I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Since they didn't criminally charge Senator @padilla.senate.gov it's clear his arrest was all for show, but Trump underestimated the fire it would light

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BREAKING: Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israeli troops shot and killed at least 20 hungry Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others while they waited for food at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site.

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Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.

"800 miles away in Albuquerque, New Mexico...

Trump's wave of federal job cuts arrived on SIPI's campus without warning, wiping out nearly a ¼ of the staff...

cubicles were empty. People that I usually say good morning to, their offices were off, like, empty, lights off"

The bottom 60% of U.S. households earn $38K/year on average.

To afford a "minimal standard of living," they'd need $67K.

"Americans are working harder than ever, but the benefits of that hard work are not being distributed in a way that supports upward mobility.”

No person should be deported to face torture or disappeared and denied the ability to contact their families or lawyer.

Tell Congress to bring home all of the immigrants Trump deported to a prison in El Salvador.

“We’d give them hot food and a hot shower and often, this was the first time where they really felt safe in months"

U.S. Dept of Homeland Security now says these are “illegal activities” at the migrant shelter run by the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande

Reporting by
@krqe.com

Mike Davis was born on this day in 1946.

“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”

Seeing what happens >> telling people nothing interesting will happen so don’t try
www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

Despite a backlog of 3.7 million cases, the Trump administration fired 20 immigration judges, a federal workers' union says.

Two more measles cases in Lea County and now we've got an outbreak:

New reporting shows that despite the supposed unfreezing of federal grants, many Head Start centers still can't access funds, forcing them to close and leaving kids without preschool and health services and families (esp moms) without the care they need to work for pay.
www.salon.com/2025/02/06/e...

The Trump administration's actions caused chaos and thrust families, elders, and kids in New Mexico and across the country into uncertainty. It's cruel. Though he reversed course, for now, the future is still uncertain, and the cruelty is still there. www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

"The message is loud and clear: The war against poverty is over, and Americans struggling to get by are on their own." Read the statement from @lelaineb.bsky.social and GCPI Faculty Director Peter Edelman.

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