Wandering Adventure Party

ICE isn't law enforcement without training;

ICE is white nationalism with guns.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)

ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

Following a July 4th rally at the
ICE-operated
#Prairieland #Detention #Center in Alvarado, Texas,
an officer
allegedly sustained a gunshot injury.

The officer in question
️has no medical records substantiating this claim,

but the authorities
arrested nine people that night and ten more in the months since.

All nineteen now face the threat of decades in prison on account of their alleged connection with the rally or else for their political beliefs alone.

One Dallas teacher,
#Dario #Sanchez, faces state charges for allegedly removing someone from a Signal group chat.

#Daniel #Sanchez #Estrada,
a local artist,
faces federal charges for carrying a box of pamphlets out of his wife’s home.

Neither of these individuals were even at the Prairieland Detention Center for the rally in question

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488.100.0.pdf

At this very moment, ICE is undergoing a transformation into a #political #police force.

Recent leaks show that
secret ICE programs seek to exploit every detainee to acquire information,
and they aim to deploy up to 2000 “intelligence” assets into communities around the country for the purpose of #spying on migrants and citizens alike.

These operations
—and the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security in general
—are not just targeting immigrants;

They are also intended to target opponents of the Trump regime.

The administration alleges threats from so-called “Antifa” and the “radical left”
to justify their authoritarian consolidation of power.

But the fact that the FBI called Renee Good a domestic terrorist
and pressured prosecutors to investigate her widow
shows what they mean by these terms.

The “radical left” is a catch-all term that will be retroactively deployed to describe anyone who is randomly murdered by federal agents
—or anyone that they would like to murder.

Whenever they say “radical left,” they are saying that they intend to go on murdering people
-- the way that they murdered Renee Good,
and they intend to do so with impunity.

When the Department of Homeland Security posts a meme on its official social media account promoting “100 million deportations,”
it should be clear to all that ICE is not just targeting those who currently lack the proper immigration documents.

️They have all of the hundreds of millions of people who oppose the Trump agenda in their sights.

Given a free hand, they will kidnap or murder every single one.

The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before.

It’s not just an uptick in raids.

It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.

You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.

They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.

They don’t check papers.

Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.

We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.

Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers,
everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods
—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.

“I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE,
I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says.

The call goes quiet for a few seconds.
“I’m being pulled over.”

Dispatch chimes in:
“Stay unmuted,
turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call,
everyone else please stay on mute.”

We hear banging,
then something shatters.

“ICE just smashed their window,”
our driver explains calmly,
decelerating ahead of a red light.

We are shocked,
but this is a regular occurrence.

Everyone on the call keeps their cool.

We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them,
boxing them in,
smashing their car windows,
pepper-spraying them,
holding them at gun point,
shooting out their tires,
detaining them.

Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters,
the #Whipple building.

Others have been driven to the other side of the city
and thrown out of the vehicle, ️alone in the cold.

Their cars have been left running in the road.

The responders tell us all these stories in passing,
quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.

Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away.

A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone,
they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.

But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises.

They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets.

They make ️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses.

They make dinners for one another,
they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks.

They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road,
an entire café full of people stood up as one,
dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound.

We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors.

Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/from-rapid-response-to-revolutionary-social-change-the-potential-of-the-rapid-response-networks

A new ad campaign is fighting ICE by trying to convince agents to quit their jobs.

In the minute-long spot, an ICE agent returns home to his young daughter after a long day that includes real footage of masked federal agents breaking car windows and terrorizing immigrants.

“Daddy, how was your day?” she asks.

As he hugs her, text appears on the screen:
“What will you say when she asks about your day?”

The evocative ads from
Women’s March Win
encourage agents to
“walk away before the shame follows you home”

They have run in Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina,
where ICE has been deployed,
and in West Palm Beach, home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club

Women's March Win

Women's March Win (www.womensmarchpac.com)

Former FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.

For his trouble, and his pivotal role in vaulting Trump to power,
he has now been targetedby Trump’s Justice Department for a politically motivated indictment.

The disgusting, undemocratic use of the justice system to further Trump’s petty feuds is ugly and terrifying.

It’s also, in James Comey’s case, a lesson that other elites would do well to study.

Bending over backwards to help Trump for any reason
— to protect yourself,
to demonstrate your bipartisan apolitical bona fides,
to secure a government deal
— absolutely never ends well.

Trump will come for you eventually.

You might as well take a stand and fight when it matters

Comey and the lesson of pre-capitulation

He tried to palliate bad faith Republicans. Now we're all paying the price.

(www.publicnotice.co)

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law
— the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state
— because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users,
which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation.

Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.

The statement follows a lively back-and-forth conversation earlier this week between Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko
and Bluesky board member and journalist Mike Masnick.

In the conversation, published on their respective social networks, Rochko claimed,
“there is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.”

(The Fediverse is the decentralized social network that includes Mastodon and other services, and is powered by the ActivityPub protocol.)

“And this is why real decentralization matters,” said Rochko.

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)