iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, was there conflict when people previously wanted civil rights extended to include them?

Screenshot of article which reads: As the electorate has grown
to include men of color, women, and the poor, it has become more plural-
istic. Contemporary America, for all its flaws, has grown to be a diverse
democracy that continually manages a vast array of opinions, identities,
and cultures. That pluralism is a central reason for the vibrancy and in-
novation of American cultural, intellectual, and political power.
But each of these steps was the result of political and cultural con-
flict. As every new group of Americans was enfranchised, a powerful
political movement opposed it. This opposition was often violent, com-
ing both from the state and from individual citizens who believed that
the ascendant group needed to be put back in its place. Much of this vio-
lence endures today. When marginalized groups have spoken out (often
in a nonviolent manner) against the violence perpetrated against them,
they have often incurred further anger and violence.

137645

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

8862277

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plus, there is a significant risk of sexual assault or harassment *by* police during the reporting process. I always think about Lauren McCluskey's story of calling the police over 30 times before she was murdered. They didn't help her, but they did do this:

sltrib.com

University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker

UPDATE: Logan police announced <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...

324191

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

111289407

Reposted by Dave Bennion

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

new: federal authorities tapped into a network of flock license plate readers and surveillance cameras owned by chicagoland police during their failed attempts to prosecute marimar martinez and anthony ruiz for following immigration agents last october.

chicagoreader.com

Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader

During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.

112479

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/09/2026

On Friday, ICE posted 33 detainee mortality reports to their online FOIA Library. Over the weekend, those reports were inexplicably deleted. We have archived them on our GitHub and are sharing them in hopes that the information is useful to journalists, researchers, and the general public.

github.com

psb-foia/ice/FOIA Library Artifacts/ICE Mortality Reports at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia

FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia

114988

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

42103534410

Reposted by Dave Bennion

ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

412113726068

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Democrats caving, exhibit 4376.

000

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes ICE are "real police" and police are part of the same carceral system as ICE. Migra, policía, la misma porquería.

021

Reposted by Dave Bennion

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

8940321

Reposted by Dave Bennion

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

101425519

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Schumer and Jeffries HAVE said a few things: 1. No Impeachment proceedings against Trump. 2. No Medicare 4 All 3. Continued "support" for Israel Feel free to add the other things you've heard them say on TV etc... over the past 6 months. THAT is the agenda.

281232333

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.

usprisonculture.com

Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…

8646245

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.

01565378

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Turns out that whole appease the far-right with Frontex etc. didn’t work, did it? Give a big round of applause for the third way folks who thought they could keep a lid on it by imitating it. /s

185

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 03/09/2026

This isn’t the hottest story we’ve written, but it is another big indicator that ICE appears to be seriously considering purchasing GEO Group facilities such as the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma or Moshannon Valley in central Pennsylvania.

21272198

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...

lataco.com

Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO

LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.

45136882236

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026

NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

floodlightnews.org

One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

6823951202

Reposted by Dave Bennion

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 27/08/2026

As we foresaw in February 2025, "Neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis." crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

16431

Reposted by Dave Bennion

I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

People consistently argue more surveillance will reduce policing but we’re just not seeing that actually manifest on the ground, instead we get this.

173062983

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The carceral state will not restrain itself. If we wait for the "good" police to stop the fascists, we'll be waiting a very long time.

001

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In the Philly exurbs, a 22-year-old college student out drinking tried to go to a friend's house for the night and pounded on the wrong door, where they called police An Upper Pottsgrove cop showed up and immediately shot and killed him Police are out-of-control www.inquirer.com/crime/glenwo...

inquirer.com

A Lower Pottsgrove man knocked on the wrong door. A cop killed him, thinking he was a burglar.

Glenwood Pysher IV walked to the wrong home while out celebrating a friend's birthday, his family said. The home's owner, thinking he was trying to break in, called the police.

32414191

Reposted by Dave Bennion

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It was a pleasure to sit for this interview about the strategic and moral catastrophe awaiting us all if the left abandons its focus on combating the repressive apparatus of the state.

16623

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/08/2026

ICE's militarization continues. A new procurement forecast lists $2 million for a ROOK. In the manufacturer's words, that is a tracked armored vehicle with a hydraulic ram that breaks through block walls and steel doors, plus a platform that lifts four armed officers to a third floor window.

Manufacturer marketing image for The Rook. An olive drab armored vehicle built on a Caterpillar tracked loader chassis, photographed against a white background. Two officers in helmets, body armor, and tactical gear stand on a low armored ramp at the front of the machine, aiming rifles over an angled steel shield. A second armored box is raised on the loader arms above and behind them, holding two more officers who are aiming through gun ports and bulletproof glass sight ports. The name THE ROOK and the manufacturer Ring Power are stamped on the track housing. A specification list at upper left includes an enclosed cab, a hydraulic quick coupler for swapping attachments, and NIJ Level IV armor.

Screenshot of a Department of Homeland Security Acquisition Planning Forecast System record, number F2026075014, published Aug. 20, 2026. The component is ICE/OD/OFTP. The NAICS code is 336992, Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing. The requirements title is Purchase of ROOK, NIJ Level IV Armored Caterpillar Multi-Terrain Loader. A highlighted description says the equipment would support law enforcement and public safety missions by providing protected mobility, obstacle removal, access support, and response capability in hazardous or high-risk environments. The estimated dollar range is $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Place of performance is Ft. Benning, Georgia. The contract type is firm fixed price with an anticipated award in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.

97343

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/08/2026

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July.

democracynow.org

Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence

7454272

Reposted by Dave Bennion

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”

democracynow.org

Texas Lawmakers Call on ICE to Close Detention Camp Where 100+ Children Are Held

In Texas, calls are mounting to shut down the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where it’s estimated more than 100 children are being detained by ICE. This comes after a 5-year-old boy,...

28148852884

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is VERY big news. Previously, even vacated or expunged convictions could still get someone deported, if an immigration judge determined that the conviction was vacated for reasons unrelated to a legal defect (such as for rehabilitation-related purposes). The 4th Circuit says not any more!

Courts and agencies have long struggled with how to analyze the immigration effects (if any) of a vacated conviction. Eventually, agency practice cobbled together a framework that sought to balance policy priorities. Under that framework, a conviction vacated because of a substantive or procedural defect in the underlying proceedings no longer qualifies as a conviction for immigration purposes, while a conviction vacated for rehabilitation, immigration hardship, or another reason still does. Many courts deferentially accepted that distinction. But the statute we apply here does not make the continuing effect of a vacated conviction turn on the state court’s reason for vacating it. It makes inadmissible “any alien convicted of” the relevant offense. 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i). In this case, the petitioner’s conviction was vacated and her charge dismissed. At that point, she was no longer “convicted of” that offense. So we grant in part the petition for review

12907275

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No better example of the banality of evil than seeing a "good" immigration judge's asylum denial rate double or triple once Trump got into office. This somehow bothers me more than the consistently "bad" judges who at least adhere to a moral code, albeit a malevolent one.

031

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

People complain about woke 1 but who is fighting the insufferable norms & culture of LinkedIn. People tell me I should be on there trying to raise money & connect but I can't stand the place even a little bit.

000

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

notus.org

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

20530091584

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

229114185344

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

Lumen confirms that it was Amnesty International that sent the DMCA strike. I will be contesting it as this document is a matter of public debate and abusing copyright in this manner to censor it is absolutely disgusting. What complete cowards.

A screenshot of a "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" page. The sender is listed as Amnesty International UK, sent on August 19, 2026. The description outlines a copyright claim regarding two documents, "Like a Snowball" and "A Growing Threat," which the sender states were published in error without completing internal review and do not reflect official positions. The complaint targets two allegedly infringing Google Drive URLs.

134000612

Reposted by Dave Bennion

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Private prisons making $1.4 billion charging corrupt ICE bureaucracy $307,000 “per bed” as top 15 cops in San Francisco make average of $700,000 is why shifting resources from systems of incarceration to systems of care is one of the most popular policies in 40 years of polling.

2200100

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

DHS told the NYTimes last month that $1.2 million had been collected so far on $84 billion of fines, so CBP just gave these companies taxpayer funds worth 30 times what the government has been able to collect in the past 16 months. Just outright corruption, in service of evil ends.

012

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Free Migration Project @freemigration.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Join our team! We are hiring a Community Organizer to work with us on our immigrant rights campaigns. Help us fight to #AbolishICE and #AbolishCBP See more info on our site freemigrationproject.org/jobs-interns...

freemigrationproject.org

Jobs/Internships - Free Migration Project

Posted 08/10/2026

022

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.com

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.

2721881175

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

once the idea of abolishing slavery turned off most voters. what does that mean? abolitionists shouldn't have tried? or fought for slavery-lite?

747459

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What will it take for us to learn that the carceral state will never eat its own, you cannot fight police with more police. Evidently neither centuries of history nor video from literally yesterday can make Americans stop loving the police.

010

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

1813214038943

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

35857622704

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026

This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”

4578864266

Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Concentration camps are here, and they will eventually come for everyone.

101

Reposted by Dave Bennion

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Almost everything you are hearing in mainstream news about the supposed lack of popularity of progressive policies on police and prisons is a lie. Shifting resources from police/punishment to social services is one of the most consistently popular policies polled for 40 years.

315267

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour."

futurism.com

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

318163

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In June, the DOJ colluded with Texas to erase a federal regulation in a single day without any administrative process. In the morning, Texas sued the DOJ in front of Judge Reed O'Connor. By the afternoon, O'Connor certified a far-reaching settlement. Now affected parties are pushing back.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Cities Intervene to Protect Biden-Era Rule on Migrant Removals

A trio of US cities and a legal services provider are seeking to appeal a Texas federal judge’s June ruling vacating a Biden-era rule on immigration judges’ authority to close migrants’ removal procee...

014060

Reposted by Dave Bennion

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feeding Gabar Choli tells of how, for months, he was shackled, pinned and forcibly fed – and the physical and emotional scars the ordeal has left www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feeding

Gabar Choli tells of how, for months, he was shackled, pinned and forcibly fed – and the physical and emotional scars the ordeal has left

01514