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tusk81 , 2 hours ago to random

“At least a half-dozen top officials in the current Trump administration have connections to Jeffrey Epstein, according to an NBC News review of some of the over 3 million documents the Justice Department has released.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/least-half-dozen-top-trump-administration-officials-appear-jeffrey-eps-rcna258749

tusk81 , 2 hours ago to random

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“This revelation adds to the mounting pile of evidence undermining statements from Attorney General Pam Bondi and other senior administration officials assuring the public that the Epstein file release has been transparent, complete, and bereft of any evidence implicating Trump in wrongdoing.”

tusk81 , 8 days ago to random

"Chappell Roan has announced she left Wasserman after the agency's founder, Casey Wasserman, was named in the latest batch of Epstein files, released by the Department of Justice on Jan. 30."

"Artists deserve representation that aligns with their values and supports their safety and dignity," she wrote. "This decision reflects my belief that meaningful change in our industry requires accountability and leadership that earns trust."

https://people.com/chappell-roan-left-wasserman-agency-founder-named-epstein-files-11903270

tusk81 , 9 days ago to random

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“In the end, before triumphantly walking out to the title track of his album, Bad Bunny raised a football that read ‘Together, we are America.’ It served a dual-purpose: as a reclamation of the name to mean the American continent rather than just the United States and a reminder that we, no matter what this administration may say, we all belong in this country.”

tusk81 , 9 days ago to random

“Towards the end of the show, he said ‘God bless America’ before launching into a roll call of all the countries in the American continent. Performers ran out of the field holding each country’s flag, many of which have been touched in one way or another by U.S. imperialism, in a move that also de-centered the idea of this country as the singular ‘America.’” https://www.thecut.com/article/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-puerto-rico-meaning-references.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share

tusk81 , 14 days ago to random

“One of the agents came up to me with his cell phone and took a photograph of me," said Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times by Border Patrol. "It was the same agent who had previously kept coming in and out [of my hospital] room, and I had to repeatedly tell him to leave. I told him I did not consent … but he did not care. It still haunts me that this agent has my photo on his phone. Was this the agent that shot me? Was this a trophy for him?” https://newrepublic.com/post/206108/woman-shot-border-patrol-marimar-martinez-agent-trophy-photo

tusk81 , 18 days ago to random

Laughter is peace and therefore Catherine O’Hara deserves a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize.

tusk81 , 19 days ago to random

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$170 billion could have paid for meals for schoolkids for a full decade.

$170 billion could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over.

$170 billion could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ years.

Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.

tusk81 , 19 days ago to random

As we noted at America’s Voice last year, $170 billion in anti-immigrant funding could instead have built more than 7,000 new elementary schools, paid for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or funded Head Start for nearly 14 years 👇🏽 https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/stephen-miller-is-getting-170-billion?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

tusk81 , 22 days ago to random

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.

On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.

ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says. https://people.com/ice-denies-detainees-request-to-attend-his-sons-funeral-attorney-says-11893834

tusk81 , 22 days ago to random

"Vance's comments are once again a moral stain on our collective witness of Catholicism — but they are no longer surprising. Given its scandal, the vice president's cafeteria Catholicism must continue to be repudiated by people of faith.

Unfortunately, Vance is not the only Catholic who has chosen MAGA over Jesus.”

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/catholics-must-decide-if-they-serve-donald-trump-or-gospel

tusk81 , 23 days ago to random

“Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent, racist, and lawless agency that poses a dire public health threat to all of our communities.” https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-action-in-honor-of-alex-pretti-rn-and-all-others-killed-by-ice

tusk81 , 24 days ago to random

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“Federal agents executed an American in an American city, who was protesting the earlier extra-judicial killing of another American, who was protesting the brutality of federal agents.”

tusk81 , 28 days ago to random

“At least 100 rabbis and other Jewish leaders are expected to join the growing coalition of clergy, union leaders and community activists gathering in Minneapolis on Thursday (Jan. 22) and Friday to protest the massive show of force by federal immigration agencies in Minnesota in recent weeks.” https://religionnews.com/2026/01/21/this-goes-against-everything-that-my-religion-teaches-us-rabbis-respond-to-ice-raids/

tusk81 , 29 days ago to random

“A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention officer in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a Nicaraguan woman, who was a detainee, on multiple occasions over the span of a number of months.” https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2026/01/20/ice-agent-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-assault-of-detainee-what-to-know/88257531007/

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bruce-springsteen-dedicates-renee-good-ice-gestapo-tactics-1236634267/

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“Justice Brett Kavanaugh does not seem happy that his name has become synonymous with racist immigration enforcement.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html?pay=1768414238117&support_journalism=please

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“Duran Duran paused a sold-out Northern California concert to honor Renée Nicole Good, the Minnesota woman whose killing by a federal immigration officer has sparked protests and national outrage.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/duran-duran-ice-shooting-21287724.php

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

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Rev. Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity “said this moment is also an opportunity to remember other deaths resulting from ICE actions, like Jaime Alanís, a farmworker in Ventura who fell off a greenhouse roof during an ICE raid in July ...” #ICEOutForGood

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

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Bay Area rapid response networks “are reporting an increased interest in volunteer training after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday.” https://www.kqed.org/news/12069104/bay-area-immigrant-defense-groups-report-surge-in-support-after-minneapolis-ice-killing #ICEOutForGood

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“A crowd of hundreds also gathered at Ocean Beach in San Francisco to form a human banner spelling ‘IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT.’” https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ice-protests-trump-immigration-21285433.php #ICEOutForGood

ALT

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“… Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mar-a-lago-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump/

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

"Minnesota officials say the feds have blocked them from investigating ICE shooting."

“‘My question is, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of an independent investigation for?’ Ellison questioned.”

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-01-08-26?post-id=cmk5m7fzj00183b6ppye5qu4r&Date=20260108&Profile=CNN,CNN+Politics&utm_content=1767891102&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

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“In another video, a person wearing the same outfit as the distraught woman can be seen leaning over a bloodied body in the driver’s seat of the SUV.”

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“‘They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do,’ the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. ‘We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,’ the woman cries.” https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“The court’s 6-3 decision deals a significant blow to Trump’s authoritarian goal of exerting military control over cities and integrating soldiers into routine policing. The ruling will likely also undermine his military intervention in Los Angeles and his attempted deployment in Portland, Oregon.” https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-chicago-deployment/

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

“The episode deepened concerns that had already emerged from the Justice Department’s much-anticipated document release.”

“Some of the most consequential records expected about Epstein are nowhere to be found in the Justice Department’s initial disclosures, which span tens of thousands of pages.” https://apnews.com/article/release-epstein-files-justice-department-trump-9290fcaad1cb6fcb1cbc1befabc01994

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

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When community members from border ogre Tom Homan’s hometown of Sackets Harbor—population 1,500—found out that a local dairy worker and her children had been indiscriminately rounded up, a crowd of 1,000 turned out to protest and successfully demand their freedom👇🏽

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

We are going to need a restoration task force to reverse all of the old man’s vandalism.

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

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In Oregon, “student-led walkout against ICE draws 1,600 protesters from eight Hillsboro schools.”

“‘We never expected this many people,’ said Diego, a Hillsboro High School junior who helped organize the protest …”

https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2025/12/student-led-walkout-against-ice-draws-1600-protesters-from-eight-hillsboro-schools.html

tusk81 , 1 month ago to random

Dulce Consuelo Morales Diaz "was born in 2003 in Prince George’s County. Today, instead of preparing for Christmas with her family, she is being held inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, 1,200 miles away from the hospital where she entered the world as an American citizen."

https://www.nickvalencianews.com/p/ice-detained-a-us-born-american-citizen?r=cxpc&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

Widow receives husband's immigration approval letter 2 months after he was killed in ICE office shooting: https://people.com/widow-receives-husband-immigration-approval-letter-two-months-after-killed-ice-shooting-11871952

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

"Federal judge issues restraining order forbidding agents from re-detaining Abrego Garcia."

"Judge Paula Xinis argued that Ábrego García was likely to suffer 'irreparable harm' absent a court order barring ICE from imprisoning him.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ice?share_id=9089187

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

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“… the proposal to support a mid-decade gerrymander in Indiana was rejected by a vote of 19 in favor to 31 opposed, with 21 Republican state senators crossing the aisle to vote with all 10 Democrats to torpedo the measure …”

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

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Rep. Delia Ramirez: “Your options are limited. You either resign, Trump fires you, or you will be impeached.” https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-ramirez-takes-first-step-towards-impeachment-dhs-secretary-noem

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

“White House rage baiting artists for free promo is PEAK DARK ..inhumanity + shock and aw tactics ... Evil n Boring,” SZA wrote, calling the decision to pair her track with the video "rage baiting artists" for engagement: https://people.com/sza-slams-white-house-for-rage-baiting-artists-11866692

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

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“In 2019, researchers estimated that CBP officers are 5 times more likely to be arrested than local and state law enforcement personnel. CBP personel have been arrested for corruption, sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and sex crimes against children.” https://www.southernborder.org/border_lens_abuse_of_power_and_its_consequences

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115681008610718118

“The Epstein Files Transparency Act, enacted last month, ordered US attorney-general Pam Bondi to hand over all unclassified material in the Epstein case by December 19.”

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

“To tear families apart is to wound the very heart of God,” said Father Gary, who walked 800 miles from the childhood home of Pope Leo in Illinois to the Statue of Liberty in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. “And now, after all these miles, I say again: It is time to step up. It is time to speak out.” https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/chicago-priest-walks-800-miles-in?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

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"Minnesota is home to the nation’s largest Somali community. These residents are our colleagues, friends, law enforcement officers, public servants, neighbors and taxpayers. That Trump would demonize an entire diaspora — the vast majority of whom live here as legal citizens or permanent residents — is beyond reprehensible. It’s dangerous."

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115606171319187664

From last week: “Responding with a lengthy joint statement, the lawmakers behind the video reiterated their commitment to the oaths they took, and said that ‘what’s most telling is that the president considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law.’” https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-sedition

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

“I am heartened by today’s victory and grateful for the prayers and support I have received from around the country.

“I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day.”

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-releases-statement-dismissal-doj-indictment

tusk81 , 2 months ago to random

"Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?

Well, it seems that those texts—and the looming release of even more potentially damaging messages—are now prompting federal prosecutors to move to dismiss their charges against the woman, who prosecutors had accused of assaulting an officer."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/marimar-martinez-charles-exum-border-patrol-agent-shot-bragged/

tusk81 , 3 months ago to random

“Trump not only promised and didn’t deliver; he is insisting that grocery prices are down, as though somehow the cash registers across America have been rigged and the grocery clerks are lying to us. That is some high-level Emperor’s New Clothes action. That is shibai on high.” https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/lee-cataluna-donald-trumps-big-shibai/

tusk81 , 3 months ago to random

ICE agents “can put away their assault rifles and bully sticks,” hundreds of clergy members write. “They can give up their pepper spray and rubber bullets. They can choose not to do this, cross to the other side of the fence and join us for communion.”

“It’s not too late to repent.” https://americasvoice.org/blog/hundreds-of-clergy-issue-stinging-rebuke-of-dhs-sec-kristi-noems-immoral-mass-deportation-agenda/

tusk81 , 3 months ago to random

“For more than an hour, residents screamed, videotaped and tailed federal vehicles, raucously honking horns to send the message: Their operation is not welcome here.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/us/chicago-ice-raids-resistance-efforts