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Gillian Brockell

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I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Recent words in The American Prospect, Zeteo, Rolling Stone. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant. Signal: gbrockell.44 https://hardghistory.ghost.io/ PFP: Angelina Grimké

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A major Beltway scandal - Lawyers, Guns & Money While I’m very happy to see that Simon and Schuster take a massive bath on Olivia Nuzzi’s hilariously reviewed cross between Shattered Glass and Rite Aid brand Joan Didion, I continue to respectfully ...

This is a short, stunningly important piece of media criticism

CW: Nuzzi

12.12.2025 14:41 — 👍 52    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 2
The GEO Group Announces Five-Year Contract to Provide Air Operations Support Services for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | The GEO Group, Inc. BOCA RATON, Fla. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 12, 2024-- The GEO Group (NYSE: GEO) (“GEO”) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GEO Transport, Inc. (“GTI”) has been awarded a five-year contrac...

Most likely GTI, which is GEO Group’s transportation subsidiary. Theyve got like 500 buses. investors.geogroup.com/news-release...

12.12.2025 16:28 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Lizza is a creep in general and the way he has rolled this out is tacky, but no one has made any substantive rebuttal to anything he's alleged. Meanwhile, Nuzzi has not provided a single piece of evidence for her story and can't even describe it coherently.

11.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 453    🔁 35    💬 5    📌 0

Laughed at this. Dylan Byers has never heard a lie he didn’t print without vetting. Hands down the worst and least accurate media reporter to ever walk this earth.

12.12.2025 16:10 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hoods are not part of the WRAP but are used with it on ICE flights, and looking at this video again, I’m just noticing at the end a guard struggling to carry something. Appears to be the WRAP.

12.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The ICECAST – December 12, 2025
YouTube video by JJ in DC The ICECAST – December 12, 2025

🧊✈️ The ICECAST – December 12, 2025

Boston – Newark – Jacksonville – Minneapolis – Omaha – Salt Lake City – San Diego

PLUS: The Florida Concentration Camps ⤵️

youtube.com/shorts/7sYN7...

12.12.2025 02:29 — 👍 52    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 2

Exactly. I’ll have more reporting on this soon.

12.12.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A closeup of a sheet of paper with a child’s unsteady letters written all over it. In the center is the word “youtuBe”

A closeup of a sheet of paper with a child’s unsteady letters written all over it. In the center is the word “youtuBe”

thrilled my 5yo is writing seven-letter words but…

12.12.2025 14:42 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

True. I’ll note shackling on ICE flights began in 2012 under Obama. Yes, it’s worse now than ever, but it was cruel and wrong before, too. I didn’t know about it until May, trying to shine a light now so others won’t be an uninformed as I was. *If* Dems get back in power, I’ll continue til it stops.

12.12.2025 14:38 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

True. I will note shackling on ICE flights began in 2012 under Obama. Yes, it is worse now than ever, but it was cruel and wrong before, too. I didn’t know about it until May, trying to shine a light now so others won’t be an uninformed as I was. If Dems get back in power, I’ll continue til it stops

12.12.2025 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They are immigrants so they didn’t vote.

12.12.2025 14:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Spot on.

12.12.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From your skeets to God’s ears 🙏

12.12.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup. That’s my mission, collect as much evidence as I can. Also follow dedicated evidence-gatherers @jjindc.bsky.social, @lalabote.bsky.social and @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social.

12.12.2025 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These airlines make between $8,000 and $33,000 an hour plus expenses. Of our taxpayer dollars.

12.12.2025 14:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

Yup. The flight attendants — ie the least paid and least empowered — have spoken out more about the cruelty on these flights than anyone else involved. And like you said wuotting in droves. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

12.12.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never underestimate the sadism of white supremacy or the mass incarceration industrial complex.

11.12.2025 21:48 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Yup, GEO Group and Krome have complained to DHS that ICE is stealing all their employees.

12.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“It’s always worse than I imagine” — exactly, I think this many times a day.

12.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Truly.

12.12.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

During the Iraq War, Americans were shocked and shamed by guard behavior at Abu Ghraib. Today, we've got black-box detention sites like that across the US.

12.12.2025 10:22 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Avelo airlines is one of the companies that collaborates with ICE.

Please, never ever use them, anyone.

And that includes you, @gothamfc.bsky.social and @nwslsoccer.com

Please pledge, publicly, now that you will never again hire Avelo to fly athletes, or for any reason.

www.aveloair.com

12.12.2025 12:31 — 👍 17    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

I feel sick. When I worked at a psych hospital the procedures and care we had to go through to wrap a patient was lengthy. The situation had to meet criteria to protect the patients rights.

What immigration is doing here is inhumane and torture.

This regime are NAZIS. ICE is GESTAPO.

12.12.2025 12:51 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

There’s too much noise out there distracting from things like this, and the exposure of the Everglades Concentration camp using full on torture devices. All of this is only the tip of this genocidal iceberg. You can’t simply vote this away.

Also this is Seattle, in a blue state.

12.12.2025 00:06 — 👍 81    🔁 38    💬 1    📌 0

And it isn’t just used by ICE. In 2023, Othel Moore, Jr. died in a Missouri jail cell after being left in a WRAP device.

WRAPs are in regular use in around 1,800 agencies — from local police to federal law enforcement.

12.12.2025 01:44 — 👍 116    🔁 53    💬 3    📌 1

This thing has killed people, and I'm sure traumatized many of the survivors.

12.12.2025 01:39 — 👍 30    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1

This is torture. The people at Safe Restraints Inc. have participated in inflicting this evil upon the world.

11.12.2025 20:38 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

This is the tip of the iceberg. I have some reporting on this but @propublica.org has the most thorough story here www.propublica.org/article/insi...

11.12.2025 23:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.

11.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

My biggest ICE flight story, with some real sick shit in it, is being edited and will publish soon.

11.12.2025 23:28 — 👍 96    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

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