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Dave Bennion

@david-bennion.bsky.social
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Immigration attorney and director of @freemigration.bsky.social. Open the borders, close the jails. #AbolishICE #FreePalestine

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h
My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11h
The 287(g) program teaming local cops with ICE has created an American secret police Check out what happens in Carroll Twp., Pa. when Sgt. Terry Williams spots a resident filming an immigration arrest It's legal to film traffic stops. This is unconstitutional (full column in 2nd post)
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But I don't think Hegseth is really That Guy because that guy was usually poor and would actually fight you with little provocation. Hegseth likes to pretend to be That Guy because it makes him feel big.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Drives down the freeway at 90 while his cousin holds the steering wheel so he can wrap his hands in preparation for a road rage fight dumbass. Yep.
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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yesterday, 17 people were brought to safety aboard the Oyvon after more than 10 hours at sea on a black rubber boat. They came from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and The Gambia. Among them were 8 minors, including 6 unaccompanied minors, a 4-year-old child and a 1-year-old baby
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The War on Terror isn't meant to make the public safe, its purpose is to make people feel unsafe by terrorizing targeted groups. It's a War For Terror.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You can now read Carlos Vargas Moreno's story at The Guardian. Carlos was an H-2A worker who experienced a debilitating heat stroke in 2022 after being subjected to unsafe work conditions by his employer, Florida Orange Gold. Two years prior, another Florida Orange Gold worker died of heat stroke.
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Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company
A farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but the contractor is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The banshee from Darby O'Gill and the Little People messed me up.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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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.
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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.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think "Change biometrics appointment" worked last time I tried, but who knows.
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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:
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University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The carceral state was built by and for racists, corrupt officials, and oligarchs. It will never hold those people accountable. Dismantling systems of state violence must be part of any plan for actual accountability.
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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.
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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 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dem electeds generally don't fight for the people. They will fight Hasan Piker or Cori Bush or Mamdani before he won, but they won't fight powerful people or institutions. They see polling that Dem voters want fighters and then they'll drop an F bomb against ICE while increasing the police budget.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats caving, exhibit 4376.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I hope this is real.
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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.
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Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You don't say... the government lied. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)
New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The man has no principles, only ambition. He will say or do whatever he thinks will get him closer to the White House.
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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
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“'Essentially the key principle is, does this reform increase or decrease the size and power of the government’s policing bureaucracy?' said Karakatsanis. 'Does it increase the level of democratic control over this institution or not?'” Body cams fail on both counts.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Body cams protect the police, not the public. prismreports.org/2024/07/16/c...
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The complex and troubling history of police body cameras
A new article in the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation aims to reveal the propaganda behind police body cameras and who has stood to benefit from “reform narratives”
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That the carceral system is an instrument of social control not justice or public safety, and you can't fight fascism with fascism, only with anti-fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...
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‘Police don’t produce safety’: the Black feminist scholars fighting for abolition
Mariame Kaba and Andrea J Ritchie on their new book and their vision for a prison-free world: ‘Let’s take money from death and put it toward life’
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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.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They are commonly known in Spanish as "grillete," which means shackle or fetter. I always thought that was a better descriptor than "ankle bracelet" which sounds like an accessory.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How many of these failed prosecution stories will we read, telling each other "next time it will be different." It will never be different because it's not meant to be. At some point we have to look at the evidence in front of us and understand the reality.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Imagining there is a law enforcement solution to fascism, usually in some far off future, is a way of avoiding the difficult work of seeking justice outside of the carceral state, & despite it.
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
*rein
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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's impossible to know, but I think he might have gotten released early in Obama's second term or in 2021. 2023-24 almost certainly not IMO, Biden's people by then were giving DHS free reign to prepare for Trump's Restoration under the delusion that endorsing fascism would somehow prevent fascism.
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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...
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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.
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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:
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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