Reposted by Ben DoernbergLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Nothing but respect for the @ifnotnowmovement.org members who are on the ground in the West Bank bearing witness to the ongoing pogroms—thread: 06328
Reposted by Ben DoernbergRafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. I'm proud that @mayor.nyc.gov didn't. 🧵 5292107
Reposted by Ben DoernbergLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/04/2026breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday. 61111291
Reposted by Ben DoernbergJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 20/04/2026the penne opticon 13646849
Reposted by Ben DoernbergMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an American journalist, has been detained for over six weeks in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws. The Kuwaiti government must release our friend and colleague immediately. Journalism is NOT a crime. Sign the petition here. #freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldincpj.movements.movKuwait: Release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin from detention | SIGN NOWAn award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist has been detained since March 3 for sharing publicly available, CNN-verified footage. Journalism is not a crime. 5637186
Reposted by Ben DoernbergCommittee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 14/04/2026CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws. Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-... #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin 17665
Reposted by Ben DoernbergOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people 5558131444
Reposted by Ben DoernbergPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing. 5478132
Reposted by Ben DoernbergJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead. 53125556020
Reposted by Ben DoernbergAndy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...kptv.com‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to MexicoA Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died. 388130346559
Reposted by Ben DoernbergJon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin CitiesSome people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ... 28258363151
Reposted by Ben DoernbergAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability. 6154912992
Reposted by Ben DoernbergSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources. 6474120213894
Reposted by Ben DoernbergChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something. 361209208099
Reposted by Ben DoernbergTina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 14/02/2026CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them. 36445532045
Reposted by Ben DoernbergKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/02/2026I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes. 10370181367
Reposted by Ben DoernbergGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13/02/2026absolutely won’t be the last! 1344465
Reposted by Ben DoernbergGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13/02/2026i am not even sure *how* your protect organizationally sensitive information in a world where basically anyone could try to get a prediction racket going on it and then bet on it 721518
Reposted by Ben DoernbergDheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJshorturl.at7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol CustodyThe girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them. 18454053163
Reposted by Ben Doernbergtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 12/02/2026this strikes me as a key bit. OHHH WELLLLLLLLLL 33615
Reposted by Ben DoernbergMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/02/2026Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”mediamatters.orgNick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.” 1556432418
Reposted by Ben DoernbergIndivisible49 ❌👑 @indivisible49.com · 12/02/2026United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is reportedly going to be in Otay Mesa on Thursday 2/12 to hold a press conference. The press conference is scheduled for 1:30pm. 📍 7488 Calzada de la Fuente fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...fox5sandiego.com 13928
Reposted by Ben DoernbergRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection. 239134244754
Reposted by Ben DoernbergJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews. 1333447449
Reposted by Ben DoernbergChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude 55268929482
Reposted by Ben DoernbergDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US. 15582934383
Reposted by Ben DoernbergBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939 211254560
Reposted by Ben DoernbergLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/02/2026"...one of the things that helped people accept their work as concentration camp guards was that the terrible conditions of the camps themselves made the prisoners’ literal filth synonymous with their inherent filthiness. " www.welcometohellworld.com/look-at-what... 324181
Reposted by Ben DoernbergProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/20261/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵 203115177371
Reposted by Ben DoernbergEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...justice.gov 371601800
Reposted by Ben DoernbergRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Clergy friends, your moral voice matters so, so SO much in this moment. In the public square. Pushing your electeds. With congregants. At actions. Teaching the truths of your tradition & using the authority of your office. & calling in all that damn social capital. What ELSE is it FOR 11658141
Reposted by Ben DoernbergBecky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...sahanjournal.comSick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICEColumbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill. 4629801827
Reposted by Ben DoernbergDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026That’s right. The city cannot collaborate with the occupiers. 9776154
Reposted by Ben DoernbergDr. Owen Brazas @owenbrazas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This is a dude dressed like a guy you take out in a Spider-Man game when you are first learning the controls. 524733
Reposted by Ben DoernbergWest Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets 629112113202
Reposted by Ben Doernbergdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 02/02/2026also worth noting that people are more likely to identify with and make justifications for the person wearing the body cam because of the sensation of "being in their shoes"insight.kellogg.northwestern.eduDo Police Body Cameras Provide an Impartial Version of Events?New research reveals that people assign blame differently after viewing body cam versus dash cam footage. 0297
Reposted by Ben Doernbergdan sinker @dansinker.com · 02/02/2026yes the problem with these murders that were captured on video from 15 different angles, including by the people killed and the people killing them, was that there weren't body cameras. 1835493
Reposted by Ben DoernbergMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/02/2026👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years. 3934481054
Reposted by Ben DoernbergAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children. 6748502125
Reposted by Ben DoernbergNora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Worst possible place for a measles outbreak. This is very very bad. 35431
Reposted by Ben DoernbergProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.propublica.orgTwo CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti ShootingThe two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym... 22663488517185
Reposted by Ben DoernbergDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!" 128170775038
Reposted by Ben DoernbergJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/01/2026NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social: “I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.” "In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukBrother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for yearsExclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent 351113903112
Reposted by Ben DoernbergSunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 27/01/2026BREAKING: Young people have taken over the Hilton in NYC where ICE agents are staying. We will not stand by while Hilton houses ICE in our city. As long as Hilton chooses to host fascists, we will disrupt their operations. 5450133
Reposted by Ben DoernbergBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist. 249186754286
Reposted by Ben DoernbergMinnMax @minnmax.com · 27/01/2026"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY 1271112406042
Reposted by Ben DoernbergZach Buchanan @zhbuchanan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable. 33357142827
