Betsy

I have priorities and most of them happen to involve food. Pronouns: she/her

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Holly Boo👻-llard @HollyBullardFL]

Almost double what the US spends on childcare and Head Start.

[Betsy @BuellaPearl]

@MarkWarner We need to ABOLISH it. It is so far beyond reform

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies.

It's not just "a few bad apples."

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Son of caregiver held in ICE detention over unfounded PLO allegations dies; father barred from funeral
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Wael Tarabishi, a 30 year old US citizen with severe Pompe disease, died on 23 January in a Texas intensive care unit after his father and full time caregiver, Maher Tarabishi, was detained by US immigration authorities. Maher, a Jordanian national, was arrested on 28 October 2025 during a routine check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas and held more than 200 miles away.

Relatives said Wael, who had undergone 36 surgeries and was confined to bed, suffered a rapid health decline without his father’s daily care. He was hospitalized with sepsis and pneumonia and spent days in intensive care calling for his father, including during a month long ICU stay, before his death.

Family members said officers ignored Maher’s long standing legal permission to remain in the US as his son’s caregiver and detained him despite explanations at the scene. ICE later alleged that Maher was a criminal and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which has not been designated a terrorist group since 1987, a claim relatives described as unfounded. ICE did not allow him to attend his son's funeral.

[Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social @jesserbnwtz]

Sending extra love and warmth to homeless street outreach workers + mutual aid folks busting their butts to make sure folks stay safe ahead of the snow.

Nobody should live or die outside in the richest country in the world.

We need housing, not handcuffs.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I do not know if anyone in this world still cares, but a short while ago the director of Al-Shifa Hospital spoke about a new virus spreading among children in the tents, and about its strong and rapid impact on their fragile bodies. Here, no one fully understands what is happening, and there are no capabilities to uncover the truth or contain the danger.

Israel is preventing the entry of medicines and testing equipment, hospitals are nearly paralyzed, and fear is quietly creeping into people’s hearts. The bodies of children in the tents cannot withstand any new virus they have no immunity, no treatment, and no environment that protects them from disease.

The situation is worsening with every passing hour, while the world remains incapable or silent when it comes to pressuring for the entry of essential medicines and medical supplies.

Life cannot continue like this, in this ongoing hell. What is happening is neither normal nor humane, and it cannot be endured any longer. We need immediate and urgent action before more innocent lives, that have not yet truly begun, are lost.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards. https://t.co/qJ9D16XaWy

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

while ice is raiding Somali communities in Minneapolis, the US military is bombing Somalia

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block.

Let’s be very clear about what that means…

This wasn’t a federal courthouse.
This wasn’t federal property.
This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people.

That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes.

Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance.

And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas.

That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings.

Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is.

Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions.

Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods.

And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all.

Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets.

So what we’re watching is federal agents:

• acting outside their role
• performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction
• firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods
• and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm.

This isn’t public safety.
This isn’t lawful enforcement.

This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it.

That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

In response to the surge in “don’t abolish ICE” propaganda, let us all remember it has only existed since 2003.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Speaking through tears from Gaza, journalist Bisan Owda says destruction continues even without active bombardment.

Powerful winds and heavy rain caused partially destroyed buildings to collapse on sleeping families, triggering scenes of panic, screams, and desperate searches under rubble lit only by mobile phones.

Owda stresses that this is not an isolated incident: multiple homes and tents have collapsed in recent weeks, killing and injuring civilians who have nowhere safe to go.

She warns that claims the genocide has ended are detached from reality, as Israel’s blockade continues to prevent the entry of construction tools and materials, leaving Palestinians trapped among ruins where survival itself remains uncertain.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

ICE has been murdering people for as long as they’ve existed

[Kyle Blomquist @BlomquistForMI]

Don't forget about the 32 people that died in ICE custody in 2025. They're human beings and their lives matter.

https://t.co/rqjALv7KDr

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents were filmed assaulting U.S. citizens outside a HIGH SCHOOL in Minneapolis, pepper-spraying students as agents swarmed the school entrance.

Let that sink in.

School administrators and staff desperately tried to get agents off school property, while ushering students away from armed federal agents.

Chaos. Panic. Children running for safety.

And yes… agents pepper-sprayed STUDENTS.

This didn’t happen by accident.

This happened because the Trump administration stripped schools of their “sensitive location” protections, opening the door for ICE and Border Patrol to operate on school grounds.

In plain terms:

The federal government intentionally removed protections that once kept armed agents away from children, and now we are watching the predictable result… kids being assaulted with chemical weapons at school.

Outside a high school.
In broad daylight.
On U.S. soil.

This is not “border security.”
This is state violence.
And it’s being unleashed on children.

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

Keith Porter Jr., 43, was killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve in Northridge.

The agent’s name remains hidden.

No interview.

No charges.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

[Ash J @AshAgony]

In February 2020, ICE agents in Brooklyn tried to kidnap Gaspar Avendaño-Hernández on his way to work. Gaspar's girlfriend's son Erick Díaz-Cruz saw Gaspar being attacked & tried to help him. ICE agents shot Erick in the face & tazed Gaspar so much, it gave him a heart condition.

[Fatima Mohammed @fatima__m7md]

it is a disservice to Renee Good’s memory to exceptionalize this tragedy based on her citizenship status. her murder, like the cold murder of hundreds who are denied access and care inside ICE prisons, is a tragedy of empire, an evil left unchallenged.

[Linda Tirado @KillerMartinis]

It is worth noting that I was doing nothing wrong when I was shot in Minneapolis in May 2020.

They just didn’t use live rounds that night, they were playing with compressed foam, and I was wearing goggles, which is why I’m not dead.

Check your facts, then opine.