@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

NEW: An ICE flight headed for Moldova turned around over the Atlantic Ocean yesterday and flew back to an ICE hub, returning 15 hours after it left. We don’t know why. Video I obtained from the scene shows 11 exhausted and shackled people disembark. gillianbrockell.com/why-did-this...

Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?

Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

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This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 23h ago

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

When you're just trying to make it make sense.

Third long-range private jet ICE flight in one day. This one is headed for Africa, possible third-country nationals onboard.

The actual quote is 10 times more psychotic than Ben is describing here

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 18h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

🚨 ICE is arresting visa overstays & pending green card applicants at airports using TSA data. If your status is in a gray area, domestic air travel is high-risk right now. Know your rights before you fly. www.instagram.com/p/DboXgR1CRM...

If you have a minute NEW PROJECT newsfor38yearolds.com basically a Drudge of indie left media goal is to function almost like an RSS reader of the best pubs & newsletters of the left updated constantly with one jokey headline thoughts? No need to verify your age; if you're on Bluesky, you're 38

Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 22h ago

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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I remember when Max Miller suggested the folder being deleted and reuploaded was due to mysterious and powerful people causing a Dropbox malfunction. You mean to tell me he leapt to a conspiracy without having all the facts?????

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23h ago

This story just keeps getting worse…. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Processing DNA for nearly a million people in a year? No problem, ICE says. Attaching a $300 camera to an agent’s vest? Logistical nightmare. That's one of the most remarkable ironies of this great story (based on FOIA requests by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Center on Privacy and Technology).

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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Your taxpayer $ at work. What the hell is the fuel cost, alone, of these flights?

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 23h ago

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

There are a number of planes in ICE's charter fleet that I'm monitoring for potential third-country removals today, but the flight patterns are unusual enough that I'm waiting for more info. This one though? This private jet operated by Talon Air is most likely an ICE flight.

Did the person/people he’s saying this to insult him or something? Or is he just letting the steroids speak for him?

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

Adam O’Neal did exactly what Bezos wanted, Bezos clearly doesn’t care about views anymore, and his departure was sudden. Soooo….seems like maybe a story with the word “allegations” is gonna drop? (I have no inside information, this is mere speculation.)

Status@status.news · 3d ago

Days before his abrupt exit from The WaPo, Adam O’Neal was privately boasting that he had pushed the Opinion section further to the right—raising new questions about what really drove his departure. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/adam-oneal...

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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There's a nasty fight between DHS contractors battling each other over deportation dollars and accusing each other of benefitting from a rigged system. Caught in the middle are immigrants, as @dfriedman.bsky.social, Will Sytsma, and I detail www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle

"There is so much money right now in detaining people."

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OMNOMNOMNOM COOKIE MONSTER LOVE HOW COOKIE AGED bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

“…and we have made dramatic changes over the last year.” Translation: Fired everybody Black. “…put Post Opinions on a sustainable footing.” Translation: Replaced longtime columnists with recent grads, whose only qualifications were being conservative and cheap.

Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d ago

New: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday

The progressive Burnsville City Council candidates are myself, Cati Gómez, Tunisia Irby, and Chris John - you can select two of us on your ballot. Links to all of their campaigns can be found here, on my website: bensonforburnsville.com

You guys, nominating the person who earned the most votes is now an “ideological purity test.”

Five weeks after 100+ people were killed in a hotel hours after being deported on a GlobalX ICE flight, these ghouls are back at it.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧊✈️ VENEZUELA⛓️🌎 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N278GX) departs Miami, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela (not Spain) 🇻🇪 👉 This is the first ICE flight to Venezuela since a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Caracas on June 24 👀

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Journalism employment has fallen everywhere in the US — except New York.

The New York-ification of Media Keeps Growing, Warts and All

Why has New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani become nationally prominent so quickly? Part of it has to do with his bold and controversial policy proposals, his undeniable political skills and his wholehearted embrace of social media. But it can’t hurt that there are so many journalists in New York to write and talk about his exploits and so few following the mayors of most other US cities.

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Now this is a “self-deportation” I can get behind.

Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 2d ago

James Carville Pledges to Abandon Party Over Hasan Piker https://politicalwire.com/2026/08/03/james-carville-pledges-to-abandon-party-over-hasan-piker/

This was such a good interview

@566unicorns.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ending on a surprisingly hopeful note from @doctorow.pluralistic.net . I deeply appreciate Cory's human-first manifesto--I feel sane & validated in my analogy that AI is like a dishwasher (or fancy word processor). www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...