Vickie Elmer

It already looks bad with 5 million fewer job openings than in 2022. JOLTS data.

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

The Gordie Howe Bridge will be valuable to Michigan, Canada, manufacturers and more. Back off on the threats, Trump.

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

What!? Pepsi appropriates CocaCola's polar bears. #superbowl

Maria is sitting pretty for #caturday !

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Bless you and bless Diana and all the children in ICE detention.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

So, so tired of all the "news" about the Idiot-in-Chief and his immigrant wife. Let's ignore them both and maybe they will go away.

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

YouTube video by Rocket Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Lady Gaga Original

Lady Gaga has put out a gorgeous anthem for Minneapolis.
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

I am helping to launch this job seekers circle for #Detroit area folks. Please share if you know someone who could benefit.

Thank you for sharing this, Sherrilyn. Dreadful!

Protest. Strike. Speak up! More 5 year olds locked up in the U.S.A.

And damn ICE for hiring many bad people.

Today's question: How will you find or create small joys amid so many huge problems? I will answer this after I hear from three folx.

We honor Dr. King not just for what he said, but for the steadiness he showed in uncertain times.

He believed moral clarity matters most when the country feels divided.

That lesson still applies. 🤍

So many vile people who need a mirror and some empathy pills -- or a loooong time out.

Vile people who need a mirror and some empathy pills -- or a loooong time out.

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marches through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents, shouting at American citizens.

This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime

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No matter your race, no matter your background, no matter your beliefs — none of us should have to fear being silenced, detained or dehumanized by the very government meant to protect us.
Ranger George Retes, US Army Veteran

🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasOath

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We want world #peace, affordable health care and fresh produce NOT Venezuela, Greenland or a bigger White House.
#priorities
#change

Pure evil. Pure criminal.

Richly deserved. Even brands that cater to rich consumers cannot take on massive debts without consequences.

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp.

ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans.

They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first.

They’ve been kidnapped.

Chart shows Gestapo versus aiCE officers and how similar they are.

Both are so evil, and ICE at least is getting recorded.

My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.

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