Virginiaโs New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
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STOP ICE TODAY
Take action to protect your community from ICE.
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I just keep watching it disappear.
Our free press.
Our right to assembly.
Our freedom of speech.
Our right to due process.
Our right to free and fair elections.
Our protections from illegal search and seizure.
Our private data.
Our warrantless entry protections.
All of it disappearing.
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Been working on a piece for a while (and he just...tweeted it out) about this as the far-right version of the Cultural Revolution. They have no constructive goal, just a drive to make every "intellectual" suffer. If they could send everyone with a BA to Qinghai (Montana) to dig ditches, they would.
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can we kill the billionaires yet ๐ฅบ
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one potential (horrible) title: "Put the Pedo to the Metal"
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RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype
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While Tom Homan was trying to grab headlines this morning ICE was again circling our schools. Theyโve been out all morning and no โdrawdownโ is enough until every single one of these agents is out of our state and DHS is abolished.
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Jeff Bezos:
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I'm not a strict "liberal" by any means, but it seems to me that one of the main problems that happens for liberal posters at times is they think they're the ideology that can go for simplistic or shorthands, and, gang, I really don't think you are. You gotta embrace complexity, avoid reductions.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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The fact that people have accepted their presence already is actually the main issue imo. This is bad.
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Yes, weโre looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.
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Did... did you just plagiarize this?
bsky.app/profile/genx...
Did you both?
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I assumed it was a sick burn
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Firebombing To Win, by Robert Pape, with a flaming dumpster on the cover, a book that should definitely exist.
Just one more dumpster bro, all those government thugs in tactical gear will see that we really mean business if we set just one more fire. We're just one fire away from The Revolution, I swear to you.
Anyway, read theory.
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For Dallas area folks. Hutchins is where DHS plans to open a concentration camp for 9,500 people.
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Here is a collection of sworn testimonies from detainees being held in ICE custody. Until reading these testimonies, I wasn't fully aware of what is happening. Please read them yourself. We need to know this. We need to understand the consequences of ICE/CBP arrests. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
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There is a continuous organized tradition of border resistance going back more than 170 years among the Kumeyaay, Tohono O'odham and Yaqui people in what's today called California and Arizona.
Before folks start arguing over who should get credit for 5 months of work.
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Nuremberg, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia
Someone should launch their campaign here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe...
Primary every Democrat who is wishy washy. They do as much harm as a Republican vote, if not more.
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Federal Data Is Disappearing
The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.
We found so many examples of missing federal government data that we couldnโt put them all in this story.
โThe status quo was, the federal government is going to collect and disseminate data. That is no longer a reasonable assumption.โ
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you could share recipes with your cabal, or plan a game night or something
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Full Bad Bunny speech
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