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@starmanjr.bsky.social
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Reader. Runner. Advocate for immigrant rights. Border and PIC abolitionist. Currently reading: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The day after the festival’s conclusion, graffiti on fencing along California Avenue read, “Get out of Douglass Park!!!” Another nearby message read, “Get out of our park!!!” Later in the week, a construction sign displayed the messages, “Pro riot, anti fest,” “Gentrify GTFO Douglass…”
blockclubchicago.org
Douglass Park Reopens As Riot Fest Clears Out, With Renovation Of Muddy Fields Underway
Festival organizers took additional time to clear the park after heavy rain during the event. An assessment of the costs to restore the park will take place this week.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Talking to a man who was on one of the deportation to a third country flights - as usual super strong asylum claim - and he describes watching ICE officers beat men who tried to protest being forced on a flight to place they'd never even heard before. Everything about this is so fucked.
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A friend of a friend is seeking assistance for their asylum process. Any amount helps! 🙏🏽 gofund.me/cc03d8ede
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Donate to Cover G and N’s Attorney Fees, organized by Michael J Costello
Hello I am seeking assistance for G and N political refugees from Venezue… Michael J Costello needs your support for Donate to Cover G and N’s Attorney Fees
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fucking horrendous
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
skill up. know where you will get pills from if they are criminalized. join or build networks now.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
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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AirportStatusBot @airportstatusbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A departure delay has been issued for Chicago O'Hare International #Airport (#ORD) due to VIP movement. Current delays are 46-60 minutes and increasing. #AirportStatusBot
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think my only comment on the mask bar thing is that this wretched country has precious few lesbian bars and it looks like that situation isn’t getting better anytime soon. Some of you can’t handle having nice things and it’s really too bad.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: At least 25 people have died in ICE custody so far in 2026. The latest reported death was Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year-old Costa Rican man who had been detained since January and transferred through multiple facilities. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
austinkocher.substack.com
ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Everything is gender but also everything is race.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mayor Bass has not gotten enough heat for this: When ICE was terrorizing Downtown LA, good folks + press showed up to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. What did the Mayor do? She stood quietly by when the LAPD brutalized my neighbors & made things worse with an economically devestating curfew.
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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE puts out a "Correct the Record" press release on the shooting in Austin, leads by debunking "claim" no one has made. www.dhs.gov/news/2026/09...
CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the illegal alien’s body.

FACT: This is false. ICE does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure for an illegal alien at a hospital.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
I don’t think we’re gonna Fix Men anytime soon friends in fact I think we are going to invent a new & even worse & more desperate type of man
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE officer shot DoorDash delivery driver Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez while delivering food in Austin. "DoorDash is investigating and would not release more information 'at this time.'" At what time will DoorDash say what it's doing to protect its drivers from ICE? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
ICE officer shoots Venezuelan man delivering food in Austin, lawyer says
The victim was identified as Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28, by his immigration attorney. He remains in a “serious but stable condition” after the shooting, authorities said.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Netanyahu escalates threats against ‘NAZA’ filmmakers with proposed citizenship law in a dangerous escalation in official efforts to intimidate and punish journalists. cpj.org/2026/09/netanyahu-escalates…
cpj.org
Netanyahu escalates threats against ‘NAZA’ filmmakers with proposed citizenship law - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, September 17, 2026 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that his government will seek legislation to revoke the citizenship of Israelis who “defame” Israeli soldiers abroad, explicitly citing the documentary “NAZA” and its filmmakers, investigative journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, is a dangerous escalation in official efforts to intimidate and punish...
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It brings me to tears to see people fighting for our civilization amidst *gestures at everything*
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.
usprisonculture.com
Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
prospect.org
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Think this is BIG: A common stat was that the US was home to 5% (really 4.5%) of the world's pop but 25% of its prisoners. As of 2026, we are home to 4.1% of the world's pop ... and only 16% of its prisoners. Some of our 10-point drop is growing harshness elsewhere, but also our own declines.
prisonstudies.org
Highest to Lowest - Prison population total | World Prison Brief
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I reject this idea that doing evil things is necessary to win elections. I also absolutely fucking hate it when people project allyship onto people that are actively demonstrating that they aren’t allies. It makes you look stupid.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026
I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
prospect.org
‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 08/09/2026
Immigration policing & detention now make up 13% of all government spending on the criminal legal system. The U.S.’s commitment to the deportation agenda comes at a steep financial and moral cost.
Infographic with text: Since 2017, funding for immigration policing & detention has increased by 171% while funding for libraries has increased only by 22%.

Not adjusted for inflation.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes. Islamophobes don't want him to attend 9/11 commemoration because he's Muslim. Full stop. No need to "try to understand."
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Papotas with the habanero chips 🤤
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Once again I’m begging people to stop observing their own reality and LOOK AT MORE GRAPHS
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/09/2026
Every. day. Everyday one of these ICE charter planes has to abort takeoff, or do an emergency return, or has a decompression, or gets stuck somewhere for 20+ hours with shackled immigrant passengers trapped onboard. And we never find out why. There is no transparency.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
This is also why the last administration reviewing his federal contracts could’ve been decisive.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
At least 75 people from my community of Passaic were taken by ICE goons in July. One of them, José Efraín Chajón Raxón, was dead less than four days later in ICE custody. I'm outraged. But our city is fighting back. 📢 #ICEoutofPassaic documentedny.com/2026/08/28/p... via @documentedny.bsky.social
ICE Arrests in Passaic, New Jersey 
Weekly arrests during the second Trump administration 

Chart: Lam Thuy Vo for DocumentedSource: Deportation Data ProjectCreated with Datawrapper
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"the opportunity to have a vessel for that frustration, and to organize and demand better." Love!!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
To be clear, the official position of the US government is that Black Haitian lives don’t matter and it is absolutely the institutional version of hate mail telling people to kill themselves It’s genocidal
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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The deportation machine knowingly sends people to their death all the time. That’s not to minimize what Liam and his family are going through, but to say it’s not enough to take control of this machine from the administration. The machine needs to be dismantled.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We already had our once in a generation WORLDWIDE exigent catastrophe. It was peak COVID. How did we all do with that?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
“Incarcerated Black organizers were said to have designated August as a period of remembrance, political education, and discipline rooted in the Black prison movement of the '60s and ‘70s.” www.revolt.tv/article/revo...
revolt.tv
20 Black revolutionary figures to study during Black August
From Black August’s prison origins to generations of Black liberation struggles, these figures help explain the observance’s history, meaning, and legacy.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In case you tuned entirely out of the news all weekend, starting Friday, we broke this story. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
nytimes.com
Judge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by Torture (Gift Article)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Initial news reports listed only the pilot, first officer, immigration guard and stewardess, with the remainder of the passengers listed only as deportees.” In his poem, Guthrie wrote, “You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be ‘deportees.’”
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, two weeks without power left disabled people stuck in their apartments, parents unable to use EBT cards to get food, elders without any ability to run medical equipment. People lost wages and groceries and were thrown into crisis. My report from a climate and humanitarian crisis.
prospect.org
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
People consistently argue more surveillance will reduce policing but we’re just not seeing that actually manifest on the ground, instead we get this.
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