I find this interesting because many blue cities operate like this already. NYC is effectively ruled only by Dems, and yet there’s ideological diversity and infighting. but it does feel like everyone fights bc they care. It sometimes seems that Republicans don‘t care about anything

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h ago

more people will try to distance themselves from the GOP debacle. it's a good time to reflect on the fact that that party doesn't need to exist

Dozens of Republican candidates directly endorsed by Donald Trump lost their US midterm election races, according to analysis by the Guardian, raising questions over the power of the president’s support.

wins like these will go far in limiting ICE's reach

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: One of the most notoriously far-right, xenophobic sheriffs in the nation lost his reelection bid. After decades in office. Voters in Frederick County, Maryland, have ousted Chuck Jenkins, known for aggressively anti-immigrant policies.

Looking at the wild Texas numbers. And thinking about the reactionary pundits who proclaimed for 2 years that the ICE mass deportation regime was a popular and politically smart policy.

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 3d ago

Talarico led in the polls by 4 percentage points. He's poised to win Texas by at least 12 points. A big polling error toward Democrats.

Jefferson Parish in Louisiana shifted 20 points to D compared to 2024 according to NBC. It has also been ground zero for ICE arrests and has a large Latino community. Incredible.

at this point in the night i feel safe calling it: it’s time to get pronouns

btw the Guardian found at least 20 other cases of rearrests! (including previously reported cases by @mprnews.org and @thelensnola.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE rapidly re-arresting immigrants released after winning court petitions

Many are challenging their detention using habeas corpus filings only to be arrested again, in violation of court orders

theguardian.com

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d ago

A judge ordered a man released form ICE detention. ICE agents immediately rearrested him. "Once again, the cruelty appears to be the point," Judge Crews writes, ordering the man released again and warning of contempt proceedings. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

booo I voted late and didn’t get a sticker 😔

Federal judges have freed people from immigration detention because the local ICE managers who ordered them locked up lacked the power to do so. In June, the agency gave those managers that power. It did not make the order public until Oct. 23.

DO99-004 Redacted

documentcloud.org

My first byline for the Guardian. I found at least 20 people who have been rearrested by ICE — some before they even left the building.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 4d ago

Many are challenging their detention using habeas corpus filings only to be arrested again, in violation of court orders

what is going on with the AI ads in the nyc subway?? what exactly are “moomoo“ and “clay“ selling me on the 1 train?? who is paying for this??

Just in case people don't click links that don't have pictures, here's a screenshot thread for you: 1. TRUMP HAS 5 NAMED RAPE ACCUSERS BEYOND E. JEAN CARROLL

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I watched flight data all summer showing ICE flights landing in San Juan--sometimes doing three removal flights a day to the Dominican Republic for weeks on end--and wondered what that looked like on the ground. Excellent dispatch from @hammerandhope.bsky.social. hammerandhope.org/article/puer...

In Puerto Rico, the People Demand “ICE, Go Home!”

An intensifying ICE presence and local government complicity have prompted a defiant politics of sanctuary that is both pro-immigrant and anticolonial.

hammerandhope.org

Excellent reporting from @lexmcmenamin.com:

The right is pushing its anti-trans fury on the WNBA. Players and fans are loudly pushing back

As the WNBA finals kick off Saturday in San Francisco, the pro-LGBTQ+ sports fanbase push a message of inclusion in the face of anti-trans attacks

theguardian.com

My friend Greg Constantine, an amazing photographer, spent 2026 documenting immigration detention in Oklahoma, Indiana and Pennsylvania for Mother Jones as a Bertha Challenge Fellow. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/author/greg-...

Greg Constantine

2026 Bertha Challenge Fellow

motherjones.com

What confuses me as a lay person abt the math and AI debate is that Open AI digested human work and thought to solve these problems. It is unclear to me how human understanding will progress if math is purely left to AI when we *know* AI does not and will never possess human intelligence

goya always stays relevant

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4w ago

"The firing squad is very physical and visceral in the damage that it does to the person being executed. That’s why they like it. They like it because it’s the same kind of video game brutality that they like in every other context of this administration’s barbarism."

I’m old enough to remember that back in 2014 there were genuine arguments about if news outlets should show ISIL executing its victims. Since then, our tolerance for cruelty and violence thanks to social media has now led to this:

Reuters@reuters.com · 4w ago

The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. reut.rs/4jMNL9x

My undergrad was (mostly) a commuter school yet I vividly remember at least one man who had a gun and made death threats against two girls, his exes. The university did next to nothing, to my knowledge. One dropped out. I think she never finished university

Kylie Cheung@kylietcheung.bsky.social · last mo.

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.

“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

motherjones.com

For nearly two months, I’ve been speaking to three trans women detained at a notorious immigration facility in Louisiana. They were incredibly brave to talk to me abt what they’ve endured. veritenews.org/2026/10/05/t...

Trans detainees allege abuse at Jena ICE facility

Three trans women have been held in solitary confinement for months allege that they are facing abuse at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

veritenews.org

real new york shit

Samantha Maldonado@smaldo.bsky.social · last mo.

The Guardian Angel founder is also a self-proclaimed expert on getting shot -- actually shot, by bullets. He survived being shot five times in June 1992. "I know about getting shot," he assured the mayor. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

It’s always shocking to me that people in the U.S. don’t really think of their society as profoundly machista. the words ‘femicide’ or ’gender violence’ aren’t even used. It’s like Latin Americans have a way to speak about this while U.S. Americans… don’t

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last mo.

There's misogynist horror in the news all the time.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

NEWEST: A Rohingya refugee spent seven weeks at a Louisiana facility with grave reports of human rights abuses. His life was upended by detention. Read my latest article below ⬇️ veritenews.org/2026/09/28/i...

Man ICE detained came to U.S. fleeing genocide in Myanmar

Min Khant Zaw, a Rohingya and Kaman activist and asylum seeker, had his life upended after spending seven weeks inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.

veritenews.org

DILLEY DETENTION CENTER NUMBER 2 Call it a “staging facility” all you want. The contract says detention. There’s playground equipment behind the fence. And Dilley has already held children far beyond the roughly 20-day Flores limit. Now they’re building “Dilley 2.” We know what this is!

It's always shocking to me how the Puerto Rican pro-independence movement fails to communicate that Puerto Rico is literally used as an imperial staging ground.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last mo.

BREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa.

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last mo.

BREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa.

Listen to one of the best journalists on the beat whom I have the honor to call my friend! 💓🔥

Sophie Rae Lichterman@whysophiewhy.bsky.social · last mo.

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