Jenn Budd
@jennbudd.bsky.social
Author of Against the Wall. HBO documentary Critical Incident. https://jennbudd.net/
On a positive note: we will have enough ICE facilities to hold all of DHS, ICE, this administration and everyone in the Epstein files so that justice will be served.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 17, 2026 at 10:37 PM
On a positive note: we will have enough ICE facilities to hold all of DHS, ICE, this administration and everyone in the Epstein files so that justice will be served.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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3 more attacks yesterday. 11 dead. Feb is on track to be the 3rd-deadliest month of illegal US boat strikes. We must never normalize this, warns WOLA’s latest podcast with drug policy director John Walsh.
Extrajud. executions per 7 days:
Sep: 4.0
Oct: 10.4
Nov: 4.9
Dec: 9.0
Jan: 0.7
Feb (1-16): 7.9
Extrajud. executions per 7 days:
Sep: 4.0
Oct: 10.4
Nov: 4.9
Dec: 9.0
Jan: 0.7
Feb (1-16): 7.9
Don’t Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background - WOLA
The increasing normalization of the U.S. government's illegal boat strikes poses dangers: justifications could extend to other victims in other contexts, and elements of the U.S. military appear to be...
www.wola.org
February 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
3 more attacks yesterday. 11 dead. Feb is on track to be the 3rd-deadliest month of illegal US boat strikes. We must never normalize this, warns WOLA’s latest podcast with drug policy director John Walsh.
Extrajud. executions per 7 days:
Sep: 4.0
Oct: 10.4
Nov: 4.9
Dec: 9.0
Jan: 0.7
Feb (1-16): 7.9
Extrajud. executions per 7 days:
Sep: 4.0
Oct: 10.4
Nov: 4.9
Dec: 9.0
Jan: 0.7
Feb (1-16): 7.9
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Democrats should boycott the State of the Union and send Epstein survivors and people illegally detained by ICE in their place.
February 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Democrats should boycott the State of the Union and send Epstein survivors and people illegally detained by ICE in their place.
February 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Correction: DHS watchdog warns they won’t be able to hide their coverups as well from the public without more money. 🥴
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Correction: DHS watchdog warns they won’t be able to hide their coverups as well from the public without more money. 🥴
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Federal agents convinced an 11 yr old boy to open the door at 7:30 a.m., then detained this Hmong grandmother for 2 wks in TX, where she shared a cell w 20 women. What did she do wrong? She still has no idea, ICE keeps returning to her door
She's still in hiding
www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...
She's still in hiding
www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...
Hmong grandmother detained in Texas for 2 weeks still doesn’t know why
After being repeatedly visited by ICE, Thi Dua Vang and her husband, both in the U.S. legally awaiting green cards, are in hiding.
www.twincities.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Federal agents convinced an 11 yr old boy to open the door at 7:30 a.m., then detained this Hmong grandmother for 2 wks in TX, where she shared a cell w 20 women. What did she do wrong? She still has no idea, ICE keeps returning to her door
She's still in hiding
www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...
She's still in hiding
www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...
What they do to immigrants, they will do to us.
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
What they do to immigrants, they will do to us.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:
"With immigration, it really is notable: the extent to which they just are no longer just winking at white nationalist tropes, but openly deploying them—and then calling anybody who says anything the real bigots."
youtube.com/shorts/KgDn9...
"With immigration, it really is notable: the extent to which they just are no longer just winking at white nationalist tropes, but openly deploying them—and then calling anybody who says anything the real bigots."
youtube.com/shorts/KgDn9...
Aaron Reichlin Melnick on government agencies weaponizing bigotry
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:
"With immigration, it really is notable: the extent to which they just are no longer just winking at white nationalist tropes, but openly deploying them—and then calling anybody who says anything the real bigots."
youtube.com/shorts/KgDn9...
"With immigration, it really is notable: the extent to which they just are no longer just winking at white nationalist tropes, but openly deploying them—and then calling anybody who says anything the real bigots."
youtube.com/shorts/KgDn9...
Every single one of you in Congress created this. You have taken $ from the companies to build what is now hunting people of color & anyone who dares protest. You have remained silent for decades while they honed their hunting skills on the residents on the southern border. Both sides created it!
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
February 15, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Every single one of you in Congress created this. You have taken $ from the companies to build what is now hunting people of color & anyone who dares protest. You have remained silent for decades while they honed their hunting skills on the residents on the southern border. Both sides created it!
This is a coup of our democracy. Maybe there’s a better word. Feel free to educate me. DHS has taken over law enforcement & become Trump’s personal army. Imm-enforcement agencies have taken over local, state & fed law enforcement & large parts of military. Focus is on his enemies not criminals.
It seems like anyone that wants to commit crimes without accountability is applying for jobs with ICE and they’re being hired. ICE is full of dangerous people that want to hurt people. I don’t want to pay for that.
February 15, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This is a coup of our democracy. Maybe there’s a better word. Feel free to educate me. DHS has taken over law enforcement & become Trump’s personal army. Imm-enforcement agencies have taken over local, state & fed law enforcement & large parts of military. Focus is on his enemies not criminals.
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Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
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"Criminalization is what got us here, criminalization is what is keeping us here, and more criminalization will definitely not get us out of here."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This
Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.
www.thenation.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"Criminalization is what got us here, criminalization is what is keeping us here, and more criminalization will definitely not get us out of here."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
February 15, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM