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Eric K Ward (Woke Since 1619)

@bulldogshadow.bsky.social

EVP, Race Forward; Senior Fellow, Southern Poverty Law Center; Co-Founder, States At The Core (STAC); Co-Founder, CultureGuard. Boards: Auburn Theological Seminary, National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, Proteus Fund. Fellow, Moment Institute

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DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’ Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims

DHS claimed they shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, OR, but Prosecution records obtained by The Guardian tell a quite different story

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

03.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Live Updates: Video appears to show window broken from inside by federal agents as FBI seeks tips on protesters - Daily Emerald

Meanwhile in Eugene, Oregon: “Protesters alleged in social media posts that the Eugene Police Department broke windows in order to deploy tear gas and other munitions and then blamed the damage on protesters.”

dailyemerald.com/179296/featu...

03.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tear gas canister from ICE agents shatters window in occupied Portland apartment "This incident crosses a line," said the CEO of Reach Community Development, which owns the 209-unit low-income building.

“Tear gas canister from ICE agents shatters window in occupied Portland apartment”

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

02.02.2026 22:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’

A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown targeted only “crooks” has been arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

02.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3
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Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

apnews.com/article/texa...

01.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers

I don’t know how many times I have to say it. Wake up.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

31.01.2026 18:37 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

“Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.”

apnews.com/article/immi...

31.01.2026 06:50 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Hear this clearly: fear is not failure.

What matters is what we do with it.

Essay: open.substack.com/pub/erickwar...

29.01.2026 17:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sean Grayson sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatal shooting of Sonya Massey Former sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday after he was convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey.

Disabled US citizen dies after father taken by ICE at routine check-in

abcnews.go.com/US/sean-gray...

29.01.2026 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mayor Mamdani visits Chabad HQ following vehicle attack MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI EXPRESSED HIS SOLIDARITY WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY when visiting Chabad Headquarters.

“Any threat to a Jewish institution or place of worship must be taken seriously. Antisemitism has no place in our city, and violence or intimidation against Jewish New Yorkers is unacceptable.”

brooklyneagle.com/364786/mayor...

29.01.2026 14:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 — 👍 97027    🔁 40913    💬 4299    📌 5378

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

28.01.2026 02:26 — 👍 84854    🔁 11636    💬 2492    📌 622
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Minneapolis Live Updates: Ilhan Omar Is Attacked During Town Hall on Immigration Crackdown

Minneapolis Live Updates: Ilhan Omar Is Attacked During Town Hall on Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

28.01.2026 05:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Incredibly beautiful and moving art. 🙏🏾

27.01.2026 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, @bulldogshadow.bsky.social 🙏🏽

27.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Demonstrators Flood Minneapolis Streets as Hundreds of Businesses Close to Protest ICE

From Friday's @nytimes.com:

“We are meeting ICE violence with nonviolence. We are meeting their chaos and cruelty with passion and community."
- AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

26.01.2026 17:42 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

25.01.2026 15:47 — 👍 50180    🔁 16402    💬 1169    📌 637
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Leaders in Minneapolis are asking for your help. Please share and participate however you can.

24.01.2026 22:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 National Webinar: Parents Stand with Minnesota · National Domestic Workers Alliance C3 On January 7, Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent while observing an immigration enforcement interaction. As Minnesota residents grapple with this heartbreaking tragedy, one thing is cl...

On January 7, Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent while observing an immigration enforcement interaction. As Minnesota residents grapple with this heartbreaking tragedy, one thing is clear: we must band together to protect our communities. www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/even...

21.01.2026 16:59 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Davos Won’t Save Us The elites are pretending everything is still normal.

While Renee Good’s death was tragic, some say, her death was ultimately the result of her own progressive delusions. This is victim-blaming in the guise of concern trolling.

21.01.2026 05:01 — 👍 213    🔁 23    💬 7    📌 1
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The march to autocracy People are pushing back against assaults on our freedoms.The United States has never fully lived up to our nation’s founding ideals, but our democracy has set us apart from rule by monarchs, despots a...

"Whether in 1776 or 2026, protest against authoritarian tactics is patriotic. It is what the founders did, and it is what is required of us. Democracy can’t defend itself." - @rweingarten.bsky.social

Read more in Randi's latest column for the @nytimes.com ⬇️

18.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 41    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0
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"Racist, Dehumanizing": Chat Images Show Portland Power Players Disparaging Councilors of Color Messages obtained by the Mercury contain a slew of offensive tropes sent during a council president election

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

13.01.2026 19:21 — 👍 885    🔁 309    💬 31    📌 150
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Do Not Look Away They want us small.

If you’re scared, you’re not alone.
If you showed up anyway. Thank you. 
If you couldn’t today, tomorrow is still yours.

But don’t look away.
Don’t normalize what you know isn’t right. —Eric K. Ward

open.substack.com/pub/erickwar...

12.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Portland police officer reassigned after comments on Minneapolis shooting, chief says While the unidentified officer did not say if he’d seen the video of Renee Nicole Good’s killing, he said he would have shot “if she drove a car at me, yes.” City officials have condemned his statements.

A Portland police officer has been reassigned after he was captured on film Friday appearing to agree with the tactics used by federal officers when they fatally shot a Minnesota woman last week.

11.01.2026 20:19 — 👍 68    🔁 31    💬 3    📌 4
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US Border agents shoot, wound two people in Portland, city officials say U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.Portland p

Breaking News (Thursday)
Jan 8th

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.

katu.com/news/local/i...

09.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Renee Good Should Be Alive Tonight Today, in South Minneapolis, the line was crossed in full view of the public.

She was fatally shot in South Minneapolis during a federal immigration operation. MPR reports armed Border Patrol agents showed up at Roosevelt High during dismissal and used chemical agents on bystanders. My reflections below.

#TheyKilledGood

open.substack.com/pub/erickwar...

08.01.2026 02:38 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

“The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”—Jack Schwartz

30.12.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wicked Shows Us the Moral Strategies for Resisting a Regime Gone Bad It depicts how corrupt authoritarians invert our conception of good and evil

When Donald Trump casts an entire community as less than human, those aren’t inert racist screeds but powerful calls to action, activating the machinery of the state to come crashing down on a target population that he wants excluded from American society.

@bulldogshadow.bsky.social

15.12.2025 19:00 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

How many more times do we have to mourn our Jewish, Muslim, Arab, and Sikh neighbors before we draw a hard moral line against hate?

I am absolutely heartbroken for the Jewish community and my outrage comes with no caveats. Anything less leaves the door open for the next loss

14.12.2025 18:23 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The nurses in this union are heroes

12.12.2025 00:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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