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applegrove's JournalLook in Blue Sky, and other websites, for content to
put up in the DU as Original Posts. Is some issue being missed? Is something off to the side interesting? We have to keep people with a wide scope even though their instincts would be to narrow the focus to a few things that scare them the most about what is happening to the USA. Tunnel vision is a trap. You can do it!!!
ICE will not mob Texas this year as Trump is counting on the latino vote in 2026.
Good luck with that.
Following ICE’s deadliest year in two decades, we do not need another massive ICE detention facility.
— Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@crockett.house.gov) 2026-02-06T00:11:14.144Z
ICE has caused enough harm to our communities.

They have proven they cannot be trusted to operate detention facilities safely or transparently.
Head to crockett.house.gov/media.
This is Kabuki theatre. I don't think the pastor is faking it. But Trump's false contrition
is expedient. He could personally apologize for Minneapolis. He has a pulpit and the press on him all the time. Poor people, farmers and people very angry at Good and Pretti getting slayed in the streets are his target audience. Those are the three groups he is tanking with because his policies are so bad. He's using the totem and trust people have in a black pastor. Of course Trump is well positioned in the shot and not surprised by the pastor at all. He can't apologize. TACO. He doesn't have the guts to apologize though he had to somehow. The vicious 'let's make the libtards cry' base will not tune into a black pastor (I'm not sure of the proper title for this religious leader). Trump- forked tongue much on the messaging?
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-05T15:24:09.276Z
Feds to Release Another Child Picked up by ICE
Feds to Release Another Child Picked up by ICE
DE-ICING
Harry Thompson
News Reporter
Published 02.04.26 9:59AM EST
CBS NEWS Minnesota
emails@thedailybeast.com
Federal authorities are releasing a 4th-grader detained by ICE in Minnesota, according to the head of her school district. Colombia Heights superintendent Zena Stenvik said that on Jan. 6, Elizabeth Zuna and her mom were “picked up by ICE on their way to school” and sent to Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. It is the same district that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad were taken from, and the same detention center that they were sent to before their release at the request of a federal judge on Sunday. “We are filled with joy at the anticipation of the family when Elizabeth’s father can once again be reunited with his daughter and wife,” Stenvik said. Stenvik added that “we do not know the status of Elizabeth’s health at this time,” following a measles outbreak at the facility, which means the timeline for her return is also unknown. A racially motivated bomb scare on Monday led Columbia Heights schools to close on Monday, CBS News reports. Dozens of parents from the school district have been scooped up by ICE, Stenvik said. “We seek the full release of all children and unjustly detained parents from detention centers across our country.”
Applegrove: the school superintendents and principals are stepping up. Civil Society at its best.
I was shocked at the classism when I first started
talking with Americans online. The classism was amongst the right wingers. My name was Taylor girl online (at another forum) and one nasty Republican tried to get at me by calling me trailer girl. I said all the people I had known who live in trailers were good eggs because they were. He couldn't believe I wasn't offended. Being Canadian I was not familiar with that type of classism. We Canadians were/are not perfect: racism, sexism, anti French and indigenous hate still exists.
My parents used to go to Naples to visit some friends when Bill Clinton was President. The friends of my parents' friends were a mixed bunch, some Republicans. My Dad was amazed at how often they called Bill Clinton and 'cracker'. "He's a cracker this" and "he's a cracker that". So much so he found himself saying the things he admired about Bill Clinton out loud to test their reaction. He almost could not believe the classism. They were like parrots and these were wealthy people "Polly thinks Clinton is a cracker!!".
Painting everyone with a broad brush is not the Democratic way and it only serves to tribalize the US more which is what MAGA, and the right wing Republicans in charge, want and need. I doubt very much that everyone called white trash is of bad character. Bad people are bad characters. You have to get to know them first.
Yes many ICE are creepy and scary and bad people. I'm sure many of them were brought up in middle class households. Better off people can be assaulters and human/citizen/undocumented rights abusers too, and much worse.
I hate to post this.
Trump Doubles Down on Call to Nationalize Elections
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 44 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/03/trump-doubles-down-on-call-to-nationalize-elections/
“President Trump doubled down on his view that Republicans should ‘nationalize’ voting in the U.S., questioning whether certain states should continue running their own elections as spelled out in the Constitution,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Trump: “I want to see elections be honest, and if a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it.”
He added: “Take a look at Detroit…take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Atlanta… The federal government should not allow that. The federal government should get involved. These are agents of the federal government to count the vote. If they can’t count the vote legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”
Applegrove: is Trump couching his vile, antidemocratic SAVE act in this "nationalize elections" garbage to make the SAVE Act seem like less of a threat? Like it is cushion sized instead of the threat it really is: BIG!
Its not capitalism when there's graft, corruption, and the oligarchs hoard all
the data and information. The basic assumption of any economic model is "given perfect information" people will behave in certain ways. We'll if you have to pay for all your information, or pay to play.. the economic models fail. Information to make the best decisions and/or access is not available to all. Poverty grows.
https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/02/federal-data-is-disappearing/
Federal Data Is Disappearing
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 90 Comments
NOTUS: “Researchers estimate that well over 3,000 data sets have been removed from public access. The current reality is that the federal government is no longer a reliable source of widespread data collection.”
ICE got out of Maine really fast. I think
Trump and the Administration realized they were going to make Janet Mills a star Governor fighting ICE just when Mills is about to run for the US Senate.
You have an "i" instead of an "o" in two spots on your title.
Like all dyslexics I have a hard time rereading my own work so I make lots of mistakes. We are better at reading what is novel: someone else's writing.
People are cutting, and cutting their loses because of Trump.
Makes them very angry. They are not wrong to be angry. It will help them fight for the life of America as a democracy. Accept their anger as just another loss to our peace of mind. It is needed in some people for a little while. Everyone has their role to play.
If you go that will just be another loss due to Trump. Don't go.
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