Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026DHS is using explosives on people’s homes??? “Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u... 1241418694
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize. 403134282499
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy 212397485
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersSarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026“I’ve read stories of folks rounded up who were seeking asylum with no order to leave the country, no criminal record, and consistently check in with authorities. Literally no reason to be rounded up. Surely we aren’t helping do that?” I have some bad news for this Palantir employee. 042
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersSarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Having spent some time recently in an ICU -- these are just the most extraordinary people. Staggeringly committed. Thank you for your service. 091
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersLord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 26/01/2026more democrats should be pointing out that "illegal immigration" is not even a crime 551349235
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersLA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935 5330612664
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Let me get off here before I lose my Black southern lady training & completely get out of character. 090
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I know these White folks saying “you don’t know what it feels like to have your community terrorized” are not talking to ME. I’m from Georgia & Alabama. My mama remembered a lynching in 1943 a couple counties over from her. There’s a book about it: Fire in the Canebrake. Y’all need to quit. 2276
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I know you’re not talking to anybody but other White folks. I know you are not talking to Black & Indigenous folks. I know that. 030
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 26/01/2026What, is he fled? 13712138
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"I will have my vengence, in this life or the next" --Kristi Noem's puppy. 351341140
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersSandra 🗽is abolish ICE! @gobuxgal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling? #WorldCup ⚽️sfstandard.comGiants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBPThe South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon. 46091804176
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on. 4844131508
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror. 11448881111
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersJavachik @handle.invalid · 27/01/2026Even removing Miller is just the beginning. 381
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I don’t want to be the skunk at the garden party. I truly hope things will calm down in Minneapolis, but remember that White supremacist brutality doesn’t admit defeat easily: They are already in other cities. 1131
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026I am trying so hard not to yell at people but every day is a sojourn through reminders that they were fine as long as it wasn't them 182
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026White folks online saying “how can I explain this to my children?” What do you think Black folks have been explaining to their children—for centuries? Do you know how y’all sound? 18320
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Do y’all even see Black folks? Or do you just like our music & the latest TikTok dances? Jesus Christ. 040
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Nearly every Black person online is trying to keep from flipping tables over the incredulity of White folks over what police forces can do—over White folks saying “this is just like the Nazis” when Nazis used southern Jim Crow as their model. I am infuriated. Where the **** have y’all been? 2355
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne Jefferskristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Demand the name of the shooter. 441184333
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports 566108752517
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE. 260236445805
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Download PDF Reading List from Association of Black Women Historians ABWH - via Prof. Stephanie Y. Evans #History #CiteASisterSunday #BlackSky #Blackademics 🌱 abwh.org/booklistabwh.orgAssociation of Black Women HistoriansBlack Women Making History 01612
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026It's no coincidence that on the same day we learned there are *4,000* ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis rather than the 3,000 we were told, Trump tells Walz he might be willing to reduce the 4,000 slightly. He's giving up nothing. And Bovino getting moved out of state is just an "optics" decision. 541269401
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.aclu.orgImmigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane ConditionsDetained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse. 531408821
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I was thinking today about how the Feds organizing out at fort snelling, a place of horror historically, a place separated from the city, made it easier to stay united and focused outward on the occupying enemy. 227939
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersKim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...pressherald.comICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agentsCommunity members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland. 15846172484
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersMother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026A Republican attorney in Minneapolis who gave legal counsel to the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race today, because “national Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota.”motherjones.comLawyer for Jonathan Ross quits Minnesota's governor race and denounced ICEChris Madel said that national republicans have made it "nearly impossible" to win a statewide election. 1934478
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/01/2026’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes 547859
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 26/01/2026It would be unwise to explain the extrajudicial killings by ICE as the result of untrained or rogue agents. This is a massive, heavily armed paramilitary type force loyal to the president, which is carying out the regime's stated policies. 33314
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”jewishcurrents.orgAlex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His UnionBorder Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change. 13763313
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Running list of athletes who have spoken out or taken action amid the Trump-Vance administration spending billions of US tax dollars on masked agents who have racially profiled, beaten, and kidnapped thousands of people — and murdered Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti: 41692143
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne Jefferssouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation. 510121182241
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersRebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"We've never been a 'show your papers' country." *stares in African American history* #Blackademics #EduSky 014838
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersDr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 27/01/2026“Long before ‘CRT’ became the favored rhetorical weapon used to silence objective critiques […] Derrick Bell was telling a quieter, sharper story: progress arrives, recedes, and leaves a bill someone else must pay.” Read the full story at www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/26/d... 138531
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersJennifer 🦋 (She/Her) @jenspinsvinyl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026You are so welcome! I felt so seen when reading your book! I wish you so much success and I can’t wait to read more of your work! 111
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you 01429353
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersBe The Change @mallorybytes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026they are running concentration camps, I am being told it's gonna get so much worse because the entire chain of command is raving psychopaths 0413
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 26/01/2026Dems are gonna miss last week when they could've grabbed for "abolish ice" sorry now it is "imprison ice" keep up 161547297
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers404 Media @404media.co · 25/01/2026And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.404media.coICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was SuedThe government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to." 811485654
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I’ve been physically exhausted & didn’t know why. Today, the wave of crushing despair hit & I realized the last time I felt this way was in the days following my mama’s passing. This is grief. I can’t watch the news for a while, so I’m immersing myself in Toni Morrison’s new book of lectures. 3300
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Not only is authoritarianism not new, it is still in our living memory. Southern racial apartheid is more recent than the Nazis, and more relevant to understanding our current politics. As American politics have nationalized, the South anchors one of the two parties and exported its politics 5/x 2538123
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026These amendments were efforts to end Southern authoritarianism and had some initial success under Reconstruction, but were subsequently abandoned after Hayes made a deal with the devil to end Reconstruction in 1876. The result was Jim Crow, which lasted until the 1960s! 4/x 435638
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The end result of this compromise was the Constitutional failure in 1860--the Civil War. After the Civil War, which killed more Americans than all other wars combined, the Constitution needed to be remade. This effort culminated in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. 3/x 132233
Reposted by Honorée Fanonne JeffersJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The South has been an authoritarian enclave for most of American history. Madison and Hamilton, despite very different ideological outlooks knew that 1.) slavery could stop the constitution from being ratified, and 2.) the "compromise" over slavery made the Constitution unstable. 2/x 141573