It remains so weird that people don’t use Melissa Hortman’s name the speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives gunned down in her own home???
Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14h agoA massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI
ICE/CBP have a routinized a standard technique to murder people. It's intentional. And the institutional response is a standard narrative about feeling threatened. The masks covering their faces add anonymity to the already existing sources of their impunity. Killing is already normative.
Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 2d agoDHS has known for over a decade that immigration agents shoot into cars wily nily for no reason, or even specifically jump in front of cars to manufacture justification to shoot people. The shooting in New York on Thursday, Renee Good, so many others, it's by design.
I mostly cope via extreme jadedness but once in a while I remember how much I viscerally hate this administration
fuck off, your goons were the ones doing the violence and mayhem
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
ngl one of the most radicalizing experiences I had as a youngster is witnessing people arguing in one case that murdering civilians is always wrong turn around and argue that it was acceptable in another case
Wannabe Apparatchik@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 4d agoa lot of people have spent the last 3 years trying to invent new categories of civilian which it is ok to commit warcrimes against
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
austinkocher.substack.com
otoh are AIs and brains actually structurally analogous enough to license an inference from the consciousness of animals to the consciousness of AI? genuinely asking here, hell if I know how AI works and my knowledge of brains is only somewhat better
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · last wk.Either consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of the electrochemical processes of Brain, or you’re doing dualism If it’s the first thing, it’s not clear why Brain is the only possible medium for the phenomenon
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
the response should be immediate contempt proceedings all the way up the chain of command to the ICE/ERO directors including escalating fines and orders to personally appear in court. if that doesn't do the trick, criminal contempt, throw them in jail. play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · last wk.Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
they’re filming this in Montana because they know they’d be chased out of Minneapolis lmao
Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · last wk.Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is quietly shooting a pro-ICE movie that dramatizes the Renee Good killing. We got the script. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...
SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w agoSCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
literally the only irreparable harm here is to the people who are fucking getting sent to countries they have no connection to
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2w ago#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).
personally, I will only take the US’s commitment to a “rules based international order” seriously once this happens
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2w agoStephen Miller can only be sent to the Hague once the US Congress legislates for America to finally sign on to the Rome Statute and accept jurisdiction of the ICC Yet for all their talk of respecting international law, the US Democrats aren't interested and not even the DSA views it as a priority
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 2w agoBreaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2w ago“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
He fled genocide in Myanmar. ICE detained him in Louisiana. Min Khant Zaw, a Rohingya and Kaman activist and asylum seeker, had his life upended after spending seven weeks inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.
He fled genocide in Myanmar. ICE detained him in Louisiana.
Min Khant Zaw, a Rohingya and Kaman activist and asylum seeker, had his life upended after spending seven weeks inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.
veritenews.org
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w agoBREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa.
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
![Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreieocoa2jelvyioyspfyjhchhj6lqvjgxf6vm73l4mamvtls72tzmq)
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w agoThis will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 3w agoChrist, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove
alj8.bsky.social@alj8.bsky.social · 3w agoHell simply isn’t hot enough
i feel like a bunch of people followed me for that Mao post, but actually the ratio of me making interesting posts about China-related things vs another repost of the latest ICE horror is like 1:20
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3w agoICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
npr.org
First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.
ngl hearing Chinese Civil War takes from some people here feels like hearing US Civil War takes from someone who’s never heard of Bleeding Kansas or that Lincoln replaced McClellan with Grant
while I’m doing hot takes about China, becoming the leading EV manufacturer is bad actually because EVs are still cars and having a strong automotive industry systematically distorts your politics and urban planning in carbrained ways
very weird to have seemingly activated a Minor Discourse Event, since my average tweet or skeet or whatever gets virtually zero engagement (excluding the request for legal help for a friend’s trans kid, thank you darlings)
I know an immigration expert who took a job at State under Biden on the immigration portfolio and resigned just a few months in bc the Admin were so indefensibly hawkish on border enforcement
