Screenshot of a post on X by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@R…) stating: “NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all—no criminal convictions and no pending criminal charges.” Below the text is a line chart titled “Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the Interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 7, 2026.” The chart shows three lines—prior convictions, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record—with a sharp rise near the end in the “no criminal record” category. The source is listed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It’s not about keeping us safe from criminals. This is ethnic cleansing.

The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car.

He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times.

The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”.

They hate women & it shows.

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 Official White House Rapid Response account. Supporting @POTUS 's America First agenda and holding the Fake News accountable. MAGA! 60 Following 1.3M Followers Post See new posts Conversation Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 NEW: @USDA is suspending all federal funding to the State of Minnesota — effective immediately.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Great read.

I enjoyed this too -- the ex-mas celebration seems wonderful. Also love: "Freedom From Want, a painting intended to remind us of the plenty in our lives, has come instead to function as a reminder of what we lack, an unachievable ideal of comity and togetherness. Truly it was an illusion all along."

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

Renee Good's poem:

i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,...

poets.org/2020-on-lear...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy, by David Mosse – 30 October 2019 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

Where Does Caste Fit in A Global History of Racial Capitalism?, by Sheetal Chhabria – 13 July 2023 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

This issue includes a #ClassicsRevisited collection on Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism and beyond, including contributions by Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social, Anuja Bose, Sheetal Chhabria, Sharon Wright Austin, Kris F. Sealey, and H. L. T. Quan, w/ an introduction by Robyn Marasco.

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

To them every part of government - even Social Security - is just a source of enrichment for their billionaire friends. "Privatizing" Social Security is just about getting Wall Street a bunch of fees to manage money.

I wish @ACLU would run for president, like the whole organization as a team.

If citizens united grants corporations personhood, then @aclu.org and @aclum.bsky.social can run for president.

And such an invocation of history makes it seem like we can all just kick back and watch things unfold towards their historically-sanctioned destiny.

“What good is a union in hell?”

An urgent question for every labor organizer who thinks bread and butter issues are all that matter.

A new kind of sick.

Trump Administration Will Burn 500 Tons of Food Meant to Feed 1.5 Million Children - People

Federal immigration agents can now deport people to countries that aren’t even their own, with as little as six hours’ notice.

American Gun Violence Goes Global Its spread is distorting and diminishing U.S. soft power.

“Gun violence has become a cutting-edge U.S. export—but one that will harm, not help, its positive balance of power. If U.S. policymakers do not take gun violence more seriously, they will only ensure that this balance goes further off kilter.” - Jacob Ware, Everytown Survivor Fellow

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.

It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.

"There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery." —Karl Marx

Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist? The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.

🚨 🇺🇸 #ICE delay taking detained woman to hospital—left her handcuffed & covered in own vomit for 8 hours.

She suffered medical emergency during arrest—not given medical care.

Now agents stalk the hallways & lobby of hospital 24/7—creating "hostile environment" for staff & patients.

Report from someone at federal immigration court (26 Federal Plaza) in NYC:

“I’ve seen at least two detainments today where they [ICE agents] haven’t even let them [asylum-seekers] go to their hearings first.”

Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza Both tout controversial proposal to push Palestinians, who are being bombed and displaced by Israel, to other countries.

War criminals discuss war crime -

Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza flip.it/uoDT._

Student loan cancellation program could become Trump retribution tool, some advocates fear President Donald Trump is revamping the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, sparking concerns it could become a tool for political retribution.

Trump understands that federal student loan debt is a tool of social control — a way to structure society based on who gets relief and who doesn't.

Sadly, he's using it to keep people indebted when he could use it to liberate people. This is classism.
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Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies."

BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave

The wretched, murderous aid scheme in Gaza was developed by the Boston Consulting Group—along with schemes to "relocate" Palestinians. The company blames rogue elements.

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