Another incredible essay by Rümeysa Öztürk. I hope everybody reads it.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

NY enshrined protections for trans people into its constitution via the ballot in 2024. This is why the Skrmetti decision was gaslighting bullshit because they were never going to let trans youth access healthcare even when their "democratic process" explicitly chose to protect access.

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

I'm sorry, come again? NewYork-Presbyterian bosses violated safe staffing rules six hundred and fourteen times? 614?

And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

1. Major corporations — including General Motors, State Farm, JPMorgan Chase, Delta, and Microsoft — are bankrolling a political ad from Senate candidate Andy Barr featuring a white nationalist slogan.

ICE has killed at least 26 people since last January

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Dilley must be shut down and everyone inside must be freed and provided immediate medical care. www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

This flew under the radar, but it shouldn’t have. When senator Alex Padilla was tackled by DHS, Kristi Noem’s side piece, Corey Lewandowski, was orchestrating the situation in the hall.

With the current admin's efforts to separate immigrant families, it has never been more important to protect our communities. #NY4All ensures those in custody get notice of their rights before being questioned by ICE. 👉Call your reps: win.newmode.net/ny4all 🎨: @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

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"So should we use a general strike as a tool? Absolutely. We should be prepared to use that tool because I think our democracy is worth it."

Susan Collins decides to support the SAVE America Act months after Maine voted 64-36% to reject a voter ID measure

Going to my normal job where I dangle food in front of hungry children and then snatch it away. Can't decide if this makes me more of a cartoon villain or fairytale monster. Either way, just happy to be making the country great again

Make these companies household names: Geo Group, CoreCivic. There's been a lot of crying about how their stock is down, but stock prices do not determine whether these profiteers get millions in government contracts. Geo Group's profits are up 800 percent. EIGHT HUNDRED

Hero.

“Upon arrival at the center — which is the same where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was held with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias — Amalia's health worsened quickly, the lawsuit said, and on Jan. 1, she developed a fever that peaked at 104 degrees and would not break.”

When I talked to Rep. Adam Smith a few days ago, he had some bonkers things to say about the donation he got from Palantir. But not for nothing, when I asked what people should do to oppose ICE, he said a general strike should at least be on the table.

"Why would tourists come to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics when Trump is transforming the entire country into a xenophobic danger zone?" Great question! Sharp, in-depth, critical, analysis of the myths—past & present—that hover around the LA28 Olympics. @prospect.org

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

I've obvs always had big problems with how the Times covers fascists/fascism but this article contains some real egregious shit that has my blood boiling, so here's a quick-ish thread on why/how I think it's so pernicious... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

George Zoley was on a conference call just a few hours ago talking about GEO's outstanding 2025. For fiscal year 2025, the company clocked an 800% increase in profit, thanks to our tax dollars. Just a massive wealth distribution upwards to this guy and his fellow profiteers. 800%.

ICE contracts increased private prison company GEO Group's revenues by 800% in 2025, according to an earnings call attended by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. But none of that money seems to be going to oversight amid a spate of sexual abuse & physical assault complaints against GEO Group guards.

There's been some hand-wringing over how far private prison company stock has fallen lately, but don't worry, annual profit at Geo Group is still up up up. New from me in @prospect.org

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Executives on private prison company Geo Group's earnings call just announced that their net income for fiscal year 2025 was $254.3 million, up from $31.9 million the year before, mostly thanks to ICE. That's an increase of about 800%.

>> Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls.

At first he told me that giving the money back would be the same as paying them, and he asked me why he would want to pay them. I said, well, but it wouldn't really be paying them, it would be preventing them from paying you. No it wouldn't, he said. It would be paying them.

The 2028 Olympics are just around the corner, and unless Trump's immigration terror campaign gets completely torn down, tourists will stay away and Los Angelenos will be left with the bill. New from me in our sports issue @prospect.org:

As Trump's DHS leaders cry to Congress this morning about how deadly Minnesota is for immigration agents, we updated our tally of people ICE and CBP agents have killed since last January. It's up to 25.

Trump's ICE chief, Todd Lyons, is testifying before Congress right now claiming that Minnesota is "deadly" to ICE agents. Zero ICE agents have died this year or last year in the line of duty, according to ICE's own data: www.ice.gov/topics/eow

ICE has a historic level of funding — $75 billion over four years, $45 billion of which is specifically for so-called "detention." The decision to keep conditions squalid is ideological. They have the money to fix it, they just don't want to. They want to torture people until they agree to leave.

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Tuberculosis is flourishing in ICE prisons across the country, including in the Anchorage Correctional Complex, Adelanto ICE Processing Center, Eloy Detention Center, Denver Contract Detention Facility, and the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

Mainstream journalists love to say that "objectivity" is a "traditional" value in journalism, but that is absolutely not the case. It is a modern writing/editing style that came with the professionalization of what was previously a blue-collar job.

Camp East Montana is run by the contractor Acquisition Logistics, an LLC with no experience in immigration prisons that is registered to the Virginia home of the company's CEO, retired senior Naval flight officer Ken Wagner.

Updating the @prospect.org tracker of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die and I'm heartbroken to say that we have sixteen more entries. SIXTEEN. Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.

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Oh my god. Please read this essay. We have got to get people out of these camps.

*sob* Je--Jeff? Jeff? Please, please don't tell my wife about my festering dick, OK? Just, can you get me some doxycycline?

New Jerseyans are demanding their state investment council dump their investment in Palantir, the tech company that builds tools to track immigrants for Trump's deadly mass deportation campaign. New from me in @prospect.org:

Not sure that I've ever ordered a book faster

Here's another fun fact about CoreCivic's executive leadership. One of its board members is Thurgood Marshall, Jr, son of the legendary civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice. I'm sure dad is very proud his son is presiding over concentration camps.