i think one of the small, concrete things someone could do to help fight the injustices of immigrant detention is to edit and update ICE facilities' wikipedia pages. many are outdated, thin at best, and/or have incorrect information
alex
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It's @thexylom.com's 300th story! Woohoo!
The Xylom@thexylom.com · 21h agoNEW: The vulnerable peatlands that protect Kenyan communities on the edge of Lake Victoria from floods are also among the Earth’s richest carbon stores. Identifying them is easier said than done; conserving them, even harder. www.thexylom.com/post/kenya-l...
Since 2025, ICE has been refilling America's empty private prisons. At least 11 shuttered or idle private facilities are now active ICE detention centers holding ~9,600 people — with 3 more opening soon. A thread about the buildings, the land under them, and who profits. 🧵
CoreCivic is in many pension and 401k portfolios. If you have funds in Vanguard or BlackRock, you are an investor in private prisons. Check with your union leaders or HR about divesting.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · yesterdayCoreCivic expects Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees to start arriving at the 1,800 bed Appleton, Minn., facility as early as this fall. with a ramp up to full capacity by mid-2027. The contract kicks in next week. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
I've started indexing every one of these "zombie prisons" now holding ICE detainees — timelines, ownership, land history, sources — here: www.hotelflorida.org/the-former-p... It's a work in progress and corrections and additions are welcomed
The Former Prisons Being Refilled By ICE
This page indexes every dedicated ICE facility I track that occupies a former prison: what the building used to be, who owns the ground under it, when it flipped, and where to read more.
hotelflorida.org
good for tor bramble. i've read daggermouth and it feels like a book written by a human being. it's also wildly fun!!
Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”
Since 2025, ICE has been refilling America's empty private prisons. At least 11 shuttered or idle private facilities are now active ICE detention centers holding ~9,600 people — with 3 more opening soon. A thread about the buildings, the land under them, and who profits. 🧵
i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
thenation.com
One of the professors in this lawsuit, Leonard Bright, had a class cancelled three days after the semester began because he couldn't give Texas A&M a clear answer about how much gender and sexuality would come up in class discussions. It was a graduate seminar in ethics.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Four Texas A&M professors are suing in Houston federal court over its policy prohibiting discussions of race, sexuality and gender in the classroom ~ www.chron.com/texas/articl...
New from Andrew Joseph Pegoda: In an attempt to overcomply with Texas law, the University of Houston will eliminate over 100 women's studies, gender and sexuality courses from the core curriculum. It won't be enough to appease extremist Republicans.
University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
texasobserver.org
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Was trying to do an annual update, but it has come to my realization that Trump wiped everything between FY2024 and FY2026 from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. @thexylom.com now has one of the last independent copies of data re: H-1B skilled workers in America's top higher education institutions.
The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions
A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...
thexylom.com
The Xylom@thexylom.com · 10mo agoEXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.
Another person has died at Delaney Hall, the second in a period of months, supposedly of an unspecified "medical emergency." His name is Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. He was just 41 years old. When we fight against ICE, we are fighting to save lives. This is urgent. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...
Tactics at Delaney Hall: A Strategic Appraisal
An appraisal of the tactics that protesters have employed outside Delaney Hall with two interviews from the front lines.
crimethinc.com
Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2d agoA Salvadoran immigrant, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has died, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
this afternoon i filed a story on a geo group-run ICE detention complex in southeast georgia. aside from the reporting, which took me in some wild directions, my biggest takeaway is that closing a jail or prison is not enough. the buildings themselves have to be repurposed so they cannot be refilled
🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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geo group has to be stopped, y’all
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agoICE has killed another person.
Educate yourself about informants! Years ago, a group of people who were directly harmed by informant provocateurs put together this checklist, drawing on their own experiences and those of other activists as well as information from informants who have gone public. crimethinc.com/checklist
Is S/He an Informant?
A group of people who have been directly harmed by informant provocateurs have put together this checklist, drawing on personal experiences as well as those of other activists and information from ...
crimethinc.com
NEW: A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that ICE held monthly in-person meetings with Iranian officials in which it divulged details on Iranian asylum seekers and gave Tehran some say in which individuals the Trump administration would deport. Claims both State and ICE coordinated handing over files.
Lawsuit Alleges Trump Administration Gave Iran Details on Asylum Seekers
nytimes.com
Revolting: Court Filings Describe Ongoing Contact Between ICE and Iran on Deportations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
Court Filings Describe Ongoing Contact Between ICE and Iran on Deportations
In a sworn declaration, a lawyer says an Iranian official reported receiving regular dossiers on Iranian detainees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for months.
nytimes.com
🧵 i've spent the last few days giving myself a crash course in how to find the stories of immigrants currently in detention in the united states. i want to share one story i found, so you can understand how fundamentally broken our immigration system is. everything here has come from public data.
🧵 i've spent the last few days giving myself a crash course in how to find the stories of immigrants currently in detention in the united states. i want to share one story i found, so you can understand how fundamentally broken our immigration system is. everything here has come from public data.
Wrote about how annoying I think everyone is about AI
Everyone is so annoying about AI
Pleaseeeee shut up. I have a headache
cailinpitt.com
UPDATE: a friend at church has obtained the Iran War special edition prawn crackers while they were traveling in Japan
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo agoThis is wild: Yomiuri News reports that due to the Iran War, Japan is facing a critical shortage in naphtha, a key material in making potato chip bags, and printing ink. As a result, the snack giant Calbee has announced that they are adopt black-and-white packaging for most key products 🫠 🫠 🫠
The lowest acceptable minimum (emphasis on 'minimum') position for a Democratic candidate in 2028 is substantial commutations for everyone who was physically present when the shot was fired and an absolute pardon for everyone else. I won't vote for anything less.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d agoDaniel Sanchez Estrada moved a box full of radical literature. A right-wing judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
i'm researching and writing about geo group right now and every page i read and sentence i draft is fresh fucking hell for which there should be no forgiveness
Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is terrifying and disgusting. Haitians are being convoked to appointments, to wear ankle monitors from now on to prepare for deportations. And our tax dollars pay for the ankle monitors to line the profits of the GEO Group. investigations.resistmap.com/p/breaking-i...