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  1. One of the weirdest things about Russia's relations with European far right is, while "great replacement" is, in general terms, nonsense, USSR's history genuinely include some episodes that resemble the GR narratives. They were usually euphemised as "ethnicity / nationality policy", and they involved #massdeportations, especially deporting people from the Soviet-occupied countries in Europe to the east of Urals, and counterwise, mass transfers of people who may have had other, more specific, ethnicities before but who got described, and sometimes self-identified, as Russophone after the fact, in the reverse directions. American fans of "great replacement" don't seem to be very aware of them, but European near-Nazis bring these things up as "examples of the great replacement being real" with annoying regularity.

    This pattern is a significant part of the reason why several areas of Ukraine were dominated by Russophone and sometimes Russian-identifying citizens of Ukraine: these areas contain large mineral deposits, so extraction and industrial facilities were built there, and Stalin & co transferred large numbers of people from other places controlled by USSR to work in these facilities.

    A somewhat similar large-scale transfer was arranged by Putin for shipping large numbers of supposedly loyal Russians to Crimea after Russia occupied it.

    These transfers are not the whole reason, though. Another part of the puzzle is, in times of (relative) relational calmness between the countries, there's oftentimes functionally been a linguistic and, to some degree, cultural, slope between East Ukrainian people and West Russian people. Numerous people have even had two names, one in Ukrainian, one in Russian. For just one example, the Ukrainian spacenautics expert behind the original Sputnik moment, Serhiy Korolyov (Сергій Корольов) often figured as "Sergey Korolev" (Сергей Королёв or Королев) in Russian, and because of the Russian supremacism of USSR, Soviet, documents.

    OTOH, when things get ... let's say, not quite so calm, people's need to get off the slope and define themselves as one or the other tends to suddenly go sharply up, and one of the curious outcome of the last of these waves (there have been several between Ukraine and Russia over the centuries) is, there's now a large number of families who live, or used to live, near the border, where some people self-ID as Ukrainian, and some, as Russian. In other words, in the border areas, many Ukrainian people now have Russian relatives, and vice versa. Such families are rarer in West Ukraine, which, in turn, contributed to the relatively lower prevalence of people who consider themselves Russian in the West Ukraine than in the East even before the latest active phase of Russia's 2014 war on Ukraine.

  2. “De Facto #Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront #ICE, #CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics

    #DemocracyNow, February 11, 2026

    "House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out #MassDeportations. 'These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,' says Illinois Congressmember #DeliaRamirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of #immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. 'This is more than #authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,' says Texas Congressmember #AlGreen, who also spoke at the hearing."

    Read / watch / listen:
    democracynow.org/2026/2/11/ice

    #USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ViewerSupportedNews #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  3. “De Facto #Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront #ICE, #CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics

    #DemocracyNow, February 11, 2026

    "House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out #MassDeportations. 'These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,' says Illinois Congressmember #DeliaRamirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of #immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. 'This is more than #authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,' says Texas Congressmember #AlGreen, who also spoke at the hearing."

    Read / watch / listen:
    democracynow.org/2026/2/11/ice

    #USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ViewerSupportedNews #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  4. “De Facto #Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront #ICE, #CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics

    #DemocracyNow, February 11, 2026

    "House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out #MassDeportations. 'These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,' says Illinois Congressmember #DeliaRamirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of #immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. 'This is more than #authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,' says Texas Congressmember #AlGreen, who also spoke at the hearing."

    Read / watch / listen:
    democracynow.org/2026/2/11/ice

    #USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ViewerSupportedNews #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  5. “De Facto #Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront #ICE, #CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics

    #DemocracyNow, February 11, 2026

    "House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out #MassDeportations. 'These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,' says Illinois Congressmember #DeliaRamirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of #immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. 'This is more than #authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,' says Texas Congressmember #AlGreen, who also spoke at the hearing."

    Read / watch / listen:
    democracynow.org/2026/2/11/ice

    #USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ViewerSupportedNews #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  6. “De Facto #Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront #ICE, #CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics

    #DemocracyNow, February 11, 2026

    "House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out #MassDeportations. 'These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,' says Illinois Congressmember #DeliaRamirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of #immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. 'This is more than #authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,' says Texas Congressmember #AlGreen, who also spoke at the hearing."

    Read / watch / listen:
    democracynow.org/2026/2/11/ice

    #USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ViewerSupportedNews #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  7. Here’s How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE

    ICE is not invulnerable. The Avelo Airlines win proves what happens when we refuse inevitability and fight together.

    murica.website/2026/01/heres-h

  8. Aurora resolution rebukes ICE actions, calls for solidarity with Minneapolis

    “Aurora ‘stands in solidarity with the Twin Cities in their call for ICE to leave their community immediately'”

    sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aur
    #AuroraCO #ReneeGood #ICE #MassDeportations

  9. Aurora resolution rebukes ICE actions, calls for solidarity with Minneapolis

    “Aurora ‘stands in solidarity with the Twin Cities in their call for ICE to leave their community immediately'”

    sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aur
    #AuroraCO #ReneeGood #ICE #MassDeportations

  10. Japanese American National Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Attacks on History

    “I just don’t believe for a second that museums can be neutral,” the museum's president and CEO said.

    murica.website/2025/12/japanes

  11. Immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released on bond from Aurora ICE jail

    'This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people'

    sentinelcolorado.com/metro/imm

    #MassDeportations #NoPaywall #COpolitics

  12. Immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released on bond from Aurora ICE jail

    'This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people'

    sentinelcolorado.com/metro/imm

    #MassDeportations #NoPaywall #COpolitics

  13. Lawmakers from Aurora, Denver, multiple states push back against Trump's immigration policies

    'We all see that ICE is actually, in fact, not a law enforcement agency. It is a lawless agency'

    sentinelcolorado.com/metro/law

    #MassDeportations #COpolitics #COleg #Immigration

  14. Lawmakers from Aurora, Denver, multiple states push back against Trump's immigration policies

    'We all see that ICE is actually, in fact, not a law enforcement agency. It is a lawless agency'

    sentinelcolorado.com/metro/law

    #MassDeportations #COpolitics #COleg #Immigration

  15. Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe

    'The judge has to believe that some line may have been crossed that you can’t ignore'

    sentinelcolorado.com/nation-wo

    #MassDeportations #ElSalvador #JudgeBoasberg

  16. Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe

    'The judge has to believe that some line may have been crossed that you can’t ignore'

    sentinelcolorado.com/nation-wo

    #MassDeportations #ElSalvador #JudgeBoasberg

  17. Per #NPR

    #KingDonald
    #MassDeportations
    #theguard

    The courts are weighing in on their legality. But — if successful they could also fulfill a long-running administration goal of employing America’s military to aid in the mass deportation of immigrants without legal status, according to an NPR review of past comments from Trump and his allies. It’s a move that would stray significantly from past federal use of the Guard, challenging laws that dictate how the military can be used domestically.

  18. In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests

    “Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.

    murica.website/2025/10/in-earn