NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.

Deportation Data Project@deportationdata.bsky.social · 5d ago

🚨 We just released new ICE data updated through August 6, 2026, adding almost five months of data to our previous release. The new dataset contains a field recording the city of each arrest. deportationdata.org/news/2026-08...

This is what british racism looks like in 2026. Everyone makes mistakes but ethnic minority mistakes are met with lynch mobs. Beyond disproportionate. RIP Jason Arday.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w ago

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Tulane's Muira McCammon documented how Google turned off reviews for 90+ ICE detention facilities, erasing accounts of conditions inside. Google says disabling ICE facility reviews was "unrelated to a government request." But McCammon argues the effect is the same: dissent rendered invisible.

As Google Scrubs ICE Detention Reviews, Platform Power Serves State Interests

Google’s content moderation choices threaten to render accounts of treatment inside federal detention centers invisible, writes Muira McCammon.

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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

they better hope they create the ai god because if not there will be hell to pay for the destruction they’re wreaking at the peak of the hype

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last mo.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Even in careful versions of Native land acknowledgment, “a ritual meant to recognize dispossession becomes a form of reassurance instead,” says Reid Walker, a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. “History is named and then absorbed.”

Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating.

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

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🚨 Publication alert 🚨 Q: Do young audiences prefer micropayments or subscriptions when paying for online journalism? A (on the basis of 2,720 survey responses): "subscription is consistently favoured over micropayments across all content types".

Detailed investigation by @wired.com into the coordination of rioting in Belfast by far right groups in the US, boosted by the world’s first newly minted trillionaire. What will the authorities reaction be to prosecution of this type of action? www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots

After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.

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They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say

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"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky." Khalil Gibran Ralph Emerson art

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Mamdani for President 💥

As Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire, dozens of volunteers eat, sleep and pray at a small hospital, waiting to respond to the next airstrike. Their responsibilities have expanded beyond emergency medical care to distributing humanitarian aid.

Lebanon’s medics vow to carry on through grief, injuries: ‘These are our people’

As Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire in southern Lebanon, dozens of volunteer medics have decamped to a small hospital. They eat, sleep and pray there, waiting to respond to the next airstrike.

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funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

The right-wing billionaire who owns the New York Times hires right-wing pundits to tell its liberal readers what they should think. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...

Opinion | The Four Lessons Liberals Should Consider After Orban’s Defeat

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Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Thank you for this thread. Those are powerful and insightful words by Belafonte. It helps make the case that “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” … and for generations the NYT leadership preserves the status quo and undermines those doing the bending.

Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”

Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work

One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.

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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports

Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer

Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

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ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

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“US elites – those running major businesses, universities, law firms, media companies and other mainstream institutions, often hailing from the nation’s most exclusive academic institutions – have continued on their course of compliance and complacency.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why haven’t American elites stood up for Minnesota? | Daniel Altschuler

If US elites can find the courage to speak up, we can still prevent our country from descending into full-blown autocracy

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It comes as the Palestinian Red Crescent says the evacuation of patients and wounded Palestinians via the southern Rafah crossing has been canceled for today. Israel has been tightly controlling the Rafah crossing since it partially reopened on Monday, after two years of total closure.

As President Trump’s immigration crackdown continues in Minnesota, many immigrants who are detained in the Twin Cities are ending up in a desolate detention camp in the desert of West Texas, only to be released later in El Paso with no money and no obvious way to get home. trib.al/jyi6Rca

Because of course 🤮🤮

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...