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Resist-lib mom desperately trying not to give in to anger, fear, and hate
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 · yesterdayThis 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.
Billionaire media owners normalizing r@pe and sadistic behavior from the people that we are supposed to trust to keep us safe? Demand better. Journalists, publishers, and readers should not be fooled into believing this is acceptable in any way, shape, or form. Period. Pushback. Pushback hard.
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.
U.S. Border Patrol wants a contractor to track down deported people abroad and collect their immigration fines
The agency gave bidders three business days to compete for a first-of-its-kind contract to collect fines from people it has deported to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
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The games played between Trump & the Islamic regime have completely drowned out any attention the world might have paid to the horrendous human rights situation in Iran with daily executions. It all goes to say that some lives just don’t matter This is the reality of the ugly world in which we live.
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center@iranrights.org · 2d ago🔴The Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that the death sentences of #OmidBehzad and #PouryaSafvat, two prisoners accused of 'espionage and intelligence cooperation with Israel,' were carried out at dawn on Monday, August 3, 2026, following confirmation by the Supreme Court.
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
The imminent flight that I mentioned at the end of this story has taken off. Sounds like it’s going to go Senegal - Ghana - Central African Republic, with the latter two being third-country removals. At least one of the immigrants being sent to CAR is from Nepal.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d agoNEW 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...
“Spirits from beyond… have you seen Mitch?” www.themadisoncountyobserver.com/article15.html
Governor Andy Beshear Hires Paranormal Investigators in Search for Mitch McConnell — The Madison County Observer
Forty-four days into Senator McConnell's disappearance, Governor Beshear brought in the Kentucky Ghost Hunters and a spirit box to settle the matter once and for all.
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Late night scoop - Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
The Pentagon is considering a sweeping remake of military higher education, including an end to civilian tenure and a "line-by-line" review of courses, according to a draft memo obtained by CBS News.
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A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Woman detained by ICE is not getting proper medical care in a Kentucky jail, brother says From @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/07/30/w...
Woman detained by ICE is not getting proper medical care in a Kentucky jail, brother says • Kentucky Lantern
A brother of a woman detained by federal immigration agents in Louisville said she has been denied proper medical care for sickle cell anemia while being held in a Kentucky jail.
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All the calculations have changed.
Iran Seizes Control
Trump faces a growing crisis
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Anger is rising in Jordan against US forces in the country, the NYT reports. Jordanian protesters call the American presence a security, political, and economic risk pulling the country into a war it wants no part of. The war has already crushed the tourism sector — up to 18% of Jordan's revenue.
112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.
ICE agents have begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The NYT and interviews with immigration lawyers — opening up a new pool of possible deportees www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
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.
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BREAKING: The number of detainees in Dilley now surpasses 500, with 112 of detainees being children. UNIVISION visited the property with a delegation of members of congress led by Joaquin Castro We saw a poster that said "Together we shine" on the entrance of what appears to be the main lobby
A difficult-to-trace parasite, messaging missteps contribute to summer of overwhelming Cyclospora outbreaks Infrequent communication from the federal government on the Cyclospora outbreak caused a “big black hole for information” https://bit.ly/4fDRbrk 📷: benketaro/Flickr cc
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Landstuhl Medical Center, the only US Level II trauma center overseas, main medevac endpoint for ME casualties, suspended services back in March to free up capacity, now had 150+ additional medics arrive, plus urgent blood-donation appeals. Walter Reed has also reportedly been prepping for overflow.
More than 1.5 million eggs have been recalled across six states. trib.al/QT9garY
RFK Jr. Now Faces Salmonella Outbreak (on Top of Explosive Diarrhea)
More than 1.5 million eggs have been recalled across six states.
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Everyone in this administration is loathsome and indecent
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w agoFFS 🤦♂️ The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
More restrictions on press access and transparency from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The US Navy will no longer release to the media sailors' service records such as duty assignments, ranks, or awards, CBS reports.
Here's a new one: ICE *prevented* a man from self-deporting by a June 11 deadline — he asked ICE to let him leave and had a one-way plane ticket for June 10. Then ICE re-detained him because he missed the deadline. Due process violation, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
FOR REAL THERE ARE SO MANY I did a queer history lecture at my church and there were literally too many transmasc monk saints to fit in the PowerPoint with the time we had
Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 2w agoNiche post but if you want to write a story about a queer person in Europe c. 500-1000 CE your best bet is researching transmasc monks because there are surprisingly a lot of them.
The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights - The American Prospect
The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.
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