Earlier this month, Relevant Research also released the Enforcement Dashboard, an analytical tool that gives users the chance to analyze ICE arrests. The tool is built on data from obtained by the Deportation Data Project. We hope to roll out more dashboards in the future. enforcementdashboard.com

Docs reveal how deeply embedded Palantir’s tools were in ICE's investigative unit. For example, they used a Palantir app to plan a gang takedown & when a target was not at the expected location they used the same app to find the person at their family's address. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir? A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I watched an interesting analysis of this precise thing the other day, Elephant Graveyard's vid on Rogan and how he's basically created a totally fake world that all these sycophants have to believe in to gain access to Rogan's money and avenues to money. Same thing here

I think the only social space that's 21% trans or more is the Celeste speed running discord I joined while I was undergoing Unemployment Madness

US law enforcement officials have claimed the use of certain emojis could signal affiliation with Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang, according to internal records reviewed by the Guardian and obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org, a government transparency non-profit.

I’ve covered street protests for years and never seen this much tear gas used on such a small crowd

What seemed like a few dozen officers surged out firing tear gas and pepper balls dispersing much of the crowd and arresting at least one person. Two vehicles appear to have left the facility

DHS are playing a dispersal order over a loudspeaker as three masked agents observe from the roof:

More protesters are arriving and attempting to block a number of government SUVs from entering the facility. A small phalanx of officers, including some wearing US border patrol ID, have come out to escort the vehicles inside and push protesters aside:

I’m at the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, where a group of protesters are attempting to block agents from transferring detainees held inside. Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:

Openly transgender or nonbinary US adults, among those age 18-29: 5.1% 30-49: 1.6% 50+: 0.3% 44% of US adults personally know someone who is trans. 20% know someone who is nonbinary. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

In this second installment of the Guardian's investigation, @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & @raimaamjad.bsky.social look at Alexandria, Louisiana – a key deportation hub. One detainee said the this was "just not a place for human beings”

NEW: We’ve spent the past 4 months investigating a detention center on the tarmac of a rural airport in Alexandria - a legal “black hole” & Trump’s deportation hub We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:

Our full investigation, featuring 911 audio, data analysis, and visualisation of leaked flight records is here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... With great team of colleagues @skirchy.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social @maanvisingh.bsky.social & Raima Amjad

The detention center quietly received a waiver from Ice earlier this year, that exempted it from certain medical screening standards contained within the agency’s detention standards. We asked DHS why this waiver was granted, and received no response:

One former detainee was held in Alexandria for around 12 days in April’ 25. He could not change his clothes or underwear, received almost no medication for an infection & said showers spouted rusty water. “It’s not a place for humans,” he said He claimed a Geo Group guard humiliated him as well

The Alexandria staging facility is designated as a short term, 72 hour center, but data analysis by @wcraft.bsky.social shows it is routinely holding people for longer. Since Jan’25 20% of detainees have been held longer than 3 days. 742 people have been held there for 10 days or more since Oct’ 23

In addition to my work tracking the top level numbers on Ice detention, I've also been hard at work analyzing detention data and leaked flight data, revealing the conditions within Ice's main deportation hub. Please give it a read:

DHS released new detention management stats last night, check out the top line numbers on @us.theguardian.com: Since the inauguration: 210,000 arrests 216,000 deportations 59,000 currently in Ice detention

We're publishing an investigation into the Alexandria facility that has become the hub for Trump's deportation program. An inside look at where immigrants are being disappeared and deported. @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social and Raima Amjad www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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We analyzed leaked data for rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration... and found that people are being moved around in unprecedented and irregular ways. w/ @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

An eye-opening investigation by @wcraft.bsky.social & @maanvisingh.bsky.social. Extremely worth your time and attention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Excellent reporting from The Guardian. Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We are launching a new investigation today, which reveals new details about Trump's deportation program. Our first story is by @maanvisingh.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

I had a terrible burrito in Oakland today. Its nice to be reminded that NYC doesn't have a monopoly on bad Mexican food

Pushed up this week's Wheelysports by a day and a half because I'm disappointed we didn't get to see Tom Pidcock win a stage of the Vuelta, but I'm absolutely livid at what the UCI thinks we should learn from all this

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Also, the 10,000-hours thing is wrong, and the researcher whose work was the basis for MG's construction of it has been saying so for more than a decade. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Once I saw MG give a talk about Occupy Wall Street and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, arguing that Occupy failed because it wasn't centralized like SCLC under Martin Luther King. Then, in the Q&A, Henry Louis Gates politely nuked MG to ashes for not knowing anything about MLK or SCLC.

It takes a lot to shock me and this really shocked me

This is such a good story. The output of every LLM is political

This @beijingpalmer.bsky.social post reminded me I have been meaning to update @pewresearch.org's estimate of total newspaper newsroom jobs - which was 30,820 as of 2020 Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5% www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...

I spoke with former NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and former NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran about the efforts by the Trump administration, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and other corporations to undermine and further weaken the National Labor Relations Board www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Cycling is great because the commentators will just talk about wine for 15 minutes while very little is going on

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

ICE reports population figures for a total of 186 detention facilities. That's an increase from 107 facilities with ICE detainees back in late January 2025. And it's likely an undercount of the number of facilities actually utilized by ICE.

ICE just released updated detention statistics. As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

New detention management stats came out today as well, so we've updated our page:

New detention management stats are up. In the last 14 days, there have been - 15,000 more arrests - 1,850 more people are being held in detention - 17,000 more deportations

Human Rights Watch is hiring a senior researcher for its U.S. immigrant rights program. Not many non-newsroom jobs are this similar to the day to day work of journalism. If you’re a journalist and considering getting out, seriously take a look. job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you are a reporter, researcher, lawyer, or anyone who might make use of this data, please let me know if there are any features or figures that you'd find useful for us to visualize or release. We're going to continue to innovate what we're doing with this data in the coming months

The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Crime might be at near historic lows, but you know what crimes aren't? Pro cycling teams having their bikes stolen from races lol