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Stephanie Madison
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Civil rights attorney. Playing in a sandbox near you.
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Re: Greenland, sacrificing soft power you can use to control the whole world for some land you already have access to is the work of meme-addled morons. That they think it will politically benefit them for the midterms is an extra layer of stupid
January 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Christ, this (from Lizza's latest) is pretty fucking damning of...literally the entire media(?) What the fuck?
January 17, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.

w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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We’re failing our family members who need care—and the workers who provide it.

undark.org/2026/01/15/o...
The Ever-Shrinking Eldercare Workforce
Opinion | Without help, the supply of dementia care workers in the U.S. won’t be able to keep up with an aging population.
undark.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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ICE officer David Courvelle, 56, entered a guilty plea to charges of repeatedly sexually abusing a prisoner at a Louisiana ICE detention camp. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Ex-ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing immigrant in custody
Louisiana detention officer admits to sexual relationship with detainee as reports of abuse and neglect surge inside facilities across US
www.the-independent.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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“the agents pressed his face against the pool of blood and did not immediately call paramedics.”

“The other officers were mocking him, saying,
'You're going to lose your eye," she said, recalling what her nephew told her.”
January 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”

MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside

Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Zero percent chance this is true.
January 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.

He was bundled into the van & taken away.

Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”

I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active.

www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach fo...
www.rawstory.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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The Leadership Conference—a coalition of 50 civil rights groups—has a powerful ad pushing for legislation on all levels requiring ICE and other federal officers to show their faces and badges youtu.be/vEywZChlWQg?...
Masks Off, Rights On: Unmasking Federal Agents: Demanding Transparency and Accountability
YouTube video by The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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We’ve reached the “demanding lists of Jews” stage of this administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according those with knowledge of their decision. nyti.ms/4qUl36Z
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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There is currently a violent civil conflict happening in Minneapolis. Every discussion of electoralism relies on the unstated premise that this civil conflict will evaporate, which is not at all obvious to me.
January 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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no. The answer is no.
.@PabloReports: Would you vote for any funding increases for ICE?

Warren: Not without more restrictions. This is an agency that is out of control. If we don’t get some restrictions in place, they’re going to put more American citizens at risk.
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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TOMORROW: Please join us for a rally and vigil outside of CBP headquarters in DC as we continue to demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good and the ongoing ICE terror in our communities. #ICEOutForGood
January 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Join us tomorrow!
TOMORROW: Please join us for a rally and vigil outside of CBP headquarters in DC as we continue to demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good and the ongoing ICE terror in our communities. #ICEOutForGood
January 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Watch this. 17 years old. Demand Articles of Impeachment be brought against Noem (and others, but we can start there).
This is barbaric. In Minneapolis, MN, 17 year-old Target employee Jonathan Aguilar Garcia, a U.S. citizen, was taken by CBP while on the job because they assumed he was an immigrant. He was later dumped at a nearby Walmart parking lot crying and bleeding when they realized he really was a citizen.
January 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM