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@julieruble.bsky.social
writer of willow bird baking, a food+stories blog. progressive educational leader with anti-racist, accessible, equitable, liberatory education as the goal. former educator, current administrator. she/her. all opinions are my own.
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If you follow me because I bake cake & can't also deal with the fact that I support the liberation of all people, pls do show yourself out.
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ICYMI: We @propublica.org set up a tracker for immigration-related habeas cases, which means it tracks the number of suits filed by immigrants claiming they are detained illegally. The number has hit historic highs. We'll update it regularly with new data. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
projects.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 PM
ICYMI: We @propublica.org set up a tracker for immigration-related habeas cases, which means it tracks the number of suits filed by immigrants claiming they are detained illegally. The number has hit historic highs. We'll update it regularly with new data. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Federal agents have fired so much tear gas near Mindy King’s apartment in Portland, Ore., that she and her 13-year-old son bought gas masks to wear inside.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...
For Months, Tear Gas Has Entered Their Homes. Now They’re Suing ICE.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Federal agents have fired so much tear gas near Mindy King’s apartment in Portland, Ore., that she and her 13-year-old son bought gas masks to wear inside.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...
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I cannot express how much I hope that what ultimately brings these motherfuckers down are the women who survived them as children.
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I cannot express how much I hope that what ultimately brings these motherfuckers down are the women who survived them as children.
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if elon had a normal dick he absolutely would have posted it by now
February 11, 2026 at 1:56 AM
if elon had a normal dick he absolutely would have posted it by now
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“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”
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This is a highly efficient way to get women to simply stop engaging with male strangers entirely!
Social media is awash with videos of men filming themselves approaching women in public spaces and attempting to flirt. In many cases, the videos are filmed and uploaded without the women’s consent. https://cnn.it/4qtIsvB
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
This is a highly efficient way to get women to simply stop engaging with male strangers entirely!
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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
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"What child is this, who, laid to rest, On Mary's lap is sleeping?"
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
"What child is this, who, laid to rest, On Mary's lap is sleeping?"
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I keep being like why are people so willing to fight for their own demise but these are the same people who filled in pools rather than just let Black people have shared access to them so
February 10, 2026 at 12:40 AM
I keep being like why are people so willing to fight for their own demise but these are the same people who filled in pools rather than just let Black people have shared access to them so
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I'm getting calls from people facing eviction or foreclosure or debt collection lawsuits and they're not doing anything because they are terrified of ICE, even if they have legal status, even if the case against them is bullshit.
And no one is talking about this.
And no one is talking about this.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I'm getting calls from people facing eviction or foreclosure or debt collection lawsuits and they're not doing anything because they are terrified of ICE, even if they have legal status, even if the case against them is bullshit.
And no one is talking about this.
And no one is talking about this.
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I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
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Consider: when CBP and ICE agents can shoot and kill and kidnap people with no warrants and no consequences, the lesson sent to anyone who could be profiled as undocumented (basically all racialized people) becomes "if you go to court to defend yourself, you might never see your family again."
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Consider: when CBP and ICE agents can shoot and kill and kidnap people with no warrants and no consequences, the lesson sent to anyone who could be profiled as undocumented (basically all racialized people) becomes "if you go to court to defend yourself, you might never see your family again."
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Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord has announced a major change coming to the service as part of its aim to improve teen safety features. Starting in March, all users globally will be required to submit age verification via a face scan or submitted ID, or be given teen-level access restrictions.
more…
9to5mac.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
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In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
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Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
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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.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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
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They sang “American Idiot”
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
A rocking start to the Super Bowl.
pagesix.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
They sang “American Idiot”
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Baselessly including "destruction" here is pretty telling, imo. It invokes the uprising in a way that is unhelpful and ignorant of what is happening on the ground.
The only people destroying property are ICE agents who have been breaking windows and crashing cars.
The only people destroying property are ICE agents who have been breaking windows and crashing cars.
Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Baselessly including "destruction" here is pretty telling, imo. It invokes the uprising in a way that is unhelpful and ignorant of what is happening on the ground.
The only people destroying property are ICE agents who have been breaking windows and crashing cars.
The only people destroying property are ICE agents who have been breaking windows and crashing cars.
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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ethics professor here, can confirm
"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
ethics professor here, can confirm
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Will ICE be at your polling place? The White House won’t say no.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to rule out immigration enforcement at voting locations this fall, admitting she “can’t guarantee” agents won’t be present.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to rule out immigration enforcement at voting locations this fall, admitting she “can’t guarantee” agents won’t be present.
White House ‘can’t guarantee’ ICE won’t be at polls
The federal government has historically recognized polling places as off-limits for immigration enforcement precisely to avoid deterring lawful voters.
www.democracydocket.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Will ICE be at your polling place? The White House won’t say no.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to rule out immigration enforcement at voting locations this fall, admitting she “can’t guarantee” agents won’t be present.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to rule out immigration enforcement at voting locations this fall, admitting she “can’t guarantee” agents won’t be present.
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I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE dragged me from my car after I told them I’m autistic.
Exclusive Details: Aliya Rahman speaks to Eric Garcia about her ordeals — on the streets of Minneapolis, in a grim ICE detention center where she was mocked over her condition and through the public t...
www.independent.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Surya Bonaly is the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade🖤
February 8, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Surya Bonaly is the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade🖤