S.G. Sarmiento
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Bluesky aficionado, lawyer, musician, NDLON campaign director … And now a dad ! ❤️❤️❤️ #chavinsky
Greece has joined the European protests in France, Spain, Italy and Albania. We are sick and tired of billionaires and their blatant theft.
ICE Says It Didn’t Hit a Biker With a Car. Video Raises Questions. Video footage shows the moment in Long Beach, Calif., when a vehicle swerves toward an oncoming cyclist. The mayor has called for an in https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/ice-detain-citizen-california-video-ricardo-gonzalez.html
ICE Says It Didn’t Hit a Biker With a Car. Video Raises Questions.
Video footage shows the moment in Long Beach, Calif., when a vehicle swerves toward an oncoming cyclist. The mayor has called for an investigation into ICE agents’ treatment of the rider.
nytimes.com
Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
Sentenced to death at 17, at 68, quilt artist receives solo museum exhibition
A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
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The protesters are the only people at Trump’s rally who aren’t lying.
Iowa officials are being asked to do ICE’s dirty work. Nope. In the news: SCOTUS has asked for the solicitor general's view on whether Iowa can implement a law allowing state officials to arrest previously deported noncitizens and requiring state judges to order them deported.
Nope Brennan Huff from Step Brothers
ALT: Nope Brennan Huff from Step Brothers
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It doesn't matter if 6M or 8M people attended the #NoKings rallies on October 17th. . . What matters is that these #GetOutTheVote events had absolutely no comparable nationwide mobilization from Republicans. Now let's turn that energy into votes and #FlipTheHouseAndSenateBlue Below: Los Angeles
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks to Los Angeles No Kings protesters about why they're rallying during a special edition of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. "This is one small step in really making change."
My second favorite city in the United States, Los Angeles!
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d agoLos Angeles, California, turned out. 👏
Shame on those that enable this corruption, n pretend they don’t know. “we are being used as pawns…,” said the HSI official [re] a shift away from the ICE branch’s traditional areas... “I think everything … is related to the midterms and to stoke divisive fires.” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...
Inside ICE, Officials Question String of Trump Admin “Midterm Panic Moves”
One ICE official said the timing of the raid on Ilhan Omar’s home was “politically motivated.”
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These illegal settlers are among the worst people on Earth. Modern-day homicidal pirates aggressively enabled by a far-right genocidal government. I think of them as being like the Reavers from Firefly.
Israeli settlers attack olive farmers and Washington Post journalist in West Bank
Settlers hurl rocks at Palestinians and beat photographer Heidi Levine as part of yearly attacks to disrupt harvest
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Three little kids and a teacher were shot and killed at their school today in Bend, Oregon. Two more were injured. Our hearts are broken and we’re angry. It’s disgraceful that extremists keep blocking critical, lifesaving laws while kids die in their classrooms. America can do better. It must.
“CA is confronting these threats head-on. As we surge resources to protect communities facing dangerous… we are also moving with urgency to... We will continue using every tool at our disposal to keep Californians safe ...” —Gov Gavin Newsom rightfully responding to fires, just not ICE violence
Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
nytimes.com
Collins “has received over $130,000 from top ICE contractors—including Palantir Technologies, CoreCivic and the Geo Group — that are profiting off vicious mass deportation policies. Before the second Trump administration, Collins received just $2,850 from ICE contractors, their employees and PACs.”
ICE contractors reward Susan Collins’ loyalty with campaign donations - Maine Beacon
Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the three-month anniversary of the ICE killing of 25-year old delivery driver Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, and his murderer still has not been brought to justice...
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He did succeed in helping Dems cede ample ground to the xenophobic takeover of US politics. “Emanuel also sought, unsuccessfully, to turn Clinton into a hard-line immigration hawk, urging… record deportations of criminal aliens.” Via @rbreich.bsky.social — robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b...
The Rahm Bomb
He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.
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Necessary reading this week! This oped asks @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign the “No Side Jobs For ICE” Act, a good example of the leadership we need AND a good policy to limit ICE’s reach + to brighten that line btwn police and the violence we’re seeing, most recently in Texas.
ICE Out of CA coalition@iceoutofca.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW: Retired SD Sheriff’s Office Commander Dave Myers encourages Gov Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov to sign AB 1537, the No Side Jobs for ICE Act, in an op-ed published today by Times of San Diego. timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2026...
Beautiful day to come together to ask @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign #AB1537. There is much we can do to challenge the mass deportation agenda, much we can all do to limit ICE’s reach into our communities. Let’s make it happen. Con @hugoforcd13.bsky.social @iceoutofca.bsky.social !
Very real, very much pending conversations to be had.
Chris Newman@cnewman.bsky.social · last mo.When various commissions, roundtables, and councils are formed to deal with the aftermath of Trumpism, I want to be on a committee w/ @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Actually at this point he would be my top choice to chair of the “What Do We Do with ICE?” commission.
“Some wish they had put up more of a fight.” WAPO: Hispanics flock to this university. It let campus police double as ICE agents. Leaders of #Florida International University signed an agreement to deputize its school police as immigration agents. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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This is such an important insight, particularly for people and institutions in DC trying to decide what comes next for immigrant rights, both in the next two years, and beyond….
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last mo.Trump and Republicans are less popular by the day. Institutions and individuals folding to the Trump administration now are fundamentally misreading reality, not to mention failing in their moral obligations to society.
As someone who went through it, I promise you, it was an occupation. Looked and felt like we were being overtaken. I’m still triggered as are SO many of us. I am changed from it, it was absolute terror.
France arrests far-right policeman suspected of planning terror attack
France arrests far-right policeman suspected of planning terror attack
The officer was placed in detention pending trial in Paris in August on suspicion of making weapons and planning violent attacks, sources in law enforcement told French media on Thursday.
lemonde.fr