Denise Billings
@denisebillings.bsky.social
Author - Road Trip: A Memoir https://a.co/d/gWqszaC and A Gathering of Voices: Stories from the Longwood Writers Workshop https://a.co/d/g47cIvZ
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These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South
More than 30 people have died across three Southern states in connection with last week’s storm, and thousands remain without power.
nyti.ms
February 2, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
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LA doesn’t miss 🔥
Freeway overpass just now (405)
Freeway overpass just now (405)
January 25, 2026 at 12:03 AM
LA doesn’t miss 🔥
Freeway overpass just now (405)
Freeway overpass just now (405)
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
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By standing up to President Trump, the 72-year-old Fed chair, Jay Powell, has “put to shame the heads of law firms, universities, and public companies who have caved to the White House,” @JohnCassidy writes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VgYCpA
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Jay Powell, the Prepster Banker Who Is Standing Up to Trump
The seventy-two-year-old Fed chairman put to shame the heads of law firms, universities, and public companies who have caved to the White House.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM
By standing up to President Trump, the 72-year-old Fed chair, Jay Powell, has “put to shame the heads of law firms, universities, and public companies who have caved to the White House,” @JohnCassidy writes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VgYCpA
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VgYCpA
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
@Clothing Manufacturers, putting labels on the lower side seam of tops/blouses does not make them less scratchy and irritating.
Do better. Make them easily removable, where I don’t end up ripping a hole in my garment, or make them of softer material and threads where they don’t rub my skin raw.
Do better. Make them easily removable, where I don’t end up ripping a hole in my garment, or make them of softer material and threads where they don’t rub my skin raw.
January 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
@Clothing Manufacturers, putting labels on the lower side seam of tops/blouses does not make them less scratchy and irritating.
Do better. Make them easily removable, where I don’t end up ripping a hole in my garment, or make them of softer material and threads where they don’t rub my skin raw.
Do better. Make them easily removable, where I don’t end up ripping a hole in my garment, or make them of softer material and threads where they don’t rub my skin raw.
My forever Vice President. The real story
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My forever Vice President. The real story
We got our Covid and flu shots today. Hoo Raa!
September 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We got our Covid and flu shots today. Hoo Raa!
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!
August 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!
Dr. Tracey Sylvester is a gem.
August 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dr. Tracey Sylvester is a gem.
I couldn’t bear to dismantle Queen Sista so I watched some You Tube videos, went to the craft store and framed her. @Tucocoo
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I couldn’t bear to dismantle Queen Sista so I watched some You Tube videos, went to the craft store and framed her. @Tucocoo
Queen Sista was hard. I worked on her for weeks. Sometimes all I could do was walk by and admire what little progress I’d made. She was worth the effort. #tucocoo puzzles
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Queen Sista was hard. I worked on her for weeks. Sometimes all I could do was walk by and admire what little progress I’d made. She was worth the effort. #tucocoo puzzles
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This is the consequences when we chose the wrong
direction.
direction.
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is the consequences when we chose the wrong
direction.
direction.
