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We’re not going down without a song. “In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” - Bertolt Brecht

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08.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Creative Resistance! Tow truck owner returning abandoned cars to owners detained by ICE n he’s doing it for Free! Continues to do it despite being doxxed n threatened.! Contribute to his Go Fund Me if u can! #arrestice

08.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Also, I was really happy to learn about her the first time you posted. 🙏🏼❤️🙌✊🏼💐

08.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It bears repeating.

08.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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✊🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

08.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 416    🔁 116    💬 8    📌 6

Precisely.

08.02.2026 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Map of USA

Map of USA

ICE-hole concentration is in retaliation for the 2024 election.

#ICEout #ProudBlue #SheWon

08.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 149    🔁 100    💬 8    📌 8

MN thread.

08.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Warner: "There is a very real threat without reforms at ICE that you could have ICE patrols around polling stations. And people say, 'Why would that matter if they're all American citizens?' We've seen ICE discriminate against Latinos ... you don't need to do a lot to discourage people from voting"

08.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 4390    🔁 1466    💬 283    📌 85
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This ad will be playing during the #SuperBowl

The survivors are tired of Pam Bondi‘s shit.

08.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 931    🔁 366    💬 23    📌 16

Yep.

08.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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08.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 151    🔁 46    💬 5    📌 6

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

08.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 8162    🔁 2785    💬 1    📌 34
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I remember when my mom, who’s in her 70s, and I heard Kamala Harris announce her care-at-home plan. We were so excited. She even explained it was cheaper than hospital care. To us, it felt like someone was actually planning to make healthcare better.

Now look where we are.
#TrumpFumbled

07.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 7226    🔁 2022    💬 361    📌 115
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

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:

08.02.2026 04:37 — 👍 6713    🔁 3508    💬 156    📌 439
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Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

07.02.2026 21:00 — 👍 12097    🔁 3812    💬 132    📌 109
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Bad Bunny once used an award stage to stand with women and call for an end to domestic violence.
No gimmicks.
No hedging.
Just a clear message about dignity, safety, and respect.
That’s real power. ✊🏽

#BadBunnyBowl
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

08.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 221    🔁 99    💬 4    📌 2
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When Bad Bunny sings “Aquí mataron gente por sacar la bandera,” it’s a warning & a celebration of survival. In 1948, owning the Puerto Rican flag was illegal. Erasure was intentional. So is today’s history-scrubbing.
We remember.
We teach it.
We protect it. 🇵🇷🔥

#BadBunnyBowl
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

08.02.2026 01:22 — 👍 113    🔁 80    💬 3    📌 1

Sweet!

08.02.2026 02:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate them so much. Especially if there also happen to be fruit flies in the room.

08.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

08.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 5853    🔁 3273    💬 79    📌 182

he most spoken first languages in the world include Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and English. As of 2025, Mandarin has approximately 939 million native speakers, followed by Spanish with around 460 million, and English with about 380 million native speakers.
Bad Bunny has listeners for sure.

08.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Incoming!

08.02.2026 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yep. It’s a good one. A must-read.

08.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Sophia Chang is the music business matriarchitect who managed Ol’ Dirty Bastard (RIP), RZA, GZA, D’Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Q Tip, and A Tribe Called Quest as well as working with Paul Simon…marketing at Atlantic, A&R at Jive, A&R Admin at Universal…trained with and managed a Shaolin Monk…" 🤩

08.02.2026 00:56 — 👍 86    🔁 43    💬 4    📌 0
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

07.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 17615    🔁 9070    💬 495    📌 696

Wow.

08.02.2026 01:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The war against knowing things is a national security threat.

07.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

They didn’t allow a repost, but I read a few minutes ago that Vince fluid, and entire plane load of food to Italy. TO ITALY where you cannot get a bad meal. Absurd if true.

07.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mexicano con ocho fracturas en el cráneo durante arresto de ICE dice que la golpiza fue injustificada “Comenzaron a golpearme desde el momento en que me arrestaron”, relató Alberto Castañeda Mondragón de 31 años. “Nunca hubo una pared”, aseguró, lo que contradice la versión de los agentes de que se la...

🔴 Mexicano con ocho fracturas en el cráneo durante arresto de ICE dice que la golpiza fue injustificada.

07.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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