Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

really good article! such a sad story here boltsmag.org/massachusett...

massachusetts is known to love cops and it makes sense that that love extends to ice, but i was not aware of these facts. it would be great to try and get this 287(g) contract ended

North Carolina and Texas Text Bank w/ VoteRiders! · VoteRiders Join VoteRiders for a virtual text bank on February 26 at 7:00PM ET to Texas and North Carolina voters! You can help ensure that voters in TX and NC have the information and ID they need to cast a ba...

We need your help TODAY, February 26! North Carolina and Texas have elections coming up, and they both have restrictive ID laws that could block people from voting.

Help us text voters to ensure they have what they need to make their voices heard! RSVP 👇

As we head into March, putting out our first HEADS UP to potential artists:

In 2024, we had amazing success offering PDF coloring sheets for $1. Since we know we have so many amazing artists out there, please consider designing something that would be fun to color in! Cheerful profanity welcome!

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Economic Response Fund Grant Guidelines Small businesses in Minnesota that have experienced operational disruptions in recent weeks may now apply for emergency financial support through the Economic Response Fund.

I'm going to promote the heck out of this:

The Minneapolis Foundation has $4 million in grants available to small businesses for everything from rent and payroll costs to legal help and temporary relocation.

More details and the application here: www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...

He might like some of Gail Jarrow's historical books? They're children's nonfiction. One is about pellagra; another is about hookworms.

"The Massachusetts Department of Correction... formally partners with ICE to transfer people who have finished their sentences."
Healey's office has also not responded to my calls about this (and why would they) BUT maybe if a lot more of us call and keep calling, they'll get the drift. 617-725-4005

Massachusetts folks, the LUCE ICE Hotline is ☎️ 617-370-5023. If you see ICE in your area, call and report. And spread the word! Full sheet of stickers here: tinyurl.com/5eddfvrt
Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.

In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.

Wisconsin is electing all of its sheriffs this year, and several swing counties, such as Kenosha and Sauk, are currently run by sheriffs who have signed on to a key program to collaborate with ICE.

This should also include a GAO audit of DHS, particularly ICE, CBP, the office of the secretary, and the funds provided in the OBBA. How has/is the money being spent, how effective is it, where are there patterns of waste, fraud, & abuse.

Congress controls the GAO. Let's go!

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

My local NIMBYs are fighting a proposal to expand the local airbase, which is involved in deportations. I am hopeful that our powers can combine.

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

I thought this book was interesting. bookshop.org/p/books/wake...
The strongest predictor of a revolt breaking out on a slave ship was women being kept on deck, giving them proximity to the ship's weapons supply.

I read this to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands”

Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National “Flexibility is important. I also think having initiative and decentralizing the campaign, letting different people put their own sort of stamp on it, is just a normal way movements exist,” says Knuts...

Minneapolis CWA Prez talks about how they built momentum for the General Strike.

Mobilizing non-union workers & small-business supporters to shut down the city through community & online tactics involves tactics unions normally don't use.

Do read!

paydayreport.com/minnesota-la...

The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

This leads me to my next thing. If people can't write this alt text themselves for whatever reason, then they can add the keyword "Alt4Me" to their post or to the alt text field in their posted image to summon human volunteers for help. Anything that’s tagged with the keyword

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Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746

nonprofit friends!

working on a grant to a funder who I know from the "classical music programs for youth" sphere and it turns out they also have a "free or affordable legal services for marginalized people" grant category and it's open until Feb 20

feels like some of y'all might need that

We had to take them to court over and over in Chicago, but when it was clear the judge was going to haul Bovino in to answer for the next round of violations, the out-of-town units left. It's slow and infuriating, but it's another lever to pull that can get traction, yes.

I need all yall that dont speak spanish to learn a few words, real quick.

pls RT

"La Migra" - common slang for ICE

"La Patrulla" - "The Patrol"

"No digas nada" - "Say nothing."

¿Cómo te llamas? - "Whats your name?"

"¿Quién quieres que llame?" - "Who do you want me to call?"

Escondense - Hide

Ahead of time, you first have to turn on full encryption on your devices, it’s not that cumbersome—a good guide here:

Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.” The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.

It’s worse than you thought.

Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…

with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

Hey Bill!

I made it into a website now

standwithminnesota.com

if anyone in the Lewiston area needs whistles, hit us up. 💓

(this goes for anyone anywhere, tbh. email at the top of our linktree linktr.ee/3Dwhistles)

For Renee Nicole Good, for her wife, child, city, country, and every person she died to protect... it's fundraiser time.

I'm giving $1 to Community Aid Network MN for each repost this gets.
AND $1 for each new follower I get.
And if YOU donate to Community Aid Network MN, tell me and I'll match it.

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.

It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵