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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 2h
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
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Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 6h
I am seeing too many journalists cover the TX-9 congressional race without including the essential background info that Alex Mealer, the GOP candidate, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2022 election she lost by more than 18,000 votes
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
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Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Of particular note is how crowded these rooms were. Really this feels like the 21st century version of the deplorable slave-ship diagrams. People should never be held like this, let alone when they haven’t even committed a crime.
Diagrams showing how crowded the holding rooms of 26 Federal Plaza were.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In suburban Maryland, where many Salvadorans fear the Trump Administration is about to target them for deportation, an Episcopal priest has pledged to become temporary guardian to 31 kids if their parents are arrested by ICE. “I feel a lot of responsibility, and a very heavy weight."
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This Priest Pledges to Care For 31 Kids If ICE Detains Their Parents
A Maryland priest has agreed to become the standby guardian for 31 children whose immigrant parents fear arrest and deportation.
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National Immigration Project @nipnlg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“To me, it’s just another iteration of disappearing people,” [Michelle Méndez, legal director at the National Immigration Project] said. “Why would we do that in the United States of America? It’s something we’d hear about in another country and be concerned about individual rights and due process.”
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/09/2026
25 = the states and jurisdictions the Justice Department has now sued over in-state tuition for undocumented students, which is all of them. Six have already ended their programs. About 525,000 undocumented students are enrolled nationally. Reporting by Inside Higher Ed.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/09/2026
99.97% = the share of every refugee the United States admitted this fiscal year who came from South Africa. 10,255 people out of the 10,258 admitted through July 31. Three came from everywhere else. Data from Pew Research Center.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I didn't hold back. These centers are a blight on higher education and we should say so. dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
“Center for Intellectual Freedom is a really Orwellian name because they’re forcing mandatory classes on students who don’t want it,” Ray said. “Just as a matter of pure consistency, if closing African American Studies was just a financial decision, the center should be closed.” Ray said universities do a better job fostering free thought than any other institution — including churches, workplaces, and the military.

“You can say and do things at universities that you cannot do anywhere else,” he said. “So the notion that universities are a problem when it comes to free speech is just a lie.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026
Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 25/08/2026
Dems should introduce the Dolly Parton Memorial Act, making the right to do drag a federal law
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Rob Cee @therobcee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TWO THINGS I LIKE LEAST ABOUT MACHETES: 1. Maiming, disfiguring, and bloodshed 2. Word seems French
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
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Mx Jay Baker (they/he) @mediaactivist.com · 16/08/2026
"His gulag isn’t in a distant Soviet or banana republic. It’s about an hour and a half from Disneyland, in a small California town called Adelanto." theintercept.com/2026/08/16/r...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.
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Arturo Serrano @carturo222.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Quote post with a famous landmark you've seen.
The entrance to the Gold Museum in the city of Armenia, Colombia. The view is a set of descending stair steps, connecting to a one-floor building. The whole structure is made of red brick.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 08/08/2026
Lmao see this is the appropriate place for a judge to have a little fun

681 Aug 4, 2026

ENDORSED ORDER denying without prejudice 678 Defendant LGBCoin, LTD's Emergency Time-Sensitive Motion for One-Day Extension of Deadline to Conduct In-Person Meeting to Prepare Joint Final Pretrial Statement. In the aforementioned 678
Motion, filed at 3:00pm eastern standard time on August 3, 2026,
Defendant LGBCoin, LTD requests that the Court rule on the Motion by 12:00pm eastern standard time on August 3, 2026. This request is denied as a metaphysical impossibility.
Defendant has leave to refile the 678
Motion once counsel understands the space time continuum. See StarTalk, Cosmic Queries - Pure Spacetime, StarTalk Media (July 7, 2026), https://startalk-
radio.simplecast.com/episodes/cosmic-
queries-pure-spacetime. Signed by
Judge Paul G. Byron on 8/4/2026. (JRI)
(Entered: 08/04/2026)


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Order on Motion for Extension of Time to File
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The ethnic cleansing campaign is ongoing
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Joey Bowlcut @joeybowlcut.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Houston ISD superintendent Mike Miles just made everyone in the district listen to an ai generated song he “wrote for us”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“The proposed award comes after legal service providers across the country have said that the administration has withheld $65 million in overdue fees from the previous contract, alleging it is an attempt to force them to turn over confidential information about the migrant children they represent.”
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 04/08/2026
In photos: These 11 months of Robinson Gonzalez’s life are a microcosm of the immigrant experience—of resilience in the face of a contradictory system that welcomes your labor but not your full presence. www.texasobserver.org/american-ska...
Robinson Gonzalez, seen from behind under a dusky sky, carrying his skateboard as he walks across a grassy, sloping landscape. Photo credit: Monse Guajardo
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 04/08/2026
Out today from @drajp.bsky.social: We say that people should be able to form their own opinions. This right to form one’s own opinion should extend to a student’s opinion that studying gender and sexuality, variables that impact everyone, is worth their investment.
texasobserver.org
University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Houstonian demanding ICE officers be held accountable: "They get to go home to their families and continue terrorizing our community, while Lorenzo's family will never see him again. That makes it perfectly clear that some community members are worth more than others to you."
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NEW: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son Ronaldo just spoke at Houston City Council, telling Mayor John Whitmire & city council what they can do to help make sure someone else isn't killed by ICE: end the Houston Police Department's partnership with ICE
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/07/2026
Houston community members continue to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father who was shot and killed by an ICE agent July 7. For more on the community response, we get a report from Democracy Now! producers on the ground in Houston.
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“Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father
Houston community members continue to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father who was shot and killed by an ICE agent July 7. He had lived in the United States for ne...
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 21/07/2026
Watching the Wishbone episode about the Odyssey and at the end they actually have the dog explain it began as oral poetry and quote some of the lines in the ancient Greek, this show did not have to go this hard but they really made this wonderfully.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is why Dems are reluctant to run on retribution, despite its popularity. They want the power he accrued and the surveillance infrastructure he formalized. Period.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
reading Roberts' opinion in a vacuum one would think the whole fourteenth amendment was a codification of a widely accepted principle totally disconnected from race. KBJ is writing history in the hopes we make it out, and we owe her big time. also - why the FUCK didn't Kagan join this
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And a lest we forget Justice Kavanaugh writes separately because while he agrees with the judgment in this case that Trump cannot change birthright citizenship by EO, he believes that Congress can by statute create exceptions to birthright citizenship that would mirror the provisions of Trump’s EO.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
And before anybody says "you have to win elections!" what is the fucking point of any of this if you have to throw vulnerable, hunted people under the bus? If that's what you're going to do to "win elections," you don't fucking deserve to win any election. Cowards. Every one of them.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A more accurate title would be "Kennedy is wasting taxpayer dollars on a confirmation bias-fueled witch hunt in an attempt to drive the return of vaccine-preventable diseases."
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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