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Trump is attacking our democracy and breaking the systems that keep us safe. Boycott U.S. air travel until Congress fires him. Take action: groundtheplanes.com

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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Agree with this approach, which is drawn straight from the nonviolent action playbook (the article links to Gene Sharp). Thing is, Trump is already an illegitimate leader, and we should already be doing more of this stuff to force him out. But we need more orgs to buy in & help boost and mobilize.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 07/10/2026
these brutal prison camps packed with innocent people should not exist the vile cruelty of this regime demands that we impeach, convict, and remove the orange fascist immediately
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OK this isn't the main reason you should boycott US air travel, but it's not bottom of the list either
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration has reportedly deported dozens of LGBTQ immigrants who sought or were granted asylum for their sexuality and gender to third countries where they face danger of persecution and criminalization, a new report says.
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Report: Trump Admin Is Deporting LGBTQ Asylum Seekers to Hostile Third Countries
Officials have deported LGBTQ people to Sierra Leone, where they could face life in prison for same-sex activity.
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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because the federal government doesn't seriously fund rail travel and would rather pump billions of dollars in subsidies into airline companies that shit on customers daily. And because the automobile lobby has spent decades fighting rail spending at local, state, and federal levels. Next question.
A CNN screenshot
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 30/09/2026
To all those who say we should forget impeachment and focus on getting the courts to stop the vile abuses of executive power: Have a look at this ⬇️. Impeachment and removal are necessary first steps in restoring our constitutional rights.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The Department of Homeland Security...declined to comment on how its tactics had changed. ... But [a spokesperson] confirmed the agency’s focus on airports..." We stand in solidarity with the kidnapped. BOYCOTT U.S. AIR TRAVEL www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 28/09/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
Wrong. At least a hundred deportation flights were stopped, and there is no guarantee they’ll start them again. They already did one layoff a few weeks ago, the buyer could just as likely sell the planes for parts and shit the whole thing down for good.
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I think the headline's misleading, Gillian: They stopped nothing; they just forced one scumbag owner of scumbag Omni Air to sell it to another scumbag owner. Change of ownership means nothing: Omni Air will keep hauling ICE detainees to third nation
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
What's next for Omni? No idea. First, I need to find out who bought them (leak to me on proton or signal). Yes, they could start ICE flights again tomorrow. But they didn't do them for months. That's dozens of charter trips, 100+ removal stops, thousands of migrants who DIDN'T get forced onboard.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 28/09/2026
This is a BFD - one of the charter airlines doing ICE flights has been sold off, thanks to pressure from smart folks with spines. Raise a glass to the financial misfortune of those who’ve been profiting off of ICE’s detention apparatus; may they not be the last.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Take action: groundtheplanes.com/takeaction
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Take Action - Ground the Planes
TAKE ACTION Call Congress Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 5Calls (tool for calling elected officials) Citizens’ Impeachment (pro-impeachment tools and resources) Contact an Airline American Airlin...
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is something you can do about this madness: say "I want no part of it" and boycott US air travel until it stops
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 26/09/2026
I will wager most Americans don’t know about illegal renditions in our name bc @gillianbrockell.com and @jjindc.bsky.social can’t be everywhere, but also for simple reason MSM is in the tank for the deportation regime. bsky.app/profile/gill...
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
General strikes are hard to coordinate, but a pro-impeachment air travel boycott is easy to join and gets us part of the way there: groundtheplanes.com
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Ground the Planes
Boycott all air travel until Congress fires Trump.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WELP looks like another good day to boycott American air travel
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧵 Excellent presentation from @ottergoose.net on how ICE Air observations work at one airport (Minneapolis/St. Paul). Our network currently monitors dozens of airports across the United States on a daily basis.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 21/09/2026
Thank you for visiting the innocent in the prison camps Please start fighting to impeach and remove the fascist thug responsible for them immediately
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Behold: the Boxcars of 2026 ⤵️
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exactly. Boycott bsky.app/profile/grou...
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey, is it good that the regime has deployed air traffic control tech so unproven that it has airlines themselves panicking? BOYCOTT
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Boycott this ICE-complicit industry till Congress dumps Trump
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...Ah. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What could go wrong?
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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WTF is this bullshit and why the fuck is it taking a month and a half to be reported?
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Links and call/email templates here! groundtheplanes.com/takeaction
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Take Action - Ground the Planes
TAKE ACTION Call Congress Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 5Calls (tool for calling elected officials) Citizens’ Impeachment (pro-impeachment tools and resources) Contact an Airline American Airlin...
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nearly every airport in the country is complicit in these crimes. It’s too bad we can‘t boycott airports! Oh wait —— groundtheplanes.com
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Ground the Planes
Boycott all air travel until Congress fires Trump.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ICE removal flights have been at least temporarily halted after an appeals court ruling finding them illegal. But the Supreme Court has revived the flights twice using the shadow docket, and could do so again once the Trump administration appeals to them. @gillianbrockell.com reports.
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Appeals Court Smacks Down Trump’s Third-Country Removal Policy - The American Prospect
Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could soon bring it back.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 18/09/2026
No fancy video review to share, but team reports 27 loaded, 0 unloaded, on today’s ICE Air flight at MSP.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good. Here's one way to start *demanding* the bullshit stop: groundtheplanes.com
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 16/09/2026
MSP’s airport authority, the MAC, who’ll have members appointed by @amyklobuchar.com after she’s elected, has dropped the ball repeatedly with respect to ICE, and continues to work against the interests of our community. Kudos to the workers, but fuck MSP’s spineless leadership.
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Jane @dangerjane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've been doing that the entire time. I will not get on a domestic flight until they're all gone. It's the Wild West up there these days
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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We highlight this constantly and ask people to actually do something about it: boycott US air travel. The entire industry is complicit *and* it’s a load-bearing pillar of GDP - boycotting puts some real leverage behind impeachment demands. groundtheplanes.com
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Ground the Planes
Boycott all air travel until Congress fires Trump.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Help us call for a boycott of US airports/airlines until the crimes stop and the regime implodes
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Both need to resign.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When a desperate, sweaty Trump is demanding that everyone "FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS," that's a pretty good sign that you should, in fact, boycott American airliners. Stop flying till Congress sends Trump packing.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 06/09/2026
BREAKING UPDATE: An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, causing a full ground stop that halted all flights.
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MIA shut down after an Amazon cargo plane crashes off a runway, catches fire
Here’s what we know
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/09/2026
Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport after it overshoots runway
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Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport after it overshoots runway
FAA confirms crash as videos show heavy plumes of smoke surrounding aircraft that flew in from Puerto Rico An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport in Florida on Sunday afternoon when a flight from Puerto Rico landed and overshot the runway, sending flames and dark smoke into the sky. Videos posted online show heavy plumes of smoke surrounding an aircraft bearing the Amazon arrow logo on its tail. Unconfirmed reports suggest there may be casualties, but details about injuries or fatalities remained unclear. Continue reading...
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump’s use of ICE as an armed force to interfere with sovereign state prerogatives meets the Constitutional definition of a treasonous war on the United States. bsky.app/profile/samh...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds???
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Related question: how many Americans will join the boycott of the industry that does these renditions? #groundtheplanes #airtravelboycott #noflyingunderfascism
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cool. Let's organize these folks to get them out of vague passive voice ("We should be toppled") and into the fight to peacefully topple (impeach/remove) this regime
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Boycott
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As they seek to cut off our most fundamental method of changing leadership, we need to rally behind others that are peaceful, easy to join en masse, etc. Not as a replacement for voting but in parallel.
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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think this is right. I don’t see a clear way out of this without the kind of impeachment-focused boycotts we’ve been advocating. A true general strike is hard to muster, but we need mass noncooperation that‘s almost as disruptive.
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