@johnnyleestiles.bsky.social
Minnesota pastor, father, musician, knitter & reader. #ICEOUT
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
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We should really refuse to use the sanitized term “detention camps.”
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
We should really refuse to use the sanitized term “detention camps.”
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
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NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
www.huffpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
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How in the hell does anyone get to a place in their reasoning that says "yep, the government should allowed to imprison people who have done nothing wrong and are following the law as it was explained to them"?
February 7, 2026 at 2:23 AM
How in the hell does anyone get to a place in their reasoning that says "yep, the government should allowed to imprison people who have done nothing wrong and are following the law as it was explained to them"?
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Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi slammed the double standard allowing Israel to expand its military while others in the region are asked to reduce their defensive capabilities.
Araghchi spoke at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, an event focusing on geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.
Araghchi spoke at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, an event focusing on geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.
February 7, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi slammed the double standard allowing Israel to expand its military while others in the region are asked to reduce their defensive capabilities.
Araghchi spoke at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, an event focusing on geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.
Araghchi spoke at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, an event focusing on geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.
Ah yes, nothing quite says “Black History Month” like a late night POTUS tweet.🙄 “When you’re a star they let you get away with it!”
BREAKING: President Trump removes a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes. The White House initially defended the post, then blamed it on a staffer.
Trump shares racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys
The White House defended Trump's post, saying it was "from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle."
nbcnews.to
February 7, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Ah yes, nothing quite says “Black History Month” like a late night POTUS tweet.🙄 “When you’re a star they let you get away with it!”
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I've been thinking a lot about our current movement and the role of individuals.
Each of us is just a drop.
Enough drops fill a bucket.
Enough buckets fill a pool.
Enough pools make an ocean.
Each of us will do our little piece.
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Each of us is just a drop.
Enough drops fill a bucket.
Enough buckets fill a pool.
Enough pools make an ocean.
Each of us will do our little piece.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Land of the free… oh, not for you, just me.🙄Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.🌊
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
February 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Land of the free… oh, not for you, just me.🙄Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.🌊
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I'm talking about friends these days. And loneliness. This watercolour print is called Friends Matter. Even animal ones. Look: we matter, and we matter to each other. Love is what connects us. To ourselves. To each other. To nature. To the animals. To the earth. Friends matter! You matter to me.
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
I'm talking about friends these days. And loneliness. This watercolour print is called Friends Matter. Even animal ones. Look: we matter, and we matter to each other. Love is what connects us. To ourselves. To each other. To nature. To the animals. To the earth. Friends matter! You matter to me.
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Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion.
Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4
Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4
February 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion.
Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4
Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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As @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social observed, dominant caste members perceive any moves towards equal justice as intolerable attacks on their traditional unearned status & privilege. They’d rather tear down the nation than live on equal terms with the subordinate caste, & now, here we are. [gift link]
Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin (Published 2020)
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
As @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social observed, dominant caste members perceive any moves towards equal justice as intolerable attacks on their traditional unearned status & privilege. They’d rather tear down the nation than live on equal terms with the subordinate caste, & now, here we are. [gift link]
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Scary Movie 4 Writer to Adapt Baldur's Gate 3 For HBO
HBO Is Making a Baldur’s Gate 3 Series, and the Game’s Creators Aren't Involved - Reactor
The show will pick up where Baldur's Gate 3 left off but feature new characters and storylines
reactormag.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Scary Movie 4 Writer to Adapt Baldur's Gate 3 For HBO
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Then a federal judge ordered his release and I escorted him and his father home to Minnesota.
But now the Trump Administration is trying to take him again. They are breaking legal precedent in an attempt to break this boy’s spirit and all of the Americans who are praying for him.
But now the Trump Administration is trying to take him again. They are breaking legal precedent in an attempt to break this boy’s spirit and all of the Americans who are praying for him.
February 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Then a federal judge ordered his release and I escorted him and his father home to Minnesota.
But now the Trump Administration is trying to take him again. They are breaking legal precedent in an attempt to break this boy’s spirit and all of the Americans who are praying for him.
But now the Trump Administration is trying to take him again. They are breaking legal precedent in an attempt to break this boy’s spirit and all of the Americans who are praying for him.
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Amazing how many golden opportunities women are all talking about having missed because we didn't want to get groped or worse
I studied at a top uni. This famous professor who normally gave no lectures had a small informal seminar, I was told it would be a great opportunity but then a grad student pulled me aside to warn me that The Professor liked pretty young girls, to be carful. I never went.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Amazing how many golden opportunities women are all talking about having missed because we didn't want to get groped or worse
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Future generations will marvel at how petty the dictator was.
Trump Reportedly Demanded His Name on Penn Station in Exchange for Unfreezing Tunnel Project Funds
www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
Trump Reportedly Demanded His Name on Penn Station in Exchange for Unfreezing Tunnel Project Funds
President Donald Trump reportedly demanded that Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agree to put Trump's name on Penn Station in New York and Washington's Dulles International Airport.
www.mediaite.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Future generations will marvel at how petty the dictator was.
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And the percentage of those detainees who have NO criminal convictions continues to rise — up from 70% in December to 74% in January.
NEW: ICE arrested 36,579 people in January compared with December (37,842); the numbers haven’t changed much since October (36,621), according to new estimates.
https://stateline.org/2026/02/05/immigration-detention-passed-70000-in-january/
https://stateline.org/2026/02/05/immigration-detention-passed-70000-in-january/
Immigration detention passed 70,000 in January • Stateline
Despite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Minnesota, ICE arrests were down slightly in January compared to December, according to new data. Immigrant detention nationwide reached a new high in January, and a growing percentage — nearly three-quarters — of people in detention have no criminal convictions.
stateline.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
And the percentage of those detainees who have NO criminal convictions continues to rise — up from 70% in December to 74% in January.
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Dating myself but I'm old enough to remember that even before 2017 raping underage girls was considered "illegal" and "uncool."
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Dating myself but I'm old enough to remember that even before 2017 raping underage girls was considered "illegal" and "uncool."
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you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM
you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
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I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
What part of “Never Again” are we missing?💔
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
What part of “Never Again” are we missing?💔
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It’s day 63 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Today another district had to cancel school- this time for a bomb threat after going public about the impacts of the ICE surge on their district.
All kids deserve to go to school without fear. But that’s impossible for our kids right now.
Today another district had to cancel school- this time for a bomb threat after going public about the impacts of the ICE surge on their district.
All kids deserve to go to school without fear. But that’s impossible for our kids right now.
February 3, 2026 at 5:14 AM
It’s day 63 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Today another district had to cancel school- this time for a bomb threat after going public about the impacts of the ICE surge on their district.
All kids deserve to go to school without fear. But that’s impossible for our kids right now.
Today another district had to cancel school- this time for a bomb threat after going public about the impacts of the ICE surge on their district.
All kids deserve to go to school without fear. But that’s impossible for our kids right now.
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The ICE surge in Minnesota has meant dogs losing homes. If you can foster Murphy, get in touch at the email listed.
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The ICE surge in Minnesota has meant dogs losing homes. If you can foster Murphy, get in touch at the email listed.
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The original of Gaze sold but there are prints going out to people who haven't forgotten and still care. You know, those who commit genocide don't intend to stop until their objective is achieved.
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
The original of Gaze sold but there are prints going out to people who haven't forgotten and still care. You know, those who commit genocide don't intend to stop until their objective is achieved.