#abolish-ice

#abolish-ice

At Monday night's Q&A at the Mission's Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas, State Sen. Scott Wiener, District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, and former Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez staffer and tech multi-millionaire Saikat Chakrabarti all worked to establish their progressive bona fides. In addition to making it clear they would be most excited to join the Progressive Caucus if elected, the three candidates all called for accountability for fossil fuel companies, abolishing ICE and Medicare for All.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) has come out swinging in favor of abolishing ICE and blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), demanding that Democrats use their leverage to do so after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) released a tepid set of demands for a funding vote in the coming days. In a short video posted to social media on Wednesday evening, Markey said that Democrats "have the power" to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and must use it.

Sometimes, as with Dawn Porter's documentary When a Witness Recants, which follows three exonerated men who were framed by the police for the murder of a Baltimore high school student, it served to tie their movies to the current political reality, which lit up phones in darkened theaters with news of the killing of Alex Pretti. Sometimes it was just taking advantage of the spotlight,

Over the weekend, the basketball star Breanna Stewart didn't have her normal bounce during player introductions. As soon as the announcer shouted her name, Stewart walked out holding a white sign with a message: Abolish ICE. "I think that when human lives are at stake, it's bigger than anything else," Stewart said at a press conference following the game with Unrivaled, a three-on-three professional basketball league she co-founded in 2024.

Minnesotan here. Everything is as heinous and barbaric as it seems. Our great state is being targeted and terrorized in a political power play designed to wreak chaos and instigate violence.

On Wednesday of last week, Ross shot and killed Good in Minneapolis during a hotly disputed incident that was caught on camera. Trump Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rushed to label the 37-year-old Good a domestic terrorist whose killing was justified, and Trump himself attacked the woman. But video and police statements contradicted their version of events, and protests have been widespread in the aftermath of the incident.

I mean, read the room, Brandon. Chicago's been under siege since the Trump administration launched Operation Midway Blitz in September, and DHS goons led by Nazi-shaped Gregory Bovino have since terrorized Halloween parades, pepper-sprayed a baby, and led to a 515% surge in arrests. (All of this, of course, has come as a part of Trump's ongoing efforts to carry out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.) And according to Justice Department records from November, 97% of the people detained had no criminal record at the time of their arrest.