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#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.

The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
January 22, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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🧵Four armed, large ICE officers arrest a diminutive brown teen in Minnesota because he won't produce his 'papers'. If the ICE funding allocated in the Republican Big Ugly Bill goes through, this scene will be exponentiated across the country.

ICE is a rogue, unaccountable, paramilitary force.
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Very legally significant.

I am going to avoid the gory details in these texts.

NYT also reporting: "Two of the gunshot wounds were not immediately life-threatening, the autopsy found." It appears to be bullet that appeared to go through the left-side window that was.
Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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by the way, all of this, dozens of goons, weapons brandished massive teargassing of public space, people beaten in the street, destroying two intersections on either side of my neighborhood, horror, all seems to have been to create a distraction to abduct crying two teenagers who were here legally
look what they’re doing to my city. apologies for the camerawork
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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This might be a bit out of my line but imo this SCOTUS really does sign off on indefinite detention for people who can't be deported, we can and should finally call these sites what they have always been in spirit: concentration camps.
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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Your taxes are also paying for Camp East Montana, in which three lives for which ICE made themselves responsible have ended since August. The already low standards and oversight in these places is about to be reduced in proportion to their coming rapid expansion

english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-...
The black hole of Camp East Montana: Three deaths in 44 days at the largest migrant detention center in the US
A new death at the tent complex built on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso has once again brought conditions inside ICE facilities into sharp focus
english.elpais.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. If you pay taxes in the US, you paid 4 ICE officers to hold him down while a 5th choked him to death. This murder is more likely to be justified as a natural consequence of being a "criminal alien" than to be prosecuted.

We are hurtling quickly down a dark path.
January 22, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.
January 22, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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You know what law was intended to prevent state legal regimes from racially profiling families and abducting children who might be caught without a parent? The Civil Rights Act of 1866. You know, the law to dismantle the Black Codes.
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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the local DA should indict it. if they cannot serve the warrant because ICE has more men with guns, they should say so.
That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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NYT Ed Board: One year ago, Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself.

A review by the editorial board shows that Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1,408,500,000.
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Curious how voting yea for ~25% of the fascist legislation and Trump nominees that the Senate saw this session will help his presidential ambitions. Can we get one presidential hopeful that isn't an anti-trans or anti-immigrant bigot to run? As a treat?
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) says he is starting to think seriously about running for president. - CNN
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.
El Paso medical examiner rules death in ICE camp a homicide
Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrain...
www.texastribune.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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if you don’t think you can campaign on abolishing this agency and prosecuting the people involved - if you don’t think you’re able to make that case using this video and other like it - get the fuck out of politics
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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I trust folks on the ground and this also seems evident from afar as they escalate on all fronts. The discipline people in MN are demonstrating by not reacting violently to ICE is incredible.
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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It’s perverse beyond description: my own government trying as hard as it can not to protect my city, but to enraged, attack, and destroy it, I campaign of pure malevolent aggression, conducted by US government paramilitaries against its own citizenry.
January 21, 2026 at 11:45 PM