Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2hJ6 part 2 is gonna be absolutely insane. You don't think all his crazies are gonna take to the streets and start shooting 1223535
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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. 6330151672
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’” 1731691736
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom. 2546792222
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵 69085984167
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum: 4646381087
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026idk i kind of feel like the response in the first paragraph makes it seem like the second paragraph is impossible 532088345
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialSt. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...sfchronicle.comICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show. 641517807
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands. 542656988
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps 2731541017
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Pretti’s parents said they found out their son had been murdered after watching footage of the shooting on the news. “We watched it on TV and was like, ‘That’s our son. That’s Alex.’ And they killed him,” dad Michael recounted. “No one called us.” 419590
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 226394907139
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialHome of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Alex Pretti's Father: "That's how we found out — watching it on TV. Watching our son be shot 10 times on TV, in the back, trying to help somebody…with a camera in one hand, and his left hand empty in the air." 221088472
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialAbuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: Indian jazz guitarist Pritesh Walia, who has lived in the U.S. since 2019 on an extraordinary-ability artist visa, was arrested by ICE at LAX and taken to the troubled Adelanto detention center over an alleged visa overstay. #AbuseOfPowerWatchamericancommunitymedia.orgIndian Jazz Guitarist Pritesh Walia Arrested at LAX and Held in ICE DetentionIndian jazz guitarist was arrested at Los Angeles airport for overstaying his artists visa. He is being held at Adelanto icrocessing cente 414198
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill. 18169541384
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/08/2026JFCapnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocksImmigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. 62977493
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/08/2026This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged. 5339203
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/08/2026I repeat: this IS NOT AN AGREEMENT WITH TRUMP so it doesn't even matter that it's not binding. This is the DOJ saying it's withdrawing its own order establishing the fund. But the settlement still exists, and Trump's motion on Friday makes it clear he intends to enforce it, meaning the fund remains 8424145
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026This is such a bald-faced that all of Fernando Burgos’s pants must’ve turned to ash by now. When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about. 122547
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...nytimes.com‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead. 22182692838
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?eenews.netFEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states. 542458921
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.social[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026this sounds elitist but our recovery from the present moment will depend in part on being able to once again effectively malign, ostracize, and refuse a platform to cranks 151926379
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Not one call from a government official, the police, or hospital personnel. For a guy who was murdered in cold blood in full view of a crowd while trying to help others. Nothing will ever happen at all. The people in charge don't give one shit that this man is dead. That's so fucked and a half. 161429366
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Guillotines are the moderate solution Cops are great 011624
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialEdward @arkayne242.bsky.social · 16/07/2026When America is burning Canada: “Need help?” When Canada is burning America: Fix it or we will. 06011
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 12/07/2026The only thing I'll remember about Lindsey Graham is his mistreatment of Dr Christine Blasey Ford. Acting apoplectic at nonsensical details because he knew the most powerful misogynist in the world was watching him. I've never seen a man debase and humiliate himself so much. 893453691
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 11/06/2026After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States. (Published Aug. 2025)propublica.orgDOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U... 15473212
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/06/2026The world should boycott these games. How much does it take to show that? 1441997
bursell.bsky.social @bursell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=COg...82-0.com82-0Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0 010
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Guillotines are the moderate position 1248599
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 01/06/2026the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal! 5237021486
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Of $2.5 billion of fire relief funds, $0 went to fire victims. $75 million went to the military. $14 million went to pay cops to tear gas civilians who were protesting against ICE. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...nbclosangeles.comVictims get little relief from Newsom's $2.5 billion fire fundMost of California’s $2.5-billion fire relief fund is still unspent, according to records, & some money was diverted to CHP at protests. 141165579
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause. 113377794
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4 497174096071
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump 289132312476
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/05/2026We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:propublica.orgThe Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev... 7530331100
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics. 1043583674
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top 27484032007
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The “new” term Christian Nationalism has been around for a century. You’re just hearing it a lot more because they have power now. 612831
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...nbcnewyork.comDHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detentionThe Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol... 662111756126
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Trump knows he broke the law many times over. Getting away with it is what he’s most proud of. 1134
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialJohn Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It is wild how shameless this has become.talkingpointsmemo.comSupreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was LyingThe Supreme Court on Monday lifted a stay on an old Alabama... 529372
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people. 5947542244
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 10/05/2026When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:propublica.orgTrump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa... 4519401125
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history 179120173659
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialChristina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...nytimes.comF.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe 9344332252
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialphoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 06/05/2026it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African 10713340
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.social"fart" @jonhendren.com · 06/05/2026Yuko has had a rough couple weeks. She got an ulcer on her remaining eye and has been almost completely blind from it. It's starting to heal though and yesterday and today she's feeling better and can see her way around the house again. Can we get a "good job Yuko" 77122521
Reposted by @bursell.bsky.socialEllen Barry @ellenbarry.bsky.social · 05/05/2026As usual, the reader comments on this report about RFK Jr's push to help Americans wean off SSRIs are worth spending time with, both those that say SSRIs were lifesaving & those saying withdrawing from them was awful. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...nytimes.comKennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants 11586
