Eric Beaumont (Eric Blowtorch)
@ericblowtorch.bsky.social
Musician/DJ/writer/paralegal
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Renee Nicole Good was killed for going out in the streets to protect her community.
Thousands more people in Minneapolis are going out in the streets to protect their community.
Thousands more people in Minneapolis are going out in the streets to protect their community.
January 23, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Renee Nicole Good was killed for going out in the streets to protect her community.
Thousands more people in Minneapolis are going out in the streets to protect their community.
Thousands more people in Minneapolis are going out in the streets to protect their community.
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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:06 AM
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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As the bill moves to the Senate, Democrats have a responsibility to draw a line. Putting actual guardrails on ICE is the bare minimum here. Allowing Trump’s brutal secret police force to operate with essentially a blank check is unacceptable.
January 23, 2026 at 1:26 AM
As the bill moves to the Senate, Democrats have a responsibility to draw a line. Putting actual guardrails on ICE is the bare minimum here. Allowing Trump’s brutal secret police force to operate with essentially a blank check is unacceptable.
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School officials say ICE agents have detained four children in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos, who was detained on Tuesday along with his father as he returned home from preschool.
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
School officials say ICE agents have detained four children in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos, who was detained on Tuesday along with his father as he returned home from preschool.
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"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
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In 2007, when Chrysler fired 12,000 workers, we wrote this because it felt more than ominous. We all know what happened the following year. And the people responsible called themselves the proper stewards of our tax dollars. And here we are. Again.
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/track/12000-...
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/track/12000-...
12,000 Criminals, by Eric Blowtorch and the Welders
from the album The Alphabet
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
In 2007, when Chrysler fired 12,000 workers, we wrote this because it felt more than ominous. We all know what happened the following year. And the people responsible called themselves the proper stewards of our tax dollars. And here we are. Again.
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/track/12000-...
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/track/12000-...
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“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...
www.democracynow.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
Got Your Back, by Lincoln Arcade Singers
3 track album
ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
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1/ "We’re on the edge of the most far-reaching technological & economic transition in 250 yrs—since we began burning the coal + gas + oil that’s killing us now. Energy from the sun (& from the wind, just another form of solar power) is now cheaper than any other power."
Free link.
archive.ph/kYEn5
Free link.
archive.ph/kYEn5
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
1/ "We’re on the edge of the most far-reaching technological & economic transition in 250 yrs—since we began burning the coal + gas + oil that’s killing us now. Energy from the sun (& from the wind, just another form of solar power) is now cheaper than any other power."
Free link.
archive.ph/kYEn5
Free link.
archive.ph/kYEn5
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Isaiah has been dragged to the ground and arrested inside of the Texas State Capitol for speaking out against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal gerrymandering. We are waiting for more information as it develops.
July 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Isaiah has been dragged to the ground and arrested inside of the Texas State Capitol for speaking out against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal gerrymandering. We are waiting for more information as it develops.
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The speech Republicans are still seething over
July 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The speech Republicans are still seething over
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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no comment needed
July 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Republicans have given up on governing for the American people and are all-in on serving their wealthy masters. That’s why we’re focused on training one million Americans — this is how we move forward as a movement in the face of Trump’s GOP that does not care about rules, laws, or the courts.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Republicans have given up on governing for the American people and are all-in on serving their wealthy masters. That’s why we’re focused on training one million Americans — this is how we move forward as a movement in the face of Trump’s GOP that does not care about rules, laws, or the courts.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
-- Tommy Douglas
-- Tommy Douglas
June 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
-- Tommy Douglas
-- Tommy Douglas
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Black americans, for the millionth time, THIS IS OUR BUSINESS. some of our family members don’t have complete birth certificates, if any. should someone seek your ancestry before 1900 as proof of citizenship, you very well may be fucked.
If the Supreme Court makes *any* changes to birthright citizenship, it's a free pass to literally declare anyone a non-citizen and detain them indefinitely.
Like how would I "prove" my citizenship? It's not like I have the Ellis Island records from when my ancestors came over 130 years ago.
Like how would I "prove" my citizenship? It's not like I have the Ellis Island records from when my ancestors came over 130 years ago.
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Black americans, for the millionth time, THIS IS OUR BUSINESS. some of our family members don’t have complete birth certificates, if any. should someone seek your ancestry before 1900 as proof of citizenship, you very well may be fucked.
The only ICE we need.
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The only ICE we need.
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"Constitutional Sheriff" of Brevard County, FL, Wayne Ivey, threatens to kill anti-ICE demonstrators.
Brevard County, FL Sheriff Wayne Ivey warns what will happen to anti-ICE protesters
What he gets fundamentally wrong, is that the very Gestapo he’s “protecting” are NOT following rule & order by kidnapping immigrants
He is a propagandist shrouded in a LE costume
@btnewsroom.bsky.social on IG
What he gets fundamentally wrong, is that the very Gestapo he’s “protecting” are NOT following rule & order by kidnapping immigrants
He is a propagandist shrouded in a LE costume
@btnewsroom.bsky.social on IG
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Constitutional Sheriff" of Brevard County, FL, Wayne Ivey, threatens to kill anti-ICE demonstrators.