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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026

Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 09/09/2026

"The social worker could hear in the background ICE agents laughing at our client." Center for Victims of Torture's Alison Beckman testifies to the MN Truth Council about a survivor of torture and rape who was mocked by ICE agents while begging for help from detention.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every discussion online is the same discussion

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For 50 years, Cuba didn't take deportations. Now the Trump admin is dumping elderly Cubans ordered deported decades ago into southern Mexico, many who have been complying with immigration check-ins since before ICE existed. There should be a statute of limitations/expiration date on removal orders.

A picture of an elderly man with grey hair sitting in a small room, next to a cot and a shelving unit with a few clothes on it. He is in a white tank top. Underneath is the following text:

"Julio Borrell, originally from Cuba, in Tapachula, on July 30, 2026 (Lisette Poole for The Atlantic)
Borrell told me that he’d come to the United States when he was 26 as part of the Mariel boatlift, the mass exodus of Cubans who traveled on crowded boats to Miami in 1980. He had seven American children, 11 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. He had run a mechanic shop and renewed his visa each time it neared expiration. He could feel his body breaking down after years of physical labor and had been looking forward to retirement and more time with his family in South Florida."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NEW from @immcouncil.org: the Trump admin is cutting legal services to migrant children facing deportation, making it harder for kids to find safety. Read more about what’s happening. 👇 www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...

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Trump administration attacks unaccompanied children right to counsel

The Trump administration just made it harder for unaccompanied children to navigate immigration court by attacking their right to counsel.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: The US Air Force has done dozens of secret ICE flights to Honduras since early June, in the largest and most regular use of their aircraft in Trump's second term. Read it here now, or read it in NYT six months from now. gillianbrockell.com/the-air-forc...

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The Air Force has been doing secret ICE flights to Honduras for months

At least some of the flights were third-country removals, human rights group says.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.

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Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Their job is enforcing paper work violations

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In what context is "Abolish Ice" a radical position? In a context where everyone sees this, and feels confident that this sort of behavior will be punished. In a context where basic accountability systems are in place. An organization that encourages this behavior is impossible to fix.

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Shomari Stone @shomaristone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

JUST IN : A woman’s dramatic interaction with ICE agents in Northern Virginia is going viral. It’s raising a lot of questions. An agent is seen on video pointing a gun at the woman’s face. @Fox5dc Homa Bash spoke with the woman and is live in Falls Church with the video and details.

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Hexagonal @hexagonal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Buddy's tattoos are visible but too faded to make out

A violent, masked street thug threatening a woman with a gun.

Close up of the tattoo on a violent, masked street thug threatening a woman with a gun.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/08/2026

This kind of misconduct and threat of force against members of our communities cannot be tolerated. I will be demanding answers and consequences.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's getting hard to tell whether ICE's unlawful practice of law or unlawful practice of medicine is more flagrant.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026

thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off

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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

EOIR has a new "fact sheet" out saying new immigration judges receive 5 consecutive weeks of training: intensive classroom instruction, supervised hearings, and mentoring. I got the May 2026 materials through FOIA. The fact sheet is wrong. 🧵 www.justice.gov/eoir/page/fi...

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For me, this is one of the most powerful Calvin and Hobbes strips.

A four panel Calvin and Hobbes strip. Calvin arrives with a butterfly in a jar and says look i caught a butterfly. Hobbes says if people could put rainbows in zoos, they would. Calvin looks thoughtful and releases it

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Note of gratitude to Gillian Brockell for staying on the beat and keeping visible systems behind heartwrenching videos. That purple line is a plane likely full of families being broken, people who'll be lost to others & themselves, even young ICE employees who'll bring their violence home to others.

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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

let's lift material out of Earth's gravity well, throw it back down the Moon's gravity well, make stuff there, then lift it back out of the Moon's gravity well, to deliver back into Earth's gravity well? Or I suppose to stick around in cislunar space? Who are the customers there?

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What our country is doing to kids is unconscionable.

The Trump Administration is stripping unaccompanied kids of their right to have a lawyer represent them in immigration court.   Many of these children—some of them as young as 18 months old—are victims of trafficking or abuse.   ICE will have federal litigators to make the government's case, but under Trump, toddlers are left to fend for themselves.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the three guys who voted in favor of that birthright citizenship EO should be impeached and removed just for that alone. it's sufficient! you simply cannot do the job you were assigned to do. time to go. kavs lawyer-weaseling around it just barely saves him

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

RIGHT: we're poisoning society to death so it can be replaced with one that exists only to enable our violent fantasies LEFT: we must strengthen society by expanding social services and expelling those who seek to kill it CENTER: so... the right gets what? nothing?? come on. let em kill it a little

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onesillyfag @onesillyfag.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Asteroid strike on the moon.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Great news; yet another court finds that ICE and the DOJ were wrong to declare that Congress secretly mandated detention of millions of noncitizens in 1996 (specifically, anyone who entered unlawfully at some point in the past, no matter how long ago), and that no one had noticed until now.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The pedophile protector regime wants to force kids to beg for their lives alone in immigration court. Call your Member of Congress, tell them to demand HHS pay what they owe the lawyers representing 20,000 unaccompanied kids & let them keep doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts

More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

MigSky: With the escalating ICE activity in airports, has anyone generated advice for bystanders? Unique location 🧐

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is so fucking evil www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

ORR was created in 1980 to resettle refugees fleeing war and persecution. Since the early 2000s, the agency has also been charged with housing unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, like Aurora's daughter.
The care of these children has historically been walled off from immigration enforcement. A 2008 law sought to ensure they were placed in the least restrictive setting and released from detention as soon as safely possible, regardless of their sponsors’ legal status.

The Trump administration has taken a drastically different approach. Since January 2025, the data shows, ORR has shared more than 460,000 “leads” with ICE about unaccompanied children, their sponsors -- usually parents or other relatives -- and additional household members, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation.

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James Grebey @jgrebes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

[Darth Vader when he strikes Obi-Wan down and he disappears leaving only his robes behind] Damn that’s… that’s not what happened to all those kids

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

imagine how much better dems would be polling if their immigration plan was a humanitarian effort meant to help desperate people instead of a republican lite plan endorsed by border patrol

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todaysart.bsky.social @todaysart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Langston Hughes, "Still Here"

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some LOAC issues raised by Trump’s latest version of this threat: —threat of indiscriminate attacks (not against specific military objectives) —threat of attacks against civilian objects (not all those targets will be military obj) —threat of violence intended to terrorize civilian population

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/07/2026

Incredible (inedible)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

basic summary of the essay:

Tommie Shelby of Peaky Blinders two panel meme of him aggressively pointing at his fellow gang members. in the original scene he is yelling "no fighting, no fighting, no fucking fighting". in the image the caption replaces the word "fighting" with "amnesty"

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The ICE agent who killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine has been identified by his ex-wife, and she spilled all the beans. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

my extreme emotional response to this has been instantly clarifying: im like a starving man. the absence of inspirational leaders who appeal to my better angels and challenge me to do more has been completely corrosive. how can any community live like this, with no lived moral center at all

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The detail I can’t get out of my head here is how he told his ex-wife that he had been hired by ICE, but she thought he must have been having a delusion, because how could ICE hire someone who had such a long history of family violence?

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