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pattyboom.bsky.social
@pattyboom.bsky.social
Former podcaster. Comics lover.
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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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The camo isn't working, I can still v clearly see him
February 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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This is the kind of gutter racist shit that you'd only see reposted by the worst white supremacists 10 years ago. Nobody with any meaningful power would have this associated with them. In 2026 the POTUS posts it. That's where we are. That said, it smells of desperation.
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Black Canary.

#oax
February 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Finest Work song. Or maybe Fall On Me.
Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?
February 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
www.mprnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Three years ago, a brand-name company detonated a chemical bomb in a town.

It became the world’s biggest political story.

Politicians got famous promising help.

Media monetized clicks.

Lawyers got rich.

Meanwhile, many victims got sick & got no money.

Welcome to America.
The Derailment That Never Ended
Three years after the East Palestine disaster, everybody’s gotten paid — except the victims.
www.levernews.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I am rewatching Titans from the old DC Universe app. I liked the show when it was on and I still do. 🤷‍♂️
February 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.
ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers

www.propublica.org/article/alex...
February 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.

If not, why not?
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.

Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Hmm.
January 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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For Liam.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Another way to think of ICE right now is as the institutionalization of the Kyle Rittenhouse model of vigilantism under the state's authority.

Escalation and aggressive violence is clearly intentional.

But it's also cooked into the sociological model of how this force has been mobilized.

🧵
January 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Federal agents shoot person in Minnesota, governor says
Minneapolis officials said they are investigating.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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nine years old
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Marching in support of the MSP general strike this afternoon with my union, the AAUP/AFT.

ICE is the American Gestapo. It is evil. The people who work for it are evil.

I am personally committed to not just defunding and ending ICE but for seeing to it that all of its "officers" face […]
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January 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM