1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

*dismantling Citizens United just by actually prosecuting, imprisoning, and stripping assets from everyone in the Epstein orbit*

Yes and plenty of pedophiles or just general rapists are never held accountable even with a lot lower net worth. We shouldn't have billionaires. And we should hold sex offenders accountable.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Target says they can’t keep ICE out of their stores because they’re open to the public. After we were *kicked out of Target yesterday*, this NYPD officer helpfully explained to me that Target can keep out: ⁃ shoplifters ⁃ protesters
 ⁃ ICE ⁃ anybody, actually #IceOutForGood #IceOutOfMN

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005... "Over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves"

The monsters who are currently calling for US regime-change in Cuba *do not care* about the Cuban people. If they cared about the Cuban people they would be calling instead to end the cruel US blockade which is *explicitly* intended to create mass misery and starvation.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

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.

I saw it too:

Imagine tear gassing children.

Our thread of ICE and Border Patrol sex offenders is up to 53 agents, with many more to go.

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. It's the whole basis of misogyny! People just forgiving men for being whatever level of sex pest because of reasons they deem more important than those men's victims. From Thomas Jefferson to Brock Turner to Jeffrey Epstein and everyone involved with him.

Biden literally said "Welcome home" to Trump twelve months and eleven days ago

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

What are the names of the officers who killed Alex Pretti? Are they not being released because these guys are ex-cons? Proud boys? Arrested for DV? Jan 6ers? It's been a week. What are they hiding about these officers? Is this truly a secret police?

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

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Some further reading on this subject for folks who'd like to learn more about general strikes as a tactic (and about the one that's already being planned for 2028): www.teenvogue.com/story/uaw-ge...

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Concentration camps.

Freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression. Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Saw on the news that a man in south austin shot his girlfriend in the head & got released on $500 cash bail 2 days later

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Yet again, the words of Omar El Akkad come back to me about how liberals are much more concerned about the appearance of doing something than standing for anything at all. Schumer didn't get where he is by being poor at negotiating, so I must conclude that he is great at it.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

If we think of this kinetically, they are moving in multiple directions simultaneously, at varying speeds, all over The "move fast and break things" groups introduce full speed chaos in multiple sectors. The "deny, deflect, and deceive" groups gum things up, slowing or even halting them entirely.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

So...... this seems real bad. The FBI executed a sealed search warrant today on a key Atlanta area election office - and wouldn't say what that warrant was for. "A source told FOX the FBI was there to take custody of Fulton County election ballots from 2020." www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fbi-exe...

really want @schumer.senate.gov to take this to heart

Crowd has dispersed, I'm back in my car. This video, to me, is emblematic of the evening. Minnesota cops protecting ICE while the agents lounge and look on, warm inside their hotel ICE commits state violence, and the state is by default on their side

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.