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Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.

It can happen here - in Pa. coal country

I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids

My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.

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DHS Seeks to Convert Giant Warehouses Across US Into Immigration Jails A total of 23 converted warehouses could imprison up to 80,000 people, estimates suggest.

23 warehouse sites are being considered by the DHS to imprison as many as 80,000 people if converted into immigration jails — or more if the administration fails to implement safe living standards.

Yes. Most of the people in immigration jail are people from Florida and the South where there are 287g and other cooperation agreements. A lot are through CAP (which I don't think most people know about)
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ICE detention center to Shakopee? State representative says it's not happening. There are reports that ICE wants to open a detention center in Shakopee, but it may not be happening after all.

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As @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police.
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How Sheriffs Might Power Trump’s Deportation Machine To carry out the new Administration’s immigration agenda, the “border czar” is counting on the enthusiasm of local law enforcement.

I wrote this about Tom Homan last year.
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Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago “History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

ICE in Harlan County | Jack Norton and Judah Schept More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also offer flexible detention capacity to ICE and other federal agencies. As one recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative puts it, local jails both “obscure and facilitate” mass deportation.

"A recent raid in rural Kentucky illustrated several features of this transformed and expanded deportation machine."

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

The Prison Next Door - Bolts How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

For @boltsmag.org & @thenation.com, I went to the farms, livestock sale barns, and roadside bars of Arkansas and the prison towns of Upstate New York to report on how rural communities are changed (or changing) when a prison comes to town.

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ICE in Harlan County | Jack Norton and Judah Schept More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...

As the federal government deputizes these federal, state, and local agencies to partake in ICE’s work, it remakes existing infrastructure and political relationships in ICE’s image: remakes them, that is, toward fascism. @jacknorton.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

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n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social
@liv-veazey.bsky.social
@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

ICE in Harlan County | Jack Norton and Judah Schept More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...

thank you @nplusonemag.com for publishing this piece about the infrastructure of deportation in rural Kentucky and beyond www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Guys what if we told you the DEA isn't only doing DEA things

Trump Admin to Financially Reward Police Agencies For Working with ICE DHS announced a new program that pays law enforcement agencies that help carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.

DHS announced that it will financially reward local law enforcement agencies that carry out its anti-immigrant agenda, effectively creating an incentive system in which the more people wanted by ICE that an agency abducts, the more money it stands to make. truthout.org/articles/tru...

"Hearing that real estate and business leaders in New York City are convening a 2 pm call to discuss The Zohran Situation"

crying, screaming, throwing up

ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year Internal documents reveal ICE’s plans to double immigrant detention to more than 100,000 beds, including new detention centers for families.

ICE Documents Reveal Plan to Double Immigrant Detention Space This Year

By @douglasmac.bsky.social, N. Kirkpatrick, and Lydia Sidhom

Billions will be spent to reach more than 107,000 beds, including in mega-facilities, tents and at least two new family detention centers. Gift link!

Graph titled: Unhoused people languish in jail more than 3x as long as the typical defendant.

Compared to the general population, unhoused people are held in jail for 3.5x as long, despite typically being charged with the lowest level crimes

It’s safe to assume that unaffordable cash bail is to blame. No one should have to stay behind bars because they can't afford bail

At Least Three Layers | Long-Haul Mag This piece is a distillation of a longer conversation with Liam Cain, whose eclectic itinerary includes various construction jobs on pipelines and in oil refineries and wildland firefighting. Liam’s a...

Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout:
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Advanced Detachments: Two Strikes Against Competition and Division at an Amazon Delivery Station | Long-Haul Mag SPRING 2025 ISSUE 02

Last December, Amazon Teamsters launched a historic strike against the company. Here five of those strike leaders in Queens reflect on how work is organized and their union is being built––talking lean production, race and workgroups, translation and two strikes

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