Melissa Mark, PhD
@1birdnerd.bsky.social
Scientist, Environmental Non profit Leadership, Ornithologist, working from social justice and equity frameworks.
39 people have died in ICE custody, 5 during their kidnappings, and now one observer. How many people are they allowed to murder?
Sunday Jan 4, when we were freaking out over the Venezuela military operstion, the Guardian published an exposé on the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025—the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades
This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people.
No pay wall.
This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people.
No pay wall.
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 AM
39 people have died in ICE custody, 5 during their kidnappings, and now one observer. How many people are they allowed to murder?
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
Post this everywhere. The woman in MN did not ram the ICE officers. They tried to open her door. She tried to turn AWAY from them and they shot her in the face. The acceleration is AFTER they shot her. She died.
Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Post this everywhere. The woman in MN did not ram the ICE officers. They tried to open her door. She tried to turn AWAY from them and they shot her in the face. The acceleration is AFTER they shot her. She died.
A fake journalist make a viral video, Trump sends paramilitary surge to MN for a fake crack down on immigrants, where they shoot a woman, refuse to let a doctor admin CPR and don’t call emergency services and she dies.
CBP just shot a woman "in the face" as she attempted to drive away in Minneapolis. Unconfirmed reports are that she's dead.
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A fake journalist make a viral video, Trump sends paramilitary surge to MN for a fake crack down on immigrants, where they shoot a woman, refuse to let a doctor admin CPR and don’t call emergency services and she dies.
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
It's been five years since Trump tried to overthrow the Constitution.
What unfolded over the five years that followed will be remembered as one of the greatest failures of American institutions in our history.
What unfolded over the five years that followed will be remembered as one of the greatest failures of American institutions in our history.
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
It's been five years since Trump tried to overthrow the Constitution.
What unfolded over the five years that followed will be remembered as one of the greatest failures of American institutions in our history.
What unfolded over the five years that followed will be remembered as one of the greatest failures of American institutions in our history.
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
apps.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 PM
We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
The real patriots are the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol. These videos are terrifying and show the horror they were subjected to.
January 7, 2026 at 12:57 AM
The real patriots are the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol. These videos are terrifying and show the horror they were subjected to.
Jan 6th was an armed insurrection to take over the US government incited by white Christian nationalists and Donald Trump. They failed that day but five years later, they control all three branches of government and are taking over, or threatening to takeover, governments around the world
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Jan 6th was an armed insurrection to take over the US government incited by white Christian nationalists and Donald Trump. They failed that day but five years later, they control all three branches of government and are taking over, or threatening to takeover, governments around the world
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.
is it satire if it’s true? That is in effect what he is being charged with- claiming that the oil beneath the ground and off the coast of Venezuela belongs to, well, Venezuela
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
is it satire if it’s true? That is in effect what he is being charged with- claiming that the oil beneath the ground and off the coast of Venezuela belongs to, well, Venezuela
Absolutely heart breaking, and builds on this administrations goal to keep the public undereducated and ill informed, with only state sponsored propaganda as news and education
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
January 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Absolutely heart breaking, and builds on this administrations goal to keep the public undereducated and ill informed, with only state sponsored propaganda as news and education
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here's what this would look like if it were happening in Russia
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
here's what this would look like if it were happening in Russia
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Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...
January 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...
“Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look
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January 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Trump says they're going to make a "lot of money" from Venezuela's oil, oil companies say that's not possible, Rubio says they're not doing regime change and is now in charge of the government but there's still a Venezuelan government in place, they said it's about fentanyl but no charges mention it
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Trump says they're going to make a "lot of money" from Venezuela's oil, oil companies say that's not possible, Rubio says they're not doing regime change and is now in charge of the government but there's still a Venezuelan government in place, they said it's about fentanyl but no charges mention it
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If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people.
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people.
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
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I'm convinced squid know they are fabulous. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 889 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'm convinced squid know they are fabulous. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 889 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
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December 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
December 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
Not "crackdown." That's tightening enforcement of rules that were let slide or unevenly applied. "Historic" suggests "good." Word "immigrant" is now poisoned.
Edit:
"Trump rips legal status from 1.5 million U.S. residents in massive reverse of historic norms"
www.rawstory.com/trump-cancel...
Edit:
"Trump rips legal status from 1.5 million U.S. residents in massive reverse of historic norms"
www.rawstory.com/trump-cancel...
Trump strips legal status from more than 1.5 million immigrants in historic crackdown
Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due to President D...
www.rawstory.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Not "crackdown." That's tightening enforcement of rules that were let slide or unevenly applied. "Historic" suggests "good." Word "immigrant" is now poisoned.
Edit:
"Trump rips legal status from 1.5 million U.S. residents in massive reverse of historic norms"
www.rawstory.com/trump-cancel...
Edit:
"Trump rips legal status from 1.5 million U.S. residents in massive reverse of historic norms"
www.rawstory.com/trump-cancel...
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Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March.
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
www.propublica.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March.
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
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I feel like the Framers were very specific about this not happening
🚨 New: “Presidency Boosts Trump’s Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year”
“Vaulted him 118 spots on The Forbes 400, where he lands at No. 201 this year.”
@danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com
“Vaulted him 118 spots on The Forbes 400, where he lands at No. 201 this year.”
@danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Presidency
Donald Trump lost money during his first term. Out of office, he found a formula for profiting off politics—now he’s piling up billions.
www.forbes.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I feel like the Framers were very specific about this not happening
Reposted by Melissa Mark, PhD
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...