On February 3, as Donald Trump was doubling down on his push to “nationalize” elections, Steve Bannon, MAGA’s version of Rasputin, promised his War Room podcast audience that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be deployed to swarm polling places during the upcoming midterm elections. “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November…
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citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents deployed in cities across the U.S. testified before Congress on Tuesday. Amid harrowing testimony by three victims and the brothers of Renee Good, congressional Democrats offered apologies and promises of accountability. Not a single Republican lawmaker showed up to the hearing. Renee Good’s brothers Brent and Luke…
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Rent is due in the Twin Cities, and many families won’t be able to pay. “Operation Metro Surge” has left thousands of families sheltering in place from masked federal agents roaming the streets. With many afraid to go to work or school, bills are piling up, galvanizing calls for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to declare an eviction moratorium. “It is very expensive to be sheltering in place…
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New nationwide polling demonstrates a deep distrust of federal immigration agencies in the wake of their violent raid of Minnesota, with a majority of respondents indicating they would not want such agents coming to their own home states. An Economist/YouGov poll published on Tuesday also showed strong support for a de-escalation of immigration operations in the Twin Cities.
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The U.S.’s political landscape — and our daily lives — are increasingly shaped by repression and violence, amplified by a media cycle designed to keep us fearful in the present, uncertain about the future, and depleted. Exhaustion is not a side effect of this system. It is one of its core tools. Last year, I wrote that Donald Trump’s attacks were designed to exhaust us. Over the past year, I’…
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A federal judge issued an emergency order on February 2 temporarily blocking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s latest effort to prevent Democratic lawmakers from making unannounced inspections of federal immigration jails, where at least 38 people have died since Donald Trump returned to the White House. “Unlawful secrecy has fueled the deadliest era in Department of Homeland Security…
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