The GrindDad's Avatar

The GrindDad

@grinddad.bsky.social

Product designer. Artist, musician. Exvangelical, antifascist. Sometimes asshole. (he/him)

147 Followers  |  134 Following  |  375 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  2.0066

Latest posts by grinddad.bsky.social on Bluesky


Preview
Inside an ICE Detention Center I joined a retired minister on a visit to one of California’s largest facilities.

In our March cover story, Kathryn Stelmach Artuso takes us inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California.
sojo.net/magazine/mar...

24.02.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: β€œI received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

23.02.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13283    πŸ” 5837    πŸ’¬ 393    πŸ“Œ 432

The Trump tariffs are the highest tax increase on the American public since World War II

Yes, you read that correctly

What's worse, he did it while taking health insurance away from 20 million people

And giving $75 billion to ICE so they can hunt US citizens

#TrumpTariffChaos

23.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2411    πŸ” 1118    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 28

One of the families we've been helping, the father was finally released from the facility in Texas and then from Whipple. They dumped him on the street with no coat, no phone, nothing, in single digit temps. Bless the people who monitor Whipple 24/7

24.02.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1834    πŸ” 477    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 13
Preview
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him In an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone.

She goes out looking for him.

"I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."

www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

23.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9769    πŸ” 4759    πŸ’¬ 463    πŸ“Œ 355
Preview
This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: β€˜I thought they’d focus on criminals.’ Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."

face-eating leopards yada yada yada www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/...

22.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1175    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 93
Preview
β€˜Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, β€˜If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

21.02.2026 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7196    πŸ” 4188    πŸ’¬ 251    πŸ“Œ 630

The Washington press corps does not recognize this as Christian persecution because the Christians being persecuted are not considered as authentic, which to say, as legitimate, as Christians who holler and shout about abortion. The Christianity of those actually being persecuted is erased.

21.02.2026 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 755    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4
Preview
Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR RΓΌmeysa Γ–ztΓΌrk has earned her PhD!!

19.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11791    πŸ” 1541    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 130
Preview
Proposed ICE Warehouse Locations - Google My Maps Proposed sites for industrial warehouses to be used as mass detention centers by the US Department of Homeland Security. Descriptions include current status of each site, and any response from local...

Is the regime trying to build an ICE detention camp near you?

20.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 484    πŸ” 373    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 21
Preview
A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the β€œbanality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

20.02.2026 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7972    πŸ” 2979    πŸ’¬ 272    πŸ“Œ 622

Vital work

19.02.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

β€œHere’s the bottom line: DHS is buying warehouses across the country to build out concentration camps for caging and deporting immigrants, and WEXMAC TITUS is allowing them to be operational in a matter of weeks.”

18.02.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 485    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 29

A reminder that many Americans want and support this.

18.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday according to an announcement sent to Congress today, marking the seventh detained death of 2026 and nearly the 40th since Trump took…

BREAKING: Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year

austinkocher.substack.com/p/seventh-im...

18.02.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 24
A woman holds a baby and a sign that reads "My Mom is a DREAMER" near the U.S. Capitol. The scene conveys determination and hope.

A woman holds a baby and a sign that reads "My Mom is a DREAMER" near the U.S. Capitol. The scene conveys determination and hope.

ICYMI: In 24 years, only 77 β€œillegals” have voted β€” representing 0.00000764% of total votes…

And the research comes from the far-right Heritage Foundation

electionfraud.heritage.org/search?combi...

15.02.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1353    πŸ” 719    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 46
Post image

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

14.02.2026 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2430    πŸ” 1024    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 100

I’m attempting to get at the psychology of the user before the output of the LLM algorithms.

It feels hopeless though. It’s hard enough to find a designer who knows the difference between a JPG and PNG. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

12.02.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Totally correct. I guess what I’m saying, though, is we have a huge technical literacy gap. Most people would not know the difference between these scenarios, and so there is an issue of good/bad-will actors on one side, and bad A.I. implementation that highlights the ignorant and bad-will actors.

12.02.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This validates all of the concern my coworkers and myself expressed during trumps first term

12.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push t...

Look!

"News of a potential immigrant detention center in Kansas City sparked fierce public backlash over the past month. At rallies and protests, many people called on Platform Ventures to not sell the building to the federal government..."

And now:

www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...

12.02.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4462    πŸ” 1394    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 96

4. AI could place a face of matching resolution and color patterns of its own invention.

The question is what level of factuality or truth we expect, and if it can deliver.

Just like friends who take a photo of a plane, then β€˜enhance’ to see Russian fighters over California. It’s dangerous.

12.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I actually think it’s more complicated than that. For example:
1. Photoshop can enlarge and sharpen ad infinitum. Is this what they were expecting?
2. Enhance could mean the Bladerunner sense where they’re zooming into reality in data/pixels that are actually there.
3. AI could do either 1/2

12.02.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

🧡

12.02.2026 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

12.02.2026 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.

11.02.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 19909    πŸ” 3691    πŸ’¬ 1745    πŸ“Œ 372
Preview
Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

10.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2636    πŸ” 1234    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 96
Post image

Thompson brings up Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old DHS agents nabbed in MN and shipped off to a Texas detention center.

A judge later ordered Ramos and his dad released, slamming DHS' "incompetently implemented” deportation campaign.

The Bible quote at the end of the judge's opinion: β€œJesus wept.”

10.02.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ˜‚

10.02.2026 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While a long-standing legal settlement generally limits the time children can be held in immigration detention to 20 days, the Trump administration kept hundreds of kids at Dilley for more than a month, @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social found 5/

09.02.2026 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

@grinddad is following 19 prominent accounts