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Red States Are Jumping At The Chance To Make Things Even Worse For Immigrants Blue states are scrambling to defend against ICE. But in red states where lawmakers are happy to comply, quietly dangerous operations are also underway.

MA needs to ban new 287(g) collaboration agreements and terminate the only one still standing.

#mapoli

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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."

This has happened exactly a week after Democrats got an overperformance of 30 percentage points in a special election in Texas, flipping it.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.

The conditions in Burlington are horrific, but it should be underscored that there is no such thing as a humane concentration camp

I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.

Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
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And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality It is common to hear that Americans no longer inhabit a shared reality. To a large extent this is true, especially in an era of social media manipulation, but we did not share a reality in simpler …

From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
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Notably there hasn't been a single impeachment article introduced in the US about Epstein.

I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo

California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.

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Democratic congressman steps up his work to pull Musk toward his party for the midterms Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., has known the former Donald Trump ally for more than a decade.

It’s the oldest trick in the book. Put the most complicit people in charge of the investigation.

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says.

HELL yea

Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.”

Breaking MS NOW:

The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.

At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
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Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

Roslindale business owner moves car off busy street after ICE detainment A business owner in Roslindale moved a car off a busy street after neighbors said ICE agents pulled the driver out of the vehicle.

ICE continues to endanger public safety. Violent kidnapping and then abandoning a car on a busy road is in no ways about "public safety"; it's about racial terror.

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Kid Rock’s 2001 song, “Cool, Daddy Cool,” which contains the lyrics, “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see some say that’s statutory (but I say that’s mandatory).”

Which moron booked Kid Rock for the MAGA family values concert in the middle of a pedophile news cycle? JD Vance?

I've long assumed that's the case, that there is video as well, and that they've been waiting for AI to be ubiquitous before they release it so that the veracity of the materials will constantly be in doubt. That moment has arrived.

Excerpt Kendzior book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:

"Trump covers up crime with scandal. That is his main propaganda tactic, the one few seem to be able to discern...The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait."

ICE grabs somebody right out of their car in Roslindale Square This morning, on Corinth Street outside Family Dollar. They grabbed the driver, left the car in the middle of the street with the keys still in. Read more.

7 of 13 Councilors present at Mayor Wu's announcement of "Protect Bostonians" Executive Order yesterday:

Breadon
Coletta-Zapata
Culpepper
Durkan
Louijeune
Santana
Weber

@enriquepepen.bsky.social wanted to attend (confirmed), but had to deal w this nightmare... www.universalhub.com/2026/ice-gra...

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.

They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Winter Olympics Team GB skier targets ICE with graphic message written in snow Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers including a message written in the snow

He wrote FUCK ICE with his own urine.

Mass. High Tech Council is losing higher-ed members amid its income tax rollback push. Why? - The Boston Globe Several have left or not renewed memberships to the influential business group, including UMass Lowell, Bridgewater State, and Bunker Hill Community College.

" If the safety net for low-income residents gets weakened, she says, fewer would have the luxury of time to study in the first place. " www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/06/b...

12 Columbia Professors and Students Are Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest

NYT: 12 Columbia Professors and Students Are Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest

By Sharon Otterman and Olivia Bensimon

Demonstrators, who were demanding that the university provide more protection for international students, blocked Broadway.

Gift link! @oliviabensimon.bsky.social

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

Boyle Heights mural of handcuffed mariachi responds to ICE raids As the Eastside reels from the impact of continued immigration raids, Boyle Heights artist Robert Vargas captures the fear and tension.

"It’s one of five murals Vargas plans to paint this week as part of his “#WeAreHuman” initiative"

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