"The GEO Group has consistently defended its record, saying it is closely monitored by ICE to ensure compliance with the agency’s 'strict requirements.'" But ICE appears to be lowering the bar for conditions at the Northwest ICE Processing Center.

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

throw in set piece goals are the story of the PL this season nearly 5 percent of PL non penalty goals have come from throw in set pieces more than double the highest rate seen before in any of the big five leagues in the data era

Davis County is located in Farmington, Utah. Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 3 days. detentionreports.com/facility/DAV...

Most combined points in an overtime in NBA history.

First ever double nickel triple double with 15+ rebounds and 15+ assists Nikola JOKIC

Think Adelman should get a good amount of credit for this Denver win. Down three starters against a team that matches up well with the Nuggets. The fourth quarter was disappointing, but given the context, not all that surprising.

Jamal Murray.

nuggets-wolves so reliably delivers.

Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month. buff.ly/NntUdNz

“Despite being the highest-profile supposedly “worst of the worst” deportees during the Trump administration, none of the CECOT deportees appear in the DHS “worst” arrests database” www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...

christmas on bluesky

See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.

"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.' The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

That's right. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

When I was growing up, I thought the "god becoming human" part of Christmas was unique. I have since learned otherwise. Many cultures and faith traditions have stories of gods becoming human. These stories of incarnations and avatars can inspire fear, distrust, courage, or hope.

Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.

DetentionReports.com has been updated. Detention trends for a total of 233 facilities can be found on the website. Of those, the 216 facilities that ICE identified on the most recent list have data updated through December 11.

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

More interested in protecting Bill Clinton and Larry Summers than taking down Trump

The largest facility in the country didn't even exist six months ago. Can't underestimate how quickly they can ramp up detention space with the resources they now have, and with the corners they're willing to cut doing so.

DetentionReports.com has been updated. Detention trends for a total of 233 facilities can be found on the website. Of those, the 216 facilities that ICE identified on the most recent list have data updated through December 11.

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

one thing that’s become very obvious about jessica berman’s nwsl is that owners would still much rather pay lawyers than players

Excellent visualizations in this NY Times article on the Trump Ethnic Cleansing Machine (paywall free link) ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE "I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Problem 2 with talking about delegalization: The things Trump killed weren’t, really, full immigration status. People with parole/TPS are still counted as “unauthorized” in official stats. They don’t create pathways to permanent status — that’s part of the reason there are so many folks affected.

Boulder-based BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of Geo Group, signed a contract with ICE this month to track down immigrants in immigration court proceedings (not detained cases). The contract is worth up to $121 million over the next 2 years. BI generally provides ankle monitoring services to ICE/Geo.

If I ran the numbers right (no guarantee on phone), now up to an average of >1450 over the first two weeks of December. Lot of SFL enforcement last 2 weeks, & after seeming pretty consistent about transferring out w/in <3 weeks over Oct and Nov, seeing people hit the full-month mark this week. 😕

ICE just released updated detention statistics. As of December 13, 2025, ICE reports a total of 68,442 people are held in immigration detention. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

Behind the walls of Indiana's ICE detention facility

This isn’t a shift. We have never been allowed to see in detention centers a feature of this country for decades. No one plasters dead bodies on the screen to promote war. Fascism thrives on the rhetoric of violence, but people don’t like to see how it marks bodies- thus censorship.

Colorado Avalanche = Good at Hockey

Someone leak it please 🙏

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.

AFCON is in session 👀 And what a better way to start the tournament than with an overhead GOLAZO by #Morocco attacker Ayoub El Kaabi 🤩

I worked at South End Press in the 90s and met/hung out with Chomsky a few times. A lot of professional leftists are prickly, under-socialized, and/or annoying. Chomsky is just a jerk. He wouldn’t notice Epstein’s flaws because, fundamentally, he’s also just an arrogant white dude.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

🗣️Régis Le Bris on influencing players from the touchline (2022) ⬇️