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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To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available...
That's already been official ICE policy for over two years.
www.ice.gov/news/release....
That's already been official ICE policy for over two years.
www.ice.gov/news/release....
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available...
That's already been official ICE policy for over two years.
www.ice.gov/news/release....
That's already been official ICE policy for over two years.
www.ice.gov/news/release....
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This is huge.
Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
This is huge.
Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
As expected, Judge Ana Reyes has extended Temporary Protected Statys protections for people from Haiti, who need these safeguards more than anyone who has ever received them.
"Having neither [the law nor the facts] on her side, Noem pounds X.“
"Having neither [the law nor the facts] on her side, Noem pounds X.“
February 3, 2026 at 1:05 AM
As expected, Judge Ana Reyes has extended Temporary Protected Statys protections for people from Haiti, who need these safeguards more than anyone who has ever received them.
"Having neither [the law nor the facts] on her side, Noem pounds X.“
"Having neither [the law nor the facts] on her side, Noem pounds X.“
Agreed on both points ofc and it is the first one that Reyes rightfully had real questions about bc DHS definitely did not show its work on this revocation
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Agreed on both points ofc and it is the first one that Reyes rightfully had real questions about bc DHS definitely did not show its work on this revocation
That's what we are hearing. I think they'll be getting extra enforcement either way but at least an extension would be some protection for a lot of people
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
That's what we are hearing. I think they'll be getting extra enforcement either way but at least an extension would be some protection for a lot of people
We are waiting on an order by the end of the day from Judge Reyes in DC as to whether ~350K Haitians will be going out of status and Trump will be able to begin the long promised ethnic cleansing of Springfield OH tomorrow. I remain optimistic based on how the hearing went last month but uggggh
February 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
We are waiting on an order by the end of the day from Judge Reyes in DC as to whether ~350K Haitians will be going out of status and Trump will be able to begin the long promised ethnic cleansing of Springfield OH tomorrow. I remain optimistic based on how the hearing went last month but uggggh
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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.
Yeah totally, i had just never heard anyone be this honest about it. I had to thank for her candor at least
February 1, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Yeah totally, i had just never heard anyone be this honest about it. I had to thank for her candor at least
Getting a 7 figures vibe from her, but yes. She also expressed at least some concern for her queer daughter's future & the non-citizen employees in one of her warehouses who the company now has to actively protect from ICE, with the usual caveat that it all would have been worse under Harris somehow
February 1, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Getting a 7 figures vibe from her, but yes. She also expressed at least some concern for her queer daughter's future & the non-citizen employees in one of her warehouses who the company now has to actively protect from ICE, with the usual caveat that it all would have been worse under Harris somehow
Yeah it just kept getting worse
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Yeah it just kept getting worse
"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
Everyone i talked to who is trying to keep eyes on the situation says that the scope of it is just more than anyone can understand, there is just too much happening at once
January 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Everyone i talked to who is trying to keep eyes on the situation says that the scope of it is just more than anyone can understand, there is just too much happening at once
I have much more to say about this than this medium can convey, but the most significant takeaway for me was (1) it is much worse than you think here but (2) also so much better
January 30, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I have much more to say about this than this medium can convey, but the most significant takeaway for me was (1) it is much worse than you think here but (2) also so much better
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
I do not, but appreciate the spirit of this and am inclined to trust your judgment
January 30, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I do not, but appreciate the spirit of this and am inclined to trust your judgment
I mean i guess technically you don't actually need all of your toes at the same time, I'd never appreciated what a luxury it really is
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 AM
I mean i guess technically you don't actually need all of your toes at the same time, I'd never appreciated what a luxury it really is
Also I am just kind of kicking around Minneapolis now after having crested the wave of exhaustion from not having slept last night, meeting dozens of people, taking a break to file a habeas petition, and crushing hard on the very first person i met here so i welcome your ideas
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Also I am just kind of kicking around Minneapolis now after having crested the wave of exhaustion from not having slept last night, meeting dozens of people, taking a break to file a habeas petition, and crushing hard on the very first person i met here so i welcome your ideas
My day started with an inspirational speech over breakfast from Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and ended with new friends around the corner from the deeply touching memorial to Alex Pretti's murder only five days ago
January 30, 2026 at 4:27 AM
My day started with an inspirational speech over breakfast from Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and ended with new friends around the corner from the deeply touching memorial to Alex Pretti's murder only five days ago
As someone who left Boston after a major snowstorm with temps in the tens to come to a place which i had to buy a whole new layer of clothes just to be able to comfortably stand vigil in what consistently feels like subzero, I will freely admit these people are made of something else
January 30, 2026 at 4:24 AM
As someone who left Boston after a major snowstorm with temps in the tens to come to a place which i had to buy a whole new layer of clothes just to be able to comfortably stand vigil in what consistently feels like subzero, I will freely admit these people are made of something else