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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 3h

The GEO Group bills itself as a good partner to the primarily economically disadvantaged communities where it runs its prisons and ICE detention facilities. They frequently highlight their local giving for scholarships and education as evidence of this.

The thing is, that’s utter nonsense 🧵

Screenshot from The GEO Group Foundation's 2024 Annual Report showing $643,100 in scholarships and education giving in the communities where its facilities are located. It highlights the Folkston ICE processing Center, where it gave $7,500 to 13 local graduates.

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richard @richardnormal.bsky.social · 22h

i think my most misogynistic belief, and i apologize in advance, is that i’ve noticed that, and again i am sorry to say this, sometimes women don’t finish their cans of sparkling water as frequently as men do.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 3h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 21h

What well-loved milkweed looks like at the end of the season. But man, it made some serious pollinators, critters and tree frogs so happy!
Thank you to all my milkweed: syriaca, incarnata, exaltata, & tuberosa🌸 You all work so hard to feed our ecosystem.
#asclepiassyriaca #nativeplants #asclepias

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 3h

UPDATE — Mayor Brandon Johnson lays out his FY 2026 budget recommendations to protect Chicago’s most vulnerable residents from Trump.

“When they come for any of us, they come for all of us,” Johnsons said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson reveals budget to 'Protect Chicago' from Trump cuts • The TRiiBE

“This budget was written long before I took office,” Johnson said, surrounded by Chicago Board of Education members, the CTU president, and more.

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: $GEO Group Stock Tanks as Detention Horrors Surface

Shares sink below $19 after scathing reports of abuse and neglect at ICE’s Alexandria deportation hub shake investor confidence.
migrantinsider.com/p/geo-group-...

GEO Group Stock Tanks as Detention Horrors Surface

Shares sink below $19 after scathing reports of abuse and neglect at ICE’s Alexandria deportation hub shake investor confidence.

migrantinsider.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18h

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points.

But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 7h

"The new GEO Accountability Report, published by Colorado Without Cages and the Shut Down GEO Coalition, reads like a ledger of human neglect: sick people denied medicine, pregnant women confined without care, guards who joke while clanking keys at 2 a.m. to keep everyone awake."

Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 7h

Exclusive: Report Finds Systemic Atrocities in Colorado Immigrant Jail

The GEO detention center in Aurora keeps immigrants freezing, starving, and waiting — while shareholders cash in.
migrantinsider.com/p/report-fin...

Report Finds Systemic Atrocities in Colorado Immigrant Jail

The GEO detention center in Aurora keeps immigrants freezing, starving, and waiting — while shareholders cash in.

migrantinsider.com

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comtessequamvideri.bsky.social @comtessequamvideri.bsky.social · 17h

Meme using the “Is this a pigeon?” anime format. A man labeled “Republicans” gestures toward a butterfly labeled “Cronyism & Nepotism” and asks, “Is this meritocracy?”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 22h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 23h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooooooo I watched an ICE video and now I'm MAD as a hornet, when will I learn

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 21h

"We don't get involved in policy," said Damon Hininger, outgoing CEO of CoreCivic, which spent $1.8 million lobbying Congress in the first half of 2025.

How Trump’s Deportation Surge Is Impacting Private Prisons

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

So the "next frontier" is that they will keep kidnapping our neighbors, terrorizing our communities, and pulling guns on us in the street, but Dems will fight for them to be unmasked while doing it? I bet they'll just put those gas masks on a little more often. They love gassing our neighborhoods.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 23h

If you're anything like me, when you think about the groups suffering the most from unjust discrimination in America today, you think of the crypto, fossil fuels, private prisons, and gun industries.

LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 1d

Crypto, fossil fuels, private prisons and gun manufacturers are pushing for banking deregulation under the guise of fighting against discriminatory "de-banking."

Full story: littlesis.org/news/crypto-...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Claire @lb395.bsky.social · 23h

This is the key. Shame works, when it does, because we're afraid of being ostracized; it plays into our need for belonging.

I'm sure that these folks have privately gotten far more sympathetic messages than ones indicating disapproval.

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Claire @lb395.bsky.social · 23h

Really? Weird to condemn the logical outcome of what you've spent many years carefully cultivating.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

I hope when this is all over and we go after ICE for crimes against humanity, we also go after their partners for willingly spending that money. We should also etch their names in stone so that future generations will see and their families will have to hang their heads in shame for generations.

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Claire @lb395.bsky.social · 23h

@boycottcitizens.bsky.social tracks ICE procurements & the companies, politicians, and local law enforcement agencies that support ICE on this map 👇

Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 13d

ICE couldn't terrorize our communities to this degree without the hundreds of companies that provide it with goods and services—many of which also have contracts with blue cities and states.

*View map from browser, not app. Key on bottom (mobile) or side (computer). Click on pins for more info.

Who's Profiting from ICE? - Google My Maps

ICE depends on a web of private companies, local law enforcement, and elected officials around the country to support its work. This map includes: • Organizations receiving funding from ICE from FY...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 1d

All but two of the communities with GEO Group ICE facilities have poverty rates higher than the national average.

Too many elected officials take GEO's donations, push GEO's agenda, and then act like their constituents should just be grateful for the jobs. Don't let them get away with it.

Bar chart titled “Poverty Rates in Communities with GEO Group ICE Detention Facilities.” The chart compares city poverty rates to the national average of 11.1%, shown as a dashed blue line. Bars represent rates for 18 cities including Adelanto, CA; Alexandria, LA; Pompano Beach, FL; Jena, LA; Robstown, TX; Newark, NJ; Aurora, CO; La Villa, TX; Folkston, GA; McFarland, CA; Conroe, TX; Karnes City, TX; Encinal, TX; Bakersfield, CA; Philipsburg, PA; Baldwin, MI; Tacoma, WA; Pine Prairie, LA; Laredo, TX; and Basile, LA. Most bars rise well above the national average, with Baldwin, MI notably the highest. Source: data.census.gov, 2023.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

FINAL UPDATE — Around noon, the community responded to the presence of Border Patrol agents at 105th Street and South Avenue N., only a few blocks from the Walgreens.

Dozens of locals gathered at the scene after the agents were reportedly involved in a car crash.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Feds gas Chicago neighborhood, detain young Black man amid day of Southeast Side raids • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods. Nearby, they detained a young Black man onlookers insisted was a U.S. citize...

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 1d

Critics point out that most boycotts don't impact companies’ bottom lines significantly enough to lead to policy changes, and they're right.

But if I found out my bank was renting out a room for someone to keep people in cages, I'd still tell everyone I know and would never do business there again.

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