Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦
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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦
@chioroplast.bsky.social
Stat Crux Dum Volvitur Orbis

Morte ai tiranni. - St. Pier Giorgio Frassati
This headline would have gone hard in 2013
February 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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it sure is great that Sunday mornings have become the time of the week all the govt suits climb out of their dens to defend concentration camps
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.
February 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE.

Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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wrt to some of the replies to this post, part of why the media has “moved on” is because it has become extraordinarily difficult to document ICE activity on the ground, outside of them arresting citizens.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is exactly the sort of thing which very rarely has a purely political solution. Grit your teeth.
February 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”

Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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It’s bizarre to watch RFK Jr’s HHS try to pull the Jedi mind trick so many times and so unconvincingly
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?

DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines

BASH: Oh, come on
February 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It's pretty sad now that I think about it. Cajuns maintain some pretty strong links with the international francophone community (especially with Quebec) despite the discrimination campaign against them back in the day. That kind of solidarity doesn't exist with old Spanish Louisianaians.
Yeah I would say Louisiana Martinezes are the whitest latinos in this whole country. They even pronounce their Spanish names wrong to get away from it. Massive divide between the 99% anglicized descendents of Spanish colonists and the modern Hispanic immigrants who mostly came after Katrina.
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Woke 2 has neutralized Steve-O.
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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The Guardian:
“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500M to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi
A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Camp inmates can rest assured that the opposition is working hard to make the camp guards wear body cams. I want to punch a wall.
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”

Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
February 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”

Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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“Okay, I know it looks bad that I turned to a convicted sex trafficker to fund my dual research on how climate change is a hoax and why it’s genetically advantageous for women to mate with middle-aged academics instead of Black men but you see, Epstein had all the money and I wanted some."
Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files
Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.
www.insidehighered.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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An excerpt from Mary Theresa Moser's essential book The Evolution of the Option for the Poor in France, 1880-1965 (1985) on the hardships and risks that accompanied those Catholics who chose to engage in resistance against the Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime.
January 23, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Today the NYU Catholic Center asked “Is it Ethical to be Rich?”.
NPM was there with the answer.

Fr. NYU, O.P. said: “You may have been handed two flyers upon entrance to this event. The flyer with the charts and graphs is ours, the other was handed out by rogue elements."
February 5, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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I wrote about the two separate occasions @newpersonalism.bsky.social visited Delaney Hall in solidarity with those imprisoned and to minister to their families waiting to see them. It struck me how banal the guards were in their cruelty there, and how there will soon be more, bigger prisons like it.
Jaime Pettit writes about ICE and the New Personalist intervention in New Jersey:

“The nation has built the Gates of Hell [...] All that we can do is push back against the inferno in whatever way we can.”

www.newintermag.com/notes-from-a...
Notes from an ICE Camp
The nation has built the Gates of Hell and our representatives of both parties preside over them with corporate banality.
www.newintermag.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Early returns in Louisiana’s special election:

The Dem candidate is leading 58.5% to 41.5%. That’s with a third of the vote in.

Context: this is a Dem-held seat but in a district TRUMP carried by 13%, so has been a big/obvious GOP target. Stay tuned.
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Toddler was returned to ICE custody and denied medication after hospitalization, lawsuit says reut.rs/4r7JNt4
Toddler was returned to ICE custody and denied medication after hospitalization, lawsuit says
An 18-month-old girl detained for weeks by U.S. immigration authorities was returned to custody and denied medication after being hospitalized with a life-threatening respiratory illness, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas federal court.
reut.rs
February 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
February 6, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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message from MN
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM
An actual full-blown police officer walked up to me to tell me how ICE guys need to go to prison and how he had to step in and comfort people who had narrowly escaped them.
I've taken to wearing an Abolish ICE pin on my jacket in public and you wouldn't believe how many people walk up to me and want to talk about how much they agree
February 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
New Orleans is the capitol of humanity
February 7, 2026 at 11:47 PM