Emma Herman
@elherman.bsky.social
History PhD, trying to write a dissertation | 19th and 20th c. U.S.; race, space & law | Albuquerque, NM
It would cost less to just pay the criminals not to do crimes. www.notus.org/metro/trump-...
Trump Plans to Spend $1.4 Billion Keeping the National Guard in D.C. Until 2029
Budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office detail the costs of the National Guard’s controversial deployment.
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safe and beautiful task force seems to be doing mass arrests outside Union station tonight
Separation of church and state! Staff Sergeant Sellers with a tummy pack with Psalm 144:1 ("Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle") and a cross on a "tactical" American flag, as part of Trump's DC occupation force #freedc
Prisciliano Trejo, who had leukemia, was reportedly denied medical care by ICE for 8 days while in a detention center run by CoreCivic. He died just days later — and ICE is already shirking accountability. (1/3)
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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They can pay McKinsey but not their graduate students 🙄
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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sakura christmas@prof-christmas.bsky.social · 6d agoUnsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...
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The law requires oil companies to remove aging offshore platforms and restore habitat when drilling stops. The new proposal could let them attempt to leave decrepit rigs in the ocean "for future spaceport use" (aka indefinitely).
NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again
Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
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Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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“Workers are being killed and murdered everyday by Israel.” @uaw.org member Navruz Baum spoke about why rank-and-file workers pushed their union to divest from Israel, ultimately voting to sell $400,000 in Israel bonds. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on the vote & the organizing behind it.
United Auto Workers Divests From Israel
At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.
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Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
nytimes.com
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Trump just quietly approved the construction of a #DataCenter on #PublicLand in southern Nevada — the first data center allowed on public land. We've already filed an appeal against this dangerous development, but we need your help to show the scale of public opposition ➡️ bit.ly/4fGlM7W
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
Billions in border wall contracts are going to a Montana firm run by a Trump donor - High Country News
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Not only is ICE back at airports, they are making workers help them, even tricking them into helping. The unions need to take action and support their members. Posted this a week ago.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w agoLast year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.
"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social
Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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This is a concentration camp @andreapitzer.bsky.social has written one of the best respected books on the history of concentration camps, & argues, convincingly IMHO, that ICE detention centers meet the definition of concentration camps We need to shut them down now, while we still can 1/2
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 2w ago86 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.
Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief
A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...
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NEW: ICE wants to build immigrant detention cells at eight sites — including two centers it closed years ago and one, on St. Thomas, that has never existed. A $10B contract, reviewed by @projectsaltbox.com, would also pay the builder to scout ICE's next development sites.
Inside ICE's Plan to Stop Renting Detention Space and Start Building It
The solicitation, worth up to $10 billion, prices 208 cells across eight sites and lists 14 more places, from Honolulu to Guantánamo Bay, where work could later be ordered.
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New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard this week again shot down a proposal to build part of a natural gas pipeline for the controversial Project Jupiter data center on state land. via @sourcenm.com
New Mexico land commissioner blocks Project Jupiter-related pipeline from building on state land
New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard this week again shot down a proposal to build part of a natural gas pipeline for the controversial Project Jupiter data center on…
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The petition was at double digits this morning and as of 3pm today, it's at 184. I know we can get it to over 200 today! Sign!
Chicago Area Archivists@chicagoarchivists.bsky.social · 3w agoSign the petition to stop the closure of the National Archives at Chicago:
Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and a knife attacked a convoy of journalists in the West Bank on Saturday, the latest targeting of foreign journalists documenting the Israeli occupation. Four settlers have reportedly been detained over the attack.
Israeli Settlers Attack a Convoy of Journalists in the Occupied West Bank
The journalists were accompanying the father of a Palestinian American who was beaten to death by settlers a year ago.
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This mother called the local police for a mental health call and got HSI agents, who shot her son dead. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
He was having a mental health crisis. Memphis task force agents came and shot him
Jonah Neal, 25, was struck by a Homeland Security Investigations agent in May. There have been at least four deadly shootings related to the task force.
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