Diana Alonzo Watkins (she/Ella)

Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
"... It isn't ICE. It isn't CBP. It's a Frankenstein force, stitched together from multiple agencies but loyal to none. Its purpose is to create a community response designed for social media clicks, rather than to keep communities safe..."
This is fascism

🕯️ I wish all those observing Día de los Muertos a blessed and peaceful day of remembrance. 🧡 Las personas no mueren cuando las llevas en el corazón. We cherish the memories of those that we have lost and celebrate their lives. #DiadelosMuertos #DayOfTheDead #HD102

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard.

There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

HRL – NKX

GlobalX

Signature Aviation

🧊✈️ HEADS UP SAN DIEGO‼️⚠️

👉 ICE Air inbound to Miramar

GlobalX A320 – Tail: N837VA

ETA – 9:20am 👀

Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house.

Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.

They literally ruin everything they touch

Survey shows sharp gender gap in political harassment Female mayors face higher rates of politically motivated violence and harassment, a new poll finds.

Poll of 235 mayors: 84% of women candidates were harassed while campaigning vs 64% of men candidates. 25% of women mayors experienced harassment at least 3x/month vs 10% of men mayors. 2x as many women mayors reported threats to their family as men mayors. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

DHS “probably violated federal immigration laws, which entitle most immigrants facing deportation to a hearing before a judge — a hearing Mr. Juarez never had. .. It is unclear how many other immigrants like Mr. Juarez have been erroneously removed ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre, 'hero' doctors abducted The last hospital in Darfur's el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken.

Horrific

www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.

Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says During a news conference Thusday, Gov. JB Pritzker also slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Editorial: Una nueva elección, una nueva oportunidad para NYC - El Diario NY El Diario respalda la agenda de asequibilidad que ofrece el candidato a la Alcaldía, Zohran Mamdani.

El Diario lleva más de 100 años compartiendo las historias de la comunidad latina y luchando por su bienestar, y estoy muy orgulloso de contar con su apoyo.

“Mamdani representa una esperanza en medio de los tiempos oscuros que atravesamos. Necesitamos un cambio de guardia con renovados bríos.”

Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by. www.wired.com/story/federa...

There are no national media outlets in Durango, CO - 8 hours from Denver - like there are in Chicago or LA. Grateful to have local journalists + the Durango Herald covering the latest ICE thuggery.

Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!

Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉

WTF 🤬

A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE:

FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the shutdown.

Not the first time. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

“Welcome to the confederate broadcasting system”

IRS agents. what's going on in DC is truly shameless

'Just bad government': Noem slammed for covering up report that disproved Trump claim The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published a report earlier this year that disproved one of President Donald Trump's viral claims about disaster relief. Department of Homeland Security (...

FEMA did an internal review in response to an insane Trump accusation, concluding that there was no political bias or retribution in how they disbursed funds. Kristi Noem killed it and demanded one that said what Trump wanted it to say, and last week she got it.

www.alternet.org/kristi-noem-...

Yes, instead of sending money to food banks across the state, we send law enforcement to keep them from eating at all.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?