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Volunteer with organizations helping refugees and people seeking asylum. Rewilder. Retired state attorney. Grandmother. Texan. Seeker.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23h
"Footage taken by protesters shows the massive tree crashing down as border agents look on..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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They sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down.
Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Despite the Machismo of Prison, These Men Collaborated on a Quilt
A quilting workshop united men at Vermont’s Southern State Correctional Facility. The result? A museum-quality piece of art.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The “worst of the worst” are those who are earning profits, getting paid with taxpayer dollars in the ICE supply chain.
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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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026
generic reply to emphasize, I’m a police and prison abolitionist, I have been writing about these systems for two decades
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️
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Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November
“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sean Connery in The Untouchables
ALT: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please keep in mind that Brett Kavanaugh was CREDIBLY accused of very similar acts to what the Cornell 7 allegedly did, the acts we’re all rightly upset about. And Senate Republicans - Susan Collins included - voted to confirm him to SCOTUS.
Kavanaugh at his 2018 confirmation hearing.
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Texas Rewilder @loloh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have spent the last three days visiting with a client in an ICE detention camp in Texas. The rolls and rolls of concertina wire. The rows and rows of human hunting vehicles. Trying to assure her that her detention (20 months) won't last forever. I don't know how to do this.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Texas Rewilder @loloh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
El Paso, Texas.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a massive human trafficking ring, forcing vulnerable people from place to place, ruining their lives, all to make a buck
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This is who owns this plane — Jordache Jeans founder Joe Nakash and his real estate partner Eli Gindi. Rich people lease their private jets to charter companies in exchange for a huge tax break, courtesy of Trump 1.0. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...
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More MAGA billionaires linked to private jet used for ICE flight to African prison
A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini.
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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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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...
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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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Austin DSA @austindsa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE - 4 PM, OUTSIDE OF TRAVIS COUNTY JAIL, 500 W 10TH ST. AUSTIN, TX Speaking out for our immigrant neighbors is not a crime. Misael has always shown up for our community, and now we need to show up for him.
EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE - 4 PM, OUTSIDE OF TRAVIS COUNTY JAIL, 500 W 10TH ST. AUSTIN, TX


This morning around 8:50 AM, Misael Ramos, Austin DSA-endorsed candidate for City Council District 1, was arrested by state troopers while walking his dog. His neighbors watched as troopers, many in unmarked vehicles, detained him wihtout ever showing a warrant. He is now being held at Travis County Jail on a misdemeanor charg that his campaign believes is tied to his participation in the protests after ICE agents shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a delivery driver in North Austin, last weekend.


Speaking out for our immigrant neighbors is not a crime. Misael has always shown up for our community, and now we need to show up for him.
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Sara D Gore @crouton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This morning, Misael Ramos, an Austin city council candidate was abducted by DPS, presumably because of his involvement in a protest for Wilber earlier this week.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo
A map of North and Central America showing dozens of flights emanating out ICE Air's hub of Alexandria, LA
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧊🛩️ SEATTLE, TAKE TWO 😬⛓️ With dozens of shackled captives waiting for hours on buses, a second crappy Air Wisconsin jet (N455AW) departs Texas for Seattle’s Boeing Field to take over the human trafficking mission for the broken down one sitting there in the cold autumn rain 👀
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧊 Thursday ICECAST – 24 Sep 26 ✈️ 8am — Houston 9am — Denver 10am – Memphis, St George UT, Richmond, Dallas/Love(1), Birmingham 11am – Seattle/Boeing, Adelanto CA, Detroit/Willow Run 12pm – Dallas/Love(2), Twin Falls ID 3pm – State College PA Outbound 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇪🇨🇩🇴
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa.
An FR24 map showing N352BH landing at Gitmo. An FR24 map showing N352BH going from Gitmo to San Juan.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
Plus, an ICE charter plane that was in the air when the appeals court said its bar on third-country removals was effective immediately, has since landed in two known TCR countries—Ghana and Liberia. Story to come at @prospect.org
An FR24 map showing N50JE landing in Accra, Ghana. An FR24 map showing N50JE landing in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm keeping a close eye on this (thanks to @projectsaltbox.com!). After the tent camp plan of 2025 fell through, and the warehouse plan of early 2026 fell through, ICE's third attempt at spending their billions appears to be constructing new permanent detention centers on existing federal property.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026
Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I mean they could spend their time giving speeches about how outrageous it is that the Fed wage is at $7.25 and that these are starvation wages.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar
An ADSBx map of the lower continental US plus Mexico and Central America down to Nicaragua. There are dozens of flight lines across the map, mostly converging on Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026
I've been doing trans rights related work for a decade and I don't think I've ever had so many friends in community in crisis. People are cracking under the weight of the despair of the current moment. I don't know what to do at this point. It's all so incredibly heavy.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Amnesty also says they are being "held in an overcrowded police cell, in inhumane conditions, unable to speak to their lawyer." PLEASE use the sample letter in the Amnesty appeal TODAY. These letters matter to the EG government more than you might think. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International
On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Soliman and Birhane were arrested eights days ago -- from a hotel they've already been imprisoned in for months! -- after stories about the Sept. 5 incident were published, including ours at the @prospect.org. Amnesty says EG authorities claim they broke a mirror. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International
On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.social
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She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave
Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Texas Rewilder @loloh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, and IBP also sends books to people in ICE detention camps in Texas. Please support their work if you can.
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
not much to expand on this post as it goes viral. please do support vulnerable populations in texas -- check out the Inside Books Project if you haven't already: insidebooksproject.org
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Inside Books Project
Inside Books Project is a volunteer-led nonprofit based in Austin, Texas that sends free books and reading materials to people incarcerated in Texas.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I talked to Gillian Brockell about the DHS Inspector General’s report on the use of “the box” at Alligator Alcatraz, why detainees’ descriptions of its size and use are likely more accurate than those in the report, and how “the box” has a long history in concentration camps around the world.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026
Huh. What changed? I wonder if ICE kidnapping tens of thousands of Cubans and expelling them to the far corners of the earth has had an impact on her poll numbers in a Cuban diaspora majority district??
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICE soldiers are cutting power to houses, posing as electricians to trick residents into stepping outside—to be abducted. Edgar Martinez, fell victim to this trick last month. Both my ICE contacts have confirmed, ICE is concocting new ways to capture our neighbors. thelibertyunderground.org/donate
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 17/09/2026
Photos of the "calming areas" shows evidence of a cover-up: a Potemkin Village carefully positioned to fool inspectors and hide a truth that was much, much worse. prospect.org?p=144827
Photos show two small cages with mesh sidings.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026
After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...
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Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect
Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for four days. His attorneys have shared this site with me with instructions on how you can help him be found. Strongly encourage everyone to do this. findahmedsoliman.org
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Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool
Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.
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