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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

They don't call him Nutlick for nothing.

January 29, 2026 at 6:44 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

the reason DHS officers wear masks is because it allows them to commit crimes with impunity. there is literally no legitimate reason for it.

January 29, 2026 at 4:36 AM

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Gabe Ortíz

@tusk81.bsky.social

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.

On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.

ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says

Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.

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January 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM

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Solomon

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www.cnn.com/videos/us/20...

‘They killed her little by little’: Parents speak out after daughter died in border patrol custody | CNN

CNN’s Rosa Flores speaks to the parents of the 8-year-old who died in the custody of US immigration authorities in Texas in May, 2023 after the family made repeated requests for medial care for the gi...

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January 27, 2026 at 11:08 PM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

Lies and Lawlessness

The Camps, the Executions, and the Future

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January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.

January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM

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Gillian Brockell

@gbrockell.bsky.social

Wanna know something? Right before migrants get loaded onto an ICE removal flight, they return their gray jumpsuit and get deported in whatever they were wearing when captured. Have heard from many migrants that the planes are freezing and some shackled people are in summer tank tops and flip flops.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Photo via Reuters)

Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow.

“A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis”

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January 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm.bsky.social

glad they're on this. i've noticed this and you probably have too. shattering drivers side car windows appears to be a top and preferred tactic for ICE. even when nothing is happening that makes it necessary or even on the most generous interpretation warranted. it's terror tactic.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 17d

Last July, ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts and former ICE insiders say was rarely used before President Trump began his second term:

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a…

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January 18, 2026 at 6:04 PM

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MoveOn

@moveon.org

They cut your health care to fund ICE.

Higher premiums. Fewer doctors. ➡️ More raids. More cruelty.

That’s the choice Trump and Republicans made.

January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Temu Himmler

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 19d

Everyone should trust a natty dresser like Bovino

Oops…I meant “Nazi”

January 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

The death of a man being held at an ICE camp in Texas in January may be investigated as a homicide after the local medical examiner found the preliminary cause was "asphyxia due to neck and chest compression."

A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards.

Medical examiner likely to classify death of ICE detainee as homicide, recorded call says

A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

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January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Nuclear defense is why we built a base on Greenland in 1951. We had this idea 75 years ago. The base has been there since then. You don’t have to invade a country where you already have everything. Invasion just destroys what you have and much else besides.

January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM

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NY Times Pitchbot

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Participation trophies have made American men into weak, feminized soy boys. Here’s why I’m glad that Maria Machado gave her peace prize to Donald Trump

January 16, 2026 at 10:25 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM

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Osita Nwanevu

@ositanwanevu.com

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM

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Senator Chris Van Hollen

@vanhollen.senate.gov

Arlit Maria Martinez’s only request was to visit her son, Kevin, who was dying of cancer. ICE refused and he died later that day.

This Administration has no decency nor sense of humanity.

We are in contact with Arlit's family and ICE must allow her to attend her son’s service.