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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 3d

Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.

We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS

Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 7d

State-run extrajudicial immigration black sites like Alligator Alcatraz allows politically connected individuals to make hundreds of millions of dollars off Florida’s taxpayers at the expense of jailed migrants, while those held are stripped of their access to legal counsel and due process.

DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz”

Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.

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If Not Us @ifnotusofficial.bsky.social · 8d

🧵Constitution in Crisis: Inside Florida's Immigrant Detention System Series ~ ACLU of Florida
10/1, 10/15 & 10/29 5:30 pm CT

With the opening of the Everglades Detention Center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", a spotlight has been cast on Florida's notorious detention centers. However, this

Constitution in Crisis: Inside Florida's Immigrant Detention System · ACLU Florida

With the opening of the Everglades Detention Center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", a spotlight has been cast on Florida's notorious detention centers. However, this new facility is only the lat...

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 9d

Latest: Friends of the Everglades passed along this picture of freshly laid blacktop at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp, taken by pilot Ralph Arwood on September 26.

I was there a week or so prior, and there were construction trucks pouring out of it.

An aerial photo of the Everglades detention camp. The lower quarter of the camp is marked by freshly laid blacktop pavement.

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Voices of Florida @voicesofflorida.bsky.social · 9d

🗯️What Is Fascism?
📅Monday, September 29
⏰4 PM PDT | 7 PM EDT
🔗https://bit.ly/whatisfascism

Join VoFF for their ‘What is Fascism?’ webinar—an in-depth conversation exploring the roots, characteristics, & contemporary manifestations of fascism and what it means for our movements today.
#fascism

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12d

📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe):

- Journalist Mario Guevara, facing deportation, deserves same energy as Kimmel
- How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
- Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists
- Plus, what we're reading...

Mobilize for Mario Guevara like you did for Jimmy Kimmel

Plus: How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 12d

These widespread show me your paper operations are done by state police agencies like the Florida Highway Patrol. Even public university police departments have signed police-ICE collaboration agreements in Florida, the only state in the country where that’s happening.

More than 350 undocumented immigrants detained in 4-day sting, Jay Collins says

'Florida will lead from the front.'

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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 13d

Sad followup from Key West.

Deported from Key West

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Voices of Florida Fund @voffund.bsky.social · 20d

🧽 Organizing + Absorption Training
📅 Friday, September 26
⏰ 4 PM PDT | 7 PM EDT
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join VoFF for our Organizing + Absorption Training—a session designed to strengthen skills for building movements, sustaining momentum, & creating lasting impacts. #organizing

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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 15d

@techaro.lol hey is this legit?

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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 19d

join our letter-writing campaign!

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FAU - Stop policing employee speech unevenly and capriciously

Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL) has put multiple professors on leave for what can best be described as mild criticism of a Charlie Kirk, a recent victim of gun violence. At the same time...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20d

Law students: Want to make a difference in digital rights? EFF’s legal internship offers the perfect platform to work on impactful legal cases. Apply today! www.eff.org/about/oppor...

Legal Internship Opportunities

Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of November 1. See below for instructions and a link to the application.EFF’s legal internships provide law students with a

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 20d

Wrote about how Florida’s rush to open new detention centers is not just about an immigration crackdown. It’s also about disbursing hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars with no competitive processes . Over $350 million in no-bid contracts for Alligator Alcatraz alone so far.

Waste, fraud, abuse and Florida’s immigration prisons | Opinion

Because of a two-and-a-half-year-old emergency declaration, vendors at proliferating Florida immigration jails are enriched through no-bid contracts, a process wide open for waste and abuse.

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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 21d

“It was released, not publicly, but leaked, that the Alachua County School District released guidance to all its schools that would allow someone saying they’re ICE to detain a student without a warrant or question them without parental knowledge or consent”

Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 21d

Reminder that Florida is the only state in the country where university police are deputized to conduct immigration enforcement.

Residents protest ICE policy in Alachua County Public Schools

Gainesville residents rallied Tuesday outside the Alachua County School District headquarters demanding that Alachua County public school officials revise guidelines they say leave immigrant students ...

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 21d

Reminder that Florida is the only state in the country where university police are deputized to conduct immigration enforcement.

Residents protest ICE policy in Alachua County Public Schools

Gainesville residents rallied Tuesday outside the Alachua County School District headquarters demanding that Alachua County public school officials revise guidelines they say leave immigrant students ...

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 24d

"Friends of the Everglades argues that, although no money has changed hands, the tacit agreement between the federal government and the state of Florida, and the repeated public statements by Florida and DHS officials, clearly show that the federal government has committed to pay for the project...

Florida applies for federal reimbursement for 'Alligator Alcatraz' costs despite court warning

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised that the federal government would reimburse the state for the costs of "Alligator Alcatraz," but doing so would make the detention facility subject to environmental ...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24d

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 24d

If this how they treat high-exposure, wealthy detainees, imagine how they treat the people with no money, no attention and no diplomatic leverage.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24d

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

분노로 쓴 美구금일지…B1비자 근로자에 "노스코리아" 조롱도 | 연합뉴스

(서울=연합뉴스) 박영서 이동환 김준태 기자 = 미국 조지아주 배터리 공장 건설 현장에서 일하다 7일간 구금된 근로자들에게 '인권'은 실종된 단...

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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression @thefireorg.bsky.social · 26d

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the cancel culture machine has kicked into gear, with mob mentality driving firings, investigations, and political pressure.

FIRE's Adam Goldstein looks at how tragedy affects our culture of free speech. ⬇️

www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...

We are in the cancel culture part of the tragedy cycle

Cancel culture ends when we decide that people can be horrifically wrong and still entitled to the grace that enables us all to grow from our worst moments.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 26d

"Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?"

-- Protest sign at airport where South Korean workers, including engineers with work visas, were returned

www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Protester at airport in South Korea holds up a sign that reads, in Korean:

‘Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?’

Credit: Dasl Yoon/WSJ

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28d

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a funding dilemma over the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” built in the Florida Everglades. https://to.pbs.org/4m99Hco

DeSantis' court victory on 'Alligator Alcatraz' sets up a funding dilemma for Florida

Florida may be forced to choose between forgoing federal reimbursement for the detention center or accepting the money and facing an environmental review that would risk shutting down the facility.

www.pbs.org

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Florida Valkyries @floridavalkyries.com · 29d

ICE and FAUPD - As of August, none of the FAU PD had taken the training.

FAU police chief speaks out on ICE partnership for first time

Florida Atlantic University’s Police Department quietly entered into a federal immigration enforcement partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the 287(g) program on July 24 wit...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 29d

"Activists who spoke with those deported told @talkingpointsmemo.com that Vovchenko and another man were detained upon arrival in Moscow."

Absolutely craven.

@jjindc.bsky.social commented at the time that the Omni flight to Cairo looked weird.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

Trump Admin Returns Russian Dissident Asylum Seekers to Putin

In late August, a group of Russians who had asked and not...

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Interfaith vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz today.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Sep 7

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech

www.eff.org

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