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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/10/2026
When immigration agents struck a man with an SUV in Houston over the weekend, they said they were chasing an undocumented Mexican man facing deportation and multiple criminal charges. But the photo they shared of their target was of a man whose family says he died almost a decade ago.
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ICE Agents Who Rammed a Worker in Houston Were Chasing a Dead Man, Family Says
ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva's arrest at Salt Lake City International Airport captured a disturbing moment: a mother of four screaming, "Help me, please! I have my papers!"
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Social: Thank you. I have unfollowed Chris despite his great work because of this tiresome desire to berate people who disagree with his optimism about the effectiveness of the courts. I practiced litigation for 45 years and never saw such ineffective judging.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A new statement from @maketheroadny.bsky.social says that Oscar Belgal, the man immigration agents shot in NYC last week, hasn't eaten since Thursday and still has the bullet in his neck. He urgently needs surgery, but instead, the government has him locked up in solitary.
New York, NY –– The Legal Aid Society and Make the Road New York, counsel for Oscar Belgal, issued the following joint statement in response to the deplorable conditions Mr. Belgal has endured while detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, including solitary confinement, lack of access to food, and inadequate medical care despite a bullet remaining lodged in his neck and his urgent need for surgery: 

“Since Mr. Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE agents on Thursday, with his five-year-old child in the car, he has endured horrific conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a facility federal judges have described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhumane,’ where officers have been characterized as ‘contemptuous of human life and dignity. All the while, a bullet remains lodged in his neck.

“Mr. Belgal is living through an unimaginable nightmare. While he is currently in solitary confinement, a bullet remains lodged in his neck, the left side of his face is numb, and he can barely hear out of his left ear. Doctors have told him he urgently needs surgery, but that the procedure was too dangerous to perform Thursday evening without a specialized surgeon present. Although he was instructed to return to the hospital this week, he has been left in the dark about whether that surgery will even happen. He is also suffering from a shoulder wound caused by shattered glass during the incident.“Rather than receiving the urgent medical attention, care, and compassion he desperately needs, Mr. Belgal reports being confined to a solitary cell, where he is forced to relive the terrifying moments of being shot. He says he has not eaten a single meal since Thursday and has been told that the only water available to him comes from a bathroom sink.

“The deliberate indifference Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed toward Mr. Belgal when he was shot on Thursday, and the treatment he has endured in detention since, are further examples of the cruelty and disregard for basic human dignity that have long defined this agency. We will continue to fight for Mr. Belgal’s immediate release from detention and to ensure that he receives the medical care, due process, and basic human dignity to which he is entitled under the law.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
believe that the performance of cruel power is what makes a nation great: the spectacle, the show, the crude theatrics of a tough guy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just ask the oppressed people of Iran and Afghanistan.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
More mayhem by ICE. More lying by ICE. He may have been running and he may have been running in front of the truck AFTER they steered toward him. abc7.com/story/ice-ru... This defiles our country. When "secret police" are lawless we are no better than any other country.
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’m so sad for my country. I’m mad as hell, and I’m scared and I’m deeply fucking worried about what Trump has done and is doing to this imperfect place I love, believe in, and call home. But more than anything else, I’m so deeply, deeply sad.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.
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cinepost.bsky.social @cinepost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He’s the kind of golfer who fears trees on a golf course because he can’t hit the ball straight.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICE officers launch another major crime spree in Salem, OR. Crime syndicate criminality just comes naturally to them, especially including sweeping vandalism and assaults. Read the whole thread. bsky.app/profile/aram...
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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Steve Kerr spot on as usual
I’d vote for him
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Also this funds Putin's war machine against Ukraine who we have funded and supported with weapons. Make sense out of funding both sides of a war.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
7 shots fired. 4 pm in afternoon. At a car with 5-year old in it. Can’t use deadly force except in response to imminent threat of death of serious bodily injury. As in, from what we know, a blatantly illegal shooting. That’s without regard to victim’s criminal record. 7 Shots Fired.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Are public executions what will Make America Great Again. His blood thirst does not become our leaders. He sounds like a tin pot dictator.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There is a pretty educated discussion of this possibility by a reasonable former judge: judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...
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January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵The Cornell 7 case has made me angry, sick, and sad. I had five wonderful years in Ithaca as a graduate student, but I was still a bystander to bad behavior by other men. I knew little to nothing of the frat life there, but I knew my department life.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW from ProPublica today: "The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration." projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When things like this repeatedly, there is a structural failure in the organization. Leadership starts at the top. ICE leadership has become anti American and anti human. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/01/t...
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have no idea if these symbolic similarities but at this point if you did not want to look like a Nazi maybe someone would be in charge of making sure you do not look like a Nazi.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have no idea if these symbolic similarities but at this point if you did not want to look like a Nazi maybe someone would be in charge of making sure you do not look like a Nazi.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nazi Hegseth must go!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy proposed legislation: “ICE should not operate at daycare centers, they shouldn't operate at children's playgrounds, and that they shouldn't operate at school bus stops.” Republicans blocked the proposed legislation. VOTE. For the kids. www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Sen. Chris Murphy proposed legislation: “ICE should not operate at daycare centers, they shouldn't operate at children's playgrounds, and that they shouldn't operate at school bus stops.”

Republicans blocked the proposed legislation. 

VOTE. For the kids. 

https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-pushes-for-senate-passage-of-bill-protecting-children-from-ice
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wonder how many innocent people are killed per year by various law enforcement agencies. And how many is too many for us to do something about it?
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maryburns.bsky.social @maryburns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vote for humanity. In his first term, an estimated 5000 children were separated from their families. So far in his second term, an estimated 200,000 children have been separated from their families. #Pinks #LetsGetVoteReady social.demcast.com/s/bcDzZiFv
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REGISTER TO VOTE
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“They left the children inside the truck.” Fucking ICE agents. 😡
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cruelty is the point. There is no other point. He has not been convicted of anything.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This defies all reason and humanity. Never did I imagine this would pass for law in the United States. 2 year old children are not capable of defending themselves. People accused of heinous murders are accorded more rights.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“As young as 2” 😳
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cinepost.bsky.social @cinepost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The world is not the immoral place you've known before. ... The world is simply a mirror of how we form it and it is nothing more and nothing less than what we all do together with it.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon 25. September 1964 - 19. June 2020):
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 27/09/2026
I’m so tired.
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cinepost.bsky.social @cinepost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Republican Political Party has already confirmed over and over they will not comply with state, federal or civil laws. Or even international laws. They do not live in the U.S. ~ or on this planet, on the same terms as the rest of us.
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skippy48.bsky.social @skippy48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Try it if you are poor and black and then they are powerful.
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Cat Lady M @catladym.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When does ignoring a court order come with consequences??
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Patricia @diamondstar1962.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Until Trump and his administration are held accountable for defying court orders, this will continue. I will repeat this everyday if I have too.
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cinepost.bsky.social @cinepost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whichever staff person denied them access should be cited for contempt and jailed. Then the enablers who carry out Trump’s offenses against the rule of law just might stop breaking the law at his behest.
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cinepost.bsky.social @cinepost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Denial of one’s history is the beginning of forgetting that which you promised to never forget.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ruben Ray Martinez was the 1st known US citizen killed by Trump's immigration thugs back in March 2025. This 23yo kid was driving with his best friend, Joshua Orta, to celebrate his birthday, when he was murdered. If it can happen to this family, it can happen to yours! VOTE BLUE! #ICELawlessness
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