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adamisacson.com
They killed >127 people aboard boats, in 33 attacks, in 5 months.

And the amount of cocaine found at the border keeps _increasing_.

All they have to show for it is a collection of gruesome videos.

From CBP: www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...
Record drug seizures in January Fentanyl seizures: 816 pounds (98% seized along the Southwest border). Methamphetamine seizures: 12,241 pounds (93% seized along the Southwest border, 97% by OFO). Cocaine seizures: 5,386 pounds (40% increase from last month; 43% seized along the Southwest border). Marijuana seizures: 17,639 pounds (22% increase from last month; 89% conducted by OFO).
February 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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tylermcbrien.com
Martinez ends her testimony with this:

"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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tinavasquez.bsky.social
As more reporting emerges about the Dilley uprising led by children, I think reporters must clarify what family detention is. These are jails where children and their parents are detained together, and there is a long history of protests at these facilities because of horrendous conditions inside.
January 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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adamisacson.com
"Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities… Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds."

If the existing beds remain, that would be space to detain 150,000 humans.

bloom.bg/4qd7Mpn
ICE Pivots To Warehouses Warehouses identified by ICE to convert into immigration detention facilities Source: Bloomberg reporting Note: The 23 sites depicted are part of the agency's warehouse plans. Sites could be changed or removed.
January 29, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
we are now focusing on those with CRIMINAL records says the administration that won’t stop lying about who had a criminal record or not and always defines someone being here in a way they don’t like as automatically having a criminal record
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7d
tom homan’s little speech means nothing has changed unless things change on the ground and even then, I can’t think of a person there who I’ve spoken to who isn’t in a “we’re not falling for it” mindset. Even a slight pause on this or that thing can be ramped up five seconds after Dems and media…
January 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
This bill passed both chambers in Kansas today —>
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d
1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature.

It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money.

The House is voting on it today.
Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms
The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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haleaziz.bsky.social
Federal court judge on the ICE operation targeting refugees:

"Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefully—and importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants..."
January 29, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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ceej.online
me? oh yeah, fine. I'm doing great. just sort of left my body for a second to observe the current moment and my place in it from a high angle, sort of like what I imagine you'd see from a spy satellite? but one that can look through time? but yeah, I'll have that report done by the end of the day
January 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
NEW: The Definitive ICE Air FAQ

ICE’s abuses aren’t just happening on the streets and in the camps -- they are happening in the air. Here I answer your questions on what we know, what we don’t, and what you can do to stop these dangerous flights. 1/

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/what-is-ice-...
What is ICE Air?
Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
There's been a lot of discussion about the echoes of the civil rights movement in the protests today, with people obviously drawing comparisons between the strategies, tactics and coalitions that were vital then and are still vital now.

But this post has me thinking about a different echo ...
rmayemsinger.bsky.social Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 10d
I suspect right now Stephen Miller and the other nazis are meeting to discuss how a place not as “nice" or "peaceful” as Minnesota will provide better oxygen for their lies and goals of martial law.
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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jeffrueter.bsky.social
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
There is no "immigration problem"

There is no migrant problem

There is no problem with illegals

There is no border crisis

Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin
Picture of the a plaque at the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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irap.bsky.social
BREAKING: ICE is going door to door in Minnesota detaining refugees without explanation, probable cause, or due process.

Last night, IRAP, Berger Montague, @chrclla.bsky.social, @advhumanrights.bsky.social sued to stop ICE’s campaign of terror and intimidation.
refugeerights.org/news-resourc...
Purple graphic with the following text - Breaking News: Refugees Sue Trump Administration to Stop ICE Terror Campaign. Minnesota Refugees Face Unlawful Arrest, Detention, and Interrogation. Right side of graphic has logos of the International Refugee Assistance Project, The Advocates for Human Rights, Berger Montague, and the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
January 24, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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rparloff.bsky.social
Here’s the 1/15 ruling releasing Liberian immigrant Garrison Gibson (no criminal record). ICE had entered his home with battering ram & only an administrative warrant. 4th Am violation is one of 2 grounds for release. ...
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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 24, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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jasonkirell.bsky.social
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is basically how I view the subject. Like, no duh, the United States has done some incredibly awful stuff over the centuries. But we also have a very powerful strand of humanitarianism, especially in the post World War II era, and I will damn well lean into that part of our national identity.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14d
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
karnythia.bsky.social Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 14d
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
May 12, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y) Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S. Arrow) district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.23 ICE immigration officers should consider all available enforcement mechanisms, including the use of a Form 1-205 to arrest an alien in their place of residence, to achieve the requirements of E.O. 14159 in accordance with applicable law and policies. This guidance informs the use of Forms 1-205 and provides to ICE law enforcement personnel a reminder of the general limitations and exceptions that may apply when effectuating arrests in an alien's residence. General Guidelines ICE law enforcement officers receive extensive training on the legal and procedural requirements for making administrative and criminal arrests. ICE personnel must remain cognizant of all existing laws and policies pertaining to arrests when carrying out civil immigration enforcement actions. Prior to entering a residence to conduct an administrative immigration arrest pursuant to Form I-205, officers and agents must ensure the Form 1-205 is properly completed and is supported by a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the BIA, a U.S. district court, or a magistrate judge. This is essential because that order establishes probable cause. Officers and agents must also have reason to believe that the subject alien resides at and is currently located in the address where the Form I-205 is to be served.
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’
The principal deputy director of the CDC said he would not view the loss of the United States' measles elimination status as a significant event.
www.statnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The President of the United States today called an entire ethnic group “very low IQ people.”

This occurred as ICE in Minneapolis continues to arrest lawfully present Somalis and other refugees and fly them to Texas detention centers to be interrogated by government officials.
Operation PARRIS Department of Homeland Security 'reexamining' their refugee status By FREDERICK MELO | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press PUBLISHED: January 18, 2026 at 5:05 AM CST Getting your Trinity Audio player ready.... On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman's office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away by masked federal agents. "They were getting ready for work, and all of a sudden their house was surrounded by men with drawn guns saying, 'Oh, it's OK. It's just some paperwork that needs to be fixed. Just open the door," said Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota. The mother did as she was told, and her 20-year-old son was immediately removed from the home, the latest in a growing number of planned detentions involving recent immigrants with lawful refugee status who have applied for but not yet received their permanent residency, otherwise known as their Green Cards. Before long, Graupman said a distraught Sudanese family arrived at the International Institute with a similar story - their son was gone.
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 AM