Reposted by Amy PetersonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor. 13638341786
Reposted by Amy PetersonAction Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 22/08/2026Honor Their Names procession on #Belmar NJ boardwalk Friday afternoon Honoring legal immigrants who died while in ICE custody. 13759602378
Reposted by Amy PetersonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026An immigration enforcement system that punishes people for the government’s own delay is a system which destroys its own legitimacy. People are being thrown in handcuffs and put in ICE detention despite having done every single thing the U.S. government asked them to do. 331597
Reposted by Amy PetersonKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 15544521646
Reposted by Amy PetersonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records sayThe Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c... 451421643
Reposted by Amy PetersonCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A human rights lawyer fled China and came legally to the US , where he is applying for asylum and waiting for his case to be adjudicated. He was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE arrested him this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdownArrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution 10230118
Reposted by Amy PetersonLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts 196133286755
Reposted by Amy PetersonJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...nytimes.comWomen Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say 16539011907
Reposted by Amy PetersonThe_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 24/05/2026A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. 9889124353
Reposted by Amy PetersonMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1fortune.com'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | FortuneRoughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers. 13226731590
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Described this change to my teenage daughter who immediately said, “the homogenization of knowledge!” 000
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“In the end, we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism, and humbug, and will want to live — more musically” Vincent to Theo, 1888 010
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 17/05/2026An 88 year old parishioner who never graduated from college emailed me last night to tell me how amused and delighted she was by Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of St Macrina, which she was enjoying on her back deck along with a glass of French white 🥰 140
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Last week in adult formation, someone asked me about the growth in the Catholic Church and I really said “there are some great nuns on TikTok” 010
Reposted by Amy PetersonNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study findsLouisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say 431116490
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Asheville, come hear Marie Howe and Bruce Beasley talk poetry and prayer tomorrow night! 000
Reposted by Amy PetersonPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/05/2026DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend 13678801683
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Is there a biometric tracker I can wear that has the capability to tell that I have fallen asleep and then softly fade out my audiobook or podcast? Cause that’s the only thing I’m looking for 050
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 27/03/2026bring back wives who check out Mozart while they do taebo and remind you that you’ve got room to grow 020
Reposted by Amy PetersonRob Hogg @senatorrobhogg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026“You can see that the rain, the rainwater is actually black – also saturated, it appears, with oil.” CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reporting from Iran after attack on Iranian oil facilities, March 8, 2026. 041
Reposted by Amy PetersonSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Something I don’t think can be emphasized enough is how fast ICE is shipping the people they detain off to another state. “Move fast and break things” but for people in potentially life or death situations. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j... 17525230
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I was on a jury for three weeks (a case about moving dirt around incorrectly) and now we have a jurors group chat and are planning a reunion. Sometimes America is beautiful 060
Reposted by Amy PetersonJoshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11/02/2026He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag. 63585957
Reposted by Amy PetersonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/02/2026We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now. Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.ajc.comSecond ICE detention warehouse confirmed in GeorgiaGeorgia’s immigrant detention network is expanding into Hall County, according to Oakwood city manager. 761060663
Reposted by Amy PetersonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case. 9729791765
Reposted by Amy PetersonAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do. 305110834014
Reposted by Amy PetersonJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22/01/2026Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h... 402538825
Reposted by Amy PetersonJosh M @joshmenke.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Also check out this joint statement of US, Canadian, and Danish Lutheran churches. Fun fact, over 90% of the Greenlandic people belong to the Lutheran church. www.elca.org/news-and-eve...elca.orgCanada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people 02814
Reposted by Amy PetersonJocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods 13768521842
Reposted by Amy PetersonAaron Belz @belz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors. I want to do what I want to do. 213016
Reposted by Amy PetersonDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 23/12/2025It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever. 182321562
Reposted by Amy PetersonMark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 20/12/2025The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...npr.orgAvailable to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoonAn NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files. 20246381979
Reposted by Amy PetersonKaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025it's a great day to call your representatives and remind them that U.S. citizens are being detained, assaulted, and denied basic rights at the hands of ICE. Americans like Wilmer Chavarria, Andrea Velez, George Retes, Javier Ramirez, and Dayanne Figueroa have been brutalized by their country--ours. 14611
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Just reread my Christmas Day sermons from the last two years and they were both pretty great. Yet here I go again 030
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 30/11/2025I don’t always love the way we name new things, but I seriously love that we’re calling AI generated videos slop. 020
Reposted by Amy PetersonEmily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 16/11/2025ICE raids a Charlotte church and arrests a member whose child was inside www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...charlotteobserver.comChurch members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worshipWitnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside. 134
Reposted by Amy PetersonRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 01/11/2025“Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass and emailed and hand-delivered a second letter on Thursday. The request was denied,” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...chicago.suntimes.comReligious leaders' request to give Communion to detainees at Broadview facility is denied againOrganizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the vil... 10282167
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 22/10/2025There’s epistemic humility, and then there’s weaponized ignorance and incompetence. 010
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Asheville #nokings last night. Tracy Chapman on the speakers. Finally, the tables are starting to turn. 2113
Reposted by Amy PetersonBen Makuh @benmakuh.com · 11/10/2025I’ve never seen the wind. I’ve seen the effects of the wind, but I’ve never seen the wind. 041