Vanessa Enriquez-Rios
@pt007.bsky.social
Cancer & Developmental Biology, PhD👩🔬 🏳️🌈
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Organic Chemistry, MS
UCLA, Go Bruins 💙 💛
Chemistry, BS
UCSC, Go Slugs 💙💛
Encephalitis Warrior 🧠🔥
Politics
Southern Illinois
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Organic Chemistry, MS
UCLA, Go Bruins 💙 💛
Chemistry, BS
UCSC, Go Slugs 💙💛
Encephalitis Warrior 🧠🔥
Politics
Southern Illinois
Pinned
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I'll take "elite southern enslavers and slave auctioneers in the 1850s" for $800, Alex.
February 4, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I'll take "elite southern enslavers and slave auctioneers in the 1850s" for $800, Alex.
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Donald Trump has been telling us that if he doesn't like the outcome of the elections he will seize ballots. He wants Republicans to take control of voting. He wants to take over elections in Democratic states.
People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.
People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Donald Trump has been telling us that if he doesn't like the outcome of the elections he will seize ballots. He wants Republicans to take control of voting. He wants to take over elections in Democratic states.
People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.
People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.
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Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
February 4, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
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A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
Minneapolis Council committee delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents
The City Council will hold a public hearing on the liquor licenses for the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:44 AM
A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
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My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
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Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
February 4, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
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The entire press corps should walk out, not come back, & we simply shouldn’t tolerate this.
Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.
Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The entire press corps should walk out, not come back, & we simply shouldn’t tolerate this.
Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.
Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.
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“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible
February 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible
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Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.
February 3, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.
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HERE WE FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
do it Leo. do it. you want to. you can. these guys were excommunicated in 1988 for doing this and they just did it again. you have the opportunity to do the coolest and funniest thing in the world
do it Leo. do it. you want to. you can. these guys were excommunicated in 1988 for doing this and they just did it again. you have the opportunity to do the coolest and funniest thing in the world
Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics.
Pope Leo XIV faces crisis as a traditionalist group plans bishop consecrations without consent
Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics. A breakaway group attached to the traditional Latin Mass, the Society of St.
bit.ly
February 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
HERE WE FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
do it Leo. do it. you want to. you can. these guys were excommunicated in 1988 for doing this and they just did it again. you have the opportunity to do the coolest and funniest thing in the world
do it Leo. do it. you want to. you can. these guys were excommunicated in 1988 for doing this and they just did it again. you have the opportunity to do the coolest and funniest thing in the world
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The only tool ICE has is force. They cannot penalize legal activity through the courts and their efforts to do so are destroying the DOJ.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The only tool ICE has is force. They cannot penalize legal activity through the courts and their efforts to do so are destroying the DOJ.
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"The records that are being made by observers....that record is now filtering into the public and is changing public opinion. And I think that's vital."
@whstancil.bsky.social talks Minneapolis resistance with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
@whstancil.bsky.social talks Minneapolis resistance with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
February 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
"The records that are being made by observers....that record is now filtering into the public and is changing public opinion. And I think that's vital."
@whstancil.bsky.social talks Minneapolis resistance with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
@whstancil.bsky.social talks Minneapolis resistance with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
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John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements
Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'
To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge
ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'
To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge
ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
John Roberts Does Not Want You Finding Out How the Supreme Court Actually Works
The six-justice conservative supermajority is taking aggressive steps to ensure that the public remains in the dark about how the Supreme Court functions.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 PM
John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements
Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'
To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge
ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'
To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge
ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...
@newrepublic.com
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February 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
13:12 These new emergency measures have sealed our mouths shut. Everything is treason.
13:19 Everything's punishable by death. It feels like we're at war.
May 7, 2025
youtu.be/fDWYc8vTvEw
13:19 Everything's punishable by death. It feels like we're at war.
May 7, 2025
youtu.be/fDWYc8vTvEw
Hitler's Reich - Diaries of Nazi supporters, opponents and victims (1/4) | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
13:12 These new emergency measures have sealed our mouths shut. Everything is treason.
13:19 Everything's punishable by death. It feels like we're at war.
May 7, 2025
youtu.be/fDWYc8vTvEw
13:19 Everything's punishable by death. It feels like we're at war.
May 7, 2025
youtu.be/fDWYc8vTvEw
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"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
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Is it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.
Trump can be heard still complaining about Kaitlan Collins not smiling as reporters are ushers out of the Oval Office
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Is it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.
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74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
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This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
February 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
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Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
Trump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case Study
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 03, 2026
"The temperature in Ukraine is below -20°C (-4°F). Overnight, Russia attacked with 450 drones and over 60 missiles, including ballistic ones."
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 03, 2026
"The temperature in Ukraine is below -20°C (-4°F). Overnight, Russia attacked with 450 drones and over 60 missiles, including ballistic ones."
Trump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case Study
Hi All,
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February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Trump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case Study
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 03, 2026
"The temperature in Ukraine is below -20°C (-4°F). Overnight, Russia attacked with 450 drones and over 60 missiles, including ballistic ones."
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 03, 2026
"The temperature in Ukraine is below -20°C (-4°F). Overnight, Russia attacked with 450 drones and over 60 missiles, including ballistic ones."