Mike Aylward, MD

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

🧵 CoreCivic execs & investors are monetizing kids in detention at ICE's Dilley

Patrick Swindle, CoreCivic CEO, led efforts to reactivate idle facilities prepping for "windfall of immigrant detainees under the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown"

#DIVEST

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Seriously. Now that people are aware that a lot of the work in this country is done by people who don’t have a path to citizenship maybe create a path to citizenship.

DHS allowing ICE to raid clinics was a tactical move. They almost never have, but the fear of the raid keeps people from coming to clinic. They know that the optics of dragging a person out of a clinic setting are terrible. But they’ve already accomplished their goal of making people suffer.

Limiting the Law school, the center for human rights, and other critical voices for society is foolish appeasement. Don’t obey in advance — chapter 1 of On Tyranny. The leadership should be gifted a copy.

Oh, wait, I think can afford to buy one.

It’s never been about safety. It’s about power and creating an out group.

This is fire. The looper skills!!!

Exactly. No university affiliations, any company they work for becomes toxic.

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

Despite being on here I think social media is a solution to the Fermi Paradox as to why we hadn’t made contact with intelligent life. Social media is the downfall of civilizations.

To be fair we are saying a different verb+”you” combo. So he’s close.

A permanent state of aggrievement with no need to seek actual solutions.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

The Trump administration refuses to acknowledge the law. But the way they strip people of their humanity and dignity goes beyond that. It’s immoral, literally inhumane.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

It’s stunning that we are here for the simple reason that one person doesn’t realize most people don’t actually like him.

We’ve created resources (including links, guides and note templates) for healthcare workers to document the potential harms from detention.

mdheq.org/Documenting-...

Sick Detainees Describe Poor Care at Facilities Run by ICE Contractor

There are parasitic and evil.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/b...

Divest from CoreCivic and Palantir.

We need an anti-fascism dashboard that shows which universities in institutions have investments in these and other organizations.

Doing anticipatory guidance around ICE and immigration and potential detention of parents during well child checks is heartbreaking.

Chapter 1 of On Tyranny: Do not obey in advance.

Some classic feedback to university presidents: read more.

Also may they should have opposed his nomination instead of waiting for the disaster to unfold.

One of the lessons of Minneapolis is that documenting human rights violations works as a tool for change. We have to continue to document consequences of the occupation.

Also ICE hasn’t left.

WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical" CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

That’s because it is unethical. From the WHO: “exploiting scarcity is not ethical”

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Screen for housing insecurity. Refer to resources. For every patient.

From talking to observers.

U.S. Inflation Eased at Start of the Year

My utility bills call bullshit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/b...

People in Minneapolis have been not showing up to clinic since January 2025. It’s not new. It’s been worse, but people have been scared a long time.

Also the threat of public charge has been vicious and enduring.

ICE showing up at school bus stops to lurk and snatch parents is cruel.

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

You can’t erase science.

This is an ignorant opinion.

The science stands.

Get it right @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Jobs report is worse than even you thought.

First strike on Mexico? Infectious disease containment? It’s probably not due to threats a the airspace in New Mexico is also closed. Jobs report coming out today must be reallllly bad.

If people want to help by giving money, maybe listen to the people you want to give money to?