Renee Tajima-Peña

Oh.

“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?

Holy shit. It’s time to subpoena Trump! 😡

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

It's a Republican tradition.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.”

NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

This one hits hard.

Thank you for the link to the article

Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people How surveillance company Palantir made record profits helping the Trump administration with 'unusual operations.'

This should infuriate everyone.

Palantir must be destroyed.

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Human rights crime

Outrageous. Yet they’ve punished students and faculty despite arrest charges being dropped

Wouldn’t doubt that unscrupulous landlords in gentrifying areas are clearing their units by calling ICE

Hope you were ok, or as ok as you can be given the violence. Do you know if UCLA and or LAPD ever actually pursued the attackers? I’ve only read about 3 identified and no jail time for any

GOP’s first step in rescuing ICE funding. Don’t fall for it Senators—
aka Schumer, Booker, Kaine & Co.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Border czar Tom Homan’s arrival in Minnesota signals shift by Trump administration Homan’s assignment comes amid reports that some federal immigration agents will soon be pulled out of Minnesota.

Don’t forget Obama first appointed Homan to ICE. Democratic leadership has a lot of work to do to catch up with their constituents and stand firm on the right side of history

https://www.startribune.com/tom-homan-minnesota-ice/601571189

MAGA/GOP shifting from lying about their murders to fabricating Obama adm killings.

Obama was guilty of deportations and family separations that many resisted. But masked unidentified thugs brutalizing flower vendors, flouting due process and gunning down peaceful protesters in broad daylight? No.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020

For a minute I thought Bill Kristol’s account was hacked. But there it is #AbolishICE

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Israel kills 3 journalists in Gaza, including CBS News contributor The journalists were killed Wednesday in a strike on their car in central Gaza. Israel’s military said it struck “several suspects” who were operating a drone.

Three journalists, including a CBS News contributor, were killed in an Israeli military strike in Gaza on Wednesday. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

See new posts Conversation Drop Site @DropSiteNews 🇫🇷🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 🇸🇮 Five nations – France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Slovenia – have confirmed they will not join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace at this time, Al Jazeera and BBC report. 👉 What else do we know: ▪️Invitations were sent over the weekend to more than 50 world leaders, according to U.S. officials cited by ABC News. ▪️A White House official told ABC about 30 countries were expected to join. Steve Witkoff later said at least 25 nations have confirmed they will join. ▪️ The signing ceremony for Trump’s Board of Peace is scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. local time in Davos, Switzerland. That’s 4:30 a.m. EST in the United States. ▪️Close allies UK, Italy, Canada have not confirmed participation. Most European nations have not yet confirmed. ▪️Trump said earlier tonight that Vladimir Putin had also agreed to join, but in comments carried by TASS, the Russian President’s office said it was still reviewing the invitation.

▪️Pope Leo also received an invitation. His office said he needs time to consider. 📌 THE LIST: Countries that have confirmed they will join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’: ➤ 🇮🇱 Israel ➤ 🇲🇦 Morocco ➤ 🇦🇷 Argentina ➤ 🇭🇺 Hungary ➤ 🇧🇾 Belarus ➤ 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia ➤ 🇹🇷 Türkiye ➤ 🇪🇬 Egypt ➤ 🇯🇴 Jordan ➤ 🇮🇩 Indonesia ➤ 🇵🇰 Pakistan ➤ 🇶🇦 Qatar ➤ 🇦🇪 UAE ➤ 🇻🇳 Vietnam ➤ 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan ➤ 🇧🇭 Bahrain ➤ 🇦🇱 Albania ➤ 🇦🇲 Armenia ➤ 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan ➤ 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

➤ 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan ➤ 🇽🇰 Kosovo ➤ 🇰🇼 Kuwait ➤ 🇵🇾 Paraguay "This is the greatest board ever assembled, and everybody wants to be on it," Trump told reporters at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday. “I don’t know of anybody that hasn’t accepted.”

🇫🇷🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 🇸🇮 Five nations – France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Slovenia – have confirmed they will not join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace at this time, Al Jazeera and BBC report.

👉 What else do we know:

▪️Invitations were sent over the weekend to more than 50 world leaders, according to U.S...

Per a 1968 Harris Poll, Dr. Martin Luther King had a public disapproval rating of nearly 75%.

The people today claiming it is divisive to condemn the triple evils he fought against—racism, poverty, and militarism—are the people who overwhelmingly hated him when he lived.
#MLKDay

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

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Afternoon panelists at our upcoming symposium!

Tyler Green, historian, author, and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast
Rafael Gonzalez, President and CEO, Grand Performances
Renee Tajima-Pena, Professor, UCLA @rtajimapena.bsky.social
Hamza Walker, Director of The Brick and co-curator of Monuments

ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”

Thank you. Some press still refers to the bloody 2024 mob attack on the peaceful UCLA Gaza solidarity encampment as a “clash.” It’s like calling a rape a “sexual encounter.”