Gabe Ortíz

NOT GUILTY 👨🏽‍⚖️

“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.

Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.”

For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.

Iftar, Day 19

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.

A senseless, criminal waste

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Capitol rioter pardoned by Trump given life sentence for molesting two children Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, of Florida among several January 6 defendants charged with new crimes

We already knew Trump protects pedophiles.

Now we know someone he pardoned for January 6th has gone on to molest two children.

Unlike our president, I think child sex abusers should be held accountable for their crimes.

“Johnson referred to himself as an ‘American Terrorist’ and ‘Proud J6er’ on social media, the outlet reported, citing prosecutors.”

“Johnson was one of the 1,500 Capitol rioters that Trump, 79, pardoned as soon as he returned to office in January 2025.”

Among the criminals pardoned back into our communities by Donald Trump include an insurrectionist who was just sentenced to life in prison for child sex crimes: people.com/jan-6-rioter...

Jan. 6 Plaque Honoring Police Quietly Installed in Capitol at 4 A.M. After Years of GOP Delay A plaque honoring the law enforcement agencies that responded to Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was quietly installed in the U.S. Capitol in the middle of the night after a three-year delay

“The installation wasn’t announced, had no ceremony and no camera crews were present, The Washington Post reported. Instead, it was bolted to a wall by Capitol staffers at 4 a.m. near an entrance on the west side that is not open to the public, the outlet reported.” people.com/jan-6-plaque...

No Democrat should ever vote to confirm Markwayne Mullin Mullin's statements on the murders of Goode and Pretti are unforgivable and disgusting. Replacing Noem with Mullin is like replacing arsenic with cyanide.

“Mullin's statements on the murders of Goode and Pretti are unforgivable and disgusting,” writes @devilstower.bsky.social. “Replacing Noem with Mullin is like replacing arsenic with cyanide.” www.unchartedblue.com/no-democrat-...

He’s not fit to water your plants

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

Monica de la Cruz making a show out of walking Antonio Gamez Cuéllar out of El Valle Detention Facility after she is the one who helped put him in that hellhole! She voted to FUND ICE and continues to support their presence in the Rio Grande Valley. VOTE MONICA DE LA CRUZ OUT OF OFFICE!!!

And Rep. Barragan said she asked the Gámez-Cuéllar family if they were getting assistance from Rep. Monica de la Cruz, the member who invited their mariachi sons to be honored in DC last year, and they said they were not getting help from her or her office.

“This day should not be about politics,” Rep. De La Cruz said today. “What this day is about is about common sense enforcement policies.”

THE ABSOLUTE NERVE

Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz is getting some press after escorting one of the students out of ICE detention but remember that she proudly voted for the bill that made ICE the highest-funded “law enforcement” agency in the nation: delacruz.house.gov/news/documen...

Teen mariachis and family from McAllen released from ICE custody The detention of the family of asylum seekers after a routine check-in with immigration officials had caused an uproar in their community.

A McAllen family that includes two award-winning high school mariachi students who were invited to the White House were released from immigration detention Monday following mounting uproar over their detention last month: www.texastribune.org/2026/03/09/t...

“At the press conference, Swalwell also referenced ICE’s deportation of a six-year-old with cancer, among other deportations and deaths in custody that sum to a pattern of sometimes fatal hostility towards kids and adults with disabilities or other health needs.”

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

A toothache.

A man died in ICE detention after he developed a TOOTHACHE.

And ICE didn’t get him basic medical care.

BREAKING: Two more people have died in ICE detention, per required notification to Congress.

But told the House, that between January and September 2025, they had detained 270 DACA recipients.

So, which one is it? @sylviagarcia.house.gov and I are demanding answers!

Whether in Congressional hearings, responses to Congressional inquiries, and face-to-face meetings, DHS disregards the law and lies about it. Despite DACA protections, DHS reported to the Senate they had detained 261 DACA recipient between January and November, 2025...

The Hennepin County Attorney said it’s already probing more than a dozen incidents—including one involving disgraced Border Patrol official Greg Bovino 👇🏽

Minnesota’s Hennepin County Launches Online Portal Tracking Abuses of Power By ICE and CBP County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the initiative is already tracking more than a dozen incidents, including one involving Border Patrol official Greg Bovino.

Hennepin County, MN has launched a portal where everyday Americans can document potential abuses by federal immigration agents.

Despite the admin's claims that operations are winding down, Minnesotans continue to be targeted. "Community-based monitoring remains critical," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

“The Tennessee Republican frequently targets Mamdani with Islamophobic tropes, calling him ‘little muhammad.’ Ogles has even shared an open letter addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, which calls for Mamdani to be the subject of denaturalization proceedings.”

House Republican’s Shock Racist Post Triggers Instant Backlash Tennessee congressman Andy Ogles is showing his nasty side.

“‘Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie,’ said Ogles, a pro-Trump congressman who introduced legislation calling for the president to be allowed to run for and serve a third term.”

“Amen,” top Trump ally Laura Loomer replied to Ogles’ post:

They are all weird.

"Today, I proudly voted in support of the One Big Beautiful Bill once again,” she said in July: delacruz.house.gov/news/documen... #FreeOurChildren