Oh — the situation has escalated.
Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.
"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...
04.11.2025 21:02 — 👍 2085 🔁 680 💬 40 📌 80
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
03.11.2025 02:02 — 👍 1716 🔁 957 💬 31 📌 49
O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?
TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.
03.11.2025 00:49 — 👍 2651 🔁 1246 💬 366 📌 249
coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...
01.11.2025 04:41 — 👍 5825 🔁 2541 💬 270 📌 145
So Donald the dove is planning to send the military into Nigeria, Venezuela, and Peoria. Am I reading that right?
02.11.2025 02:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is again why I’m advocating ice whistles and ice vuvuzelas
26.10.2025 02:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
25.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 6619 🔁 1884 💬 143 📌 91
The ICE whistles are great but.. hear me out… ICE vuvuzelas.
24.10.2025 01:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is impossible to imagine people allowing this to go on (or even participating in it within the government) if he was ordering the murder without any process of French citizens or Brits or Australians on boats no matter what they were alleged to be doing.
23.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 771 🔁 258 💬 45 📌 12
I’ve had a theory for awhile, after seeing the number of nobodies in dc who make their interns drive them around in black suburbans, that a certain type of person sees a protective detail as a symbol of status. Like lictors in Ancient Rome… with their fasces.
23.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes but they’ll also make a lot of money for themselves
23.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Notifications on his son’s phone don’t stop
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the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
19.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 4432 🔁 745 💬 42 📌 11
When JD Vance called Trump
Hitler, we now know he meant it as a compliment.
18.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
18.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 16133 🔁 3921 💬 407 📌 270
White words on a black background read:
50+
Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.
~130
Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.
~20
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
18.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 17245 🔁 8062 💬 300 📌 242
Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.
17.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 3221 🔁 1036 💬 46 📌 16
Reads like a letter from Trump to Epstein
17.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
when you start seeing these pop up in the burbs, you'll know we're on the brink
16.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect
That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread
15.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 648 🔁 233 💬 10 📌 4
why can't young republicans find dates
14.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
13.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 527 🔁 268 💬 15 📌 4
don’t know why you all think this is so weird. I always get a little melancholic and philosophical after my monthly annual physical.
13.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago
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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.
“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.
From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.
The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
12.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 10210 🔁 6014 💬 497 📌 820
He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.
A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.
Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
13.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 1070 🔁 653 💬 37 📌 60
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
13.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 21501 🔁 5592 💬 570 📌 193
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