Shay O’Reilly

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley.

They’ve been locked up for 130+ days.

I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

DHS Facebook post “remember what they did to our country” and it’s a bunch of huddled masses yearning to be free that have been corralled and kettled - many wearing space blankets - by US border patrol

Could host a whole seminar on this rich text.

His party just ended low-cost German classes for immigrants and refugees!! I’m going insane!!!

DHS Facebook post “remember what they did to our country” and it’s a bunch of huddled masses yearning to be free that have been corralled and kettled - many wearing space blankets - by US border patrol

Could host a whole seminar on this rich text.

They think good is weak & evil is based, because they are wicked. ICE is doing wicked things & hiring wicked men to do them. It is difficult to look such a thing in the eye, but that is all there there is to them

Sam Altman @badgayspod.bsky.social episode when………

Just a truly senseless move. Only the far right benefits from restricting/partially ending low-cost language and culture courses for immigrants and refugees.

(2) is complex and includes:
• spurious antisemitism accusations leveraged against critics of Israel
• weaponization of those accusations by fascists
• real and actual antisemitism among influencers and a small subset of activists (of which the above hinders management!)

Imo the surge of antisemitism in the wake of the Epstein docs is a product of:

1. Existing antisemitism
2. Lowered antibodies to antisemitism due to the reactions to war crimes in Gaza
3. Conspiratorial casting of the Epstein class (rather than seeing it as a result of power + misogyny)

if you doubt US soft power, you can just look at how the news about the flag removed from stonewall has been taken up in media around the world (see also: why Pride festivals in many places are called “Christopher Street Day”)

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

(2) is complex and includes:
• spurious antisemitism accusations leveraged against critics of Israel
• weaponization of those accusations by fascists
• real and actual antisemitism among influencers and a small subset of activists (of which the above hinders management!)

Imo the surge of antisemitism in the wake of the Epstein docs is a product of:

1. Existing antisemitism
2. Lowered antibodies to antisemitism due to the reactions to war crimes in Gaza
3. Conspiratorial casting of the Epstein class (rather than seeing it as a result of power + misogyny)

you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this

it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it

The application process seems pretty straightforward, an extremely simpler version of the one my husband did for his German citizenship. You just need color copies of the birth certificates extending back to the last person born in Canada (or their certificate of naturalization).

it seems like ed miliband is the only member of the labour government who is capable of pursuing an actual vision.

I’m so tired of these people waging a dedicated and explicit anti-LGBT campaign and then being offended when we say it’s harmful to us. I feel like there’s a good word for this but it’s escaping me.

if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the @acluidaho.bsky.social just announced a lawsuit.

The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting www.aclu.org/press-releas...

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

Seriously look into this, my great grandfather was born in Saint John in 1868. There’s a great FAQ on r/canadiancitizenship.

It turns out the Canadian link is much more recent than we’d thought, so uhh I’m pretty sure I’m going to get a Canadian passport. Anyways: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?

LYONS: Yes mam

McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?

LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question


McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Got to inform my family that they are probably Canadian given the new citizenship restoration law. There is a pretty great sitcom episode in the scenario of a giant wacky Irish American family finding out that they’ve all been granted Canadian citizenship.

given his vibe ten years ago, this is either ironic or a real indictment of the labour leadership's general ineptitude.

it seems like ed miliband is the only member of the labour government who is capable of pursuing an actual vision.

Integration courses have been basically suspended in my part of Berlin. My husband’s teacher told him today that his class is the last enrolled for the foreseeable future.

As an immigrant with a citizen spouse & daughter, this is extremely harmful to me personally. To say nothing of the teachers..