David Vences
davidvences.bsky.social
David Vences
@davidvences.bsky.social
Charlotte NC | Structural Engineer| Charlotte FC fan
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We're excited to welcome @robertkirkman.bsky.social to the Heroes Reforged Podcast to discuss INVINCIBLE, BATTLE BEAT, the Energon Universe, and more!

youtu.be/FMTfuouxzEg
May 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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La Brigada De Oro, a vibrant Nashville SC’s supporters' group, is canceling game-day festivities today amid a wave of increased ICE activity.

"We're suffering. We're hurting a lot. We feel targeted."
Nashville’s Latin American supporters group halts game-day traditions amid ICE crackdown: "We feel targeted"
La Brigada De Oro, the heart of Nashville SC’s supporter culture, halts festivities as Latin American communities face heightened immigration enforcement and fear for their safety
www.sixonefivesoccer.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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congress should consider stopping the stupidest person who has ever lived from destroying the economy
Trump: "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It's very simple."
May 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Donald Trump is the most unpopular 100-day-mark president in modern American history.
May 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant and delivery worker, was detained while attempting to re-enter the U.S. after accidentally taking a wrong turn into Canada. He does not appear on any lists and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.
Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared
The Venezuelan man does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison *without due process* is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.
April 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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This latest case, in which lawyers argue their client had no proven links to MS-13, adds to the growing judicial and public scrutiny about the deportations to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.
Trump administration admits Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison by mistake
This latest case, in which lawyers argue their client had no proven links to MS-13, adds to the growing judicial and public scrutiny about the deportations to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Israeli warplanes on Tuesday bombarded cities up and down the Gaza Strip, after nearly 60 days of a ceasefire. The result was one of the deadliest single-day tolls of the entire war. nyti.ms/4hIDkiA
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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BREAKING: Promotion and relegation is coming to American soccer for the first time.

USL owners, whose new Division 1 league starts up as a rival to MLS in 2028, voted for it to begin in its debut season, sources tell @paultenorio.bsky.social.

Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/621...
March 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.

immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Few members have formal Washington experience. Many are software engineers. All seem to have a clear mandate: Shrink and disrupt the federal government. Here are 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk. nyti.ms/4hVe9uh
February 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉

It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm
February 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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February 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Exactly 😡
February 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”

Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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PULISIC ASSIST FOR A SANTI GIMÉNEZ GOAL! 🫡🇺🇸🇲🇽

CONCACAF MAGIC! 🪄
February 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM