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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h
Isaias, which made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane along the Gulf Coast on Friday, weakened to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday. Officials warned there was still a risk of flash flooding in parts of the southeastern U.S. nyti.ms/4jgOqjs
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 5h
This story hits on at least 3 of my ongoing 287(g) threads: 1️⃣ small town police chief in VA signs an agreement in May, w/o town council authorization. 2️⃣ taps into the Task Force 287(g) cash cow, earning the agency over $100K from ICE. 3️⃣ town council sides w/ PD against vocal community push back.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mapping Chicago’s independent grocery stores  chicagoreader.com/food/chicago...
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Mapping Chicago’s independent grocery stores  - Chicago Reader
Grocery shopping can be a political act. Where you put your money can be just as important as where you put your vote. In a city full of food, Chicagoans face rising prices, competing priorities, and ...
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Check out our list of the 54 best Mexican restaurants in L.A. and support one of these certified bangers this long weekend! The very best Mexican restaurants in L.A., ranked: lataco.com/best-mexican...
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is coming to San Antonio Wednesday. I invited him to the Dilley Trailer Prison. He should face the children he’s traumatizing. Can the president look these innocent children in the eyes and tell them they deserve to be there?
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just got another hardworking young man with no criminal record (who came in 'the right way) out of Karnes Detention Center. President Trump, you'll be in San Antonio on Wednesday. Come see the Dilley Trailer Prison that traumatizes young children.
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Just got another hardworking young man with no criminal record out of Karnes Detention Center.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump estará en San Antonio mañana. Lo invito a visitar la Prisión de Remolques de Dilley y a ver con sus propios ojos el trauma que les está infligiendo a niños y bebés, algunos de tan solo dos meses de edad.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Innocent children at the Dilley Trailer Prison are suffering. Trump is responsible for their trauma. While he's in San Antonio today, I challenged him to join me in Dilley, look these children in their eyes, and tell them they deserve this.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
Common playing a set at the Prop 40 tax billionaires rally in Los Angeles
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Alligator Alcatraz is now closed. But buried deep within the DHS report was a warning about possible similar conditions at the other state-operated immigrant detention center in Florida: the Baker Correctional Institution.
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Out of sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz’s worst.
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Prof Katy Arnold @profkatyarnold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The system authorizing this remains but of course this is good #nevershouldhaveexistedinfirstplace
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Prof Katy Arnold @profkatyarnold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
14/ We sifted through social media, DHS statements, court records and local reports to find cases where citizens were held against their will for any amount of time. The courts consider someone detained if they aren’t free to leave. Full methodology: propub.li/4yoIKb7
How We Counted Incidents
We found and vetted cases from a number of sources, including English- and Spanish-language social media, DHS statements, court records and local news reports, in addition to our own reporting. We included an incident in our dataset only if we could find at least two sources for it. For additional details about the incident, like whether crowd control weapons were used, we accepted one source in some cases.

When DHS provided a response specific to an incident — including about whether it happened or the circumstances under which it happened — we noted that response in cases for which we offered detail beyond a simple count of detained citizens. DHS responses that generically denied ever detaining citizens or that are proven inaccurate by our reporting were not included.As with our count a year ago, most of the detained Americans on our list fell into two broad categories. The first is Americans who were held because agents questioned their citizenship. This time, we found more than a hundred such cases. The second category is Americans arrested by immigration agents after being accused of assaulting or impeding officers at protests or during immigration arrests of others. In that category, we tallied roughly 300 Americans. In many of these cases, the government accused but never charged these individuals with assault. Sometimes agents detained people because of questions about their citizenship but later accused them of crimes. While public attention often focuses on ICE, the immigration dragnet often relied on officers from agencies across the government.

Since the government itself does not track these cases, our list is almost certainly an undercount...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
13/ Collectively, these cases show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens too. Read our investigation:
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2
Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ProPublica has made a database of all the incidents they could find where ICE detained citizens. Important work. This kind of data is too often hidden and lost.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because US citizens are not permitted to criticize the Leader, why, it's in the Constitution.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For lethal injections, Tennessee — along with SC, MO, GA and TX — relies on pentobarbital, a caustic barbiturate also used to treat seizures, sedate humans before surgery and euthanize animals. It has drawn repeated scrutiny for use on death row.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guy in Charge of Anti-Immigration Terror Campaign Whines He’s Not Getting Enough Sleep Because of It
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Guy in Charge of Anti-Immigration Terror Campaign Whines He’s Not Getting Enough Sleep Because of It
“I haven’t slept through the night in six months,” Markwayne Mullin said. Poor him! He totally has it worse than the people abducted by ICE.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/10/2026
For over two months, activists sat in a giant tree on the Mexico border to block contractors from clearing it for President Trump’s $46.5 billion border wall expansion. An excavator cut it down after CBP agents raided the camp, demonstrators said.
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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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United We Dream @unitedwedream.org · 05/10/2026
As students, we are facing a wave of attacks designed to silence us, bury us in debt, make college less affordable, and push higher education further out of reach. If you’re ready to join us, text ‘CAMPUS’ to 787-57 to organize.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The outcomes of a electric scooter that can go 50 mph hitting ... just about anything ... are not great, turns out www.jezebel.com/e-bikes-scoo...
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Traumatizing a generation of people, destabilizing commmunities
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
See the moment when Border Patrol and militarized police cut down the sacred Grandmother Tree, a more than 200-year-old Cottonwood on private property and Indigenous territory. The tree sitter and many others are have been arrested, according to activists @ Tierra Libre anti-border wall camp
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AILA @aila.org · 05/10/2026
"Marichu came to the US on an H-1B visa...It’s a program West River Health Services has used to recruit people from the Philippines as nurses and lab technologists, looking to fill posts, one of which has been open for over a decade." cnn.it/4y0mdB6
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Inside a tiny prairie town relying on immigrants for hospital work | CNN
CNN spent 30 days chronicling life in Hettinger, North Dakota, where long-established residents and foreign workers come together.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Sit down and be quiet, proles. Just be grateful for what we geniuses have done for you."
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Richard Skinner @richardmskinner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We can always count on Trump to defend two groups of people: politicians accused of corruption and men accused of sexual misconduct.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 05/10/2026
A representative with the National Lawyers Guild says police arrested one person who protested racist provocateur Jake Lang's "crusader march" yesterday in Bridgeview, IL. Another person was detained on site but released w/o charges. The NLG rep didn't know if anyone with Lang's group was arrested.
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Prof Katy Arnold @profkatyarnold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yup
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We stand with the people of the Garvahy Road. After 28 years of peace this change isn't about rights, but pushing conflict and supremacy. ¡No pasarán!
A large crowd of local residents blocks the Orange Order from parading through their area.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just your friendly local secret police. Stealing from food pantries is an ICE specialty. H/t Will Bunch www.app.com/story/news/l...
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
what is also often ignored is the genocide of the Herero and Nama ppl that germans committed in modern day Namibia just 30 or so years before WW 2, because they resisted german colonialism. germany used concentration camps there as well. germany still refuse to give back remains till this day.
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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wish more academics took this history seriously. If they are denying us shared governance, we need to start governing ourselves: faculty electing a president of the university, a supervisor of the Board of Regents, etc.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Prof Katy Arnold @profkatyarnold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This has to stop-there are no rational reasons for doing this (except terror and racism on the basis of alienage)
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timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what happened in 2013 to a student whom I previously taught in elementary school. One of the most promising students I ever taught. It was so heartbreaking. I’m glad more people are watching the Cornell case, and I hope justice prevails.
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I Stand With Willa, I Stand With Survivors
In the spring of 2013, Willa Murphy was violently raped by a fellow Georgetown student. It was such a traumatic experience that it took over a year after her rape before she was able to tell anyone…
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/10/2026
A Native American woman has never been a governor or a U.S. senator. That could change this year if Deb Haaland wins the governor’s race in New Mexico, and if either former congresswoman Mary Peltola or Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan win a Senate seat. wapo.st/47uc2tE
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026
Californians will vote on whether to impose a one-time, five-per-cent wealth tax on billionaires. “If it passes, it will be a revolution,” an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
A lot just happened. Police cleared an exit for Lang and his group, who left in a large caravan. A cop in riot gear pushed at least one person hard to the ground in the process. Someone, not sure if police or one of Lang's, sprayed people with mace. Hearing reports of arrests but can't confirm atm.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
People are also corraling this group of guys in white polo shirts on the edge of the crowd, one of whom proudly declared they're the "real nazis" a few moments ago.
People in white polos stand with their backs to yellow concrete bubkers while other people in black clothes yell at them. One of the people in white polos is shouting into a megaphone.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft at a substantial markup from a company owned by a political contributor of Kristi Noem on her last day as secretary, documents show. trib.al/a3d0s6B
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hundreds gathered on Saturday in Springfield to mourn and remember the life of Pierre Damas Bel. “The service was somber, at times passionate, and included calls to action and encouragement to come together.” “Members of the Bel family could at times be heard wailing in anguish.”
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Hundreds gather in Springfield to remember Haitian student Pierre Damas Bel at funeral service
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is a...
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150
Sepia tone photo of factory workers standing around a rolling book cart at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, circa 1915. Text over photo reads "Libraries During the Great Depression". American Library Association logo
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
"This young woman was failed by many people. She was clearly failed by people who took advantage of her state of incapacitation. She clearly was failed by the district attorney, and she was failed by the law of New York State."
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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started
Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.
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