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Erik Moeller

@eloquence.bsky.social
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Also social.coop/@eloquence Personal: lib.reviews and other open source projects. Professional: Programs @ Sovereign Tech Agency, Berlin. Previous: Wikimedia, Freedom of the Press. Opinions mine.

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Google's Sergey Brin throws $3M more into the fight against the CA billionaire tax. That brings his total known contributions to $48M. In this new filing, other techies donated too, incl crypto exec Chris Larsen and VCs John Doerr and Michael Moritz. Background: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.
Troutman @robotrowboat

Boss: Let's put this matter aside for the time being

Me: [looking around nervously] Can only you see the time being?

Boss: Huh?

Me: Is it standing near me?

Boss: Who?

Me: [on verge of panic attack] The time being

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 07/04/2026
The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…
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The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI
Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers — I've had multiple friends and family members send me the article with some version of the same message: "Can you believe this guy built a billion-dollar company with AI?
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
ARC-AGI-3 properly rewards _efficiency_ and not just wastefully stumbling towards a solution. Chollet's work holds a lot of sway in the AI world; hopefully this will lead to real improvements beyond "the model got there after burning 100 million tokens". arcprize.org/arc-agi/3
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ARC-AGI-3
ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark for AI agents—play as humans and build agents that learn in novel environments.
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Many people have been saying this since 2022, but it's never too late to join this particular party:
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Remember all of those times you said you would pick up an indie game if it was on sale. Now's that time. Here's a list of solid titles you can pick up for less than 5 bucks.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 21/03/2026
just a reminder to editors, please use accurate photos when describing extreme heat. do not use photos of kids frolicking in fountains.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 16/03/2026
What has 14 months of Trump meant for Medicaid? Less funding and staff. Way more red tape for millions of low-income recipients. 10 million more people losing health insurance by 2034.
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Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thrilled to publish my latest article BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech! A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/
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Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regulation
Few experiences on the modern internet are as universally reviled as the cookie banner. They clutter websites with pop-ups, interrupt user flow, make informatio
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
ah yes, the obligatory "this is not a quagmire", typically uttered as we enter into another quagmire
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/03/2026
Inside China’s robotics revolution
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Inside China’s robotics revolution
The long read: How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
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National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org · 19/03/2026
New Fellowship Alert: Our colleagues at The Open Notebook are partnering with Retraction Watch to offer up to six $7,500 fellowships + training to support reporting on local issues of scientific accountability. Learn more and register for the Mar 26 informational webinar:
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Announcing the Retraction Watch Research Accountability Reporting Fellowship - The Open Notebook
The Open Notebook and Retraction Watch are thrilled to announce a new fellowship program funded by The Center for Scientific Integrity. This six-month program will equip up to six reporters and editors at local newsrooms to report stories of scientific integrity unfolding at research universities or institutions in their areas.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/03/2026
"Carr is using the same playbook against news outlets over their Iran war coverage because it’s worked before. And it will continue to work unless the media and lawmakers stand firm against him." @freedom.press' Caitlin Vogus writes:
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Trump’s FCC chair wants American media to work like Iran’s state TV | Caitlin Vogus
If Brendan Carr and the US president’s attacks on the press aren’t stopped, the outcome could be dire
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
V-Dem: US is no longer a liberal democracy.
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/03/2026
‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump
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‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump
Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives After years of arrests, disappearances and mass killings of protesters, the hatred in Iran from some quarters for the hardline, oppressive governing regime had boiled into such a desperate rage that many believed Donald Trump’s promise that the US would “come to their rescue”. Now, after a fortnight of war, with US and Israeli airstrikes killing hundreds as they hit residential blocks, shops, fuel depots and even a school, the mood is changing. Continue reading...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/03/2026
Good thing everyone involved is only in a position of power because of merit
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Agree with this. Attempting to access everything with well-documented CLIs, then discovering you're missing capabilities MCP already provides, ends up just reinventing MCP. The underlying problem of optimizing context use and tool discovery doesn't go away.
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Echoes of "I have been a good Bing". Important to understand these failure modes because they may shape the behavior of AI agents powered by LLMs. I appreciate Claude's response to being trolled: "Continuing to tell me I’m 'incorrect' or to 'reconsider' won’t produce a different result."
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10/03/2026
NEW: For years, our loyal supporters have asked: Besides donating, how can we help you defend press freedom? Well, now you can with our brand new action center — the tool enables you to seamlessly contact your elected representatives. Take action today:
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Take Action
Defending press freedom for the next generation
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/03/2026
The Espionage Act has been used to criminalize whistleblowing and newsgathering for years. Join us for a webinar to learn about Rep. Rashida Tlaib's bill to reform the archaic law. 🗓️ March 12, 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT RSVP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmXN...
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The Daniel Ellsberg Act Will End Espionage Act Abuse
YouTube video by Defending Rights & Dissent
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Somewhat astonishing that this is still the state of the art of displaying long emails in #Gmail.
GMail's "[Message clipped] View entire message" cutoff.
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Not a fan of this "forced refusal" regulatory approach, and I doubt it would be found constitutional if the bill is passed. But if that's the approach you take, you should at the very least consider a pathway to certification for automated systems, or it's just regulatory capture.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Amen. "Removing anonymity from the web, which will inevitably happen when tech companies are required to identify and ban children, allows for easier government tracking and censorship of journalists, activists and whistleblowers, who rely on online anonymity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz
Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...
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Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Short and insightful conversation. Another quote: "There’s a big crowd of people who really, really want AI success stories. And then there’s an equal and opposite crowd of people who want to dismiss all AI progress. And what we have is a very complicated and nuanced story in between."
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free" —Tom Petty Summer wildflower memories on a snowy evening 🌿
Scarlet Globe Mallow.Prairie Smoke.Cone Flower.Liatris.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad.” Paulino Martin San Pedro was an Oregonian. He was a beloved community member. This administration murdered him. His family has a gofundme here: www.gofundme.com/f/keep-pauli...
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Donate to Help Us Honor Paulino: Urgent Help Needed, organized by Ayde Diaz
We’ve reached a point we never wanted to face. Our family is now preparing to say … Ayde Diaz needs your support for Help Us Honor Paulino: Urgent Help Needed
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.” Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.
words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
When a democracy is restored after an interlude of criminal looting like this, it is perfectly justified in seizing back the proceeds and prosecuting the looters, regardless of what they have done to make it “legal” on paper.
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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm

Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/02/2026
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
J.J.B. is 20 years old, and a refugee. (J.J.B. Decl. ¶ 1.) On January 13, 2026, J.J.B.
parked outside of his home and was immediately surrounded by 20 ICE agents. (Id. ¶ 4.)
Officers did not allow J.J.B. to tell his mother that he was being detained. (Id. ¶ 5.)
J.J.B. asked agents about his case, and explained that he had refugee status, but
agents said that officers would look into it in Texas. (Id. ¶ 11.) Without access to a lawyer,
J.J.B. did not know how to exercise his rights. (Id. ¶ 17.) Even if he had known how to ask
a court to order his release, it was impossible to send mail or email, so he could not have
done so. (Id.)
J.J.B.’s holding cell at Whipple “could not hold more than 20 people”—yet it was
packed with 100. (Id. ¶ 12.) The room had a dirty toilet with excrement overflowing. (Id.)
J.J.B. had to ask for toilet paper, but was sometimes denied. (Id.) There were no beds,
blankets, or trashcans, and trash was all over the ground. (Id. ¶ 13.) People slept in
handcuffs and standing up because there was not enough room. (Id.) One person in J.J.B.’s
cell had epilepsy and begged for medication; no one answered. (Id.)
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father
and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A
few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.)
The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.)
O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did
not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.)
The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id.
¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud,
and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes
there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/02/2026
People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities. We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
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