Gabe Ortíz

@tusk81
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Trying to fight the good fight at America’s Voice 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats. Cancer survivor 🏳️‍🌈 Views here my own ✨

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116694865976703880

“Donald Trump has appointed at least three other men with known ties to Epstein to federal office. Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, testified recently to the House oversight committee after admitting that he traveled to Epstein’s private island.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116694857019360214

“Epstein told a friend that he attended Ben Black’s 30th birthday, advised him on the purchase of an $11.5m townhouse and helped one woman compose messages to him. She wrote to Epstein to say that she and Black had kissed the following day.”

Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show

Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions

The Guardian

"’This story is going to get you a gun in your face,’ Santos said.

I asked him what he meant by that.

‘You know what I mean.’”

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5846966/george-santos-kalshi-threats

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116693361245140557

"While it can take days to finalize election results, the stark gap was enough evidence for Jose Sanchez, a city councilmember, to claim a 'landslide victory' for residents who don’t want to live near datacenters."

"We hope that other communities will use the model set by residents here in Monterey Park as inspiration to stop data centers from encroaching in their backyard," he said.

"While many cities and counties have already passed temporary or indefinite moratoriums via their local governments, Monterey Park would be the first to do so through a ballot initiative."

"The ballot measure needs a majority vote – at least 51% – to win. As of 2am Pacific Time, 86.3% of the more than 7,000 votes counted so far were in favor of banning datacenters."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/california-monterey-park-datacenters-ban

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban

The Guardian

It’s not just New Jersey. Private prison profiteers like GEO Group are getting obscene amounts of taxpayer dollars to subject our immigrant neighbors to dehumanizing and abusive conditions at camps all over the country👇🏽

https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/hunger-strikes-over-abuse-inhumane

Hunger Strikes Over Abuse, Inhumane ICE Conditions Spread To At Least Four States

One Baptist minister said that in his nearly ten years of visiting detained immigrants, the past year “has been the worst.”

Charting a New Narrative on Immigration

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116692754214362236

"Some of their parents have been locked in immigration detention facilities for months, others deported back to their home countries after being taken from their families once again. In some cases, immigration officials conducting interior arrests deported people despite discovering they were legally off limits for removal, according to emails obtained by AP."

NOT ONE MORE PENNY FOR ICE

“… eight years after President Donald Trump’s forcible border separations … an Associated Press investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-family-separation-ice-71a610d15af5207a68f989fcafb55039

AP finds dozens of kids separated under Trump faced separation again

An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge's order to reunite them. Some of their parents have been locked in immigration detention facilities for months, others deported back to their home countries after being taken from their families once again. Ederson Galicia Alva, now 11, was separated from his mother twice. After nearly a year in Guatemala, his family returned to Florida last week under a federal judge's order. The Trump administration's push for mass deportations has led to more separations, with some families deported despite legal protections.

AP News

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Just last month, border ogre Tom Homan threatened New York City with a massive surge of mass deportation agents, stating that “You ain’t seen shit yet. This year will be a good year. Mass deportations are coming.”

NOT ONE MORE CENT