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Why are detainees dying in ICE run concentration camps in unprecedented numbers? In part this may be because ICE, which has a massive budget, has simply stopped paying for any form of healthcare for those held in its custody.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Why are detainees dying in ICE run concentration camps in unprecedented numbers? In part this may be because ICE, which has a massive budget, has simply stopped paying for any form of healthcare for those held in its custody.
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This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
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rapist foreign policy from a government full of rapists
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent:
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM
rapist foreign policy from a government full of rapists
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the appeasement approach is not going to work for the same reason it did not work for hitler. there is no rational actor to negotiate with here. you will need to accept hardship now in order to avoid greater hardship later.
January 20, 2026 at 2:25 PM
the appeasement approach is not going to work for the same reason it did not work for hitler. there is no rational actor to negotiate with here. you will need to accept hardship now in order to avoid greater hardship later.
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Federal immigration agents illegally perpetrated a violent home invasion to unlawfully seize a US citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions the AP concludes.
US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns dr...
apnews.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Federal immigration agents illegally perpetrated a violent home invasion to unlawfully seize a US citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions the AP concludes.
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Watch ICE agents performing a violent home invasion to seize a US citizen at gunpoint in Minnesota, committing at least four felonies in the process. youtu.be/iPUoLAPB690?...
Armed ICE agents take elderly US citizen from his home in St. Paul 1/18/26
YouTube video by Marisa Kabas
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Watch ICE agents performing a violent home invasion to seize a US citizen at gunpoint in Minnesota, committing at least four felonies in the process. youtu.be/iPUoLAPB690?...
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Oh - And one last thing: Mussolini pardoned ALL political criminals so that they could join his blackshirts and be his loyal personal goons.
March 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh - And one last thing: Mussolini pardoned ALL political criminals so that they could join his blackshirts and be his loyal personal goons.
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Think of everything you are seeing, and what analogies you can make from this playbook. 1/7 end
March 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Think of everything you are seeing, and what analogies you can make from this playbook. 1/7 end
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“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”
January 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”
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this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
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I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.
January 19, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.
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These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
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“I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people," said Sahra Sharif about her decision to vote for Trump. Immigrant communities have grown quiet and tense as federal agents flood the state. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
A cloud of fear hangs over Minnesota immigrant communities • Minnesota Reformer
“I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she said about her vote for Trump.
minnesotareformer.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
“I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people," said Sahra Sharif about her decision to vote for Trump. Immigrant communities have grown quiet and tense as federal agents flood the state. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
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Chaofeng Ge was found hanging with his arms and legs tied behind his back & yet ruled a suicide.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging with his arms and legs tied behind his back & yet ruled a suicide.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
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"The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight" is what Jed Bartlet said on The West Wing after a school shooting
January 20, 2026 at 4:02 AM
"The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight" is what Jed Bartlet said on The West Wing after a school shooting
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I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
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This is why American exceptionalism is so fucking dumb. If you read the Federalist Papers, one of the biggest concerns among them was It Can Happen Here. There's nothing uniquely virtuous about the American people.
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
This is why American exceptionalism is so fucking dumb. If you read the Federalist Papers, one of the biggest concerns among them was It Can Happen Here. There's nothing uniquely virtuous about the American people.
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Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
January 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
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Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
January 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
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THREAD. Anyone who is telling you that Democrats should strategically be starting conversations about whether ICE needs better "training" is completely out of their mind.
January 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
THREAD. Anyone who is telling you that Democrats should strategically be starting conversations about whether ICE needs better "training" is completely out of their mind.
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I honestly couldn't believe they actually stopped carrying it so I asked three different healthcare workers who all saw us separately just to make sure it wasn't one rogue nursing assistant or whatever.
Every single one of them looked embarrassed to confirm it.
Every single one of them looked embarrassed to confirm it.
Well. My military hospital officially no longer carries the pediatric doses for the covid vaccine.
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I honestly couldn't believe they actually stopped carrying it so I asked three different healthcare workers who all saw us separately just to make sure it wasn't one rogue nursing assistant or whatever.
Every single one of them looked embarrassed to confirm it.
Every single one of them looked embarrassed to confirm it.
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New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress.
He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
January 17, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress.
He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
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"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."