Michael Linhorst

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

The house that ICE built Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

Here's the kicker: Geo’s chairman, George Zoley, is an immigrant himself. He arrived here as a child from Greece. @michaellinhorst.bsky.social looks at the company—and man—at the heart of Trump’s hard-line immigration machine. 6/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

The house that ICE built Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

When you hear about someone arrested or swept up in an immigration raid, there’s a good chance they’ve ended up at a facility run by Geo Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and one of ICE’s biggest contractors. 🧵👇 1/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

This is a useful reminder: if you want to investigate CBP, or any agency, don't only FOIA them -- FOIA agencies they interact with, too

SCOOP: Justice Department asks judge to force nonprofit & reporter to post $50,000 bond to get faster release of classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago. Trump order to seek bonds for early injunctions seeps into #FOIA litigation. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

So sad

For anyone who thinks a secrecy law purportedly for officials’ safety won’t be distorted and abused…

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Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

A letter from an emmy award-winning journalist who's been detained by ICE for 2+ months just went up via @bittersouth.bsky.social. He's in the US lawfully. "The government asserted that Guevara posed a danger to the community because of his reporting."

bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

A rule that could only be followed by state media, not an independent press

Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

with comments from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social, @worthrises.bsky.social & others. Zoley and Geo Group declined several requests for interviews.

The house that ICE built Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

Despite the song, Zoley keeps pushing to expand his company. It already holds about 15,000 immigrants in its jails. It plans to expand its capacity to at least 32,000 and expects a series of new ICE detention contracts. Read my full @fastcompany.com article here: www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

Zoley seems to be the singer-songwriter behind a rock song called The Sound. It describes "the sound of voices in pain" that are "crawling out the windows," "breaking out the doors." And it suggests we should do something about this injustice, not just stand aside. Here are some of the lyrics

I wanted to find out how Zoley feels about making millions from locking up other immigrants. From his nine-bed Boca Raton mansion, he's never publicly expressed any regrets. But then the story got strange...

Proud that we at the First Amendment Clinic could help wrestle out these public documents for @juliarock.bsky.social

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:

*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

George Zoley started off trying to privatize fire departments. It didn't work well. Since then, he successfully cashed in on America's mass incarceration era and now its mass deportations. His company is making millions from locking up immigrants for ICE, with even greater riches likely to come.

The house that ICE built Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

When Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student protestor, was arrested by masked men, he was shuttled to an immigrant prison owned by Geo Group, America's biggest for-profit prison company. I profiled the founder and chairman of Geo in my latest article: www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

The house that ICE built Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

George Zoley, the eye-wateringly rich founder of America's biggest for-profit prison company, Geo Group, is an immigrant himself. So how has he become ICE's largest private jailer of other immigrants?

My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

On FCC Chair's threat to ABC/Jimmy Kimmel

Executive Order 14149 (Jan. 20, 2025):

Purpose: "The First Amendment ... essential to the success of our Republic..."

Purpose: Stop "coercive pressure" to advance "Government's preferred narrative."

Policy: Ensure no federal officer abridge free speech.

The media isn't going to get more powerful in the coming years. If they don't take a stand for free speech principles now, they never will.

For months, the Trump administration pledged to protect free speech.

But after Charlie Kirk's killing, those same officials are now pledging to curtail speech.

My latest @washingtonpost.com supercut:

for all the stories of firings & other penalties, it seems obvious to me that countless people have thought about posting/saying something related to our current moment, thought twice, and decided against. that's how censorship works.

intimidation --> self-censorship. mission accomplished.