On Friday, ICE posted 33 detainee mortality reports to their online FOIA Library. Over the weekend, those reports were inexplicably deleted. We have archived them on our GitHub and are sharing them in hopes that the information is useful to journalists, researchers, and the general public.

psb-foia/ice/FOIA Library Artifacts/ICE Mortality Reports at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia

FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia

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The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Democrats caving, exhibit 4376.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

Yes ICE are "real police" and police are part of the same carceral system as ICE. Migra, policía, la misma porquería.

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

Schumer and Jeffries HAVE said a few things: 1. No Impeachment proceedings against Trump. 2. No Medicare 4 All 3. Continued "support" for Israel Feel free to add the other things you've heard them say on TV etc... over the past 6 months. THAT is the agenda.

I hope this is real.

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston@wcvb5.bsky.social · 2w ago

Police in Illinois recover 650 rolls of toilet paper amid rise in homecoming week vandalism | Click on the image to read the full story

It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.

Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2w ago

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

You don't say... the government lied. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)

New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Turns out that whole appease the far-right with Frontex etc. didn’t work, did it? Give a big round of applause for the third way folks who thought they could keep a lid on it by imitating it. /s

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4w ago

I think more people in US should be paying attention to this... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...

This isn’t the hottest story we’ve written, but it is another big indicator that ICE appears to be seriously considering purchasing GEO Group facilities such as the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma or Moshannon Valley in central Pennsylvania.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 4w ago

“‘The government may be interested in acquiring contractor owned sites,’” its instructions say, ‘therefeore [sic] the establishment of [Service Processing Center] pricing is critical.’”

New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...

Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO

LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.

lataco.com

NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

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As we foresaw in February 2025, "Neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis." crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last mo.

ICE agent Christian Castro, who is charged with shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, was released from a Texas county jail this morning. A federal judge yesterday declined to force Texas authorities to extradite Castro to Minnesota, paving the way for his release.

People consistently argue more surveillance will reduce policing but we’re just not seeing that actually manifest on the ground, instead we get this.

Futurism@futurism.com · last mo.

This is insane.

The carceral state will not restrain itself. If we wait for the "good" police to stop the fascists, we'll be waiting a very long time.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last mo.

Per binding precedent, as the Court acknowledges, this is "a summary procedure" decided by four simple questions. ... and then the Court outright defies the same, claiming there's a secret fifth question about timing that is unanswerable. Wholly lawless and impeachable.

In the Philly exurbs, a 22-year-old college student out drinking tried to go to a friend's house for the night and pounded on the wrong door, where they called police An Upper Pottsgrove cop showed up and immediately shot and killed him Police are out-of-control www.inquirer.com/crime/glenwo...

A Lower Pottsgrove man knocked on the wrong door. A cop killed him, thinking he was a burglar.

Glenwood Pysher IV walked to the wrong home while out celebrating a friend's birthday, his family said. The home's owner, thinking he was trying to break in, called the police.

inquirer.com

It was a pleasure to sit for this interview about the strategic and moral catastrophe awaiting us all if the left abandons its focus on combating the repressive apparatus of the state.

Truthout@truthout.org · last mo.

Alec Karakatsanis argues that when the left retreats from Black Lives Matter-era demands, both parties capitalize on backlash to expand police power—enabling far-right “law-and-order” policies.

ICE's militarization continues. A new procurement forecast lists $2 million for a ROOK. In the manufacturer's words, that is a tracked armored vehicle with a hydraulic ram that breaks through block walls and steel doors, plus a platform that lifts four armed officers to a third floor window.

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July.

Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman...

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🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”

Texas Lawmakers Call on ICE to Close Detention Camp Where 100+ Children Are Held

In Texas, calls are mounting to shut down the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where it’s estimated more than 100 children are being detained by ICE. This comes after a 5-year-old boy,...

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This is VERY big news. Previously, even vacated or expunged convictions could still get someone deported, if an immigration judge determined that the conviction was vacated for reasons unrelated to a legal defect (such as for rehabilitation-related purposes). The 4th Circuit says not any more!

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · last mo.

4th Cir. says that post-Loper Bright Enters. it will not defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals' framework for treating vacated convictions as nevertheless having immigration consequences. Big. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

No better example of the banality of evil than seeing a "good" immigration judge's asylum denial rate double or triple once Trump got into office. This somehow bothers me more than the consistently "bad" judges who at least adhere to a moral code, albeit a malevolent one.

People complain about woke 1 but who is fighting the insufferable norms & culture of LinkedIn. People tell me I should be on there trying to raise money & connect but I can't stand the place even a little bit.

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

Lumen confirms that it was Amnesty International that sent the DMCA strike. I will be contesting it as this document is a matter of public debate and abusing copyright in this manner to censor it is absolutely disgusting. What complete cowards.