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Human rights educator|Writer|Dancing Girl Press|AHC|Judith Magazine|Adelaide|Otoliths| Rise Up Review|www.jessburnquist.com

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Trump inauguration anniversary walkouts: here’s what to know Amid escalating ICE raids and attacks on gender-affirming care, organizers ask people to join ‘Free America Walkout’

Tuesday January 20, 2026 walkouts...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

19.01.2026 01:14 👍 1527 🔁 628 💬 44 📌 41
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Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

10.01.2026 16:53 👍 16869 🔁 6930 💬 1012 📌 670
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Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."

10.01.2026 02:17 👍 9266 🔁 3501 💬 704 📌 296
Find An Event Near You

We are not here to debate.
We are here to dismantle.
ICE’s violence is not “unfortunate.”
It’s intentional.
It’s deadly.
This weekend — we gather to demand accountability — and to build power.
#ICEOutForGood social.demcast.com/s/G9n7pPTc

09.01.2026 21:38 👍 8357 🔁 2815 💬 232 📌 98
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"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.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

"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. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

08.01.2026 00:15 👍 44258 🔁 17127 💬 1079 📌 778
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Avelo To Exit Deportation Biz - New Haven Independent Avelo Airlines plans to stop running deportation flights for the Trump administration later this month after deciding that its participation in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program is too...

Tell me another one about how protests don’t matter…

www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/01/07/a...

07.01.2026 20:28 👍 3886 🔁 1100 💬 143 📌 66
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Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

07.01.2026 17:24 👍 34042 🔁 5273 💬 654 📌 338
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🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

06.11.2025 12:57 👍 14101 🔁 6184 💬 749 📌 722
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See where Interior is planning to lay off 2,000 employees The newly revealed details lay out only a portion of the total expected RIFs.

The hits keep on coming.

21.10.2025 20:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump's Venezuela operation expands in the dark 32 people have been killed. We don't know who they are.

The U.S. military has killed at least 32 people in seven strikes off the coast of Venezuela without telling Congress or the American people who was killed, or on what evidence.

21.10.2025 11:56 👍 207 🔁 114 💬 21 📌 23
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See where Interior is planning to lay off 2,000 employees The newly revealed details lay out only a portion of the total expected RIFs.

Wrecking ball of an administration

21.10.2025 02:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eyes on term limits. If they change those, we’re in an even deeper mire.

30.09.2025 18:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh no— I just meant it in terms of no longer being in the classroom. I work in the nonprofit sector now. Honestly, though, one doesn’t need to be an artist to champion the arts.

23.09.2025 00:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A writer and former teacher.

23.09.2025 00:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.

a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

22.09.2025 14:55 👍 17840 🔁 2343 💬 295 📌 232

Arts and humanities serve a purpose. They should be central to curriculum at every age.

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Yes. Yes, they are.

10.09.2025 21:38 👍 19461 🔁 6469 💬 751 📌 276
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

11.09.2025 00:28 👍 83895 🔁 20949 💬 2271 📌 1801

Perpetually embarrassing. We’re in the dumbest of times.

19.08.2025 23:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.

ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.

09.08.2025 13:13 👍 17431 🔁 5026 💬 327 📌 155
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Get ready to be poor and poorer. If we had less money in our pockets before, we won’t have to wait to lose more!

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus... New tariffs snap into effect, raising import taxes to highest level since Great Depression

07.08.2025 17:00 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Honestly, me too.

19.04.2025 22:06 👍 56668 🔁 6388 💬 249 📌 97
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What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

03.04.2025 14:05 👍 37879 🔁 10851 💬 895 📌 594
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The Save Our Parks rally at the Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center just went down. An amazing showing of people! #saveourparks #ventura #venturaharbor #channelislandsnp #cinp #channelislands #nationalparkservice #nps

06.03.2025 02:13 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It really was! Especially given the rain.

06.03.2025 02:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌿🏞️💚🌊

06.03.2025 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

28.02.2025 20:13 👍 47553 🔁 7410 💬 443 📌 142

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

28.02.2025 20:41 👍 38568 🔁 5896 💬 519 📌 188