Kindred spirit
@kindredme.bsky.social
Reposted by Kindred spirit
ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 AM
ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
ICYMI: on Fri, NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran was convicted for killing #EricDuprey - making him the first active NYPD officer to be convicted for killing a NYer in a DECADE. Duran threw a cooler at Eric Duprey while he was riding his scooter back in 2023 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/n...
February 9, 2026 at 6:39 PM
ICYMI: on Fri, NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran was convicted for killing #EricDuprey - making him the first active NYPD officer to be convicted for killing a NYer in a DECADE. Duran threw a cooler at Eric Duprey while he was riding his scooter back in 2023 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/n...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Bronx is already overpoliced. Commish Tisch’s decision to flood BX with more cops isn’t safety-it’s a threat. BX has 3 of the 5 worst precincts for excessive force. Since 2019, 7 BX precincts have bled >$2M EACH in settlements. How much will this cost Black+Latine BXers? www.amny.com/new-york/sta...
State of the NYPD: Tisch says Bronx will be split into two patrol boroughs, bringing in more cops | amNewYork
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Tuesday that the NYPD will divide the Bronx into two patrol boroughs, allowing the department to bring more
www.amny.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Bronx is already overpoliced. Commish Tisch’s decision to flood BX with more cops isn’t safety-it’s a threat. BX has 3 of the 5 worst precincts for excessive force. Since 2019, 7 BX precincts have bled >$2M EACH in settlements. How much will this cost Black+Latine BXers? www.amny.com/new-york/sta...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
#ICEWatch #CopWatch are key tools to keep our communities safe(r) by watching & documenting law enforcement to deter/de-escalate violence. Its legal + protected but comes with risks - esp in this moment. Here's some updated guidelines to stay safe(r): bit.ly/watch-cops
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
#ICEWatch #CopWatch are key tools to keep our communities safe(r) by watching & documenting law enforcement to deter/de-escalate violence. Its legal + protected but comes with risks - esp in this moment. Here's some updated guidelines to stay safe(r): bit.ly/watch-cops
Reposted by Kindred spirit
I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months.
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World | Podcast with Dean Spade
YouTube video by Dean Spade
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months.
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Reposted by Kindred spirit
“Black” is being flagged as a potentially prohibited word violating anti-DEI law at multiple Florida Universities. My interview this week with @grundrza.bsky.social documents his event being flagged because the flyer said “Black.”
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
“Black” is being flagged as a potentially prohibited word violating anti-DEI law at multiple Florida Universities. My interview this week with @grundrza.bsky.social documents his event being flagged because the flyer said “Black.”
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
Who is Leqaa Kordia, the Columbia protester still in ICE detention?
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
www.aljazeera.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
Reposted by Kindred spirit
His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.
February 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.
Reposted by Kindred spirit
BREAKING: 4 students at the University of Minnesota are currently chained to Morrill Hall, demanding that their school end all cooperations with ICE and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.
February 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
BREAKING: 4 students at the University of Minnesota are currently chained to Morrill Hall, demanding that their school end all cooperations with ICE and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.
Reposted by Kindred spirit
"There’s a lot that’s been written and said about Operation Metro Surge and life in Minnesota. The thing I want to articulate here in this post is the dialectic, the both-and." @krgonzales.bsky.social terradivina.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch from Minneapolis in Midwinter
It feels like the End and the Beginning all at once
terradivina.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:19 PM
"There’s a lot that’s been written and said about Operation Metro Surge and life in Minnesota. The thing I want to articulate here in this post is the dialectic, the both-and." @krgonzales.bsky.social terradivina.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Katie Paris founded Red, Wine & Blue to harness suburban women's political power — now more than 600,000 members are deploying it to oppose ICE in their communities.
The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing to support Haitians in Springfield.
Katie Paris founded Red, Wine & Blue to harness suburban women's political power — now more than 600,000 members are deploying it to oppose ICE in their communities.
19thnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Katie Paris founded Red, Wine & Blue to harness suburban women's political power — now more than 600,000 members are deploying it to oppose ICE in their communities.
Reposted by Kindred spirit
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
State Rep. Erin Zwiener, a Democrat whose district includes Kyle, criticized Abbott on Tuesday for not acknowledging an incident involving a 45-year-old man fighting a group of minors who were participating in the protests. Police arrested the man and described him as “the primary aggressor.”
Texas Education Agency warns districts of potential state takeovers for 'encouraging' student protests
The state education agency issued guidance to districts after Gov. Greg Abbott directed its commissioner to investigate the student protests of killings by federal agents.
www.kut.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 AM
State Rep. Erin Zwiener, a Democrat whose district includes Kyle, criticized Abbott on Tuesday for not acknowledging an incident involving a 45-year-old man fighting a group of minors who were participating in the protests. Police arrested the man and described him as “the primary aggressor.”
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents
Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...
www.mprnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Incredible organizing and concerted pressure from across the country just won this!
B.C.-based billionaire Jim Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won’t proceed
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/30/b...
B.C.-based billionaire Jim Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won’t proceed
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/30/b...
B.C.-based Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won't proceed
Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
vancouver.citynews.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Incredible organizing and concerted pressure from across the country just won this!
B.C.-based billionaire Jim Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won’t proceed
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/30/b...
B.C.-based billionaire Jim Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won’t proceed
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/30/b...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Instead of backing #NY4All (banning all cop/jail/prison collaboration with ICE) or #DignityNotDetention (blocking ICE detention facilities in NYS), Hochul is backing a new bill that'd bar 287(g)s & some gov't contracts—BUT ONLY UNTIL TRUMP LEAVES OFFICE. Traaash. www.governor.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
www.governor.ny.gov
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Instead of backing #NY4All (banning all cop/jail/prison collaboration with ICE) or #DignityNotDetention (blocking ICE detention facilities in NYS), Hochul is backing a new bill that'd bar 287(g)s & some gov't contracts—BUT ONLY UNTIL TRUMP LEAVES OFFICE. Traaash. www.governor.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 AM
"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "
Reposted by Kindred spirit
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Reposted by Kindred spirit
14 yrs ago, NYPD followed #RamarleyGraham home, kicked in the door and killed him in front of his grandma & 6yr-old brother. He was only 18.
His family's yrs-long fight finally forced Richard Haste & Sgt. Scott Morris out of the NYPD. We send love to them today & everyday. #NeverForget #RestInPower
His family's yrs-long fight finally forced Richard Haste & Sgt. Scott Morris out of the NYPD. We send love to them today & everyday. #NeverForget #RestInPower
February 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
14 yrs ago, NYPD followed #RamarleyGraham home, kicked in the door and killed him in front of his grandma & 6yr-old brother. He was only 18.
His family's yrs-long fight finally forced Richard Haste & Sgt. Scott Morris out of the NYPD. We send love to them today & everyday. #NeverForget #RestInPower
His family's yrs-long fight finally forced Richard Haste & Sgt. Scott Morris out of the NYPD. We send love to them today & everyday. #NeverForget #RestInPower
Reposted by Kindred spirit
27 years ago, #AmadouDiallo was killed in the Bronx by four NYPD Street Crimes Unit officers from the 43rd precinct. The officers fired 41 shots, ending his life at age 23. Amadou was unarmed.
Today and everyday, we send our love to Amadou's family. #NeverForget #BlackLivesMatter #RestInPower
Today and everyday, we send our love to Amadou's family. #NeverForget #BlackLivesMatter #RestInPower
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
27 years ago, #AmadouDiallo was killed in the Bronx by four NYPD Street Crimes Unit officers from the 43rd precinct. The officers fired 41 shots, ending his life at age 23. Amadou was unarmed.
Today and everyday, we send our love to Amadou's family. #NeverForget #BlackLivesMatter #RestInPower
Today and everyday, we send our love to Amadou's family. #NeverForget #BlackLivesMatter #RestInPower
Reposted by Kindred spirit
If @NYCMayor is serious about removing NYPD from mental health, as he campaigned, he must stop defending police-led/co-response models and invest in community-based, non-police crisis response and preventative & post-crisis care.
Read our full statement: buff.ly/on8IqHs
Read our full statement: buff.ly/on8IqHs
February 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If @NYCMayor is serious about removing NYPD from mental health, as he campaigned, he must stop defending police-led/co-response models and invest in community-based, non-police crisis response and preventative & post-crisis care.
Read our full statement: buff.ly/on8IqHs
Read our full statement: buff.ly/on8IqHs
Reposted by Kindred spirit
DEMANDS:
Release the full, unedited bodycam footage to the family
Uncuff from Jabez while he recovers
@QueensDAKatz do not to seek charges against Jabez
@NYCMayor + NYPD: fire Officer White for needlessly choosing to shoot Jabez, fire others who violated the Chakrabortys’ rights
Release the full, unedited bodycam footage to the family
Uncuff from Jabez while he recovers
@QueensDAKatz do not to seek charges against Jabez
@NYCMayor + NYPD: fire Officer White for needlessly choosing to shoot Jabez, fire others who violated the Chakrabortys’ rights
February 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
DEMANDS:
Release the full, unedited bodycam footage to the family
Uncuff from Jabez while he recovers
@QueensDAKatz do not to seek charges against Jabez
@NYCMayor + NYPD: fire Officer White for needlessly choosing to shoot Jabez, fire others who violated the Chakrabortys’ rights
Release the full, unedited bodycam footage to the family
Uncuff from Jabez while he recovers
@QueensDAKatz do not to seek charges against Jabez
@NYCMayor + NYPD: fire Officer White for needlessly choosing to shoot Jabez, fire others who violated the Chakrabortys’ rights
Reposted by Kindred spirit
Yesterday NYPD released partial bodycam footage of Officer Tyree White shooting #JabezChakraborty in front of his family after they called 911 for help. White immediately barked orders & drew his gun - proving NYPD is the wrong agency to respond to crisis calls. buff.ly/on8IqHs
February 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Yesterday NYPD released partial bodycam footage of Officer Tyree White shooting #JabezChakraborty in front of his family after they called 911 for help. White immediately barked orders & drew his gun - proving NYPD is the wrong agency to respond to crisis calls. buff.ly/on8IqHs
Reposted by Kindred spirit
CM Inna Vernikov, who once showed up to a pro-Palestine protest open carrying, has thoughts about Alex Pretti
January 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM
CM Inna Vernikov, who once showed up to a pro-Palestine protest open carrying, has thoughts about Alex Pretti