Matt Cameron
@mattcameron.bsky.social
Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
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THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP ICE NOW
it's going to take all of us, but we can all do this
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WE ARE WINNING, AND WE WILL WIN
THE BIG FREEZE is an urgent and necessary response to an impending American crisis, and it is the only way that we will survive it.
THE BIG FREEZE is an urgent and necessary response to an impending American crisis, and it is the only way that we will survive it.
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Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
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I didn’t bring any of my gear because surely they wouldn’t gas a daytime march with a bunch of kids, right?
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I didn’t bring any of my gear because surely they wouldn’t gas a daytime march with a bunch of kids, right?
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I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
January 31, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
"I don't have a problem with Trump," a Fortune 500 VP tells me at an airport bar in Minneapolis. "It's how I was raised."
Genuinely baffled, I ask: "Were you raised to respect billionaires? Because I wasn't."
She nods.
"It's a tax bracket thing."
I truly hope to never understand this
Genuinely baffled, I ask: "Were you raised to respect billionaires? Because I wasn't."
She nods.
"It's a tax bracket thing."
I truly hope to never understand this
February 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"I don't have a problem with Trump," a Fortune 500 VP tells me at an airport bar in Minneapolis. "It's how I was raised."
Genuinely baffled, I ask: "Were you raised to respect billionaires? Because I wasn't."
She nods.
"It's a tax bracket thing."
I truly hope to never understand this
Genuinely baffled, I ask: "Were you raised to respect billionaires? Because I wasn't."
She nods.
"It's a tax bracket thing."
I truly hope to never understand this
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8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
"Our foreign labor class is full granted political rights"
"All visas are a bridge to citizenship"
It remains absolutely incredible to me that the people running our immigration system choose to remain so willfully ignorant as to the first thing about our immigration system
"All visas are a bridge to citizenship"
It remains absolutely incredible to me that the people running our immigration system choose to remain so willfully ignorant as to the first thing about our immigration system
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
"Our foreign labor class is full granted political rights"
"All visas are a bridge to citizenship"
It remains absolutely incredible to me that the people running our immigration system choose to remain so willfully ignorant as to the first thing about our immigration system
"All visas are a bridge to citizenship"
It remains absolutely incredible to me that the people running our immigration system choose to remain so willfully ignorant as to the first thing about our immigration system
This funding repeal is the single most necessary legislative act of the second Trump term so far and it is not even close. I will literally sleep better at night if they can hold the line and get this done
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 AM
This funding repeal is the single most necessary legislative act of the second Trump term so far and it is not even close. I will literally sleep better at night if they can hold the line and get this done
My day in Minneapolis learning in realtime with state legislators from around the country what it is like to actively not just practice but *live* in resistance here was the single best antidote to doomerism I have found in the past twelve months
January 30, 2026 at 5:10 AM
My day in Minneapolis learning in realtime with state legislators from around the country what it is like to actively not just practice but *live* in resistance here was the single best antidote to doomerism I have found in the past twelve months
After 24 hours in Minneapolis I think I have a very good understanding of why people live here! It absolutely rules, even in January. I just haven't come to understand *how* yet
January 30, 2026 at 4:16 AM
After 24 hours in Minneapolis I think I have a very good understanding of why people live here! It absolutely rules, even in January. I just haven't come to understand *how* yet
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Massachusetts folks, the LUCE ICE Hotline is ☎️ 617-370-5023. If you see ICE in your area, call and report. And spread the word! Full sheet of stickers here: tinyurl.com/5eddfvrt
Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.
Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.
January 28, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Massachusetts folks, the LUCE ICE Hotline is ☎️ 617-370-5023. If you see ICE in your area, call and report. And spread the word! Full sheet of stickers here: tinyurl.com/5eddfvrt
Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.
Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.
This is like the 214th thing in the past year that would have been a bona fide Scandal in the late 1900s
NEW: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing ProPublica reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in related investments when he shut down crypto investigations at the DOJ.
Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation
The senators presented a letter demanding that top DOJ official Todd Blanche clarify the legality of his actions, pointing to ProPublica reporting that found he owned at least $159,000 in related asse...
www.propublica.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This is like the 214th thing in the past year that would have been a bona fide Scandal in the late 1900s
Not to be that guy but ICE and CBP would still be fully funded thanks to the cursed July funding bill, they are just using the rest of DHS as leverage. Which is fine, but I do also think that people should clearly know that
A Democratic aide says of the new deal: “Sets a 2 week clock on DHS funding by itself. If republicans don’t do shit for two weeks, DHS shuts down and there’s little incentive for us to reopen without the guardrails on ICE”
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Not to be that guy but ICE and CBP would still be fully funded thanks to the cursed July funding bill, they are just using the rest of DHS as leverage. Which is fine, but I do also think that people should clearly know that
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greg bovino getting sent packing is funny, because fuck that guy for real, but it's a PR stunt. ICE is still kidnapping and killing our neighbors and far-right agitators are trying to doxx us and we are not not not not not going to stop. bring every stolen neighbor home and get the fuck out.
January 29, 2026 at 4:02 AM
greg bovino getting sent packing is funny, because fuck that guy for real, but it's a PR stunt. ICE is still kidnapping and killing our neighbors and far-right agitators are trying to doxx us and we are not not not not not going to stop. bring every stolen neighbor home and get the fuck out.
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I once met a guy at the border who had come to America, rather than Europe which was closer to where he’d fled, in part because of the way he heard Bruce Springsteen talk about it. I think about that guy a lot, I’m sure he’s happy to hear the boss has his back.
I've heard enough: Bruce Springsteen has just given us the single best traditional protest song written in my lifetime. It is a beautiful tribute to the anger, the tenacity, & the simple hope that ICE can end that Minneapolis has shown the world in the past two months
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I once met a guy at the border who had come to America, rather than Europe which was closer to where he’d fled, in part because of the way he heard Bruce Springsteen talk about it. I think about that guy a lot, I’m sure he’s happy to hear the boss has his back.
I've heard enough: Bruce Springsteen has just given us the single best traditional protest song written in my lifetime. It is a beautiful tribute to the anger, the tenacity, & the simple hope that ICE can end that Minneapolis has shown the world in the past two months
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I've heard enough: Bruce Springsteen has just given us the single best traditional protest song written in my lifetime. It is a beautiful tribute to the anger, the tenacity, & the simple hope that ICE can end that Minneapolis has shown the world in the past two months
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
ICE was never going to allow its head to testify under oath when they could just moot this by releasing the petitioner, but there is also no reason that every federal judge can't just start doing this in every habeas case in which ICE refuses to follow the law (many such cases!
JUST IN: Judge Schiltz cancels Friday’s contempt hearing but lights into ICE, saying the agency may have violated more court orders this month than many others have in their entire existence.
“ICE is not a law unto itself.”
“ICE is not a law unto itself.”
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
ICE was never going to allow its head to testify under oath when they could just moot this by releasing the petitioner, but there is also no reason that every federal judge can't just start doing this in every habeas case in which ICE refuses to follow the law (many such cases!
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American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, also represented Alex Pretti, issued a statement Monday night calling for the resignations of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
Largest federal employee union calls for Noem, Miller's resignations
abcnews.go.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, also represented Alex Pretti, issued a statement Monday night calling for the resignations of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
This @vermontgmg.bsky.social piece came out only 11 years after DHS was created, and it is well worth a read now both to better understand what CBP really is and the inherent danger of rapidly ramping DHS agencies up
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
The Green Monster
How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency.
www.politico.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:35 AM
This @vermontgmg.bsky.social piece came out only 11 years after DHS was created, and it is well worth a read now both to better understand what CBP really is and the inherent danger of rapidly ramping DHS agencies up
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
US citizen volunteers who are putting themselves out there as observers need to be aware that ICE does have statutory authority to arrest anyone for any federal crime if they witness you doing it. They also believe that 18 USC 111 makes it a crime to look at them funny, so you can do the math there
January 26, 2026 at 8:01 AM
US citizen volunteers who are putting themselves out there as observers need to be aware that ICE does have statutory authority to arrest anyone for any federal crime if they witness you doing it. They also believe that 18 USC 111 makes it a crime to look at them funny, so you can do the math there
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The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 AM
The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
a lot of people making this point, which I totally understand! but still want to say this: ICE and CBP are actual federal law enforcement officers, and if we treat them like a white nationalist street gang just because they are acting like one we risk ceding them that much more accountability
Fun fact:
THEY. ARE. NOT. REAL. OFFICERS.
THEY. ARE. NOT. REAL. OFFICERS.
January 26, 2026 at 3:10 AM
a lot of people making this point, which I totally understand! but still want to say this: ICE and CBP are actual federal law enforcement officers, and if we treat them like a white nationalist street gang just because they are acting like one we risk ceding them that much more accountability
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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Boo hoo? He’s walking away from a KILLING and he says BOO HOO?
“One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling (protesters): ‘Boo hoo.’” apnews.com/article/immi...
January 24, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Boo hoo? He’s walking away from a KILLING and he says BOO HOO?
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My friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?
Thinking about those law professors who have done their part to normalize what we are seeing, either by approvingly amplifying extreme right wing sources (like the Daily Caller, Federalist, Dan McLaughlin), or by writing scholarship about Trumpism like it's a hypo and not reality.
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
My friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?