They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities

Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work

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Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup. Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires. It's a disgrace.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."

So dark and unhinged. The Trump regime is dropping thousands of bombs for clicks. If you’re not horrified by this you have lost the thread.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to strike Iran. Both countries have major financial ties to Trump & his son-in-law Jared Kushner. War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth. Period. https://popular.info/p/the-money-behind-the-new-iran-war

The money behind the new Iran War

In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Ira

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Hard to argue

Nurul Amin Shah Alam should be alive today. CBP left a nearly blind, older man who couldn’t speak English miles away from his home on a freezing winter night. Nurul’s death was a cruel tragedy that must be investigated and these agents need to be held accountable. www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/u...

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say | CNN

The death of a nearly blind refugee in Buffalo, New York, days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop alone, has prompted an investigation into the circumstances of his final days...

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An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show

Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security

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There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 6mo ago

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 6mo ago

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

ICE is afraid of children protesting

“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

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I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue@combatcavscout.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is from Georgia Fort’s video. DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸

Remember: a white supremacist tactic is to blame victim. For example: brave & effective Mississippi voting rights activist, Rev. George W. Lee, was murdered by shotgun in 1955. Sheriff said it was a traffic accident & the shotgun pellets were dental fillings. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/re...

May 7, 1955: Murder of Rev. George W. Lee

Rev. George W. Lee, one of the first African Americans registered to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi NAACP, was murdered.

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We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

DEAR DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS‼️ stop talking like there is any possibility of making ICE a better ICE. It’s not happening. ICE needs to go. Period. What are you saying? “Let’s make slave catchers nicer.” It’s moral nonsense.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

“This is a man who has consistently scapegoated Black & Brown people [e.g., Central Park 5] to either gain celebrity or political capital. And now as president the second time, he is enacting an authoritarian agenda,” -- Khalil Muhammad via @democracynow.org 🧵 www.democracynow.org/2025/8/12/kh...

“Slide Towards Fascism”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Racist Roots of Trump D.C. Takeover

After announcing the federal takeover of law enforcement in D.C. in the White House briefing room, President Trump painted a grim picture of the capital — including “roving mobs of wild youth” — that ...

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REALITY CHECK: Texas Democrats earn 45% of the vote—but under the GOP’s new gerrymandered map, they’d get just 21% of the seats. That’s not representation. That’s rigging the system. #MessWithTexas

I sent off as many hearts as fast as my mouse could click, congrats to @debbieohi.com on being recognized for her lifetime of dedication and love for the kidlit community. We are all so lucky to have Debbie 💗❤️💗❤️ #scbwisummer25

Jolie Stekly@cuppajolie.bsky.social · last yr.

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