Ted Lardner

Always an exciting moment when we see les grues (the cranes) flying north over our part of France… a sign that spring is on the way.

ICE was flawed from day one... born out of post-9/11 fear and built on policies that blurred national security with domestic control. Some systems don’t need reform. They need to be abolished.

#AbolishICE #ICEtapo #FDT

His father’s real estate business was built on discriminating against black people. Rotten apple from a rotten tree.

😂

What a poem. From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke.

#poetry #booksky #writing

Feel better soon.

For those keeping score at home:

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

The 1st No Kings protest drew 5M. 2nd estimated at 7M. The next No Kings/F Trump is on March 28. How about we get 15 million Americans on the streets that day and really make some noise! I’ve already taken PTO so I won’t have a conflict at work. www.nokings.org

What closet?

Protected status for migrants must be made permanent and irrevocable. Once a migrant enters the asylum process, the President and Secretary of State must not be allowed to pull the rug out from under them.

Train + Tull = 🙂

I remember when “capitalist pig” was something hairy 60s left wing anti war counterculture freaks would say.

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they’re gaming out raids on…Hamilton County in Ohio? (Ohio GOP will serve them donuts.) Wayne County in Michigan? Erie County in PA? Milwaukee? But Dems have…Marc Elias? To save Democracy?

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center A photo of Ramos wearing a bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack as he was being detained went viral, sparking national criticism.

“U.S. District Judge Fred Biery excoriated the federal government, saying the case ‘has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.’” www.ms.now/news/liam-ra...

This is great!

House finches sheltering from lake effect flurry.

Blanche: the state of Minnesota made us shoot them.

Winter Storm Fern.

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

So far in Minnesota

They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school.

Then Ice kidnapped a five year old.

Then ice kidnapped a two year old

Then border patrol murdered Va nurse.

Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Shut it down.

Don’t tell Pam Bondi.

Well well well. He had a permit to carry after all.

Murder

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Just a reminder that nobody should believe anything ICE or the DOJ says. They have lied and smeared again and again. Every statement they make should be treated as suspect at a minimum.

That is very dislocating for media, and for the general public.