a few days ago, i made a stupid, careless joke. i wasn’t aware of who i was quote-tweeting, which is on me. this hurt a lot of people, and i am extremely sorry and will be more careful, both with my words and who i engage with online, going forward

taking pictures of this pynchon book like it’s a concert

some of the most fun i’ve ever had is writing about how much i love lana for hell world <3

eight people ahead of me in bakery line. only two ham and cheese croissants remain in the case. i am praying to every deity imaginable right now

Maybe it’s worth highlighting that this is/has been project of ending legal immigration because legal immigration since 1965 has been less white. It’s never been about “enforcement of laws” although restrictionists found that focus on undocu ppl helped legitimize their ethnic cleansing project.

if you think about it i’m kind of exactly like wren provenance, girl anthropologist

I am sure I will regret weighing in here but this piece also uses the profile structure to get at what some of what really matters: how movements stay together and fracture, what goes into organizing, online v offline, how activism sometimes calls for annoying earnestness, etc.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Please do not let Will’s tantrum over getting the attention he wanted distract you from the amazing Minneapolis coverage Gaby has been producing all month (all while also writing a book because she’s just that good)

i told you i was doing a mini-profile of you as part of a broader series out of minneapolis. and that’s what i did!

riding in cars with stancil (i rode in a car with stancil) www.theverge.com/policy/88102...

Even though refugees CANNOT apply for green cards until one year after arrival, DHS now claims that the 1980 Refugee Act actually *requires* ICE to “detain and inspect” refugees who don’t have a green card at year one. Reaching this conclusion required overturning decades-old interpretations.

287g agreements with highway patrols are, I think, particularly egregious because of their ability to make a lot of traffic stops for no real reason (does highway patrol do anything other than traffic stops?) www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

talking to a college journalism class today thinking about the best advice i ever gave a group of journalism students (if you're the person at a party who's looking around the room for more important people to talk to everyone will notice and they WILL hate you <3)

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

[starship troopers VO] would you like to know more? via @gabydvj.bsky.social thebaffler.com/salvos/land-...

Back in 2023, @gabydvj.bsky.social wrote on the magazine’s weird schtick in a longer essay on tradwives, conspiracies, and nostalgic kitsch: thebaffler.com/salvos/land-...

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

Hope you'll read my report the upcoming trial — I'll be watching closely. www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/LRrOesS

border czar tom homan said DHS is ending its surge in minnesota. but minnesotans i spoke to (literally yesterday!) said ICE had ramped up its presence in st. cloud and surrounding small towns www.theverge.com/policy/87871...

I find it hard these days to read too much about what's happening but I try always to stop what I'm doing to read @gabydvj.bsky.social and this is great. Stay for the history at the end.

Really grateful for @gabydvj.bsky.social's in-depth reporting, especially crucial in finding the continuity amidst the new chaos and cruelty, and clearly showcasing the lines between what people can do for each other on their own, and what government needs to do. www.theverge.com/policy/87710...

Incredible, on-the-ground reporting from @gabydvj.bsky.social. It's easy to embrace the triumphalist "Minnesotans fought back" narrative, but the reality is that the Trump administration has done long-term damage

@gabydvj.bsky.social on the namesake of the Whipple building in Minneapolis, where immigrants and their neighbors are being held

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)

they’re calling it My Most Personal Essay Of All Time and i’m literally never doing it again gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/accidents-...

A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”

One local who was arrested while protesting at the site of Alex Pretti’s killing talked to The Verge about his harrowing experience in custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and how the community is fighting back. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

This is the couple from @gabydvj.bsky.social’s Land Ho, which I think is the best thing ever written about Trads

i interviewed one of the people who was detained by DHS while protesting alex pretti’s killing. here’s how it all went down, in his own words: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...

Another @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger on how ICE is tear-gassing children and families turning out to protest, which is only serving to radicalize people even more. 'When Broeker had first been tear gassed, she had been terrified. But the fear has since faded, leaving only rage.'

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

We have @gabydvj.bsky.social in Minneapolis. This is a quick peek of the great, on-the-ground reporting she has in the works:

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

we live in hell www.axios.com/2026/01/03/m...

the various parties involved in an affair order of intrigue/coolness/etc: 1) the other woman (a classic!) 2) the woman scorned (victim) 3) man with whom the affair is being conducted (never as interesting as you’d think) 4) man being cheated on (cuck)

"No one understands anything about immigration policy everyone has opinions on it anyway" loved this from @gabydvj.bsky.social

At NatCon, there were two topics dominating everyone’s discussions: the imminent end of the right’s support of Israel — and the existential threat that technology posed to Western civilization. I wrote about the second discussion. www.theverge.com/politics/773...

"This is why the DHS twitter account now posts deportation ASMR and caked up ICE shawtys. The edgelords are in control, and the opposition is too busy quibbling over zoning reform white papers to do anything about it." This was really good from @gabydvj.bsky.social

oh how i’ve Suffered gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

hey remember when i wrote about the pronatalist right for politico and got accused of “nut-picking” lmao www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*

apropos of nothing

student activists at Columbia have been warning about the harms posed by Canary Mission and other far-right doxing groups for years. Now we know ICE is using Canary Mission’s database to find targets for deportation www.theverge.com/policy/70772...