Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
I track ICE flights. 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:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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"Contrary to Miller and Trump, Lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. While much will surely be revealed in Lakanwal’s upcoming trial, it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan." New from me @zeteo.com
He Killed for the CIA in Afghanistan. Trump Blames Afghan Culture Instead of Langley’s
After the National Guard shooting, the US needs to reckon with how its legacy of global violence inevitably comes home. Stephen Miller wants to do anything but.
zeteo.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Contrary to Miller and Trump, Lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. While much will surely be revealed in Lakanwal’s upcoming trial, it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan." New from me @zeteo.com
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Whoa. A secretive group run by an Israeli-Estonian is offering flights to Palestinians to leave Gaza — charging them huge fees and not telling them where they are going. Some who landed in Joburg didn’t even have travel documents.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
South Africa Has Accused Israel of ‘Cleansing’ Gaza of Palestinians after Shadowy Flights. Here's What to Know
Palestinians are charged thousands of dollars by a little-known organization for a seat on a plane and they aren't told where they're being taken.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Whoa. A secretive group run by an Israeli-Estonian is offering flights to Palestinians to leave Gaza — charging them huge fees and not telling them where they are going. Some who landed in Joburg didn’t even have travel documents.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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this is unironically good
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
this is unironically good
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"You can't park there mate"
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"You can't park there mate"
“I’m afraid you’ve a soggy bottom.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“I’m afraid you’ve a soggy bottom.”
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“Your cultural heritage would look brilliant in the British Museum.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“Your cultural heritage would look brilliant in the British Museum.”
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I think both their absolutely unhinged cruelty and their frustration at not hitting their numbers have the same root: that in their terminally racist brains the word “immigrant” conjures something extremely specific that they’re having trouble finding in reality
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I think both their absolutely unhinged cruelty and their frustration at not hitting their numbers have the same root: that in their terminally racist brains the word “immigrant” conjures something extremely specific that they’re having trouble finding in reality
Happy 11th anniversary to the release of “Burn Your Village to the Ground.” youtu.be/qnGnj_e6gBw?...
The Halluci Nation - Burn Your Village To The Ground (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Halluci Nation
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November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy 11th anniversary to the release of “Burn Your Village to the Ground.” youtu.be/qnGnj_e6gBw?...
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This is quite literally HER land. 🤬
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is quite literally HER land. 🤬
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
Everyday ICE finds a new way to be beyond the pale.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Everyday ICE finds a new way to be beyond the pale.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
Third year in a row I’ve noticed darth goes to hibernate a few days before biathlon season starts. (And comes back right after it ends!) It makes me love him even more, imagining him going off to a wholesome winter full of the best sport ever. ❤️❤️❤️
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Third year in a row I’ve noticed darth goes to hibernate a few days before biathlon season starts. (And comes back right after it ends!) It makes me love him even more, imagining him going off to a wholesome winter full of the best sport ever. ❤️❤️❤️
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Ryan Lizza is doing Substack the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Ryan Lizza is doing Substack the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
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Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
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Between the NYT profile, the VF excerpt and Lizza’s Livejournal, the ONLY mention of a journalists’ responsibility to the motherfucking public was a brief mention of Kara Swisher saying she told NYMag editors when she found out about the affair because it was a betrayal of the public trust.
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Between the NYT profile, the VF excerpt and Lizza’s Livejournal, the ONLY mention of a journalists’ responsibility to the motherfucking public was a brief mention of Kara Swisher saying she told NYMag editors when she found out about the affair because it was a betrayal of the public trust.
If what he intimates here about the Trump assassination attempt turns out to be accurate, Lizza should never work as a journalist again. He’s as guilty as Nuzzi of hiding newsworthy events from the public.
"So stick with me here. We haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events."
Happy Thanksgiving, I guess
Happy Thanksgiving, I guess
Part 3: Catch and Kill
If you are new to this series, read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
www.telos.news
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If what he intimates here about the Trump assassination attempt turns out to be accurate, Lizza should never work as a journalist again. He’s as guilty as Nuzzi of hiding newsworthy events from the public.
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It often pays to read the alt text.
Here’s an unedited picture I just took of my asymmetrical, 45-year-old face with no makeup and weird lighting.
Which I am showing y’all because I need you to understand that Emil Bove is younger than I am.
Which I am showing y’all because I need you to understand that Emil Bove is younger than I am.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It often pays to read the alt text.
This is appalling and wrong.
AND, Biden deported Haitians to similar conditions throughout his term, including 20,000 people in a single month on 193 flights, which was until recently the record.
Fight for these human beings, and keep fighting for them if/when the Dems return to power.
AND, Biden deported Haitians to similar conditions throughout his term, including 20,000 people in a single month on 193 flights, which was until recently the record.
Fight for these human beings, and keep fighting for them if/when the Dems return to power.
DHS has announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.
The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is appalling and wrong.
AND, Biden deported Haitians to similar conditions throughout his term, including 20,000 people in a single month on 193 flights, which was until recently the record.
Fight for these human beings, and keep fighting for them if/when the Dems return to power.
AND, Biden deported Haitians to similar conditions throughout his term, including 20,000 people in a single month on 193 flights, which was until recently the record.
Fight for these human beings, and keep fighting for them if/when the Dems return to power.
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Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...