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Gillian Brockell

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I track ICE flights, and I write about the history of American slavery. Sounds like two different things, but they're not really. Former WaPo. Signal: gbrockell.44 https://hardghistory.ghost.io/ PFP: Angelina Grimké

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 21d

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5h

Military isn’t getting paid, but ICE Air contractors still are.

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 5h

🧵🧊✈️ ICE AIR – MON 13 OCT 2025

🌍 AFRICA: An Omni 767 (tail: N207AX) departs Baltimore on an ICE mission to Ghana 👀

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 8h

FUN FACT:

Our military is not being paid,

but the ICE gremlins are.

Make that make sense.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 5h

🧵🧊✈️ ICE AIR – MON 13 OCT 2025

🌍 AFRICA: An Omni 767 (tail: N207AX) departs Baltimore on an ICE mission to Ghana 👀

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 23h

He’s been in the U.S. for two decades with no criminal history, and his 5-year-old som has brain cancer. ICE is intent on deporting him.
www.inquirer.com/news/ice-rai...

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14h

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6h

What are the odds Bari and Olivia subscribe to the “nothing before eight years ago” school of journalism?

Mayor Bill de Blasio, his administration threatened to be overwhelmed by a rift with rank-and-file New York Police Department officers, on Monday condemned the thousands of cops who turned their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
Riot, also known as the City Hall Riot, was a rally organized and sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City
of New York (PBA) held on September 16, 1992, to protest mayor David Dinkins' proposal to create a civilian agency to investigate police misconduct. Approximately 4,000 NYPD
officers took part in a protest that included blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and jumping over police barricades in an attempt to rush City Hall. Rioters were observed to be openly drinking, damaging cars, and physically attacking journalists from the New York Times on the scene. Rioters also chanted racial epithets towards the African-American Mayor Dinkins. The nearly 300 uniformed on-duty officers did little to control the riot.

In June of 1966, when complaints of increasing police brutality against minorities prompted Mayor John Lindsay to propose a civilian review board, an unauthorized voice came over the police radio: "Everybody to City Hall!" More than 5,000 off-duty cops mustered outside the building, the largest police gathering up to that time, to protest the possibility of outside scrutiny into the way officers conducted business.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t be the only one who sees Dan Campbell and thinks “ripped Dan Quinn.” Right?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

That veteran criminal justice reporter? Sally’s and my former colleague at the Washington Post, whose job was eliminated for writing too many investigations and not enough hot takes.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9h

It’s ’old man yells at cloud’ but the cloud is democracy and the yelling deploys the national guard and some hellfire missiles.

zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

Right?! Cash out, dude, you’re good!

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

Once in Vegas for work I won $112 at the penny slots, and I immediately cashed it out and went up to my room.

Whatever it is that compels these dudes to gamble for 10 years, call it “work,” not be satisfied with a million, and then lose it all? I don’t have that.

Looks awful!

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 17h

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 17h

📖 "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." 🙏

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 7d

🧊⚠️🛬 HEADS UP MARYLAND‼️

👉 ICE Air inbound to BWI

🔸 Coast Guard C27J – Tail: 2706

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

futurism.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19h

ChatGPT prompts and replies aren't training wheels for humanity. Your skills and genuine personality will atrophy using them.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 1d

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors.

Please share widely.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY

Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

www.baltimoresun.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

CDC staff in Africa right now, including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak, are laid off/fired.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Black women these days, and for literally centuries:

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