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MAXWILBERT.SUBSTACK.COM • 2026-02-03

From Relationships to Organization

Effective resistance depends on a web of relationships that can only be established through in-person, face-to-face organizing.

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DAILYSIGNAL.COM • 2026-02-03

Anti-ICE Protesters Want Agents to Wear Body Cameras, But Their Demand May Backfire

Bodycams help ICE defend against claims made to obstruct ICE.


Very bad, body-cams only help the police.  It is a tool they use for their own benefit.

COMMONDREAMS.ORG • 2026-02-02

'Surveillance Is Not Accountability': Noem Sending DHS Agents in Minnesota Body Cameras

Immigration agents "murdered two people on video since the beginning of the year, and the Trump administration still lied about what happened and tried to justify it," said one critic. "I don't think cameras are the solution."

On the doomscroll the same image is shown.  It was taken from the original which was too wide.  The original is in the article.

The interesting thing is clicking on the above article shows that the picture shown here does not show what is really going on.  To put it more directly, the thumbnail does not give the full picture.  And the thumbnail could be a body cam image.  Same aspect ratio.  People expect video to give answers, but answers may be altogether out of view.

The idea of the average person evaluating video footage scares the shit out of me.  Look at how many people looked at the video from Minneapolis and then called the shootings justified.  People see what they want to see.  People are controlled by bias, and agents with cameras quickly figure out how to use the cameras for their own ends.  To exploit that bias.

And the dog killer is quite all right with that.

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NEWSONE.COM • 2026-02-03

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin From Targeting Documented Haitian Immigrants

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of Washington granted a request to pause the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds.

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Effective resistance depends on a web of relationships that can only be established through in-person, face-to-face organizing.

The internet and its popularity would seem to offset face to face organizing. It makes it too easy to pretend to be doing something because....well....doing stuff IRL is harder.

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Effective resistance depends on a web of relationships that can only be established through in-person, face-to-face organizing.

The internet and its popularity would seem to offset face to face organizing. It makes it too easy to pretend to be doing something because....well....doing stuff IRL is harder.

You are correct.  No movement can get traction without face to face interactions.

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Effective resistance depends on a web of relationships that can only be established through in-person, face-to-face organizing.

The internet and its popularity would seem to offset face to face organizing. It makes it too easy to pretend to be doing something because....well....doing stuff IRL is harder.

You are correct.  No movement can get traction without face to face interactions.

Well isn't GovCo just lucky, or what!

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Basically, the position of the Fascists-in-Charge of ICE is that the law is what we say it is, regardless of what the courts or precedent shows.  What is really ridiculous though is that there is some question of where this policy originates, who is responsible and whether it is malicious and intentional or just incompetence.  It's OBVIOUSLY all of them and equally obvious that the directive comes straight from the very top with the Fascist-in-Chief.  With all the publicity it's IMPOSSIBLE for his Trumpness not to be aware of it, he watches Faux Newz practically 24/7.


Equally clear is that they have no intention of rectifying the situation and changing their policies as long as there are no teeth in the courts rulings.  They have to start sending the lawyers to jail, but they're all scared to death of a "Constitutional Crisis" and direct conflict between the Judiciary and Executive branches.  Nobody wants to be the one to rock the boat and kick off a Civil War.  Getting pretty hard to avoid though.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-system-sucks-or-what-a-federal

"The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin

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AXIOS.COM • 2026-02-05

Read: Dems outline 10 demands to GOP in ICE funding fight

 "Federal immigration agents cannot continue to cause chaos in our cities while using taxpayer money that should be used to make life more affordable for working families," Schumer and Jeffries say in the letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Not a bad list of rules, but also not one Der Fuehrer will likely agree to.  So it's the starting point for negotiations, where it remains to be seen how long they'll drag out another goobermint shutdown?  After that, will the rules they agree to be adhered to?

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CBSNEWS.COM • 2026-02-05

Republicans pan Democrats' demands for ICE reform in DHS funding, with little time to reach deal

Thune, a South Dakota Republican, called Democrats' demands "unrealistic and unserious," while saying they aren't "even willing to engage in a negotiation and discussion to try and reach a result."

At least the Dems gave a starting point.  The Reps could come back with their own proposal if they were serious about negotiating.  They don't because Trumpolini doesn't want to accept ANY of the proposed limitations.  They also won't publish because they want to do all the negotiating behind closed doors.

Looks like we'll have a long shutdown.

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THENATIONALNEWS.COM • 2026-02-05

Deaths in US immigration detention reach highest level on record

The number of deaths in ICE custody rose to 30 in the 2025 calendar year, surpassing all previous annual totals since records began in the early 2000s. The figure marks a sharp increase from recent years and comes as the average daily number of people held in immigration detention has also climbed to its highest level since before the pandemic.

Actually, there were 32 in 2004 so the headline isn't quite accurate.

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More implementation of the 1984 George Orwell training manual.

KENKLIPPENSTEIN.COM • 2026-02-12

Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One

Feds could be in your group chat.




What could possibly go wrong?

Masked Engagement

Agent Dan Crockett sat in an unmarked Ford Explorer outside the Alvarez house. On his laptop, Silo displayed Valeria Alvarez's Instagram. Valeria is twenty-three. Her bio said "dental assistant." Her posts showed a niece. Another window showed an appointment reminder for her DACA renewal scheduled for next Thursday.

Valeria had been brought from Chihuahua at age two by her parents. She had DACA. This mattered less than it used to.

Before joining ICE, Crockett had marched in Charlottesville. He carried a Proud Boys coin in his pocket.

Crockett was now assigned to Digital Community Engagement. Silo let him appear as a local user anywhere he wished to be. Crockett had requested to follow Valeria's private Instagram three weeks ago. She approved. He knew her schedule, her friends, her fears about her mother's diabetes. This was "masked engagement." No warrant required.

March 3, 2026. 6:47 a.m. Valeria Alvarez stopped at Mesa and Doniphan. Crockett hit his lights. She pulled over immediately.  Her hands visible on the wheel. Her DACA was current. Her paperwork was all in order. She had never received so much as a traffic ticket. She should have no reason to fear, but fear gripped her.

"Step out."

She did. She asked why she was pulled over.

"Your status is under review," said Crockett. "You're coming with us."

She was locked into the back seat of a car which had the interior door handles removed. The drive to the El Paso sector station took twenty-two minutes. A few minutes later she was in an interview room. Crockett closed the door. He hung his vest on a chair.

"Stand up."

She stood.

"Turn around."

She turned. She was crying. She asked what was happening.

Crockett said nothing. He removed his belt. He placed his sidearm on the table, within her reach, within his reach.

What happened next took four minutes and was not captured on the unplugged camera.

She said no. She said stop. Crockett told her to shut up. When he finished, he pulled up his trousers and told her to fix her skirt.

He opened the door. Outside the door a transport officer waited.

"She's ready for removal."

Valeria Alvarez had lived in the U.S. for twenty-one years. This did not matter. No one gave her the opportunity to produce documents. No one asked her how long she had lived here. Crockett and his fellow agents did not care.

She was transported to the El Paso Port of Entry at 9:22 a.m. She told the secondary officer she had been assaulted. The officer, a twenty-year veteran, ignored her. Valeria was placed on a van to Ciudad Juárez at 11:05 a.m.

She did not know who had raped her. She only knew his face.

Crockett logged his activity in Silo at 11:47 a.m.

Subject: Alvarez, Valeria.
Status: Removed.
Intelligence yield: Negative.
Engagement type: Masked (alias Marcus Vance).

The system accepted the entry and all evidence of Marcus Vance was erased.

Valeria Alvarez stood at the Paso del Norte bridge holding her empty purse. Her phone and car keys were gone. In a few hours her life for the past twenty-one years had been erased.

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NYTIMES.COM • 2026-01-13

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

MOTHERJONES.COM • 2026-02-14

Judges Have Rebuked Trump's Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times

Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully.

  Work will set you free.  ( it never did )

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UNICORNRIOT.NINJA 2026-02-10

ICE in Minnesota — Days 69-71

Politicians are hinting Operation Metro Surge could wind down, but any change in the situation remains vaporous for now.

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juancole.com 2026-02-17

Trump's War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - With the decline of ISIL and the drawdown of US troops in Syria and Iraq, the US military is not actively fighting a kinetic military action in the Middle East for ...

Basically, you just drop the title of whatever doomscroll article you're obsessing over into the 'Get Article' dropdown, and boom.  It populates right at the cursor. Plus, it automatically grabs a trackback for the main page linking back to here.

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UNICORNRIOT.NINJA 2026-02-19

‘I’m a U.S. Citizen and I was arrested by ICE,’ A Statement from a Legal Observer in Minneapolis

Upwards of 206 U.S. citizens have been hauled off the streets into vehicles by masked federal agents conducting Operation Metro Surge over the past three months in Minnesota, according to legal sources. Many of those citizens, or USCs, have been beaten, had their constitutional rights violated and were brought to the Whipple Federal Building, with some later brought to Sherburne County Jail.