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Tom Friedman:
"All are driven, in my view, by terrible leaders who prefer easy, violent solutions to the hard work of negotiated problem-solving. These leaders see an iron-fisted approach as the best way to win their next elections: Trump in the 2026 midterms; Netanyahu of Israel, who is expected to call elections around the same time; and Hamas, in its desperate effort to lead the Palestinian movement in the postwar era, despite having lost the war."
Paul Krugman:
"It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious."
Let's be clear about one thing:
Killing people exercising their Constitutional rights to peacefully protest and to observe, and even film, ICE activities is not "law enforcement".
It is state-sponsored terrorism. It's ignoring the foundational documents of our government ensuring individual rights.
And trying to blame victims shows how averse to accountability this administration has become.
The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE.
National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE | National Nurses United
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National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE
NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immigration agents have once again committed cold-blood…National Nurses United
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”.
Silverio Villegas González 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.
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.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after.
ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent.
2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.
The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting.
He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.
Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.
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.
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!
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody.
They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight.
These are not just a few random incidents.
It’s not a few “bad apples”.
It’s a systemic problem.
These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.
People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.
This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.
It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.
The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about.
At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps.
We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Abolish ICE.
Close the camps.
Keep witnessing and speaking out.
Tom Emmer (R-MN) wants you all to know that he’s just waiting until a critical mass of his constituents have been murdered before he makes a statement. Any statement.
#AbolishICE #TrumpMustGo #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #JonathanRoss #DHS #Minneapolis #KristiNoem #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
“This #ICE situation is a nightmare for the Senate.🚨Cannot see a scenario in which Senate Dems can vote for this 6-bill pkg which incls #DHS funding. Govt shuts down Fri. First Senate procedural vote likely not until Wed, giving them limited room to maneuver. House on recess. Any changes to the bill would require the HSE. #Shutdown a real poss at this pt.”
-J Sherman
GOP Senators must be rebuked for their allegiance to Trump & his ICE killing machine. Shut it down!
#Nightmare⬇️#Murder #USPol
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
RE: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11595…
#mnastodon #mpls #minnesota #uspol
‼️ Twin Cities residents‼️Citywide vigil, on every block
7:00pm tonight
There is no central gathering location, to prevent further ICE / DHS targeting. Vigil location is wherever you are.
Please contact your nearby neighbors now and spread the word. We want the whole city showing up. This has to end.
#MInneapolis #msp #MinneapolisProtests
**Help Minnesota**
Here is a directory of mutual-aid organizations helping residents with health care, food security, rent assistance and legal defense.
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #minnesota #minneapolis #ice #AbolishIce #mutualaid
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Republicans are responsible for citizens being executed in the streets.
#AbolishICE #TrumpMustGo #ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #JonathanRoss #DHS #Minneapolis #KristiNoem #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
ICE is a terrorist organization run by the United States Federal Government
#Minnesota #USPol #ICE #Fascism #Gaslighting #FederalTerrorism
DUMBER THAN A ROCK!
It is because of global warming that we have this record Winter storm!
As the Arctic warms, it turns the earth's normally RELIABLE rotating jet stream into a drunkard's merry-go-round of madness, throwing this huge Arctic cold air mass down to the southern US.
The record snow/ice is due to warmer air holding more moisture
Eventually, the cold air will be gone forever.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #uspolitics #uspol #GlobalWarming #climatechange
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his severely disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
I wrote about Wael and how our caregivers are an extension of us.
Without them we can’t do basic activities of daily living.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
He didn’t even get to say goodbye to his father.
ICE caused his death & unnecessary suffering.
Now they’re refusing to allow Maher to attend the funeral.
Absolute ghouls.
#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #abolishice #immigration
The people of Minnesota putting the useless clowns in Washington to shame.
Dems couldn't even put on a united front against ICE last night,
..... today people are standing out in the freezing cold while they sit in offices and take calls from donors and generally eat out of each others asses....
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP #USPOL #USPOLITICS #ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #Dems
US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo
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#ICE #Minneapolis #uspol #tesla
Reserve. Cancel. Repeat.
An 'ICE OUT Enterprise' protest is urging Minnesota residents to book and later cancel rental cars
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Enterprise targeted in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the latest company to find itself facing backlash amid anti-ICE protests in Minnesota.Ben Shimkus (Business Insider)
The US #labor dept is embracing Nazi slogans & tropes, the #Pentagon’s research office is deploying neo-Nazi graphic elements in its social-media feeds, & the #DHS recently posted lyrics mimicking a popular song by a band with ties to an #EthnoNationalist social club.
The official social-media channels of the #Trump administration have become unrelenting streams of #xenophobic & Nazi-coded messages & imagery.
#USpol #racism #WhiteSupremacy #xenophobia #WhiteChristianNationalism
The #Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of #Nazi #Propaganda
Government #SocialMedia managers have transformed official feeds.
#USpol #racism #WhiteSupremacy #xenophobia #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda
Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.Ali Breland (The Atlantic)
Texas guts ‘woke civics’. Now kids can't engage in a key democratic process
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
>Many states have restricted how schools can teach race and gender, but only Texas has banned student interaction with elected officials
"Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin".
Trump's 'peace' is in the Orwellian sense of equalling "the final eradication of Palestinian life in Gaza."
And the board is about a new world order where billionaires will decide the fate of weak nations.
“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace", says Trump. Orwell’s moment is truly upon us: “War is peace.”
middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum…
#USPol #Europol #UKPol #BoardOfPeace #racism #Fascism #Trump #Gaza #Greenland .
Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin
Feckless European leaders like Starmer let Israel and the US tear up international law in Gaza. Now, faced with Greenland and Ukraine, they are suffering from a severe case of buyer’s regretMiddle East Eye
Pressekonferenz von Ärzt*innen in #Minnesota. Sie berichten über die Auswirkungen von #ICE in den Spitälern.
Schwer kranke Menschen, die aus Angst, das Haus zu verlassen, tagelang warten, bis sie die Notfallaufnahme aufsuchen.
ICE-Schergen, die vor den Notfallaufnahmen stehen und "verdächtig aussehende Menschen" festnehmen.
ICE-Schergen, die in die Behandlungszimmer eindringen, Menschen vom Untersuchungstisch weg festnehmen und das medizinische Personal sowie auch die Security und die lokale Polizei bedrohen.
Abteilungen, wo die Hälfte des Personals - oft Latino oder Somali - aus Angst nicht mehr in die Arbeit kommen (Leute, die in der schlimmsten Zeit der Pandemie keinen Tag gefehlt haben).
Verletzte, die von ICE in die Unfallabteilung gebracht werden, deren Verletzungen mit den Schilderungen von ICE nicht zusammenpassen, aber daran gehindert werden, selbst den Unfallhergang zu schildern.
Die Liste geht lange weiter.
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#MedizinBrennt, aber wirklich.
Anm.: In Ermangelung eines besseren Wortes habe ich "ICE agents" mit "ICE-Beamte" übersetzt. Im vollen Wissen, dass es sich eigentlich nicht um Beamte handelt.
@biene schlug "Schergen" vor, und ich ärgere mich, dass ich nicht selbst auf die Idee gekommen bin.
Habe es geändert.
Minnesota physicians on ICE presence in hospitals
Minnesota physicians will hold a press conference to detail obstructions to care caused by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota health ca...YouTube
You can’t detain a 5 year old child.
If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.
If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.
Language matters here.
What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.
#uspol
#liamramos #minnesota #abolishice
Now, can you start arresting these #ICESucks a-holes? Puh-lease?!!!
Cumberland County Sheriff #KevinJoyce denounces actions by #ICE agents in #Maine
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published January 22, 2026
"Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce says ICE officials are telling one story about their operation to arrest 'the worst of the worst' in Maine, but the reality on the ground is entirely different.
"During a press conference Thursday, Joyce confirmed that ICE agents arrested a corrections officer recruit who he described as 'squeaky clean.'
"Joyce declined to name the officer, but he said he underwent a rigorous vetting process, including a background check, before he was hired last year. He said he had no criminal record, was following the rules, and had permission to work in Maine through the spring of 2029.
" 'I guess if you're not a card carrying US citizen, then you must be illegal,' Joyce said. 'Because that's what they told me, is he's illegal. And he's definitely not a criminal. So what part of him is illegal? I don't know.'
"Joyce said roughly a half dozen ICE agents arrested the officer Wednesday night and left his running car unattended on a city street in Portland. He described the arrest as 'bush league' and said law enforcement officers would first need probable cause to make an arrest and would never abandon a vehicle in that way."
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#USPol #MainePol #MPBN #PublicBroadcasting #KeystoneCops #ICEOut #ICEOutMaine #ICEOutForGood #ImmigrantsWelcome #NewAmericans #ICESucks
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce denounces actions by ICE agents in Maine
During a press conference Thursday, Joyce confirmed that ICE agents arrested a corrections officer recruit who he described as "squeaky clean."Patty Wight (WMEH)
I just found this amazing online resource
that I feel many people in the US might find incredibly helpful right now: commonslibrary.org/
The Commons Social Change Library
Do you want to change the world for the better? Commons Library is an online library for social change - Making activism smarter & stronger.The Commons Social Change Library
”We are all we have and the more you do, today, to reach out in your neighbors, your town, your community, the better off everyone is.” — dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21…
@dansinker’s latest is very much worth your time. (As it always is.)
LOL.
Elon Musk: Tesla will sell humanoid robots by end of 2027
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#BankruptTesla #TeslaTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #USPol
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BREAKING
Sen. Blumenthal: whistleblower shares secret #ICE policy authorizing agents to enter homes W/OUT JUDICIAL WARRANT.
An invasion of #privacy akin to & of the era of the forced quartering of troops in prvt citizens' homes, a prime cause of the American Revolution.
blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom…
BLUMENTHAL DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SECRET ICE POLICY AUTHORIZING FEDERAL AGENTS TO ENTER HOMES WITHOUT A JUDICIAL WARRANT | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), is demanding...www.blumenthal.senate.gov
Renee Nicole Good’s family have released preliminary autopsy details.
It’s bad.
She was shot three times and the first two shots were non lethal.
One to her forearm and one to her right breast which missed all major organs.
She could have survived that.
Jonathan Ross was well outside the path of the vehicle at that point and leaned into the driver’s side window to deliver the third shot.
It went through her left temple and exited the right side of her head.
It was murder. Plain and simple.
Every ICE agent who failed to render aid should be charged as an accessory, and Ross should be arrested immediately.
The government must stop covering for killers.
this bootlicking fucker is so predictable
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding
The American Prospect
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Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
"But here’s what’s actually happening: basically everyone in a position to do something about this is pretending everything is fine.
The normalization machine is working overtime.
... A decade ago, as a political rival, Ted Cruz once warned that we’d wake up one day to find a President Trump had nuked #Denmark. And yet now he’s actively supporting Trump’s lunacy."
techdirt.com/2026/01/20/everyo…
#Trump #TedCruz #Politics #USPol #News #Greenland #US #USA #UnitedStates
Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. Why Won’t Congress Stop It?
Look, I know we’ve all gotten somewhat numb to the constant stream of unhinged pronouncements from the White House. At some point, the brain develops defense mechanisms. But every now and the…Techdirt