Mama Bear Runner

@mamabearrunner.bsky.social

A mother who gives a damn about the world. I also run to save on therapy bills. Minneapolitan. Excessively profane.

Kevin González is only 18. He is suffering from stage 4 colon cancer and has days to live. He’s desperate to spend his last moments with his parents, but ICE detained his mom and dad after they tried to seek humanitarian asylum.

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NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

Stephanie Villarreal is a U.S. citizen and mother of 3—her youngest is 9 weeks old. Her husband was on the way to visit their newborn daughter in the NICU when ICE arrested him. He has been locked away in Laredo, Texas, at a for-profit detention center—unable to hold his baby and raise his children.

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This is an escalation by DHS. Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines. Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

Masuma Khan has lived in Altadena for nearly 30 years. Last year, despite having no criminal history, she was detained by ICE and denied the medication she needed to breathe. Her family contacted my office, and we successfully advocated for her release.

What an honor to receive @hrc.org’s 2026 Ally for Equality award at HRC South Florida’s annual dinner. Silence is not civility. Silence is complicity. As an ally, we must be louder because progress has never come from silence. These times demand the courage to stand up & fight back for equality.

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A Republican Member, Darrell Issa, tried to mansplain to me how I was conflating and making everything a “women's issue." He’s wrong — and does not understand how many issues are all interconnected. It’s a pattern of not taking sexual violence seriously. So, no, I am not the naive one.

Proud my amendment passed in the Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act in the House! It will strengthen how we identify human trafficking cases and require agencies to consult victim advocates so our response is truly survivor-centered.