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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 13h
"An ICE agent called me and said, ‘I'm calling to let you know that your husband has died,’” she said. “And I asked him, ‘Why? What happened?’"
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‘I want answers': Maryland man dies in ICE custody
Julian Curo-Churata was the 37th person to die in ICE custody in the past year.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 14h
Commentary: Cuts to Medicaid funds will hurt the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where Illinois trains its physicians.
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Albert D. Sam II: The hospital that trains Chicago’s doctors can’t survive Washington’s Medicaid cuts
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 17h
A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16h
Yesterday afternoon, ICE agents — who did not present a warrant, and who appear to have been disguised as construction workers — fired 7 shots into a car with a 5-year-old child, hitting Oscar Belgal in the neck.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ARIZONA STATE: Tempe Police brutally push, tackle, and punch cheerleader Eryn Bonner in the street 😳 (They dropped felony charges but are still pursuing misdemeanors) 🤔 More: www.themarysue.com/arizona-stat...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
ChatGPT told a school shooter how to evade its own safeguards and then fed the shooter's violent fantasies up to the day of the attack, our new investigation reveals
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
40 people on today's ICE flight out of Minneapolis, 38 men, and two women. If a loved one may have been aboard, full footage of the loading can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=UaNQj8rTpJo
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Women Forward ❌ 👑 @womenforward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heartbreaking: 21-year-old U.S. Navy Sailor Jaimie Bethea has died by suicide after being deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for nearly a year. “I lost my world. I lost everything, and all I care about now is getting some semblance of justice,” Jaimie’s sister said. Rest in peace, Jaimie Bethea.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rubio tells the Egyptian dictator that the US could care less about its human rights record going forward, and that no conditions will henceforth apply to its delivery of weapons. In other words, Rubio decided to dispense with the US legal requirements governing arms sales to Egypt.
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Wegen Iran: USA streichen Menschenrechtsauflagen für Militärhilfe an Ägypten - WELT
Ägypten erhält seit den späten 80er-Jahren jährlich rund 1,3 Milliarden Dollar an ‌US-Militärhilfe. Ein Teil davon ist an Bedingungen zu Menschenrechten ⁠und Demokratie geknüpft. Das haben die USA nun...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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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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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
750,000 Texas Voters Disenfranchised Up to 750,000 Texans registered through the DPS online portal are missing from County Voting Rolls. Talarico “the government failed to do its job.” Registration deadline: Oct. 5. 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Texas election workers scramble after registration snafu leaves thousands of voters off rolls
“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 26/09/2026
The administration is using a rare and contested power to ax funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/tr…
washingtonsun.com
Trump Claws Back Nearly $1 Billion In Congressionally Appropriated Funding
The administration is using a rare and contested power to ax funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
texastribune.org
DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE is set to open a new facility for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana, to be run by the nonprofit arm of LaSalle Corrections. As Austin Kocher, PhD reports, another ICE detention death at “Winn, a converted state prison ICE runs through LaSalle Corrections.” austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The secret police is disappearing people. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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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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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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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...?
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
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Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 15/09/2026
The DHS OIG last week released its May 2025 inspection of ICE's Krome detention center in Miami. Key findings: - 1,102 detainees in space for 882 - Frozen food left out in the heat - No medical exam after pepper spray; detainee transferred - An unauthorized choke hold
Photograph of palettes of frozen food left out in the Florida heat at the Krome detention center.A page from an Office of Inspector General report showing a table of detainee populations representing overcrowded conditions. An accompanying photograph shows detainees sleeping on cots in housing unit 14.A screenshot of text from an OIG report with highlighted text reading "Krome staff did not seek a medical evaluation, as required, for the detainee immediately following the use of force incident. Instead, Krome transferred the detainee out of the facility."A screenshot of highlighted text which reads "While searching a cell for contraband, an officer inappropriately used a choke hold. Such a technique is only authorized when deadly force would be authorized."
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...
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ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines
The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few days ago someone armed with multiple weapons attacked a Democratic gubernatorial candidate
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say reut.rs/4xL7bzL
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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed by Reuters, showing that the agents’ rogue activity was ​wider ranging than previously disclosed.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m documenting your crimes. You are bragging about them. We are not the same.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chicagoland rapid responders are reporting, with corroborating photos/videos, 3 ICE abductions so far today: one each in the Chicago neighborhoods of Logan Square and Belmont Cragin and the far NW suburb of Cary, IL. Activity also reported this morning in the Chicago neighborhood of Garfield Park.
9/9/2026 alert of an ICE abduction at 8:41 a.m. off Central Park and Altgeld in Chicago. ALERTA COMUNITARIA – BELMONT CRAGIN, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy - 09/09/2026
🕥 9:20 a.m.
📍 W Grand Ave y N Merrimac Ave
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. 1 persona detenida.
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Jeep Grand Cherokee Negra 
Ford Explorer Gris 
SUV Negra🚨🚨🚨Alerta Comunitaria 🚨🚨🚨 
Three  Oaks Rd
Cary IL 
9/9/26 7:45am 
Se confirma presencia de ICE en area. 
1 persona detenida. 
Vehículos observados 
Chevy Tahoe Negra 
Jeep Cherokee Blanca 
Dodge Charger Gris 
Tomen precauciones y reporten cualquier cosa sospechosa.
🚨🚨🚨 Community Alert 🚨🚨🚨
Three  Oaks
Cary, IL
September 9, 2026, 7:45 AM
ICE presence confirmed in the area.
1 person detained.
Vehicles observed:
Black Chevy Tahoe 
White Jeep Cherokee
Gray Dodge Charger
Please take precautions and report anything suspicious🚨 ALERTA COMUNITARIA – EAST GARFIELD PARK, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy – 09/09/2026
🕥 8:28 a.m.
📍 Spaulding Ave y Ohio St
🧊 CONFIRMADO: Presencia de ICE en el área. Los vehículos continúan en el área.
🚗 Vehículos observados:
 Chevy Tahoe Negra 
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  Jeep Grand Cherokee Negra 
GC12013
Ford Explorer Negra 
GA20535
Chevy Tahoe Negra 
GC12059
Nissan Pathfinder Negra 
📣 SI VE ALGO, DIGA ALGO DE INMEDIATO.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ICE has deported the mother of David Garcia, a first‑year midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, after taking her into custody during her scheduled green card interview. www.borderreport.com/border-repor...
borderreport.com
Congressman says midshipman’s mom deported back to Mexico
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, says the mother of a midshipman cadet at the Naval Academy has been deported back to Mexico by U.S. immigration officials.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/09/2026
French minister calls AfD’s victory a grave moment, warning of growing nationalism and its impact on European unity.
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World reacts to AfD victory in east Germany state election
French minister calls AfD's victory a grave moment, warning of growing nationalism and its impact on European unity.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These religious leaders were arrested for protesting ICE. Looks like fascism to me. This was in Vermont
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
After about 25 minutes, to protect the house and the people inside, the community members moved in a line and formed a human chain directly in front of the house. ICE stepped forward, at least one agent wielding a baton, and inflicted violence on them. (Frederick, MD - September 4, 2026)
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE uses vehicle to push peaceful protesters off a public sidewalk in Frederick, Maryland.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2026
As you surely suspected, and @attackerman.bsky.social confirms, ICE and CBP are ridden with sex criminals & child abusers.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 04/09/2026
The military-style South Shore raid was one of the definitive moments of Operation Midway Blitz. It also set off a chain of events that laid bare the precariousness of Chicago’s housing system for low-income renters like Darren Hightower.
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Nearly a year after the South Shore raid forced him from his home, one former resident is still homeless
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 04/09/2026
Behind closed doors, John Fetterman dodges constituents, alienates fellow Democrats and shows little interest in the work of a senator.
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Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator
The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/09/2026
Sec. Hegseth treats civilian casualties as an afterthought, cuts personnel responsible for preventing them, & boasts that there will be “no stupid rules of engagement.”   There must be a full investigation & accountability for this strike. And we must end this disastrous war now.
nytimes.com
In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I contributed a bit of analysis for this article by @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social. Jeff notes that, as of early August, 1 in 4 individuals detained by ICE were held in facilities located in Texas. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
elpasotimes.com
Why Texas is at the heart of Trump's mass detention strategy
Over a quarter of all immigrants detained by the Trump administration are held in Texas. Why is this?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
inquirer.com
The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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