Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Recent words in The American Prospect, Zeteo, Rolling Stone. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
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Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
· Oct 10
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
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It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
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Keep this in mind when you take in any press statements from DHS re the latest terrible incident/tragedy from Minneapolis.
Reporters I am begging you - you don’t have to cut and paste their statements.
Reporters I am begging you - you don’t have to cut and paste their statements.
Trump's DHS has 'repeatedly been caught' in outright lies: analysis
MS NOW data journalist Philip Bump says the public should no longer take the word of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seriously anymore.“The skepticism one ought to bring to any pronounc...
www.alternet.org
January 24, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Keep this in mind when you take in any press statements from DHS re the latest terrible incident/tragedy from Minneapolis.
Reporters I am begging you - you don’t have to cut and paste their statements.
Reporters I am begging you - you don’t have to cut and paste their statements.
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"if the secret execution police were just better trained, they'd be better at doing the executions," is what you sound like.
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"if the secret execution police were just better trained, they'd be better at doing the executions," is what you sound like.
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Rapid responders still out there, tracking ICE. In spite of everything, even now. Heroes
January 24, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Rapid responders still out there, tracking ICE. In spite of everything, even now. Heroes
Reminder: Tricia McLaughlin lies all the time. Let’s not push out whatever bullshit she comes up with about the ICE shooting until each element can be fact-checked. There is absolutely nothing to gain.
January 24, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Reminder: Tricia McLaughlin lies all the time. Let’s not push out whatever bullshit she comes up with about the ICE shooting until each element can be fact-checked. There is absolutely nothing to gain.
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Body cameras do not fix this. Better training does not do this. Shutting down the agency and engaging in large-scale Nuremberg Trials are the way to handle denazification.
January 24, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Body cameras do not fix this. Better training does not do this. Shutting down the agency and engaging in large-scale Nuremberg Trials are the way to handle denazification.
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To repeat: It is highly improbable that I would agree with Bill Kristol.
I agree with him 100%. ICE has become the gestapo. They need to go.
Just saw a Minneapolis protestor yelling at ICE, near shooting site, "We will not forgive you." Correct.
I agree with him 100%. ICE has become the gestapo. They need to go.
Just saw a Minneapolis protestor yelling at ICE, near shooting site, "We will not forgive you." Correct.
To repeat: Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
To repeat: It is highly improbable that I would agree with Bill Kristol.
I agree with him 100%. ICE has become the gestapo. They need to go.
Just saw a Minneapolis protestor yelling at ICE, near shooting site, "We will not forgive you." Correct.
I agree with him 100%. ICE has become the gestapo. They need to go.
Just saw a Minneapolis protestor yelling at ICE, near shooting site, "We will not forgive you." Correct.
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The Irish government aiding this is fucking unconscionable. Unforgiveable. History will remember this as Nazi collaboration, because that's what it is
Next, this Journey ICE flight that landed in Tel Aviv on Jan. 21 held eight Palestinians, who were transferred to the West Bank and released, according to @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
This aircraft refueled in Ireland, @wereontheditch.bsky.social. #spéirghorm
This aircraft refueled in Ireland, @wereontheditch.bsky.social. #spéirghorm
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 PM
The Irish government aiding this is fucking unconscionable. Unforgiveable. History will remember this as Nazi collaboration, because that's what it is
NEW: I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker with new info on Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Israel.
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Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of)
Bookmark this post, it will be updated.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
NEW: I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker with new info on Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Israel.
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A producer in the London bureau is the *only* CBS person quoted in their story about Israel killing its longtime freelance cameramen in Gaza—someone who once filed dispatches for them from an ambulance, while wounded.
Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief.
www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...
Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief.
www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...
3 journalists killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza, including cameraman who worked with CBS News
An Israeli airstrike killed three journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, the territory's civil defense agency said. One of those killed, Abed Shaat, had worked for years as a cameraman for CBS News and oth...
www.cbsnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:41 AM
A producer in the London bureau is the *only* CBS person quoted in their story about Israel killing its longtime freelance cameramen in Gaza—someone who once filed dispatches for them from an ambulance, while wounded.
Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief.
www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...
Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief.
www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...
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this has flown under the radar, but we are doing third-country detention in a country with a worse human rights record than North Korea
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 12:07 AM
this has flown under the radar, but we are doing third-country detention in a country with a worse human rights record than North Korea
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Third country detention continues.
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Third country detention continues.
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Ten seconds of Googling found this report on conditions in Equatorial Guinea, including documented accounts of torture, written by ... the State Department in 2024.
January 24, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Ten seconds of Googling found this report on conditions in Equatorial Guinea, including documented accounts of torture, written by ... the State Department in 2024.
I made this awhile back when we had extra ham, and it knocked our socks off. Perfect for the cold, def making this again this weekend.
www.thechunkychef.com/slow-cooker-...
www.thechunkychef.com/slow-cooker-...
January 24, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I made this awhile back when we had extra ham, and it knocked our socks off. Perfect for the cold, def making this again this weekend.
www.thechunkychef.com/slow-cooker-...
www.thechunkychef.com/slow-cooker-...
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Equatorial Guinea is so corrupt that if its oil wealth were divided evenly among its population of slightly under 2 million they’d have an average income on par with a lot of European countries. But instead less than 1/2 the population has clean drinking water & almost 8% of kids die before age 5
EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND TOGO.
This is very likely the SECOND load of migrants ICE sent to a torture prison in Equatorial Guinea, for a payment of $10 million from State Dept. humanitarian funds.
This is very likely the SECOND load of migrants ICE sent to a torture prison in Equatorial Guinea, for a payment of $10 million from State Dept. humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Equatorial Guinea is so corrupt that if its oil wealth were divided evenly among its population of slightly under 2 million they’d have an average income on par with a lot of European countries. But instead less than 1/2 the population has clean drinking water & almost 8% of kids die before age 5
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fascism is violent psychopathy at scale
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 12:48 AM
fascism is violent psychopathy at scale
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Seriously: make them _beg_ for The Hague. Make them plead for it.
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Seriously: make them _beg_ for The Hague. Make them plead for it.
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I will never not be mad at these people doing everything they can to harm people trying to come to this country.
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I will never not be mad at these people doing everything they can to harm people trying to come to this country.
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This is just the 2026 version of a train to Dachau.
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 24, 2026 at 1:22 AM
This is just the 2026 version of a train to Dachau.
I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker with the two likely ones to Equatorial Guinea this week. I'll have another update tomorrow morning.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...
January 24, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker with the two likely ones to Equatorial Guinea this week. I'll have another update tomorrow morning.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...
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NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.
US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo
The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter homes without consent.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.
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CECOT has the name recognition but when the next Dem administration gets in there and brings back the survivors, the EG prison is going to be by far the most shocking of all
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM
CECOT has the name recognition but when the next Dem administration gets in there and brings back the survivors, the EG prison is going to be by far the most shocking of all
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 23, 2026 at 11:50 PM
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
There's also an Omni 767 headed to Mesa right now. Omni did the previous Iran transfer deports.
This aircraft is returning from a central Asia ICE removal trip, and I'd expect it to go to an Omni base to swap crew before it goes out again, but it isn't impossible they brought a crew in. Concerning.
This aircraft is returning from a central Asia ICE removal trip, and I'd expect it to go to an Omni base to swap crew before it goes out again, but it isn't impossible they brought a crew in. Concerning.
January 23, 2026 at 11:09 PM
There's also an Omni 767 headed to Mesa right now. Omni did the previous Iran transfer deports.
This aircraft is returning from a central Asia ICE removal trip, and I'd expect it to go to an Omni base to swap crew before it goes out again, but it isn't impossible they brought a crew in. Concerning.
This aircraft is returning from a central Asia ICE removal trip, and I'd expect it to go to an Omni base to swap crew before it goes out again, but it isn't impossible they brought a crew in. Concerning.
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🚨RENDITION DEATH SENTENCE 🇮🇷
👉 An Eastern 777 loading right now in Mesa, Arizona may be carrying homosexual men to Iran where they face almost certain execution 😲
azmirror.com/2026/01/23/g...
👉 An Eastern 777 loading right now in Mesa, Arizona may be carrying homosexual men to Iran where they face almost certain execution 😲
azmirror.com/2026/01/23/g...
Gay asylum-seekers set for deportation to Iran fear execution in their home country
Two gay men from Iran who sought asylum in the U.S. are set to be deported out of Mesa and fear they will be executed in their home country.
azmirror.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:09 PM
🚨RENDITION DEATH SENTENCE 🇮🇷
👉 An Eastern 777 loading right now in Mesa, Arizona may be carrying homosexual men to Iran where they face almost certain execution 😲
azmirror.com/2026/01/23/g...
👉 An Eastern 777 loading right now in Mesa, Arizona may be carrying homosexual men to Iran where they face almost certain execution 😲
azmirror.com/2026/01/23/g...
That’s it. We need to amend the constitution so this man can run for president. He knows what’s right.
maaaajor photo of our mayor from @alexkrales.bsky.social in which we learn Mamdani is an iced-coffee-in-winter guy
HUGE win for that community, congrats!!!
(thought it was dunkin, which stopped me in my tracks, but no I don’t think the straw is the right shade of orange)
HUGE win for that community, congrats!!!
(thought it was dunkin, which stopped me in my tracks, but no I don’t think the straw is the right shade of orange)
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
That’s it. We need to amend the constitution so this man can run for president. He knows what’s right.