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Emma Herman

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History PhD, trying to write a dissertation | 19th and 20th c. U.S.; race, space & law | Albuquerque, NM

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you don't live in DC, may be hard to appreciate scale of nihilist, grifter-based desecration of what has always distinguished the nation's capital, and what so many people have worked so hard for so long to sustain and improve. Backhoe-based counterpart to wartime damage we see in news footage.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The last Grandmother Tree, a centuries-old cottonwood in the San Rafael Valley was cut down by Border Patrol to clear space for a new border wall after a 71-day protest. Agents arrested a dozen protesters and tore these elder trees from the Earth. For what? insideclimatenews.org/news/0510202...
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Final ‘Grandmother’ Cottonwood Toppled, Protesters Arrested in Arizona - Inside Climate News
Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, aft...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border
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Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border - UNICORN RIOT
In the early hours of October 5, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico Border, arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was re-established the...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: In 2016, David Michael Levin served jail time for hacking election websites in Florida. Now, new records reveal Levin helped the Trump DOJ monitor the 2026 primaries in Maricopa County — a key target in Trump's bid to contest the 2020 vote.
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember: AI companies are all about “speed to power.” The permitting deal Heinrich/Whitehouse have agreed to w/Trump & Senate Republicans hands them a huge gift at the expense of New Mexico’s land, air, water, & wildlife & may benefit highly contentious AI data center projects like Project Jupiter.
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Oracle sends 'force majeure' notice to Project Jupiter developers to protect itself from liability
Oracle sent a notice of "force majeure" to a developer, seeking to release itself from liability if the data center is not online by 2028.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
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Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026
ICE is removing the names of its detainees who are facing final deportation orders from its public online database. The move will disrupt detainees’ legal challenges to deportation and leave their whereabouts unknown to their lawyers and loved ones.
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ICE Digitally “Disappearing” Thousands of People It’s Seeking to Deport in Its Detainee Database
This could make it “nearly impossible” for some people to challenge their deportation orders, an attorney said.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Note that in two articles today, WaPo describes a "sale" of bombs to Israel. This is extremely misleading. The reported $2.bn package is 100% funded by US taxpayers via the Foreign Military Financing grants for Israel to buy US weapons.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 03/09/2026
At least 3 people have died while detained at Camp East Montana in the past year, including a 55-year-old father whose death on January 3 was ruled a homicide after security guards beat him. in February, an inspection report found dozens of violations of national detention standards.
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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 30/08/2026
Investigate West reports on an Idaho county that has shared a list of foreign-born residents with ICE:
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Idaho probation office compiles ‘foreign born list’ for ICE
Emails show how Canyon County probation officers are helping immigration authorities — including making a list of foreign-born individuals
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
More on the Freedom 250 Grand Prix: It will make noise as loud as nightclubs, ambulance sirens, rock concerts, vuvuzelas, jackhammers and jet engines, and create "thundering vibrations" that could damage museums and their contents. "Reasonable people would not risk this." mailchi.mp/notus/start-...
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Bracing for the Racing
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 21/08/2026
Madeline Pernillo, 18, and Yajaira Gutierrez, 19, described ICE’s arrests of their relatives in two separate events Wednesday, including at a medical center parking lot and during a drive to a medical appointment for a 2-month-old baby. sourcenm.com/2026/08/20/t...
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Two family members describe recent ICE arrests in Santa Fe • Source New Mexico
Two young relatives of people ICE arrested Wednesday in Santa Fe recounted how agents surrounded their vehicles before arresting loved ones.
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The 51st @51st.news · 13/08/2026
"I could go on and on. It’s just crazy that it’s been a year and we’ve been forced to accept this unwelcome normal… D.C. is my home. I love D.C. but it’s hard to stay in love with a home where you can’t go to the store without encountering the military."
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What D.C. residents will remember from a year of National Guard occupation
Ahead of the anniversary, we asked our readers to reflect.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It would cost less to just pay the criminals not to do crimes. www.notus.org/metro/trump-...
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Trump Plans to Spend $1.4 Billion Keeping the National Guard in D.C. Until 2029
Budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office detail the costs of the National Guard’s controversial deployment.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
safe and beautiful task force seems to be doing mass arrests outside Union station tonight
MPD van and unmarked silver SUV, officers and guys in vests standing nearby
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 02/08/2026
Separation of church and state! Staff Sergeant Sellers with a tummy pack with Psalm 144:1 ("Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle") and a cross on a "tactical" American flag, as part of Trump's DC occupation force #freedc
Staff Sergeant Sellers with a tummy pack with Psalm 144:1 and a cross on a "tactical" American flag
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 31/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo, who had leukemia, was reportedly denied medical care by ICE for 8 days while in a detention center run by CoreCivic. He died just days later — and ICE is already shirking accountability. (1/3)
29-year-old from Georgia dies from Leukemia while in ICE custody
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 31/07/2026
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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Emma Herman @elherman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They can pay McKinsey but not their graduate students 🙄
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/07/2026
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 31/07/2026
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
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ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/07/2026
The law requires oil companies to remove aging offshore platforms and restore habitat when drilling stops. The new proposal could let them attempt to leave decrepit rigs in the ocean "for future spaceport use" (aka indefinitely).
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/07/2026
NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
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Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again
Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
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Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/07/2026
“Workers are being killed and murdered everyday by Israel.” @uaw.org member Navruz Baum spoke about why rank-and-file workers pushed their union to divest from Israel, ultimately voting to sell $400,000 in Israel bonds. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on the vote & the organizing behind it.
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United Auto Workers Divests From Israel
At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 27/07/2026
Trump just quietly approved the construction of a #DataCenter on #PublicLand in southern Nevada — the first data center allowed on public land. We've already filed an appeal against this dangerous development, but we need your help to show the scale of public opposition ➡️ bit.ly/4fGlM7W
Photo of a rocky, desert landscape with prickly desert plants closer to the camera. Text over the image reads: Breaking News: Data centers coming to public lands.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 27/07/2026
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Billions in border wall contracts are going to a Montana firm run by a Trump donor - High Country News
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/07/2026
Not only is ICE back at airports, they are making workers help them, even tricking them into helping. The unions need to take action and support their members. Posted this a week ago.
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I saw video this week from another major airport of a woman being taken by plainclothes ICE after an airline worker paged them to the ticket counter.
Worker clearly didn't know it was ICE asking them to page and was upset. They follow, asking ICE for a warrant & woman who they can call for her.Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com
I have permission from the person who took the video to talk about it, but I can't share it, because they are afraid it will make them identifiable and they'll be retaliated against.
8:29 AM • Jul 17, 2026
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social
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Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is a concentration camp @andreapitzer.bsky.social has written one of the best respected books on the history of concentration camps, & argues, convincingly IMHO, that ICE detention centers meet the definition of concentration camps We need to shut them down now, while we still can 1/2
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.
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Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief
A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 17/07/2026
NEW: ICE wants to build immigrant detention cells at eight sites — including two centers it closed years ago and one, on St. Thomas, that has never existed. A $10B contract, reviewed by @projectsaltbox.com, would also pay the builder to scout ICE's next development sites.
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Inside ICE's Plan to Stop Renting Detention Space and Start Building It
The solicitation, worth up to $10 billion, prices 208 cells across eight sites and lists 14 more places, from Honolulu to Guantánamo Bay, where work could later be ordered.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 17/07/2026
New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard this week again shot down a proposal to build part of a natural gas pipeline for the controversial Project Jupiter data center on state land. via @sourcenm.com
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New Mexico land commissioner blocks Project Jupiter-related pipeline from building on state land
New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard this week again shot down a proposal to build part of a natural gas pipeline for the controversial Project Jupiter data center on…
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Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The petition was at double digits this morning and as of 3pm today, it's at 184. I know we can get it to over 200 today! Sign!
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