Eric Black

Hello, new followers. I track ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. This is what the ICE Air operation looked like yesterday, Oct. 23, 2026. --88 flights --14 removal stops --3 third-country removal stops --Nearly all adult passengers shackled at the ankles, wrists & waist.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Say what now? Why thank you, Jared. Thank you for providing admissible evidence that is no longer excluded from consideration under the Trump immunity ruling.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

A few weeks ago when Chris Rufo devoted a podcast episode to "The Indian Question," Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi denounced the racist "question" as dangerous. On Sunday, Krishnamoorthi was inside a Hindu temple when a white supremacist attempted to mass murder Indian Americans inside

Under the current UK legislation the works of Sally Rooney now can't be published in the United Kingdom but those of Adolf Hitler can be. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

And the five-year-old boy who was in the car? His mom says he's "traumatized" and hasn't spoken since the shooting. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/n...

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

🔥 MEMPHIS: “If you’re not angry, now is the time to get angry.” A minor says she has been banned from meetings by the city council 🤔for speaking out after 7 delayed a data center moratorium vote — without letting the people speak. (H/T @901youthactionnetwork )

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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A couple recently received a $575,000 settlement from the city of Milwaukee after 55 swatting calls over the course of three years summoned police to their home. Officials knew the calls were made by pranksters. nyti.ms/3TtgRQH

At Cornell, one person— Christina Liang — handles every disciplinary case, including the Cornell Seven’s and the suspensions of over 40 protestors. Liang wrote in 2025 that “2024 was one of the most challenging years of my career…and it helped me learn that caring less is okay.”

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.

“While our past surveys documented that the president has lost significant ground with non-college-educated white voters, independents, non-voters, Hispanics, and young people, this month’s survey reveals Trump slipping significantly with his own party.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-23...

Are you planning to write a newspaper story about the Big Bend wall we're building that DHS says it's not building? Then you're under arrest... by the construction contractors. The charge? Undesirable journalism. In fact this is kidnapping, a felony.

Out of the tens of thousands who boldly resisted the brutal attacks that ICE carried out on communities in the Twin Cities, the Trump regime is trying to make an example of fifteen of them in order to intimidate all of us out of standing up to protect each other. Keep loving, keep fighting! 🖤🏴

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Sonja: "would you rather have the Ring of Power or me, O warrior of the free people?" Boromir: (glances back and forth between the ring and a stunning redhead) Boromir: "You know what? Up yours, Ring." (Waves at Sonja) "LOOK AT THIS." (Boromir survives and the Fellowship endures)

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Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

#Mamdani released over 170,000 pages detailing NYC's 9/11 response & settled two 9/11 Health Watch lawsuits ending a years-long fight for air-quality & health records. #JonStewart joined survivors and victims’ families in support. #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #911

To folks who think caving on things like “Lake America” doesn’t matter in the long run… It does. It invites more such ego-serving It suggests that there’s no push back. It teaches people to expect more of the same. It matters.

Trump: “We don’t need no stinking’ Welland Canal! Niagara Falls is wide open for ships! Checkmate, Canada!”

One thing I'm noticing is that when Charlie Kirk died, nobody actually had any stories about him doing anything nice for anyone

When a few men -- Cubans -- refused to get off ICE plane in *Liberia* yesterday, agents *pressed knees into their necks,* forced them back on the plane and banished them... to Equatorial Guinea. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

WTF?

A Wisconsin community member, fed up with police excuses for violence, takes over.

Man pitches 'Shepherd Safety' to city council—a service that tracks politicians the exact same way Flock Safety tracks us. This shouldn't be satire...everyone should be watching “Authority” like a hawk. TT: @coachtd87

An Instagram post about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to wealthy communities in Marin County, CA, turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

7/14/26 🎥 KING 5 Seattle youtu.be/IOd9w5IYHck?...

A reminder we tried the year round DST thing back in the 70s and hated it. washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/t...

Fuck.... this.... we tried this already it was a complete disaster. I am old enough to remember. Surely it will die in the Senate where they are mostly older than me.

Here’s an example of why you really need the govt agencies focused on protecting people from theft or fraud by major corps. My wife has a jewelry business and sent a piece of jewelry to a customer via UPS. It was insured since it’s a pricey item. The package never arrived. The customer lives in a …

it’s so funny to imagine a silicon valley striver getting invited to a top-secret “ideas conference” ready to learn the Secrets of the Elites only to get trapped on an understuffed hotel chair for eight hours while a very sweaty billionaire rants about how the Actual Devil lives inside chinese RAM

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

JUST IN: Judge Sullivan has ordered me to respond, on or before July 13th, to Todd Blanche's "I'm not turning anything over" move from last week in my lawsuit over the Epstein Files. Then, Blanche has until July 20th to reply to what I file.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

I’ve spoken with Jason Watson. He knew exactly what this would cost him. He gave up his military career to take a brave stand for democracy. Patriotism that only works with obedience isn’t patriotism.

new metaphor just dropped

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.