Reposted by Rick McAlexanderThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/01/2026ICE agents in Minnesota have detained at least four children from the same school district this month, including a 5-year-old boy. School officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait” to lure his father out of the house.washingtonpost.comICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-oldColumbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.” A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained. 31132101
Reposted by Rick McAlexanderMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home." 698154258481
Reposted by Rick McAlexanderMother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/01/2026The details are horrific. “He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”motherjones.comICE's tear gas sent a 6-month-old to the hospital, the latest in an alarming patternFederal agents' use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools. 171008444
Reposted by Rick McAlexanderDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you. 297176878281
Rick McAlexander @rickmcalexander.bsky.social · 19/10/2023My paper with Rob Williams and Mike Rubin linking Iraq and Afghanistan war casualties to right-wing radicalization in the US using parler data is available online, open access, at the APSR! cup.org/45CE7LVcup.orgThey’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicaliz...They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home 050
Reposted by Rick McAlexanderNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 12/10/2023“Al-Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip’s largest medical complex, has enough fuel to power its backup generators for another four days at most, its director said on Wednesday. ‘If electricity stops, our hospitals will become nothing but mass graves,’ the director, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salima, said.”nytimes.comRescuers in Gaza Struggle With Dwindling Fuel and Lack of EquipmentParamedics said they would need bulldozers, which they don’t have, to pull more people from buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes amid power cuts. 7269141
Reposted by Rick McAlexanderZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2023The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels. 19559370
Reposted by Rick McAlexanderChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2023This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible. 452152341
