I wish I lived in a country where our elected officials in Congress had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.

@JustRosy Live long and Prosper

I think we can all agree that ICE agents are violent, angry, amoral, stupid, troglodytes. We don't need more proof.

#FuckICE

"When family members arrived on the scene in Eagle County, Colorado, their loved ones had already been disappeared by federal agents. But what they found inside the vehicles was disturbing: a customized ace of spades playing card — popularly known as a 'death card' — that read 'ICE Denver Field Office.'"

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/03/ice-death-cards-ace-of-spades-colorado/

#ICE #Colorado #immigration

Trump orders removal of Native American signage at national park

The racist Trump regime has flagged two exhibits at Montana's Little Bighorn National Monument as non-compliant, targeting displays that honor tribal sacrifices and reflect on the historic battle known as Custer's Last Stand
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
https://share.newsbreak.com/h3vlwbf4

My American friends, you deserve to have representatives that honor your wishes and your values and defend your rights.

These people don't:

SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/

Good News in Hard Times.

Whooo hooo!

ALL FIVE of Biden's giant offshore wind projects are back.

Trump cancelled all of them.

Over the last months every massive wind project has fought Trump in court. And won.

All five have been successful.

https://electrek.co/2026/02/02/us-offshore-wind-backlash-grows-as-empire-revolution-wind-sue-trump-admin/

#climate #whoohooo #pushback #victories #build #musk #fail #tyrant #nokings

“From 2005 to 2024, nearly 5,000 CBP and Border Patrol officers were arrested, according to the journalist Garrett Graff … ’The crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States,’ Graff writes. Statistically speaking, ‘worst of the worst’ seems to describe CBP and the Border Patrol as law-enforcement agencies better than it does the people they’re rounding up.”

#uspol #cbp #crime

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/

Canticle (Recommended with suspension of disbelief)

Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards. Fanatic rapturously, tingly in love with God. Vivid 13th-century Bruges. #bookstodon #booklovers #books #bookreviews

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/canticle-recommended-with-suspension-of-disbelief/

“Your vote doesn’t matter” is compliance in advance.

Yes, even in America.

Video: ICE seen detaining parents and guardians at schools during pick-up times | 0:54

This is an absolutely heartbreaking video. What monsters!

h/t Barbara Sobel @barbaraj.sobel on Threads

Spent almost four hours with the birds this morning. Gotta clear the cards and charge the batteries for next round tomorrow!

"Some very kind pilots on the @ delta flight from San Antonio - Minneapolis today. 5 year old, Liam Conejo Ramos was in Heaven.
What a difference 24 hours make. From DHS detention in Texas - to this. Being a kid again. And now, Liam is home again."

video via John Quinones Correspondent, 20/20, ABC News; Host, What Would You Do?
#LiamConejoRamos #LiamRamos
#ICE #Minneapolis

Yesterday’s Alex Pretti memorial ride in Portland ended by passing the Portland ICE facility and of course ICE tear-gassed the crowd, including kids on bikes.

Thursday in Salem, Oregon, feds tore a US citizen’s rotator cuff yanking her out of a car window.

The Minneapolis surge really is coming for us all.

Mayor demands ICE militants exit his city after they bomb a peaceful civilian protest with chemical irritant weapons, with many mothers & small children present and no clear path to safety.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration was peaceful, “where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat and posed no danger” to federal agents.

https://apnews.com/article/portland-protest-tear-gas-mayor-keith-wilson-1f21fc3d3d4b7a2874239a29ece52c06

So, rather than watch the rest of the performers bow out of gigs, he's just going to close it down for construction? Can't wait to see what he does with the place. From WaPo:

"Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July. Under the proposal, the Kennedy Center could close on July 4, coinciding with America’s 250th anniversary."

“I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “In other words, if we don’t close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/02/01/kennedy-center-trump-closure-construction/

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Minneapolis #AlexPretti #Immigration #Protest #CBP #BorderPatrol

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576

I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.

Rep. Joaquin Castro picked up #LiamRamos and his father from the Dilley #Texas #ICE camp where they were wrongly held and escorted them back to #Minneapolis, where they were greeted by Rep. Ilhan Omar.

As Gov Tim Walz said, "It shouldn't take a court order to get a toddler out of prison," but Liam and his dad are home. Pressure DOES work.

#DHS #FuckICE