Essie

Former Copyeditor and book reviewer, sometimes writer, avid reader.

[Essie @EssieHolton]

@galleddrim @Suzierizzo1 Bot or fuckface?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

MAGA: “If you’re here legally, you have nothing to worry about.”

Also MAGA: “Just comply and show your ID.”

The reality:

A U.S. citizen. Born in Colorado. Mother of four. Stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana. Shackled. Detained in an ICE facility anyway.

She showed agents her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE reportedly called them “fake,” handcuffed her, chained her ankles, interrogated her, and transported her to a detention center. She was released hours later only after legal intervention.

The lesson is not “show your papers.”

The lesson is that papers don’t protect you when power decides not to read them.

This is not “law and order.”
This is state abuse.

Fight Trump. Fight ICE: https://t.co/VXiWmshWgj

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

This lady volunteered as a helper on her kids field trip to the zoo. She brought extra snacks and then bought extra items in the park for her group. Other parents were upset that she did this because their kids didn’t get extra in their groups.
Should all the groups get the same treatment or do you feel it’s okay for parents to treat their group with extra?

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

This is not a Black Mirror Episode

[Essie @EssieHolton]

@TizzyEnt @TizzyEnt do you have any update on this guy?

[Essie @EssieHolton]

I'm no expert by anyone's imagination. However, this doesn't sit right with me. Thugs or babies? Are these the only choices? *Your* definition of a man or a thug or baby? Feels racist.

[Dr Boyce Watkins - Wealth is Power @drboycewatkins1]

Shout out to the black men who are mentoring black boys so that they grow up and become young MEN and not young thugs or Lil Babies.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Outrageous.

Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible.

This decision must be overturned. Shame.

https://t.co/8JVCMAeBCW

[Essie @EssieHolton]

Close your eyes and listen. Does he sound exactly like any sitting governor? Neither good nor bad just really really similar.

[Mr. Billy the Librarian @3kingvisions]

What you see in this picture over 30 black male librarians that united at a library conference last summer. We are breaking the stereotypes associated with librarians. Black excellence goes beyond music and athletics. LEADERS OF THE NEW COOL!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me get this straight.

The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality.

Everything was above board.

Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded. 

So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.” 

He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it.

This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness.

Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come.

None of this is America First.
https://t.co/MByTMTp6K1

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Here is what’s really going on with regard to the funding stalemate in Congress.

ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis.

Democrats then said: before we write you another check, agree to the same rules every police department in America already follows. Judicial warrants before entering homes. Visible ID. Body cameras. No raids at schools and hospitals.

We immediately pushed for votes to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA.

Republicans blocked it.

We tried to fund FEMA alone.

Republicans blocked that too. Their position was to fund ICE with no strings attached, or shut the whole thing down.

So DHS shut down.

Then yesterday, the White House sent a letter admitting we were right. But they still won’t agree to judicial warrants or to take the masks off, which means agents can still break down your door without a judge’s approval and you still can’t see their faces when they do it.

We’ve been ready to fund your airport security since day one, not to mention Coast Guard, FEMA and the rest. Republicans chose to protect ICE from accountability instead.

#FundDHSFreezeICE

[Lakercentral @streamerzunited]

@Raindropsmedia1 @AldiUSA you need to do something about this. This isn’t right

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

At least 11 immigrants have reportedly died in ICE custody from January through early March 2026. That follows 31 deaths last year, a two-decade high.

DHS needs serious oversight now. https://t.co/UTnh4ThJfz

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Today would be a great day to ban stock trading for Members of Congress.

[Essie @EssieHolton]

I couldn't even finish. Wow. Stupid doesn't cover it. Neither does bitch.

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Wow what a stupid bitch

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

“I feel frozen, scared, and angry.”

Wesley Powers, a U.S. Navy veteran, was attacked with a chemical agent and detained by ICE. Listen to his story.

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

What would you do? https://t.co/vKjpyW4pLd

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Turkish photographer Uğur Gallenkuş portrays two different worlds within a single image.

[Essie @EssieHolton]

Grandma Ruby is who I aspire to be. Not when I am 96 but now until forever.

[Unlearn16 @unlearn16tweet]

Grandma Ruby 101.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards, and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy.
His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide.

But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold.

When another man recently died at that exact same #ICE facility, the Department of Homeland Security didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base.

And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy.

This was revealed today by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration.

Eight people have already died in ICE custody in just the first two months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses.

911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights.

But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up.

They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence.
We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report.
Share this. Do not let them sweep these deaths under the rug.