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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 6h

A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Friday 10 October 2025
0000-0000 UTC
8pm-8pm EDT
5pm-5pm PDT

* (2) Coast Guard C-27s used for ICE.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 9h

JUST IN: Judge moves up hearing (Thursday to Wednesday) on union suit over Trump shutdown RIFs plan. Also wants update by Tuesday on RIF details. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

AFSCMEShutdownRIFsOrd101025

www.documentcloud.org

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14h

ANY CHICAGOLAND ACTIVISTS interested in observing ICE Air activities around “Operation Midway Blitz” contact me on Signal:

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20h

📣 CHICAGO: We expect a surge of ICE Air flights to your area in the coming days, to clear out space at the infamous Broadview Detention Center for more captured migrants.

👉 To observe & report on ICE Air activities at Chicago-Gary go to the parking lot at 5701 Industrial Hwy next to the airport 👀

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

Third Amendment reference!

Moreover, two of the Constitution's first ten Amendments articulate safeguards against the military: the Second Amendment-with its assurance that well-regulated militias would be prepared and armed to fight for the security of the states and the Third Amendment, with its prohibition on quartering of soldiers in times of peace.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

Ghana’s foreign minister just posted this to X:

“The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S_OkudzetoAblak
X.com
The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US
Department of Homeland Security.
We have also followed with satisfaction that DHS has today taken the appropriate steps to inform Garcia's lawyers and amend court submissions to reflect the fact that Ghana cannot be an option for Garcia's deportation.
The Mahama Administration will continue to be transparent and truthful to Ghanaians at all times.
For God and Country E
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LAURA ROMERO
Fri, October 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM PDT|
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 10h

An ICE Air flight (OAE3674) left Phoenix, Arizona late Wednesday evening and made deportation stops over 30+ hours—in Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan—with people on board inhumanly shackled for excruciating long hours.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 12h

🖕🧊🛩️ It’s always the oligarchs

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

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...

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 13h

tick, tock...

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

Standby for ICE flight news…

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14h

Quite explicitly, yes.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14h

ANY CHICAGOLAND ACTIVISTS interested in observing ICE Air activities around “Operation Midway Blitz” contact me on Signal:

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20h

📣 CHICAGO: We expect a surge of ICE Air flights to your area in the coming days, to clear out space at the infamous Broadview Detention Center for more captured migrants.

👉 To observe & report on ICE Air activities at Chicago-Gary go to the parking lot at 5701 Industrial Hwy next to the airport 👀

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14h

📣 Free Debbie Brockman‼️

FIRST AMENDMENT
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Goverment for a redress of grievances."

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on the local media's lawsuit against the federal government for firing tear gas canisters and pepper balls at them:

"It's a sad state in America when reporters have to go to court to not get shot at by the federal government."

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

I'll be watching the airspace for this, and so will @jjindc.bsky.social and @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15h

S: [i'm aware other countries being discussed but not which]
i know there's discussions with ghana about whetgher they'd take abrego.
learned that this morning. from mr. anderson.
that they're in negotiations with ghana. having conversations with ghana
R: anything about assurances it would

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20h

📣 CHICAGO: We expect a surge of ICE Air flights to your area in the coming days, to clear out space at the infamous Broadview Detention Center for more captured migrants.

👉 To observe & report on ICE Air activities at Chicago-Gary go to the parking lot at 5701 Industrial Hwy next to the airport 👀

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 18h

Asked how quickly ICE can deport Abrego, Schultz replies:

"Once we get approval from the third country, things could get operationalized quickly, and we can get him out within 72 hours."

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