Angie Martin recounted the 2024 death of her fiancé George Christopher at the Champaign County jail. "We still miss him," she said. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/fiance-of-...

I got on the bus for an amazing tour of the Underground Railroad in Urbana-Champaign with Angela Rivers and Barbara Suggs-Mason. Check out my write up! BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/bus-tour-o...

By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.

My report back from a trip to St. Louis to meet @austinkocher.com and my friends from Abide in Love in Missouri. BD “I make the distinction that what’s happening is [...] a whole suite of novel and creatively cruel new strategies that we’ve never seen before." -- Austin Kocher

As ICE seeks to turn commercial warehouses across the country into massive detention centers, communities are fighting back, @bdolinar.bsky.social reports: theappeal.org/ice-wants-to...

“My ‘crime’ is leaving my country, Honduras, to be able to give a better life to my children and my parents,” Mary wrote. Read more at my Substack: briandolinar.substack.com/p/the-limits...

On gentrification and Trump-type anti-homeless types in Champaign. BD www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/cham...

Read about what I've been reading about. BD "For me Tupac’s life is a story about the arc of Black revolution from the 1960s to the present." briandolinar.substack.com/p/what-ive-b...

An update on my many outstanding FOIAs and ideas for #2026 BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/fun-with-f...

My latest for Truthout on local organizers resisting ICE #chingalamigra BD

Watch a four-minute video of our AT&T rally in Champaign #AbolishICE BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/crushing-i...

My write up on Julio Cucul-Bol's sentencing, political pawns, and cats. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/guatemalan...

Going to the courthouse is always a learning experience. Read about my friend Shonda who was in court in Cook County this week. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/going-to-c...

Through a FOIA request, I obtained 29 immigration detainers sent to the Champaign County jail. Read more at my Substack. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/wanted-imm...

Read immigrant stories unique to those living in Champaign-Urbana. Thanks to my neighbor Greg Springer for sharing. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/stories-fr...

Trump's "Midway Blitz is connected to my hometown Urbana, and some more updates at my recent Substack. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/survival-a...

I went on a road trip to find my lost great-uncle who died in the coal mines of SE Kansas. Read more at my Substack! BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/digging-up...

Read the new issue of Stateville Speaks! BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/stateville...

Check out my article mapping ICE detention & resistance in the Midwest for @truthout.org @silkys13.bsky.social #AbolishICE BD truthout.org/articles/a-f...

ICE picked up a roofing crew last week in Urbana. Here's what I was able to find out #AbolishICE BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/ice-strike...

Read my latest Substack! BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/abolish-ic...

Those of us on the right side of history must say no deportations no matter what #abolition BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/fish-in-a-...

The back story to my Cellebrite article. And some reflections on Urbana's election yesterday. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/cellebrite...

My latest w/ Tara Goodarzi #freepalestine #stoppolicespying BD

This week I confirmed ICE was in CU. Sign up for my Substack for more reports. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/trumps-ice...

Where's Waldo? Read more at my Substack, "Sentences." BD

ICYMI - my update on the 1st Amend. hearing for Yafa Issa, U of Illinois student facing mob action charges. Judge Webber will give his ruling on Friday, Jan. 24, at 3:30pm in Courtroom A. briandolinar.substack.com/p/free-speec...

"According to longtime activist and community journalist Brian Dolinar, a previous Urbana police chief helped him confirm whether a deportation had taken place, and he and other advocates would let family members know." ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-ur...

A majority of the people in the courtroom were from the local Muslim community. Watching the prosecutor try to get the 18-year-old young woman indict herself on the stand, as a courtroom of Muslim friends and family members looked on, was bad optics.

Champaign County has had three people die at the jail in the last three years. I found out about the latest death in a state report. But what's the point of having state reports, if nobody is reporting about them?! Read more at my Substack. briandolinar.substack.com/p/support-se...

“As Muslims, that’s a really important issue for our community,” Sana Saboowala said in an interview. “Since 9/11, Muslim communities have been policed all over the nation, and a lot of the surveillance laws that have been put in place on the national level have been targeting Muslims."

Read about the new issue of Stateville Speaks on my Substack! Happy to be working on this 20 year prison publication with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and others! BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/stateville...

Thanks @truthout.org for coving the mob action charges. BD

A personal story about digging up my family history. BD briandolinar.substack.com/p/coming-hom...

New story about the expansion of detention in New Jersey. Despite laws passed to end detention, the Biden administration and private prison contractors have been intervening to reopen a shuttered jail, Delaney Hall. documentedny.com/2024/11/20/i...

NEW w/ @farrahsoa.bsky.social: Sean Grayson, charged with murdering Sonya Massey, committed misconduct at prior jobs that could have stopped him from being rehired. In one case, drug charges were just dropped—after the defendant, Chelsey Lowe, was already convicted. ipmnewsroom.org/sean-grayson...

Follow all the amazing writers at @truthout.bsky.social! BD

📺 WATCH @silkys13.bsky.social executive director at DWN on @democracynow.bsky.social speak on the recent history of mass deportations under the Obama administration and what to expect with Trump’s mass deportation and immigration detention agenda.

Sign the letter to stop mail digitization in Illinois prisons. BD

Illinois is keeping up with Alabama ($400 million) and Indiana ($1.2 million) in building two new prisons ($900 million) #decarceration BD

X is for Malcolm X - "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." BD

Writing is fighting! Sign up for my Substack "Sentences" to follow my abolition journalism. BD briandolinar.substack.com