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K Jumbe
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Stayin' alive. Minnesota person. Author of Night: A Children's Fable (Levine Querido)
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"The world changes. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes all of an instant. But the world changes, and it doesn't change back."

-Daniel Abraham
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The GOP is once again showing its disdain for the Constitution.

fox9.com/news/residen...
‘Residential protesting’ could be a crime in Minnesota under new GOP proposal
A bill that’s backed by a coalition of GOP lawmakers set to be proposed at the start of the upcoming session would make “residential protesting" punishable under Minnesota law.
fox9.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
I grieve for the elders like Jesse Jackson who are passing when they are surrounded by evidence of how much we squandered the rights and freedoms they marched and suffered and organized for.

I hope we find it in us to to write the next great chapter in the work of equality and liberation.
February 17, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Of course, Rev. Jesse Jackson was a towering figure of the Civil Rights Movement and every other movement for human dignity. But he also took time with new candidates who shared his values. Here’s Rev. Jackson helping me with me 2006 congressional campaign. Bless this great soul. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living.

Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
February 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Wow.
February 17, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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Josmar Soza’s father has been in ICE custody since December 3, 2025 after he was kidnapped in MN. He was on his way to work and now his children are without a father. The funds will help pay for lawyer fees and family necessities.

gofund.me/e9ef8b8a9
Donate to Help bring my dad home., organized by Josmar Soza
My name is Josmar Soza, and I'm raising funds for my dad, who's been wrongfully detained for nearl… Josmar Soza needs your support for Help bring my dad home.
gofund.me
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...
February 17, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.

“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.

By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Medical providers are increasingly concerned that some rural patients who must drive long distances to see specialists are missing appointments out of fear of being picked up by federal immigration agents.
Rural Minnesotans of color skipping medical care out of fear of ICE
Medical providers are increasingly concerned that some of their rural patients who need to drive long distances to see specialists are missing appointments because they fear being picked up by federal...
www.mprnews.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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February 14, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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4. Medical malpractice. Here’s why I say stopping this detention-to Texas pipeline is life of death.

An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds.

23/

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
18-month-old girl hospitalized with respiratory failure in ICE detention, lawyers say
Dilley Immigration Processing Center in rural Texas withheld medication after ‘gravely ill’ toddler was sent back into its custody, according to federal lawsuit
www.independent.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Hegseth blew up another boat and killed more people. We have no idea who they were or what they were doing because it’s just “trust me, bro” while we kill people.
February 14, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
February 14, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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Oh no. How are we going to help ̶I̶C̶E̶ the police find ̶i̶m̶m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶ lost puppies now? 🙃
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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oh FFS, maybe get them to throw some of that money into rent funds instead of a zip line
February 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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We’re still seeing ICE going in and out of the Whipple building. As long as they’re still here working to separate families, we need to make sure people are out patrolling & keeping watch.

We don’t accept their behavior happening here or anywhere else which is why all of DHS needs to be dismantled
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM