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THREAD. There are profound parallels in how the news is covering violent repression by ICE and how the news covered violent repression by local police in 2020.

ICE buys warehouse for migrant detention, Roxbury officials say • New Jersey Monitor The Trump administration is eyeing warehouses nationwide to house immigrant detainees. Roxbury officials oppose the plan for their town.

ICE buys warehouse for migrant detention, Roxbury officials say newjerseymonitor.com/2026/02/20/i...

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If you live in Jersey City and want to get a basic understanding of the school funding situation, at @ 1hr30m David Sciarra formerly ELC gives an excellent presentation
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good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

And they want to fill them with all of us. You ain't special.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

It’s giving middle passage

Reason 6432789 for getting police out of school on a story about kids planning protests. Someone should definitely check what else they did on that burner IG.
"A school resource officer at the high school joined the open group chat using her burner Instagram account."

Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

Trump's climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

we have to remember how we got here

hi from a woman who was educated in north Florida in the 90s, this doesn't fucking work and you know it. You actively want kids to get STDs and not know about consent and be forced to have children that you won't give healthcare or adequate education.

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I think Anna Eskamani from Florida summed up nicely what's wrong with a lot of the discourse on student protests. Give students credit for understanding & caring about what's happening.
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Marking time by who died every week from the OG Charmed.

Two plot lines are now intersecting.

N.J. family services worker sexually assaulted a 15-year-old, authorities say He initially met the victim through Snapchat, authorities said.

The spaces pedophiles get into terrifies me.

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“Reforms” Didn’t End Police Violence in 2020 and They Won’t End ICE Violence Now We can’t settle for “reforming” the largest law enforcement agency in the nation — it must be abolished.

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We can never let an adherence to a political agenda, a philosophy, a religion, a party... be more important than our love for human beings. You have to love your child more than your dogma.

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

Feb. 19, 1942: Executive Order 9066 #tdih On Feb. 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Roosevelt that authorized the incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. This history has a chilling relevanc...

#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066

President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.

About 122,000 people sent to prison camps.

Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated.

#TeachTruth ⬇️
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Let's ask the NYPD to "be patient" and come back next year for more funds.

Gross

studebaker showroom, west atlantic city, new jersey, 1979

studebaker showroom, west atlantic city, new jersey, 1979

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I wish more people understood the utter power, in any system with institutional inertia, of the magic words,

"Fuck you, make me."

Florida students walking out to protest ICE: What are their rights? Florida students are protesting ICE by walking out of schools. What are their rights?

Thousands of students across #Florida have walked out of schools to protest the aggressive immigration agenda of President Convicted Felon. www.theledger.com/story/news/s...