Mike Ludwig

People Keep Dying in ICE Custody. 13 Democrats Back a Bill to Abolish the Agency. Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva's sister says his family begged ICE to let him takes his meds to detention. He died on July 13. Meanwhile, ICE is on a killing spree. Which Dems will cross the Rubicon and say, abolish ICE?

This is hard to look at, but it's important we do not look away from all forms of child abuse associated with the current regime. It's not just rhetoric and attack ads, advocates say kids are facing judges alone and being separated from family / deported potentially to their deaths, right now.

By deploying federal immigration agents to go door-to-door hunting for so-called “voter fraud” ahead of Election Day, the Trump administration may be preparing the ground for meddling with election results and suppressing dissent if Republicans perform poorly and lose their congressional majority.

A reminder during Prison Banned Books Week: Prisons & jails are the largest censors in the U.S. They say it's for "security," but the most banned book is a cookbook. 🤨 Book bans are designed to isolate and control incarcerated people — not keep them safe.

It's kinda funny that the same Republicans who argue that meritocracy exists under capitalism (lol) also elected George W. Bush and then Donald J. Trump president, two rich kid ding dongs who dodged military service and never work a day in their lives.

Race and class have entered the Flock camera chat. Police keep secret the location data on where AI surveillance cameras are located - but researchers in VA got their hands on data from Hampton Roads. Guess where the cops put the new fangled license plate readers? Hint: Not white areas.

Right now the unemployment rate is 4.2% -- but the labor participation rate is at only 61.8%. Not far from the pandemic low of 60% in April 2020 Hits different, no? The unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story, it misses "discouraged workers" who have given up looking for a job, for example

Class Warfare 101: Every election many workers are unable to vote because they are too busy selling labor to a capitalist class that also funds the candidates. If our political leaders were working for us, rather than against us and for the oligarchs, they would make Election Day a federal holiday.

Republicans and Democrats have competing legislation to rein in Flock cameras, here's a deep dive! There's at least three bills, including the Ban Flock Act from Bernie Sanders and AOC. But the GOP is looking for ways to keep Flock cameras running with "guardrails." Get the details here:

See the moment when Border Patrol and militarized police cut down the sacred Grandmother Tree, a more than 200-year-old Cottonwood on private property and Indigenous territory. The tree sitter and many others are have been arrested, according to activists @ Tierra Libre anti-border wall camp

Border Patrol and militarized police have made "many arrests" at the Tierra Libre camp, including the tree sitter, and cut down the sacred grandmother tree that the protesters were defending from border wall construction on Indigenous land. Livestream: www.instagram.com/tierralibre_...

Right before announcing retirement, an admin judge ruled Trump and Rubio can deport Salah Sarsour. But the fight's not over yet. A member of American Muslims for Palestine, Sarsour was arrested by ICE in March 2025, when Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil were also arrested for fascist spectacle.

The death penalty is absolutely disgusting. A botched execution, absolutely horrifying. Torture. Abuse. I hope "law and order" conservatives who call themselves "pro-life" Christians and still support this crap realize they are f*cking idiots

After reviewing the brutal invasions of US metro areas, Amnesty International now officially calls for abolishing ICE. While the grassroots has said #AbolishICE for years, support from the global human rights org signals a significant momentum shift as public support for mass deportations plummets

Being jailed for no reason jail sucks, idc who you are. The backlash and grassroots action against Flock cameras and the surveillance state is amazing, but I hope people realize it's not just Flock that's the problem when people are stalked, wrongly jailed for crimes, etc. It's the police.

It's finally being reported that Trump made over $2 billion during his first year in office, and he is still sending out scammy fundraising emails on a daily basis, in hopes that MAGA grandma hasn't heard about it yet and is willing to fork over another $15 of her retirement to help him out

Rep. Lee has constantly voted anti-war (and introduced her own bills) ever since.

Trump Wants “Model Cities” With High-Tech Police. New Orleans Just Said “No.” It's $300 million to put Flock cameras on every corner, the tip of the spear for Trump's authoritarian impulses. NOLA's in a budget crisis and needs the & but ultimately said "nope," joining Charlotte NC and Billings WY

Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect key Black, Latino, Asian precincts that could become targets. “What we asked ourselves is, what would Stephen Miller do?" - Mary Corcoran, @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social

Free Speech Groups Sound Alarm on “Red Scare” Repression of ICE Watch Activists Even right-leaning groups are freaked out by Trump's assault on Twin Cities and the Minnesota 15. They asked a court to reveal more details on DHS surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries ICE is weaponized...

The UN and Red Cross Are Calling for Restrictions on AI Drones and Killer Robots “The same technology that brings you an Uber kills somebody in Palestine, and people really need know that and consider that." - Lisa Ling, U.S. veteran who worked at the Pentagon’s drone program prior to 2012

Trump Is Destroying Pristine Public Lands to Build His Border Wall — Again Destruction has begun near sacred springs, endangered species; the Tohono O’odham Nation put up “no trespassing” signs to ward off the contractors in the Sonoran Desert. Protests underway. Big Bend TX is also under threat.

What DeFlock? A Week of Action Confronts the AI Surveillance State After Cameron Ashworth wrote an op-ed critical of local police, a public records request revealed the cops we're following him with Flock-style cameras. Taxpayers are demanding accountability across the country and cops hate it!

To understand how much danger we are currently face from the microplastics in drinking water that carry hazardous chemicals directly into our internal organs, we need to test the water. But not under Trump. Test for microplastics and we might have to do something about it, so no testing for us!

First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones. Hundreds of cop shops have federal waivers to launch advanced drones that navigate with AI, according to @eff.org. Drones that can peer into windows, follow you across town, and even carry weapons. But resistence is growing...

Trump’s Federal Trade Commission Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI” Free speech groups sound alarm about a proposal from Trump's FTC to jawbone companies into training AI models on white nationalist narratives and undermine state laws. Meanwhile, Elon Musk wants his nude deepfakes...

Republicans Are Trying to Give Big Oil Immunity for Causing Climate Chaos Forgot to share this before I took a break! But it's really important. Big Oil is trying to wriggle out of paying for climate damages, leaving the rest of us on the hook as heat waves and disasters intensify.

What happened to the cop who murdered Carlo Giuliani? These are his words about his life today. Even if you are prepared to murder for the ruling class, they will use you to protect their privileges, then throw you away. They're using you to kill because they don't value life—yours or anyone's.

Trump Under Fire for Diverting Disaster Relief Workers to Immigration Policing A report from a House Dem found the Trump admin diverted FEMA workers from disaster relief to assist ICE with the logistics of mass detention and deportation last year. The admin denies — but no-showed a House hearing

A doctor at Shahid Baqaei Hospital in Ahvaz in southern Iran emphasized that the children being treated at the facility when the US military attacked the area on Wednesday were suffering serious illnesses, and had to be urgently evacuated while on ventilators and receiving chemotherapy.

ICE embracing body cams for its undertrained agents tells you all you need to know about body cams as a "police accountability" tool. In fact, police of all kinds view body cams as a tool for surveillance and legal protection. That's why cams were adopted so fast. www.axios.com/2026/07/16/i...

Marco Rubio, the new strongman leaders of Venezuela, has no patience for petty international human rights laws

SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News for Flock — But Won’t Stop Mass Surveillance It will take more than a favorable Supreme Court on data privacy to dismantle the surveillance state -- but momentum is building! Is there a campaign to take down automatic license plate reading cameras where you live?

To cover tax breaks for the rich, Trump slashed food stamps, shifting the costs of preventing starvation onto states and counties. It's not going well. 700,000 kids lost assistance, housing costs keep rising, food banks say they can't fill the gap. And that means higher costs for everyone else.

Damning reports about abuse and neglect in ICE jails are nothing new, but I've never seen so many die. So ICE decides to stop counting. You can wait 6 months to see a judge and have a heart attack in an ICE camp, but if you're released and die at hospital, ICE won't report it to Congress anymore.

One of the 15 defendants in Minnesota indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly standing up to ICE is simply accused of writing an article we published about the murder of Renee Good. The author describes an ICE agent shooting a pepper ball at his eye, point-blank. You can read the article here:

The Iran war costs families $300 in gas so far Trump wants biggest military budget ever -- $1.5 trillion Iran gets $300 billion reconstruction fund Defense contractors get $350 billion windfall replacing missiles at $1.6 million each This is why we can't have nice things... like Medicaid...

May 26: a giant tank at a paper will in Washington implodes, releasing a wave of deadly chemicals and killing 11 workers. It was the 2nd deadly spill in the US since mid-April. Trump is pushing eliminate the Chemical Safety Board / weaken rules meant to reduce the risk of spills near communities.

Were followers of Jesus class conscious? Yes of course, you can see it in their discourse. Collectivist rebels. Calling Jesus a "socialist" is a historical anachronism; such ideology did not exist yet. But if we are using modern terms, I agree with Tolstoy that Jesus would be a pacifist anarchist.

Bombing drug dealers is stupid policy that doesn't work. But we should not forget that killing people who have not been charged with a crime or stood trial or literally anything of the sort is known simply as "murder"

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

The Trump admin does not protect children. It locks them in concentration camps and leaves them with abusers to die.

Judge Upholds Brutal Farm Labor at Angola Prison in LA “They still don’t want to let go of it. They are holding on to this slavery replica, because that really all it is — it’s just a model of slavery they are holding on to.” - Terrance Winn, former Angola prisoner @promiseofjustice.bsky.social

Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding In at least 16 recent cases, police lost their jobs after accessing license plate reader data to stalk ex-partners or other romantic interests. Lawsuits are filed. DeFlock network's “week of action against ALPRs” begins on August 16

video is from the flotilla, reporting sexual assault. Explains why Israeli officials finally slammed Gvir "please take to the streets"

I've covered students resisting attempts at silencing Black history and anything queer, but it goes so much deeper. Gaza made me realize the right doesn't want to talk about the recent history of anywhere unless it's some perverted white hero worship. History's brutal + they are defending the spoils

UPDATE: More Details Emerge of Trump’s Secret Use of ICE to Spy on Critics! Big Tech firms such as Meta and Google are under pressure from ICE to identify anon users who dissent. House Dems want answers about Israeli spyware and promise investigations into Trump's surveillance dragnet if they win.