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ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
“The Trump administration is set to award a multimillion-dollar contract to a small Texas law firm without immigration expertise to provide legal representation for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in government custody during immigration proceedings.” abcnews.com/US/small-tex...
Small Texas law firm without immigration expertise set to receive $150M contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children
The Trump administration is set to award a $150 million contract to a Texas law firm without immigration expertise to represent migrant children in custody.
abcnews.com
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo didn't deserve to die in a concentration camp. No one deserves to die in a concentration camp. Every single death at ICE's hands, every day this modern day gestapo and these modern day concentration camps exist, is a crime against every single one of us.
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 2d agoA 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
Joy is a form of resistance, too <3 This poem also makes me think of this powerful quote by Dan Savage: "We buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”
From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
The inevitable abuses, and probable deaths, that occur here are all preventable and instead we are making a concentration camp for children
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4d ago🧵 New ICE facility for kids set to open in Louisiana. To be run by 'nonprofit arm' of for-profit prison company. Former IRS attorney said first line of regulation is the state AG. Louisiana AG spox: “Nah... The AG fully supports the brave men and women of ICE." www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...
@thebaltimorebanner.com: ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight By Daniel Zawodny
Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody acro...
thebanner.com
Fatima Ameaka was arrested on Tuesday. She had been in custody in 3 different states by the time she was released Friday night from a facility in Harlingen, Texas. Her lawyer Benjamin Osorio took her to a hotel. Hopkins colleagues are flying to Texas on Saturday to pick her up. The trauma!
Driving away the best and brightest who want to work in the US... seems... just really really bad?
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6d agoU.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedom.press) launched the Penlight Prize for excellence in paywall-free public records reporting, which awards $25,000 to an outstanding piece of journalism that was made free to the public.
New $25K ‘Penlight’ journalism award honors paywall-free FOIA reporting
The Penlight Prize celebrates paywall-free reporting based on records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act or state public records laws.
buff.ly
Her latest publication is “Foodborne & emerging diseases outbreaks: Lessons learned & best practices study report” (publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...) Her expertise would be enormously helpful to the US right now —instead, the MAGA/MAHA Administration kidnapped her & put her in ICE detention 😢
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d agoWow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.
Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · last wk."They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com
This post is one reason I follow Brian Finucane. He was at the State Dept as an attorney-adviser for 10 years. Non partisan. Finucane says flatly this war is illegal and tells you why. It isn't a close call. I wish news organizations would say it more often. Follow: @bcfinucane.bsky.social
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7d agoTrump's illegal war with Iran continues. A war launched on a whim. A war in violation of the US Constitution, the UN Charter, the War Powers Resolution, and the US Congress's recently reaffirmed will.
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
gizmodo.com
An important and surprising discovery arriving the same week policy leaders in Washington tell us we no longer need federal investment in the biological and life sciences.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w agoCan a cancer become a new species of parasite? Here's my story on the discovery of a transmissible cancer lurking in Vermont catfish. Gift link: nyti.ms/4whfi6v
Dreamers made no bad choices. They were brought here as children. They grew up in America & followed the law. They are upstanding members of our communities, making many economic and social contributions. But POTUS can hurt them so he chooses to hurt them. Even though it hurts us too.
Michael Sainato@msainato.bsky.social · 2w ago"We grew up here, we built a community here, and we built our lives here. I lost my dream job,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
apnews.com
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Crucial from @ryanenos.bsky.social: If you doubt Trump might try to seize ballot boxes, recall that not long ago it seemed outlandish that armed government militias would be roving our streets, killing people. On the pod, Ryan is so good on the danger of this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2132...
Trump’s Plot to Rig Midterms Gets So Unhinged that Even Fox Is Rattled
As Trump’s threats to corrupt the midterms grow more vile, a political scientist explains why his visible derangement shouldn’t distract us from the severe threat this moment poses.
newrepublic.com
There's an obscure $40 billion lawsuit against the government, among the largest in history. The plaintiff is a bankrupt satellite company backed by private equity giant Cerberus, whose founder Steven Feinberg is #2 at the Defense Dept—the agency being sued. Feinberg stands to make a mint.
Top Defense Official Could Reap Windfall From DOD Settlement - The American Prospect
Stephen Feinberg founded private equity giant Cerberus. A Cerberus-owned firm is poised to settle one of the largest government lawsuits ever—against the very agency Feinberg now helps lead.
prospect.org
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
propublica.org
