This is why we are cutting our already minimal healthcare funding in this country

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(sound up)🧵1

DAY 14 JANUARY 2026

THESE INFURIATING TIMES

ICE FUNDING MUST BE STOPPED
I am disgusted to see this clip
He Brags with his high school diploma he makes $200K a year &it's true

A SCHOOL TEACHER start $40/50K
NURSE $60K+

OUTRAGE PAID & CRUEL INCOMPETENCE

For the millions of people horrified by ICE & CBP’s violence, we have a critical window to demand accountability.

Budget negotiations are underway, which means Congress has the power to rein in these out-of-control agencies.

What you need to know⤵️
https://bit.ly/3YGkBNF

Abolishing ICE is hitting record high approval (before Renee Nicole Good's murder), even as immigration remains Trump's highest polling issue.

If Trump loses support on his immigration policies, his overall approval rating will collapse.

“We are going to run the country until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” -Trump

Trump is signalling a protracted U.S. occupation.

The idea that the country will quickly transition to a non-Chavista government democratically is farcical.

President Trump’s claim that Maduro has been captured and removed from Venezuela is seemingly being confirmed by Venezuela’s VP Delcy Rodríguez, who stated that she doesn't know where the President is and demands proof that he us alive:

elpais.com/internaciona...

Mayor Mamdani’s video released yesterday is a masterclass in political communication:

1) He listens more than he speaks

2) It highlights the needs of all boroughs, including Staten Island, which overwhelmingly voted against him

3) He shows seemingly genuine emotion

In his first two vetoes, Trump is saying that if your representative pushes for Epstein Transparency, or if your Tribe opposes an immigrant concentration camp, you will be denied water and control over your land.

@helen-dempster.bsky.social @cgdev.org, I recently used your great work on the remittance tax for a substack article about remittances in 2025: open.substack.com/pub/crossing...

Remittances were supposed to drop in 2025. Instead, for many countries in Latin America, they boomed.

I wrote about why this happened on this week's Crossing Points: open.substack.com/pub/crossing...

#immigration #migration #remittances

From the 60 Minutes CECOT segment: Juan Pappier of Human Rights Watch, "ICE's own records say that only 3% [of those sent to CECOT] were sentenced for a violent or potentially violent crime"

This is the HRW report they reference: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably

I recently learned that New York has a history with electing socialist immigrants that is over 100 year old. Last time, it didn't go so well.