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Barry Hirschowitz
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Baltimore - DC - Sacramento
NatSec/Health legislation and Medtech development
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2/12/2026 - Lindenwold, NJ

ICE agents chase children who were waiting at a bus stop for an elementary school

These are elementary school-age children running from adult federal agents attempting to kidnap them
February 14, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.

Your reminder that ICE is a for-profit industry and the companies profiting are huge donors to the politicians who voted to continue funding ICE.
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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The day after DHS agents shot Alex Pretti 10 times, Secretary Bessent suggested it was justified because Pretti had a gun holstered on his waist, which he was licensed to carry.

As the Treasury Secretary, his credibility matters. His refusal to retract his words speaks volumes.
February 5, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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There is whole lot of hate in these comments for regional politics.

It’s important for folks to understand the worst damage in TN is in Nashville. Hundreds of thousands without power for days on end in very cold temps.

Nashville is a reliably blue city. We asked for aid. It’s hasn’t been approved.
February 2, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
 
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
 
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Important update: a federal judge has ruled that Russ Vought & OMB were breaking the law & must tell the public exactly how they are spending (or not spending) funds appropriated by Congress.

I wrote this law years ago to ensure transparency and accountability.
January 30, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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My position has been clear and is unchanged: I will not vote for one more dime to fund Trump's lawless DHS.

I voted NO.
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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The worst of the worst, right?
January 30, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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"It’s time to wake up. Trump seems keen on influencing the vote in states that will decide margins in 2026 and the outcome in 2028. And that he has the FBI participating in his effort is a terrifying demonstration of just how many guardrails he has steamrolled..."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump Is Still Obsessed with Stealing Elections
The FBI’s seizure of Georgia ballots is as much about future elections as past ones.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Where we are:
1. With the action in GA, the FBI has been mobilized as part of the plan to steal the 2028 election. And the DNI being on the scene is beyond ominous.
2. After bring chaos and illegality and killings to MN, the ICE assault on that city and others will continue with minimal changes.
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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It's incumbent upon us as attorneys to make sure the profession and society are protected from these people.
Disbar Them All: The Only Accountability Left For Trump’s Lawyers - Above the Law
The time has come for every lawyer to lean on disciplinary authorities to protect the profession from these people.
abovethelaw.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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They think the American people are stupid.

It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video.

Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality.

Not another dime to this lawless operation.
January 26, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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It’s not a coincidence that the president demeans the service of our allied combat vets and then his policy director claims the VA nurse was killed because he was an assassin. Because this is who they are. Disgusting to the core of their beings.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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the bare minimum is defund ice, abolish it, ban any vendors that worked with ice from doing business w the federal government for five years, and sanctions + prosecutions for anyone employed by ice
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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ICE appear to have murdered another person in Minneapolis; after half a dozen regime thugs jumped and beat a man who tried to defend himself they shot him, an agent can be seen shooting him after his body laid motionless on the sidewalk. #3E #GoodvsEvil
January 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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What the actual fuck
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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“Adding our voices to millions of others across the US, leaders of the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist Movements of Judaism condemn, in the strongest terms, the violence with which the Department of Homeland Security is enforcing American immigration law.”
www.ccarnet.org/jewish-cross...
Jewish Cross-Denominational Statement Against Violent Immigration Enforcement - Central Conference of American Rabbis
January 21, 2026 ואהבתם את-הגר כי-גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Adding our voices to millions of others across the United St...
www.ccarnet.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM