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TJ Otter

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Activist. Writer. Wildlife rehab volunteer. Duck rescuer.

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 21h
ICE FLIGHT ✈️ SLC SAT OCT 3, 2026 Air Wisconsin AWI7119 N420AW landed in Salt Lake at 12:23pm from GRK. After shackling and boarding 20 of our friends, family and neighbors, they trafficked them on to BFL and ELP. #ICEflights
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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When the South American man lay down in his bunk at night, he dreamed up ways to kill himself. During his time locked up at the Aurora immigration detention facility, he said he witnessed violence and abuse, grew weak from hunger and was, eventually, brutally beaten by guards …” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Since his release, the man has endured nightmares, crippling anxiety and so much fear that he barely leaves his home. As he recounted his months in detention, he was reduced to shoulder-heaving sobs.” Taxpayer-subsidized cruelty. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Salgado Araujo’s son’s said the family has “been in public begging for justice, putting our lives at risk while ICE has hidden the killer and tried to drag our father’s good name through the mud.” www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday, Sep 27 observation flight volunteers witnessed an odd deportation flight. At 10am, a plane boarded 33 people to be deported or transferred. The plane departed at 11:39am, then returned at 12:25.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👋 Buh-Bye, Omni Air International
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David Spade & Helen Hunt: Buh Bye SNL Sketch
ALT: David Spade & Helen Hunt: Buh Bye SNL Sketch
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧊🛩️ BENT WING? 😬⛓️ 👉 Surrounded by cones, a closed up, broken down up Air Wisconsin jet (N468AW) sits alone on a wet Seattle tarmac. The shackled ICE captives have been taken by bus to the ramp outside the Skyservice terminal, where they presumably will wait until a backup plane arrives 👀
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤔
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/09/2026
I want tribunals.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fit check ✅
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 23/09/2026
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Things I said out loud to this magnificent creature this morning: “Don’t be bringing your dingleberry stuck to your zoomie ass energy up onto the bed at 5am. Keep that on the floor, please.”
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧊🛩️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 👉 As noted by @gillianbrockell.com in TAP, we can confirm this Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) departed Arizona on Wednesday afternoon, trafficking chained humans via Puerto Rico to multiple stops in Africa. First up: Ghana 🇬🇭 The Peruvian man in Gillian's article remains in Massachusetts.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
I’ve had my issues with The Independent lol, but this is an excellent story that I missed when it came out in June, and echoes what many flight attendants have reported at other ICE charters. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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ICE deportation flights ignored FAA safety regulations, whistleblower claims in suit
Exclusive: Former Avelo Airlnes flight attendant Arianne Campbell ‘should not have to choose’ between protecting her career ‘and raising concerns about safety,’ her attorney told The Independent
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SK2!!! Those f’kers!
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧊✈️ SOUTH AMERICA 🌎⛓️ 😲 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs Texas, trafficking humans in chains to Ecuador & Peru 🇪🇨🇵🇪
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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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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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧊✈️ SAN DIEGO: Observers counted 57 shackled people in street clothes boarding this Eastern 737 (N917XA); the last 9 appeared to be women. 👀 This flight will depart shortly for Villahermosa, Mexico 🇲🇽
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE are the real criminals
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🧊✈️ YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ A GlobalX jet (tail: N277GX) on an ICE mission to Guatemala turns around abruptly over the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday morning, returning to the ICE hub in Louisiana 👀
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE FLIGHT ✈️ SLC Saturday, September 19, 2026 AWI7137 N455AW – This ICE flight trafficked 40 friends, family and neighbors to BFL and on to ELP—35 men and 5 women. #abolishICE #ICEflights #ICEwatch #SaltLakeCity #Utah Immigrants deserve better from this country.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SEPT 19, 2026 AWI7137 SLC – Air Wisconsin flight attendant taking selfies while the ERO crew unloads shackles. You’re gross, AW guy.🤮 And you’re COMPLICIT in the Constitutional and human rights violations of these #ICEflights. #abolishICE #complicit
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Hey all, Im looking for any academics who may be able to help someone from Gaza get enrolled in a European University. Please let me know if you can help or if you know of anyone who could help.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/09/2026
An appeals court smacked down Trump’s (obviously unlawful) third-country removal scheme. A win is a win. But there are a lot of “buts.” prospect.org/2026/09/19/a...
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Appeals Court Smacks Down Trump’s Third-Country Removal Policy - The American Prospect
Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could soon bring it back.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 18/09/2026
ICE’s ERO ONE is official. The agency is looking for 140+ intel analysts to work nationwide to locate immigrants, map their social networks, and help plan arrest operations.
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ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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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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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICE FLIGHT ✈️ SLC Friday, September 18, 2026 – This Key Lime Air boarded 11 friends, family and neighbors to fly them away from their Constitutional right to due process. #ICEflights #SLC #ICEwatch #KeyLimeAir #SignatureAviation
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This exact airplane is landing in SLC imminently.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🧊🛩️ HAITI 😲⛓️ 👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N318NV) prepares to depart Louisiana, trafficking humans in chains to Cap-Haitien 🇭🇹
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DC folks, this is going to be an amazing event next week. Come join us!
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 15/09/2026
Next Thursday, @situ-research.bsky.social, Lawfare, @theintercept.com will host an in person screening + panel discussion of "Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Removal." With @tylermcbrien.com, @nickturse.bsky.social, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social, and Setareh Ghandehari.
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Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Removal
A Screening and Panel Discussion of the Second Chapter of Deportation Inc.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They’re choosing AI over humans.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 16/09/2026
After being up less than a week, DHS took down the forecast for ERO ONE. As we wrote over the weekend, this $100+ million contract would give ICE ERO a dedicated cadre of intelligence analysts producing all source-intelligence for building target lists.
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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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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join La Resistencia on September 22 at 1:30 PM for King County Council’s public comment meeting to speak out about safety concerns and the lack of rule enforcement at King County Airport! #AbolishICE #AbolishGeoGroup #ChingaLaMigra #ShutDownNWDC #FreeThemALL
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CLIP: SEPTEMBER 14th ICE ✈️ SLC – This video is just one snippet of many of ICE/ERO really “digging in there” to grope people they’ve detained, the vast majority of whom have no criminal record and pose no security or safety risk that would require shackling.
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