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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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
An Iranian man being deported last fall told NYT he was so afraid of returning to Iran that tried to slit his wrists on the tarmac before being loaded onto an ICE flight. He soon escaped Iran again, and his family was being harassed by the revolutionary guard.
My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process.
They are terrified.
They are terrified.
January 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM
An Iranian man being deported last fall told NYT he was so afraid of returning to Iran that tried to slit his wrists on the tarmac before being loaded onto an ICE flight. He soon escaped Iran again, and his family was being harassed by the revolutionary guard.
They use these on ICE flights, too.
"Bloomberg Law identified 41 incidents where law enforcement used The Wrap on someone who died. Officers and jail guards failed to follow the manufacturer’s instructions in 32 of the 41 deaths."
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
‘I Can’t Breathe.’ Police Use Restraint With Fatal Results
A Bloomberg Law exclusive investigation has revealed that 41 people across the country have died after police or jails used a full-body restraint called The Wrap to subdue people.
news.bloomberglaw.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
They use these on ICE flights, too.
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Early press accounts, presumably informed by DHS, claimed that the teenage girl in the first photo and another teen passenger were arrested after "colliding" with a vehicle driven by federal immigration officials.
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
January 22, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Early press accounts, presumably informed by DHS, claimed that the teenage girl in the first photo and another teen passenger were arrested after "colliding" with a vehicle driven by federal immigration officials.
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
The second photo depicts the "collision."
(Both photos via Getty Images)
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Nick and other volunteers are doing incredible work monitoring ICE flights out of Minneapolis. I wish there were volunteer monitors like this at every regular ICE Air extraction airport (psst, BWI, Hanscom, Richmond, Victorville, Gary/Chicago, Denver, etc etc)
Today was MSP's 31st ICE flight of the year; MN50501 observed 58 deportees boarding, bringing the estimated total for January to 2,021.
The photo below, at 1:28 PM, was the 2,000th estimated deportee of the year was hobbling up the steps.
Please join us at MSP's Terminal 1 tomorrow to protest.
The photo below, at 1:28 PM, was the 2,000th estimated deportee of the year was hobbling up the steps.
Please join us at MSP's Terminal 1 tomorrow to protest.
January 23, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Nick and other volunteers are doing incredible work monitoring ICE flights out of Minneapolis. I wish there were volunteer monitors like this at every regular ICE Air extraction airport (psst, BWI, Hanscom, Richmond, Victorville, Gary/Chicago, Denver, etc etc)
Setting aside the absolute stupidest, most incoherent metaphor ever, the Trump campaign promise was the problems in the economy would be solved on day one.
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Setting aside the absolute stupidest, most incoherent metaphor ever, the Trump campaign promise was the problems in the economy would be solved on day one.
what are the odds jake tapper or maggie haberman have medical info about Trump that's critically important for the world to know right now but are saving it for the next book?
the lack of investigative reporting on his health is pretty remarkable
January 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM
what are the odds jake tapper or maggie haberman have medical info about Trump that's critically important for the world to know right now but are saving it for the next book?