Mark Bouffard
@mkbouf.bsky.social
mystery…discovery…love over hate, hope over fear, generosity over greed, unity over division, people over profits…love that dirty water RESIST PERSIST
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The point a lot of people are missing: "The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life."
Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country
With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.
truthout.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The point a lot of people are missing: "The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life."
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Late to the game but he got there.
Pressure works, people. Keep calling your reps and senators. Not another dime for these goons.
Pressure works, people. Keep calling your reps and senators. Not another dime for these goons.
Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.
Scoop: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries opposes bill funding DHS and ICE
Democrats are lining up against the bill.
www.axios.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Late to the game but he got there.
Pressure works, people. Keep calling your reps and senators. Not another dime for these goons.
Pressure works, people. Keep calling your reps and senators. Not another dime for these goons.
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The Trump administration has ordered work stoppages and layoffs and has tried cutting off funding to effectively dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
1 year into Trump's new term, an agency that protects your finances is 'hanging by a thread'
The Trump administration has ordered work stoppages and layoffs and has tried cutting off funding to effectively dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
n.pr
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The Trump administration has ordered work stoppages and layoffs and has tried cutting off funding to effectively dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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"Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers to lure people out of their homes.'"
www.koin.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 PM
"Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers to lure people out of their homes.'"
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.
January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.
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It could happen to ANYONE. And absolutely EVERYONE should be outraged by the abuse and cruelty we’re watching play out in our names. Our tax dollars are funding this.
Citizens 👇🏽
Citizens 👇🏽
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
It could happen to ANYONE. And absolutely EVERYONE should be outraged by the abuse and cruelty we’re watching play out in our names. Our tax dollars are funding this.
Citizens 👇🏽
Citizens 👇🏽
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The videos people are taking of ICE agents torturing human beings are breaking through.
And that is why they want us to be afraid to record them.
We cannot look away.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
And that is why they want us to be afraid to record them.
We cannot look away.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The videos people are taking of ICE agents torturing human beings are breaking through.
And that is why they want us to be afraid to record them.
We cannot look away.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
And that is why they want us to be afraid to record them.
We cannot look away.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights.
I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.
I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights.
I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.
I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.
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Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.
📸: Jerry Holt
📸: Jerry Holt
January 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.
📸: Jerry Holt
📸: Jerry Holt
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It was inevitable that antisemitic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon would become a Hitler apologist, insisting that the Holocaust was "probably not as bad as we've been told" and that Hitler probably "didn't even know some of the things that were going on."
January 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
It was inevitable that antisemitic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon would become a Hitler apologist, insisting that the Holocaust was "probably not as bad as we've been told" and that Hitler probably "didn't even know some of the things that were going on."
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Democratic voters have a decision to make in every primary, both in the midterms and in 2028.
Folks need to “purity test” candidates. Period.
Look at what policies candidates stand for and look at their donors.
This moment is not for politicians without a spine.
Folks need to “purity test” candidates. Period.
Look at what policies candidates stand for and look at their donors.
This moment is not for politicians without a spine.
January 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Democratic voters have a decision to make in every primary, both in the midterms and in 2028.
Folks need to “purity test” candidates. Period.
Look at what policies candidates stand for and look at their donors.
This moment is not for politicians without a spine.
Folks need to “purity test” candidates. Period.
Look at what policies candidates stand for and look at their donors.
This moment is not for politicians without a spine.
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It's both. Powell's term as chair is up soon. Trump will replace him, with Powell presumably remaining as a governor. But he wants to humiliate Powell for defying him & gain total control of the Fed. Trump is power-hungry so he can exact retribution & he pursues revenge to show how powerful he is.
The Powell witch-hunt is not about revenge. It’s not about monetary policy. It’s about power. As is ICE. As is Venezuela. As is the fact that he does not intend to give up power in 2028.
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
It's both. Powell's term as chair is up soon. Trump will replace him, with Powell presumably remaining as a governor. But he wants to humiliate Powell for defying him & gain total control of the Fed. Trump is power-hungry so he can exact retribution & he pursues revenge to show how powerful he is.
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Again, I haven't seen an incident in which an agent was identified and attacked independent of an enforcement action. A lot of the assaults DHS talks about occur at detention facilities; the other during arrests and stops.
Put more simply: There's no evidence that masking is needed to protect them.
Put more simply: There's no evidence that masking is needed to protect them.
Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Again, I haven't seen an incident in which an agent was identified and attacked independent of an enforcement action. A lot of the assaults DHS talks about occur at detention facilities; the other during arrests and stops.
Put more simply: There's no evidence that masking is needed to protect them.
Put more simply: There's no evidence that masking is needed to protect them.
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Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
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Epstein files.
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Epstein files.
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12 January 1943 | An SS doctor carried out a selection in the prisoner hospital in Block 28, after which 35 prisoners were killed by intracardiac injections of phenol.
Learn about criminal medicine in Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/medicine-in-auschwitz
Learn about criminal medicine in Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/medicine-in-auschwitz
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
12 January 1943 | An SS doctor carried out a selection in the prisoner hospital in Block 28, after which 35 prisoners were killed by intracardiac injections of phenol.
Learn about criminal medicine in Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/medicine-in-auschwitz
Learn about criminal medicine in Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/medicine-in-auschwitz
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Trump, who described himself as “the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” is echoing the narratives of Jim Crow segregationists when they opposed civil rights legislation. He is echoing great replacement theorists who push this conspiracy about antiracist laws harming White people.
January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Trump, who described himself as “the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” is echoing the narratives of Jim Crow segregationists when they opposed civil rights legislation. He is echoing great replacement theorists who push this conspiracy about antiracist laws harming White people.
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
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Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next?
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next?
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
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President Donald Trump said he “should have” ordered the National Guard to seize ballot boxes during the 2020 election, raising fears he will actually do so in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump: ‘I should have’ seized ballots in 2020 election
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
President Donald Trump said he “should have” ordered the National Guard to seize ballot boxes during the 2020 election, raising fears he will actually do so in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
At least 800 protesters lining rte 9 in Poughkeepsie, NY this afternoon. As always, pics don’t do it justice. Most dressed in black, and understandably, a much more somber mood than previous protests as a woman is dead and ICE has begun going door to door in MN.
#resist #abolishice #Poughkeepsie
#resist #abolishice #Poughkeepsie
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
At least 800 protesters lining rte 9 in Poughkeepsie, NY this afternoon. As always, pics don’t do it justice. Most dressed in black, and understandably, a much more somber mood than previous protests as a woman is dead and ICE has begun going door to door in MN.
#resist #abolishice #Poughkeepsie
#resist #abolishice #Poughkeepsie
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ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊
January 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊
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