Sara Koopman

A line of protesters stands along a sidewalk holding large white signs with red letters that together spell out “CITIZENS BANK FUNDS ICE HOLES.” The signs are mounted on poles and form a long banner stretching down the grass beside the street. Only the protesters’ legs and hands are visible behind the signs. A bank building and parking lot appear in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Happening NOW: @burningriverbrigad.bsky.social, @indivisibleneo.bsky.social, and 70+ other groups are at Citizens Bank branches calling on the bank to stop backing ICE detention companies.

Can't make it to a protest? Help us amplify these folks' work!

#deicecitizensbank #iceout

Front page of the Boston Globe Business section (March 7, 2026) featuring a large photo of anti-ICE protesters dressed in red “Handmaid’s Tale”-style robes and white bonnets standing outside a Citizens Bank branch in winter. They hold signs reading “DE-CITIZENS” with a melting ice cube illustration and “Citizens Bank funds detention of 5 year olds.” The headline below reads: “Anti-ICE protests to hit Citizens Bank over ties to prison management firms.” Other business news headlines appear on the page.

Check out the front page of the Boston Globe business section!

@de-icecitizensbank.org

Cluster of protesters outside a bank with the green Citizens logo above them.

In December, @paulthedogman.bsky.social and I closed our account at Citizens Bank to tell them we won’t do business with a “community” bank that finances ICE prisons.
Today, joined with protesters all over the East Coast to send them the same message. #DeICECitizens

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

BOYCOTT CITIZENS BANK

Today is national day of protest against Citizens Bank for bankrolling ICE detention centers. Good turnout in Concord, MA 🗽

Spread the word. 📣

Boycottcitizens.org

Turn up the volume to hear the music 🎶

Protesters gather outside Citizens Bank branches over ICE ties The protests come as part of a larger nationwide movement criticizing the bank's financial ties to federal immigration forces.

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We need better Democrats.

Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

I used to think that folks AirTagging their kids were kinda wild but I’m ngl if I lived in the USA right now, that might be a solid choice

Can you imagine how hellish it must be to try to interpret his disjointed trains of barely thought? But hey, he can tell when his interpreter is bad.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

imagine how much carbon this war is emitting; not sure "humanity" is the word; maybe not very bright primate digging own grave

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
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DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

I feel sick. Some of these people were praying that Trump would come and free them, and instead they get this.

Marine veteran protesting Iran war suffers broken arm in struggle with GOP senator Sen. Tim Sheehy insists activist Brian McGinnis was ‘looking for a confrontation’ when he disrupted a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to protest U.S. military action against Iran

Just when you think US political culture has hit a new low a Republican Senator decides to break the arm of a protesting veteran in the middle of a Senate Committee on Armed Services meeting. To "help out and de-escalate the situation."

The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here's what remains. The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released.

The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.

The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.

Kash Patel fired FBI counterintelligence staffers responsible for monitoring threats from Iran.

He did this just before Trump launched this insane war due to their involvement in the FBI's investigation of Trump's classified documents scandal.

This admin is a threat to our nation’s safety.

This 2020 Trump speech is going viral.

A split-screen graphic. Left side: Two large bombs on an aircraft carrier with the text "War is costly." Right side: Gallons of milk on a grocery shelf stating that four days of "Operation Epic Fury" could fund SNAP benefits for 2 million Americans for a year.

President Trump has done what he promised not to do—start a new overseas conflict—and it's already costing the American taxpayer over $5 billion.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

War is not the answer! Congress must act to end this illegal and immoral war.

The House plans to take up this measure as soon as tomorrow - they have an opportunity to do the right thing.

AMERICA BABY WE'LL SHOW YOU WHY WE DON'T HAVE HEALTHCARE

[runs out of war materiel]

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

That frigate was at the international fleet review in India BTW, along with US forces. This amounts to sinking a ship under a flag of truce so it's even worse than it seems

News: Commanders across dozens of U.S. military bases told troops the war on Iran is part of "God's plan" so Trump can bring about "Armageddon"

News: so Trump can bring about "Armageddon." The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been "inundated" with complaints since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran over the weekend, receiving more than 110 complaints from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East. Journalist Jonathan Larsen broke the story, sharing specific complaints made by troops. One such complaint made by a noncommissioned officer reported that their commander had "urged us to tell our troops that this was 'all part of God's divine plan' and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ." "He said that 'President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth," the NCO continued. "He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this which made his message seem even more crazy." MRFF told Larsen that over 110 complaints came

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received 110+ complaints from US service members across 30+ sites about commanders using religious rhetoric

Including calling the war with Iran "part of God's plan" and Trump "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon”

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Gee, ya think.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action

Ouf.

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