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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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No Kings: Vote Early - Ossining, NY · No Kings
Join CCoHope Indivisible and the Upper West Side Action Group on Oct. 17 to learn how and why to vote early and protect the election. You can register to vote, find early voting information, and help ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week.
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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...
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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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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We need to reinstate Haitian TPS status. How the Trump Administration is treating our Haitian community is un-American and hurting the Hudson Valley. We must stand up for our neighbors during their time of need, the way that they have been there for all of us.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ugh, that’s a lot of hours! be so happy in October though
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Does she know the big project is an option? Maybe she’s just trying not to impose on you
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I agree on both points
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe someone can tell them Piker said it and get a reaction before revealing it was really Musk
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries cannot be Speaker. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/08/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social on a child begging to go home to Venezuela while her pregnant mother is held behind razor wire, denied an ultrasound, and kept in detention despite having broken no laws: “This is fucking sickening.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excellent thread, cuts through the all the nonsense and handwringing about ‘woke 1’
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
Baltimore Banner header.

A Johns Hopkins University public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained this week by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement efforts at airports.
In an email Thursday night, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security confirmed that agents with its
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arrested Fatima Ameaka on July 28 at Baltimore-Washington
International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Is he? I haven’t heard him much but I don’t see anything hateful in this clip?? I too am frustrated by how conciliatory and weak many democrats have been (ex. my senators Gillibrand and Schumer) and would love to see them replaced by someone more like Lander or AOC.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Gift link. It’s as bad as we can imagine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
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ICE Agent Kills Person in Vehicle in Biddeford, Maine, State Officials Say (Gift Article)
The shooting occurred in Biddeford, south of Portland. It was the second death in a week involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent firing into a vehicle.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“I have always, & will continue, to stand with the Ukrainian people & unequivocally condemn… Putin’s illegal and brutal invasion,” Omar said.” She said the no vote was to oppose widespread sanctions that might harm civilians. I don’t know if that’s the right call, but I think a reasonable concern
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Justice for Lorenzo: Day of Action & Accountability Movement Call · Disappeared in America
On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. Lorenzo was not under investigation. He was not a suspect. He was a dad driving a work van with his cr...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.
“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is disappointing. It’s a competitive primary and she’s not our best candidate.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/06/2026
This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.
Omni’s N207AX leaving Alexandria LA and heading ESE.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 11/06/2026
This bizarrely cruel activity is brought to you by Donald Trump and his Supreme Court.
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Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
❤️ this thread
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“[A]dministration officials have sought to pull every bureaucratic lever possible to cut off immigrants — both documented and undocumented — from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care. The goal has been to compel immigrants to leave…”
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Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.
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Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall
Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.
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Susan Vorsanger ❌ 👑 @susanv.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Hungry children, canceled benefits: Arizona’s food stamp cuts are a warning for America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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The families going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts
Under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a wa...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/05/2026
Terrific follow-up from @nickjudin.bsky.social on the two brothers, Israel and Max Makoka, high school students who came here legally and spent a week in ICE detention. One detail stood out also: Who flew 16yo Max to a Texas children’s home? DELTA. www.mississippifreepress.org/shackled-iso...
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Shackled, Isolated and Pressured to Self-Deport: Makoka Brothers Recount ICE Arrests
After their arrests by ICE in Mississippi, brothers Israel and Max Makoka share their stories of detention and isolation.
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is unforgivable. We know that people returned to Myanmar face torture, death or conscription. It's well documented, not just from previous refoulment flights from the US but also the many refoulment returns by Thailand. Heartbroken. Angry.
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Stephen Purvis @stephenpurvisfilms.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A Sad and Important Must Read 🧵
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/05/2026
Americans were sold "We caught you here illegally, we're sending you back to your home country." Instead we got a torture victim being deported to Africa. It is worse than you think. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
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ICE Deports Colombian Torture Victim—to Africa
Last year, we broke the story of a woman ICE had repeatedly tried to send to Mexico or a third country. Things have gotten even worse.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/04/2026
Meanwhile, another Omni ICE flight has taken off and is likely headed for Africa.
A screenshot of an ADSBx map showing Omni's N225AX leaving Alexandria, LA, and heading southeast over Florida.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/04/2026
Their experiences — of sudden financial insecurity, months of unemployment, and crippling anxiety — come as the administration seeks to restrict legal migration and boost mass deportation. n.pr/4cOMvOd
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Stuck in limbo: millions of professionals risk losing legal status under Trump pause
Their experiences — of sudden financial insecurity, months of unemployment, and crippling anxiety — come as the administration seeks to restrict legal migration and boost mass deportation.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/04/2026
These brothers, 15 and 18, came here legally to learn. Their status changed without their knowledge because they transferred schools. Now separated and detained out of state. The “worst of the worst” are in the White House and Fort McNair. www.mississippifreepress.org/max-and-isra...
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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.
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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 25/04/2026
At No Kings, I said something to the effect of, “silent businesses, complicit institutions, and cowardly politicians keep failing us.” I was thinking about Delta Air Lines, our airport authority, and, well, many of our local politicians. Minnesota deserves better.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/04/2026
Good morning. I watched a livestream of a local airport commission meeting earlier this week. What I saw was, well, what we've been seeing in blue areas for decades now -- public outcry vs. so-called public servants. gillianbrockell.com/public-outcr...
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Public outcry vs. ‘public servants’: MN airport officials ignore community demands on Delta ICE flights, approve luxury lounge plan
“You have a chance in a few minutes to act courageously, to do the right thing,” an activist told airport officials. They didn't appreciate the reminder.
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