Dr. Kelly Plante
@drkellyplante.bsky.social
PhD in #18C #literature, periodicals, history of the press, obituaries, life writing and “death writing.” Lecturer, University of Michigan, Dearborn. Editor, https://bsky.app/profile/abojournal.bsky.social.
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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I want to scream because you know what ICE/DHS aren’t doing? Enforcing law. They’re accountable to nothing, breaking court orders, ignoring laws/rights in place to prevent the things they do. The more they break the letter of the law, the more you’ll be hard pressed to convince others to follow it.
To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I want to scream because you know what ICE/DHS aren’t doing? Enforcing law. They’re accountable to nothing, breaking court orders, ignoring laws/rights in place to prevent the things they do. The more they break the letter of the law, the more you’ll be hard pressed to convince others to follow it.
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I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
If only they had had time for the "don't kidnap 5-year-olds and send them to detention centers 1000 miles away from their families" training module
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
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How it started: 8th circuit removed restrictions on ICE using pepper spray etc. against peaceful protestors
How it’s going: 3 goons hold a man down, another pepper sprays him in the face— as Bovino uses green chemical gas for no reason with kids around
How it’s going: 3 goons hold a man down, another pepper sprays him in the face— as Bovino uses green chemical gas for no reason with kids around
January 22, 2026 at 5:09 AM
How it started: 8th circuit removed restrictions on ICE using pepper spray etc. against peaceful protestors
How it’s going: 3 goons hold a man down, another pepper sprays him in the face— as Bovino uses green chemical gas for no reason with kids around
How it’s going: 3 goons hold a man down, another pepper sprays him in the face— as Bovino uses green chemical gas for no reason with kids around
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Look, I’m not the world’s best pollster, but if you can’t stand up against kidnapping children to use as bait, you don’t belong in professional politics.
If you don’t understand the rage, if you tell people to do anything other than protect their children, you don’t deserve public office.
If you don’t understand the rage, if you tell people to do anything other than protect their children, you don’t deserve public office.
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
www.mprnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Look, I’m not the world’s best pollster, but if you can’t stand up against kidnapping children to use as bait, you don’t belong in professional politics.
If you don’t understand the rage, if you tell people to do anything other than protect their children, you don’t deserve public office.
If you don’t understand the rage, if you tell people to do anything other than protect their children, you don’t deserve public office.
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
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His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Question. If Joe Biden called Greenland, “Iceland” four times…. What would the right be saying?
January 21, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Question. If Joe Biden called Greenland, “Iceland” four times…. What would the right be saying?
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Yeah, well we don’t have grandpa’s car keys. Eight GOP members of Congress do.
Feel like this is the moment Europe is experiencing right now.
January 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Yeah, well we don’t have grandpa’s car keys. Eight GOP members of Congress do.
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“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
January 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
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It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
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Madeline Summerville: “73.6% of people currently in ICE detention have NO criminal record, according to CATO.”
January 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Madeline Summerville: “73.6% of people currently in ICE detention have NO criminal record, according to CATO.”
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I felt chills going down my spine when I saw this.
My ancestors fled brown shirts and Nazis and progroms and genocide to come to the United States. And this is where we are at.
My ancestors fled brown shirts and Nazis and progroms and genocide to come to the United States. And this is where we are at.
January 17, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I felt chills going down my spine when I saw this.
My ancestors fled brown shirts and Nazis and progroms and genocide to come to the United States. And this is where we are at.
My ancestors fled brown shirts and Nazis and progroms and genocide to come to the United States. And this is where we are at.
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE."
See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
Michigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar Introduces Bill to Abolish ICE
Detroit area Congressman Shri Thanedar has introduced legislation in Congress that would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The proposal, called the ‘Abolish ICE Act’, would dismantle t...
themetrodetroitnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE."
See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
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Hey, so, OB-GYN shortages are bad for women.
This is exactly what happens when you put moronic, anti-science men in charge of women’s health.
This is exactly what happens when you put moronic, anti-science men in charge of women’s health.
Dr Oz: "Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties, so they're doing something pretty cool. They're actually having robots do ultrasounds on these pregnant moms."
January 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Hey, so, OB-GYN shortages are bad for women.
This is exactly what happens when you put moronic, anti-science men in charge of women’s health.
This is exactly what happens when you put moronic, anti-science men in charge of women’s health.
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ICE officer David Courvelle, 56, entered a guilty plea to charges of repeatedly sexually abusing a prisoner at a Louisiana ICE detention camp. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Ex-ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing immigrant in custody
Louisiana detention officer admits to sexual relationship with detainee as reports of abuse and neglect surge inside facilities across US
www.the-independent.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 AM
ICE officer David Courvelle, 56, entered a guilty plea to charges of repeatedly sexually abusing a prisoner at a Louisiana ICE detention camp. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Good’s 6-year-old will live the rest of his life not only with the trauma of his mother being murdered but also the trauma of right-wing media attacking his mother and school, causing it to go online after. sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
School of Renee Good’s son targeted by right-wing attacks
Threats to Southside Family Charter School in Minneapolis came after New York Post articles and a series of social media posts from right-wing commentators.
sahanjournal.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Good’s 6-year-old will live the rest of his life not only with the trauma of his mother being murdered but also the trauma of right-wing media attacking his mother and school, causing it to go online after. sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
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ICE are paid agitators.
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
ICE are paid agitators.
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Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.