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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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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 — 👍 76    🔁 35    💬 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 — 👍 101    🔁 49    💬 3    📌 1

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

12.12.2025 01:39 — 👍 29    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

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

11.12.2025 20:38 — 👍 31    🔁 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    💬 0    📌 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 — 👍 68    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

the WRAP was developed by former cops from Walnut Creek, CA. It’s been involved in several deaths. Wrote about it a decade ago here shadowproof.com/2016/08/11/n...

11.12.2025 23:17 — 👍 81    🔁 66    💬 3    📌 2
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This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

I also have ICE flight stories in @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

And @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

And ICHH: www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Ask your favorite left-wing podcast to have me on.

11.12.2025 23:15 — 👍 87    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 1
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ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.

Since this is going viral, hi. I track ICE flights. Here’s my latest, about the Avelo fiasco, in @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

Here’s my third-country removal tracker:
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

11.12.2025 23:10 — 👍 159    🔁 53    💬 4    📌 0
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"Either you're going to resign, Trump’s going to fire you, or you will be impeached." Rep Delia Ramirez to Krist Noem during the House Homeland Security Committee meeting

11.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 216    🔁 51    💬 7    📌 8

You are incorrect. Boeing Field is not owned by Boeing or Seattle, it is owned by King County. The county executive kicked ICE out in 2020, DOJ sued and the courts forced the airport to take ICE flights. So the executive has ordered ICE to load on a public livestream. That’s what this image is from.

11.12.2025 23:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙏

11.12.2025 22:34 — 👍 31    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yup. They are an ICE contractor as of September.

11.12.2025 21:05 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As I and others have written, shackled migrants on ICE flights regularly soil themselves because ICE agents and guards won’t let them stand up to use the lavatory. It does not stop the flights, it’s just another part of the misery ICE is going for.

11.12.2025 21:05 — 👍 51    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

The WRAP is an (inexplicably) legal torture device. When you understand how it works, you'll get why the very threat of being placed in one would set off a full-blown panic attack for many/most people.

11.12.2025 20:19 — 👍 69    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 1

the unspeakable cruelty of deportation

11.12.2025 20:57 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

good to see, since society must discourage baldfaced lying (especially by authorities) to keep functioning. some other consequences to go along with this would be even better

11.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 1591    🔁 263    💬 22    📌 7
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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

11.12.2025 16:45 — 👍 13673    🔁 4885    💬 498    📌 241

Any politician not explicitly campaigning on abolishing ICE is basically a Republican.

11.12.2025 20:15 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Yes I linked to it in the next post!

11.12.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In October, the AP published a story that said reporters had identified a dozen instances in the last decade where the WRAP killed people, or, in the sanitized language of the mainstream press, "played a role" in their death.

11.12.2025 20:12 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment | The Associated Press The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers

In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney.

More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...

More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...

11.12.2025 20:10 — 👍 388    🔁 169    💬 9    📌 2
A screenshot of an Embraer 145 from ICE flight contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection on a tarmac with with guards and detainees . In the lower right hand corner is a contraption with a bunch of nylon straps and metal fasteners.

A screenshot of an Embraer 145 from ICE flight contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection on a tarmac with with guards and detainees . In the lower right hand corner is a contraption with a bunch of nylon straps and metal fasteners.

A closeup of the contraption

A closeup of the contraption

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”

And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

11.12.2025 20:06 — 👍 2938    🔁 1694    💬 129    📌 112
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Memorandum Opinion – #110 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 12/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 12/11/2025)

Judge Xinis grants habeas for Abrego Garcia, ordering him released from ICE custody immediately.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

11.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 498    🔁 134    💬 13    📌 15
The ICECAST December 11, 2025 #shorts
YouTube video by JJ in DC The ICECAST December 11, 2025 #shorts

So, I'm trying out a thing.

Feedback is welcome.

If enough people like it, I might do it again...

youtube.com/shorts/ptJ66...

11.12.2025 03:29 — 👍 130    🔁 56    💬 28    📌 6
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Impeach and Remove the Bastards A scenario for 2027.

One thing I do not want is for impeachment to just go the way of messaging bills, *just* another bit of theater that people get numb to. Give it teeth and that won't happen www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

11.12.2025 13:42 — 👍 43    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death

10.12.2025 22:06 — 👍 1658    🔁 503    💬 36    📌 15

Obviously, this is bad. But this is also not a fait accompli.

1. The second worst thing imo is that the federal government could turn off transponders, making ICE flights harder to track.

BUT, going dark is still pretty rare, even for the military. And I said *harder* to track, not impossible.✊

10.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 54    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 2

An “Every Accusation Is a Confession” for the ages: Last night Trump accused all Somalis of being pirates who steal boats. Today he’s a pirate stealing boats.

10.12.2025 22:20 — 👍 71    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0

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