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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

For @praeyesright.bsky.social I wrote this about Florida, the Everglades gulag, and 287g
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Florida Is the “Tip of the Spear”

The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially, and there’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than...

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your work 🙏

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 3d

It’s ongoing!

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 3d

Not even the prospect of a $20 billion bailout paid by U.S. taxpayers is stabilizing Argentina after Milei’s peso/dollar manipulation failed. His sister (and chief of staff) is caught in a bribery scandal, and his top candidate was caught taking $200k from a narco. It’s over.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars on.ft.com/4pUkn1R

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars

Labyrinthine restrictions and chronic instability spawn strategies to profit from foreign exchange policies

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 4d

This is the failed libertarian govt in Argentina that could get a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout. Collapsed the economy by artificially propping its currency, ensnared in an ongoing bribery scandal, and one of their top candidates admitted receiving $200k from a narco.

Javier Milei’s woes deepen over ally’s links to alleged drug trafficker

Libertarian party’s top candidate in Buenos Aires says $200,000 he received was legitimate payment for consulting

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 4d

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 4d

What appears to be a transport bus and a GEO Group transport van going into Alligator Alcatraz yesterday.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump admin wants to expand surveillance of social media accounts to deport people. This will for sure be a cash grab for private contractors, they will for sure target people for political opinions they don’t like, and AI is being weaponized to increase surveillance reach.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

Another extrajudicial murder.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest strike on a boat near Venezuela that he says was trafficking drugs. The strike comes after President Donald Trump declared the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with cartels.

Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

Children will be offered $2,500 to return to their countries of origin. If children do not comply with the “offer”, the letter indicates their parents/family living in the US will be arrested.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

Children detained and released will be sent a “threat” letter from ICE threatening indefinite detention and immediate transfer to ICE upon age-out if they do not waive jurisdiction withdraw applications for relief, including withdrawing their request for admission with EOIR.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

According to AILA, ICE is launching a nationwide operation today, Friday, 10/3, reportedly named “Freaky Friday,” that will target unaccompanied children aged 14 and older of all nationalities.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

Coast Guard plane flying from Louisiana to Alligator Alcatraz (TNT)

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 5d

Bad news for Gov. Ron DeSastrous! Prosecutors convening grand jury in Hope #Florida scandal investigation. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

Prosecutors convening grand jury in Hope Florida investigation

Witnesses have been issued subpoenas in recent weeks.

www.tampabay.com

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

This state-run model of immigration detention is becoming so secretive that the Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates Alligator Alcatraz, is refusing to disclose not just a list of people detained there, but also how many people are now detained at the site.

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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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants

As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more.

My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants

ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

Florida has avoided conducting federal environmental impact studies when building and operating Alligator Alcatraz in environmentally protected land with a dark sky designation. Now that federal money is involved, there’s zero excuse to legally avoid a NEPA environmental study.

Before federal shutdown, Homeland Security Department gave Florida $608M for Alligator Alcatraz

The money was awarded a day before most federal agencies stopped work.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 6d

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans.”

“It was heartbreaking to watch. Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 6d

Florida’s going to use FEMA funds for Alligator Alcatraz, from the Shelter and Services program, to steer hundreds of millions of dollars to private sector vendors through no-bid contracts, while illegally attempting to avoid required federal environmental impact studies.

Florida receives FEMA reimbursement for state-run detention facilities, including Alligator Alcatraz

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Local 10 News Thursday that Florida did submit an application for FEMA reimbursement after building the Alligator Alcatraz immigrati...

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 6d

What a disgusting embarrassment this administration is. A bunch of criminal fascists.

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