Devon Ellington

Generative AI is antithetical to the core values of librarianship and not grappling with that is a big issue, not just for librarians, but for anyone in the education field.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.

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“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

Republicans worship death. They like death and they want more people to die.

This barn needs 65 more people with $50 to share to get over the finish line and we need to do it asaptually.

Please chip in and share if you can. 🌻

"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.

Our conversation:

Warren, Lawmakers Renew Legislative Push to Stop Private Equity Looting | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

Destroy the ability of public equity firms to destroy companies and communities. This seems like a good start: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com

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Screenshot of a post by Acyn quoting an exchange between Lyons and Senator Blumenthal. Lyons cites case law allowing entry into a home based on an administrative warrant; Blumenthal responds that this does not override the Fourth Amendment or allow ICE to break down doors without a judicial warrant. Below is a C-SPAN image of a congressional hearing with an ICE official testifying.

They knew this policy was so unconstitutional that they kept the “legal memo” authorizing this practice hidden, wouldn't let physical copies of it circulate, and a whistleblower had to alert Congress about its very existence.

Boosting this as we go into the weekend! We'll be working with ProtoPasta next week for them to ship spools all over the country, and we are SO EXCITED by this chance to 1) support a company who gave us free filament in the beginning & 2) reduce our reliance on amazon. 💓

LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people

NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.

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Will Bunch may mince beef, but he doesn't mince words.

Republicans are not fiscal conservatives and they never were.

Fri. Feb. 13, 2026: The Balance Between Fun and Practicality image courtesy of wal_172619 from Pixabay Friday, February 13, 2026 Waning Moon Jupiter Retrograde Partly cloudy and cold It’s Friday the 13th! I love Friday the 13th. Charlotte was delighted to jo…

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BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?

LYONS: We don't

BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?

LYONS: I didn't

BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

simply they will shift to where there is less resistance from the people, therefore the power always lies with the people. Do not let politicians take your power away and disperse you at their will.

I have neighbors everywhere

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

It’s day 72 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

We received some DMs after yesterday’s post asking how to help with rent relief: check out the rent relief funds at StandWithMinnesota.com

Keep up the pressure! Call your Senators and tell them to oppose the SAVE Act! 202-224-3121

They don't have the votes to kill the filibuster, and Democrats have enough votes to filibuster the SAVE Act!

#HandsOffHerVote

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Infuriating to watch black and trans people warn folks about Newsom--JUST LIKE THEY WARNED FOLKS ABOUT TRUMP--and see everyone respond with "But he's a Democrat."

Keep showing up.

Provide rides for your neighbors.
Coordinate grocery drop offs.
Pitch in for urgent rent relief.
Support mutual aid projects.
Demand action from elected officials.
Support local small businesses.

Check in & take care of one another.

Don’t let up.
Keep showing up.
We keep us safe.

One of my favorite places!

Thank you! Looking forward to next week!
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The budgets for these lawless federal agencies are larger than the military budgets of many countries. Would love it if we used that money to fund libraries, to fund a social safety net, to make it so that that even well-known Hollywood actors don’t have to sell their shit to pay for healthcare. 🔥👊🏻

Yes, they are so good!
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we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS

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.

Nothing describes the soul of the Republican Party more than Pam Bondi citing the stock markets as her excuse for not going after pedophile billionaires.