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Exploring strategies for nonviolent resistance to the mass detention, deportation, and surveillance of our neighbors. Calling on Citizens Bank to stop financing GEO Group and CoreCivic. www.boycottcitizens.org | Art by Pete Railand

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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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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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful writing and storytelling by YMP teenage journalists. Must-must read to the end, including their ICE and Geo Group interview:

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 4h

Prisonfreefunds.org is a helpful resource for checking whether one's investment portfolio has prison industry stocks & looking for alternatives.

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Yarvin: "You have these, sort of, little fragments of, sort of, like, a real grand strategy that, kind of, creeps into this hallucination. It’s like you’re on, you know, a heavy acid trip and you keep hearing the saxophone, and it’s actually your alarm going off."

Thiel: "This guy gets it."

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5h

Masked ICE agents asking U.S. citizens for their papers, threatening them with dogs. The stuff of authoritarian governments.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 6h

"The lobbying firm [is] about as close as you could get to the Trump administration. Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, helped open Ballard’s DC office. Attorney General Pam Bondi is a Ballard alum."

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 7h

Wednesday.

Online protest safety and de-escalation training from ACLU.

Coastal Georgia for Democracy ⛲️ @coastaldemocracy.bsky.social · 22h

The ACLU is hosting 2 sessions to know your rights, protest safety, and de-escalation training ahead of NK2.

Get the tools needed to take action safely, confidently, and with key de-escalation strategies in hand.

MON, Oct., 6 8 PM act.aclu.org/a/no-ki...
WED Oct., 15 7 PM

No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15

I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 8h

ICE’s facial recognition app raises alarms over expansion of domestic surveillance | Biometric Update

The Mobile Fortify app enables ICE agents to perform facial recognition searches against a reportedly sprawling dataset of 200 million images.

www.biometricupdate.com

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Some immigrants have tried to self-deport using a Trump-promoted app. Many are still here, despite the government giving them departure dates and promises of safe travel. @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social have a deeply reported, riveting account of people stranded in America.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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

Important information to read, share, and save for later.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22h

Corporate media has completely ignored that since January, the number of 287g agreements between ICE & local police has gone up nearly 4X. We need to repeal these.

I'm a human rights lawyer. I wrote this piece on how to protect ourselves from ICE fascists.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors

www.qasimrashid.com

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 22h

“We have long known that Trump’s cruel deportation agenda would be bottomlined by an aggressive multi-layered detention expansion plan at all costs. However, the scope and scale, and more importantly, human toll, continues to be shocking,” said Marcela Hernández of Detention Watch Network.

Deaths of migrants in ICE custody reach highest level in 20 years

At least 22 people, including the two men killed in the attack on an ICE office in Dallas, died in fiscal year 2025

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

Anyone know of any confirmed reporting on this? There are definitely issues at this facility, but the only death I've read about there that of an employee of a subcontractor, who died in a "workplace accident". Curious whether that's what they're referring to.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d

When we talk about new nonviolent tactics emerging and how every action of the regime gives us a chance to be creative, adaptive, and get control of the narrative: the protestors at the Portland ICE facility are giving a master class right now.

Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 2d

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

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

With Noem suddenly talking about antifa as an existential threat to the country, I reviewed 2,600+ DHS tweets going back to May to see what they've been saying about it in recent months. The answer? Nothing.

Their first mention of 'antifa' appeared on Sep. 26, the day after NSPM-7 dropped.

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

LaSalle Corrections is a private, family-owned company that currently operates 18 facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia.

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LaSalle Relies On Family Values
As a family operation, values means surrounding our company with dedicated, enthusiastic, and talented people who strive to accomplish our mission. It’s about showing compassion, concern and the well-being of not only our staff, but also the men and women entrusted in our care.

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

An anonymous former DHS official who previously investigated the conditions at Irwin told @theintercept.com that using the facility to detain immigrants again “would be an absolute mistake."

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

The Georgia facility gained notoriety for allegations that women received “often unnecessary” gynecological treatment, at times lacking informed consent.

ICE Will Hold Immigrants in Jail Accused of “Excessive, Invasive” Gynecological Procedures

The Georgia facility gained notoriety for allegations that women received “unnecessary” gynecological treatment, at times lacking informed consent.

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Anthony J. Rivera @anthonyjrivera.bsky.social · 1d

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act.

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Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

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

This is why community-based rapid response and mutual aid groups are so important.

It's just us, but there are a lot more of us than there are of them, and when we go into communities that are organized, that shows.

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your weirdo friend @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social · 1d

everyone should engage with this piece. it's boycott time.

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 10d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

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The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

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

Thank you.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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

Noem is framing antifa as an existential threat to the country, but DHS hadn't talked about it *at all* until recently.

I scraped their tweets since May. The first time they used 'antifa' during that period: Sep. 26 — the day *after* NSPM-7 dropped.

Now it's all 'antifa domestic terrorists.'

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

Somewhere in the last 10 years, in their effort to avoid an appearance of bias, many just stopped describing situations accurately—if those situations made the right look bad.

It all started when they refused to say 'lie.'

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June.

With Hector now out on bond, the family faces mounting legal fees and the fear of deportation.

"He's my role model," his son says. "My biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot."
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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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