emskiwol
@emswolski.bsky.social
Lover of knowledge, food, humor, and want to learn everything about everything. I transcribe, cook, craft, lots o’ hobbies
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ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
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We’re also trained to believe poverty is exclusively because of poor choices and see alcohol and drug use as the cause of poverty rather than, sometimes, the consequence.
We’re trained to shrug off the deaths of our impoverished neighbors, a dynamic central to maintaining this system in which all wealth is funneled to the top. At what point, though, do the regime’s catastrophic increases in energy, food, & insurance costs make this “common sense“ violence impossible?
“.. The youngest was 27 years old; the oldest was 90 and had dementia. Some were homeless. Some died with drugs or alcohol in their system. All found themselves at the bitter mercy of the cold.”
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February 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
We’re also trained to believe poverty is exclusively because of poor choices and see alcohol and drug use as the cause of poverty rather than, sometimes, the consequence.
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Build housing, not concentration camps
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Build housing, not concentration camps
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Videos show Oklahoma prisoner strangled by cellmate as guards watched for 45 minutes
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...
Oklahoma prison guards watched inmate die in cell, videos reveal
New videos show Oklahoma prison guards watched for 45 minutes as an inmate was strangled to death by his cellmate, sparking outrage and a lawsuit.
www.oklahoman.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Videos show Oklahoma prisoner strangled by cellmate as guards watched for 45 minutes
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...
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The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
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‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to Texas shelter criticized as medically inadequate www.texastribune.org/2026/02/11/t...
Feds are sending pregnant migrant girls to Texas shelter
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.texastribune.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to Texas shelter criticized as medically inadequate www.texastribune.org/2026/02/11/t...
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"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Shit like this airspace closure and conflicting reports about what did or didn’t happen is exactly what authoritarians and fascists want.
A world where we have no idea what’s going on and don’t trust anything we’re told by anybody is their perfect and desired environment.
A world where we have no idea what’s going on and don’t trust anything we’re told by anybody is their perfect and desired environment.
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Shit like this airspace closure and conflicting reports about what did or didn’t happen is exactly what authoritarians and fascists want.
A world where we have no idea what’s going on and don’t trust anything we’re told by anybody is their perfect and desired environment.
A world where we have no idea what’s going on and don’t trust anything we’re told by anybody is their perfect and desired environment.
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A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'
Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.
www.bbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:12 AM
A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
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This is it. They splutter about God and values and they mean white people. That's all it is. They mean the people they see in church, who are statistically more likely to be the worst people on earth.
"They could not explain why headliner Kid Rock — who has frequently joked about sex with underage girls — is more wholesome than Bad Bunny, who included a genuine wedding in his show.
"The answer is obvious: Kid Rock is white and Bad Bunny is Latino."
www.salon.com/2026/02/11/e...
"The answer is obvious: Kid Rock is white and Bad Bunny is Latino."
www.salon.com/2026/02/11/e...
Evangelicals won't dump Trump over his racist Obama video
A few spoke out, but most right-wing Christians quietly support the president's ugly views
www.salon.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is it. They splutter about God and values and they mean white people. That's all it is. They mean the people they see in church, who are statistically more likely to be the worst people on earth.
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Everybody involved with this deserves hell. Deserves it
"ICE Is Treating Trans Immigrants With A New Level Of Cruelty:
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect."
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect."
ICE Is Treating Trans Immigrants With A New Level Of Cruelty
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
www.huffpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Everybody involved with this deserves hell. Deserves it
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tinyurl.com/24x6h9m9. This is from my small town paper today. Please read. We are under siege here.
A small town under ICE occupation
BETSY FROILANDTHE DAILY YONDER On a sub-zero day in Willmar, Minnesot
tinyurl.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:33 PM
tinyurl.com/24x6h9m9. This is from my small town paper today. Please read. We are under siege here.
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It's no accident that in reiterating his calls to "nationalize" elections, the president focused on Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. A core tactic of the president and others seeking to undermine elections has been to target cities with lots of voters of color.
February 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It's no accident that in reiterating his calls to "nationalize" elections, the president focused on Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. A core tactic of the president and others seeking to undermine elections has been to target cities with lots of voters of color.
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As I warned in my article yesterday, Trump will use ICE to intimidate voters. And now Steve Bannon just confirmed that is EXACTLY the plan:
February 4, 2026 at 12:52 PM
As I warned in my article yesterday, Trump will use ICE to intimidate voters. And now Steve Bannon just confirmed that is EXACTLY the plan:
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One of the world's best historians of ethnic cleansing, @timothysnyder.bsky.social, also happens to be from near Springfield, OH, which may be the site of the next big ICE attack. Here he reviews what got us here and revisits a "tricky city" targeted by fascism. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 PM
One of the world's best historians of ethnic cleansing, @timothysnyder.bsky.social, also happens to be from near Springfield, OH, which may be the site of the next big ICE attack. Here he reviews what got us here and revisits a "tricky city" targeted by fascism. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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Powerful testimony from ICE watchers in suburban Minnesota:
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Powerful testimony from ICE watchers in suburban Minnesota:
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Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
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BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
www.propublica.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
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for more about the "Biblical case for border security"
and about the political philosophy motivating religious zealots like Mike Johnson and what makes them see the world this way and seek power in it
i spent 3 years writing a book about the movement he's part of
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
and about the political philosophy motivating religious zealots like Mike Johnson and what makes them see the world this way and seek power in it
i spent 3 years writing a book about the movement he's part of
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
for more about the "Biblical case for border security"
and about the political philosophy motivating religious zealots like Mike Johnson and what makes them see the world this way and seek power in it
i spent 3 years writing a book about the movement he's part of
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
and about the political philosophy motivating religious zealots like Mike Johnson and what makes them see the world this way and seek power in it
i spent 3 years writing a book about the movement he's part of
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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wish Conrad were alive to see this. he would be so proud
January 31, 2026 at 4:18 PM
wish Conrad were alive to see this. he would be so proud