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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 2h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h
One of my biggest concerns in 2023-24 was the likelihood that, if Trump got power again, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and related figures such as Palmer Luckey would get more deeply burrowed into the U.S. national security apparatus, in all sorts of dangerous ways that will be hard to dislodge. Alas.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 21h
😲 Relitigate Watergate?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21h
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Blue asteroid inbound.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 01/10/2026
Your beef prices gone down now that Trump's third rate tariff free beef is in the stores? Mine neither!
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Beyond disturbing. Ramón Barraza was arrested and taken thru the back door of an ICE office, not listed as a detention center, into a windowless room. He was in the U.S. for 23 years. No one explained his rights. He was returned to a country he barely recognizes. From the nonprofit Conecta Arizona
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/09/2026
Two federal courts have said Trump’s third-country removal scheme is obviously unlawful. And yet. prospect.org/2026/09/30/s...
prospect.org
Supreme Court Allows ICE to Restart Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Two federal courts have said it’s obviously unlawful to expel immigrants to a place they’ve never been. And yet.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These ICE officers should be prosecuted for this. Gurikman Singh was taken into custody on April 9, 2026. He was finally ordered to be released on September 9, 2026. Order: cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/09/2026
This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTF??
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
USCIS calls immigrants “customers.” Customers usually receive service, not suspicion, delay, and fear. www.kgou.org/politics-and...
kgou.org
New immigration processing center opens in Edmond; DHS Sec. Mullin calls immigrants 'customers'
Federal authorities opened a new field office in Edmond on Monday. Officials say the goal is to improve the "customer experience" of immigration services while cracking down on fraud.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 28/09/2026
It was never about arresting “the worst of the worst.”
forbes.com
Trump Officials Now Restricting All Legal Immigration Categories
Recent immigration policies of the Trump administration affect American citizens sponsoring family members and employers seeking workers as the economy has slowed down.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
news.wttw.com
Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/09/2026
A federal contractor appears to be recruiting for ICE's planned ERO ONE contract. It is advertising intelligence analyst jobs in every city where ERO ONE would place its staff, although the ads do not name the agency. 🧵
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Huh. The Daily Wire is reporting something that would be *enormous* if true, as since July the majority of all ICE arrests are people with no criminal record. I am deeply skeptical of such a massive operational change, given how the White House/DHS keep bragging about setting arrest records.
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X.com
SCOOP: ICE officers across the country were told this weekend to stop arresting non-criminals, agency sources tell @realDailyWire
Now, ICE may only arrest illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges for the time being, said the sources.
The change also ends so-called "collateral arrests,
" sources said, meaning officers who find a criminal target alongside others in the country illegally may detain only the target.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Ramos, a candidate for District 1 in East Austin, was arrested by DPS troopers and booked...9:30 am on a Class B misdemeanor charge of engaging in a riot." Released on personal bond of $1,000. Troopers claim: Ramos was taking construction barricades and sandbags, attempting to obstruct traffic.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Good morning, Mr, @girmayzahilay.bsky.social. Doesn’t it violate King County’s rules to have ICE obscure its loading of migrants from the Boeing Field livestream like this? And can you please find out if the migrants have been on buses on the tarmac all night after yesterday’s plane (N468AW) broke?
A screenshot of the livestream view of Boeing Field’s ICE camera, showing two large buses obscuring the loading area in front of N455AW
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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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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hurry up and do it 💥
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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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a big deal and it will affect eligible voters! The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to allow the Trump administration to resume using its expanded SAVE database to check voter rolls, reversing lower-court orders that had blocked it over privacy and accuracy concerns.
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IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑 @indivisiblelasvegas.org · 25/09/2026
YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR AUTHORTARIAN GOVERNMENTS TO IMPRISON IMMIGRANTS FROM THE U.S. This loophole was concocted by fascist cuck Stephen Miller.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Those aren’t real people” tells you everything you need to know about who he is and how he views public health. Absolutely grotesque. Good on you for saying it to his face.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧊✈️ This is still happening every day in the USA 👀
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧊🐄 WHY BEEF COSTS MORE 😲⛓️ 🤠 The cattle industry pushes back against ICE raids in the Great Plains, where we have documented new flights to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming 👀
September 24, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association are closely monitoring reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity affecting agricultural communities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas.
Our organizations respect the responsibility of federal agencies to enforce the law. At the same time, cattle producers, feedyards, dairies, livestock markets, processors, and other rural businesses depend on a stable workforce to care for animals, protect food safety, and keep the supply chains operating. Sudden workforce disruptions can create immediate animal-welfare, operational, and economic consequences that extend well beyond an individual business. These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving. Additionally, these types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers.
Reported impacts to our organizations throughout the past few days have been:
• Thousands of fed cattle slated for shipping to processors now delayed, resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue and additional costs.
• Workforce disruptions at numerous supply chain chokepoints such as feedyards, dairies, processors, feed and grain companies, transportation hubs, and community services.
These disruptions come at a time of enhanced focus and pressure on the cattle and beef supply chain. They are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain. Frustratingly, the harm these actions cause to cattle producers last for days and weeks after such operations conclude.
We urge federal officials to conduct enforcement actions in a lawful, orderly, and transparent manner; respect due process; and communicate clearly with affected employers and communities.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tonight’s state dinner guests at the White House with President Xi include: • Chief Justice John Roberts, • Jane Sullivan Roberts, Spouse • Justice Amy Coney Barrett • Jesse Barrett, Spouse • Justice Brett Kavanaugh • Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, Spouse
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
Judges say: No really, stop doing third-country removals immediately. And ICE flights are kinda still landing in third-country removal countries??? prospect.org/2026/09/24/j...
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Judges Reject ICE’s Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kicking out the free press is what fragile authoritarians do. Not American presidents. www.instagram.com/reels/DdovJZ...
instagram.com
The Freedom Desk on Instagram: "President Donald Trump’s effort to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House is “deeply disturbing,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told The Washingt...
6,744 likes, 88 comments - thefreedomdesk on September 23, 2026: "President Donald Trump’s effort to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House is “deeply disturbing,” former Secretary of State...
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump has zero lawful authority to ban press for critical reporting. A federal judge has ordered press access restored; Trump is intentionally violating a court order to claim authority explicitly barred by the Constitution. apple.news/ATqdnStAKRNi...
apple.news
CNN, Politico, MS NOW journalists barred from White House after judge blocks Trump’s ban — The Washington Post
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to temporarily restore the journalists' credentials and said the ban was probably unconstitutional.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 24/09/2026
Heads up, Baltimore: at least 8 unmarked vehicles matching makes/models used by ICE seen heading south on Bel Air Road.
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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
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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Lincoln. Kennedy. It’s a pattern now. He’s fascinated by assassinations. Makes you wonder how far a narcissistic megalomaniac would go to muscle in on that club. www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 23/09/2026
Thanks to Jasmine Garsd at NPR for taking the time to talk to us about ICE’s solicitation for “mobile detention facilities” across Pennsylvania.
npr.org
ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A man shot in the back by ICE goons in Austin had legal justification to work in the US. The goon who shot him was a new recruit not wearing a mandated bodycam. Despite having a bullet in his back, he was "handcuffed, shackled at the ankles, placed in a waist chain, and handled roughly" Awful.
nbcnews.com
ICE officer who shot man in Austin was issued a body cam but wasn’t wearing it
Officials said it was not clear why he was not wearing the body cam. Meanwhile, another officer’s body cam only captured partial footage of the shooting.
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The DoorDash driver cowardly shot in the back by ICE goons is now partially paralyzed after he was removed from the hospital despite having a bullet in his back near his spine. Left to sleep in pain on an ICE prison floor. Outrage is not enough. We need trials and prison for these fascist sadists.
washingtonpost.com
Man shot and detained by ICE hospitalized for partial paralysis, lawyer says
Wilber Garcés Pérez has been transferred to a hospital after his condition worsened, according to his attorney. He was shot and wounded by an ICE officer in Texas.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's what happened. It matches dozens of ICE's other car-smashing apprehensions, others of which ended with a shooting. “an unmarked black truck sideswiped him.” “He didn’t know it was ICE, and he did a U-turn under the highway. The truck chased him and sideswiped him again." Then ICE shot him.
Lincoln-Goldfinch shared Garcés Pérez’s account of the shooting, saying he was making a delivery when “an unmarked black truck sideswiped him.”

“He didn’t know it was ICE, and he did a U-turn under the highway. The truck chased him and sideswiped him again, and the agents came out and shot him in the back of the neck and pulled him out of the car,” she said.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mean as f*ck
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Ossoff: "The congressman voted to accelerate the insolvency of Social Security so that he could pass anothe tax break for his wealthy donors and corporate America. And so step one to strengthening Social Security is to repeal the Collins-Trump law."
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 21/09/2026
Yesterday in Austin, TX, ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez while he was delivering a food order. He is now being interrogated with the bullet still lodged in his body. We demand accountability. 🗣️Tell Congress to take back ICE's slush fund: bit.ly/4vtpRCl
Yesterday in Austin, Texas, an ICE agent shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Videos from the scene appear to show ICE agents not attempting to perform first aid after the shooting. 
  
After hours of being unable to locate Wilber, his attorney says he is now being interrogated in custody, with the bullet still lodged in his body.ICE IS OUT 
OF CONTROL.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@afp.com Man Shot By ICE Agent In Texas Detained With Bullet Inside Him: Lawyer
Garces Perez's attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch said on X that her client was transferred to a detention center in Pearsall, located about 134 miles (215 kilometers) southwest of Austin.

"He is being held at Pearsall for interrogation and still has the bullet lodged in his body," Lincoln-Goldfinch said, adding: "He's received no pain medication and had to sleep on the floor."

Lincoln-Goldfinch and local police said Garces Perez had been conducting a DoorDash delivery when he was approached by ICE agents, who shot him in the torso. He was taken to the hospital before he was discharged into federal custody.
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