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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

"It’s a form of resistance that requires us to put aside ego, and the need for personal gratification, to become a node in a living network of care, support, and defense."

More than anything else I hope the legacy of this moment will be organized care everywhere

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Vanessa @nessiepurgatory.bsky.social · 2d

I try to not dwell on the minutiae of current crisis. This sounds heartless, but I have to protect my mental health in order to fight this administration with every effort I can.

Because this wrenching story is just one, out of THOUSANDS. The sheer scale of the cruelty is maddening.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2d

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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OutNmbrdByBoys @outnmbrdbyboys.bsky.social · 2d

These hussies are like “come back and play with my dogs anytime” while I’m standing right there!

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 3d

Many migrants who agreed to self-deport for a flight and bonus promised by DHS never received tickets or payment, ProPublica found. One Venezuelan mother, whose partner was detained, waited months after giving up her home and pulling her kids from school—only to sink deeper into poverty.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

At a time when so many people feel “really powerless, Michelle’s work is a reminder that it’s still possible to be powerful, and she’s done it through art.”

One woman’s quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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Matt Separa @mattsepara.bsky.social · 3d

And it is even more important when it comes to paying soldiers. If the executive can just decide to pay the troops, irrespective of Congress, the executive both controls deployment of the military and the power to fund it. That makes the military wholly accountable to one person.

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 3d

that lawyer was me.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 3d

He was in the domestic terminal.

They knew who he was.

They did nothing other than, without a warrant; nor any reasonable suspicion, seize his phone.

It was targeted.
www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-...

Regime grabs immigration lawyer's phone at Logan

A federal judge today ordered Customs and Homeland Security to keep their mitts off a phone their agents grabbed last week from an immigration lawyer returning to Logan Airport from a trip to Aruba, a...

www.universalhub.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3d

Corporate media has completely ignored that since January, the number of 287g agreements between ICE & local police has gone up nearly 4X. We need to repeal these.

I'm a human rights lawyer. I wrote this piece on how to protect ourselves from ICE fascists.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors

www.qasimrashid.com

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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 3d

We're at the neighbors hiding neighbors stage.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 3d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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OutNmbrdByBoys @outnmbrdbyboys.bsky.social · 4d

Ditto

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OutNmbrdByBoys @outnmbrdbyboys.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, you could. You didn’t just wake up like that.

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OutNmbrdByBoys @outnmbrdbyboys.bsky.social · 4d

Come get your friend, @combatcavscout.bsky.social, he’s posting thirst traps on my feed

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OutNmbrdByBoys @outnmbrdbyboys.bsky.social · 4d

My 2nd born recently had a send off for a friend from school for the same reason. High schoolers were not as easily tricked into a joyful tone. I don’t think they’ll ever forget that we (the collective we) allowed this cruelty

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 5d

The fact that Donald Trump is politicizing and misusing our military to go into American cities is deeply disrespectful, dangerous, and un-American.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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