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I'm here for the articles. I've taught Econ in colleges, finance, insurance sales, bartender, server,..lots of st**

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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16h
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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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 6h
In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 7h
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Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza - UNICORN RIOT
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 13h
(1/2) When the ICE Air jet arrived in Kenya last week, we believe that the 8 Somali men onboard from GTMO* were transferred onto another plane (F50) & flown to Mogadishu, Somalia. The F50 plane, parked nearby, departed Nairobi for Mogadishu ~45 min after the ICE jet landed.
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 10h
UPDATE: The small ICE Air jet has just landed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, marking the first deportation there since June 2024.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17h
10/1/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: Rapid responders reporting ICE in multiple Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs today, with detainments reported in Lakemoor and Joliet. ICE vehicles also seen today outside Cook County courthouses in Maywood and Chicago, incl. at the Domestic Violence court.
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M Donoian @michaeldonoian.bsky.social · 19h
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Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) on X
US Launches Two More Airstrikes in Somalia as Bombing Campaign Continues Amid Media Blackout The US has bombed Somalia at least 86 times this year #Somalia #AFRICOM https://t.co/Dd4oAJPEQL
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Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service @milwaukeenns.org · 20h
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce Fact Briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Here’s one on claims that juvenile homicides increased in Milwaukee under David Crowley. Read the full Fact Brief here: buff.ly/4EHuMj7 #FactBrief #Crowley #LocalNews #Milwaukee
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Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · 20h
🇺🇸 Having health insurance doesn’t always mean healthcare is affordable. A new Health Economics study found that 84.2% of people reporting affordability problems in 2022 were already insured. Read full paper here: doi.org/10.1002/hec....
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 20h
"Upon initial review of LaSalle Family Foundation’s most recent IRS tax filing," former IRS attorney said, “It doesn’t pass the smell test for what I would expect a private foundation to be operating.” www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...
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A private prison company will run new ICE children's facility--and IRS pros have questions
A tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The state of Nebraska has released data on the 1st few months of Medicaid work reporting requirements Over 1,000 people have lost/been denied coverage Vast majority are losing not bcuz they aren't working but bcuz they can't get thru the red tape My new blog: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/30/n...
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Nebraska Releases First Data on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirement: As Expected, Coverage Losses Start to Mount Due to Red Tape
At a recent Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting, the state of Nebraska, the first in the nation to implement what will soon be a mandatory Medicaid work reporting requirement (WRR), shared the first d...
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M Donoian @michaeldonoian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) on X
“I AM HAUNTED.” 🚨 A whistleblower from Norfolk Southern’s environmental testing contractor has come forward, revealing the company falsified test results to declare East Palestine, OH "safe" following the deadly 2023 train derailment and chemical detonation. This confirms what residents feared a…
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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Day 671 of nonstop protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests 📹 David Chkheidze
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” 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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“They ate Humans” 21yo Model Gabriella Rico Jimenez - after attending an ‘Elite’ Party. She disappeared forever after this night and was never seen again. Now in 2026 - pages from the Epstein files vindicate everything she says she saw -
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧊✈️ MEXICO 😲⛓️ 👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N530FL) departs Louisiana, trafficking humans in chains to Villahermosa 🇲🇽
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve walked the fields at dawn for years. The air used to hum with bees. Now it’s quieter every season. What most people never see is the scale: over 3.7 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients poured onto the planet every year — more than double what we used in 1990.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵
Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🧵 ICE is facilitating trafficking of migrant children. "The government announced earlier this summer it is building an immigrant camp at an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, for families" and unaccompanied children "who choose to “self-deport.” www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/22/t...
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How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New data @epi.org show CEO-pay in US 325x more than average workers In 1965 this was: 21x . And no, CEOs have not become better, more productive etc. They gamed the system against workers Limit CEO pay, redistribute wealth Tax the rich @epsu.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social
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CEO pay surged in 2025: CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker
Key findings: CEO pay at the top 350 U.S. firms rose 14.0% in 2025 to an average of $27.9 million. CEOs made 325 times as much as the typical worker in 2025. It hasn’t always been this way. In 1965, C...
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Research Fanatic @research-fanatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clearest explanation I've found regarding To whom the United States owes money It includes $2.7 trillion to social security trust fund $1.1 trillion to military retirement trust fund $3.4 trillion to other government trust funds $8.5 trillion to foreigners www.us-debt-clock.com/blog/who-own...
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Who Owns US Debt? Foreign vs Domestic Holders Breakdown (2026)
Who owns US debt? See the full breakdown of foreign vs domestic holders — Japan, China, the Federal Reserve, Social Security trust funds, and more.
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Graple12 @graple12.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You’re paying for Trump’s campaign ads—and Fox News is cashing in www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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You’re paying for Trump’s campaign ads—and Fox News is cashing in
President Donald Trump is using taxpayer dollars to finance a new ad meant to stop the blue wave that’s barreling toward GOP candidates.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The regime just handed corporations a legal license to slaughter endangered wildlife in our national forests without penalty. They are eviscerating the Endangered Species Act. Demand Congress strike it down now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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CHEM Trust @chemtrust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚨 8 of the top 10 #PFAS producers are preparing to ramp up production, warns @chemsec.bsky.social in a recent report. The producers are driven by a demand for data centre infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, and lithium-ion battery materials. More in our news story 👉 buff.ly/eNODgH0
Close-up photo of data centre
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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/...
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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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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An ICE Air flight (AWI7545) that originated in Alexandria, LA is scheduled to depart Miami, FL for Cap-Haitïen, Haiti at 11:50 ET. Removal flights to Haiti have been once per week since Aug 20. This plane has a passenger capacity of 50.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Black Site Dockets’ are the latest source of confusion and alarm for advocates and immigrants attending hearings at 26 Federal Plaza. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 24/09/2026
Over 10 million people in nutritionally vulnerable countries are missing out on key vitamins and minerals because industrialized bottom-trawling fleets are vacuuming up their waters.
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Foreign Fishing Fleets Are Robbing West African Countries of Key Nutrients - Inside Climate News
Foreign-owned bottom trawlers are emptying African waters and taking the continent’s biologically valuable nutrients with them.
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Christine Riter @criterdee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Screenshot of three essays in today’s Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com Public Forum page. VOTE! If we’re to change the course of this country, it’s up to us. #utpol
Three essays in today’s Salt Lake Tribune’s Public Forum page.

1) Vote out incumbents, 
JH Thompson (Ogden).

2) World destruction via data centers, Tom Huckin (SLC).

3) Taxpayers are funding the bombs, Kimball Shinkoskey (Woods Cross).
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A small (14-seat) Talon jet that departed Mesa, AZ is now in Puerto Rico, likely refueling before onward removal stops. We are monitoring this flight for deportations of nationals to their countries of origin in the African region.
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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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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did. #EconSky
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀
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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE has been abducting van loads of people in Liberal, Dodge City, and Garden City, KS this week. www.kake.com/home/ice-con...
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ICE conducting operations in southwest Kansas
A person in Liberal says she has seen numerous vans from the Department of Homeland Security, with one of those vans filled with people.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧊✈️ SAN DIEGO: Observers report ICE loading shackled people on to a GlobalX jet (N316NV, left) and a Key Lime jet (N975DC, right) on Wednesday morning. 👀 The GlobalX plane will depart shortly for Villahermosa, Mexico 🇲🇽
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 23/09/2026
In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center. Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
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A Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a Gun
Nearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 23/09/2026
Main observation spot at MSP is about 0.6 miles away from where detainees are loaded. 11/9 - 9/13, we logged 156 flights, ~5,220 removed. Of the 134 days we've noted flights, I've been at the airport to observe for 115 of them. Before counting, we could reliably estimate based on convoy size.
MSP Airport
Minneapolis - St. Paul Int’l

* Signature Aviation
FBO / private jet terminal between T1 and T2

* Ft. Snelling National Cemetery
(Section U2) ~300m / 1000ft

*Terminal 1 Parking Garage
(Gold 7) ~900m / 0.6 milesObservation

* Nov 9, 2025 - Sept 13, 2026 (ongoing)

* 156 flights, ~5,220 taken away

* A team effort, with a handful of other observers, all volunteers

* Minnesota 50501 covers parking fees, and procured one of our cameras

* Flights have been here on 134 of those days; I’ve been in-situ for 115 of themMethod: Estimate - ICE Convoy (19%)

* Quick and easy, low impact for volunteer observers

* 27 detainees per minibus

* 9 passengers per (n-1) vans

* 3 passengers per SUV, last van

* Example: 3 vans = 9 + 9 + 3 = 21

* Was used extensively during surge when there were 2-3 flights per day at MSP and observers were stretched thin
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