of the cameras and public uproar. Keep filming and watching and speaking up! There are still many children detained with no witnesses and no advocates.

There’s some incredibly effective action happening over there. Be safe, Portland!

Three House of Pod episodes that feel especially relevant right now: • Protests, Cod Pieces, and Tear Gas tinyurl.com/4k2j6f7e • Tear Gas, Pepper Spray, and Rubber Bullets tinyurl.com/yc6j2p3u • ICHH/House of Pod — how clinicians prepare for protest medicine tinyurl.com/3r6j6p8u

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

The call goes out again for a strike - the column shouts back, "strike, strike, strike, strike!"

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

Guy Whose Political Knowledge Is Exclusively From System of a Down Lyrics Better Informed Than 99% of People He Interacts With thehardtimes.net/music/metal/...

Good afternoon from Daley Plaza in Chicago. An anti-ICE/CBP rally is coalescing in the plaza, joining similar demonstrations today across the country.

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

A relevant piece of context here re: Northwestern is they’ve had a vocal Holocaust denier on faculty for decades. Never did anything. But profs who showed solidarity with anti-genocide students are gone now. I recall students protesting Butz in the early 90s. Still listed as faculty.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

No. This is just fascism on a leash. ICE is, by design, utterly broken. It cannot be fixed or refurbished. The ONLY thing that fixes this is its complete dissolution and the prosecution of its members, up to and including members of the presidential cabinet.

Today's letter for my rep and senators is about how being stopped and asked for papers discourages citizens from voting, so they should abolish ICE and the Border Patrol to protect their own electability. Thanks to @boltsmag.org for making me aware of this years ago. boltsmag.org/a-police-sto...

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

Same goes for genocide. Dems support fascism abroad as well as at home.

Literally half the country wants to abolish ICE and the Democrats are going to make them pinky swear not to deport U.S. citizens anymore

Fuck Vichy Chuck.

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

Like the old saying goes, when you have your opponent on the ropes you make a deal to give him 1-2 weeks to recover

Translation: The supine Dem leadership just gave Trump 83% what he wanted and in return got an empty promise.

Mayor Gergely Karácsony of Budapest could teach a few American institutions how to deal with fascism. Rather than roll over to a Pride ban, he led a march of hundreds of thousands in Budapest. Now, he's being charged under their anti-Pride law. But he won't be deterred. Our latest story.

bleak.

I can just tell my employer that executing people in the street is bad. I can save her some time.

Hey so, I have two friends. One is from Idaho. She moved here for better job opportunities and the freedom to live safely as a queer person. One is from Uganda. He came here for better job opportunities and the freedom to live safely as a queer person. Tell me why one is supposedly a criminal?

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

As there is a lot of news about immigration and who is "supposed" to be deported, it's worth talking about why the media and commentators keep using the word "criminal." Most people I hear will casually say, oh sure, we should "deport criminals."

Alternative headline: Child not thriving in concentration camp

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Utah lawmakers asked for a review of studies on gender-affirming care's effects on trans youth after passing a "moratorium." Records show they planned on publicly discussing the report — until it concluded the care is largely found to have positive outcomes. Now, they're pushing a permanent ban.

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol and ICE Raid Almost 20 L.A. Communities, Almost 30 Total in SoCal in Record Numbers @eltragon.bsky.social

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

Update: The Trans bathroom bounty hunter bill in Kansas has just passed the Kansas House. They have rushed it to the Senate for passage. If it passes, the most extreme anti-trans bill in the nation is about to be sent to the Governor's desk. Live here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwe...

I would like to highlight that this bill also prohibits children over the age of 9 from entering “multiple occupancy private spaces” meant for the opposite sex. So just send your 5th grader alone into the pool changing room?

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Oh hey, remember that time that CBP let a 7 year old girl in their custody die of a very easily treatable infection? www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I say this as a student of history for a shockingly long time, the number of competent fascists is zero. There’s never a grand conspiracy, never some shadowy person controlling everything, they get by on dumb luck, craven opportunists, and people who should know better saying not to overreact.

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.