Having every fear from the Global War On Terror era just come true all at once is doing my head in

Agreed. Also: Been thinking a lot this week about an exchange on here where a bunch of random US POC all realized that each of us had experienced having Irish immigration limit our visit time in the country while white readers hadn’t and how Irish politicians should do something about that

Bush started ICE, but it was during the Obama years when they signed the contracts with local law enforcement, instituted Secure Communities/Priority Enforcement Program and 287(g), and set the norm of ICE as an unaccountable agency being written blank checks every fiscal year.

Just last week there was a Dateline episode about a Border Patrol agent who was murdering sex workers with his service gun. A serial killer who used his badge to protect himself. Soooo yeah again this is not about training, this is about the type of people attracted to and emboldened by these jobs.

This is my friend. Solid dude who was arrested for defending a woman the cops were assaulting. Not only did they disappear him, but even after he was finally released, they harassed him for years after. A straight line from there to Alex Pretti.

Trump has set new "demands" for Minnesota

they keep coming out and saying "we will continue to kill your neighbors in the street until your democratically elected state and local governments accede to our demands"

This man was bullied, humiliated and robbed by ice and is too traumatized to work. He's a citizen and they told him "when your citizenship is revoked we'll be back to get you." They're still at $10

More ICE tech: Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

the drummer from heatmiser, who just so happens to be my aunt's husband and my cousins' step-dad, needs some $$$ because he's dealing with cancer. if you like that band or even if you don't consider throwing him some cash www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

Aside from the laughable absurdity of all this ultra-victimhood shit, the whole ‘low IQ’ thing, which the president has been hammering away at for a full decade now, is straight up Nazi shit, especially now in a context when it’s implied that it’s ok to kill those people.

I'm really sick of the "we have to be realistic" people who think that being realistic is bargaining with Kristi Noem and Donald Trump about how many people they get to shoot. They've already said their answer is anyone they want, unconstrained by the law.

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

Yesterday a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis. It’s gone viral on the online Right. While thousands took the streets, reactionary keyboard warriors stared wide-eyed and aghast at images from chats showing neighbors 1/

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

Juan Sebastian Carvajal-Munoz, a Colombian civil engineer with a work visa was detained by ICE in Portland, ME. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Maine. Within 2 mins they smashed his car window, dragged him out and left the car there running. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/m...

Families could also be heard outside chanting “Libertad!" or “Let us go," said Eric Lee, an immigration attorney who was there to visit a client at the facility in the town of Dilley.

pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim

The idea that America needs to occupy Greenland because we actually care enough about native people and want to build oncology centers is enough to make your head fully explode

Bolsonaro makes me believe in god bc something out there with cosmic authority clearly enjoys toying with him

The MN Frost just did a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and we are now chanting “ICE out now”

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

"If all we had to rely on in our fight against fascism was the Democratic Party, we’d be toast."

TikTok has been removing videos of Alex Pretti’s shooting. They’re owned by the regime now. Users who try to discuss it are being suspended or throttled. We don’t need more state sponsored propaganda. Boycott TikTok. Lift up independent journalists. Keep sharing the truth

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

After shooting dead another of its own citizens the US Government appears to be brazenly lying about the facts of the matter. Both instances were appalling. But this one was a street execution for asserting the right to observe.

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA. The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There’s been so much documented abuse of power. In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas. The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody. They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back. ny1.com/nyc/manhatta...

Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE. He disappeared while in custody. By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state. They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana. He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her. www.kptv.com/2025/12/29/d...

Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor. He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her. When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained. abc7chicago.com/post/mother-...

Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA. He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him. He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release. www.latimes.com/california/s...

There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year. He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him. He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining:

Adding Silverio Villegas González, who was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee. He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school. The bullet went through the back of his neck.

I don’t know what happened but my thread seems to have broken some how… You can pick it up here: bsky.app/profile/broa...

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

No, the first one was Jaime Alanis Garcia, also forgotten www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

The nurses are pissed

Trump almost explicitly messaged on the fascistic concept of protecting the impunity of police to commit acts of racist & politically motivated right wing violence in a post-BLM world (where no necessary police reforms were ever made) and has made ICE into a federal militia for that purpose

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now