David McKinney
@davidmckinney.bsky.social
Mayflower descendant for a just, equitable, and sustainable immigration policy.
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UCLA Santa Monica
Ocean Park Hollywood
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UCLA Santa Monica
Ocean Park Hollywood
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i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not
“Three men in black vests entered a NY restaurant claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker’s hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person’s head. Another, believing the burglars’ story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM”
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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No badges, no warrants, no law enforcement experience, no hearts, no souls, no brains, no morals, no ethics, no conscience.
July 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
No badges, no warrants, no law enforcement experience, no hearts, no souls, no brains, no morals, no ethics, no conscience.
Storm Troopers Coming
The new ICE budget is $160 billion.
The Marine corps budget is $57 billion.
Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
The Marine corps budget is $57 billion.
Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
July 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Storm Troopers Coming
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“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.
June 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.
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I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.
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No explanation.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
www.stevevladeck.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
No explanation.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
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The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
June 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
He hates himself
June 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
He hates himself
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1. Trump has publicly and privately fantasized about deploying the military on US soil against protesters for years.
In LA, with little justification, he has made those dreams a reality, violating longstanding democratic norms.
He has manufactured a crisis.
Let's review the history.
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In LA, with little justification, he has made those dreams a reality, violating longstanding democratic norms.
He has manufactured a crisis.
Let's review the history.
🧵
Trump manufactures a crisis in LA
For years, President Trump has dreamed of mobilizing the military against protesters in the United States.
popular.info
June 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. Trump has publicly and privately fantasized about deploying the military on US soil against protesters for years.
In LA, with little justification, he has made those dreams a reality, violating longstanding democratic norms.
He has manufactured a crisis.
Let's review the history.
🧵
In LA, with little justification, he has made those dreams a reality, violating longstanding democratic norms.
He has manufactured a crisis.
Let's review the history.
🧵
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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
June 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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this is the most california thing i have ever seen
June 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
this is the most california thing i have ever seen
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.
The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
June 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.
The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
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Yeah so just noticing that this means Trump will have a fully armed war machine deployed in the heart of our government. The same president that has already attempted an armed coup in the exact same city.
June 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Yeah so just noticing that this means Trump will have a fully armed war machine deployed in the heart of our government. The same president that has already attempted an armed coup in the exact same city.
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lol/cry what if it's actually a coup, staged to look like a parade and the tanks never leave?
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
lol/cry what if it's actually a coup, staged to look like a parade and the tanks never leave?
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ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.
June 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.
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Again, if we thought about what an enemy of the United States holding the position of the Presidency would do, it would be this: To break the engine of the nation's scientific, technological, and economic development and the source of its overall, global hegemony. Which is what this is.
June 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Again, if we thought about what an enemy of the United States holding the position of the Presidency would do, it would be this: To break the engine of the nation's scientific, technological, and economic development and the source of its overall, global hegemony. Which is what this is.
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The dictator of one of the United States' enemies is using the President of the United States to announce military attacks on a United States ally.
June 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The dictator of one of the United States' enemies is using the President of the United States to announce military attacks on a United States ally.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Bannon just called for this.
Let the socialist revolution begin!
Let the socialist revolution begin!
The United States should take over Space X after this threat. We can't have a private person have this much power.
And let's add Starlink to the list. That should have happened when he shut down the service in Ukraine years ago.
And let's add Starlink to the list. That should have happened when he shut down the service in Ukraine years ago.
Maybe we shouldn't get into a situation where one guy can threaten the entire U.S. space program because the president wrote a mean tweet about him.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
June 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Bannon just called for this.
Let the socialist revolution begin!
Let the socialist revolution begin!
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Everything he does benefits Putin.
“It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.”
Huh. You don't say.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...
Huh. You don't say.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...
How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions
Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Everything he does benefits Putin.
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So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…