Dave Buehrer
dbuehrer.bsky.social
Dave Buehrer
@dbuehrer.bsky.social
Retired Prof. of English, Valdosta SU.
Now living in Bloomington, IN (blue dot in crimson red state).😎✌️
Rent Assistance for Immigrant Families Across the Twin Cities chuffed.org/project/1671...
Rent Assistance for Immigrant Families Across the Twin Cities
chuffed.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I just wrote a @aft.org letter: We demand de-escalation, transparency and accountability from the Department of Homeland Security. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/we-d...
We demand de-escalation, transparency and accountability from the Department of Homeland Security
The federal government is supposed to protect, not endanger, Americans. However, the Department of Homeland Security is imperiling the basic rights of all people in this country. Immigration enforcem...
actionnetwork.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:09 AM
From the incomparable @mluckovich.bsky.social
This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.
January 30, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Reposted by Dave Buehrer
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Kristi Noem keeps defending ICE — even as agents brutalize people and use deadly force.
That’s not leadership. It’s enabling abuse.
I signed to demand her firing. Add your name.
app.sosha.ai/s/tFCoTCLu
Demand Kristi Noem's Firing
app.sosha.ai
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-...
Tell the good folks in MN that you bear witness to their sacrifice for the preservation of our democratic republic✌️:
Send a Love Note — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
The always-astute Masha Gessen:
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good. Send an email to demand accountability and oppose additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in ICE’s violence and lawlessness:

act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
Tell Congress: Freeze Funding for ICE!
Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good—by opposing additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in violent and lawless agent...
act.standupamerica.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by Dave Buehrer
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-cold-wi...
"Empathy is itself an act of imagination, that begins with attention and care: what is it like to be this other being, what are they feeling, what do they need."
This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower
There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever. For me that's the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Zapatistas, 9/11, Hurricane Kat...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Reposted by Dave Buehrer
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Dave Buehrer
🚨NEW ACTION:

We just launched a brand new tool to send a one-click email asking your Senators to vote against renewing ICE funding.

Let's get to work.

win.newmode.net/votersoftomo...
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
January 23, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Yep.
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM