The Peaceful, Poly, Pagan

'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.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.

As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.

She replied: “To get out of here.”

I wish @lincolnproject.us or some other PAC would create and ad and air it everywhere of this advertisement from Pam Bondi when she was Florida AG, cut with @jayapal.house.gov asking the Epstein survivors if they still have been ignored by the DOJ while being ignored by Bondi

Mr. Clay Parikh sounds like he listens to way too much Alex Jones.

Is this the bookshelf that hid the Frank family? My memory says yes, although I have no corroboration. There were a couple of postcards stuck to one of the walls in that attic. It was seeing them that started my tears: the mundane inside the normalities which the family maintained, whilst hiding away from the - from the inevitable.

... wound around, tightened
yet unbound, frightened by sound
of jackboots, pounding ...

#vss365 #wound #haiku

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from yesterday’s Epstein files release.

WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING???

So @gtconway.bsky.social had some things to say about Don Lemon‘s arrest

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YouTube video by ABC7 News Bay Area Independent autopsy finds Brentwood police killed 72-year-old woman

Independent autopsy finds Brentwood police killed 72-year-old woman
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They are up but have been redacted.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled that President Trump must unfreeze $1.9 billion in foreign USAID payments.

Justice Samuel Alito BLASTS the majority with Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh joining in dissent:

The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.

As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.

Who has the Fulton County ballots and where? Join the discussion on Substack; substack.com/@thefrankfig...

@schumer.senate.gov Do NOT fund DHS! This is NOT what the vast majority of American people want while ICE is out of control, killing people, and ignoring Constitutional Rights. They think they are above the law. SHUT IT DOWN!

My advice to every elected Democrat is to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of whatever Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries tells you to do.

I cannot stress how they have gotten EVERY SINGLE choice wrong for the last year, and have poisoned the American people’s faith that we are even an opposition party.

Whistleblower Tipline Do you have a tip to share about unlawful or unconstitutional activity-or other wrongdoing-in a federal agency or other organization? Now more than ever, Congress depends on insiders to conduct its co...

If you work for ICE or Border Patrol and have information about unlawful conduct taking place at your agency, please speak up.

House Judiciary Dems want to hear from you. America needs to know about crimes committed in our name. As a whistleblower, you can share anonymously:

Ellison: "The Bondi letter reveals what this is all about. This is not about fraud and it's not even about immigration, and it's certainly not about law enforcement. It's about handing over documents of the state of Minnesota, private information, including voting information, to the federal govt."

Send this to every veteran you know.

Wow— “Cardinal Tobin told hundreds of faithful gathered online that now is the time to say no — no to violence, no to indifference, and no to funding the U.S. government’s own “machinery of death.”

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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

A red and black NURSES' STRIKE flyer with silhouetted people protesting on it. It says NURSES' STRIKE JANUARY 30TH 2026 WE STAND FOR LIFE - NOT STATE VIOLENCE Join Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Nationwide STRIKE FRIDAY JANUARY 30TH 2026 Justice for Alex Pretti, RN On January 24, 2026, Alex K Pretti was SHOT AND KILLED by Federal Immigration Agents in Minneapolis, MN Video and reports raise serious questions about the incident Nurses do NOT stand for violence against our own! We demand TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND SAFETY FOR ALL WHO SHOULD STRIKE? Registered nurses Licensed Practical Nurses Nurse Practicioners Nurse Anesthesists Nurse Educators All Nurses and Healthcare Workers STRIKE DATE JANUARY 30TH 2026 Across Hospitals, Clinics, and Healthcare Facilities

Nurses are pissed.

This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

The Linguistic Phantom: How the DHS Weaponized a Fake Nazi Quote to Sell Real Nazi Doctrine If you’ve been online lately, you’ve seen the discourse: equal parts panic, performative certainty, and people angrily discovering that…

BTW, she's the same one who was responsible for the Nazi doctrine podium.

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A Holocaust Survivor on Why Standing up to Authoritarianism Matters Read more here.

Those that lived the horrors are:
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DA Bregman: If ICE comes in without a warrant, without reasonable suspicion, without probable cause, that is false imprisonment in New Mexico. You can’t confine, restrain, or detain someone without proper legal authority to do so. And there’s no exception for law enforcement.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Update: currently being held at a federal building.