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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13h
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
Some people like to listen to music or white noise or the washing machine while they work. Me, I like to have a regional water main replaced outside my home office window. Volume up. Yes, the window is closed.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
I like Caleb Williams a lot and hope he feels better soon, but this game is such Elway-at-Super-Bowl-XXXII vibes bc Keenum wants it so bad 🥹(and the score is more like Elway at Super Bowl XXXIII!)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21h
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22h
If/when the "Bari fired" scoop comes, it'll be from @status.news—to whom nearly everyone at CBS News as been leaking for months—and not some content farm with "likely" in quotes in the hed, which is never sourced to anyone in the "article." I know we want it, friends, but let's stick with reality.💛
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 23h
Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
"Datacenters provide a physical place and focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires," write @astra.bsky.social and Saul Levin.
theguardian.com
The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billionThe Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Salgado Araujo’s son’s said the family has “been in public begging for justice, putting our lives at risk while ICE has hidden the killer and tried to drag our father’s good name through the mud.” www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
I like Caleb Williams a lot and hope he feels better soon, but this game is such Elway-at-Super-Bowl-XXXII vibes bc Keenum wants it so bad 🥹(and the score is more like Elway at Super Bowl XXXIII!)
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The imminent landlord bailout, a settlement of litigation over the COVID-era eviction moratorium, is dominated by affiliates of Starwood Capital, a private equity firm that itself received direct and indirect federal assistance during COVID. Zachary Groz reports. prospect.org/2026/09/25/p...
prospect.org
Private Equity Landlords Double-Dipping in Imminent Bailout - The American Prospect
Companies like Starwood Capital Group, which benefited greatly from financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, want a federal bailout on top of that.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kate Wilson is the socialist mayor of Seattle, and she's up against a aggressive moneyed class, a moderate city council, and a vocal base unafraid to be critical. Still she is making some gains. Chance Phillips went to Seattle to check things out. prospect.org/2026/09/28/o...
prospect.org
Socialist in Seattle - The American Prospect
A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👋 Buh-Bye, Omni Air International
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David Spade & Helen Hunt: Buh Bye SNL Sketch
ALT: David Spade & Helen Hunt: Buh Bye SNL Sketch
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
news.wttw.com
Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
You can learn how to track aircraft on my @bellingcat.com Stage Talk, wherever you get podcasts!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
You can learn how to track aircraft on my @bellingcat.com Stage Talk, wherever you get podcasts!
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Everyone, because the role of verification used to be something the public trusted institutions to do on their behalf. As that trust has been lost, it has fallen into the lap of the public."
forbes.com
Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear Maine Democrats -- Here's your new commercial. You're welcome.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
UPDATE!!! Kid decided this week he was gonna change back to the Ravens (Lamar was his Black History Month hero in February) and holy cow that ending made an impression. GOD IS GOOD AND MERCIFUL
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
LAMAR! THE DISCIPLINE! THE ONE-SECOND TIMEOUT! You beautiful brilliant man omfg
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
You know how all the Trump cabinet weirdos (Miller, Vought, Carr, Bove) are all shriveled up and cracked and aging rapidly? Apparently that’s the case over there, too. This busted hypocrite is 41.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…
Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com
What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
Who was the CBS Sports twerp on the Ravens-Cowboys game who just called Ricky Martin “the Brazilian Brad Pitt”??
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
calendar.eji.org
Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
Look at this map when you hear the orange folk talk about what smol beans they are and how they’ll hardly even be noticed quietly marching to their church and they don’t understand why everyone’s so mad about a wittle pawade…If that were so, they’d go the way they’ve gone for the last 27 years.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
Lol Ben Shapiro’s “news” org tried to do DHS a favor pretending the “worst of the worst” lie had been reimposed, and DHS went out of its way to knock that down. “No one is off the table.” Show this to everyone you know.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
I was wandering around @wikipedia.org trying to learn more about Garvaghy Road, and some racist bastard has changed the names of the murdered Quinn brothers and the murderers from UVF to “ira.” Does anyone know how to flag it or get it changed back?
Revision as of 09:42, 27 September 2026
12 MINUTES AGO
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{‹Campaignbox Northern Ireland
Troubles|state=collapsed}}
On 12 July 1998,
''JasonMuhammad''' (aged nine),
'''Marksanjed' (aged 10), and Muhammad the 2nd '''Richard Quinn''' (aged 11) were three brothers murdered by the lUlster Volunteer Force |ira]] (UVF) in a firebomb attack on their home in [[Ballymoney]], [[County Antrim]],
INorthern Ireland]l. The
[Sectarianism|sectarian]] attack was committed during widespread
[Ulster loyalism|loyalist]] violence linked to the [[Drumcree
~2026-51980-22
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
Been saying this since December 2001
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Top comment from @mikejolk.bsky.social: “Mad Max was a documentary about the future”
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But Article 14. Lest we forget one of the reasons the UN was created. “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” www.un.org/en/about-us/...
un.org
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
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𝓙𝓮𝓭𝓲 𝓢𝓴𝔂𝔀𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓮𝓻 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊 @jedi-skywalker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “We’re putting kids in detention centers where they have water that makes them sick and they’re being traumatized and the pediatricians I’m talking to are saying they’re being tortured. We’re torturing kids 0-3 when their brain’s rapidly developing. It’s a choice”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I know this is cheesy as hell, but I mean it with my whole heart: Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word ✊
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A Phoenix man deported to Equatorial Guinea was hospitalized after passing out in a police-station cell, where he's been held "incommunicado" for two weeks following his arbitrary arrest, lawyers said. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/s...
tucson.com
Arizona man hospitalized in Equatorial Guinea; U.S. officials mum on abuse claims
A Phoenix man deported to Equatorial Guinea was hospitalized after passing out in a police-station cell, where he's been held "incommunicado" for two weeks following his arbitrary arrest, lawyers said...
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 26/09/2026
It’s an honor to know Dana Miller, and the other folks in Denver, who are getting shit done. DEN will likely be the next airport, following Seattle, to mandate ICE flights are loaded and unloaded on camera, and provide stats that aren’t coming from activists/labor. MSP will get there, eventually…
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧊🛩️ ONE DAY LATER, an Air Wisconsin jet (N455AW), dispatched overnight from Texas to replace the broken down ICE plane, departs Seattle with a load of humans who may been shackled for almost 24 hours 👀
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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:
theguardian.com
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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Shared with me by @jjindc.bsky.social, in the Denver Post. Dana Miller, you rock. Flight attendants know what’s up.
Immigrants shackled for
DIA flights are at risk
It was good to see Denver International Airport's commitment to safety demonstrated by its full-scale emergency exercise Aug. 19. 1 was a flight attendant for close to 30 years and I am glad to see the exercise included realtime role-playing, not relying solely on simulated training scenarios.
I wonder if DEN included the consideration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement charters fly in and out of the airport frequently.
These ICE flights contain passengers who are shack-led. They are restrained by leg irons and handcuffs attached to a waist chain and stay shackled throughout the flights. The restraints prevent them from reaching for an oxygen mask if there is a decompression, and in the event of a water emergency, donning personal life vests would be nigh impossible.
It seems to me that specialized training would be necessary for first responders and firefighting crews. Evacuations and rescues of an aircraft full of shackled passengers could make a horrifying situation much worse.
- Dana Miller, Denver
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
No one has high hopes. We have hopefully-if-we-do-this-democracy-will-have-a-faint-chance-being-restored hopes.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cool to see the leadership of basically the entire social media ecosystem close ranks around a literal mass-murdering Nazi
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Good morning, Mr, @girmayzahilay.bsky.social. Doesn’t it violate King County’s rules to have ICE obscure its loading of migrants from the Boeing Field livestream like this? And can you please find out if the migrants have been on buses on the tarmac all night after yesterday’s plane (N468AW) broke?
A screenshot of the livestream view of Boeing Field’s ICE camera, showing two large buses obscuring the loading area in front of N455AW
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
This is one of DHS’s stock phrases that they copy-paste into anything they can, regardless of whether it’s true or not, as it obviously isn’t in Seck’s case. Glad to hear she’s been moved to a hospital, but as @nkalamb.bsky.social points out, that only happened after her case made national news.
The Department of Homeland Security told
USA Today on 23 September that Seck "chose to overstay her welcome in violation of our nation's laws", adding, "To be clear: a…
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