ICE just gave private prison operator CoreCivic another couple of contracts that will generate another $200 million for the company. One is for the 2,560-bed California City Immigration Processing Center. The other is for the 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas.

The Trump administration is planning to close some U.S. Forest Service offices in Alaska under a national reorganization announced this summer by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, report @alaskabeacon.com and @statesnewsroom.com

hi, cis folks! that thing we kept warning about? it’s happening. and a lot of democrats won’t fight unless they’re afraid it will destroy them politically. US senators need to hear your voices. our healthcare isn’t a bargaining chip. contact info: reps.fyi tap in the thread for scripts & info.

✉️ The Federal Unionists Network and 35 local, council, & national unions call on Schumer & Jeffries to OPPOSE any budget that undermines access to services Americans rely upon, *even if it means a government shutdown*. @fedworkersunited.bsky.social www.federalunionists.net/press/statem...

A guy was handing these around in a cafe this evening

This is kinda incredible that renters from multiple units in a realtor's portfolio are organizing for tenants' rights.

You first buddy. If anyone needs to be monitored it’s you and your gazillionaire friends.

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

around the 29minute mark @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social brings up the social/labor dynamic in Jackson Hole, there was this issue around 'environmental privilege' and a book called 'the slums of aspen' written around 2012: web.archive.org/web/20120219...

Messages on a walk around Brooklyn.

Law enforcement agents burned nearly 200 pounds of materials — not just 2 pounds of methamphetamine, as previously reported — inside an animal crematorium in Billings on Sept. 10, according to burn records reviewed by Montana Free Press.

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

🚨 ACTION: The U.S. should welcome foreign journalists—not kick them out. DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad. ▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?: newsguild.org/action-newsg...

Also love postpartum care visits!! Mothers should not be waiting 6 weeks for an insurance-covered health assessment!

Same in France. That and visits to ensure well being and that mothers had everything they needed, supplies or medical assistance or etc. Americans have no idea how some of the things that conservative Republicans and Dems call "far left" and "communism" are common in other capitalist economies.

Really happy to see Mamdani planning to send baby baskets to new parents. When I lived in Scotland, every new parent got a baby basket with a few helpful basics from the Sturgeon administration. It didn't cost taxpayers much, it was wildly popular, and it built up a ton of goodwill among voters.

DHS says the ICE officer who shoved the woman in New York yesterday has been relieved of his duties and his conduct unacceptable. Bit surprised as I’ve seen a lot of not too dissimilar videos of ice actions DHS has stood by.

anyway when the Respectability types wring their hands over memorials to "convicted cop killer on FBI's most wanted list" do help them remember the circumstances were not so clear-cut and her trial was a total sham english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-...

substance over form please

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

This guy has been at 26 Federal Plaza every time I've been there. He's one of the only agents who doesn't wear a mask and he is unnecessarily harsh to everyone, verbally and physically.

Reps. Darrell Issa (CA) & Rob Wittman (VA) have sent 100+ people each to the CFPB for help in the last year. Sen. John Cornyn (TX)? More than 800. They all voted to slash CFPB funding. Apparently kissing Trump's ring is more important than helping constituents. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

At least 16 detainees have died in ICE custody this year. A planned rally today in NYC will protest detainee conditions. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has the story. prospect.org/justice/2025...

finally some good news

Tom Homan said he was recused from anything to do with government contracts. Turns out he wasn't. He played a role in the process to move immigration detention contracts through the Defense Department www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... With @racheladhe.bsky.social and @sooophie.bsky.social

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

DHS Spox Tricia McLaughlin confirms that ICE detainees were among the injured in this morning's shooting.

Calling all freelance fact-checkers! We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project. Email Chris ([email protected]) for more details.

I was just notified of ANOTHER death in ICE custody — the 16th since Trump took office. The second death TODAY. This is absolutely unacceptable.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

One of the greatest days of my life was going to one of the shows, shortly after I got out of the hospital after almost a year. Just to be around people, outside in the sun, instead of that sterile little room, listening to all that great music instead of monitor beeps -- heaven.

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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While the CFPB is closed for business when it comes to helping Americans fight financial scams, they are hard at work rewriting rules to benefit subprime auto lenders. (quick thread)

can you guys even imagine what a general strike would accomplish omg

For a @motherjones.com piece, I'm looking to chat with 3-4 retirees about how they've been volunteering for causes that push back against what the Trump administration is doing. Please email [email protected]

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

if you can bear it this is reads like a netflix show

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

New from me @prospect.org: the collusion between lawmakers, regulators and executives was out in the open at Anthony Scaramucci’s unhinged crypto conference in Wyoming last month.

Please understand the Democratic establishment's efforts to stop AOC, Mamdani and Sanders as oppression and class war.

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I'm rummaging around on @muckrock.com and noticed that someone filed a very straightforward records request asking for all gifts received by Mayor Eric Adams way back in Jan. 2023. The office has extended the time it needs to respond fifteen times since then.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing yesterday where every Republican raised fears of an epidemic of fraud. This comes after they enthused over the mothballing of the CFPB, established to crack down on... an epidemic of fraud. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

I wrote about yesterday's Congressional hearing on fraud, which was itself a fraud. As Rep. Waters said, the whole proceeding was "a sham." If GOP lawmakers really wanted to stop frauds, they'd end their war on the CFPB.