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This is the cycle: raid, escalate, criminalize the response, send in troops. ICE raids are not neutral, they’re psychological warfare on communities, and now they’re using military backup. This isn’t enforcement. It’s state-sponsored intimidation.

submitted 5 hours ago • 139 comments

If undocumented workers with no criminal history are being dragged from job sites that they’ve worked at for years, then when do the CEOs, contractors, and farm owners who employed them start getting handcuffed? Or is that not how “justice” works in America?

submitted 10 hours ago • 89 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 11 hours ago • 186 comments

I said healthcare is a human right and now Elon Musk is posting about “suicidal empathy” at 3 am:

submitted 16 hours ago • 506 comments

Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California

submitted 7 hours ago • 1075 comments

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Don’t rank Cuomo. Do rank these folks:

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 8 hours ago • 585 comments

i don’t know what to say about the images coming out of LA right now. but in case you need it, here’s a reminder that out in the streets, only water goes in your eyes. flush with water. take your clothes off when you get home & take a cool shower, wash yourself with dish soap a few times. godspeed.

submitted 8 hours ago • 58 comments

Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

submitted 10 hours ago • 71 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 11 hours ago • 131 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 10 hours ago • 103 comments

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

submitted 13 hours ago • 189 comments

The people at @msnbc.com helped me make this video

submitted 14 hours ago • 225 comments

If you see what you think is an ICE operation/raid call and report it to the DIRE hotline 888-DIRE-SOS (888-347-3767). Note the time and exact address. Make note of the number and type of cars involved and the number of agents and what uniforms they are wearing. Take photos and video if you can.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

narrator he did in fact come back.

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

submitted 1 day ago • 448 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 1 day ago • 323 comments

The Chief of the Criminal Division at the US Attorney’s Office/Middle District of Tennessee RESIGNED the same day the Acting US Attorney signed the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He writes: “do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.” There are no coincidences.

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

So it seems like Bukele is willing to release detainees if there are pending proceedings in the U.S. The habeas/due process the courts have ordered for the Venezuelans are pending proceedings. So when are they coming back

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill. It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights. It’s Project 2025

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

Updated my yard sign.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee...Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said."

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 338 comments

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

submitted 1 day ago • 759 comments

Habba and Noem were in Newark yesterday kicking off a month long operation called "Apex Hammer" with ICE. If you see an ICE operation, film, post with location.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Just received word that ICE has detained an 11th grader from Ridgewood’s Grover Cleveland High School after a routine immigration hearing. Apprehending minors in courthouses and separating them from their families is unacceptable, and I join the school in calling for his release

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

If Abrego Garcia committed a crime, he should be charged and tried. I wondered reading this headline why they didn't just do this in the first place, and then read the article to discover that they only began the investigation in April, after he was deported.

submitted 1 day ago • 269 comments

this!!!! it may be hard for some to accept that the government could be this cruel (especially when they've largely had positive interactions with law enforcement) but federal agents are, in fact, the one terrorizing immigrant communities right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Dominican man thrown to the ground and arrested outside immigration courtroom just now, an activist, who is a US citizen was also taken away in the chaotic scene. A lawyer later tried to ask the remaining agents where the activist was taken. "you just arrested a US citizen which is illegal."

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.

submitted 1 day ago • 551 comments

The part of the May jobs report that everyone is overlooking: “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised down by 65,000, from +185,000 to +120,000, and the change for April was revised down by 30,000, from +177,000 to +147,000…

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Opposing Andrew Cuomo is a non-negotiable for our membership. In light of today’s news that Jessica Ramos has endorsed Cuomo, our New York City CAP Council immediately voted to unendorse her on our ballots. @uawregion9a.bsky.social region9a.uaw.org/news/NYCMayo...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 840 comments

In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 1 day ago • 969 comments

I mean really … What are we doing here? Make E.coli Great Again? WTAF?

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

NEW: In Djibouti, conditions are brutal for both detainees and ICE officers, ICE tells Judge Murphy. Impossible to read this without thinking the govt should just bring the detainees back to the US for due process! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Inspectors in Somerset County, NJ, checked ≈ 115 establishments. Their lowest score goes to Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club. They found expired milk, improperly stored raw meat, and sinks without soap or towels. It got a C grade (32 out of 100) www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

As I just said on CNN, I’m not going to take any money from Elon Musk, a man who did a Hitler salute. It’s astounding that some Democrats won’t say the same. secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky?refcode=cnn

submitted 2 days ago • 156 comments