the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

“If undocumented immigrants are driving on our bridges, we just won’t have bridges any more” is cement the public pools level Jim Crow racism. We can’t get our most basic needs met because ’what if a minority benefits?’

Reading isn’t about finishing as many books as possible. It’s about allowing a few of them to leave marks on how you see the world.

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

Breathtaking. Horrifying. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns." A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us. "It's a war!" wapo.st/4s6YnC5

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.  @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

So it turns out that money Trump is sending to the military as bonuses was going to be spent on the military anyway. Only now, less efficiently, leaving some needy military families up the creek. No surprise there.

Jfc.

Where have immigrants arrested during the so-called "Operation Midway Blitz" in Chicago ended up? New data reveals the privately-run detention facilities and local jails where ICE is holding people. @geoffhing.bsky.social @jillcastellano.bsky.social www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/18/i...

Widow receives husband's immigration approval letter 2 months after he was killed in ICE office shooting: people.com/widow-receiv...

Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities. 28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

I believe that ICE uses specific detention facilities to play particular roles in its enforcement machine. Alexandria Staging is the deportation hub. A good read here from about 3 months ago. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Large Border Patrol presence at the Home Depot off Oakton Street in Evanston, IL. Agents just detained at least one person. Whistles going off. Helicopter circling low. One agent just told Evanston mayor Daniel Biss, who's on scene, to back up.

As Greg Bovino returns to Chicago, this story looks at children detained by ICE, including one 5-year-old swept up in Operation Midway Blitz earlier this year. “We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

In Chicago, a man on Facebook Live was following the Border Patrol north on Lake Shore Drive. At the end of the drive, a bunch of city cop cars cut off the man who was following and live-streaming Border Patrol.

Nearly every African country on this list, plus Cuba and Venezuela, has either 1) recently accepted ICE deportation flights and/or 2) recently agreed to “host” third-country nationals. Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

replace CEOs with AI and then replace the AI with another coffee maker for the actual useful employees

The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side. Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers. It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

Yeah the dissonance here is that when they say “empathy” is killing “Western civilization,” what they’re signaling is that recognizing the humanity and rights of non-white people is genocidal towards white people.

1/ After two years of bargaining, @propublica.org management has resisted our proposals to bring transparency and accountability to our disciplinary process. You can support our union by sharing this post and signing our petition for a fair contract! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇

Laura Dern’s rage faces in Big Little Lies.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Mohan Karki was born in a Nepal refugee camp and met his 5-month-old daughter in shackles for the first time. KUOW reports the U.S. is trying to deport him to Bhutan, where he may not be accepted, leaving him effectively stateless. www.kuow.org/stories/this...

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

This is slightly off: what it is actually an example of is how US immigration laws have created up a literal fake court system with salaried employees of the Executive usurping the authority of the judiciary. It's Congress's fault for ever endorsing this, but it's illegal nonetheless.

“All three women encountered by the Colorado hospital staff were reluctant to take their monitors off, fearing that doing so would trigger an alert to ICE or BI Inc, the staff said, even if removing the device was deemed medically necessary.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

5 months later, a lawsuit reveals: -Rivera & Baker had an affair & he was upset about it ending -Superiors knew this & that Rivera wanted to be reassigned & believed Baker was a threat to her safety -He showed up uninvited at her home a day before the shooting www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

Reporting indicates this isn't even true but note the standalone charge DHS is making that the man is a "sodomite" and thus should be deported

Eugenics on the Q train

The plan is to arrest & detain migrants trying to go home for Christmas.

A Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana here in El Paso has died. He had been held at the facility since September. At least 25 migrants have died in ICE detention this year.

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

As was clear during Trump 1, roughly 37% of Americans are committed to white supremacy &/or Christian nationalism, no matter the cost. Very much reminds me of the Reconstruction South, which doubled down on the plantation regime that had destroyed the country in the aftermath of emancipation.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

People detained at the nation’s largest ICE detention center report that officers have beaten them and used the threat of violence and criminal charges to coerce non-Mexican immigrants into crossing the border into the Mexican desert. We're demanding that the facility be shut down immediately.

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

NEW: We sent a letter demanding that ICE end immigration detention at Fort Bliss, the same facility used to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II. People detained at this facility are denied adequate food, medical care, and are physically and sexually abused by the guards.

Just want to make sure everyone knows about this microsite! If you have suggestions for what would be valuable added resources to collect and share on the site, please email us. www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

The biggest thing about this for me is that they were apparently out there, clinging to the wreckage for 41 minutes before they made the decision to fire more missiles at it. www.newsweek.com/initial-surv...

Hmmm. Yesterday there was a sealed order filed in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case in TN. Now, the evidentiary hearing on his motion to dismiss, set for December 8 & 9, has been cancelled with no future court date set.

We spent 2 days at El Refugio, a hospitality house near one of the largest immigration detention center in the U.S. Families visiting detained people can go to the house to eat a meal or spend the night. Here's what we learned from people passing through. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...

Q: What did you see in the second strike? Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."

What a mystery. What a mysterious man with mysterious motivations.