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Renée Feltz

@reneefeltz.bsky.social

We are all part of the circle of interdependence.

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Truthout@truthout.org · 2w ago

Amid an upswell of public opposition to the boom of data centers in Texas, Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality “to halt all permits sought by data centers.” But the commission processed at least 35 permitting actions for data center projects in the subsequent weeks.

Texas Continued Permitting Data Centers After Greg Abbott Ordered a Pause

A new report identified 35 permitting actions taken by regulators in Texas in the weeks after the governor’s moratorium.

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w ago

SCOOP: I've obtained documents showing an ICE flight is scheduled to land Thursday or Friday in Equatorial Guinea -- where Ahmed Soliman is still imprisoned and seriously ill, despite a federal judge ordering his return to the US more two weeks ago. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...

A Rescue in Equatorial Guinea, or Another Immigrant Expulsion? - The American Prospect

Documents show an ICE flight is expected to land in the African country where immigrant Ahmed Soliman, who a federal judge ordered to be returned, is currently imprisoned.

prospect.org

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · last mo.

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

nbcnews.com

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the really cool things about this case is that one of the lead plaintiffs is Lioness - a nonprofit run by women who did time in sweltering Texas prisons themselves. Then they got out and spearheaded this lawsuit that could drastically improve life for all their sisters still inside.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · last mo.

And as we reported yesterday, just two months after the December transportation docs were created, ICE added nearly $6.5 million to the Moshannon Valley Detention Center detainee transportation contract, which is operated by GEO Transport Inc. That's GEO Group's secure transportation subsidiary.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · last mo.

ICE added $6.5 million to a detainee transportation contract in Pennsylvania in February 2026, according to improperly redacted records the agency posted to its FOIA library. The change more than doubled the monthly fee and raised guaranteed monthly mileage by 75 percent.

Screenshot of an ICE contract modification document. The text reads: "As a result of this modification, the total value of this award is increased: From: $311,863,517.43. By: $6,494,866.40. To: $318,358,383.83." A gray redaction box covers the final dollar figure, but the number is visible through it. A right-click menu is open over the box, with the option "Remove Redaction" highlighted at the top.
Truthout@truthout.org · 2mo ago

3 months ago Google search started to prioritize AI summaries over links, and the impact on journalism could not be more devastating. Truthout's overall readership from Google is down 54% against last year. We lost a huge chunk of our audience overnight that we painstakingly built over decades.

We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

truthout.org

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For a year, California's largest ICE facility has barred all detained residents from hugging loved ones. The policy has sparked so much fury that residents have launched campaigns across dorms demanding contact visits In my latest, see video from one detained organizer + how CoreCivic has responded

ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?

theguardian.com

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ohio lawyer: “When we challenged the constitutionality of ankle monitors being placed on our clients…we were told, ‘We’re following our orders.’" “…It was also said by a man representing ICE while wearing a Hawaiian shirt with AK-47’s and grenades printed on it.” Wow, from @swin24.bsky.social:

Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’

The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.

zeteo.com

Aura Bogado@aurabogado.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)

Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

injusticewatch.org

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones "In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall. Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Liliana Segura@lilianasegura.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three states are set to execute people today, starting at 10 am CT. All of them have a record of botched executions, including TN, where Tony Carruthers was tortured this year -- and before him, Byron Black. This is Black's son over the weekend, protesting today's execution. New @theintercept.com:

Tennessee Plans Another Execution Despite Its Brutal Recent Mistakes

Despite a record of botched executions, three states including Tennessee plan to kill by lethal injection on Thursday.

theintercept.com

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Among many nuggets in this story: DHS’s OIG found that a CBP employee used commercial location data to track coworkers. WIRED got the underlying case file. It appears to be the first known internal abuse of DHS’s ad-tech location-tracking tools. Story is extremely free to read:

WIRED@wired.com · 3mo ago

Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones. www.wired.com/story/cbp-wo...

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 3mo ago

ICE belatedly confirmed the death of a third immigrant at the Delaney Hall Detainee Hall detention center in Newark, more than a week after a local member of congress told the public he was informed of the man’s death. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/13/i...

ICE Belatedly Confirms Death of Third Delaney Hall Detainee

In a statement Thursday night, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan immigrant, had died after his “release” to a local hospital.

thecityreporter.nyc