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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In simple terms, this is antisemitism
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar
An ADSBx map of the lower continental US plus Mexico and Central America down to Nicaragua. There are dozens of flight lines across the map, mostly converging on Alexandria, Louisiana.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
ICE has again shot someone.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2026
“A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system,” Nikole Hannah-Jones writes. “Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.”
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I talked to Jews across America, from Alaska to Brooklyn, about how they mark Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day. Their stories were deeply personal, profound, and sometimes quite funny. I hope you read every single one and that it enhances your experience or understanding of the day. Gift link:
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American Yom Kippur: How Jews Across the U.S. Observe the Holiest Day of the Year (Gift Article)
We asked readers around the country to tell us what the holiest day of the Jewish calendar looks like for them in 2026. Here’s what we learned.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When AI contributed to the U.S. bombing an Iranian school, killing over 150 civilians—most of them young children—that too was from overrating the tech’s capabilities, not underrating them. With the school, the system overweighted outdated info. With the Chinese boat intel, it was AI hallucination.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cold-blooded murder. The goal is to get us used to it so they can do it on a larger scale.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The First Circuit upholds a lower court order requiring ICE to actually TELL people before it sticks them on a plane in shackles to a random country they've never been to before, and allow them to raise very real fears of torture and persecution in those third countries.
Amnesty international logo: 

18 September 2026
Index Number: AFR 24/1476/2026

Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane

On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily held since they were unlawfully removed by the US to Equatorial Guinea earlier this year. Police officers covered the two men’s heads with a bag and beat them in their heads, backs and ribs. Amnesty International believes that police officers targeted them in reprisal for reporting the authorities’ violent threats to coerce them to agree to return to their countries of origin. Since then, the two men have been held in an overcrowded police cell, in inhumane conditions, unable to speak to their lawyer. The authorities must immediately release them, inform them of any charges against them and allow them unimpeded access to counsel.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty)
pic of an orange-faced Trump leaning forward with an angry look on his face as he snaps at a reporter
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/09/2026
Overnight, this ICE flight made additional stops in Cambodia and Vietnam. Passengers at the last removal stop were shackled for at least 35 hours.
An FR24 map showing N771KW landing in Hanoi.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/09/2026
This ICE removal flight has landed in Laos. Passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 28 hours.
A closeup of an FR24 map showing N771kw landing in Vientiane
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The far right have a win in Germany. What could possibly go wrong?
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I met with this [Haitian] guy who has a 1-year-old, and he was apprehended after ICE spotted him at a gas station in Springfield, around late August,” Kersh told me. “I was asking him questions at Butler County [jail], and he talked about how he came here: He got an appointment through a church or something like that [when President Joe Biden was in office]. He met with Border Patrol, and they sat him down and shook his hand. And then his voice broke. Through tears, he said: ‘They shook my hand and they said, ‘Welcome to the United States,’ and yesterday they arrested me.’ He’s just crying. He had to stop for a good solid minute to catch himself. To me, that really encapsulated the confusion and fear for so many people now. They were welcomed into this country and now the same agency is arresting them and throwing them in jail.”
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
and what makes them less qualified? well, don’t you see that they are black people and women (and sometimes black women!)?
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“To avoid the White House’s rage…” The president as a classic abuser. Any victim of abuse has lived/lives this dynamic. Do whatever you have to do to avoid rage.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the 1780s and 90s George Washington kept his Philadelphia-based household staff enslaved despite Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws by trafficking them out of the state and back into the state to reset the clock every 6 months despite the fact that he had publicly supported the laws.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
dlvr.it
Cameron Brink calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘stupid piece of sh*t,’ condemns ‘clickbait’
On Monday night, Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink swatted five blocks in a loss to the Atlanta Dream. Her most impressive block of the night came before the game even started. Brink, the 2024 No. 2 overall pick, spoke exclusively with Jarrod Castillo of Mirror US about the disingenuous media cloud hovering over the…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026
Quite a community note here. Reminder that your taxpayer dollars are paying for these Nazi social media accounts.
Readers added context to this video: The clip is from the film Darkest Hour, and the “tiger” in this clip refers to Adolf Hitler
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea resumes with a strike reportedly killing two supposed "narco-terrorists" in the eastern Pacific.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Members of clergy attempt to enter the Broadview ICE facility, but ICE does not open the door. This comes after the group reached an agreement with homeland security to allow daily visits to provide spiritual care. Clergy told me they were told by homeland security that the building was closed today
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.
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Allison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Omfg
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21/08/2026
This is hands down the best campaign event I have been to in 20 years. It has *puppies.* /2
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wow. (HT @ravmike.bsky.social) --the people starting Israel decided not to call it "Palestine" because THEY ASSUMED THERE'D BE A PALESTINIAN STATE CALLED PALESTINE RIGHT THERE IN A MINUTE + they didn't call it Zion because THEY ALREADY KNEW THE WORD ZIONISM HAD BAD CONNOTATIONS WITH PALESTINIANS
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Why Israel’s first leaders chose not to call the country ‘Palestine’ in Arabic
National archive reveals a debate on the eve of independence over whether Arabic speakers should refer to the the new Jewish state as 'Filastin,' 'Sayoun' or 'Eesra'il'
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader praises Flock cameras: "This is what the Emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday
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'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We knew trump and his party was gonna leave an unholy, mammoth mess for the next Dem president to clean up (or, uh, address at least) but even I, sky low expectations in late 2024, was not factoring in ending the Iran war
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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court allowed this to happen www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
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He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free.
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/08/2026
Read this today:
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/08/2026
At today's press conference, Bhattacharya stood by impotently as Miller, Kennedy, and Trump lied unabashedly about vaccine safety, demanded that the MMR be split into three separate vaccines despite overwhelming evidence of safety, and reduced number of shots in the US childhood vaccine schedule.
President Trump is signing an executive order declaring new childhood vaccine recommendations, thanking Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and calling it a historic step. He said the move is about many things, but especially the rise in autism. And he is calling for the measles, mumps and rubella combination vaccination to be split into its individual shots, incorrectly saying: “Together, there could be a possibility they’re quite lethal, and separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal, but just very effective.” In fact, decades of research shows the M.M.R. vaccine is safe and is associated with only a small risk of seizures.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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