Rümeysa Öztürk on How ICE Detention Impacts Child Development
ICE has detained 3,800 children since mid-January. Rümeysa Öztürk reflects on how that negatively impacts kids.
"We must all ask ourselves: is this really the world we want for our children — one where they are afraid to go to school, home, hospitals, neighborhoods, playgrounds, museums, and libraries for fear of immigration detention?"
Children don't belong in immigration detention.
26.02.2026 00:58
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The nazis went after LGBTQ+ people before the jews.
26.02.2026 03:57
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Next up: Democrats lose licenses.
Then: Never Trumper GOP loses licences.
Then. Anybody who votes against a tariff loses license.
Etc.
And when they came after me, there was nobody to give me a lift.
26.02.2026 02:48
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the Kansas State government's revocation of ID based on newly legislated (political) criteria is a powerful fact based argument for why the SAVE Act is really just voter suppression, if that should eventually need to be litigated.
26.02.2026 03:46
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Trans people were one of the first targets of the Nazis, so it should be setting off their alarm bells!!
26.02.2026 03:41
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We know how the poem ends...
26.02.2026 02:52
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Those camps they’re building aren’t being made to detain immigrants….only….
26.02.2026 01:52
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Here is an org that helps trans people relocate to CO. I sent them some $ tonight.
bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
26.02.2026 02:23
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The nazis did the same thing to Jews in 1938, invalidating their passports overnight and requiring all identifying documents of Jewish people to be surrendered. They only became valid again after being marked with a red letter and a name signifying that the person it belonged to was a Jew.
26.02.2026 06:20
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This is the same strategy they used against naturalized citizens. They deliberately ignore past president and pull the rug out from under people in order to "catch" them so they can deliver a spectacle of punishment to satiate the bloodlust of their base who revel in seeing people get hurt.
26.02.2026 02:41
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The USPS stated a week or two ago that it won't send letters, etc. daily to their destinations and I think won't give them a postmark. Part of the fascist plan to delay important info, mail-in ballots, etc. That said, what you're reporting is pure illegal, christofacsism, terror.
26.02.2026 02:13
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The letters arrived today. Not last week, not two weeks ago when it was passed or a week ago after the veto was overridden. They arrived the night before the changes were live so no one could do anything about it, just to rub it in and be able to say they’d given notice.
26.02.2026 01:52
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The extraordinary thing is that as came up multiple times during the vote, if you applied to change your marker back the moment this bill was signed, you still wouldn’t have had enough time to comply. The sponsor’s response was that people should have considered it before when changing markers.
26.02.2026 01:50
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Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.
26.02.2026 01:43
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You made history last night
25.02.2026 15:57
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It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
25.02.2026 22:37
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As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
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ABSOLUTELY AGREE 💯%.......
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It will be tough for America’s global reputation to recover after this absolutely shameful vote.
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Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
25.02.2026 14:13
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#ICENAZIS still in Minnesota, #CorruptNoem lying to America.
26.02.2026 06:58
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Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
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ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable."
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...
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Justification unsealed for FBI’s seizure of 2020 Fulton County ballots
The allegations largely track claims leveled by conservative activists.
JUST IN: Judge postpones Friday showdown over FBI seizure of Fulton County 2020 ballots. Judge JP Boulee (Trump) orders county & DOJ into mediation as he puts off hearing for what's likely to be several weeks at least. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
26.02.2026 03:36
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This act is illegal, unethical, malicious, and predicated on a lie.
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26.02.2026 04:22
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Remember how the government bailed out the billionaires in 2009?
How many of those people are in the Epstein files?
They’ve been ripping you off for decades.
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