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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15h
Musgraves, who asked a trio of mariachi players who had been abducted by ICE to open for her, “has been forcefully and repeatedly connecting the dots between how closely related—and indebted—country music is to Mexican traditional sounds and the ppl that MAGA is constantly demonizing and targeting.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22h
“A traffic stop for something as minor as a too-dark license-plate cover can lead to an arrest, then a call to federal immigration agents, then a trip to a squalid detention center, and, finally, deportation.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seck’s coach “encouraged supporters to donate toward legal expenses, write letters describing Seck's character and share messages supporting the effort to bring her home. That effort now appears to have reached an important milestone.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The elites want crumbs for you while they get to vacation overseas with their alleged mistresses.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I’m trying to use that anger and channel it in a more positive way,” Ronaldo said. “I feel right now that I can’t slow down … to shine a light as to what happened, to who my dad was, and the injustices that my dad experienced—that we’re still experiencing to this day.” #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 07/10/2026
ProPublica documented 506 U.S. citizens detained during Trump’s immigration crackdown, including at least 70 children and teens. DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake. The report lays out the cases, videos and court records. buff.ly/vT9Y7Kx
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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…
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped set off the Delaney Hall hunger strike, is free. "I don’t have words,” he said while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.” religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...
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Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody
ELIZABETH, New Jersey (RNS) — “I don’t have words,” Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said, in Spanish, while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed i...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Once inside the ICE facility, she continued to ask why she’d been arrested. ‘You spoke too much, that’s why,’ came the reply, according to María. ICE agents then said, ‘You should have thought about it before speaking up to defend your friend.’”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They zip-tied CHILDREN. They burning through billions of your tax dollars to traumatize kids. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We still have so many questions,” Lorenzo Jr. asked during one Congressional hearing. “What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected behind anonymity while my brother and I stand before cameras showing our faces, proudly saying our first and last names.”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,” Florida’s María Elvira Salazar claimed. “In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record.” But what she doesn’t say in the clip is that she’s _repeatedly_ voted to fund ICE and CBP:
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The Rampage Continues: Another In-Custody Death, Trump’s ICE Shoots a DoorDash Delivery Man, Beats U.S. Citizens Including Teens
“Donald Trump and his allies have built a mass deportation machine that treats every driver, every neighbor, and every bystander as expendable.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is partly a story of personal corruption and government waste but the driving force is consistent with RFK Jr's policy objectives: he is a eugenicist who wants certain groups of people to die.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Breaking: ICE shot and injured a man in Austin, Texas, earlier today. Trump has allowed ICE to flood our streets and put our communities in harms way again and again and Governor Abbott is complicit every time. I am demanding the body camera footage and full accountability.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Mike Johnson can take breaks because he doesn’t feel like voting, I think farmworkers should be allowed to take breaks so they don’t die of heat stroke. #WeFeedYou
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day, take 2 minutes to listen to the words of Mario Savio and Martin Luther King Jr.:
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“‘I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodist pastor who was among those arrested.” religionnews.com/2026/09/04/s...
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Seven Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center
(RNS) — 'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodi...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0. “The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.
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New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data
The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
After banning them from the military, Pete Hegseth's Defense Department is withholding tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance from transgender veterans, some of whom are now homeless or relying on food banks to feed themselves and their families because of it
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’ve lost a saint. Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 18/08/2026
It's unacceptable that Puerto Rican households are going days at a time without running water. I joined Congressman Soto in urging the EPA to address this emergency and the federal neglect and aging infrastructure that led to it.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There are many, many reasons our tax dollars should not be used to buy ICE agents electric torture gloves. Adding one: this pool of guys has an alarming rate of domestic violence charges. Horrified to think how they’ll use the gloves off duty (And on duty of course.). apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I spoke with people back home in Puerto Rico about the water crisis and how attributing it to the current drought conditions isn't the full story. Read more: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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‘I’m Tired of Being Resilient’
Skipping laundry. Bathing in the sea. Catching drops falling from AC units. This is life in Puerto Rico amid the worsening water crisis.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New report from Ohio Immigrant Alliance: Of 59 criminal ICE and Border Patrol agents, 85% committed sex offenses, nearly 2/3 against children. "The sexual and physical violence against women and children documented in OIA’s report is not an aberration — it is a reflection of the agencies’ culture.”
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They Walk Among Us - Criminal ICE and Border Agents — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance released “They Walk Among Us: A List of 59 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents,” an analysis of sexual and violent crimes committed by ICE and Border Patr...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In one instance, a male cleaning staff member repeatedly entered a women’s bathroom when he knew teenage girls were inside, naked and showering. In that instance, the girls’ mother submitted a grievance. But it was the girls who were the ones who paid for that complaint, as an official forced them to undergo a physical and mental examination.

A CoreCivic spokesperson failed to respond to an email seeking comment.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/07/2026
So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: The killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero has put Susan Collins’s decision to give ICE $70 billion under scrutiny. Collins says she got more money for body cameras. But AOC and other progressives say the blame lies on Collins as she faces reelection www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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AOC calls out Susan Collins’ claims about ICE after shooting of innocent man in Maine
The shooting in Maine has created a political firestorm in Maine for the sole Republican senator from New England
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“The utter disregard for human life is breathtaking. In just six days, ICE agents in two different states shot and killed two fathers, husbands, and providers. Their immigration status is irrelevant.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“The three men who were arrested during an immigration operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction.” Never forget: ICE LIES
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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in our community. Then his family had to find out through the news and social media,” said @sylviagarcia.house.gov. “That is cruel. That is unacceptable. And DHS and ICE do not get to investigate themselves behind closed doors and call it accountability.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ronaldo “did not learn about his father’s final moments from a hospital or law enforcement. Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media.” “I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out.”
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hebert Ibarra Castro is a 20-year-old mariachi from San Antonio who was detained by ICE on his way home from performing at a birthday party.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Data reveals that the Trump regime has detained at least 500 infants and toddlers since last year. One toddler who was detained at the CoreCivic-operated migrant family jail in Texas became so depressed that he stopped eating solid food for 12 days, his mother said: open.substack.com/pub/americas...
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The Trump Administration Is Waging War On Children
500 infants and toddlers have been detained while hundreds of others face losing lifesaving healthcare due to the Trump administration’s mass deportation obsessions.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Harlaine, a nurse and Haitian #TPS holder who has lived here for three decades, had a US citizen son last year. Following the radical Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday allowing the Trump regime to delegalize hundreds of thousands of people, she fears family separation: www.kqed.org/news/1208889...
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Supreme Court Ruling Leaves TPS Holders Confronting an Uncertain Future | KQED
The Supreme Court’s decision to strip deportation protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants is one of several rulings reshaping who is allowed to stay in the country.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Eliza, 21, planned to study computer science. But after her parents were abducted by ICE, she dropped out of college in order to take over the family’s landscaping business. “She used to be a lot more talkative,” she says about her youngest sister. “I feel like we’re all quiet now.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“They thought no one's paying attention to warehouse sales,” Wriston said. "Maybe people are distracted by the data center purchases, which are equally important to pay attention to. And that wasn't the case.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“The scale of arrests under the Trump crackdown means many more boys and girls are missing their dads. A recent Brookings Institute analysis posits that during the government’s aggressive detention and deportation campaign, more than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents …”
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A Father’s Day without fathers
This date should prompt us to think about the children whose migrant parents will be missing from the family table this year — not because of death or any other unavoidable circumstance, but because t...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Death of woman released by ICE on a winter day is now ruled a homicide. Security footage shows Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old asylum seeker from Haiti, sitting on a bus stop bench for days in cold temperatures. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
Death of woman released by ICE on a winter day is now ruled a homicide
Security footage shows Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old asylum seeker from Haiti, sitting on a bus stop bench for days in cold temperatures.
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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 30/05/2026
The concept of “free speech zones” and “first amendment zones” is fucking bonkers. So you mean the full constitution doesn’t apply outside of the little square y’all decided on? And we’re supposed to just comply with that?
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