"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support.

Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com

Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com

The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com

WBEZ: @wbez.org

Arsonist puts out fire he started with fire extinguisher he stole.

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

8/ If you have tips about new ICE enforcement tactics in courts, my colleagues and I want to hear from you. Reach out to me on Signal (tilleckert.90) or via
propublica.org/tips.

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

holy shit

BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity.

The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.

This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

The President of the United States is accusing an unnamed government official of deliberately falsifying official reports on crime.

That's a pretty big accusation! Certainly a scandal, maybe even a crime.

Anyone want to press him to provide some, you know, proof?

this person should get a lawyer, and, if they don't have a lawyer, my number is easy to find

Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.

@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Cutting drug prices by 1500%" means the drug company is now paying you $1400 to take a pill that they used to sell for $100.

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

My Statement on the United States Prisoner Trade with Venezuela and El Salvador:

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

500 tons of food being destroyed. This is indefensible.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Why can't this food be sent to Gaza? Or Yemen? South Sudan? Ukraine? What a waste. This regime is incompetent and cruel.

The Navy named a destroyer after Oscar Peterson in 1943, one year after he died.

Pretty sure his family was aware of that honor even if Jake Tapper was not.

Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.

Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.

This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?

The cost of a Trump golfing outing to taxpayers? About $7 million a round, with Secret Service factored in. At his current golfing pace, the total tab will run $183 million in 2025, about what Trump wants to cut from the Library of Congress. @deanbaker13.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/cost-o...

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

Clinton, Clyburn, Summers, Palantir, Bloomberg, NYT, Wall St, AIPAC...all tried their best.

The entire establishment went full racist and Islamophobic in the end.

Still Mamdani won.

Biggest F U to the Democratic Establishment and 1% since AOC win.

Wow.

Thomas Massie Tells Theo Von U.S. Gets ‘a Lot of Countries That Hate Us’ in Exchange for Support for Israel Thomas Massie told podcaster and comedian Theo Von that the United States gets "a lot of countries that hate us" in exchange for its support of Israel.

Theo Von had Thomas Massie on his podcast. Nonstop criticism of US support for Israel, AIPAC. Quote: "America is just a shell company, an LLC for Israel"

Nobody calling them antisemitic or threatening to cancel or arrest them. Complete right-left asymmetry on this.

www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...

These are two very similar stories of Mississippi families torn apart by ICE.

But Kerlin Moreno-Orellana's story has gotten way less attention on social media than Kasper Eriksen's did, and thus his family's GoFundMe is getting WAY less support.

It's a big disparity.

Shot:

“We’re going after and deporting gang members, drug dealers and criminals.”

Chaser:

I don't understand how this can be legal. I don't understand how this can be ethical.

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return