Eric Nalder
@ericnalder.bsky.social
Writer and retired investigative reporter. Grateful for my wife, my daughter, creativity, dogs, animals, and nature. Pacific Northwest native plus overseas adolescence. Pulitzer winner. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Nalder
Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
In deeply red Tarrant County, Texas, a Democrat wins 57 percent to 43 against a Trump-endorsed Republican. Trump won there last year by 17 points. The Republicans are in big trouble.
In deeply red Tarrant County, Texas, a Democrat wins 57 percent to 43 against a Trump-endorsed Republican. Trump won there last year by 17 points. The Republicans are in big trouble.
Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans
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February 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
In deeply red Tarrant County, Texas, a Democrat wins 57 percent to 43 against a Trump-endorsed Republican. Trump won there last year by 17 points. The Republicans are in big trouble.
In deeply red Tarrant County, Texas, a Democrat wins 57 percent to 43 against a Trump-endorsed Republican. Trump won there last year by 17 points. The Republicans are in big trouble.
Seattle's 'prosperity bomb' may finally be fizzling. So now what?
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A Microsoft study gives us a doomsday list of jobs terminated by AI, language translators at the top, followed by everything else except hard labor. In the end? A few trillionaires and slaves.
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A Microsoft study gives us a doomsday list of jobs terminated by AI, language translators at the top, followed by everything else except hard labor. In the end? A few trillionaires and slaves.
Seattle’s ‘prosperity bomb’ may finally be fizzling. So now what?
It’s the awkward thing about the affordability debate. Nothing makes a city cheaper faster than an economic bust.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Seattle's 'prosperity bomb' may finally be fizzling. So now what?
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A Microsoft study gives us a doomsday list of jobs terminated by AI, language translators at the top, followed by everything else except hard labor. In the end? A few trillionaires and slaves.
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A Microsoft study gives us a doomsday list of jobs terminated by AI, language translators at the top, followed by everything else except hard labor. In the end? A few trillionaires and slaves.
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial
The country is in chaos and he wants an arch? Promise him an erector set, quiet him with a pacifier, and send him to bed. When the sun rises, let’s go march with the sane people. Save America from egomaniacs and fools.
The country is in chaos and he wants an arch? Promise him an erector set, quiet him with a pacifier, and send him to bed. When the sun rises, let’s go march with the sane people. Save America from egomaniacs and fools.
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial
The country is in chaos and he wants an arch? Promise him an erector set, quiet him with a pacifier, and send him to bed. When the sun rises, let’s go march with the sane people. Save America from egomaniacs and fools.
The country is in chaos and he wants an arch? Promise him an erector set, quiet him with a pacifier, and send him to bed. When the sun rises, let’s go march with the sane people. Save America from egomaniacs and fools.
Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...
“Sell America” is the headline from Wall Street. One man and a party of fools have done this. Will the last Trump voter please turn out the lights, if he can figure out how to do it.
“Sell America” is the headline from Wall Street. One man and a party of fools have done this. Will the last Trump voter please turn out the lights, if he can figure out how to do it.
Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street
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January 31, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...
“Sell America” is the headline from Wall Street. One man and a party of fools have done this. Will the last Trump voter please turn out the lights, if he can figure out how to do it.
“Sell America” is the headline from Wall Street. One man and a party of fools have done this. Will the last Trump voter please turn out the lights, if he can figure out how to do it.
For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Donald Trump will never understand that Native Americans are the first citizens. It’s about racism, his rage and the Republican Party’s 2026 campaign. Teach ‘em a lesson in Alaska’s Senate race.
Donald Trump will never understand that Native Americans are the first citizens. It’s about racism, his rage and the Republican Party’s 2026 campaign. Teach ‘em a lesson in Alaska’s Senate race.
For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History
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January 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Donald Trump will never understand that Native Americans are the first citizens. It’s about racism, his rage and the Republican Party’s 2026 campaign. Teach ‘em a lesson in Alaska’s Senate race.
Donald Trump will never understand that Native Americans are the first citizens. It’s about racism, his rage and the Republican Party’s 2026 campaign. Teach ‘em a lesson in Alaska’s Senate race.
Minnesota Live Updates: Trump’s Border Chief Says Crackdown Could Ease With More Access to Jails www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
After killing innocent citizens and terrorizing a city, Trump’s border czar says not everything done here has been perfect. Republicans equal bullshit, and nothing more.
After killing innocent citizens and terrorizing a city, Trump’s border czar says not everything done here has been perfect. Republicans equal bullshit, and nothing more.
Minnesota Live Updates: Trump’s Border Chief Says Crackdown Could Ease With More Access to Jails
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January 29, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Minnesota Live Updates: Trump’s Border Chief Says Crackdown Could Ease With More Access to Jails www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
After killing innocent citizens and terrorizing a city, Trump’s border czar says not everything done here has been perfect. Republicans equal bullshit, and nothing more.
After killing innocent citizens and terrorizing a city, Trump’s border czar says not everything done here has been perfect. Republicans equal bullshit, and nothing more.
Amazon cuts thousands of workers amid record profits and costly AI race
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Workers lose, you lose. Amazon builds data centers for AI, fires workers to pay for it, uses AI to replace workers, drives up electricity prices, uses up your water, pollutes, profits.
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Workers lose, you lose. Amazon builds data centers for AI, fires workers to pay for it, uses AI to replace workers, drives up electricity prices, uses up your water, pollutes, profits.
Seattle rocked as Amazon announces historic layoffs
It wasn’t clear Wednesday where within the company the deepest cuts would be felt, but Seattle was not spared.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Amazon cuts thousands of workers amid record profits and costly AI race
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Workers lose, you lose. Amazon builds data centers for AI, fires workers to pay for it, uses AI to replace workers, drives up electricity prices, uses up your water, pollutes, profits.
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Workers lose, you lose. Amazon builds data centers for AI, fires workers to pay for it, uses AI to replace workers, drives up electricity prices, uses up your water, pollutes, profits.
ICE agents wear masks to intimidate citizens, and to show they don't answer to us. A MAGA sheriff in Washington State put it succinctly to the legislature about an effort to ban such masks: “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.”
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The real meaning of those ICE masks, as blurted out in a WA hearing
A county sheriff, a rare MAGA elected official around Puget Sound, told state legislators he wants to mask up his deputies simply to defy authority.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:09 PM
ICE agents wear masks to intimidate citizens, and to show they don't answer to us. A MAGA sheriff in Washington State put it succinctly to the legislature about an effort to ban such masks: “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.”
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Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed
Numerous times, immigration agents have lied about their assaults on citizens and immigrants, 3 of them fatal. Videos and testimony have exposed these fabrications, including from local police. No consequences yet.
Numerous times, immigration agents have lied about their assaults on citizens and immigrants, 3 of them fatal. Videos and testimony have exposed these fabrications, including from local police. No consequences yet.
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed
Numerous times, immigration agents have lied about their assaults on citizens and immigrants, 3 of them fatal. Videos and testimony have exposed these fabrications, including from local police. No consequences yet.
Numerous times, immigration agents have lied about their assaults on citizens and immigrants, 3 of them fatal. Videos and testimony have exposed these fabrications, including from local police. No consequences yet.
Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
Republicans today are big spenders without revenue, adding to a world of debt, literally a world. Trump’s erratic ways are endangering us even more, our kids, and our grandkids. Read this sitting down
Republicans today are big spenders without revenue, adding to a world of debt, literally a world. Trump’s erratic ways are endangering us even more, our kids, and our grandkids. Read this sitting down
Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth
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January 27, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
Republicans today are big spenders without revenue, adding to a world of debt, literally a world. Trump’s erratic ways are endangering us even more, our kids, and our grandkids. Read this sitting down
Republicans today are big spenders without revenue, adding to a world of debt, literally a world. Trump’s erratic ways are endangering us even more, our kids, and our grandkids. Read this sitting down
Lindsey Halligan out as U.S. attorney following pressure from judges
She should be disbarred.
She should be disbarred.
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Lindsey Halligan out as U.S. attorney following pressure from judges
She should be disbarred.
She should be disbarred.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
New York Times column quotes an expert suggesting ICE agents are misusing of anabolic steroids. Also stirring violence are illegal orders, poor training & supervision.
New York Times column quotes an expert suggesting ICE agents are misusing of anabolic steroids. Also stirring violence are illegal orders, poor training & supervision.
Opinion | ‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’
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January 21, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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New York Times column quotes an expert suggesting ICE agents are misusing of anabolic steroids. Also stirring violence are illegal orders, poor training & supervision.
New York Times column quotes an expert suggesting ICE agents are misusing of anabolic steroids. Also stirring violence are illegal orders, poor training & supervision.
Terror is spreading. Two Seattle schools ordered children to shelter in place to protect them from ICE agents reportedly in the area. Doors were locked, etc. Some feared the agents were using a tactic; luring parents to the school to protect their scared kids.
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Two Seattle schools shelter in place due to reported ICE activity
Seattle Public Schools warned that ICE agents might be trying to draw out families who intended to bring children home after news of nearby ICE activity.
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January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Terror is spreading. Two Seattle schools ordered children to shelter in place to protect them from ICE agents reportedly in the area. Doors were locked, etc. Some feared the agents were using a tactic; luring parents to the school to protect their scared kids.
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A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King
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This is well worth reading; a well-crafted, cleverly written, and comprehensive outline for articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. It is also a do-able call to action for us to remove him from office.
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This is well worth reading; a well-crafted, cleverly written, and comprehensive outline for articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. It is also a do-able call to action for us to remove him from office.
A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King
It's time.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
This is well worth reading; a well-crafted, cleverly written, and comprehensive outline for articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. It is also a do-able call to action for us to remove him from office.
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This is well worth reading; a well-crafted, cleverly written, and comprehensive outline for articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. It is also a do-able call to action for us to remove him from office.
Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
So, gamblers bet on political outcomes using online platforms. Someone anonymous made a fortune recently betting on Maduro’s ouster. Donald Trump Jr. is involved in both platforms. No connection?
So, gamblers bet on political outcomes using online platforms. Someone anonymous made a fortune recently betting on Maduro’s ouster. Donald Trump Jr. is involved in both platforms. No connection?
Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
So, gamblers bet on political outcomes using online platforms. Someone anonymous made a fortune recently betting on Maduro’s ouster. Donald Trump Jr. is involved in both platforms. No connection?
So, gamblers bet on political outcomes using online platforms. Someone anonymous made a fortune recently betting on Maduro’s ouster. Donald Trump Jr. is involved in both platforms. No connection?
This is our chasm in a nutshell:
The Republican Party believes in billionaires, autocracy, and the concept of “better and lesser” people. Democrats believe in diversity and democracy as America’s greatest strengths, and that billionaires represent some of our worst tendencies.
The Republican Party believes in billionaires, autocracy, and the concept of “better and lesser” people. Democrats believe in diversity and democracy as America’s greatest strengths, and that billionaires represent some of our worst tendencies.
December 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is our chasm in a nutshell:
The Republican Party believes in billionaires, autocracy, and the concept of “better and lesser” people. Democrats believe in diversity and democracy as America’s greatest strengths, and that billionaires represent some of our worst tendencies.
The Republican Party believes in billionaires, autocracy, and the concept of “better and lesser” people. Democrats believe in diversity and democracy as America’s greatest strengths, and that billionaires represent some of our worst tendencies.
My best retirement advice: Buy a vacation house on the water, pay off the mortgage, and don’t travel much. But getting there isn’t easy, given today’s real cost of living. A financier explains why that's so difficult for young folks.
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My best retirement advice: Buy a vacation house on the water, pay off the mortgage, and don’t travel much. But getting there isn’t easy, given today’s real cost of living. A financier explains why that's so difficult for young folks.
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It is no surprise that our nation's health research is now being guided by an irresponsible, egotistical, and disgruntled insider who has steered grant money toward his own work, according to the Atlantic Magazine.
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The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity
While NIH director Jay Bhattacharya focuses on podcasting, his second in command is dramatically remaking the agency.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It is no surprise that our nation's health research is now being guided by an irresponsible, egotistical, and disgruntled insider who has steered grant money toward his own work, according to the Atlantic Magazine.
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Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Republicans cut federal aid to the deaf and blind because it entails diversity. Cruel, as usual, but we also know from his remarks that Donald Trump is a schoolyard bully towards all differences.
Republicans cut federal aid to the deaf and blind because it entails diversity. Cruel, as usual, but we also know from his remarks that Donald Trump is a schoolyard bully towards all differences.
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade
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December 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Republicans cut federal aid to the deaf and blind because it entails diversity. Cruel, as usual, but we also know from his remarks that Donald Trump is a schoolyard bully towards all differences.
Republicans cut federal aid to the deaf and blind because it entails diversity. Cruel, as usual, but we also know from his remarks that Donald Trump is a schoolyard bully towards all differences.
In collective sorrow, we can say this much:
It doesn’t matter who gave the order to “kill them all”, or whether it was worded that way. Prima facie, what happened in the Caribbean was a war crime ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on behalf of the Republican Party.
It doesn’t matter who gave the order to “kill them all”, or whether it was worded that way. Prima facie, what happened in the Caribbean was a war crime ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on behalf of the Republican Party.
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In collective sorrow, we can say this much:
It doesn’t matter who gave the order to “kill them all”, or whether it was worded that way. Prima facie, what happened in the Caribbean was a war crime ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on behalf of the Republican Party.
It doesn’t matter who gave the order to “kill them all”, or whether it was worded that way. Prima facie, what happened in the Caribbean was a war crime ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on behalf of the Republican Party.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Donald Trump has great affinity with a rich fraudster who robbed farmers, small business owners, nurses, veterans, and ten thousand other folks of a billion and a half. His kind of hero.
Donald Trump has great affinity with a rich fraudster who robbed farmers, small business owners, nurses, veterans, and ten thousand other folks of a billion and a half. His kind of hero.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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November 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Donald Trump has great affinity with a rich fraudster who robbed farmers, small business owners, nurses, veterans, and ten thousand other folks of a billion and a half. His kind of hero.
Donald Trump has great affinity with a rich fraudster who robbed farmers, small business owners, nurses, veterans, and ten thousand other folks of a billion and a half. His kind of hero.
The latest Gallup Poll says it all, Americans are done with this clown show. Take away Republicans, and this dude couldn't get a friendly invite to his own going away party. Which begs a suggestion. Let's vote out the Rs and snuff out the oligarchy.
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Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The latest Gallup Poll says it all, Americans are done with this clown show. Take away Republicans, and this dude couldn't get a friendly invite to his own going away party. Which begs a suggestion. Let's vote out the Rs and snuff out the oligarchy.
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In this Post article, a number of retired federal judges say Trump's assault on the rule of law, and the Supreme Court's opaque "emergency" responses, have pushed justice and democracy "to a fragile tipping point."
In this Post article, a number of retired federal judges say Trump's assault on the rule of law, and the Supreme Court's opaque "emergency" responses, have pushed justice and democracy "to a fragile tipping point."
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November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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In this Post article, a number of retired federal judges say Trump's assault on the rule of law, and the Supreme Court's opaque "emergency" responses, have pushed justice and democracy "to a fragile tipping point."
In this Post article, a number of retired federal judges say Trump's assault on the rule of law, and the Supreme Court's opaque "emergency" responses, have pushed justice and democracy "to a fragile tipping point."
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
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Overwhelmingly, studies show that immigrants are law abiding. A more likely cause of violence are the attitudes of people like Donald Trump and easy access to guns.
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Overwhelmingly, studies show that immigrants are law abiding. A more likely cause of violence are the attitudes of people like Donald Trump and easy access to guns.
Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Overwhelmingly, studies show that immigrants are law abiding. A more likely cause of violence are the attitudes of people like Donald Trump and easy access to guns.
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Overwhelmingly, studies show that immigrants are law abiding. A more likely cause of violence are the attitudes of people like Donald Trump and easy access to guns.
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles says ICE called her tribal ID 'fake'
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ICE agents are assaulting people on our streets for their skin color alone. This woman is Native American, and well known from the movies. This isn’t about immigration. It’s racism.
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ICE agents are assaulting people on our streets for their skin color alone. This woman is Native American, and well known from the movies. This isn’t about immigration. It’s racism.
Native American actor gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles says ICE called her tribal ID 'fake'
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ICE agents are assaulting people on our streets for their skin color alone. This woman is Native American, and well known from the movies. This isn’t about immigration. It’s racism.
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ICE agents are assaulting people on our streets for their skin color alone. This woman is Native American, and well known from the movies. This isn’t about immigration. It’s racism.