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Agents were in two SUVS and a Dodge Charger, both unmarked. Agents wore street clothes, one had “police” marked on their vest.
18.06.2025 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They asked others on site for identification. Another apprehension action at a nearby McDonalds was related to the same enforcement action.
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There was a workplace ICE raid in Glen Burnie today at the Villages at Marley Station in Anne Arundel County. They were focused on a construction project in the complex and detained several workers….. 🧵
18.06.2025 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Official count from an event official: 2200 to 2400.
Also ANOTHER protest not on the official map popped up five miles east at 99th and Bell, officially Sun City.
Lots of horn honking going on from those driving past, too. Another unexpected result.
There’s been one large truck festooned with conservative flags that’d rode up and down a few times, a few “yay Grump!”s but that’s not who is really making noise today. They are a very small minority.
You’d be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Surprise. One of the fastest growing areas of the Phoenix metro area, it’s only been adding to its population seriously since the early 2000s.
05.04.2025 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#HandsOff protest in Surprise, Arizona on the outskirts of the Metro Phoenix area. Leans conservative, voted Trump 2024, but there’s got to be close to 2,000 people out here. Given my experiences and interactions here over the years, I take it as a sign the tide could be turning.
05.04.2025 18:17 — 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 2Surely I can’t be the only person drawing parallels between Elon Musk and Rasputin, the mystic/charlatan who gained the trust of the last Russian tsar - and was eventually murdered by a group of Russian nobles for his undue influence over the royal family….
11.03.2025 21:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m in Belfast, Ireland. A local just asked me if I was Canadian, and that made me feel oddly good.
05.03.2025 20:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The exterior of A corner pub called “Sunflower” in Belfast, in a brick building, the exterior of the first floor painted white. The door is framed by a green cage that entirely encloses the exterior, from roof to street. The cage door can be locked.
I’m in Belfast, where “The Troubles” is never far from the present-day narrative. I ask a passing pedestrian about the green cage covering the entrance to this pub. They were for protection, he says. It’s leftover from “the troubles” he tells me, “and they just left them there. It’s good they did.”
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Landscape photo of an apartment complex with a green dumpster, smoke pouring out of it while a Ford Explorer sits idling nearby and a youth walks past.
I was in Aurora, Co. last weekend and happened upon this dumpster fire. For anyone not tracking, Aurora (suburb of Denver) is where many Venezuelans have landed over the past two years, and it’s where Trump has said he will begin deportations with his “Aurora Plan.” #irony
18.12.2024 20:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@tedconover.bsky.social has been a mentor-in-the-page for me since I first realized I was doing immersion journalism. It was an honor to sit down with him for an engaging discussion on the craft, its ethics, and the many narrative nonfiction challenges it can solve for an interview in true mag!
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