Denise Baumann

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar stating that Epstein survivors raised their hands during a congressional hearing to signal they’ve been ignored by Trump’s DOJ as Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to look at them. The photo shows several women seated behind the witness table with their hands raised. In the foreground, Pam Bondi sits at the table looking downward. A digital timer reading “2:0” is visible on the wall.

How Pam Bondi will be remembered in history.

The Making of the Deportation Machine The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

“The result has been to build up the carceral heartland, especially in the South and Southwest. Well over 1,000 new jails, prisons, and detention centers have been constructed in the United States over the last four decades, disproportionately in rural and remote areas.”

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires.

There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom.

Dems need to learn this.

Thank you, Senator!

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Let’s be clear: these protections help keep our air breathable, our water drinkable, and our communities healthy. However, Trump decided to prioritize the interests of fossil fuel companies over the health and safety of Americans.

Climate change isn't a scam; he is.

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📉 It’s The Economy, (You) Stupid (Fascist) One of Trump’s favorite pollsters warns he’d lose to Biden in an election held today. Plus, the DOJ is spying on lawmakers who search the Epstein files, and a balloon gets mistaken for... a drone.

"There are plenty of reasons why Trump’s job performance is polling on par with the less glamorous STDs.

One reason is thatthe Trump administration is committed to its increasingly unpopular programs of ethnic cleansing and murder. Also: it’s the economy, you stupid fascist."

First Draft today:

We can keep our communities safe without having masked federal agents terrorizing people and killing Americans in the street.
 
That's all Democrats are asking for.

Screenshot of an X post by CALL TO ACTIVISM quoting an exchange at a congressional hearing: “BALINT: This is not a game, secretary. BONDI: I am Attorney General. BALINT: My apologies; I couldn't tell.” Below is a video still of Rep. Becca Balint seated at a hearing table speaking emphatically, with a nameplate reading “MS. BALINT.”

Boom. Rep. Balint didn't even skip a beat.

ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent - The American Prospect The company’s year-end earnings call came just days after a lawsuit alleges guards in the company’s Washington state immigrant prison assaulted immigrants.

ICE contracts increased private prison company GEO Group's revenues by 800% in 2025, according to an earnings call attended by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. But none of that money seems to be going to oversight amid a spate of sexual abuse & physical assault complaints against GEO Group guards.

It’s been 117 years since the NAACP was founded in the wake of the Springfield Race Riots, where Black Illinoisans lost their homes, businesses and lives.

Out of tragedy came a new era of leadership.

Because when Americans face oppression, we come together and demand better.

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”

(Published Oct. 2025)

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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There must be some mistake. I was assured by Brett Kavanaugh that detainees were sorted only by the content of their character, and it was purely coincidental that this mapped on to the color of their skin.

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Truthsayer (@truthwillouttoday) They were MURDERED. Please say ALL their names.

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DHS buys El Paso warehouses for $123 million ICE mega detention center as deportation capacity expands nationwide El Paso is a strategic location for the Trump administration because of Biggs Army Airfield, from which deportation flights have increasingly taken place. The mega facility is among several nationwide...

"“El Paso must stand firm. There will be no concentration camps here..."

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To be sure, Dachau was not the world’s first concentration camp. Neither Adolf Hitler nor Joseph Stalin invented this institution synonymous with barbarism. Andrea Pitzer’s 2017 One Long Night reflects on the significance of the 1890s and the context of colonialism for grasping the emergence of this scourge for humanity. The Spanish in Cuba, the British during the Boer War in South Africa, and the United States in the Philippines introduced this practice of isolating enemies from the larger civilian population and “concentrating” them outside of the familiar framework of jails and prisons. It is perhaps better to say that the Nazis, who were not unaware of their predecessors in this realm, perfected the concentration camp. As Nikolaus Wachsmann demonstrates, they did so with pride and openness, at least in the early years of the Hitler regime, justifying concentration camps as necessary for the “protection” of German society from internal threats.

Found this eerily familiar post on the N.O. WWII Museum site, describing how the Nazis established concentration camps, based on the work of
@andreapitzer.bsky.social

Our #fascist American regime is buying up warehouses right now.

Do NOT look away.

www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

To be sure, Dachau was not the world’s first concentration camp. Neither Adolf Hitler nor Joseph Stalin invented this institution synonymous with barbarism. Andrea Pitzer’s 2017 One Long Night reflects on the significance of the 1890s and the context of colonialism for grasping the emergence of this scourge for humanity. The Spanish in Cuba, the British during the Boer War in South Africa, and the United States in the Philippines introduced this practice of isolating enemies from the larger civilian population and “concentrating” them outside of the familiar framework of jails and prisons. It is perhaps better to say that the Nazis, who were not unaware of their predecessors in this realm, perfected the concentration camp. As Nikolaus Wachsmann demonstrates, they did so with pride and openness, at least in the early years of the Hitler regime, justifying concentration camps as necessary for the “protection” of German society from internal threats.

Found this eerily familiar post on the N.O. WWII Museum site, describing how the Nazis established concentration camps, based on the work of
@andreapitzer.bsky.social

The #fascist American regime is buying up warehouses right now.

Do NOT look away.

www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Across from the Whipple building, Minnesota… this is how we do👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

The emails in my inbox emphasize: nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed. All eyes should still be on Minnesota.

The Grammys. The Olympics. The Super Bowl. The message is that the world loves diversity. Don’t let the billionaires tell you otherwise.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
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The Only Thing Stronger Than Hate Is Love: Minneapolis version.

Grand jury declines to indict Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to disobey illegal Trump orders | CNN Politics A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration...

DOJ policy provides that prosecutors should seek charges only when “the admissible evidence will probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction.” Not even even a close call here. What an embarrassment.
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