The Badger
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The Badger is done with your bullshit.
The Badger cares deeply about those who have been marginalized and will growl at anyone who threatens them.
The Badger uses his teeth judiciously.
The Badger cares deeply about those who have been marginalized and will growl at anyone who threatens them.
The Badger uses his teeth judiciously.
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"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥
Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis
We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...
www.democracynow.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥
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It is Everywhere.
Epstein was Not the only one.
These networks Still exist.
And even so? - Most abused ppl are abused by just some rando in their life and not some weird conspiratorial masters of the universe crime ring.
Rape culture is what made Epstein possible - not the other way around.
Epstein was Not the only one.
These networks Still exist.
And even so? - Most abused ppl are abused by just some rando in their life and not some weird conspiratorial masters of the universe crime ring.
Rape culture is what made Epstein possible - not the other way around.
Don't scapegoat sexual abuse on the right or on billionaires. People are trying to use Epstein to act like where they are looks good in comparison. It doesn't. Rape is being allowed there too. We have to solve the whole problem.
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
It is Everywhere.
Epstein was Not the only one.
These networks Still exist.
And even so? - Most abused ppl are abused by just some rando in their life and not some weird conspiratorial masters of the universe crime ring.
Rape culture is what made Epstein possible - not the other way around.
Epstein was Not the only one.
These networks Still exist.
And even so? - Most abused ppl are abused by just some rando in their life and not some weird conspiratorial masters of the universe crime ring.
Rape culture is what made Epstein possible - not the other way around.
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Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
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After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
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“Oh but we think we’ve figured out a super neat way to deregulate an especially productive sector that will free up capital for an amazingly futuristic—” bzzt wrong. That will actually just exploit poor people
February 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM
“Oh but we think we’ve figured out a super neat way to deregulate an especially productive sector that will free up capital for an amazingly futuristic—” bzzt wrong. That will actually just exploit poor people
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White supremacy is culturally boring and doesn't try to be anything else. It just tries to cover everything in whiteness.
February 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
White supremacy is culturally boring and doesn't try to be anything else. It just tries to cover everything in whiteness.
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Please watch this interview with Marimar Martinez, the woman CBP agent Charles Exum attempted to execute in Chicago on October 4, 2025. She survived the attempt and has been pushing to get details about her case made public.
youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...
youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...
Marimar Martinez speaks with WBEZ & Chicago Sun-Times reporters about getting shot by Border Patrol.
YouTube video by Chicago Sun-Times
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February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Please watch this interview with Marimar Martinez, the woman CBP agent Charles Exum attempted to execute in Chicago on October 4, 2025. She survived the attempt and has been pushing to get details about her case made public.
youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...
youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...
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It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
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My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, on the stripping away of American rights. The book is mostly a family travelogue. But new laws were devised midway through our travels, and I got mad, and wrote that down too.
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, on the stripping away of American rights. The book is mostly a family travelogue. But new laws were devised midway through our travels, and I got mad, and wrote that down too.
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
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Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
www.propublica.org/article/life...
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries.
Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
Donate to Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief, organized by Andrew Behrman
FEED MINNEAPOLIS
A COMMUNITY IN CRISIS NEEDS YOU NOW
Minneapolis r… Andrew Behrman needs your support for Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries.
Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
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In the media, the anti-trans idea that trans patients are medicalized and pushed into unnecessary interventions has become the dominant frame.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
In the media, the anti-trans idea that trans patients are medicalized and pushed into unnecessary interventions has become the dominant frame.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
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This question is weirdly hard, bc the starting place itself is a result of anti-trans propganda shaping the debate.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
Genuinely curious: I thought that was the general guidance all along? Puberty blockers or hormone prescriptions for youth, but surgery later on?
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
This question is weirdly hard, bc the starting place itself is a result of anti-trans propganda shaping the debate.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
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I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
It’s so tedious
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
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A group of men who regularly rape children decided to ruin the public's perception of trans people in this country for shits and giggles and every time I think about that my heart clenches into a blood-red fist of rage.
And I can't stop thinking about it.
And I can't stop thinking about it.
February 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
A group of men who regularly rape children decided to ruin the public's perception of trans people in this country for shits and giggles and every time I think about that my heart clenches into a blood-red fist of rage.
And I can't stop thinking about it.
And I can't stop thinking about it.
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ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
www.cbsnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 AM
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
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“A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare…”
The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive.
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The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive.
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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM
“A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare…”
The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive.
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The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive.
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From 2023: "The main thing to understand is that Merrick Garland and the DOJ do not want to hold Trump accountable. The preservation of a corrupt institution and its secrets is their agenda, not the survival of our country or the welfare of its people."
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Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
From 2023: "The main thing to understand is that Merrick Garland and the DOJ do not want to hold Trump accountable. The preservation of a corrupt institution and its secrets is their agenda, not the survival of our country or the welfare of its people."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...