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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.

Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.

Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.

Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Expats Post's Book of the Month: The Nerd Reich, Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, by Gil Duran.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The price of liberty, and even of common humanity, is eternal vigilance.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For ICE, the dogs could also serve as the centerpiece of some blistering new propaganda. The agency...has taken an extraordinarily dark turn since Donald Trump’s return to office, with overtly violent raids on civilians being filmed and edited into vertical video content futurism.com/robots-and-m...

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After Putting in a Massive Order for Electric Shock Gloves, ICE Is Now Buying Robot Dogs

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking a new batch of robot dogs, likely the first of many to come.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026

Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”

Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“They never showed him a warrant for his arrest, but proceeded to arrest him anyway.”... “We must end the terror in our communities created by the fascist administration in Washington and here in Texas—I will never stop standing up and speaking out for our community.” www.rawstory.com/misael-ramos/

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Progressive candidate jailed after ICE protests says officer threatened to shoot pet

Misael Ramos, a democratic socialist running for City Council in Austin, was arrested by Texas troopers on Saturday morning for protesting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an ICE agent sho...

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Trump administration’s racist mass deportation campaign has taken its abuses — including “unlawful killings by federal agents” — to a “perilous new level” that is putting the general public in danger, according to a new report released by Amnesty International." truthout.org/articles/the...

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The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum

As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents…Defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can..." - Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here we go again. On election day, the Russians will start calling in bomb threats at the polling places of Dem leaning districts. Then DHS will show up to "protect the elections"...by intimidating voters. This is a neo-fascists takeover of representative democracy in action.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois, and left the man dazed and bleeding on the ground as they walked away after realizing their apparent mistake." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US citizen injured after ICE agents reportedly mistook him for fugitive

Man left bloodied and hurt after immigration enforcement agents tried to arrest him in Evanston, a Chicago suburb

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"There are simply no reforms that would bring this agency into alignment with the United States’s human rights obligations,...The scale, persistence and structural nature of these failures cannot be adequately addressed through piecemeal reform." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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'Torture': Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

The leading human rights organization said "no reforms" would overcome the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement systemic abuses.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The abuse that immigration agents inflict on people everywhere from Evanston streets to Alabama construction sites underscores that Kavanaugh’s racial profiling apologia in Vasquez Perdomo was always based on a fantasy." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/brett-k...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An Appeals Court panel has ruled that federal agents can legally search through travelers' cell phones without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant when they cross an international border. The full story: lataco.com/phone-survei... By Izzy Ramirez

An aerial shot of the U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana.

Headline reads "The U.S. Government Quietly Just Made It Legal to Go Through Your Phone at the Borde"

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pinochet had his disappeared, now Trump and the U.S.A. have their own. History will not be kind to us. ICE's "online detainee locator database no longer contains any record of these individuals, preventing their family members and legal reps. from locating them." newrepublic.com/post/215672/...

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ICE Just Made Thousands of Detainees Vanish From Its System

It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE.

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cartoonist: Daniel Boris

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"(T)he notorious prison is back up and running, and this time it’s being filled with immigrants, the majority of whom have no criminal conviction, as part of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s brutal deportation regime targeting noncitizens." theintercept.com/2026/09/18/l...

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ICE Revives Former “Hellhole” Prison — And Hires the Same Company To Run It

At Leavenworth, former workers say CoreCivic made conditions dangerous, which led to a near-death attack.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026

Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The law is that “Although the WH is not required to open its doors to the news media, once it establishes press facilities for credentialed journalists, it cannot deny access based on the content of a journalist’s coverage.” That's exactly what Trump is doing. joycevance.substack.com/p/its-a-nice...

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It’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…

Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Roberts claimed America is undergoing a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be” and argued that a “controlled burn” is necessary to destroy “many” of America’s institutions, including parts of civil society." civildefenseinstitute.org/articles/kev...

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Kevin Roberts, “Mastermind” of Project 2025 — Civil Defense

Kevin Roberts has been the president of the Heritage Foundation since 2021. His tenure has been marred by controversies.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Russian's call in bomb threats at Dem polling places and ICE shows up to threaten voters. Got it. "If a threat were to arise, for whatever reason, at a polling station, say a bomb threat would be called in, our ICE agents are more than just Immigration and Customs." www.themirror.com/news/politic...

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ICE boss 'throws a fit' when grilled over having officers at polling stations

The Homeland Security chief lashed out when asked again to clarify whether he would rule out sending federal agents to polling places

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised "that we got this wrong". No shit you go this wrong. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Converse pulls 'deeply upsetting' advert after backlash

Social media users say an image from the brand's Instagram account resembled a KKK hood and hanging.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Converse knew *exactly* what they were doing. Now we know who they are.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“I never expected to be arrested in a prison established for the terrorists who I fled from,” 31-year-old Hassan Abdi Abtidoon told Sahan Journal’s Mohamud Farah on Tuesday." www.commondreams.org/news/somali-...

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Trump Admin Jailing 'Random Somali Immigrants With No Criminal Record' at Guantánamo | Common Dreams

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantánamo Bay,” said one victim. “Just like kidnapping.”

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Bo French, ...calls for deporting 100 million people, purging the nation of Muslims, ... Now Rosenthal is the only man standing between one of the most notorious bigots in North Texas and one of the country’s most powerful regulatory positions." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Bo French sent a tweet so racist, his own party finally took notice. It's just the tip of the iceberg.

How a regulatory agency you've never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Christian Castro, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, was taken into custody by agents of the Minnesota bureau of criminal apprehension in Minneapolis and was booked into the Hennepin county jail on his outstanding arrest warrant..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE agent arrested in Minneapolis on charges of assault and false reporting of crime

Christian Castro faced assault charges after shooting Venezuelan man through the door of his apartment while children were present

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cartoonist: Daniel Medina

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

white supremacist maga

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they’re calling the “New Battlefield Project,” intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up." apnews.com/article/midt...

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵

Two charts side by side. The first shows the number of pregnant people in ICE detention, which peaks in November 2025. The second shows the number of miscarriages recorded by ICE, until October 2025, when ICE said it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages.

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Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com · 15/09/2026

As volunteers track ICE agents, they share their locations on social media. "Sometimes we are loud, because silence has never protected our community," Moreno-Rodriguez added. "Our voices have."

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‘ICE has guns, we have cameras.’ N.J. activists vow to trail federal agents despite arrests.

A group of anti-ICE activists gathered at the same spot where several were arrested during a weekend protest at the Jersey Shore.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The police presence would become particularly notable not because officers arrested anyone, but because they remained with the group even as chemical irritants were deployed against other people nearby." MAGA fascist attacks on transpeople are attacks on us all. www.wewillfreeus.org/they-came-ba...

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They Came Back to Protest The Sports Bra. They Never Made It Inside.

After The Sports Bra asked guests wearing transphobic shirts to leave the previous week, Tommy Allen and his transphobic friends made the bar their next target. They arrived to protest, only to be out...

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On Friday, Sept. 11, Tommy Allen and a small group of his transphobic buddies showed up outside The Sports Bra to protest the bar after staff asked guests wearing transphobic shirts to leave the previous weekend. They did not make it inside or even close to the bar. 🧵

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They Came Back to Protest The Sports Bra. They Never Made It Inside.

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Expats Post @expatspost.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"(A)t the direction of leadership at headquarters, the Unlawful Voter Initiative potentially already committed thousands of violations of state law in an effort to improperly access individuals' voter records,..." ://www.npr.org/2026/09/14/nx-s1-5968892/dhs-whistleblower-voter-fraud

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Federal agents may have broken state laws in voter fraud hunt, whistleblower claims

Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges.

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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm reading this about the USA and know it's #fascism.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For over 10 years, Trump has delegitimized elections through propaganda and lies. We must not fall for his antics as we get close to the midterms. The most important thing any of can do is reject his lies and turn out loudly and proudly.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.

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