jlempieri.bsky.social

jlempieri.bsky.social

@jlempieri.bsky.social

Devout urbanist, architect, product designer, Tombinophile.

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Scott Bessent started the “Blame Ukraine, not Trump’s War” Big Lie on Sept 5th, it looks like—Trump and other cabinet members doubling down three days later is when & why I started my Refinery Wars spreadsheet and graphing to debunking it

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar

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On #Philadelphia and local arts courtesy of Tayyib Smith with the key thesis: “Why must culture continually prove its economic value while sports are presumed to possess civic value?” thephiladelphiacitizen.org/philadelphia... @mayorparker.bsky.social

thephiladelphiacitizen.orgIt's Not Arts Funding. It's a Monumental Failure of ImaginationTayyib Smith contends that not only is our arts funding weak — we produce Black cultural brilliance, export it, and then fail to value it

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

ICE flights. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, an average and terrible day. 75 total flights, at least 16 removal flights — Cambodia, Costa Rica*, Ecuador*, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Israel*, Jamaica*, Laos, Mexico (4), Nicaragua*, & Vietnam. *suspected third-country removal

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

Every. day. Everyday one of these ICE charter planes has to abort takeoff, or do an emergency return, or has a decompression, or gets stuck somewhere for 20+ hours with shackled immigrant passengers trapped onboard. And we never find out why. There is no transparency.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ A GlobalX jet (tail: N319NV) bound for San Diego makes circles in the sky after takeoff before aborting its mission & returning to the ICE hub in Harlingen 👀

jlempieri.bsky.social
@jlempieri.bsky.social

“There will never be a queue outside your local comedy club for an evening with the ChuckleBot 3000.” With the Terminator headlining however…”The Sarah Connors of this world, I mean, am I right?”

Andrew Mueller@andrewmueller.bsky.social

Also for Monocle, some thoughts on jobs which might survive AI, and by golly yes I've included my own. So *I'm* fine. monocle.com/affairs/ten-...

monocle.comFrom doctors to plumbers: Ten human jobs that will survive the AI onslaughtAI could – and probably will – change the way that many of us work. But some sectors will be...
jlempieri.bsky.social
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If the GOP splinter to add a third party for 2028 look to the DSA to join in the fray and essentially hand the election to another conservative group of nut bags.

Andrew Mueller@andrewmueller.bsky.social

Some thoughts on the prospect of a third hat being flung into the 2028 US presidential ring. monocle.com/affairs/the-...

monocle.comThe 2028 US election is shaping up as a three-horse raceThe 2028 US presidential election will be the 60th anniversary, give or take, of the last time that a single...

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

All of these ICE charter airlines have emergency landings, diversions, aborted takeoffs etc ALL THE TIME. And very often the shackled passengers have to sit on the plane until ICE flies in a new one. When I say I am drowning in stories and wish more journos were covering this, this is what I mean!

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ HERE'S YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ An Air Wisconsin jet (tail: N413AW) bound for the ICE hub in Alexandria, Louisiana turns back abruptly after takeoff and returns to Milwuakee 👀

jlempieri.bsky.social
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Flying ala cart: “But instead of flying out aboard that older, powder-blue-painted jet, Mr. Trump was taken by a food cart that had been fitted to the belly of the plane. He was then taken by car to a third plane, which he traveled aboard in secret…” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

nytimes.comAn Elaborate Ruse: Trump Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid ThreatsPresident Trump hid in an airport catering cart and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
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This is a must listen. Never thought I’d feel like the everyday German from 1938. This administration is using Nazi tactics to expel people who have committed no crimes. Orchestrated by our own Jewish Himmler, Stephen N. Miller. Brockell’s work otoh is brave and justifiable. History is on her side.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

I talked to On the Media’s @micahloewinger.bsky.social and their amazing producer Molly Schwartz Rosen, about my ICE flight reporting, third-country removals, and the professional pickle I am in. Starts at 34:00: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wnycstudios.orgThe Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...