This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

Okay but I don’t know that Trump’s appeal of Williams’ dissolution of the settlement will actually do anywhere. “Are the president and an executive agency he directly controls real oppositional parties?” is kind of an open and shut question

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

So the federal government is going to pay goons to go probably assault people who have *already been deported* and shake them down for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in economies where a thousand dollars is a small fortune?

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

404media.co

Would anyone read a book about the failure (and potential) of left-federalism in the Trump era? Like something on how governors wrestled with their power and landed mostly on the side of extreme caution, how things could be different, and how we can/should reclaim states’ rights from the right wing?

Is there a reason it’s become so standard issue for bars and restaurants to have those ID scanners that record all your information? I understand why you have to show ID at an establishment that sells alcohol but do I need to be a registry of everyone who enters?

I took the D down from 135th St assuming that because it stopped at a local stop it was running local. Wrong! That sucker ran from 125th to 59th, so I just took the 1 up to the 2 at 72nd and figured at least it was express. Also wrong! This one is running local. I love the MTA!

At @damemagazine.bsky.social, I argue the convoluted, outdated, contradictory immigration framework must be rethought and revamped along two guiding principles: 1) it must be dramatically simplified, and 2) the framework cannot allow for permanent semi-status like TPS or lack of status entirely

America’s Immigration System Was Never Built to Make Sense - Dame Magazine

America's immigration laws are outdated, contradictory, and difficult to navigate. Experts argue reform means rebuilding the system from the ground up.

damemagazine.com

ICE, deportations, border crossings. In this era, that's what dominates the news when it comes to immigration policy. But the laws governing who can come, stay, work, and become American are just as broken. @felipedlh.bsky.social with the latest installment in our Repairing America series.

America’s Immigration System Was Never Built to Make Sense - Dame Magazine

America's immigration laws are outdated, contradictory, and difficult to navigate. Experts argue reform means rebuilding the system from the ground up.

damemagazine.com

I wrote for @thenation.com about how Leo's surprise mass excommunications against the reactionary SSPX sect can teach political pro-democracy and pro-liberalism forces a thing or two

What Pope Leo Can Teach Liberals About Power

The pontiff just excommunicated a reactionary splinter group committed to undermining the church. Democratic leaders could learn something.

thenation.com

I'm sorry, GEO Group surveillance subsidiary BI incorporated is located on GUNBARREL AVE???

lol most progressive journalists I know are a couple months of bad luck away from destitution

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.

[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:

“These are filthy lies and also illegal leaks of internal information” has become such a hilarious MAGA reflexive response

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail

I don’t think this is necessarily something WSJ did wrong here but even the framing of this as kind of a quirky thing tech people have started doing à la drinking Soylent instead of an insane perversion of the social contract shows how much the Overton window has moved on surveillance

*taps mic* hi, okay, but Christopher Nolan's best film remains Memento. That is all, thank you

As I’ve said before, I fear people will only really notice when they look around and see that even the influencers that get their information from have nowhere left themselves to draw their news from, at which point it’ll be too late

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over

Genuine question: was there a period post-WWII / after the drafting of international laws of war that these were scrupulously followed? In my lifetime it’s rarely seemed like there’ve been consequences for war crimes and no one really expects there to be, but was there a time that they did?

Well thanks, storm, I was supposed to be in NYC by 10pm tonight and instead I’m flying overnight to Dallas and being put on standby for a flight to LaGuardia at 6am

Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

I mean wasn’t this also kind of Marx himself

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2w ago

Being a freeloading piece of shit, but wokely

Among the many horrors unleashed by Clinton’s 1996 laws was the creation of this court, but it’s never been used given very obvious constitutional questions with deporting someone based on secret evidence in a sealed proceeding. Unsurprisingly, Trump is going for it

Trump administration activates never-before-used ‘alien terrorist’ deportation court

The court has been dormant since it was created in 1996.

politico.com

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate

A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.

thecityreporter.nyc

Is the foul in the room with us right now

Here we go. Por hoy, viva España

States are being told that federal agents are free to commit crimes without even the pretense of accountability in their jurisdictions, against their constituents. Every day the case for anti-authoritarian federalism grows, starting with investigation and prosecution of Fed personnel

Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible

To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.

newrepublic.com

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Is Zlatan wearing Cucinelli? Seems like the right cut, right?

A new New York law creates a pathway for people to file civil lawsuits against federal agents. “This is one of the things I am more proud of in my eight years here in the state Senate because of what the implications are,” says one of the bill’s sponsors.

This Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - Bolts

Federal law makes it very difficult to file lawsuits against federal officers, but some states have adopted their own laws to give people a so-called cause of action to sue.

boltsmag.org

This guy is often described as a journalist but can anyone point me to any journalism that he's done that isn't just relishing being a contrarian? Like, has this dude ever unearthed something, or really nailed explaining some complex policy issue, or built up credibility in some area of coverage?

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 3w ago

Michael Tracey claims that journalists tell him privately all the time that they're becoming more and more skeptical of the Jeffrey Epstein accusations, but they can't say so in public because they're afraid of people calling them pedophiles.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.