Kirke D.A. Elsass

YouTube video by MS NOW 'Not a tool for ICE': Aviation worker slams deportations on commercial flights

I’ve seen more than a thousand shackled ICE detainees boarding the dedicated ICE Air charter flights out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International, but I’ve never seen children among them - apparently because commercial airlines - the ones you or I use to travel - handle the kids.

This is what is possible when your primary consideration in designing public infrastructure isn't discouraging usage by the unhoused.

For those who want to get to the story and context, start at 20:10.

I was moved.

(But even before that, Colbert adeptly sets up Sir Ian McKellen’s case for performing this monologue LIVE. Can you imagine being in the audience at the live taping? That must have been amazing.)

Courage is contagious. Let’s keep going.

@delauro.house.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov

Roll Call 53 Roll Call 53, Bill Number: H. R. 7148, 119th Congress, 2nd Session VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments, DESCRIPTION: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed

Hard agree that DHS needs reining in. Abolishing ICE should be the aim, and impeaching Noem should be the minimum. Wait, but are we talking about the same agency you just voted to fund?

Roll Call 53 Roll Call 53, Bill Number: H. R. 7148, 119th Congress, 2nd Session VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments, DESCRIPTION: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed

She just did it again, and Blumenthal keeps giving in too. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202653

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines.
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

With news of murderers being long-time fed employees, I keep recalling the NPR interviews I heard w/ CBP officers c.2016. Interviewees expressed confusion about policy & action, said they "weren't allowed to do their jobs." I empathized a bit. Now I wonder what job some of them really wanted to do.

Downtown Lewiston ‘eerily quiet’ as immigrant community braces for ICE action The largest immigration enforcement and removal operation in Maine during President Donald Trump’s second term is expected to be centered on Lewiston and Portland.

Downtown Lewiston, Maine quiet, sales off, shops & restaurants close early, as city prepares for ICE.

#Maine #Lewiston #ICE

The inhumanity of ICE thugs in the streets complemented by more via bureaucratic negligence. @delauro.house.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov, how are you addressing this?

MLK would've been in MPLS by now. How can you post this as though it's just another January in the US?

Hmmm... should an agency that keeps him on (BECAUSE HE'S IN LINE WITH THE WHOLE THRUST OF THE AGENCY RIGHT NOW) be funded by Congress (i.e., you)?

When driving slow is anti fascist?! Baby I was born for this moment.

National Endowment for the Humanities grants page with message 403: Access denied you are not authorized to access this page

Researching grant opportunities for a digital humanities & public outreach project. To cover my bases I checked NEH. The results are overall unsurprising but this particular message, encountered when clicking on specific grants, is a bit odd. Why wouldn't it just say does not exist or similar?

@delauro.house.gov

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

yellowed paper with brown ink maney of us who are good seamen are obleged to stay at home thru fear and one half of there time loiter about the streets for want of imploy

It wasn't all about rights—one of the reasons powerful people in Massachusetts cared was that kidnappers were making Black Bostonians afraid to go to work.

"maney of us who are good seamen are obleged to stay at home thru fear and one half of there time loiter about the streets for want of imploy"

YouTube video by City Cast Twin Cities Brass Band Brings Music & Solidarity Amid Minnesota ICE Tensions

Honestly, I was reminded of music's power when Rainbow Connection, the Weezer + Hayley Williams version, brought me to tears as fast as ever.

Plus I saw this news bit on the amazing Brass Solidarity group in Mpls.

YouTube video by Pete Seeger - Topic Tomorrow is a Highway

I know Bella Ciao has long since made the rounds on here as a suggested opposition anthem. And I get it: explicitly anti-fascism plus Italian sounds so romantic etc.

But may I suggest a homegrown alternative that's infinitely more hopeful?

Oh, they already are. And the verified CT-03 voters who want a contested primary doubled this afternoon.

We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time

Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan

Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

How could CT 2026 primary election candidates get on the ballot? In CT, there are several ways to get on a ballot. Here is a look at how candidates are chosen and how challengers qualify for a primary.

If DeLauro isn't thinking about how to limit ICE, then hopefully a prospective challenger is thinking about this...

Price gouging was NOT the conversation topic over coffee in New Haven this morning. It was When are they coming here in bigger numbers? Why is DeLauro reluctant to say DHS shouldn't keep getting funded in these conditions?

This is valorous, amazing if it any part of it becomes law. AND many of us constituents are wondering why you are talking politics as usual rather than drawing a line in the appropriations sand w/r/t ICE as an ethnic hazing force that is unaccountable to the people.

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

Someone get this case in front of Gorsuch immediately