Adam Robersmith

I've done a lot of lobbying and a lot of activism. It seems stupid, it seems pointless, it seems ineffectual, but phone calls are one of the few things that legislative offices really pay attention to as a barometer for public opinion.

Call early and call often.

If all this warmongering idiocy doesn’t help people understand that energy independence through renewables is not just a nice idea, but rather an absolute necessity for both the planet and our communities, I don’t know what will.

Gentle solarpunk futures are sounding pretty good right now!

This is to remind people that Trump lied when he told us this billion dollar operation “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program when in fact we just learned (from Trump’s Iran envoy!) it did nothing and Iran is now a week away from having a bomb.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

Being known as among the worst in the treatment of families seeking to immigrate is shameful. Please share.

#momsky
#FreeFamilies

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

I am not even remotely surprised.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

(AXIOS) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.

Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs

1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"

The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."

Measles detected at Dilley immigrant family detention center The cases come amid renewed nationwide scrutiny of the facility following the transfer there of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy who federal agents arrested along with his father in Minneapolis.

Children at an ICE family detention facility have been denied clean drinking water, medical care, and legal access. Now they may be exposed to measles.

Toddlers don't belong in detention, and Congress must end funding for these sites of abuse.

Warehouses to store children. This evil must be stopped. #FreeFamilies #momsky #NeverAgainIsNow

rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!

liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

MIKE JOHNSON: There have been tragedies in Mpls brought about in large measure by governor & local officials inciting violence

WELKER: They're calling for peaceful protest

J: They're also saying to resist

W: But these state & local officials didn't pull the triggers that left these Americans dead

If you have not yet read @adamserwer.bsky.social on Minnesotans' heroics, you are going to feel way better when you do. He went there. He talked to the people doing the work. Then he thought about it and produced something rare. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... [gift link]

The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort underscore the gravity of this moment. This has never happened before in our history. We shouldn't pretend it's normal.

More reason for us to hold the line and demand a DHS budget that stops funding lawlessness.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

The 20 Elections to Watch This February - Bolts Democrats hold the narrowest of majorities in Maine and Pennsylvania’s state Houses. They now need to defend vacant seats to retain their edge in each through the end of the... Read More

NEW: Special elections in the razor-thin Democratic majority-Houses in Maine and Pennsylvania. Billions of dollars in funding for school. A congressional primary.

There are plenty of important elections right around corner, in FEBRUARY.

So i put together my monthly guide of elections to watch:

Clergy being arrested and surrounded by police.

It appears several clergy were just arrested as they staged an anti-ICE protest in the Russell Rotunda in the U.S. Senate office building.

A number of faith leaders, who were in town urging Senators to vote against additional ICE funding, were led away by police: www.facebook.com/FIAnational/...

Background: The Senate is expected to vote today to move forward FY2026 spending bills in a procedural maneuver, with additional votes to come. The appropriations package includes many important things, but it also includes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bill. Votes for the DHS bill would mean billions more flow to both Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Write Your Senators Today! bit.ly/Senate_DHSfunding Or Call Your Senator Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Lift Your Voice:
NO funds for ICE and CBP
REJECT DHS funding.
REMOVE DHS from the Appropriations Package!

Write Your Senators Today!
bit.ly/Senate_DHSfunding
#UUSky

ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Every instance in which the Trump administration is forced to make changes, even cosmetic alterations like removing Bovine, is a good sign that US democracy is not yet dead.

Trump wants unchecked power. But public and political opinion still matters - and that should encourage resistance.

Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures Police have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport.

Grateful for all these brave ones.

apnews.com/article/minn...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Offering this prayer from UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt, as we continue to hold the people of Minneapolis in our hearts. Read the full text in UU World: www.uuworld.org/articles/min...

#UU #ICEOut #Prayer #UUSky

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

If you’re struggling with something you can do to make things better, go to 5 Calls—they’ll make it easy to call your elected officials. A call is one of the best ways to sway their opinion or bolster their resolve! (They’ll even give a suggested script if you need it.)

5calls.org

BREAKING: Federal agents just shot and killed a man in Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses.

We condemn this killing and demand ICE and CBP agents withdraw from Minneapolis immediately.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.