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Florida Valkyries

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Social justice group in Florida that aims to end government corruption and enact progressive change, by means of direct action, education, and mobilization of the Florida masses. 🐊 Join: floridavalkyries.com Vol: bit.ly/FLValkyries

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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 31/10/2025
FAU PD was going to come speak with Student Government tomorrow (Friday) and when sent the questions beforehand (all about 287(g)), they cancelled the visit. @tomaskenn.bsky.social
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 30/10/2025
If ICE agents believe they have blanket immunity or that citizens have no right to record them, it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error. A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
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There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/10/2025
ICE’s rampant technology spending raises the possibility of "targeted surveillance, not just of undocumented people, but of American citizens as well,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @Axios.com. www.axios.com/2025/10/21/...
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 09/10/2025
Yes, it kinda sounds like MTG just learned that her office tracks calls. And yes, she's mostly fighting for the ACA tax credits bc her adult children are on it... But this is why calls are important! Reps always need "cover" when they break party line, and constituent calls are their best argument.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/10/2025
“Ring’s new partnership with Flock shows that the company is more interested in contributing to mounting authoritarianism than servicing the specific needs of their customers,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...
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Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 21/10/2025
Families are being detained and disappeared — and it’s part of a broader authoritarian attack on our freedoms.
Join the Disappeared in America Movement Call on Oct. 22 at 8pm ET to learn how you can take action Nov. 1–2.
 ➡️ RSVP: mobilize.us/e/860769
 #DisappearedInAmerica #ProtectImmigrants
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 20/10/2025
Where’s DOGE?
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Friends of the Everglades @foreverglades.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“Government officials in Florida have misled the public they are supposed to work for, and the Everglades have been harmed as a result,” Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, said in a statement. Full AP story: apnews.com/article/flor...
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Florida officials didn't disclose funding request for 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility, lawsuit says
Florida officials have been accused of failing to disclose their application for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."
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el Nuevo Herald @elnuevoherald.com · 18/10/2025
Es la sexta muerte registrada bajo custodia de ICE en Florida este año, en medio de crecientes denuncias por demoras y deficiencias en la atención médica.
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Estaba por ser deportado, pero la muerte lo alcanzó bajo custodia de ICE antes de regresar a su país
Es la sexta muerte registrada bajo custodia de ICE en Florida este año, en medio de crecientes denuncias por demoras y deficiencias en la atención médica.
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Voices of Florida @voicesofflorida.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Sarah Parker with Voices of Florida & 50501 - 50 States, 50 Protests, 1 Day spoke at the No Kings D.C. Rising rally in Washington DC on October 18th, 2025. youtu.be/VrMJv-c2Ymk 📺 Watch the full livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/fHu4Uf0... #NoKings
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No Kings D.C. Rising Rally on October 18th, 2025 in Washington DC
YouTube video by Voices of Florida
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 18/10/2025
Commentary: Surely a judge who sentences convicted criminals to prison is as much at risk as ICE agents, yet the notion is absurd that judges should be anonymous or allowed to mask their faces in the courtroom.
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Amy Dru Stanley and Craig Becker: The masking of ICE agents is indefensible
The courts must act to declare masked arrests unconstitutional, as unreasonable seizures barred by the Fourth Amendment.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/10/2025
ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.” nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
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NYU’s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year - Washington Square News
“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200 people on Wednesday, who stood along the back wall and spilled out the conference room’s double doors.  The radical act in question was...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/10/2025
Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.
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404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2025
State-run extrajudicial immigration black sites like Alligator Alcatraz allows politically connected individuals to make hundreds of millions of dollars off Florida’s taxpayers at the expense of jailed migrants, while those held are stripped of their access to legal counsel and due process.
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DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz”
Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.
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If Not Us @ifnotusofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🧵Constitution in Crisis: Inside Florida's Immigrant Detention System Series ~ ACLU of Florida 10/1, 10/15 & 10/29 5:30 pm CT With the opening of the Everglades Detention Center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", a spotlight has been cast on Florida's notorious detention centers. However, this
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Constitution in Crisis: Inside Florida's Immigrant Detention System · ACLU Florida
With the opening of the Everglades Detention Center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", a spotlight has been cast on Florida's notorious detention centers. However, this new facility is only the lat...
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Latest: Friends of the Everglades passed along this picture of freshly laid blacktop at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp, taken by pilot Ralph Arwood on September 26. I was there a week or so prior, and there were construction trucks pouring out of it.
An aerial photo of the Everglades detention camp. The lower quarter of the camp is marked by freshly laid blacktop pavement.
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Voices of Florida @voicesofflorida.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🗯️What Is Fascism? 📅Monday, September 29 ⏰4 PM PDT | 7 PM EDT 🔗https://bit.ly/whatisfascism Join VoFF for their ‘What is Fascism?’ webinar—an in-depth conversation exploring the roots, characteristics, & contemporary manifestations of fascism and what it means for our movements today. #fascism
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/09/2025
📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe): - Journalist Mario Guevara, facing deportation, deserves same energy as Kimmel - How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE - Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists - Plus, what we're reading...
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Mobilize for Mario Guevara like you did for Jimmy Kimmel
Plus: How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 25/09/2025
Sad followup from Key West.
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Deported from Key West
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Voices of Florida Fund @voffund.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🧽 Organizing + Absorption Training 📅 Friday, September 26 ⏰ 4 PM PDT | 7 PM EDT 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Join VoFF for our Organizing + Absorption Training—a session designed to strengthen skills for building movements, sustaining momentum, & creating lasting impacts. #organizing
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 24/09/2025
@techaro.lol hey is this legit? blur.50501.chat
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/09/2025
Law students: Want to make a difference in digital rights? EFF’s legal internship offers the perfect platform to work on impactful legal cases. Apply today! www.eff.org/about/oppor...
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Legal Internship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of November 1. See below for instructions and a link to the application.EFF’s legal internships provide law students with a
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 18/09/2025
“It was released, not publicly, but leaked, that the Alachua County School District released guidance to all its schools that would allow someone saying they’re ICE to detain a student without a warrant or question them without parental knowledge or consent”
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"Friends of the Everglades argues that, although no money has changed hands, the tacit agreement between the federal government and the state of Florida, and the repeated public statements by Florida and DHS officials, clearly show that the federal government has committed to pay for the project...
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Florida applies for federal reimbursement for 'Alligator Alcatraz' costs despite court warning
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised that the federal government would reimburse the state for the costs of "Alligator Alcatraz," but doing so would make the detention facility subject to environmental ...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2025
If this how they treat high-exposure, wealthy detainees, imagine how they treat the people with no money, no attention and no diplomatic leverage.
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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression @thefireorg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the cancel culture machine has kicked into gear, with mob mentality driving firings, investigations, and political pressure. FIRE's Adam Goldstein looks at how tragedy affects our culture of free speech. ⬇️ www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...
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We are in the cancel culture part of the tragedy cycle
Cancel culture ends when we decide that people can be horrifically wrong and still entitled to the grace that enables us all to grow from our worst moments.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?" -- Protest sign at airport where South Korean workers, including engineers with work visas, were returned www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...
Protester at airport in South Korea holds up a sign that reads, in Korean:

 ‘Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?’

Credit: Dasl Yoon/WSJ
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a funding dilemma over the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” built in the Florida Everglades. to.pbs.org/4m99Hco
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DeSantis' court victory on 'Alligator Alcatraz' sets up a funding dilemma for Florida
Florida may be forced to choose between forgoing federal reimbursement for the detention center or accepting the money and facing an environmental review that would risk shutting down the facility.
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 10/09/2025
ICE and FAUPD - As of August, none of the FAU PD had taken the training.
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FAU police chief speaks out on ICE partnership for first time
Florida Atlantic University’s Police Department quietly entered into a federal immigration enforcement partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the 287(g) program on July 24 wit...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2025
"Activists who spoke with those deported told @talkingpointsmemo.com that Vovchenko and another man were detained upon arrival in Moscow." Absolutely craven. @jjindc.bsky.social commented at the time that the Omni flight to Cairo looked weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Admin Returns Russian Dissident Asylum Seekers to Putin
In late August, a group of Russians who had asked and not...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/09/2025
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 07/09/2025
Taking the fight against 287(g) to the county.
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Attend the Palm Beach County Commissioners Meeting · Palm Beach County Indivisible Immigration Coalition
Join the PBC Indivisible Immigration Coalition (PBCIIC) in its 287(g) campaign to oppose our local government’s cooperation with the federal and state mass detention and deportation of our immigrant n...
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 05/09/2025
“The partnership reportedly gives FAU's police power that some students are calling an assault on due process, including the power and authority to arrest without a warrant.”
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'Attack on due process': FAU students protest campus police's ICE partnership
FAU students rallied Friday, voicing outrage over campus police's move to work hand-in-hand with ICE.
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 04/09/2025
FAU Students Plan Protest Against Campus Police Partnership with ICE Boca Tribune
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 03/09/2025
THIS FRIDAY (Sept 5th) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton campus - Protest to get ICE off campus
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 03/09/2025
Once again, a town hall about ICE on campus at FIU
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Once Again, ICE on Campus Town Hall
Join our FIU community for a town hall to get more informed about the university police’s participation in the 287(g) agreement.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/08/2025
Surveillance tech is not making us safer – it’s putting innocent people at risk. This isn’t public safety. It’s automated injustice. Read more: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Human Toll of ALPR Errors
This post was written by Gowri Nayar, an EFF legal intern. Imagine driving to get your nails done with your family and all of a sudden, you are pulled over by police officers for allegedly driving a
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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 24/08/2025
NEXT WEEKEND! We're having a social! Come hang in Boca Raton: actionnetwork.org/events/pbc-a...
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PBC Action Social
Join us in Boca Raton!
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If Not Us @ifnotusofficial.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🧵🚨 BREAKING: Judge Orders Shut Down of Everglades Internment Camp🚨 A federal judge just blocked DeSantis & Trump administrations from expanding the Everglades internment camp. The ruling orders the state to stop transfers immediately, reduce the population within 60 days, & begin dismantling it.
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Judge bars US, Florida from bringing new detainees into 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center
A federal judge on Thursday barred President Donald Trump's administration and the state of Florida from bringing new detainees into a remote migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."
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