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Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

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Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov and @fetterman.senate.gov I have increasingly lost faith in you, but you still have time to restore it. DEFUND ICE. No halfway measures, no bars just for illegal arrests of citizens. Show some vision, strength and concern for your constituents!

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‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

The Homan regime is not off to a great start. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

And an independent journalist who went live recording at the church, too.

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Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes.

Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

Praying with our feet. No $ for ICE No están solos, no están solas  Juntos hacemos la Liberación Share + Repost + Comment “Free Families” #ICEOutNow | Kairos Center Praying with our feet. No $ for ICE No están solos, no están solas  Juntos hacemos la Liberación Share + Repost + Comment “Free Families” #ICEOutNow

Please amplify: about an hour ago, faith leaders including my sister Rev. Liz Theoharis of @kairoscenter.org were arrested in the Hart Building praying with their feet and calling on the Senate "No Funding for ICE." www.facebook.com/reel/1385064...

Clergy being arrested and surrounded by police.

It appears several clergy were just arrested as they staged an anti-ICE protest in the Russell Rotunda in the U.S. Senate office building.

A number of faith leaders, who were in town urging Senators to vote against additional ICE funding, were led away by police: www.facebook.com/FIAnational/...

HAPPENING NOW:
This morning, hundreds of faith leaders from across the country convened in DC to demand that Congress give no money to ICE.

Stay tuned or watch live. fb.watch/EXfkpRnQHn/

Please amplify: Faith leaders including my sister Rev. @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org of the @kairoscenter.org getting arrested now demanding, "Not in our name. No funding for ICE!"
www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

Federal troop deployments to US cities cost taxpayers $496M and counting The Trump administration's deployment of federal troops to six U.S. cities has cost taxpayers about $496 million through December.

Tell everyone you know

HALF A BILLION $

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Faith leaders have come to Washington DC today to make clear to the US Senate: “Not in our name! No funding for ICE!”

And Stanford is trying to squeeze $329,000 of restitution out of the students, some of whom are couch surfing and sleeping in cars, to bankroll their ✨building renovation✨ when Stanford’s facilities director has testified that the damage was UNDER $10K.

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

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Graph showing that policies blocking ICE access to jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states.

In 2025, local police & jails played a crucial role in ICE's deportation agenda.

For this year to be any different, states must prohibit this collaboration and rein in sheriffs.

At my university we found that an obscure accounting decision was leading to overprojected deficits that justified austerity while channeling money into capital projects at the same time as admin was laying off teaching and research support staff. The uproar shifted $5 million back into operating.

There it is.

Join us next Thursday October 2nd at 6:30 online for a conversation with Jo-Ann Morgan, Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, and Courtney Thorsson for a conversation on Black Arts and the Black freedom struggle: www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-black...

"Yet the history of vagrancy laws shows that they were never about addressing thorny public policy problems like homelessness or crime, but instead about using state power to remove “undesirable” people from our communities."
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Actor Sterling Hayden reflecting on naming names to HUAC:

"I was a rat, a stoolie, and the names I named of those close friends were blacklisted and deprived of their livelihood."

"I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing."

Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83

"I don’t think we were as naïve as some folks have suggested. There were uncertainties. I think we had a sense of resolve, and I think it took a lot of courage."

Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

The right hates for white people to know Black history, because it completely upends, not just whitewashed curriculum, but our families’ stories of self-help, hard work, and meritocracy.
Black history makes us confront the fact that those stories are partial at best and deeply distorted.

Reposting so it is less “quietly” done

In the archives looking at legal filings regarding Red Squads. And boy howdy am I getting past and present confused in my brain.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

on the falsehood of PBS / NPR’s demise spreading faster than the truth, digital liberalism shows its teeth: accepting defeat in mourning instead of taking responsibility for what could be if we worked towards it…