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99% Seriously, quit caging people. 1% Wheel of Time. “Boar have been stopped in the precinct." she/her
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carmur.bsky.social
@deepnotshallow.bsky.social This seems like an idea that is right up your alley!
sarahkendzior.bsky.social Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20h
The Dems should invent a board game where voters get their donor lists and a list of predators from the Epstein files and see how many matches they can make. Voters can play it on the kitchen table so it's a "kitchen-table issue".
senategabe.bsky.social Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 22h
I cannot stress enough this is a totally made up conundrum and you do not actually need to field test if talking about how our entire government is controlled by child rapists is interesting.
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
carmur.bsky.social
When Johnston had transition team heads do listening sessions out in the community, Benavidez was at one of the meetings I attended. She was so dismissive of me when I tried to (briefly) engage with her. She looked over my shoulder the whole time to see who else she could talk to. 🤣😂🤣
deepnotshallow.bsky.social Deep Singh Badhesha @deepnotshallow.bsky.social · 1d
UPDATE:
Lorena Garcia and Manny Rutinel are supporting former State Rep. Adrienne Benavidez for the State Senate Vacancy.

By my count this vacancy is maybe 40 people total.

Adrienne will most likely win with little to no competition.
#copolitics #coleg
deepnotshallow.bsky.social Deep Singh Badhesha @deepnotshallow.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING:
Colorado State Senator Dafna Michaelson Jenet is set to resign next week setting up yet another vacancy committee for her replacement.

#copolitics #coleg
February 12, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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weratedogs.com
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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prisonpolicy.org
🚨NEW: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. an alarming $445 billion every year. Where exactly does it all go?

Follow the money with our new report 🧵
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Flow chart showing that the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration every year.
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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andrewkarre.bsky.social
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
The email we sent out today celebrating our 4th birthday at @boltsmag.org ! 🎂🎂🎂🎂

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As I wrote later on: "Thank you for trusting us and reading us. It blows my mind every day that there are so many of you—and today your support feels very special indeed."
"We're able to do this work, finding and bringing you stories that aren’t reported elsewhere, because of our stellar team of journalists across the country who are energized to unearth them. Thanks to their work, we’ve published critical reporting from all over since 2022: I’m proud to say Bolts has produced meaningful stories devoted to all 50 states. Just over the last year, we’ve covered the prosecution of an American Samoan community in Alaska, threats to voting rights in North Dakota, jail deaths in Texas, a state supreme court in Hawaii pushing back against the erosion of civil rights, immigration enforcement in California’s East Bay, the construction of a mega prison in Arkansas, an embattled sheriff’s office in downstate Illinois—plus much, much more."
February 9, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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markey.senate.gov
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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heymrsbond.com
As a literature educator, for me, poetry begins and ends with Audre Lorde. Every student I have has read “Poetry is not a Luxury.” “Litany for Survival” is the poem that reminds us Who and Whose we are, because we were never meant to survive.

28 poems for #blackhistorymonth day 9
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children's mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours: For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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elliottpayne.org
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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carmur.bsky.social Car @carmur.bsky.social · 3d
In @colorado.gov Jared Polis knows the law and knows Coloradans don’t want cooperation with ICE, but he doesn’t care. A whistleblower had to come forward because he was (and likely still is) surreptitiously cooperating with that disgusting and brutal agency.

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February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
carmur.bsky.social
In @colorado.gov Jared Polis knows the law and knows Coloradans don’t want cooperation with ICE, but he doesn’t care. A whistleblower had to come forward because he was (and likely still is) surreptitiously cooperating with that disgusting and brutal agency.

coloradosun.com/2025/06/05/i...
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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propublica.org
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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propublica.org
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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propublica.org
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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propublica.org
2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.” The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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propublica.org
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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deepnotshallow.bsky.social
Daily reminder for everyone:

ABOLISH ICE & FUCK ICE

If your elected leaders think Trump's Gestapo can be "reformed" then they are wholly unequipped for this moment and must be primaried.
February 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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cofreedomfund.bsky.social
We need your help to bring Denver’s ordinances in line with Denver’s values!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Denver Sentencing Reform Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Denver City Council Members Shontel Lewis, Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, and Sarah Parady are championing critical municipal sentencing reform efforts this year! To kick things off, Colorado Freedom Fun...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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cofreedomfund.bsky.social
Big things are happening in Denver! Join City Council Members Gonzales-Gutierrez, @shontel4council.bsky.social, and @paradyatlarge.bsky.social to talk about their work championing municipal court reform this year.

CFF and @ccjrc.bsky.social are hosting a virtual launch event:

Wed. 2.18.26 at 4PM
Text reads: Denver Sentencing Reform Launch, Wed. Feb. 18 via Zoom, 4-5 PM with Denver City Council Members Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, Shontel Lewis, and Sarah Parady. In the top right corner, the logos for Colorado Freedom Fund and Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. Below the text, yellow handwritten text reads "Get Engaged!". Council members are pictured at the bottom of the screen with a button that reads "Register to attend." Pictured: Sarah Parady, a white woman smiling with dark brown shoulder length hair and dark-rimmed glasses is pictured on the left; in the middle Council Member Gonzales-Gutierrez, a Latina woman with long dark brown hair, smiling and wearing a red suit; on the right, Council Member Lewis, a Black woman smiling with brown hair styled in a twist out and wearing dark-rimmed glasses.
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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heymrsbond.com
Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson is the newest poem in my teaching bag. Woodson's care and grief are a reminder that we contain multitudes and our desire for a better world includes the ground we stand on.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 7
Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson Dear Future Ones who do not understand an old woman puzzling over January crocuses and the delicate shoots of tulips poking through winter leaves Winter leaves us questioning the absence of snow. A headshake, a sigh, a mind turning inside the past: Twenty years on this planet and my daughter can count snowstorms lived through on a single hand. Oh Dear Future Ones, I apologize for decades of Styrofoam lunches eaten happily because the world would always be the way I knew it as a child. I apologize from tin cans thrown into trashcans. For the many years I loved helium-filled mylar balloons. I apologize for the time I bought an expensive deodorant, desired because I could spray it instead of rolling it on. I apologize for the magical thinking that led me to believe this world as I knew it would always be here and bred you into with my mind on other freedoms cuz how many dreams of freedom can a single body hold now old, you see me back bent and frowning grateful for iceless sidewalks all winter long and terrified. Oh Dear Future Ones. You do not know a world that isn't already burning, a time when flowers bloomed in seasons we understood (Because once there were seasons here in New York). Once snow barricaded me into my childhood home. Brooklyn. Blizzard of 78. We waited, my siblings and I, gleefully imagining a June thaw the four of us skeletons heartbreakingly remembered. Were history, we said. As though we already knew what was coming. As though, Future Ones, we already saw you out there reading about us and remembering snow. This the honey edited by Kwame Alexander
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
February 6, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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seiu.org
The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.

Your reminder that ICE is a for-profit industry and the companies profiting are huge donors to the politicians who voted to continue funding ICE.
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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alexvitale.bsky.social
Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.
February 6, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM