Rodrigo Cipriano

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

Remember all of these people had legal status. All of them were doing it "the right way". The Deportation Panic we're suffering through has nothing to do with legal immigration. It's an assault on immigration, period.

And look at the comments. A farrago of confused people who do not understand the reasons for America's success and think turning away valuable strivers the economy literally depends on will magically somehow help them. They all desperately crave to live in a dilapidated ethnostate.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

GTFO of here. A slimy play to paint the Muslim guy of Egyptian ancestry as insufficiently inclusive. Total trash from institutional Dems terrified of the emerging power from their left flank.

[Street Medic @RndmStreetMedic]

This is the gfm for the family of Johan Sebastián Guerrero, the man killed by ICE in Maine yesterday.

https://t.co/Y8360DtNXF

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Harrowing testimony of Australian filmmaker Juliet Lamont, kidnapped by the israelis on the @gbsumudflotilla, battered & sexually assaulted

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

I will never get over the fact that their father forced Rosemary Kennedy to have a lobotomy because she was being a normal 23-year-old girl who wanted to have fun, and her father said she was ruining the family’s image. He contacted a doctor who told him a lobotomy would “correct” her behavior, but it ended up making her mentally and physically handicapped. She could no longer walk or talk properly and had the mental capacity of a child. Her family was then embarrassed by her condition, so they sent her to live at an institution for the mentally impaired, where she lived until her death in 2005.

Her family also didn’t visit her for 20 years, fearing they’d be photographed with her and it would cause a scandal in the press. Most people don’t even know about her existence because the family rarely talked about her. Her siblings didn’t even know where she was until their father's death in 1961. Despite JFK being the president at the time, he still prioritized keeping in contact with her and managing her medical care. It was said that he was extremely protective of her and would visit whenever he was able.

Her mother eventually began visiting her after 20 years. Her father never went to see her after she was institutionalized. He was the reason for her disabilities, and he completely abandoned her. Once her siblings discovered where she was, they visited her regularly, and Eunice Kennedy eventually started the Special Olympics because of her. The surviving Kennedy siblings were at Rosemary's side when she passed.

She could have lived a normal and happy life, but her father took that away from her because she didn’t meet his expectations. Nothing ever happened to the doctor who was responsible for the lobotomy.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

There is neither will not want within Israeli society towards Palestinian life and identity except this. All that’s left is the desire to simply be done with them. The pretense of sharing anything is gone.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

They popped champagne after this. Fascism has come full circle. But their Goebbels is not in Israel, it’s the American press. They don’t just whitewash their massacres and racism, they pretend the fascists are the victims. And the victims of their genocide are the aggressors.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

The genocide never stopped.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

You should read this. A superb piece of writing by Freddie deBoer on the self-pitying shackles incels place on themselves. Really astute observations:

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg]

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.

Please share this far and wide...

"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.

"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."

"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”

Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.

Please like and share.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

Today's reaction: https://t.co/VkdNoGREYZ

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

The urgency with which Democratic leadership need to confront the problem of ICE is literally a matter of life and death.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

ICE survives not because people support it, but because leaders refuse to confront it. The agency is unpopular, untrusted, and viewed as dangerous by many Americans. Funding it anyway sends a clear message.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

ICE is cruel, violent and unrepentant because it is at war with us. You cannot reform an institution advertised by racist DHS messaging and empowered to preserve a social order based on lies about immigrants.

Abolish ICE. There is no other way.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This ICE Nazi brutality happened in Santa Ana. A 21-yr-old underwent 6 hrs of eye surgery to remove plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and face, including a metal piece lodged 7mm from a carotid artery. He'll never see again out of his left eye.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I am calling for the arrest and prosecution of the ICE agent that shot and killed Renee Good.

I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @JasmineForUS to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification, and ensure ICE has independent oversight.

[𝔐𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔞 ℭ𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔰 🏳️‍⚧️ @CoffinsInBloom]

THEY. CHOKED. HER.

4 men assaulted this woman. A US fucking citizen.

4 fucking men ASSAULTED a WOMAN.

I am a DV survivor, THIS IS EVIL, THIS IS CRUEL, THIS IS MONSTROUS.
THIS. IS. ABUSE.