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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Pastor loses bid to remain: ICE deports him to Haiti despite U.S.-citizen wife, kids — Miami Herald
Despite relentless advocacy from his family, faith leaders, and a national coalition of supporters, ICE deported Pastor Molis Augustave to Haiti on Thursday, along with dozens of other Haitians.
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children — Guardian US
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation — Guardian US
Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
so markwayne mullin is a fucking liar
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Someone who is good at the economy help me budget this.
Ad for a giant (26oz) cinnamon pumpkin candle with four wicks. “Experience our new high intensity collection, more fragrance than ever before, designed for large spaces and open floor plans”
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/08/2026
The immigrant father of a sailor on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln was detained by immigration officials, family members said.
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Father of sailor aboard the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln detained by immigration authorities, family says
Joshua Aviles said he has been “fighting for a country that has given me everything,” when he learned his father was detained.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1/2 His son is serving America aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. His father..19 years in the U.S., a work permit, no criminal record was arrested by ICE while waiting for him to come home. THIS is Trump’s America. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apnews.com/article/uss-...
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/08/2026
After winning Teacher of the Year award at a conference in TX, UMD Professor Kibret was detained by ICE at the airport. 3 weeks later he’s still in custody. He’s not the “worst of the worst” & detaining him isn’t making communities safer. He should be released, now. www.wbaltv.com/article/mary...
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Maryland professor Berhanu Kibret remains in ICE custody
ICE confirmed Kibret is being held at Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma, more than 250 miles from the airport.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
"Last year, Trump tried to send kids alone to Guatemala in middle of the night, before judges halted him. But if there are no lawyers present, such eleventh hour rescues become impossible. That appears to be the point of the let’s-eliminate-the-competent-lawyers scheme." — @anatosaurus.bsky.social
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Video shows Ukrainian woman taken into ICE custody — USA TODAY
A Ukrainian woman was taken into ICE custody at San Francisco International Airport over an alleged visa overstay.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/08/2026
DHS and ICE are pushing a bill, known as CORCA, to spy on all of us at malls and grocery stores nationwide. It's being sold as a way to stop shoplifting, but instead of making our neighborhoods safer it would be a massive expansion of the surveillance state. It must be stopped.
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Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters
A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response.
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.
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The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
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MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE
Debora Kapisha, a medical-surgical nurse at Maine Medical Center in Portland, was detained on July 30 at Logan Airport, according to the nurses union.
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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...
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Chicago DJ hosting Karol G tour afterparties arrested with his husband by ICE outside Midway Airport
DHS said agents arrested Omar David Panqueva, known as DJ TUNJO, and his husband for overstaying visas, but their attorney said the pair had applied for asylum within the required timeframe.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Max Miller should definitely KEEP doing live interviews. He sounds REALLY stable and looks very present.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE custody, this time at the controversial Delaney Hall facility. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. His mother says he was denied adequate medical care for chronic conditions, a common accusation ICE has strenuously denied.
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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After 36 years in U.S., Sheboygan woman spent 9 months in ICE detention — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Sheboygan family began a classic American road trip to Niagara Falls. They ended up separated, and in and out of ICE detention for a year.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 01/08/2026
ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight
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Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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First Kenyan-born NFL player deported, ICE says — NBC News
Daniel Ogama Adongo became the first Kenyan to play in the NFL after the Colts signed him in 2013. ICE said he overstayed a visa in 2016 and cited run-ins with the law.
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my12qc @my12qc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fans of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History will be pleased to know he's posted the next chapter of his latest project after a 7 month hiatus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4s...
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Show 74 - Mania for Subjugation IV
YouTube video by Dan Carlin
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Trump administration has gone months without paying attorneys who represent unaccompanied immigrant children as part of a years-old, congressionally-funded effort. The latest in a series of temporary bridge contracts ends tomorrow, with no replacement in sight: www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...
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These Lawyers Make Sure Children Don’t Face Deportation Hearings Alone. Trump Hasn't Paid Them In Months.
“We know what happens when children go to court without an attorney,” a lawyer said. “One word: deportation.”
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

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Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
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ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is actually terrible. share.inquirer.com/61wsnb [gift link]
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ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government.
Mamadou Fadel Cherif had been jailed in his native Guinea for protesting the 1998 presidential election, then fled to the U.S.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.
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Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...
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Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.
ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I found Tomorrowland brasil sets on Apple Music! I have to go back to the gym now, it’s the law.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the fuck is wrong with this guy
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In Texas, a Border Patrol agent was just indicted by a local grand jury for aggravated assault for running down a migrant with his car on January 31, 2025. Video from a homeowner showed the agent driving straight into a man who was calmly walking on the side of the road. myrgv.com/local-news/2...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/07/2026
“What we've heard is jobs, jobs, jobs." But no one in Tremont, Pennsylvania, seemed able to explain how the town could support an immigrant jail five times its population. So, the Trump-country coal town started to push back—and became galvanized to a much larger fight.
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How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town
“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Every single day this guy loves talking about everything ICE is doing. But not this particular question. I wonder why? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mmm.. “Lunch at Costco”
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Audrey Hepburn: I'm Trying to Save Money
Alt: Holly golightly in a large brimmed (massive) navy colored hat and iconic v necked black cocktail dress sitting at a table with the caption “I'm Trying desperately to Save Money”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
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Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights - The American Prospect
The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Video captures distressed Aussie pinned down by ICE officer — The Australian
Dramatic footage shows the moment an Australian citizen was tackled to the ground at Las Vegas airport | WATCH
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/07/2026
A human rights lawyer who fled China, applied for asylum in the US, and was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE took him this week:
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ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown
Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The detail I can’t get out of my head here is how he told his ex-wife that he had been hired by ICE, but she thought he must have been having a delusion, because how could ICE hire someone who had such a long history of family violence?
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Bama Montana 🦋 @bamamontana.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He played himself. He shouldn’t have let anybody call it a “potpourri” because the thing about a potpourri is that it’s a bunch of stuff, but none of it is necessary, so yeah, the networks aren’t going to preempt regular programming for that. They can’t trust him to stay on topic, so.
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Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
He reportedly called his ex-wife to ask her to "lie for him" and to "cover for his character."
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Ex-wife ID’s ICE agent who fatally shot man in Biddeford
David Brouillette has been identified as the ICE agent who killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A billion dollars to spin up a Spirit Halloween Concentration Camp to torture and kill brown and black folks for funsies in the Everglades for awhile. That is the only reason they built this thing. Pit in your stomach stuff.
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