What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning.
*21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity.
*Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

Note the problem here. Trump does apparently want to minimize clashes between government security services and protesters. But he doesn’t appear to want those heavily armed government militias to stop doing the things that are causing those clashes in the first place. What’s really going on here is this: Trump is looking to defuse anger among congressional Democrats for purposes that don’t portend a meaningful shift. An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package. The problem for the White House, Punchbowl reports, is that if Democrats successfully renegotiate new measures, the House might have to pass a new package—the House already passed funding that included money for DHS—and Republicans doubt that’s possible. So the show of de-escalation is about making it easier for Senate Democrats to support appropriations bills that don’t require another vote in the House.

There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.

Senator Tammy Duckworth, a highly-decorated combat Veteran who lost both of her legs in Iraq, treats JD Vance like the punk that he is after Vance likened her to "Forest (Sic) Gump."

I think not enough white people are taking the voting rights issues seriously enough. They are killing people and then offering to stop killing if the state gives up the voter registration data. This should be setting off massive alarms for EVERYONE. (I’m looking at you, white people.)

ICE Has Cut Its Detainees Off From Medical Care The organization hasn’t paid third-party medical providers in months.

Abusers will never offer care to the targets of their abuse.

And denying them access to care is a bonus of cruelty on top for them.
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Abusers isolate the targets of their abuse before the worst abuse they inflict

They are following a playbook that women all across the world know: abuse

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

This was such a happy song by Annie and Mr Warbucks. A song about belonging to each other
Thank you Marcie

With the name Atticus Finch, you might recall the slave patrols and Jim Crow that taught Hitler how to do it. This hate has been here since white settlers exterminated the indigenous and enslaved the African.

We are now the country who needs international observers and we need to know how Muchado et. al preserved their evidence that Maduro lost. Our hearts cry for Justice and freedom.

Billy Bragg Releases New Song "City of Heroes" Supporting Minneapolis Protesters Billy Bragg has shared a new song, "City of Heroes," written, recorded, and released within 24 hours as a tribute to those protesting ICE in Minneapolis.

Billy Bragg Releases New Song “City of Heroes” Supporting Minneapolis Protesters: Stream
Written, recorded, and released within 24 hours
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“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...”

And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

Please watch and listen to this young man and repost. Please follow him. He has important information about what’s happening-
#ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks

#ohio

Now. This is what democracy looks like.

In 1963, Rabbi Joachim Prinz stood before the world and warned:

“The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most tragic problem is silence.”

Not hatred.
Not ignorance.
Silence.

"Let us out!"

A social media comment criticizes several public figures, calling them derogatory names and stating they lack human decency. 

Tuesday Friends #12
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@agb2g.bsky.social
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Judge Halts Deportation of Five-Year-Old Child and Father Amid Legal Challenge Court order blocks removal as case over immigration detention continues

A US federal judge has temporarily stopped the deportation of a five-year-old boy from Minnesota and his father, following widespread backlash over their arrest by immigration authorities.

Detained Immigrants Detail Physical Abuse and Inhumane Conditions at Largest Immigration Detention Center in the U.S.

"...crushing their testicles during beatings..."

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And the idiots applaud.

As we all learned in school, a bill becomes a law when the People’s Republic of China sends it to the U.S. President and he signs it.

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day which marks the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp & remembers that 6 MILLION Jewish people & millions of others were murdered by state sanctioned violence,

I WANT TO REITERATE:

ABOLISH ICE

Before it abolishes us!

Resist tyranny!

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.