The GrindDad
@grinddad.bsky.social
Product designer. Artist, musician. Exvangelical, antifascist. Sometimes asshole. (he/him)
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The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
www.npr.org
September 20, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
September 20, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
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according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot.
no amnesty
no amnesty
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
www.statesman.com
September 21, 2026 at 2:10 AM
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot.
no amnesty
no amnesty
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Alligator Alcatraz’ confined detained immigrants in cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report by the DHS inspector general.
DHS watchdog: Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general’s report.
nbcnews.to
September 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Alligator Alcatraz’ confined detained immigrants in cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report by the DHS inspector general.
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ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes.
Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.
Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.
September 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes.
Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.
Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.
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I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done.
This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands.
He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands.
He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
www.transiticsnews.com
September 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done.
This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands.
He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands.
He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams."
DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
🚨 DHS is planning to spend $100M+ for intelligence analysts for what looks like a previously unknown unit within Enforcement and Removal Operations called Overwatch and National Security Enforcement (ERO ONE).
Source: apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/75521...
Source: apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/75521...
September 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams."
DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
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Many of you have been asking what you can do to fight the Trump Administration’s depraved war on immigrant kids — like the ones separated from their families and held in federal detention that I’ve been highlighting in my recent videos from 201 Varick Street.
Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody
Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Many of you have been asking what you can do to fight the Trump Administration’s depraved war on immigrant kids — like the ones separated from their families and held in federal detention that I’ve been highlighting in my recent videos from 201 Varick Street.
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"Most parents have straightforward ideas for what to give their teenaged son for his birthday. Not Maryam Tahmasebi. She just wants her son to be able to celebrate outside the detention center our country has trapped them in."
Read this from @timmiller.bsky.social:
Read this from @timmiller.bsky.social:
Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
lnk.thebulwark.com
September 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"Most parents have straightforward ideas for what to give their teenaged son for his birthday. Not Maryam Tahmasebi. She just wants her son to be able to celebrate outside the detention center our country has trapped them in."
Read this from @timmiller.bsky.social:
Read this from @timmiller.bsky.social:
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MEMPHIS — @LeviAIsmail: “How does a search warrant turn into 100 people zip-tied and loaded up onto buses? I have a lot of questions.”
#UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
#UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
September 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
MEMPHIS — @LeviAIsmail: “How does a search warrant turn into 100 people zip-tied and loaded up onto buses? I have a lot of questions.”
#UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
#UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
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If you see something, save something.
Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️
Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears.
See something worth keeping?
Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/
#ToolsYouCanUse
Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️
Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears.
See something worth keeping?
Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/
#ToolsYouCanUse
September 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
If you see something, save something.
Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️
Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears.
See something worth keeping?
Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/
#ToolsYouCanUse
Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️
Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears.
See something worth keeping?
Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/
#ToolsYouCanUse
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“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family says
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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The Navy has been firing a lot of missiles lately, and they're starting to run out
In 15 months, the Navy fired more air defense missiles than it did in the last 30 years
The Navy has burned through costly missiles, some with a price tag of $28.7 million. So, it has turned to 5-inch gun rounds to down drones.
taskandpurpose.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Navy has been firing a lot of missiles lately, and they're starting to run out
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We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe.
But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
August 28, 2026 at 1:00 AM
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe.
But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks.
“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
www.propublica.org
August 28, 2026 at 12:12 PM
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks.
“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor
August 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor
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This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
Now with alt text!
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
August 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials offer the most transparent play by play yet of how the two countries worked together to arrange for more than 100 Iranians to be flown back to Iran on three separate immigration flights.
www.mississippifreepress.org/a-quiet-chan...
www.mississippifreepress.org/a-quiet-chan...
A Quiet Channel Between ICE and Iran Shaped Deportation Flights, Released Emails Show
U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship even with growing tensions.
www.mississippifreepress.org
August 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials offer the most transparent play by play yet of how the two countries worked together to arrange for more than 100 Iranians to be flown back to Iran on three separate immigration flights.
www.mississippifreepress.org/a-quiet-chan...
www.mississippifreepress.org/a-quiet-chan...
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BEING THE PERSON WHO EVERYBODY MOURNS MEANS STEPPING UP WHEN NOBODY ELSE WILL
IT DOES NOT MEAN WATCHING POLL APPROVAL NUMBERS
IT DOES NOT MEAN WATCHING POLL APPROVAL NUMBERS
Dolly made times less hard for a lot of people thoughtcatalog.com/nicolestawia...
Dolly Parton Funded an Oscar-Winning AIDS Documentary in the 1980s When the Reagan Administration Wouldn’t Act
Parton lost friends to AIDS in the 1980s and put her production company Sandollar behind Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt that wen…
thoughtcatalog.com
August 26, 2026 at 3:29 PM
BEING THE PERSON WHO EVERYBODY MOURNS MEANS STEPPING UP WHEN NOBODY ELSE WILL
IT DOES NOT MEAN WATCHING POLL APPROVAL NUMBERS
IT DOES NOT MEAN WATCHING POLL APPROVAL NUMBERS
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An incredible story. The Iranian Christian woman who wrote “help” on the glass on the hotel in Panama has finally found permanent safety; in Canada.
The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Deported By Trump Finds New Home (Gift Article)
Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who had escaped religious persecution, was deported to Panama under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now, Canada has given her asylum.
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2026 at 10:24 PM
An incredible story. The Iranian Christian woman who wrote “help” on the glass on the hotel in Panama has finally found permanent safety; in Canada.
The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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1/ Religious groups in Minnesota are asking a federal court to hold ICE in contempt after allegations that an undercover ICE agent infiltrated University Baptist Church of Minneapolis in May —
August 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
1/ Religious groups in Minnesota are asking a federal court to hold ICE in contempt after allegations that an undercover ICE agent infiltrated University Baptist Church of Minneapolis in May —
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💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
August 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
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Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
August 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
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ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin.
His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota.
He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert.
Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota.
He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert.
Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
August 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin.
His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota.
He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert.
Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota.
He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert.
Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.