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Jenna Routenberg
@jennaroutenberg.bsky.social
Editor, writer, journalist (in remission) | Certificated paralegal | Extremely for-hire | PDX | they/she

https://jennaroutenberg.com/
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If anyone is doing this work and needs a paralegal, I would love to help you sue all these bastards straight underground.
“Wear your name on a lawsuit as proudly as you do your byline.”

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
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You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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The moderate position is unwinding the entire post-9/11 security state
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
January 27, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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When it happens can the scolds just log off plz
January 27, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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Political Scientists would call it a "tactical concession" (RRS' Spiral Model). Human rights and democracy campaigners need to make sure it leads to more gains (positive spiral) instead of stalling progress (negative spiral).
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
blood in the water
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
NO KINGS EYES ON ICE TRAINING LIVESTREAM
www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...
Eyes on ICE: Document and Record
YouTube video by No Kings
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 AM
ICEtera never really left Portland OR -- 8-12 people are still kidnapped every week, largely in fast takedowns in the far outer suburbs -- but everyone I know is locked-in on the "make them look ridiculous" plan

Every community must find their own way

Hydra problems require hydra solutions
I suspect right now Stephen Miller and the other nazis are meeting to discuss how a place not as “nice" or "peaceful” as Minnesota will provide better oxygen for their lies and goals of martial law.
January 27, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.
January 27, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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A fate worse than death for a professional content creator like Bovino.
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Greg Bovino has been hired as the Washington Post’s new Foreigners Correspondent
Greg Bovino to join CBS News as in-house morale officer
Greg Bovino to join the Harvard Institute of Politics
January 27, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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Father at toddler swim class with his lawyer’s phone number conspicuously written in dark sharpie on his arm
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Gentlepeople of all genders, America’s Mayor:
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I need the resistance to see this not as victory but as blood in the water
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Last week, ICE deported an asylum seeker to Colombia despite her being eight months pregnant and in medical distress. Two other pregnant women in detention allege that ICE is denying them prenatal care:
ICE Is Terrorizing Pregnant Women: January 26 News Roundup
Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.
www.autonomynews.co
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM