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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117547513112572639 “All he wants is accountability,” said the attorney representing Miguel Parra Hernandez, the community member run over by ICE. “He wants assurance that this will not happen to anybody else. He is so sympathetic, and all he cares about are the other people. But he is the one in the bed suffering.”

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  “The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally striking a man in Houston earlier this month is expected to surrender on Monday morning, his attorney, David Lindenmuth told ABC News.” https://abcnews.com/US/indicted-ice-officer-accused-intentionally-striking-man-expected-surrender/story?id=137742480

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117547388984893586 "Whitney Morton, 33, a resident of the Detroit area, hopes that elected officials and those aspiring to hold public office will understand how determined community members are to get immigrants out of detention centers. 'We are torturing people and tormenting people,’ Morton said.” #DíadeMuertos

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  “The day was coming to an end, and the GEO sign identifying the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin remained covered with photographs of people who had died while in the hands of immigration enforcement.” https://michiganadvance.com/2026/11/02/outside-michigan-ice-detention-center-activists-mourn-the-dead-and-demand-change/ #DíadeMuertos

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  “… the resounding conclusion of the political press and their most distinguished outlets is that new allegations directly tying Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein and accusing him of a violent rape that left the pageant contestant ‘bruised and bleeding’ is not, in fact, a significant scandal.” https://www.unchartedblue.com/why-people-magazine-can-get-the-trump-rape-story-right-and-the-washington-press-corps-cant/

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  “It is news when the president is credibly accused of rape. It is important news.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-why-is-the-media-ignoring-the-stunning-new-trump-epstein-allegations/

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  Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

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  “‘These are not serious people,’ Obama said of Trump and the Republican party at a campaign rally in suburban Atlanta on Wednesday evening. ‘And we’re all paying the price for their lack of seriousness.’” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/obama-atlanta-democrats-jon-ossoff

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117524399160663959 “‘They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke – not to inflation, but to that joke,’ he told the crowd on Wednesday. ‘The Saddam Hussein thing didn’t bother him. But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory.’”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117524404619002455 “The White House even called the secretary of the treasury,” Obama continued. “The guy who is trying to figure out how to lower inflation … they told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory.” THESE ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE

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  Donald Trump every time Barack Obama speaks:

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  "Thousands of alumni from the private Catholic high school that Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy graduated from have signed a petition related to his campaign ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent Amy Acton." https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-10-29/thousands-of-ramaswamys-fellow-hi

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117524512594550023 "'It's not a political message. It is a message about human decency. It is not partisan,' said Brian Cahill, a 1983 graduate of St. Xavier and one of the organizers of the online petition."

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  “Vivek ad crosses all lines of basic human decency. What kind of person uses childhood trauma for political gain? What does it say to our St. Xavier community that a prominent alumnus would attack a woman over her well-documented claims of sexual victimization?” https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2026/10/26/ramaswamys-acton-ad-leaves-this-st-x-almunus-disappointed/92442104007/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117524522279886975 “Ramaswamy certainly didn’t skip any classes while at St. Xavier. He was the class valedictorian. But he certainly didn’t take any of his lessons that Father Arrupe made to heart." "I implore all my fellow members of the Long Blue Line not to vote for him.”

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  "... the latest USCIS quarterly data reveals the lowest level of naturalization approvals in over 6 years with just 54,000 individuals approved for naturalization and over 742,000 cases pending." "The administration is deliberately extending wait times across the naturalization process—including significant delays between interview approval and the Oath of Allegiance—in an apparent effort to deny otherwise eligible people their civil and voting rights." http...

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  "Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered." "DOJ’s letter also misstated Election Day as Nov. 2. The election is Nov. 3." THESE ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/washington-state-finds-u-s-citizens-on-dojs-noncitizen-voter-list-rejects-demand-to-set-...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117524845645489953 The State of Washington "identified 'many' people on the list as U.S. citizens and warned that those already found could be only the 'tip of the iceberg' of voters who would be wrongfully disenfranchised if the state followed DOJ’s demand." Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs "said federal officials provided no explanation of how the data was collected, identified no underlyi...

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  This #DíadeMuertos weekend, "communities in 60 places across the country are coming together to build altars, light candles, and grieve in public for the people we've lost, and to demand that Congress get ICE out of our communities,” NDLON says. Find an event near you here: https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/?from_map=true&lat=37.0902&lon=-95.7129&tag_ids=36275&zoom=2.5

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117525120163897881 "We honor Carlos's memory alongside so many others we have lost to ICE violence and neglect—including Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, who died in detention at Delaney Hall in New Jersey, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti, and countless others whose lives were cut short." #DíadeMuertos

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  “La jornada reunirá a organizaciones y activistas en el cementerio de Oakland el 1 de noviembre para exigir cambios en las políticas migratorias, el cierre de centros de detención y el fin de las muertes bajo custodia federal.” https://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/atlanta-protestara-contra-ice-el-dia-de-muertos-para-recordar-a-migrantes-fallecidos-bajo-custodia-entre-ellos-luis-sandoval #DíaDeMuertos

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117525211517197490 "Uno de los casos que los convocantes buscan visibilizar es el de Luis Sandoval, un salvadoreño de 48 años que murió el 23 de octubre mientras se encontraba bajo custodia migratoria en Folkston, al sur de Georgia. Tras su fallecimiento, la campaña Shut Down Folkston (Cierren Folkston) exigió una investigación independiente y exhaustiva para esclarecer las circunstancias de su muerte." #DíaDeMuertos

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117525023803478486 “In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign,” Carter continued. “But California and its people are sovereign, too.”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117525023062009053 “Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” wrote U.S. District Judge David Carter👇🏽

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  "A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have forced California to set aside and not count ballots from 20,000 people the Department of Justice alleges may be noncitizens." https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-rejects-doj-demand-that-california-set-aside-20000-ballots/

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  Alex Pretti’s parents "said they decided to speak out after being ‘stonewalled’ by U.S. Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche and the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota, U.S. Atty. Dan Rosen. 'At every turn, they have ignored us, misled us, and shielded Alex’s killers,’ said Michael Pretti, his father." https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-10-28/alex-prettis-parents-say-federal-government-is-shielding-agents-involved-in-his-killing

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117518715390047721 “A search of the media monitoring service Snapstream showed the three major cable news networks combined mentioned the rape allegation against Trump just twice, whereas the word ‘cheesecake’ has received 368 mentions in the same span.”

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  “… the New York Times and Washington Post, and all the major cable networks, have covered CheesecakeGate more thoroughly” than the new report “alleging a new Trump rape”: https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/theres-a-new-report-alledging-a-new-trump-rape-and-no-one-is-talking-about-it/

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  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “shared the stage Friday evening with Randy Villegas, the progressive Democrat who’s projected to give incumbent Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, a serious run for his money.” https://www.bakersfield.com/news/at-rally-with-villegas-aoc-local-progressives-are-hopeful/article_f24d284d-bd3c-4e1a-b84a-5fae2abaeff8.html

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  Aleksander Nijal, founder and president of a Bronx food bank that feeds anywhere between 7,000 and 8,000 community members each month, was abducted by ICE while attending a court hearing. "The pantry said it will not be distributing food until Nijal's return, because they cannot handle the workload without him. They said if he does not return, the pantry will close indefinitely." https://bronx.news12.com/bronx-food-pantry-rallies-behind-founder-after-he-was-detained-by-ice