Justin Powell

@justinsf1.bsky.social

Airport development, random travel and civilian volunteer, not all at the same time. See examples of physical and written ramblings at www.aerotrekka.com

The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.

ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · last wk.

ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

We need more fiction about how fucking good liberal modernity is, because for all the bellyaching about it, it's a hell of a lot better than what came before, and compared to all the (horrific) actually existing alternatives. Come to the lib side! We have fun, excellence, and basic human decency.

A British far-right group vandalized London mosques and posted the pictures. It was run by Russia. The network recruited through Telegram to make Russia-linked attacks look homegrown. A 23-year-old Russian diplomat, son of a government official, is suspected. euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/18/d...

Russia paid a recruit to vandalize London mosques and make it look homegrown

A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to the attacks. Direct Action UK, a fake British far-right group, then circulated images of the graffiti.

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The mob at the Capitol was planned, monitored, and steered. Its organizers knew: Serious People in DC with bios saying "security" or "justice" would... find it cringe and look away. Well now that cringe is destroying us. So who's the security expert after all, fuckers? Who saw it coming? 2/

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Never a bad time to remind ourselves that in addition to being a halfwit, Mullin got his job because Trump thought he was a badass MMA fighter, when in fact his career consisted of a couple of matches in a Tulsa semipro league, including one in which he managed to beat a teenager named Huggie Bear

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "The only way you can take a republic country like the United States and turn it into a communist country is by causing chaos on purpose and then saying, 'hey look, government is a mess. You need us, the communist country, to rule you.' It's insane."

9/11 should evoke many things. Memories of those lost. Admiration for the courage of those who sacrificed so much. But it also should engender humility. Before and after the attack, the U.S. national security establishment failed repeatedly. Intel failed. Our reactions to the attack...

No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

The people ICE abandoned on Malabo are being disappeared, DHS copy-pastes the same statement they sent me two days ago, meanwhile a new ICE jet flies overhead and expels more third-country nationals a couple hundred miles away in Cameroon. It’s too much, man.