Ian Charles
@ryderon.bsky.social
Law School, Chicago, Sports, Nature, Philosophy.
Role Models include Thich Nhat Hanh, Louis Brandeis, Greg Popovich, and most breeds of dogs.
Immigration makes America great.
When we help the lowest among us to rise up and succeed, we all prosper.
Role Models include Thich Nhat Hanh, Louis Brandeis, Greg Popovich, and most breeds of dogs.
Immigration makes America great.
When we help the lowest among us to rise up and succeed, we all prosper.
Wow, there's actually some good deals on Hot Stone and Swedish massages near me. Why haven't I used Groupon before....
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Wow, there's actually some good deals on Hot Stone and Swedish massages near me. Why haven't I used Groupon before....
After signing up for Groupon 10 years ago then forgetting all about it, I've been emailed that I have $4.25 in Groupon bucks. Booking the best massage money can buy now.
February 17, 2026 at 3:44 AM
After signing up for Groupon 10 years ago then forgetting all about it, I've been emailed that I have $4.25 in Groupon bucks. Booking the best massage money can buy now.
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Sign of the times that there are multiple members of the Chicago Cubs who haven't been able to enter the U.S. because Trump's immigration crackdown has made getting visas impossible www.si.com/mlb/cubs/ons...
Multiple Cubs Players Miss Camp Arrival Due to Visa Issues
Major League Baseball pitchers and catchers began reporting to their respective facilities in Arizona and Florida on Tuesday to begin 2026 Spring Training. The
www.si.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Sign of the times that there are multiple members of the Chicago Cubs who haven't been able to enter the U.S. because Trump's immigration crackdown has made getting visas impossible www.si.com/mlb/cubs/ons...
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US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
I’ve lived in Chicago for awhile but I’m from a small town in Michigan.
Some of my old friends are hardcore conservatives.
They all used to love Trump, but they have turned on him and are enraged with The DOJ coverup and blatant corruption (and 1 even said ICE murders). Better late than never.
Some of my old friends are hardcore conservatives.
They all used to love Trump, but they have turned on him and are enraged with The DOJ coverup and blatant corruption (and 1 even said ICE murders). Better late than never.
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I’ve lived in Chicago for awhile but I’m from a small town in Michigan.
Some of my old friends are hardcore conservatives.
They all used to love Trump, but they have turned on him and are enraged with The DOJ coverup and blatant corruption (and 1 even said ICE murders). Better late than never.
Some of my old friends are hardcore conservatives.
They all used to love Trump, but they have turned on him and are enraged with The DOJ coverup and blatant corruption (and 1 even said ICE murders). Better late than never.
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The Epstein victims stood behind Bondi and she wouldn’t even look at them.
When asked about the men who raped them, here is what she said…….. I guess it’s what Trump told her to fit in somewhere.
When asked about the men who raped them, here is what she said…….. I guess it’s what Trump told her to fit in somewhere.
February 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
The Epstein victims stood behind Bondi and she wouldn’t even look at them.
When asked about the men who raped them, here is what she said…….. I guess it’s what Trump told her to fit in somewhere.
When asked about the men who raped them, here is what she said…….. I guess it’s what Trump told her to fit in somewhere.
Hot take: Bondi has been abused herself. Possibly by Trump. Providing justice to the survivors, or exhibiting any decency at all, would cause her to acknowledge her own pain and hatred within her.
Whatever it is, there is something deeply wrong, and she is an embarrassment to the DOJ.
Whatever it is, there is something deeply wrong, and she is an embarrassment to the DOJ.
BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Hot take: Bondi has been abused herself. Possibly by Trump. Providing justice to the survivors, or exhibiting any decency at all, would cause her to acknowledge her own pain and hatred within her.
Whatever it is, there is something deeply wrong, and she is an embarrassment to the DOJ.
Whatever it is, there is something deeply wrong, and she is an embarrassment to the DOJ.
Estoy extrañando a Colombia ahora.
February 11, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Estoy extrañando a Colombia ahora.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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"One might say, 'I don’t care because that only happens to THOSE people.' Perhaps. But what if someone here legally, or even a United States citizen, is afforded no due process after being seized by mistake?... Or by a choice?
Fortunately, our Constitution demands more, including the rule of law.."
Fortunately, our Constitution demands more, including the rule of law.."
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"One might say, 'I don’t care because that only happens to THOSE people.' Perhaps. But what if someone here legally, or even a United States citizen, is afforded no due process after being seized by mistake?... Or by a choice?
Fortunately, our Constitution demands more, including the rule of law.."
Fortunately, our Constitution demands more, including the rule of law.."
Well said!
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 11, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Well said!
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
![Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/bafkreihpnudavq27nzelfb2kd3fjjthco7haqmhvx4zryksfbfruoxkm74@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
Horrifying. I have encouraged some my “pro life” friends to read the details.
“He remembers ICE agents pulling him from a friend’s car outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him & striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he was beaten again.”
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
apnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Horrifying. I have encouraged some my “pro life” friends to read the details.
The Detroit Pistons are full of DOGS on defense.
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 AM
The Detroit Pistons are full of DOGS on defense.
Pistons putting it on the Nuggets after one half.
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Pistons putting it on the Nuggets after one half.
Bulls finally shipped Vooch. Good deadline for them.
BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls are trading center Nikola Vucevic and a second-round pick to the Boston Celtics for Anfernee Simons and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
February 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Bulls finally shipped Vooch. Good deadline for them.
This latest Apple iOS update has been one of the worst I can remember. Almost everything, including making calls, is worse.
February 2, 2026 at 3:36 AM
This latest Apple iOS update has been one of the worst I can remember. Almost everything, including making calls, is worse.
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
Schiller Visions: Hidden Camera Commercials - SNL
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January 31, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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As much as I know the sun rises tomorrow in the east, I knew he would. You don't have to go very far: his first term. In my opinion, Covid served as a huge distraction overall- especially economically b/c nothing that is happening now didn't happen then.
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
As much as I know the sun rises tomorrow in the east, I knew he would. You don't have to go very far: his first term. In my opinion, Covid served as a huge distraction overall- especially economically b/c nothing that is happening now didn't happen then.
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Hard to believe that this is coming up in the news again. Trump wants to disrupt the midterms because he knows he’s going to lose. There was nothing to find then and nothing today. Trump has unraveled. He is unstable. He is unfit. Miller is pulling the strings.
January 29, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Hard to believe that this is coming up in the news again. Trump wants to disrupt the midterms because he knows he’s going to lose. There was nothing to find then and nothing today. Trump has unraveled. He is unstable. He is unfit. Miller is pulling the strings.