Gillian Brockell

Some professional news: I’m starting at The American @prospect.org on Monday, where I’ll continue my reporting on ICE flights and third-country removals.

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

the fact that trump is an ultra rapist and apex sex predator should always be juxtaposed with the fact that he launched his campaign slandering immigrants as rapists and a staple of his filthy rhetoric is raising the specter of the beastial man of color menacing white women

AI Capabilities = Real Screaming Mad People of Every Political Stripe at Municipal Meetings Across the Country = Not Real The technofascist mind at work

🙂 YES, IT'S TRUE: Both of these amazing women are my friends! Allison interviews Gillian on The Daily Beans 🫘 @muellershewrote.com & @gillianbrockell.com

“They gave me this whole spiel about how ‘there’s before Oct. 7 & there’s after Oct. 7.’ That was my breaking point.” @laubast.bsky.social's award-winning investigation exposed pro-Israel bias at U.S. newsrooms & their incapacitation of Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim journalists reporting the truth.

🧊✈️ Follow the status of today's ICE Air flights at the Habeas Flight Watch dashboard ⤵️ 🔗 habeasflightwatch.org/dashboard-v5/

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Bauza did a wonderful interview with @pablo.show a few months ago that was just terrific. Saddened by his death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmyH...

Lula Goes HARD

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Hungary Serbia Brazil Please let us be next

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

This is the Brazil thread you are looking for

brazil is absolutely fighting for their lives against fascism right now. they got musk and zuck and other billionaire leeches against them, they got fascists mayors against them blocking the buses and changing up vote zoning and they are still fighting. they extended the vote-

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

IT’S HAPPENING

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

46-year-old Luis Sandoval died while under ICE custody at the GEO Group-ran Folkston D. Ray ICE Processing Center in Folkston, Georgia, according to an ICE press release. This is at least the 30th ICE detention death we know of this year. You can read the details on my site: izzymirez.ghost.io

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

A big fist bump between Signature Aviation's fueler and the Eastern Air Express captain flying yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP. They took away 24 shackled migrants from their homes around the Twin Cities. If a loved one may have been aboard, full video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=1-xmZiNEhC4

ICE yesterday formally awarded Acentra $163,125,147.01 to operate its medical claims processing system until Oct. 24, 2030.

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New video from Yasmany Moreno. This man says the trip lasted 28 hours, shackled the whole time, AND that they were shackled 6/7 hours before the plane even left. (I have heard similar many times.) FWIW, he also gives v different number for the new TCNs: 40 Cubans, inc. 7 women, & two Venezuelans.

The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated with new TCRs to Burundi, the Central African Republic, Costa Rica, and Eswatini. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Using AI to take her out of her hijab (and then pretending she’s bald) is fucking sending me to a level of molten rage I never knew existed

it’s insane that we live in a timeline where the US government is basically live-streaming the human rendition program they mastered covertly in Iraq

How convenient.

treason, treason everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...