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FYI: Dems in the senate can't defund ICE. ICE is funded by the Big Ugly Bill. Shutting down DHS on this vote wouldn't touch ICE, but it would shut down FEMA, TSA, Coast Guard, etc. Shutting down ICE requires taking back Congress in the midterms. Dismantling DHS requires the White House in 2028.

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

An ICE detainee is the victim of “homicide” according to an autopsy report, and he is just one of 3 deaths in 44 days at this Texas ICE detention facility. I've got the latest details, including DHS' efforts to silence and deport the eyewitnesses to this homicide. youtu.be/lcLnJ9GF7dw?...

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that JD Vance tried to "soften" things in Minneapolis. He blamed the left for ICE violence and called the 5-year-old's father an "illegal alien" even though he's lawfully applying for asylum. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Don’t be dumb. He won’t stop if he’s “gifted” Donbas. #ukraine

ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy. If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota filed paperwork on Thursday to run for governor of her home state, signaling her likely entrance to a contest that has shifted rapidly since Gov. Tim Walz ended his campaign for a third term.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Vance went to Minneapolis and called law enforcement liars re ICE attacks on off-duty officers and unlawful home invasions. Those police chiefs must be furious.

Solidarity 🕊️

Food Insecurity Still High, Admin Ends Data Collection Before SNAP Cuts Push it Up www.cbpp.org/blog/food-in...

"We reject Donald Trump’s lawlessness, corruption and violence. We the People dissent." @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social

Learn more about why ICE’s new policy that lets agents enter your home without a judicial warrant is dead wrong. joycevance.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day). What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance

In Solidarity 🕊️

Khanna: "I do think the Epstein issue is what most concerns Donald Trump ... Donald Trump knows this has broken into the culture. It's broken into the culture because he said he was gonna hold people accountable, hold the elites accountable, and now he and Pam Bondi are protecting the elites."

Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .

Sure why not! 🤷🏼 nothing to see here, folks

no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

ICE’s new policy directing agents to ignore the 4th Amendment is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen yet. And there’s no telling where it could end up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Y’all are having too much fun.

Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.

"There are lists of immigrants, lists of people with developmental disabilities, lists of dissidents—and lately, even lists of Jews. All ostensibly in the name of public safety." Hmm. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qDPZc0

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Yesterday, the coroner’s office in El Paso ruled that the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos while in ICE detention was a homicide. Read more about it here. joycevance.substack.com/p/dont-take-...

ICE is detaining U.S. citizen children, even when passports are shown - this is to terrorize neighborhoods. Witness it? 📍 Note time, place, names. 📹 Film—lawfully, clearly. 📞 Call CPS + immigrant hotlines. 📝 Send proof to legal advocates. ✋ Do not interfere. Support: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

I can't even keep up with the lies in Jim Jordan's opening statement, but I find it interesting that he's complaining about toll record warrants obtained by a judge, while this administration has determined judicial warrants aren't needed to enter our homes.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

TODAY on #MSNOW: 10am-2pm/EST 7am-11am/PST-Jack Smith Finally Testifies to Congress about when our Presidementia incited an insurrection at the Capitol to steal a free & fair election & when he stole Top-Secret Gov't Documents & stored them in his bathroom. Y'know... many, many, MANY crimes ago.

1/The law requires a judicial warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge to enter a home or private area in a biz (not an administrative one signed by an “immigration authority” ie a DHS employee). This is clearly unlawful conduct. ICE can’t change the law just because it doesn’t like it.

Stephen Miller's terror state is employing lawless violence against Americans to dissuade them from standing in the way of his ethnic cleansing project. Excited that @theunpopulist.net has reprinted our piece on the roots of his white nationalism. Check it out: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...

I’m still waiting on the “don’t tread on me” crowd to be as mad about armed masked men breaking down doors without warrants as they were about wearing a mask to Applebee’s…

Europe has no appetite for the GOP chaos we indulge here. No surprise. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

He’s detested—around the world.

Given that Trump is ridiculous, it is worth pointing out that anyone who flatters or admires him also comes across as an idiot.

Why is nobody talking about how the Epstein files are now over a month past due? Release the Epstein files.

Rude, ignorant, defensive.—D Rothkopf Tone-deaf and oblivious to history as well.

Release the Epstein Files