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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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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 14h

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

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 15h

“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 · 16h

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

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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 · 19h

"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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

“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 · 1d

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

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

your tax dollars at work:

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 5d

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"If the justices rule for Chiles, conversion therapy bans across the country are also likely to fall." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy

The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Either way, we're fucked, I guess:

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

If the *hopeful* outcome for AI is that it does to music what Spotify did, we're fucked www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

soy...centirst?

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

I badly want North Carolina to get a baseball team but also lol "Tech City"