Ben Silverstein ❌👑
@bensilverstein.bsky.social
I like burritos, dislike fascism, and do digital at @indivisible.org. Opinions my own.
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THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD
January 24, 2026 at 12:07 AM
THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD
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Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
Totally predictable and also: Absolutely fucking bananas. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Totally predictable and also: Absolutely fucking bananas. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
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This sudden flip to ‘we’re just here to find the sex offenders’ is gaslighting at the highest level, and that’s before we even get to the fact that, if that were their goal, they never needed to leave the White House in the first place.
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This sudden flip to ‘we’re just here to find the sex offenders’ is gaslighting at the highest level, and that’s before we even get to the fact that, if that were their goal, they never needed to leave the White House in the first place.
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Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.
👀 House Approp. Committee’s “top Democrat” @delauro.house.gov takes a “victory photo” with the top Republican of the committee Tom Cole after passing massive bills to fund the Trump regime incl. its out of control DHS/ICE squads unleashed in MN and elsewhere (arresting 5 yr olds etc) @notus.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.
Imagine how the media would react to any other president repeatedly confusing which ally he was threatening to invade in a speech to world leaders.
January 23, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Imagine how the media would react to any other president repeatedly confusing which ally he was threatening to invade in a speech to world leaders.
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Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.
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Just sent an @indivisible.org note to every Senate Dem office, urging a NO vote on the DHS funding bill. We do vote recs often, but this one was different. This time we opened with a picture of 5 yr old Liam Conejo Ramos, who's been abducted by ICE. Liam, his hat, his bookbag, and his abductor.
January 22, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Just sent an @indivisible.org note to every Senate Dem office, urging a NO vote on the DHS funding bill. We do vote recs often, but this one was different. This time we opened with a picture of 5 yr old Liam Conejo Ramos, who's been abducted by ICE. Liam, his hat, his bookbag, and his abductor.
Maybe not my place to say this as a Jew, but Jesus pretty famously led a protest at a place of worship. One thing he didn't do was shoot clergy with chemical rounds or snatch up immigrants at their places of prayer.
January 22, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Maybe not my place to say this as a Jew, but Jesus pretty famously led a protest at a place of worship. One thing he didn't do was shoot clergy with chemical rounds or snatch up immigrants at their places of prayer.
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you just don't see language like this in right-wing spaces anymore, quite shocking to see it.
"This is a direct and profound violation of the Fourth Amendment ... The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American, and has been un-American since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791." www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
Newsmax's senior judicial analyst: "The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American"
www.mediamatters.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
you just don't see language like this in right-wing spaces anymore, quite shocking to see it.
They don't give a shit about protecting places of worship, ICE is detaining people on church grounds. This is just one more fascist attempt to make people afraid of defying ICE thugs.
BREAKING: A woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted service at a Minnesota church has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
The woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says
Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:35 PM
They don't give a shit about protecting places of worship, ICE is detaining people on church grounds. This is just one more fascist attempt to make people afraid of defying ICE thugs.
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He's just straight-up telling everyone that he's deployed a vicious occupying force to brutalize an American state and terrorize every non-white resident because they didn't vote for him
Trump: "MN is a very corrupt place & the elections are totally corrupt. I feel I won it all 3 times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon. It's a rigged state. The Somalians vote as one group even if they're not citizens. They all ought to get the hell out of here. They're bad for our country"
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM
He's just straight-up telling everyone that he's deployed a vicious occupying force to brutalize an American state and terrorize every non-white resident because they didn't vote for him
Attaining a Nobel Peace Prize in the classic fashion, hinting you'll install the actual recipient as the puppet leader of a country you just illegally bombed if they give you their medal and also the country's oil
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Attaining a Nobel Peace Prize in the classic fashion, hinting you'll install the actual recipient as the puppet leader of a country you just illegally bombed if they give you their medal and also the country's oil
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SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 PM
SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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We had 450 people in St. Johnsbury, VT @indivisiblestj.org. When we needed to deice the sidewalks for safety so many people jumped in to help. It seemed fitting.
January 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM
We had 450 people in St. Johnsbury, VT @indivisiblestj.org. When we needed to deice the sidewalks for safety so many people jumped in to help. It seemed fitting.
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Montana's been showing up. 🧵
Find a local action near you this weekend (links at the end)
Bozeman yesterday:
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
Find a local action near you this weekend (links at the end)
Bozeman yesterday:
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
Protesters rally outside Senator Daines' Office over ICE shooting and war in Venezuela
Around 75 protesters were outside Senator Steve Daines' office on Twin Lakes Avenue at 10 a.m. for the "Tell Senator Daines ICE OUT FOR GOOD and NO WAR IN VENEZUELA" rally.
www.kbzk.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Montana's been showing up. 🧵
Find a local action near you this weekend (links at the end)
Bozeman yesterday:
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
Find a local action near you this weekend (links at the end)
Bozeman yesterday:
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
January 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Once again, Trump is using hunger as a political weapon. In other contexts this would be called a war crime. In this context, you can just call it evil as all fuck.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Once again, Trump is using hunger as a political weapon. In other contexts this would be called a war crime. In this context, you can just call it evil as all fuck.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
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We will not sit quietly while state violence goes unanswered.
We demand accountability for the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
We demand an end to ICE and CBP raids that terrorize communities and escalate harm.
This weekend, we turn grief into collective action.
#ICEOutForGood
We demand accountability for the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
We demand an end to ICE and CBP raids that terrorize communities and escalate harm.
This weekend, we turn grief into collective action.
#ICEOutForGood
January 10, 2026 at 3:08 AM
We will not sit quietly while state violence goes unanswered.
We demand accountability for the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
We demand an end to ICE and CBP raids that terrorize communities and escalate harm.
This weekend, we turn grief into collective action.
#ICEOutForGood
We demand accountability for the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
We demand an end to ICE and CBP raids that terrorize communities and escalate harm.
This weekend, we turn grief into collective action.
#ICEOutForGood
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About 250 residents of Hastings on Hudson, Yonkers and Dobbs Ferry out to demand #ICEOutForGood and for NY to pass #NYForAll and the MELT Act. @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social and CFOW cosponsored this rally.
January 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
About 250 residents of Hastings on Hudson, Yonkers and Dobbs Ferry out to demand #ICEOutForGood and for NY to pass #NYForAll and the MELT Act. @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social and CFOW cosponsored this rally.
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania. 50 or 60 people are gathered on a sidewalk in front of a strip mall in the steady cold rain. Cardboard signs read "Crush ICE" and "Renee Good was her name." Cars honk support as they pass. On the corner, someone begins to sing "God Bless America" #IceOutForGood
January 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Pottstown, Pennsylvania. 50 or 60 people are gathered on a sidewalk in front of a strip mall in the steady cold rain. Cardboard signs read "Crush ICE" and "Renee Good was her name." Cars honk support as they pass. On the corner, someone begins to sing "God Bless America" #IceOutForGood
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January 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Considering the short notice, incredible January turnout for the #ICEOutForGood protest here in Nanuet, NY!
People are still streaming in, folks are chanting, and horns are continuously honking in support.
The people are *pissed*.
People are still streaming in, folks are chanting, and horns are continuously honking in support.
The people are *pissed*.
January 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Considering the short notice, incredible January turnout for the #ICEOutForGood protest here in Nanuet, NY!
People are still streaming in, folks are chanting, and horns are continuously honking in support.
The people are *pissed*.
People are still streaming in, folks are chanting, and horns are continuously honking in support.
The people are *pissed*.