Eric Beaumont (Eric Blowtorch)

Eric Beaumont (Eric Blowtorch)

@ericblowtorch.bsky.social

Musician/DJ/writer/paralegal

147 Followers 100 Following 105 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 week ago
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Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Whether you’re represented by Democrats or Republicans, it’s extra important for your Members of Congress to hear from you right now.

Urge your elected officials to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to Trump’s illegal war with Iran.

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3 weeks ago
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Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

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1 month ago
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New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."

kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

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Trump's DOJ Violates Epstein Transparency Law, Re-Victimizing the Victims YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner

Trump's DOJ Violates Epstein Transparency Law, Re-Victimizing the Victims
youtu.be/o2uG0MW2K3c?...

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1 month ago
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Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’ Trump, as usual, offered no evidence for any of his claims.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Renee Nicole Good was killed for going out in the streets to protect her community.

Thousands more people in Minneapolis are going out in the streets to protect their community.

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1 month ago
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ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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1 month ago

As the bill moves to the Senate, Democrats have a responsibility to draw a line. Putting actual guardrails on ICE is the bare minimum here. Allowing Trump’s brutal secret police force to operate with essentially a blank check is unacceptable.

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School officials say ICE agents have detained four children in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos, who was detained on Tuesday along with his father as he returned home from preschool.

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1 month ago
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Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.

"Two of them are high-schoolers.

"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

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1 month ago
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Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.

" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."

www.al.com/news/2026/01...

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1 month ago
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US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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4 months ago
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12,000 Criminals, by Eric Blowtorch and the Welders from the album The Alphabet

In 2007, when Chrysler fired 12,000 workers, we wrote this because it felt more than ominous. We all know what happened the following year. And the people responsible called themselves the proper stewards of our tax dollars. And here we are. Again.
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/track/12000-...

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4 months ago
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The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal “Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...

“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."

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4 months ago

The Washington Post. Where democracy dies daily.

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5 months ago
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Got Your Back, by Lincoln Arcade Singers 3 track album

Fuel for the fight against fascism.

ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/album/got-yo...

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5 months ago
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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.

We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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6 months ago

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."

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7 months ago
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1/ "We’re on the edge of the most far-reaching technological & economic transition in 250 yrs—since we began burning the coal + gas + oil that’s killing us now. Energy from the sun (& from the wind, just another form of solar power) is now cheaper than any other power."

Free link.

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Isaiah has been dragged to the ground and arrested inside of the Texas State Capitol for speaking out against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal gerrymandering. We are waiting for more information as it develops.

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7 months ago
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The speech Republicans are still seething over

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7 months ago
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

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8 months ago

no comment needed

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8 months ago

Poor fella. I don’t know any veterans who like fireworks either.

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8 months ago
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

Republicans have given up on governing for the American people and are all-in on serving their wealthy masters. That’s why we’re focused on training one million Americans — this is how we move forward as a movement in the face of Trump’s GOP that does not care about rules, laws, or the courts.

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8 months ago

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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8 months ago

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

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8 months ago

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?

I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

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"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
-- Tommy Douglas

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8 months ago

Black americans, for the millionth time, THIS IS OUR BUSINESS. some of our family members don’t have complete birth certificates, if any. should someone seek your ancestry before 1900 as proof of citizenship, you very well may be fucked.

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