What our country is doing to kids is unconscionable.
Jenn Budd
@jennbudd.bsky.social
Author of Against the Wall & ICE:What everyone needs to know. Emmy award winning HBO documentary Critical Incident Death at the border. https://jennbudd.net/
guarantee you the real texts are in their personal phones. Immigration agents are “unofficially” trained to use their personal cell phones to communicate the bad stuff knowing that most attorneys will not subpoena them. calmatters.org/justice/2026...
California judge holds Homeland Security in contempt in case over LA immigration sweeps calmatters.org/justice/2026...
I've read her book and recommend it for telling the truth as she lived it. The horror is worse now.
And yet, watch as most media ignores this reporting bc they are afraid to talk about it.
Yup. This is what it was about all along - something for the international far right to us as a scare tactic.
“We have detected an intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
By the US government’s own count, they are sexually assaulting the women and children in ICE by the THOUSANDS! youtu.be/bHXGp4fFIc0?...
The Abuse Files ICE Didn't Want You to See
YouTube video by The Raid with John Carlos Frey
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And yet, watch as most media ignores this reporting bc they are afraid to talk about it.
Many yrs ago, I wrote abt my rape in the Border Patrol academy. I hoped to expose rape culture in immigration agencies & often said what they do to the migrants is worse.I was treated as a disgruntled employee & ignored. Today, THOUSANDS of rapes in ICE are being reported. youtu.be/bHXGp4fFIc0?...
Many yrs ago, I wrote abt my rape in the Border Patrol academy. I hoped to expose rape culture in immigration agencies & often said what they do to the migrants is worse.I was treated as a disgruntled employee & ignored. Today, THOUSANDS of rapes in ICE are being reported. youtu.be/bHXGp4fFIc0?...
The Abuse Files ICE Didn't Want You to See
YouTube video by The Raid with John Carlos Frey
youtu.be
"social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music" (so, female-coded professions. guess who this will hit the most?)
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
This is what happens when you let pedos be in charge; they make it legal to inspect your daughters’ hoohas. www.rawstory.com/anti-trans-s...
Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure
Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...
rawstory.com
When Trump took office, I warned there would be family separations, sexual abuse & death. All this happened in the 1950s mass deportation, something Tom Homan bragged he knew nothing about. Ignorance will not save him. open.substack.com/pub/statusco...
BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall ICE Prisoner Has Died
A Delaney Hall ICE prisoner has died, the second prisoner that we know of who has died while being imprisoned inside the for-profit New Jersey ICE prison.
open.substack.com
Well, there you have it. The rule of law is dead. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 2, 2026
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury p...
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The Immigration Policy that Could Unite Democrats Again
Over the past month, as the Trump administration pressured ICE to accelerate mass deportations, ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Bid...
open.substack.com
Anti-ICE advocates rallied outside the DHS office near Cincinnati after Haitians losing TPS were summoned for mandatory check-ins. Protesters report officials are fitting people with ankle monitors and issuing new court dates. Community members stand united against these aggressive tactics!
“For starters, when DA investigators were allowed on scene, it had already been cleared and all the key pieces of evidence—including Araujo’s body and van—and even the ICE agents involved had been whisked away.” www.texasobserver.org/houston-ice-...
Houston Is Testing Whether Trump’s ICE Is Above Texas Law
After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation into a killing within the most populous Texas city’s limits.
texasobserver.org
When it’s all over, we will discover serious abuses and violence. The US gov on both sides will try and cover it up because of “US interests.” We can’t let that happen.
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)
She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
propublica.org
Because people in this country are so accustomed to excessive punishment and surveillance, they did not detect just how many immigrants were receiving ankle monitors ("Alternatives to Detention."). The $$ means ICE has an unlimited supply. www.wyso.org/news/2026-07...
DHS summoning some Haitians to check-ins, using ankle monitors to track them
The Department of Homeland Security has notified Haitians who previously had TPS status to report to their office in Blue Ash, Ohio, for a ‘check-in."
wyso.org
“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬
Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices
Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.
npr.org
Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine has it figured out. I couldn't agree more. Fuck fascism.