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A.E.
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Writer, Artist, musician, avid reader. likes long walks on the beach and in dark, creepy castles anywhere. Currently working on my first novel and some other things. On Social Media hiatus until 2026. Or permanent hiatus if things go well.
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It's good when terrible people lose their jobs.
January 27, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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His role is to undercut any movement and crush the energy. Did it in 2020, did it for the Gaza protests, and he’s going to do it again.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”

Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.

So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Why would you trust Chuck Schumer? LOL.
January 27, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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This is happening! An NH friend of mine lives just across the river from Maine and works over there sometimes. He said the locals are already picking out ICE agents at restaurants and bars, on the streets and at stores to berate them and run them off. Mariners will just say people are "from away"
Hey, let’s go to Maine in the dead of winter, a time of year that certainly won’t make us more recognizable to a populace that has the ability to spot an out-of-stater from 500 yards away.
January 27, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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If Stephen Miller is still in the White House, that means the white nationalist gameplan is still all systems GO.

What we're witnessing is just window dressing and distractions.

Tom Homan is just as bad as Bovino, but less openly Nazi.

Keep your eyes wide open.
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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this made me emotional
Maple Grove, MN -

Protesters beginning to arrive outside of the hotel for a noise demonstration. One demonstrator is hoisting a sign that says “bye, bitch!”
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.
BREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:

When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Someone could turn these into a pamphlet for distribution.
In an effort to prevent the racist president who is infesting the White House from erasing knowledge of Black History and slavery, please see this photo album I created of the history of President Washington as a slave owner. View my photos at: srhphotos.smugmug.com/George-Washi...
George Washington House slavery dioramas 2025-10–02 - Stan Horwitz
The story of George Washington as a slave owner. I took these photos in case Donald Trump removes them from public view.
srhphotos.smugmug.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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you work for a company whose co-founder said it was created to "blow up commies", who tf did you think you were going to be helping?
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry
January 27, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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The only difference between Homan and Bovino is that Homan understands that you keep the human rights violations out of public sight so people have plausible deniability to say “they didn’t know” later
CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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A lot of out of state media are parachuting in and making outrageous demands or requests of organizations doing mutual aid. Asking to connect with or directly observe people working with the vulnerable. Have some fucking respect for the work and realize the stakes are life and death.
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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the rights reaction to trumps surrender in minneapolis is the perfect illustration of how delusional these people are
January 27, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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You're going to find this hard to reckon, but there were adults who spent the last decade arguing the biggest threats to speech in America were nine sophomores at Oberlin.
January 27, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 PM