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Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

It can happen here - in Pa. coal country I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

23 warehouse sites are being considered by the DHS to imprison as many as 80,000 people if converted into immigration jails — or more if the administration fails to implement safe living standards.

Yes. Most of the people in immigration jail are people from Florida and the South where there are 287g and other cooperation agreements. A lot are through CAP (which I don't think most people know about) www.ice.gov/identify-and...

As @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote this about Tom Homan last year. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

"A recent raid in rural Kentucky illustrated several features of this transformed and expanded deportation machine."

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

For @boltsmag.org & @thenation.com, I went to the farms, livestock sale barns, and roadside bars of Arkansas and the prison towns of Upstate New York to report on how rural communities are changed (or changing) when a prison comes to town. boltsmag.org/arkansas-pri...

As the federal government deputizes these federal, state, and local agencies to partake in ICE’s work, it remakes existing infrastructure and political relationships in ICE’s image: remakes them, that is, toward fascism. @jacknorton.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social @liv-veazey.bsky.social @rodriquese.bsky.social @jacknorton.bsky.social @tricialockwood.bsky.social @lilyscherlis.bsky.social . . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

thank you @nplusonemag.com for publishing this piece about the infrastructure of deportation in rural Kentucky and beyond www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Guys what if we told you the DEA isn't only doing DEA things

DHS announced that it will financially reward local law enforcement agencies that carry out its anti-immigrant agenda, effectively creating an incentive system in which the more people wanted by ICE that an agency abducts, the more money it stands to make. truthout.org/articles/tru...

crying, screaming, throwing up

ICE Documents Reveal Plan to Double Immigrant Detention Space This Year By @douglasmac.bsky.social, N. Kirkpatrick, and Lydia Sidhom Billions will be spent to reach more than 107,000 beds, including in mega-facilities, tents and at least two new family detention centers. Gift link!

Compared to the general population, unhoused people are held in jail for 3.5x as long, despite typically being charged with the lowest level crimes It’s safe to assume that unaffordable cash bail is to blame. No one should have to stay behind bars because they can't afford bail

Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout: longhaulmag.com/cain-at-leas...

Last December, Amazon Teamsters launched a historic strike against the company. Here five of those strike leaders in Queens reflect on how work is organized and their union is being built––talking lean production, race and workgroups, translation and two strikes longhaulmag.com/advanced-det...

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀 Design by Sara Sukhun Photographs by Gauri Gill longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

Good evening, I’m out here in Los Angeles near MacArthur Park, where protestors have taken to the streets to protest the recent raids across the city, despite a TRO prohibiting them

"Part of the [abolitionist] work is remembering that alliances that we take for granted now were not a given before they were made." @lydiajean.bsky.social‬ on how to make those alliances happen. With @craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Judah Schept inquest.org/organizi...

Give this a read. ICE’s Broadview facility was never designed to hold people overnight. Now ICE is keeping people here in an overcrowded space, for days at a time, no beds, no showers, and little to no food.

Chicago::

Rachel Kushner on prisons & writing & prisoners. On Balzac, Jack Henry Abbott, Foucault, RWG. & delightfully, for me, letting a little air out of M. Kakutani's reputation::

“The raids are part of a 500-year anti-colonial struggle, Gochez said. ‘We know we’re going to take losses, but in the end, we’re going to win.’”

Sanctuary cities, counties, and states are not immune from ICE's arrest & deportation agenda – but these policies DO make a difference in limiting the criminalization of immigration:

“If they’re able to crush the LA resistance, that means they’re going to be able to do it anywhere else. That’s why LA as a frontline has been a critical space to show that the community is organized, and we’re not backing down.”

So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

New report on deportation and local jails from @jkangbrown.bsky.social and @prisonpolicy.org www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

this just arrived & looks incredible::