Brigid Alverson
@brigidalverson.bsky.social
Comics journalist, library fan, ally. I vote. Support trans youth! Pronouns: She/her.
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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Get ‘em!
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Get ‘em!
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The Trump administration is trying to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
Send a message to the Trump administration and tell them: Hands off our health care.
Send a message to the Trump administration and tell them: Hands off our health care.
Tell HHS: Hands Off Our Care
Take action with ACLU People Power!
act.aclu.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The Trump administration is trying to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
Send a message to the Trump administration and tell them: Hands off our health care.
Send a message to the Trump administration and tell them: Hands off our health care.
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The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...
reason.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
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This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
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removing a symbol of pride from a small park in the middle of the west village is really an enormous fuck you from the worst people on the planet
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
removing a symbol of pride from a small park in the middle of the west village is really an enormous fuck you from the worst people on the planet
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Mao Reynolds reviews History Comics: The Great Depression at Good Comics for Kids this morning: goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2026/02/10/h...
History Comics: The Great Depression | Review
Stuck at home with no internet, two siblings have nothing better to do than play a board game. But the game is much more than a game.
goodcomicsforkids.slj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Mao Reynolds reviews History Comics: The Great Depression at Good Comics for Kids this morning: goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2026/02/10/h...
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Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
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The next administration must close these camps, ideally before they begin to operate, and turn the buildings into something useful for the public good. Any lesser commitment is a non-starter
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The next administration must close these camps, ideally before they begin to operate, and turn the buildings into something useful for the public good. Any lesser commitment is a non-starter
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The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
February 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.
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One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
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apnews.com/article/immi... languish in US detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits
Migrants languish in US detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits
Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump’s second term, at least partly because a new policy generally prohibits immigration judges from releasing detainees while their dep...
apnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
apnews.com/article/immi... languish in US detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits
I think this is a really important point. Companies should not be allowed to profit from suffering and repression. Reich lists a number of things we can do about it.
We need not tolerate these corporations and their complicity in the inhumane acts now being done by ICE, Border Patrol, and Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
Together, we’re even more powerful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
Together, we’re even more powerful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I think this is a really important point. Companies should not be allowed to profit from suffering and repression. Reich lists a number of things we can do about it.
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So, politics isn’t for you? Maybe it should be.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
February 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
So, politics isn’t for you? Maybe it should be.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
When I learned that the Post layoffs left reporters stranded all over the world, I decided I had enough. I cancelled my Prime and I donated the amount, $139, to the GoFundMe for the reporters. Perhaps if enough of us do it, it will send a message. gofund.me/ad37974eb
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
gofund.me
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
When I learned that the Post layoffs left reporters stranded all over the world, I decided I had enough. I cancelled my Prime and I donated the amount, $139, to the GoFundMe for the reporters. Perhaps if enough of us do it, it will send a message. gofund.me/ad37974eb
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Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!
February 4, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!
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You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970).
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
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www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
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www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Feb. 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre
Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.
www.zinnedproject.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970).
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...