:puke: warning: The womanosphere urges dubious followers to back ICE: 'Don't let compassion cloud you'

[Eugene]

The womanosphere urges dubious followers to back ICE: ‘Don’t let compassion cloud you’ (The Guardian)

Conservative figures such as Riley Gaines and Allie Beth Stuckey are urging their followers to ward off empathy for victims of ICE’s crackdown

Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned anti-transgender activist, makes motherhood and femininity a core part of her brand. Her husband, Louis Barker, is a naturalized US citizen who moved to this country from the UK. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Margot, in September; Gaines said there was “nothing” she would not do to protect her baby. But do not think that Gaines is at all sympathetic to families targeted by ICE.

This weekend, Gaines spoke on her podcast about Liam Ramos, the five-year-old boy taken by ICE agents from his driveway in Minneapolis. Images of Liam, clad in snowpants and wearing a blue hat with bunny ears, being held by a federal agent prompted widespread disgust in the US. How could a preschooler be considered one of the “dangerous” criminals Trump’s administration rails against?

Gaines, however, remained unmoved. “I will say thank you to our ICE agents,” she said on the podcast. “Thank you for not abandoning that five-year-old boy like his father did. I’m glad and I’m grateful.” (While the DHS claimed the boy had been abandoned by his father, eyewitnesses and Liam’s school district said the father had been detained by ICE, which then attempted to use the child “as bait” to get other family members out of the home.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/womanosphere-influencers-ice-minnesota

[bluestarone]

1. SICK FUCKING WOMAN!

There are lots of them out there.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Nazis are gonna nazi

And Gaines is still a loser.