Maureen Drews
@drewsmaureen.bsky.social
happily retired from legal career, interested in social issues, pro democracy, voting rights
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Student protests here in DuPage County. ICE out!
Student protests and walkouts across DuPage County, IL.
YouTube video by Indivisible DuPage
youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Student protests here in DuPage County. ICE out!
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Happy Valentine's Day.
Love is in; ICE is out.
Love is in; ICE is out.
February 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Happy Valentine's Day.
Love is in; ICE is out.
Love is in; ICE is out.
Terrific article by Wired reporting on ICE and DHS secret campaign to expand office leases, expanding its presence throughout the country. Article includes interactive search tool to search by state/city.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Terrific article by Wired reporting on ICE and DHS secret campaign to expand office leases, expanding its presence throughout the country. Article includes interactive search tool to search by state/city.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
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She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
What do you call warehouses full of humans?
Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 02/12/2026 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
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"Flock searches for civil immigration reasons that appeared in the Alvin school logs... were more than two times more frequent than those conducted for investigations involving immigrants suspected or convicted of committing a crime."
School should be a place of learning and safety, not a threat.
School should be a place of learning and safety, not a threat.
Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"Flock searches for civil immigration reasons that appeared in the Alvin school logs... were more than two times more frequent than those conducted for investigations involving immigrants suspected or convicted of committing a crime."
School should be a place of learning and safety, not a threat.
School should be a place of learning and safety, not a threat.
Epstein designer baby project with Bryan Bishop. Here is some background. #epsteinfiles #bryanbishop
www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/01/2...
www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/01/2...
The DIY designer baby project funded with Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency, biohacking, and the fantastic plan for transgenic humans.
www.technologyreview.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Epstein designer baby project with Bryan Bishop. Here is some background. #epsteinfiles #bryanbishop
www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/01/2...
www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/01/2...
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight. #ICEOut #Dilley
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight. #ICEOut #Dilley
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
How you can help Ukraine, recommendations by Timothy Snyder. #Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Long Ukrainian Winter
How You Can Help
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
How you can help Ukraine, recommendations by Timothy Snyder. #Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Obamas, the former first couple, remain one of the most beloved couples in America. I celebrate them today as we celebrate Black History month.
I am sickened/ashamed of the person who sits in the Oval Office, the American voters who elected him to office, the quisling Republicans backing him.
I am sickened/ashamed of the person who sits in the Oval Office, the American voters who elected him to office, the quisling Republicans backing him.
February 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The Obamas, the former first couple, remain one of the most beloved couples in America. I celebrate them today as we celebrate Black History month.
I am sickened/ashamed of the person who sits in the Oval Office, the American voters who elected him to office, the quisling Republicans backing him.
I am sickened/ashamed of the person who sits in the Oval Office, the American voters who elected him to office, the quisling Republicans backing him.
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Immigrants are Fabulous! Immigrants are givers not takers!
During the period 1994-2023, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
During the period 1994-2023, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023
Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...
www.cato.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Immigrants are Fabulous! Immigrants are givers not takers!
During the period 1994-2023, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
During the period 1994-2023, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
Time to contact your senators to tell them what measures you want them to insist on with regulating ICE/DHS to protect the people from the murderous paramilitary forces Trump has placed on our streets. #AbolishICE
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW
On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...
act.indivisible.org
February 4, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Time to contact your senators to tell them what measures you want them to insist on with regulating ICE/DHS to protect the people from the murderous paramilitary forces Trump has placed on our streets. #AbolishICE
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
It’s important to contact our senators NOW to tell them the safeguards and changes we want for ICE. Make your phone calls, be specific want you want to see, and submit email via Indivisible site below. We have leverage in this moment so let’s use it! #FreeAmerica
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW
On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...
act.indivisible.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
It’s important to contact our senators NOW to tell them the safeguards and changes we want for ICE. Make your phone calls, be specific want you want to see, and submit email via Indivisible site below. We have leverage in this moment so let’s use it! #FreeAmerica
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
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US citizens accounted for 95% of federal welfare fraud losses from 2013 to 2024. Noncitizens commit benefits fraud, but they are not a major part of the problem. Learn more from Cato’s David Bier
https://ow.ly/MsKQ50Y6uK1
https://ow.ly/MsKQ50Y6uK1
February 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
US citizens accounted for 95% of federal welfare fraud losses from 2013 to 2024. Noncitizens commit benefits fraud, but they are not a major part of the problem. Learn more from Cato’s David Bier
https://ow.ly/MsKQ50Y6uK1
https://ow.ly/MsKQ50Y6uK1
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All our work is open source and messaging guides across issues are here:
asocommunications.com/messaging-gu...
asocommunications.com/messaging-gu...
Messaging Guides - ASO Communications
asocommunications.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:20 AM
All our work is open source and messaging guides across issues are here:
asocommunications.com/messaging-gu...
asocommunications.com/messaging-gu...
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Thanks Natalie! Here's the full toolkit, with messaging & research w/in:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FfhR...
drive.google.com/file/d/1FfhR...
Digital Toolkit - Freedom To Learn.pdf
drive.google.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Thanks Natalie! Here's the full toolkit, with messaging & research w/in:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FfhR...
drive.google.com/file/d/1FfhR...
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Key Findings - Honest and Equitable Public Education.pdf
drive.google.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
Democracy Lovers here is a tool for you! Join the movement to Resist and Unsubscribe from the services and platforms of tech oligarchs and companies that enable ICE. Economic boycotts produce recognizable results, inflict good damage. We have the power so let’s use it.
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
Resist and Unsubscribe
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Democracy Lovers here is a tool for you! Join the movement to Resist and Unsubscribe from the services and platforms of tech oligarchs and companies that enable ICE. Economic boycotts produce recognizable results, inflict good damage. We have the power so let’s use it.
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
Hero independent journalists, we so need their voices and words in this moment. We should raise up those that stand up to the injustices and crimes of the Trump MAGA regime. #BraveofUs
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Hero independent journalists, we so need their voices and words in this moment. We should raise up those that stand up to the injustices and crimes of the Trump MAGA regime. #BraveofUs
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government