Rachel Maria
@radiantrachel.bsky.social
Sober, solo mom in the far east SF Bay Area. Educator, Swiftie, Supernatural (TV show) fan, passionate about health for mind, body, & spirit.
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Kristi Noem has been referred by Congress to DOJ for Perjury investigation for lies she gave to the Senate & House on March 3 & 4.
One of the major lies was the role of Corey Lewandowski at DHS.
But unfortunately Bondi's DOJ won't investigate the Perjury.
youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?...
One of the major lies was the role of Corey Lewandowski at DHS.
But unfortunately Bondi's DOJ won't investigate the Perjury.
youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?...
Kristi Noem Referred to DOJ for Criminal Investigation!
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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March 17, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Kristi Noem has been referred by Congress to DOJ for Perjury investigation for lies she gave to the Senate & House on March 3 & 4.
One of the major lies was the role of Corey Lewandowski at DHS.
But unfortunately Bondi's DOJ won't investigate the Perjury.
youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?...
One of the major lies was the role of Corey Lewandowski at DHS.
But unfortunately Bondi's DOJ won't investigate the Perjury.
youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?...
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Keeping a VERY close eye on this. So far, ICE is moving ahead quickly to get the warehouses open, but @nickmiroff.bsky.social's story suggests that once leadership officially changes, that may slow down.
NEW: with Kristi Noem out and mass deportations polling badly, ICE's $38 billion warehouse conversion plan is in trouble and DHS officials say a "pause" wouldn't be a bad thing www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
What Happens Now to Kristi Noem’s Warehouse Jails?
DHS’s next leader will inherit a fast-moving $38 billion plan for industrial-scale immigrant detention.
www.theatlantic.com
March 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Keeping a VERY close eye on this. So far, ICE is moving ahead quickly to get the warehouses open, but @nickmiroff.bsky.social's story suggests that once leadership officially changes, that may slow down.
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a year without any charges whatsoever. it still stuns me. i can't begin to think what she must have gone through.
Leqaa Kordia, who spent a year in ICE detention because she protested for Palestine, is free today.
March 17, 2026 at 4:32 AM
a year without any charges whatsoever. it still stuns me. i can't begin to think what she must have gone through.
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A new form of intimidation targets federal judges: hundreds of unsolicited pizzas sent to judges and their children across the country. It’s an innocuous delivery with an ominous message: “We know where you live.” cbsn.ws/4l4PoOC
March 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
A new form of intimidation targets federal judges: hundreds of unsolicited pizzas sent to judges and their children across the country. It’s an innocuous delivery with an ominous message: “We know where you live.” cbsn.ws/4l4PoOC
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Why Genesis doesn't start with "In the beginning"
YouTube video by Dan McClellan
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March 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
February 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
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Update to my story last week about a family of Russian asylum seekers who’d been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center.
Five days after we reported on their case, ICE reversed course and let them go.
Five days after we reported on their case, ICE reversed course and let them go.
Russian family who complained of mistreatment in ICE facility is released after 4 months
The family’s lawyer had sought their release on medical grounds. They were freed from detention days after NBC News brought attention to their case.
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Update to my story last week about a family of Russian asylum seekers who’d been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center.
Five days after we reported on their case, ICE reversed course and let them go.
Five days after we reported on their case, ICE reversed course and let them go.
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NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
February 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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The federal occupation's skin-color-based discriminatory attacks on BIPOC Minnesotans of all citizenship statuses is quietly undermining our early care and education system.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m...
minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m...
Minnesota child care providers try to make ends meet as immigrant families keep kids home • Minnesota Reformer
Two weeks into January, the director of a St. Paul child care center called a family to ask why their daughter had been absent on-and-off since late last year. “We reached out to just see, ‘Hey, what...
minnesotareformer.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The federal occupation's skin-color-based discriminatory attacks on BIPOC Minnesotans of all citizenship statuses is quietly undermining our early care and education system.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m...
minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m...
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The financial crisis created by the ICE surge will not disappear immediately even if the ICE officers go away (which they have not yet).
trying to wrap my head around how we are going to raise $15-28 million dollars for the expected rent need in Minnesota in March when the news cycle has now passed us.
February 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The financial crisis created by the ICE surge will not disappear immediately even if the ICE officers go away (which they have not yet).
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
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A judge had to issue a court order to ensure ICE provided seizure medication to a detainee, and that detainee still didn’t get their medication.
ICE enforcement is a disability justice issue.
They’re a eugenicist movement.
They want the “sick and weak” to die:
ICE enforcement is a disability justice issue.
They’re a eugenicist movement.
They want the “sick and weak” to die:
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February 1, 2026 at 2:11 AM
A judge had to issue a court order to ensure ICE provided seizure medication to a detainee, and that detainee still didn’t get their medication.
ICE enforcement is a disability justice issue.
They’re a eugenicist movement.
They want the “sick and weak” to die:
ICE enforcement is a disability justice issue.
They’re a eugenicist movement.
They want the “sick and weak” to die:
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The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
www.justice.gov
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
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Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.
News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.
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Since the first of the year.
Whoa. D.Minn's chief judge Patrick Schiltz dockets a list of "96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases."
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72120...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72120...
January 28, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Since the first of the year.
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And very crucially, where the criminal record may be 10 to 20 years old, and already known to the government, and the person has previously been deemed not a priority, and is now being randomly arrested after checking in with ICE for decades.
we are now focusing on those with CRIMINAL records says the administration that won’t stop lying about who had a criminal record or not and always defines someone being here in a way they don’t like as automatically having a criminal record
tom homan’s little speech means nothing has changed unless things change on the ground and even then, I can’t think of a person there who I’ve spoken to who isn’t in a “we’re not falling for it” mindset. Even a slight pause on this or that thing can be ramped up five seconds after Dems and media…
January 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
And very crucially, where the criminal record may be 10 to 20 years old, and already known to the government, and the person has previously been deemed not a priority, and is now being randomly arrested after checking in with ICE for decades.
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Days after Secretary Noem took office, she purported to "vacate" decisions by Secretary Mayorkas to extend TPS for Venezuela and Haiti — even though the law says repeatedly that TPS, once granted, lasts until it expires.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans and Haitians was unlawful, a Ninth Circuit panel found.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
DHS Unlawfully Ended Venezuelan Migrant Status, Ninth Cir. Says
The Trump administration’s termination of humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal appeals court ...
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January 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Days after Secretary Noem took office, she purported to "vacate" decisions by Secretary Mayorkas to extend TPS for Venezuela and Haiti — even though the law says repeatedly that TPS, once granted, lasts until it expires.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
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We did it!!!
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
May 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We did it!!!
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege