Elena Demidenko
@elenademi.bsky.social
*working with immigrants 🌏
*dog rescue volunteer 🐕
*love all animals 🐄
*Russian-born American who doesn't want America to turn into Russia
#StandWithUkraine💙💛
#BlueDot 💙💙💙
*dog rescue volunteer 🐕
*love all animals 🐄
*Russian-born American who doesn't want America to turn into Russia
#StandWithUkraine💙💛
#BlueDot 💙💙💙
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Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government
Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government
First-of-its kind suit filed by civil rights attorneys on behalf of families centers on 14 October strike in Caribbean Sea that killed six
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government
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Nurses plan nationwide week of action against ICE terror.
‘Pretti’s Death Will Not Be in Vain’: Nurses Plan Nationwide Week of Action Against ICE Terror | Common Dreams
"ICE messed with the wrong profession. We nurses will fight to abolish ICE and bring about a vision for a healthy society based on nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community."
www.commondreams.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Nurses plan nationwide week of action against ICE terror.
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There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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A preview of some of the key legal issues to be aware of as we start the week. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Week Ahead
January 25, 2026
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 PM
A preview of some of the key legal issues to be aware of as we start the week. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Excellent article
Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Excellent article
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.
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Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water
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genuinely stunning image
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
genuinely stunning image
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NYC standing in solidarity with MN.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 10:11 PM
NYC standing in solidarity with MN.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social
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minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like
January 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like
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This is an excellent bit by @jamellebouie.net laying out the case that ICE is doing ethnic cleansing.
Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’?
The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This is an excellent bit by @jamellebouie.net laying out the case that ICE is doing ethnic cleansing.
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ICE’s new policy directing agents to ignore the 4th Amendment is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen yet. And there’s no telling where it could end up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Breaking the Fourth Amendment
Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people’s homes without a judici...
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:04 AM
ICE’s new policy directing agents to ignore the 4th Amendment is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen yet. And there’s no telling where it could end up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops : NPR share.google/RVwnyGFBpim4...
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
share.google
January 23, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops : NPR share.google/RVwnyGFBpim4...
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Frost: Any person who sees the president in his speeches blabbering incoherently knows that there is something bigger going on there.
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Frost: Any person who sees the president in his speeches blabbering incoherently knows that there is something bigger going on there.
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BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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“Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing”
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:54 AM
“Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing”
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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"Even more useful for Moscow is “a long-running dispute that poisons transatlantic relations” and leaves everyone feeling betrayed."
My latest for @theipaper.com on how Russia is enjoying the #Greenland crisis...
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
My latest for @theipaper.com on how Russia is enjoying the #Greenland crisis...
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
How Putin is using the Trump crisis to poison Europe
Russian is sitting back and enjoying the spectacle of a Nato crisis
inews.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM
"Even more useful for Moscow is “a long-running dispute that poisons transatlantic relations” and leaves everyone feeling betrayed."
My latest for @theipaper.com on how Russia is enjoying the #Greenland crisis...
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
My latest for @theipaper.com on how Russia is enjoying the #Greenland crisis...
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
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Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.