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7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers

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Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.

Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.

DHS is using explosives on people’s homes???

“Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

26.01.2026 14:27 👍 1425 🔁 701 💬 127 📌 135

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

27.01.2026 04:54 👍 13538 🔁 2519 💬 413 📌 184

I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy

27.01.2026 01:26 👍 2419 🔁 489 💬 22 📌 12

“I’ve read stories of folks rounded up who were seeking asylum with no order to leave the country, no criminal record, and consistently check in with authorities. Literally no reason to be rounded up. Surely we aren’t helping do that?”

I have some bad news for this Palantir employee.

27.01.2026 03:45 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Having spent some time recently in an ICU -- these are just the most extraordinary people. Staggeringly committed. Thank you for your service.

27.01.2026 02:59 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

more democrats should be pointing out that "illegal immigration" is not even a crime

26.01.2026 22:31 👍 1365 🔁 238 💬 56 📌 13

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

26.01.2026 21:27 👍 3091 🔁 2716 💬 55 📌 359

Let me get off here before I lose my Black southern lady training & completely get out of character.

27.01.2026 03:00 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know these White folks saying “you don’t know what it feels like to have your community terrorized” are not talking to ME.

I’m from Georgia & Alabama. My mama remembered a lynching in 1943 a couple counties over from her. There’s a book about it: Fire in the Canebrake.

Y’all need to quit.

27.01.2026 02:59 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

I know you’re not talking to anybody but other White folks.

I know you are not talking to Black & Indigenous folks. I know that.

27.01.2026 02:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What, is he fled?

26.01.2026 20:52 👍 723 🔁 140 💬 13 📌 7

"I will have my vengence, in this life or the next" --Kristi Noem's puppy.

26.01.2026 20:38 👍 1346 🔁 142 💬 35 📌 1
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Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️

26.01.2026 23:54 👍 9265 🔁 4212 💬 471 📌 320

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

26.01.2026 20:54 👍 4468 🔁 1529 💬 50 📌 19

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.

27.01.2026 01:40 👍 4946 🔁 1127 💬 119 📌 65

Exactly.

27.01.2026 02:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Even removing Miller is just the beginning.

27.01.2026 01:31 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I don’t want to be the skunk at the garden party. I truly hope things will calm down in Minneapolis, but remember that White supremacist brutality doesn’t admit defeat easily: They are already in other cities.

27.01.2026 02:44 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Keep your powder dry.

27.01.2026 02:42 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I am trying so hard not to yell at people but every day is a sojourn through reminders that they were fine as long as it wasn't them

27.01.2026 02:39 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

That’s exactly the way I feel.

I am so tired of negotiating with willful White innocence.

27.01.2026 02:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

White folks online saying “how can I explain this to my children?”

What do you think Black folks have been explaining to their children—for centuries?

Do you know how y’all sound?

27.01.2026 02:39 👍 86 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1

Do y’all even see Black folks?

Or do you just like our music & the latest TikTok dances?

Jesus Christ.

27.01.2026 02:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nearly every Black person online is trying to keep from flipping tables over the incredulity of White folks over what police forces can do—over White folks saying “this is just like the Nazis” when Nazis used southern Jim Crow as their model.

I am infuriated.

Where the **** have y’all been?

27.01.2026 02:36 👍 38 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
S.V. Dáte
@svdate
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How can you tell we have an unaccountable secret police force that answers only to Trump?
This person has still not been identified.
In a real police force, that piece of information is released in the very first incident report.

S.V. Dáte @svdate X.com How can you tell we have an unaccountable secret police force that answers only to Trump? This person has still not been identified. In a real police force, that piece of information is released in the very first incident report.

Demand the name of the shooter.

27.01.2026 00:49 👍 1193 🔁 334 💬 44 📌 21
Wow. Per @priscialva, DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately. He spent yesterday responding to people who were criticizing him and raising questions about his unverified claims about Pretti.

Wow. Per @priscialva, DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately. He spent yesterday responding to people who were criticizing him and raising questions about his unverified claims about Pretti.

"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports

27.01.2026 00:31 👍 10990 🔁 2541 💬 575 📌 955
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

27.01.2026 00:55 👍 23848 🔁 5867 💬 266 📌 324

Download PDF Reading List from Association of Black Women Historians ABWH
- via Prof. Stephanie Y. Evans

#History #CiteASisterSunday #BlackSky #Blackademics 🌱

abwh.org/booklist

25.01.2026 16:32 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

It's no coincidence that on the same day we learned there are *4,000* ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis rather than the 3,000 we were told, Trump tells Walz he might be willing to reduce the 4,000 slightly.

He's giving up nothing.

And Bovino getting moved out of state is just an "optics" decision.

26.01.2026 20:40 👍 1278 🔁 404 💬 54 📌 15