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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · Mar 26

. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @nlanard.bsky.social spoke to those close to ten men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration. The reporting makes clear:

The US is disappearing people, without due process, to a mega-prison because of their tattoos.

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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

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Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 4h

Fuckin' tell 'em, Ashley.

“I think it’s tacky; it’s weird to have something like this in Anaheim,” said Ashley, an Orange County native. “It’s giving big-brother vibes.”

“That’s so fucking lame,” said Xavier, an LA resident, looking at the Border Patrol-branded bullfighter on my phone. “Every person in that arena knows someone affected by the raids.”

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 2d

4/China has learned from US playbook. It doesn’t just limit bilateral dependence but network dependence. any firm using Chinese machines (which is almost all) have to get licenses. It is a Chinese version of US foreign direct product rule in semiconductors.
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The Weaponized World Economy

When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"tech leaders enjoyed a decade’s worth of free money, used it to build up unprecedented wealth, and, when suddenly presented with a bill in the form of a cryptocurrency crash and a potential tech slowdown, allied with Republicans to keep the good times rolling." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

The idea of a traditional medicine practice called the "sha-king" method—just means "shaking"—is something I feel only America could produce. We are an incredible nation of con artists

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

A tiny firm with no experience, but lots of Trumpworld ties, got a massive contract from DHS. A rival says the award was rushed and "unlawful."

Massive DHS "self-deportation" contract challenged as secretive and "unlawful"

The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

I love this record www.youtube.com/watch?v=jReP...

Madeira III (Mata) (feat. Belchior)

YouTube video by Marco Bosco - Topic

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3d

everything you need to know about the "legal black hole" to which Trump is sending detainees

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ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

got it. okay. www.washingtonpost.com/style/trends...

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

“I consider myself an antifascist so far as I’m against fascism, but I’m not part of any of these groups”

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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 3d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 4d

Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE

Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3d

"A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons in countries with notorious human rights records."

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ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

In March, @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social was one of the first person to report on this—and what's been happening has matched many people's worst fears from months ago

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“The entire system will collapse”: Inside the purge of US immigration courts

The "nonsensical" firings of immigration judges, managers, and senior officials spell more trouble for an already faltering system.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Fired immigration judges spoke to @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social about how firings and changes in the system are upending due process

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“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

“I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums.”
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Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

average DHS response

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Here's how ICE is sending people to a Kafkaesque "legal black hole" prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

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ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

“They sponsor this? Fuck them. No, really. Fuck them—I mean it. And you can quote me on that.”

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

reminds me how civil war historians used the price of gold to track similar unease

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

And others are quite mad about immigration cop recruitment at their events

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

some seem hesitant about protecting the homeland, like the CBP recruitment booth dog

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

your tax dollars at work:

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

a fascinating photoessay up today, looking at the events border patrol sponsors to recruit—including paying millions to sponsor professional bull riding

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How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

www.motherjones.com

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