PLEASE, send a quick email stating NO more ICE funding!

As you know, Renee Nicole Good was murdered by masked ICE agent, Jonathan Ross,  yesterday in Minneapolis for the crime of caring about the safety and welfare of her neighbors.  Despite the concerted efforts of this authoritarian regime to twist all facts surrounding Good’s murder, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Bellingcat have all determined the ICE agent was in no danger of being run over. (Note: I initially included links then deleted them due to the graphic imagery, but the information is out there.)

In the midst of all this, Congress continues to consider whether to give more money to these violent, white supremacists who are living out their dreams under this administration. This from Detention Watch Network [emphasis mine]:

Coming into the New Year the House and Senate are proposing to expand immigration detention. Currently the House and Senate are proposing to expand immigration detention. There is already a record breaking 68,442 people in detention (via ICE December 22, 2025 stats). The proposal on the table includes additional funding for immigration enforcement and detention on top of the unprecedented $45 billion that ICE was given last year through the reconciliation bill. ICE and other government agencies have wreaked havoc across our country detaining individuals and locking them up in a deadly and inhumane system. Adding additional capacity will only escalate families being torn apart and subject them to horrific detention conditions.  

PLEASE take two minutes to email your Representative and two Senators via this form that will forward your message to them. One email sent to three addresses, easy-peasy! There’s no template in place so write your own short message that includes NO MORE MONEY TO ICE and send it along. Then please get 1-2 friends/family to do the same. Outrage is high and this is an excellent time to let our electeds know how we feel about the Department of Homeland Security and ICE terrorizing our neighbors and communities.

Thank you in advance. Solidarity!

Finally, I’m posting the image below from yesterday in Minneapolis (article here) even though in this instance it’s Border Patrol being cruel and violent, because I want to drive home the point that every branch of the Department of Homeland Security is actively terrorizing our neighbors. This is what the regime wants to fund even further.

Centuries in the making

March 1964 photo by Marion S. Trikosko (donated to public domain)

I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.  — Malcolm X

People before property

              Denver from my front yard.             May 27, 2020.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Day 9: Almost home

We got up at 5:30 this morning, Uppsala time, and just barely caught the-bus-we-thought-was-a-train (when we purchased the tickets yesterday) to Arlanda Airport in Stockholm. From there we flew to Amsterdam. After promising that all checked luggage was our own and that no one had asked us to bring anything on the plane, we got on a packed plane. Our flight to Minneapolis took 7+ hours. Once in the airport, I got busted by the agricultural-sniffing dog for carrying an orange across the ocean. I relinquished the citrus and then we had to re-check our bags and go through security again because, you know, we could’ve spent that 7+ –hour flight filling our shoes with knives. We’re now sitting in a bar/restaurant, drinking local craft beer and eating fries while we wait for our flight to Denver.

It’s already been a loooong day, and there’s still miles to go.

Here’s a somewhat appropriate image from our last day in Stockholm:

Almost home.

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