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Ash Dean
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🏳️‍🌈📚📸🎥🛶💦 #AutisticAsFuck
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Huskies Against Ice
Husker Du went to his first demonstration this morning
🩶🖤 Feeling emotions is the key to overthrowing evil. It‘s literally what separates us from them
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
February 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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BREAKING Otero County, #NewMexico ICE detention center to close. www.koat.com/article/oter...

This is why we fought for #HB9 Immigrant Safety Act.
Otero County will close detention facility in Alamogordo
The Immigrant Safety Act bans contracting with ICE to detain people in New Mexico for civil immigration violations.
www.koat.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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The U.S. Department of Defense has barred military personnel from enrolling in courses at many of the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. A leaked email is said to contain the full list of affected schools. Shared by MeidasTouch.
February 14, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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"More courage and moral clarity in your pinky fingers than the entire Department of Justice."

Rep. Crockett (D-TX) praises Epstein survivors and slams DOJ in House Judiciary hearing
www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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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. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."

kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...
New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur
kfoxtv.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
In Minneapolis, for every story detailing the fallout of the federal crackdown, there are as many stories of people like Bri, a mom donating breastmilk for babies whose mothers are detained by ICE.

Bri's story:
19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
19thnews.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
January 31, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:25 PM
After going absolute nonstop for the past two weeks, my wife and I finally got a minute to ourselves this afternoon. so grateful my grandma comes home tomorrow and wants us to be the ones to pick her up
January 30, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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"There’s been some mistake. Paperwork was lost, signatures fraudulently affixed, a wrong address was recorded, some comedy of errors have taken place, and for the first time, in a situation involving Ms. O’Hara, I’m not laughing."
The Coolest Person I'll Never Meet
Rest in peace, Queen.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested for their reporting in Minnesota. A free press is constitutionally protected and essential, especially when federal power is being abused in ways that demand accountability and transparency. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
Feds arrest 4, including Don Lemon and Minnesota journalist over church protest
Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement posted on social media.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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NYT video review confirms this. Pretti had a 2nd Am right to carry a firearm. But even if he didn’t he wasn’t pointing it at anyone or threatening agents. There is no legal justification for the execution-style shooting & no basis for DHS’s claim he was there to massacre them. He was a helper.
Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.
Important context, this is the victim’s behavior BEFORE being tackled

He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
January 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I don’t want to live in this universe anymore...
January 23, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This week has been shit but enlightening:
Grandma is better/finally in a rehab. Mom’s knee replacement is back up in the air. My extended family are all absolute shit.
And the gov’t is still falling apart but somehow even more openly vile than before my life required me to step away for the week.
January 23, 2026 at 8:35 PM