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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“These are our community members. They're our neighbors. We don't want to send our friends away. We don't care where they're from... "We would want them to stand up for us, so we're standing up. Tucson is resisting.” www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

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Lost in the Arizona desert, pregnant and alone: Guatemalan woman tells her story

Erika Mateo, 35 weeks pregnant, traveled more than 2,000 miles to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what happened after she was detained in Ariz.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

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ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities

Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

That first sip of fresh coffee in the morning:

A human floats through space, transmuted and healed by the glowing light of the universe

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Two American citizens - children - were just deported. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Lorena O’Neil @lorenaoneil.com · 26/04/2025

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer

Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One more reason why having a quota for ICE is a bad idea. ⚖️👎🏻

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The cruelty and the stupidity is the point

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

NBC News: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

Reuters: US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
April 17, 2025

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The FDA. The CFPB. The CDC. Just in the past couple of days. Man, we are going to collectively die so sick and so broke without massive and damn near immediate intervention.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

theonion.com/historians-q...

From The Onion:

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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Caroline Kimberly @cekimberly.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

1 in 4 kids aged 5-17 here in Texas. No child should have to live with this sword of Damocles over their head. How has our nation forgotten its origins so wholly and completely? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

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Fear Shadows Many Children in Immigrant Families (Gift Article)

Heightened immigration enforcement is stirring anxiety among children whose parents are vulnerable to deportation. “Every day I worry they could take my mom.”

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

i think about this photo a lot

a lady in a wheelchair holding a mass deportation now sign

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Breaking the law to force people into a position where they have to break the law so you can hunt them down for being lawbreakers

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

what’s your favorite place to teeter? mine is on the edge

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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

2025 republican party: what if we placed cuba-style trade embargoes......on ourselves??!?!?!?!

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Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 01/04/2025

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This chart is pretty striking. It shows that Dems gained serious ground in the Trumpier and swingier parts of Wisconsin, not just in the areas where you'd expect them to benefit from highly educated and engaged voters in off year elections: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

ALIEN ENEMIES ACT:
ALIEN ENEMY VALIDATION GUIDE
In the case of: ________________________________ A-File No:__________________
1. The person named above is fourteen years or older:
2. The person named above is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United
States:
3. The person named above is a citizen of Venezuela:
If any of these three requirements are not satisfied, the person named above shall not
be ordered removed under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). In such a case, you should consult
your supervisor and the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, and, where applicable, initiate removal proceedings under the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
4. The person named above is validated as a member of Tren de Aragua (TDA), as
determined by reference to the following evaluation form:
Instructions: Complete the following validation evaluation form for each suspected
alien targeted for removal under the AEA, or, following apprehension, for each alien
potentially subject to an AEA removal.
After accounting for the two comments below, aliens scoring 8 points and higher are
validated as members of TDA; you should proceed with issuing Form AEA-21B, titled, “Notice
and Warrant of Apprehension and Removal under the Alien Enemies Act.” Aliens scoring 6 or
7 points may be validated as members of TDA; you should consult with a supervisor and
OPLA, reviewing the totality of the facts, before making that determination; if you determine
an alien should not be validated at this time as a member of TDA, when available, you should
initiate removal proceedings under the INA. Alien scoring 5 points or less should not be
validated at this time as member of TDA; when available, you should initiate removal
proceedings under the INA.

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Comment 2: For purposes of validating an alien as a member of TDA, at least one
scoring category must involve conduct occurring, or information received, within the past five
years.
Valuation Explanation
Category Definition Explanation Points
Judicial
Outcomes and
Official
Documents
a. Subject has been convicted of violating Title 18, United States Code,
Section 521 or any other federal or state law criminalizing or imposing
civil penalties for activity related to TDA
10
b. Court records (e.g., indictments, criminal complaints, sentencing
memorandums) identifying the subject as a member of TDA, describing
specific activity of TDA
5
Self-Admission
a. Subject self-identifies as a member or associate of TDA verbally or in
writing to law enforcement officer, even if that self identification to a
law enforcement officer is unwitting, e.g., through lawful interception of
communications.
10
Criminal
Conduct and
Information
a. Subject participates in criminal activity (e.g., narcotics trafficking,
human smuggling, etc.) with other members of TDA, including
preparatory meetings and significant incidents directly attributed to TDA
6
b. Law enforcement or intelligence reporting identifying subject as a
member of TDA, to include Bureau of Prisons validations and reliable
foreign partner information.
4
c. Credible testimonies/statements from victims, community members, or
informants that affirm the subject’s membership in or allegiance to TDA. 3
d. Detailed open-source media (e.g., newspapers, investigative journalism
reports) that describe arrest, prosecution, or operations of a subject as a
member of TDA
2
e. Subject conducts and/or facilitates business with TDA (e.g., money
laundering, mule, service provider) 2
Documents and
Communications

Final page: Association
a. Surveillance documentation that a subject is frequently observed closely
associating with known leaders and members of TDA 2
b. Subject part of group photos with two or more known members of TDA 2
c. Subject presently resides with known members of TDA 2
Total Points
VALIDATION DETERMINATION
Note: If any of the four requirements are not satisfied, do not
complete this validation determination.
Based on the validation guide and instructions above, including Comments 1 and 2, I find
that the person named above, _______________________________________________:
1. Is fourteen years or older;
2. Is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States;
3. Is a citizen of Venezuela; and
4. Is a member of Tren de Aragua.
Accordingly, the above-named person is validated as an Alien Enemy.
_____________________ _________________________ __________________
Name of Agent/officer Signature of agent/officer Date
completing the form completing the form
______________________ _________________________ ____________________
Name of Supervisor Signature of Supervisor Date

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

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