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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC
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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
This is May 20, 2025 all over again. DHS trying to ignore Judge Murphy with a plane in the air.
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of course. They’re torture addicts. Though I guess technically, the thinnest of legal technicalities has to have more legitimacy than the bs arguments they used to justify the policy guidance in the first place. Like, DVD started with DHS ignoring a TRO and blatantly lying about it. So… trending up?
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
Sons of father shot by ICE: We still haven’t gotten straight answers from DHS about what happened. What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo? Why do they get to be protected behind anonymity?
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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.
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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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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the bullets ICE agent David Brouillette shot into Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero's car pierced his daughter's car seat, Sean P. Murphy said just now at the House Committee on Oversight hearing. She was not in the car at the time, thank god.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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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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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The audio from a 911 emergency call from Camp East Montana during protests on Sept. 7 show that ICE deportation officers requested El Paso police assistance. My story:
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ICE officer called El Paso 911 dispatch during unrest, audio reveals
ICE officers requested assistance from El Paso police during unrest in Camp East Montana, call logs reveal. Over 300 detainees were protesting conditions.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days. ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to. Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! 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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagine using an admission of oversight incompetence and failure as an excuse for not doing oversight. If you’re not qualified and didn’t hire anyone who is, step aside. And by aside I mean down.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Horrific continuation to this atrocity. tucson.com/news/local/b...; archive.is/zn7GH. Just heartbreaking bravery from this young man. There can't be impunity for these crimes.
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Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We have already almost returned to Metro Surge levels of detention. And here's Project Salt Box with a look at DHS' planned rapid ramp up. See DWN: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/communitiesn...
Data current through August 5. Source: https://adamjsawyer.com/detentioncharts.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🧊✈️ DALLAS: This man flies for the human trafficking airline, GlobalX. He doesn’t want you to see his face 👀
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/08/2026
UPDATE: Relieved to say only two people were expelled to Eswatini. However, the plane continued on the Burundi, marking the first known third-country removal under its new agreement with the Trump administration.
GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF ESWATINI
GOVERNMENT STATEMENT
ARRIVAL OF TWO (2) THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS FROM THE U.S.
The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini informs the nation that two Third Country Nationals (TCNs) of Latin American nationality have arrived in the Kingdom from the United States of America.
The two TCNs form part of the groups received by Eswatini under the bilateral arrangement with the United States of America. Their arrival follows the
necessary consultations and arrangements between the two Governments and relevant authorities.
Upon arrival, the two individuals were received in accordance with the established procedures and protocols governing the admission and temporary hosting of Third Country Nationals in the Kingdom.
Government continues to work closely with the United States Government and international partners to ensure that all processes relating to the TCNs are managed in accordance with the applicable protocols.
The public will be kept informed of any further developments in this regard.An FR24 map of central Africa showing N703KW flying north and landing in Bujumbura
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🧊✈️ HAITI: The youngest person aboard the ICE Air flight was 1-year-old born in the U.S., according to information shared with Haitian authorities ahead of the plane’s arrival.
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ICE sends second deportation flight to Haiti in a week. There are kids aboard
Last month, U.S. officials warned Haitian authorities to expect an increase in deportations following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to end Haiti’s Temporary Protecte...
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 26/08/2026
Activists in Louisiana are facing challenges. Public space around the airport is getting restricted to make it more difficult to observe and protest the ICE Air activities there. ... and progress is being made in opening a new family detention center there, which will house children for ICE.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 23/08/2026
I know this is stating the obvious but I'd love to hear Jeffries actually explain where he sees potential for common ground. The rest of us have watched this admin take a giant wrecking ball to an already-broken immigration system. There is no common ground here, only accountability.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
After a fuel stop in Senegal, this ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has made its first removal stop, to Mauritania. Most Mauritanian immigrants are escaping racialized chattel slavery very similar to the kind we had in the US. This is at least the 9th removal there under Trump 2.0.
An FR24 map showing a Journey jet flying from Dakar to Nouakchott
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The ACLU of Louisiana is organizing a postcard-writing event next week to oppose plans for an immigration detention facility at England Airpark in Alexandria that the organization says would be used to detain women and children. Aug. 19 in New Orleans www.wkrg.com/national/acl...
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ACLU to host postcard event against Alexandria immigrant detention plan | WKRG.com
ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) — ACLU of Louisiana is organizing a postcard-writing event next week to oppose plans for an immigration detention facility at England Airpark in Alexandria that the organizat…
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not just this guy. A LOT of people came to this country legally, sought asylum, and ended up in a concentration camp. Some were even shipped to CECOT before being refouled back to the country they fled. It all is and has been a fucking outrage.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/08/2026
Sickening that corporate media has been directed by their billionaire handlers to ask every Democrat about the DSA platform in an effort to divide the party, instead of the GOP platform of kidnapping, starvation, murder, and death.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 16/08/2026
I think there's a very obvious but understated piece to messaging on *why* can ICE be dismantled. Yes, it's b/c DHS is only ~23 years old, was created during the GWoT era, etc. But I think Dems would also benefit from driving home ICE is fundamentally antithetical to a civil immigration system ⤵️
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Susan Collins voted to give blank checks to fund Trump/Miller's ICE regime - now she is pretending to be concerned about those reported ICE gloves that delivers painful electric shocks. She is beyond shameless - and belongs nowhere in the Senate.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 13/08/2026
You think letting ICE harass an American citizen for five minutes is bad? Don't forget that Delta flew Liam, the little Minnesota boy with a blue bunny hat, to an ICE camp... along with a few dozen other children during Metro Surge. ... and there's no indication they've stopped.
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Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICE is a domestic terror group paid for by taxpayers. bsky.app/profile/frit...
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/08/2026
People are furious of course but this is one of the funniest things that's ever happened. He's been posting memes of himself hanging out with Douglas MacArthur and George Patton and he snuck off the plane in a box of pizza rolls
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
oh and just as an added cherry on top, GEO Group reported its 2026 Q2 results today. Net income from operations was $47.5 million compared to $29.1 million during the same period last year. That's a 63% increase.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“Our government has become the largest human trafficking organization in the world.”
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Prisons in the sky: Human trafficking at Hanscom airport fueled by complicity with ICE
Jared & Laurie Berezin, co-organizers of Bearing Witness @ ICE, August 2nd 2026
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wild that objective media wouldn’t do this re USAID cuts now killing hundreds of thousands. Or re a million other things.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There can't be impunity for ICE Air refoulement depravity. We have to pardon-proof this.
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The Southlander @thesouthlander.com · 29/07/2026
⚠️ Content Warning: The Southlander previously reported that GEO Group, a billion-dollar private prison company, was ordered by the judge to share unsealed footage of the June 12, 2020 incident at the Adelanto ICE processing center… 🧵1/5
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EXCLUSIVE: Unsealed videos show GEO Group used chemical weapons to break up a sit-in at Adelanto ICE detention center
In 2020, a group of people detained at the notorious Adelanto ICE Processing Center launched a protest by refusing to return to their cells. GEO Group sent in an armed force that deployed chemical wea...
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Sanctuary of the South @sanctuarysouth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ICE took Maria without a warrant, away from her two young, vulnerable daughters, violating their own directive. We, @tnimmigrant.bsky.social, Amnesty USA, ACLU of Louisiana and @kennedyhrc.bsky.social partnered to demand Maria's immediate release. www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/nursing...
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Nursing Mother of Two Arrested Without Warrant by ICE, Held 700 Miles From Her Children in Violation of the Agency's Own Policy — Sanctuary Of The South
Maria Perez* was breastfeeding when ICE agents detained her in Nashville, separating her from her infant and two-year-old with Down syndrome.
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bow your head a moment in respect for those brave and stubborn souls who fight so hard to reclaim that vanishingly small possibility of satire left in this world.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🧊🛩️ ATLANTA SURGE‼️ ⚠️ The ICE human trafficking shuttle flights from Atlanta to Jacksonville continue on Sunday 👀
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There's so much destruction right now. Of course you can't fix everything yourself. But you can focus on one thing, find some like-minded people, and make a real difference.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whether this story is apocryphal or not, how we shit on Lindsay Graham today matters. Other Quislings who are still alive and enabling Trump need to know how they will be remembered if they don’t turn on him immediately. This is the legacy that awaits them all.
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Skote Mizer @skotemizer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Sweetness and light from TFN. It’s what you need today.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/07/2026
MINNESOTANS!!! Jury nullification is legal and good. But you can’t talk about it while you’re doing it, and you can’t learn about it after you’ve been selected for jury duty. You gotta read up now! beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...
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