Sophie Hurwitz
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15 people in Minneapolis were indicted for “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.” The prosecutor couldn’t name a single instance in which they actually injured anyone, but insisted that didn’t matter.
"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told me. I wrote about the ridiculous attacks by right-wing media on Francesca Hong's mental health history for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Right-wing media is attacking Francesca Hong for her mental health history
"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy," Hong told Mother Jones.
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One of the great People’s Scholars, and writer of the definitive book on the Young Lords. Her class on race and empire (offered for free with a radical bookstore) introduced me to thinkers who changed how I saw the world. What a devastating loss
jentrification@jentrification.com · 4d ago"Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30, 2026, after a years-long struggle with non-small cell lung cancer. She was 55."
“It became very clearly obvious to me that this is a totally cross-partisan rebellion that’s happening from the bottom up,” @wewill2026.bsky.social told @hurwitz.bsky.social, after watching "MAGA Republicans and true-blue Democrats" protesting a Mich data center. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Can opposing data centers help progressives win?
A Sunrise Movement cofounder says the issue unites people across the aisle. He’s not the only one.
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Maine Just Told ICE to Get Out: Hundreds of the state’s police depts, school districts, & libraries are now required to refuse cooperation w/the agency. Reporting by @hurwitz.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Maine just told ICE to get out
Hundreds of the state's police departments, school districts, and libraries are now required to refuse cooperation with the agency.
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Trans Kansans are still dealing with the financial and emotional fallout of one of the country's most draconian anti-trans bills newrepublic.com/article/2124...
The Costly Cruelty of the Kansas Anti-Trans Driver’s License Law
A state legislature mired in animus against transgender Kansans has succeeded in its inhumane goals, leaving those affected in a state of confusion and anxiety.
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July 22 a list of 59 ICE and CBP agents charged with sexual & violent crimes between 2007-2026 was released 50 were sex crimes, many against children & the problem is getting worse: “Cases documented in 2025 and 2026 alone account for 42.4% of the list" ✏️ @hurwitz.bsky.social @motherjones.com
Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP agents have abused women and children
David Brouillette, according to Ohio Immigrant Alliance, is no outlier.
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The “clean natural gas” label is a myth. Great to see this Mother Jones article by @hurwitz.bsky.social summarizing the key findings of our report into The Fraud of "Clean" Natural Gas for @climateintegrity.org
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w agoA new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas lie
Trump's push to build data centers for the military runs into growing backlash
Trump’s Push to Build Data Centers for the US Military
Claims about national security are running into widespread backlash.
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A new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas lie
How fossil fuel companies made us believe gas was clean
A new report from the Center for Climate Integrity exposes "decades of deception."
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“Ashley Brouillette had not heard from her ex-husband, David Brouillette, since November. She says one of their last interactions was a three-minute voicemail in which David told her that someone should slit her and her daughters’ throats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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A man with a troubled history, including many accusations of violence, kills a young father in broad daylight. With one set of characters, this is a crime story that enrages law-and-order advocates. With another, it's our tax dollars at work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"The federal immigration policing force now includes about 50,000 agents spanning ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement agencies. And after ICE’s internal watchdog office was gutted, they’re operating with few guardrails and near-unlimited resources." @hurwitz.bsky.social
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago“ICE and Border Patrol agents have a disturbing track record of sexually and violently abusing women and children, including members of their own families. These are not people who should be given guns and free rein to roam U.S. communities.”
"H.R. 7661, which activists are calling a 'nationwide book ban bill,' has advanced out of committee." "The bill would prohibit public school libraries from stocking texts that involve 'sexually oriented material,' as well as 'gender dysphoria or transgenderism.'" #USA #Art #Censorship #Education
The 'nationwide book ban bill' follows a familiar playbook
The bill would restrict students from reading about queer and trans people.
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Great piece on Kalshi's planned ICE betting markets from @pabloreports.bsky.social Disgusting stuff migrantinsider.com/p/kalshi-wan...
Kalshi Wants You to Bet on How Many People ICE Abducts Today
A CFTC filing obtained by Migrant Insider shows the exchange quietly built a market that lets traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count with three confidential appendices the public never saw.
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It also reflects my general impression from reporting -- that a lot of people who joined ICE during the "hiring surge" had long wanted to be in federal law enforcement and had done other violence-work jobs in the past (but wanted the cache of a street agent).
Of all the pieces on "ICE training," and David Brouillette, this is the best one I've read. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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“The seriousness of the allegations—domestic violence—you’d think would likely be disqualifying for someone who’s going to be armed by the government.”
Noah Lanard@nlanard.bsky.social · 2w agoWe spoke with former friends and family of the ICE officer who reportedly killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Court records show how ICE gave a lifeline to a man who'd been accused of abuse by two ex-wives before becoming "voluntarily underemployed." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We spoke with former friends and family of the ICE officer who reportedly killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Court records show how ICE gave a lifeline to a man who'd been accused of abuse by two ex-wives before becoming "voluntarily underemployed." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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Before ICE hired David Brouillette, he'd been working in real estate with so little success that a judge called him "voluntarily underemployed." Before that, he was allegedly fired as a *volunteer* firefighter for threatening to punch his boss in the face.
1/ Had ICE done even a tiny bit of background checking, they never would have* hired the agent who gunned down a young dad in front of his 3 yo. A deep, deep dive from @nlanard.bsky.social @samanthamichaels.bsky.social @hurwitz.bsky.social *should have www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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2/ It's not just ex wives who have damming things to say about him. It's his ex coworkers, relatives, bosses, acquaintances:
![After Gardiner Area High, David joined the Maine National Guard in 2007 and then the Army in 2010, deploying to Afghanistan for about nine months. “Afghanistan destroyed him,” an estranged relative told the Associated Press. Afterward, he worked as a corrections officer, then as a police officer with the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was also briefly a volunteer firefighter, though Frank Wozniak, his former boss at the Town of Manchester Fire Department, told Mother Jones he fired David for threatening to “punch me in the face and take my job.” (Wozniak told David to get out of the firehouse and never come back; the town’s next fire chief rehired him.)
David struggled financially. In 2020, he pleaded for a Maine court to reduce child support payments required by his second divorce. “I am NOT ABLE to survive,” David wrote in a handwritten statement. He added, “PLEASE PLEASE reduce my [child support].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n74wy26n6klbv7xgrndeog7s/bafkreibolwwo5j3o5rze2rtohau4drx24wkzlbi2kncvm7o32wxq3yjkey)
You know the ICE officer who killed someone in Maine and was then accused by two ex-wives of abuse? Turns out he was likely eligible to skip a significant portion of training after ICE hired him, due to a policy change under this administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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