We're planning to expand the database to include more ICE profiteers' donations to congress. We'd love to hear your suggestions about what companies we should include! Feel free to comment below or DM me. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

For those who need some inspiration today, @lexmcmenamin.com's story on the brave teens fighting back against ICE is a must-read.

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

In a Minnesota town, Emily, a nurse who treats many immigrant patients, can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer. The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:

This is unconscionable. But some of it is familiar. When I started as a public defender more than 10 years ago, NYPD and Corrections Officers also used the term "bodies" to refer to the people in their custody. It is both small and huge that I now rarely hear that. We demanded better.

"Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and $58,000 to Democratic congressmembers." "Find out if your congressional representatives are among the recipients." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....

#Tennessee GOP Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty collectively received a total of $22,500 from CoreCivic, one of largest private prison companies contracting with ICE. Per database info just published by @theappeal.org & @inthesetimes.com theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...

Private prison $$$ doesn’t just follow ICE’s detention boom — it helps build it. This investigation tracks donations from CoreCivic and GEO Group to sitting United States Congress members and lets you check your reps. @elizabethweill.bsky.social & @ethanscorey.bsky.social report w/ @theappeal.org

i know @wrigleyfield.bsky.social and you can trust her. they still need $1265, let’s go bluesky

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who take money from GEO Group + CoreCivic. Find out if your reps have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. Published in @theappeal.org + @inthesetimes.com. theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

So kids have to carry around their birth certificates and passports in the US now? This is so depraved.

In one of his final moves before leaving office today, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed bills aimed at protecting immigrants out of fear it would invite legal challenges from the Trump admin. Immigrant advocates decried the decision: "ICE is already here, kidnapping people." boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...

Everett Palmer, Jr., died after he was strapped to a restraint chair in York County's jail in 2018. A grand jury made recommendations to prevent similar deaths. Instead of implementing them, York County used the chair 1,295 times—more often any other jail in PA. theappeal.org/york-county-...

Pennsylvania's York County Prison used restraint chairs a total of 1,295 times from 2018 through 2024—more than any other jail in the state. In the last ten years, at least two people have died at YCP after being strapped in restraint chairs. New for @theappeal.org. theappeal.org/york-county-...

My latest for @truthout.org (co-published with @theappeal.org ) truthout.org/articles/ice...

A record number of people died in ICE detention last year, @mludwig.bsky.social reports for @truthout.org Six more people have died during the first three weeks of 2026 alone. theappeal.org/ice-deaths-d...

NEW FROM ME: for @theappeal.org. After a year of: ✅ Sifting through more than 200 pages of records. ✅ Sifting through more than 3,000 court document searches. ✅ Interviewing many sources. ✅ And filing many public records requests. My story is finally published today. theappeal.org/pepper-spray...

In February 2021, seven men sat down to pray in a Missouri prison. Within minutes, guards put them in shackles and covered them in pepper spray. The incident highlights the dangers Muslims face practicing their religion in prison, @khawlanakua.bsky.social reports. theappeal.org/pepper-spray...

The US has given Israel $352 billion since its founding. After uncovering over $7 billion in previously unreported funds, this is the most accurate tally of US aid to Israel to date: www.stephensemler.com/p/how-much-a...

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

"We can't expect the same police force that violently repressed the Black Lives Matter movement, brutally repressed the pro-Palestine movement, and ... continues to enact violence in our communities to be an ally in the fight against ICE."

Here's a list of stores that will be closed in solidarity of the general strike in the Twin Cities planned for Friday.

NEW: Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.

Who’s surprised that ICE isn’t paying their bills as far as medical care for the detainees? What are they doing with that $170 billion? It will be extremely important to know the details when these detainees or their next of kin file their future lawsuits. #FuckICE #Pinks #ProudBlue

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

ICYMI — In negative degrees weather they took a LEGAL naturalized citizen out in his underwear, after trashing his house. They released him an hour later. The cruelty is the point. (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

🚨🚨🚨TEXT Gov. Murphy at 732-605-5455 and tell him to sign the immigrant protection package today. 🚨🚨🚨

TODAY AT 3. ICE OUT of NEW JERSEY. Join us for a march and rally calling for justice for Renee Good, Keith Porter, Silverio Villegas González, and all victims of ICE. We will meet at Adelaide & Route 27 in Highland Park, NJ and march to Parque Oaxaca in New Brunswick.

ICE OUT of NEW JERSEY. Join us for a march and rally calling for justice for Renee Good, Keith Porter, Silverio Villegas González, and all victims of ICE. Sunday, January 11 at 3:00 PM. We will meet at Adelaide & Route 27 in Highland Park, NJ and march to Parque Oaxaca in New Brunswick.

Biden repeatedly bragged about how he had deported more people, faster, than trump. And then when he dropped out, Kamala's messaging was that she would be tougher on immigration and the border than trump.

Los Angeles community seeks justice for Black man killed by off-duty ICE agent on New Years Eve Keith Porter was killed by an off-duty ICE agent who officials claim was responding to “an active shooter” call, but locals say otherwise. thegrio.com/2026/01/08/l...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out For Good Highland Park, NJ” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

if I were to die please mix my ashes with concrete then turn me into a brick and throw me at ICE

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

Say his name. Keith Porter. Murdered by an ICE agent in LA.

"It would be hard, but not impossible, to try the ICE shooter on state charges and obtain a state-law conviction that Trump couldn’t wipe away. It might seem like the longest shot in the world, but honestly, we have to try something, anything, to stop this — not just in Minnesota, but everywhere."

~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump. organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68

On November 14, Border Patrol posted a propaganda video that uses the “Sesame Street” song “Who are the people in your neighborhood?" Contact Sesame Street and tell them to demand their music is not used to promote Trump's racist, anti-immigrant agenda.

Please keep boosting this post! The family is less than $1K shy of their $7K goal to bury their beloved son/brother/cousin. The funeral is two days away. Can we help them reach their goal in time? Shacoby Kenny should still be alive. If he'd had $2500 to pay in bail he would be. #bospoli

I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...

A detained man was killed by COs in Boston's South Bay jail (Suffolk HOC) last night. Other detainees who witnessed the incident on the unit saw them choke him and were not offered mental health support after. There must be an independent investigation. #bospoli www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications

Maduro was kidnapped, NYT. You don't need the scare quotes. Plus, the use of "ousted" gives this kidnapping + coup legitimacy. You can always rely on the NYT to NYT.

Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell. A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.”

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.