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Irish. Oregonian. Feral Mama. Comms Professional. Community Builder. Dreamer.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...
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Choctaw Nation Buys Former Big Lots Warehouse, Closing Off Oklahoma ICE Detention Site
The sale is the second time in months that a large Oklahoma warehouse pursued by ICE for detention use has instead gone to another buyer.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say
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Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say
Tribal leaders say Indigenous people have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or names.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews
AG Rayfield announces investigation into shooting involving federal agents 
in Portland“We have been clear about our concerns with excessive use of force by federal agents in Portland and nationally. We have also been clear about our intent to investigate circumstances involving federal agents to ensure they are accountable to acting within the scope of their official duties. Today’s incident only heightens the need for transparency and accountability. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure that the rights and security of Oregonians are protected.”The Oregon DOJ is opening a formal investigation into an incident in Portland in which two people were shot and injured during an encounter with federal agents. The investigation will look into whether any federal officer acted outside the scope of their lawful authority and will include witness interviews, video evidence, and other relevant materials. If evidence of criminal conduct is found, cases may be referred to the Multnomah County District Attorney for potential prosecution.
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Estefano @estefano1.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The unarmed man who ran towards the shooter, and grabbed his rifle was a Lebanese Muslim and an immigrant to Australia. As Muslims are so often demonized, worth mentioning that it was a Muslim who rushed to save Jewish lives on Bondi Beach.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Feral Mama @fiona-mnacill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
So appalling. So devastating. Effing idiots. We had the leverage. And this just days after a demonstrable shift by voters. How quickly hope is snuffed out in these times. But to have it done by our own. #resignschumer #outsthemall
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Feral Mama @fiona-mnacill.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Let’s GROOOOOOOVE, NYC! A different future is possible! Please light our way! #mamdani #mamas4mamdani
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/10/2025
In Opinion “The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.
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Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires
As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
So many metaphors, so little time.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 08/10/2025
MAGA: We are a CHRISTIAN nation & based on the BIBLE—which is GREATER than the Constitution. Me: "Do not mistreat foreigners living in your country. Treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love your-selves. I am your Lord God." MAGA: No No Not that part of the Bible.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 01/10/2025
The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They are literally canceling culture
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Feral Mama @fiona-mnacill.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Senator Karina Villa we see you and support you and your heroism in the face of this repugnant ploy to remove our friends and neighbors from our communities! Thank you!!!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This truth bears repeating, again and again. theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...
Headline from The Intercept: "Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless -- ​ Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say." September 3 2025. By Nick Turse
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2025
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
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Trump Must Resign Now
Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will.
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🇱🇹 4fouls @4fouls.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
💔🇺🇦 Today, Kyiv said goodbye to Nadiia Halych and her little daughter Anhelina. They were killed by a Russian attack on Kyiv on August 28.
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
is there any particular reason why they couldn't cut out the chatbot middleman and simply have the human monitors chat with the human users
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/08/2025
Pope Leo XIV also called for the release of hostages taken by Hamas in southern Israel — 50 of them remain in Gaza — and for both sides and international powers to end the war “which has caused so much terror, destruction and death.” to.pbs.org/4oRDCIZ
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Pope demands end to 'collective punishment' and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
History's first American pope also called for the release of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas in southern Israel, and for both sides and international players to end the war.
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Daily Times Press @dailytimespress.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
NY Assemblyman and Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Confronts Border Czar Tom Homan Over Threats to Flood NYC with ICE Agents and Plans for Detentions at Guantanamo Bay, an Infamous Military Black Site That Has A Long History Of Human Rights Violations insane
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Outside Dupont north metro
Sandwich man posters next to Dupont circle metro stop
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A tweet from pervocracy noting difficulty in maintaining mental health as many coping strategies are based in the idea your anxiety is unwarranted and right now needs extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have fascism AND dead plants
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Unhoused people are just the most accessible target. It won’t stop there.
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 15/08/2025
A federal judge in Maryland has struck down the U.S. Education Department’s attempts to do away with diversity, equity and inclusion practices in schools, reports Shauneen Miranda.
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Trump’s DEI ban in K-12 schools, higher ed ruled ‘unlawful’ by federal judge • West Virginia Watch
A federal judge has struck down the U.S. Education Department’s attempts to do away with DEI practices in schools.
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Politico @politico.com · 04/08/2025
‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory.
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‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory
The progressive Massachusetts senator appeared with the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/08/2025
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...
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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 05/08/2025
Oh????
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Feral Mama @fiona-mnacill.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This woman is heroic!
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
BREAKING: Texas DEMs are FIGHTING!!!💪 They just fled the state to prevent Republicans from having a quorum. They risk jail and a $500 daily fine blocking Texas from gerrymandering seats. If there's a GoFundMe for these DEMs, let's get it out there to support their efforts!!!! PASS IT ON!🙏
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God @thegodshow.com · 02/08/2025
RECAP OF THIS WEEK: 1. Trump said Epstein “stole” 14-year-old Virginia Guiffre from him. 2. Trump gave convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell immunity and moved her to a luxury prison. 3. Major news outlets confirm the FBI employed 1,000 agents to scour 100,000 documents to redact Trump.
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I am grieving the loss of PBS like I’ve lost a beloved family member
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/07/2025
A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I am not OK today. You might not be OK today. Both of these things are fine. Both of these things are natural. but we must find a way to get OK again. Because whether we like it or not, much is going to be asked of us in the coming days, months, and years. So be not OK. Rest. Recover. Fight.
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