Gabe Ortíz

Trying to fight the good fight at America’s Voice 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats. Cancer survivor. Views here my own.

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2026-05-03 14:51:24 UTC

“President Donald Trump has made abundantly clear that he does not want these people in the United States because he does not want people of color in the United States. But for most of Wednesday’s argument, the justices pretended to have no idea how race could be relevant to the matter before them.”
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supreme-court-tps-oral-argument-recap/

2026-05-02 17:07:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116506059468584240
“To those of you who are silent or think this does not involve you, to those of you who are not troubled by this — or worse, who applaud it — particularly those who are Catholic, I ask you: Do you not see the suffering of your neighbors?”
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#note10yr…62jw

2026-05-02 17:03:05 UTC

“Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, 55, who was smuggled into the United States in a car trunk and has publicly called for Catholics to speak out against President Donald Trump’s treatment of immigrants, was elevated from auxiliary bishop of the Washington Archdiocese to Bishop of West Virginia.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2026/05/01/pope-leo-bishops-menjivar-boxie/

2026-04-24 23:16:25 UTC

Pope Leo XIV “offered his support ‘to those who advocate for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States of America and around the world.’” https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/dispatches/2026/04/24/chicago-surprise-appearance-depaul-pope-leo-death-penalty-abolition/

2026-04-23 16:58:04 UTC

"We could hear the ICE officers laughing as they shot us,” testified Pastor David Black. “And afterwards, the DHS also posted mocking statements about us.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-pastor-david-black-testify-front-house-committee-homeland-security/18945180/

2026-04-22 02:13:21 UTC

HRH Juan Gabriel, National Portrait Gallery 🐾
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2026-04-21 20:10:29 UTC

“Amid President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration-related threats from supervisors in the fields are on the rise, farmworkers and advocates say.”
"They described instances in which bosses threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-17/on-california-farms-workers-say-threats-to-deport-them-on-rise #WeFeedYou

2026-04-20 19:37:06 UTC

"Andrea Pedro Francisco was scheduled to have surgery in Minnesota to remove an ovarian cyst on Feb. 11. But six days before, as she headed to work, the 23-year-old was arrested by immigration agents and whisked to an El Paso detention center.
The cyst is now estimated to be the size of the tennis ball, and her case has caught the attention of international human rights groups, members of Congress and religious groups from her home state of Minnesota."
https://elpasomatters.org/2026/04/20/el-paso-texas-ice-detainee-minnesota-ovarian-cyst-andrea-pedro-francisco/

2026-04-19 15:35:42 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116432052142550644
That $190 BILLION could have funded Head Start for 15 years.
That $190 BILLION could have paid for universal free school meals six times over.
But instead he wants BILLIONS MORE to abduct our immigrant neighbors and traumatize their children.
#note1uew…4uqv

2026-04-19 15:22:03 UTC

Trump claims that “it’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.”
Meanwhile, he wants BILLIONS more to fund his mass deportation obsessions on top of the $190 BILLION that DHS already got last year thanks to his ugly bill👇🏽
https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/dhs-already-got-190-billion-last?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios

2026-04-19 00:22:03 UTC

“A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday forcefully struck down Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to impose far-reaching restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, ruling the policy unlawful and blocking its enforcement in the states that challenged it.”
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/judge-calls-rfk-unserious

2026-04-18 23:28:39 UTC

“Long was a retired pharmaceutical chemist living in Queens, New York, when AIDS emerged as a global threat in the 1980s … Long shared her knowledge with activists in ACT UP New York, working directly with them on effective ways to pressure researchers to test and market lifesaving drugs.” https://www.poz.com/article/rip-iris-long-lifesaving-hiv-treatment-activist-ally

2026-04-13 02:31:37 UTC

My mom actually did wonder outloud recently that Trump could be the antichrist and I said no because I think they say he’s supposed to be handsome.

2026-04-12 00:31:04 UTC

“An academic poll has found that Dolly Parton is the most popular public figure in the US today.” https://www.nme.com/news/music/dolly-parton-is-the-most-popular-person-in-america-poll-finds-3939697

2026-04-10 17:11:02 UTC

In continued proof that the recent DHS shakeup was nothing more than a public relations stunt, ICE detained Annie Ramos, a 22-year-old Dreamer spouse of a US military service member, for nearly a week: https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-millers-cruelty-rages-on

2026-04-08 20:03:46 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116370872263444270
"Vatican officials briefed on the meeting told The Free Press that one of the Pentagon’s most senior officials summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre to meet in January—then told him that the United States has the military power to do 'whatever it wants,' and that Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, 'better take its side.'"
#note1aa4…magg

2026-04-08 20:03:12 UTC

“A top Vatican diplomat was summoned to the Pentagon for a ‘bitter lecture’ demanding that the Pope get behind Donald Trump, it has emerged.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-official-gives-vatican-bitter-lecture-amid-growing-rift/

2026-04-08 16:26:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116370005404747162
"You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."
#note1umc…kmcv

2026-04-08 16:22:45 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116369455837815091
Tuan Van Bui, the son of a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, “is the second person to die at Miami CC this year and continues the morbid pattern of one ICE death every 6.0 days,” writes @npub1tey…c6fh : https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-reports-15th-detained-death-of
#note1vmr…wnvu

2026-04-08 14:02:59 UTC

“Second Southeast Asian detainee dies at Indiana ICE facility.”
55-year-old Tuan Van Bui, originally from Vietnam, “is the 46th person to die in federal custody during the second Trump administration.”
https://asamnews.com/2026/04/08/cambodian-vietnamese-detainee-deaths-ice-indiana/

2026-04-07 21:48:38 UTC

Jail presidents, not children.

2026-04-07 19:24:58 UTC

The AP reports that Pope Leo “said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law” and “urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.”
https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-iran-trump-threat-unacceptable-332059536d7c4d6071c8f5abb35d8c8d

2026-04-07 16:48:23 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116364441177737423
"His announcement now of intent to commit genocide puts him squarely in violation of the U.N. Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention, and the Rome Statute," Rep. Simon said. "A sitting president cannot announce his intention to commit these crimes and remain in office."
#note1hrk…rzsn

2026-04-07 16:47:42 UTC

“I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait," says Oakland's Rep. Simon. "Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world."
https://simon.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-lateefah-simons-statement-trumps-threats-iran

2026-04-06 23:39:57 UTC

Via Senate Judiciary Democrats:
“BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.”
https://bsky.app/profile/judiciarydems.senate.gov/post/3miua26nnp22v

2026-04-06 13:21:29 UTC

ICE "has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project."
“Every American should be shocked that we're incarcerating thousands of children,” Leecia Welch, chief legal counsel at Children's Rights. “It just adds up to an incredible amount of trauma."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/ice-kids-detention-over-6200-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tmp-bluesky

2026-03-31 20:33:22 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116325679994026623
“In their briefs to the court, Trump administration lawyers cite several scholars who campaigned against birthright citizenship in the 1800s, a movement fueled by anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism in the aftermath of Reconstruction and a rise in anti-immigrant views.”
#note1nwg…vxmc

2026-03-31 20:30:13 UTC

Trump officials invoke racist scholars and white supremacists in major push to end birthright citizenship: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/birthright-citizenship-us-trump-white-supremacists-b2948500.html

2026-03-26 16:54:43 UTC

“New Jersey becomes the 10th state with a law barring local ICE contracts.
An attorney general had already imposed restrictions on how sheriffs and police can assist ICE, but advocates wanted those codified into law. Mikie Sherrill signed the bill this week."
https://boltsmag.org/new-jersey-immigrant-protections-codified-into-law/

2026-03-25 22:34:39 UTC

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pope-leo-calls-universal-healthcare-moral-imperative-2026-03-18/

2026-03-20 16:17:35 UTC

The Seattle Times Editorial Board: The so-called SAVE Act “is voter suppression, pure and simple.”
“… the SAVE Act would let politicians pick their voters instead of letting voters pick their politicians.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/voter-suppressive-save-act-is-a-costly-solution-looking-for-a-problem/

2026-03-18 00:43:28 UTC

"’Even though we are U.S. citizens, we're afraid,’ says Tracy Huerta, 32, an English-language teacher at Liam's school. ‘We always carry our passports.’”
Two pages from People’s six-page feature on anti-immigrant raids that have targeted Minnesota 👇🏽
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/247/400/165/292/846/original/7534a753194c7554.png

2026-03-17 18:38:10 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116245947594520550
DHS has already deported some #DACA holders. Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez was at her green card interview when she was abducted by ICE.
“I followed the rules and showed up to my immigration appointment,” she said. “Instead, I was taken away from my daughter and forced out of the country overnight.” #HomeIsHere
#note1r7y…7uzy

2026-03-17 18:33:13 UTC

“Trump administration #DACA delays are causing immigrants to lose work and risk getting deported.”
“‘You feel like a dog on the corner waiting for somebody to feed them,’ DACA recipient Victor Jardon-Reyes, 33, told the Chicago Tribune.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-daca-deportation-kristi-noem-b2938925.html #HomeIsHere

2026-03-16 17:34:24 UTC

"Instead of medical care, ICE has offered her another solution: self-deport. Every two or three days, she says, ICE officials enter their room to ask people to sign forms agreeing to voluntary removal.
Many have taken it, including a man from Minnesota whose lawyer said he only agreed because he was being denied medication for his diabetes."
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/16/i-feel-desperate-minnesota-woman-suffering-medical-emergency-stuck-in-texas-detention/

2026-03-15 16:13:28 UTC

“Half of Americans now say 'Abolish ICE.' It's about time.
That's a mighty big shift from the not-too-long-ago days when Democrats were warned that 'Abolish ICE' was an electorally risky slogan best avoided.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/05/abolish-ice-kristi-noem-hearing-dhs/88982540007/

2026-03-13 14:06:43 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116222245573804173
“The woman is awaiting her next court hearing later this month. She is afraid to attend in person due to a rise in ICE arrests at immigration courts across the country, and is wary of leaving her house, even to go grocery shopping or go to work.”
#note15p8…ex07

2026-03-13 14:05:29 UTC

“The woman, who has asked NBC 7 to conceal her identity because of her immigration status, was adopted from Iran at the age of 3. She has lived in the U.S. for 53 years.” https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/socal-woman-adopted-when-she-was-orphaned-iranian-toddler-now-faces-deportation/3988803/

2026-03-11 14:39:34 UTC

“When Patricia Martinez was asked by an employee of the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino to sit down, she thought her husband had been deported.”
Instead, it was to tell her that her husband had died hours earlier while in ICE custody.
https://www.calonews.com/featured-topics/immigration/mexican-immigrant-dies-in-adelanto-ice-detention-center/article_c7ce843a-a959-423e-9e3e-704b8debe750.html

2026-03-07 21:20:21 UTC

Juan Gabriel says hello from his weekend house 🐾
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/189/979/589/401/564/original/45c5f42d536b07f6.png

2026-03-06 21:06:18 UTC

“The Fort Bliss facility was built and has been operated by Acquisition Logistics, a small government contractor out of Richmond, Virginia, that won the $1.2 billion ICE contract in July. The firm’s largest previous federal contract was for $16 million.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-camp-east-montana-detention-facility-fort-bliss-future-rcna261891

2026-03-06 17:54:29 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116183496136749164
"The children also said that Palacios beat his own children with a belt that left visible marks, prompting the agent to keep one of the children home from school, according to the transcript."
"Other court records detail an incident where Palacios showed up at one of the children’s soccer games with a gun."
"A request for a restraining order shows Palacios’ ex-wife also accused him of assault, pressuring her for sex, and kicking in a door in her home."
#note1d5p…sg0w

2026-03-06 17:51:00 UTC

“ICE agent Brian Palacios, who killed Keith Porter, a 43-year-old Black man, in an off-duty New Year’s Eve shooting, has been accused of making racist remarks about Black people and Latinos, court records show.” https://capitalandmain.com/agents-in-ice-shootings-made-racist-or-sexist-remarks-records-show

2026-03-06 17:40:56 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116183445719561213
"Johnson previously pleaded guilty in 2024 to nonviolent charges for entering through a broken window at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to NPR. He was then seen cursing at police officers who were attempting to clear the area. Johnson referred to himself as an 'American Terrorist' and 'Proud J6er' on social media, the outlet reported, citing prosecutors."
#note1h80…ecaf

2026-03-06 17:38:10 UTC

“Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump now sentenced to life in prison for child sex crimes, including molesting children.”
“Johnson was among the 1,500 January 6 rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump at the start of Trump's second term.”
https://people.com/jan-6-rioter-pardoned-by-trump-now-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-molesting-children-among-other-child-sex-crimes-11920742

2026-03-02 18:54:13 UTC

Maria de Jesus Estrada, a Sacramento-area mother and #DACA recipient who has lived in this country for more than 25 years, was deported last week after her green card appointment: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/she-never-had-a-chance-natomas-mother-daca-recipient-deported-after-green-card-appointment/103-a82e8575-0e01-43cd-a590-c47388c90308

2026-03-01 16:41:40 UTC

“Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Thursday called for President Trump to testify under oath before the committee as part of its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.” https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5757651-oversight-democrat-trump-testify-epstein/amp/

2026-03-01 03:01:08 UTC

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”
GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON
https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/national_world/article_305800c0-b891-52be-961d-1af92fd2eeef.html

2026-02-28 19:35:19 UTC

“It is absolutely surreal to say the president of the United States is an accused pedophile — and that our country’s law enforcement apparatus, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story. Yet that is where we are.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-epstein-doj-fbi-pam-bondi-pedophile-21942879.php

2026-02-27 16:38:44 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116143574672031649
“Frio County 911. What is your emergency?”
“I’m calling from the Dilley immigration center in Dilley, Texas. I’m calling for a little kid going through respiratory distress.”
“He’s a 6-year-old male.”
“Sixty?”
“Six-year-old.”
#note19qd…caed

2026-02-27 16:38:26 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116143572223534744
James David Vance and Moses Mike Johnson addressed the National March for Life just weeks ago.
NBC News: “EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.”
#note1f69…wn5d

2026-02-27 16:37:49 UTC

911 logs show detained children struggling to breathe, suffering seizures, or burning with high fevers — including babies and toddlers: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/911-calls-kids-s

2026-02-27 14:16:25 UTC

“Two transgender Kansans are suing the state, challenging a new law that immediately invalidates their driver’s licenses and opens up the possibility of lawsuits against anyone suspected of being transgender for using the ‘wrong’ public restroom.” https://www.kwch.com/2026/02/27/2-transgender-kansans-suing-state-over-law-invalidating-drivers-licenses-enforcing-restroom-change/

2026-02-26 21:27:09 UTC

“Columbia University officials and local lawmakers say ICE posed as NYPD cops and used the excuse of a phony missing child to gain access to the building—a narrative that differs sharply from ICE’s account.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-seizes-columbia-university-student-ellie-aghayeva-in-their-dorm/

2026-02-26 01:39:04 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116134372050868289
“Should any transgender person be caught driving without a valid license, they could face a class B misdemeanor carrying up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Kansas already requires county jails to house inmates according to sex assigned at birth. The letter, obtained by Erin in the Morning, marks one of the most significant erosions of transgender civil rights in the United States to date.”
#note1c7z…maz0

2026-02-26 01:38:06 UTC

“Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles stating that they must surrender their driver's licenses and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the law's publication in the Kansas Register on Thursday.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios

2026-02-25 21:37:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116133412499518948
"The sergeant of arms told me it is because I was standing up. Silently. No buttons, no facial expressions, no gestures, no signs. Not one sound. Standing up. There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are sit down and stand up! All kinds of people were standing up all night."
#note1jz4…tw74

2026-02-25 21:34:04 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116132569466114683
Aliya Rahman, the Minnesotan violently dragged out of her car in January, was arrested at the State of the Union for “silently challenging Trump during the speech”: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/25/aliya_rahman_sotu
#note140w…7fjd

2026-02-25 17:59:40 UTC

“… the visit went sideways Tuesday night, as the Department of Homeland Security posted messages on social media platform X, targeting Gomes da Silva … Moulton's staff confirmed that they escorted Gomes da Silva out of the chamber, to the congressman's office, ‘due to concerns for his safety …’”
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/02/25/massachusetts-teen-homeland-security-post-state-of-the-union

2026-02-24 14:17:01 UTC

"The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump." https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell?utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app

2026-02-23 15:30:24 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116120655152066966
“Since Ruben’s death a year ago, all we have wanted is justice for him and we have struggled with the silence surrounding his killing,” his mother, Rachel Reyes, said in a statement. “Now, the country is in crisis — and, terribly, heartbreakingly, other families are enduring what we have. It’s my hope that attention being raised now into Ruben’s death will help bring the justice we want for him and the answers we haven’t had.”
#note1kce…g80x

2026-02-23 15:29:42 UTC

"Three months into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation undertaking, an ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in South Padre Island, long before immigration agents killed another American in Minnesota that prompted outrage across the nation, according to records released this week that were not previously disclosed by the government." https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/texas-ice-fatal-shooting-south-padre-island/

2026-02-22 16:23:47 UTC

"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American," said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration: https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-warn-ice-mega-detention-plan-moral-inflection-point-america

2026-02-21 15:36:02 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116103473478929914
Bay Area’s Alysa Liu—the daughter of a Chinese dissident and political refugee—a symbol of joy as she ends U.S. women’s gold medal drought: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annkillion/article/bay-area-s-alysa-liu-symbol-joy-ends-us-21367821.php
#note1dua…r6zs

2026-02-20 14:40:11 UTC

ICYMI at America's Voice: Nearly 17% of Team USA has direct immigrant ties, research shows.
“... Beyond medals and achievement, the Olympics shine a light on how talent and opportunity transcend borders.”
https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/nearly-17-of-team-usa-has-direct

2026-02-19 15:54:02 UTC

“Cardinals spend Ash Wednesday with ICE detainees, their families.”
"God does not need papers to know who or where you are," said Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago. "The world may look at your legal status, but God looks at your heart."
https://www.ncronline.org/news/god-does-not-need-papers-cardinals-spend-ash-wednesday-ice-detainees-their-families

2026-02-18 21:02:58 UTC

“A group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called President Donald Trump’s administration ‘cruel and oppressive’ and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity, in an Ash Wednesday (Feb. 18) statement.” https://religionnews.com/2026/02/18/400-christian-leaders-urge-resistance-to-trump-administration-on-ash-wednesday/

2026-02-13 17:24:48 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116064478261388385
“In the video and audio reviewed by The Post, at no point does Lemon appear to obstruct the pastor’s movement.” In fact, it was the pastor who "appears to place his right hand on Lemon’s side."
The indictment also claims Lemon “physically obstructed” congregants as they tried to leave. But the video “shows Lemon holding the door for people who are leaving.”
#note1fdt…4s7f

2026-02-13 17:23:11 UTC

Shocker: "Video footage appears to contradict key aspects of a federal indictment’s descriptions of former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions at a protest last month inside a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to a review by The Washington Post." https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/13/don-lemon-minnesota-church-protest/

2026-02-09 00:50:13 UTC

Breezy Johnson is the “first out LGBTQ athlete (and the first American athlete) to win a gold medal at the Milan Winter Olympics”: https://www.outsports.com/2026/2/8/24127889/winter-olympics-breezy-johnson-team-lgbtq-downhill-skiing-gold-medal/

2026-02-04 14:21:41 UTC

“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

2026-02-04 02:02:47 UTC

In conclusion, ABOLISH ICE

2026-02-02 20:47:24 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116002908929289455
“I want to dedicate this award to all the people who had to leave their homelands and follow their dreams,” Bad Bunny continued following his win for Album of the Year ✨
#note1859…cusk

2026-02-02 20:25:17 UTC

“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say ICE out.” https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/grammy-winners-honor-immigrant-roots

2026-02-02 14:14:05 UTC

“A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.” https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/classified-whistleblower-complaint-about-tulsi-gabbard-stalls-within-her-agency-027f5331?mod=hp_lead_pos8

2026-02-02 03:29:21 UTC

“As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land. And, yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, and I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and fuck ICE.” https://variety.com/2026/music/news/billie-eilish-slams-ice-grammys-win-1236649159/

2026-02-02 02:28:52 UTC

“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ICE out. We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.” https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bad-bunny-says-ice-out-during-grammy-win-1236649101/

2026-02-01 23:04:48 UTC

“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.” https://www.jta.org/2026/01/30/united-states/jewish-seniors-rally-behind-their-caregivers-as-350000-haitians-are-set-to-lose-legal-status

2026-01-31 15:09:44 UTC

“… few actresses could make the most pretentious and self-involved characters, like the undeniable Moira Rose, appealing.”
I would go further and say only one actor could have successfully pulled off Moira Rose. And that was Catherine O’Hara.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/movies/catherine-ohara-characters.html

2026-01-31 02:32:14 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115987360334667615
$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.
#note1qyp…79kh

2026-01-31 02:31:05 UTC

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

2026-01-31 01:13:32 UTC

“In a new statement, 20 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse expressed outrage on Friday that the partial release of documents from the federal investigation of his crimes includes ‘names and identifying information’ of victims, ‘while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected.’” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/30/epstein-files-new-released-trump-doj-todd-blanche-latest-updates

2026-01-30 20:48:41 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115986010532949762
“The trove included one particularly shocking document: an FBI tip line record that included previously unreported sex abuse allegations against the president, some of which involved minors.”
#note1tt0…cqav

2026-01-30 20:47:48 UTC

“In the latest part of its Epstein files rollout, the Justice Department released a long list of sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump. Then it temporarily retracted it.” https://newrepublic.com/post/205985/department-justice-briefly-removes-tips-donald-trump-epstein-docs

2026-01-29 22:55:09 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115980842645088848
“Mayor David Holt said in a social media post Thursday that he had met with the owners of the warehouse property at 2800 S. Council Road. The owners were no longer engaged with the federal government about acquiring or leasing the property, Holt said.”
#note1nv9…0t4n

2026-01-29 22:53:33 UTC

“A proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility slated to open in the southwest part of Oklahoma City will no longer happen, according to the mayor.” https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/proposed-oklahoma-city-ice-facility-table

2026-01-29 19:31:04 UTC

“When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us,” Gaga said. “We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability,” she added. “Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect.”
https://www.thecut.com/article/lady-gaga-concert-ice.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky

2026-01-28 02:22:52 UTC

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

2026-01-26 19:35:54 UTC

“Air Force veteran, who was Alex Pretti's patient 2 weeks ago, recalls how the nurse ‘comforted' and ‘helped' him.
"'I'm saddened to the deepest part of my heart,’ veteran Sonny Fouts, 71, tells People of Pretti's death.”
https://people.com/alex-pretti-patient-recalls-being-comforted-and-helped-by-late-nurse-exclusive-11892119

2026-01-21 17:21:43 UTC

"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told his caucus during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday that he opposes a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, five sources familiar with his comments told Axios." https://www.axios.com/2026/01/21/hakeem-jeffries-dhs-ice-funding-democrats

2026-01-20 01:22:31 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115924803293972048
“Not only has the administration failed to fully release Epstein records in its possession — as mandated in the bill passed overwhelmingly in the House and unanimously in the Senate in November — it has also failed to give its rationales for redactions in the files, as mandated by the statute.”
#note1rd9…3dx5

2026-01-20 01:22:00 UTC

“On the one-month anniversary of the Justice Department missing the deadline to release all the Epstein materials in its possession, Republicans in Congress are largely shrugging their shoulders.” https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/19/epstein-files-release-delay-00735612

2026-01-19 18:40:05 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115923219842344368
“Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the most recent past president of the bishops' conference and head of the Archdiocese for Military Services, said yesterday (Jan. 18) that any U.S. invasion of Greenland would likely be morally unjust.”
#note15u6…ycxl

2026-01-19 18:39:19 UTC

“… U.S. bishops are offering stark warnings against the administration's recent foreign policy actions and threats, including a rare joint statement from three senior church leaders.” https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-break-further-trump-time-foreign-policy

2026-01-19 18:01:42 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115923053853685726
“The president is, simply put, not a well man.”
“At this point it’s become almost cliché to point out how many of the president’s actions would be impeachable offenses if anyone else were president …”
#note1wu8…anfd

2026-01-19 17:57:06 UTC

“Even by Trump’s standards, this letter is so dangerous and so delusional that there is no longer any question that the president is mentally ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,’ as laid out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-appalling-threat-leaves-no-doubt-its-time-for-the-25th-amendment/

2026-01-19 16:07:27 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115922589820570175
"All of us who oppose discrimination and support equal rights should stand together to resist every attempt to restrict civil rights … another reason for joining together in coalitions is that we share common adversaries: the church-burners and the gay-bashers drink from the same poisonous well of hatred …”
#note13mm…7lqv

2026-01-19 15:59:05 UTC

Mrs. Coretta Scott King speaking at 1996 Atlanta Gay Pride, where she calls the celebration an “impressive demonstration of solidarity and hope”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHm8djZqTzk

2026-01-18 20:34:15 UTC

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/

2026-01-17 15:34:39 UTC

Donald “Pedophile Protector” Trump’s Justice Department “moves to block independent monitor in Maxwell case, says courts cannot force Epstein file disclosures.”
What is the old man hiding?
https://meidasnews.com/news/doj-moves-to-block-independent-monitor-in-maxwell-case-says-courts-cannot-force-epstein-file-disclosures