john ☾. worsley 🎃

Game designer & co-founder at @clutchplaygames. Sometime illustrator & electronic musician. Sci-fi, horror, & general rain enthusiast. Perpetual Pumpkin. 🎃

[john ☾. worsley 🎃 @lx]

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[k @alfkkifine]

ICE detained a dialysis patient the morning of her treatment.
She died 36 hours later in a detention infirmary.
They logged it as "natural causes."
When policy kills, call it what it is.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE kicks woman off of Social Security—a U.S. citizen who's never traveled more than 40 miles from home.

"I've never even left Dallas County—let alone the country," she said. "I am not an immigrant."

She is disabled—and relies on social security as only source of income.

59-year-old Ramona Rakestraw was born in 1966 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

Despite this she received a letter stating: "We cannot pay you benefits because you are not lawfully present in the U.S."

Kidney disease first sent her to dialysis at age 28 and she received a transplant—30 years later she was diagnosed with cancer.

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

ICE is arresting and charging suburban moms who protest or document ICE activity with felonies that carry up to 20 years in prison.

https://t.co/yI3k03mvfA

[missmellie 🌊 @IMmissmellie]

Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out.
No warrant. No crime. Just retaliation for observing.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Collins was asking the President a question about sexual assault.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rahman: On January 13th, on the way to my 39th appointment at the traumatic brain injury center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it. I had not wanted to pull into a block to chaotic intersection but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled, "Move, I will break your f'ing window." 
There were conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians. Then the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face. I yelled, "I am disabled!," at the hands grabbing at me and the agent said, "Too late."

An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face. Which I thought was for cutting me. And later learned was used to cut off my seatbelt. Shooting pain went through my head, neck and wrists when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back. 

I was carried facedown through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

The provenance of this quote:

- Wu goes on GBH and says: "Every person, every single human being, has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter, and those policies have been in place for a long time."

- The clip is cut into this quote: "Every person, every single human being, has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter."

- That goes viral; a clickbait account shortens the quote, changes the meaning, gives no source.

There's a larger policy story in that Wu quote. Liberal immigration law/like-minded judges have created a system that makes it much harder to deport people, and the Trump admin is trying to undo that.

The smaller social media story: You can mangle a quote and put a photo on it, and most people won't check the source, because they want to react for clicks/moral preening.

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today https://t.co/2BxRnQRWre

[Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su]

They literally just stole this elderly woman’s phone for filming them and then threw her down a fucking hill.

You can’t make this shit up.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Woman stands between ICE & mother holding 4 year old child—agents tackle her, kneel on her back & drag her away through snow.

"The mother and child she tried to protect are still missing—presumably in ICE custody," according to post update.

"Elizabeth lost her own daughter to cancer at just eight years old, years ago, and that pain didn't break her. Instead, it strengthened her instinct to protect the vulnerable, to act when others stay silent. That maternal love and protective courage are what fueled her in that moment," the post description explains.

The incident occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

ICE agents are scanning your face while hiding theirs.
https://t.co/vbcayP5Qx9

[Lincoln Square @LincolnSquareHQ]

ICE arrests 58 year old man working at McDonalds outside of Minneapolis. His teen son takes his dad's life-saving heart medication to the detention facility and ICE agents laugh at him.

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

“Liam is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality,” she told MPR News on Monday. “He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”

https://t.co/jQb1t9rPTW

[Tom Martell @tommartell]

Lost in the background of the horrific murder of Alex Pretti is that an ICE agent walked up to a woman who was actively backing away from him and shoved her with two hands, sending her sprawling backwards onto an icy sidewalk. He then tries to pepper spray her while she is prone on the ground.

There is no justification for this physical violence against her. She isn't resisting arrest and she isn't threatening the agent. He crossed the street to physically attack her.

This is not normal. This is not ok. Law enforcement cannot physically assault citizens on the street. Any police officer who did this would lose their job.

We've seen countless examples of ICE initiating physical violence with no justification. This cannot be normalized.

[john ☾. worsley 🎃 @lx]

@LPNH @WestCODefender So being a Libertarian means cowering at home when the state gets aggressive? Is that where we are?

[john ☾. worsley 🎃 @lx]

@megynkelly The summary executions will continue until the whistling stops.

[john ☾. worsley 🎃 @lx]

End ICE.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

[FactPost @factpostnews]

CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.

[Anton Sorkin ن @Legal_Ministry]

This, from @DavidAFrench: “One of the saddest things about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is that you could tell that neither of them seemed to know the danger until it was too late. They believed they were operating in some version of the normal state . . . where the police usually respond with discipline and restraint.” https://t.co/RHbvZJIdmv

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

The number of people who’ve lost all sense of humanity, not just the abdication of the values of a nation founded on the ideals of liberty and opposed to a tyrannical government, is sickening. Poisoned minds that refuse sanity, reality, truth, and the evidence of their own eyes.