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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19h

🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 20h

This site is one of the most contaminated sites in the entire country. It's a former military barracks where forever chemicals in drinking water have been found to be 575,000x over the federal limit. It's run by LaSalle Corrections foundation, the "charitable" arm of the LaSalle.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are lying, they don't believe this. It's just another move to make people quit so Trump can replace unionized workers with private contractors. The regime abandoned the Gold+ privatization plan, allegedly, but it's still moving ahead with its "evolved" Screening Partnership Program.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

>>Atelier Missor received curt recognition from their idol on October 1st. “Nice work,” Elon posted. They spent $1 million of their own money on this thing!!!! wtf man

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think that even if Dems claw back some power, the next two years are going to be even crazier as Trump doubles down and insists he is right. I can't picture him admitting defeat or accepting rebuke, I can only imagine him growing even more violent and destructive.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 02/10/2026

For context on this report, here's contemporaneous reporting from KNKX in 2024. The two records uploaded to ICE's FOIA database today are longer versions of the detainee death report cited in this article. The reports were conducted by ICE's compliance contractor, Creative Corrections LLC.

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Medical examiner rules Tacoma ICE detainee died of natural causes

The Pierce County Medical Examiner determined Charles Leo Daniel, who spent extensive time in solitary confinement, died of natural causes in March.

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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is part of the regime's attempt to crush organized labor and replace unionized TSA workers with contractors. They tried to eliminate workers bargaining rights last year, then forced them to work through the shutdown w/o pay for more than a month, and now this.

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Marshall Project Guild @marshallprojectguild.org · 01/10/2026

We had a high-quality healthcare plan offered at no cost from 2014 to 2025. But for two years in a row, management has increased our healthcare costs and lowered the quality of our plans. Families are paying $15K+ per year for a plan that used to be free.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looks like Mamdani is gonna have an interview on Theo Von's show right around now.

On Thursday, Mayor Mamdani will hold a press conference to make a green space announcement. Media interested in attending must RSVP by 10:30 PM.

Then, the Mayor will visit a Colombian small business. Photos of this event will be pooled by AP and distributed following the event.

After, the Mayor will appear on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von (pre-taped).

Press Schedule:

10:00 AM – Holds Press Conference to Make Green Space Announcement
Media interested in attending must RSVP by 10:30 PM.
The Mayor will take questions at this event.
This event will be streamed live and available on Encompass Port CTY-3653

11:40 AM – Visits Colombian Small Business
Photos of this event will be pooled by AP and distributed following the event.

3:00 PM (Approx.) – Appears on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von (Pre-Taped)

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 01/10/2026

When ICE announced Chaofeng Ge's death by suspected suicide last year, they didn't mention that he was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind his back. The account in a mortality review ICE posted (& removed) this week also suggests a very different response than initially reported.

Ge was detained at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg. He had been in ICE custody for five days and was awaiting a hearing before the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. MVPC staff discovered Ge hanging by the neck and unresponsive in the shower room of his detention pod at 5:21 a.m. They immediately lowered him to the ground, began CPR and contacted Phillipsburg Emergency Medical Services, the Pennsylvania State Police and the coroner’s office.

On August 5, 2025, at 5:20 a.m., while conducting unit count, two detention officers (DOs) found Mr. GE, bound at the hands and feet, hanging in the handicap shower stall in C-Unit, pod 4. The DOs left the scene to inform the control officer, and the control officer called the medical emergency. Two medical staff members responded within four minutes, ordered Mr. GE's cut down from the shower stall, immediately initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), applied an automated external defibrillator (AED), and followed the prompts (no shock advised). At 5:31 a.m., custody staff called emergency medical services (EMS). At 5:44 a.m., EMS arrived and took over life saving measures; however, EMS staff were unable to resuscitate Mr. GE. At 6:03 a.m. a Clearfield County, PA, coroner pronounced Mr. GE deceased.

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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am sadden to say, but as of today I’ve parted with the El Paso Times. I’m going back into freelancing for them moment as I prepare my next steps (stay tuned). If anyone out there wants reporting from the El Paso border, let me know! I’ll give more details in the weeks to come about what happened

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 01/10/2026

Please help us get camera gear, pay airport parking fees, and take care of infrastructure costs for the volunteers documenting ICE Air across the country. We're fortunate to be well-equipped here in Minnesota; we need to help out our neighbors in other states. If able: ottergoose.net/ice

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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear our case challenging the Trump administration’s cruel and illegal policy subjecting millions of immigrants to mandatory detention. We'll see the administration in court.

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naomi bethune @naomibethune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@jamesjbaratta.bsky.social and I spent the summer getting to know the residents of Lowndes County, AL. They're fighting to stop the development of a hyperscale data center; a struggle sustained by the community's rich tradition of civil rights and environmental justice advocacy. Read here:

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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026

ICE has expelled people from all over the world to Costa Rica every Thursday or Friday since April. Last week's flight was canceled due to the First Circuit's ruling in DVD vs. DHS. But with SCOTUS's outrageous stay on Tuesday, this week's third-country removal flight appears to be in progress.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 01/10/2026

According to ICE's statement published this morning, Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old man from Peru, died on Tuesday, September 29th at LSU Health's Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana. www.ice.gov/news/release...

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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana

ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.

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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana

ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Story time. My wife's post here reminds me of one of my favorite stories from my time on the Hill, of which there are many. I was in Comms for a Dem member, and the Caucus would put on a weekly talking points seminar for comms staffers. More often than not, these were run by Third Way.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Supreme Court enabled months of deportations to countries immigrants have no connection to, writes @gillianbrockell.com. But the most appalling thing in yesterday's order is the wildly unfair advantage it gives the Trump administration in a future ruling: prospect.org/2026/09/30/s...

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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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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ICE posted an inspection of the Midwest Regional Reception Center detention camp today that found that the facility's policy is to conduct routine strip searches on immigrants. It's owned and operated by CoreCivic.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 30/09/2026

The FEC prohibits federal contractors from donating to candidates or parties. One of GEO Group's approaches to skirt that rule is to use a subsidiary LLC called GEO Reentry Services, which doesn't itself have federal contracts, to give high-dollar donations. www.fec.gov/data/receipt...

Table titled "GEO Reentry Services LLC Political Giving Since Nov. 2025," listing recipients, their primary beneficiaries, and donation totals: MAGA Inc. (Trump-controlled), $4,413,000; CLF (Republicans, U.S. House), $1,300,000; SLF PAC (Republicans, U.S. Senate), $250,000; Restore Our Nation (Ron PAC) (Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-FL), $100,000; Stronger Safer Nation (Sen. Ashley Moody, R-FL), $20,000; Conservative Leadership for Florida (Scott Singer, R, Boca Raton, FL mayor running for Congress), $10,000. Grand total: $6,093,000.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again I want to point out, for the sake of your lift and your dignity. Place your feet flat on the ground and press straight down. Inhale, activate your entire posterior chain, brace your core. Push the bar straight up while keeping your wrists straight.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a massive human trafficking ring, forcing vulnerable people from place to place, ruining their lives, all to make a buck

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 30/09/2026

We updated this story after seeing that the government took down the mortality reports. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has the files. Read the documents ICE doesn't want you to see in her story here: buff.ly/yYeaoFI

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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 30/09/2026

In which a police chief argues the 287(g) program is actually good because now his cops are basically immigration lawyers. Burn this fucking program to the ground.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICE's own reviews of cases of immigrant deaths in custody show a pattern of neglect: confiscation and refusal to provide routine medication, lack of follow-up care, even incompetence in reading tests or supplying medication. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has this report. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...

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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remember the government is an unreliable narrator, so however bad the things they show us are, the actual situation is even worse

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Fey (they/them) @varric-fan69.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remember that this is what killed Anne Frank.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Advocate Trans male NYT games engineer was fatally shot by his in-laws during bitter custody battle with his estranged wife. His in-laws have been taken into custody. The NYT coverage buried the fact that he was trans down in the body of their article.

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A transgender father pleaded for more time with his children. Days before a custody hearing, he was killed

New York Times games engineer Jonathan McKinsey and his estranged wife alleged mutual abuse. Now, his in-laws face charges for his murder.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's sad that this man will never know the euphoria of packing into a sold out show at the Village Vanguard and hearing Terri Lyne Carrington crush her drum solos for 60 minutes straight. He has never been shoulder to shoulder at Smalls at 1 a.m.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.

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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look at Mark back there, squirming around, acting like he would rather be anywhere else. You put yourself there guy.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm so grateful for the testimony people have been sharing in Minnesota Truth Council hearings about how the ICE surge impacted community members. I hope we see better days soon and I hope we see justice soon. Hearing #4 is live now.

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MN Truth Council Public Meeting #4

YouTube video by Minnesota Truth Council

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Simply repeating back what Republicans have said is a pretty good messaging strategy. They've provided a lot of ammo over the last 18 months.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The federal government intends to trick out their robot dogs with a device that can open doors remotely.

4ea - SPOT AV Package, SPOT-AV: A SPOT robotic platform package configured to
support remote observation and operational use.
4ea - Front Mounted Manipulation Arm, SPOT-ARM: A robotic arm mounted to the
front of the SPOT platform to enable remote manipulation of objects, doors, handles, or
other items as permitted by policy and mission requirements.
4ea - 30 Times Zoom, Pan-Tilt-Zoom Inspection Camera with Thermal Capability,
SPOT-CAM+IR: A camera payload that provides enhanced visual inspection capability,
including 30 times zoom, pan-tilt-zoom functionality, and infrared thermal imaging.
4ea - Extended MPU5 Radio Kit with GXP, SPOT-RADIO-3+GXP: A
communications package consisting of three radios per robot to support command,
control, and data transmission for the SPOT platform. “MPU5” and “GXP” are vendor or
product-specific terms.
8ea - Spare MPU5 Radio, S-Band for Repeater Nodes or Observation Use, with
Cables, Spot-Radio-Repeater: A spare radio and cable package intended to support
communications relay, observation, or backup communications functions.
1ea - Training for Law Enforcement Officers, SPOT-LEO-TRN: Vendor-provided
training for law enforcement officers on the safe, effective, and policy-compliant
operation of the SPOT robotic system and accessories.

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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...

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