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A must-read thread 🧵

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together. www.bbc.com/news/article...

India rejects China’s ‘fictitious names’ for ArunachalPradesh, calls claims baseless-cnbc

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up. www.wired.com/story/how-th...

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

"Nearly everyone I spoke to for this newsletter asked that I not print their names out of fear that they’d become a target." That's where people like Rep. Andy Ogles have gotten us.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Not posting this as me being hyper patriotic. I am not. I think I have a pretty clear view of our nation’s history. But man, the hypocrisy of the GOP and Trump …. It just keeps getting more absurd.

Just got hella trolled by a dude who has a lot of emotional issues. I tried to engage reasonably but it didn’t matter. It was so strange because he thought I was some American Exceptionalism believer…I was yo man you have zero idea who I am.

Getting trolled by well adjusted adults.

Qatari authorities reached out to Witkoff, CENTCOM, and other senior U.S. officials to inquire about U.S. awareness of the Israeli strike, Axios’s Barak Ravid reports.

While cruelty has always been the point of Trump's whole Administration, nothing highlights that more than dropping a nearly blind elderly man 5 miles from nowhere in freezing weather so that he die alone, afraid, and abandoned. This is Trump's America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

For four hours, hundreds of people were detained — without food, or consistent access to water, bathrooms or medical treatment, including a man who was bleeding from his head after an officer allegedly struck him with a rifle, the lawsuit claims.

More than a million times! That certainly trumps other names.

Detain, delay, defy. A POLITICO review of hundreds of detention cases shows a pattern: ICE slow-walks or outright defies judges’ orders to release people. A step-by-step look into how the Trump administration’s noncompliance plays out👇

"I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU, UNDERSTAND ME?" Local PD in Indianapolis, IN assaulted, abducted and threatened to kill a group of teenagers returning from an anti ICE protest (2|9/26)

Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year? Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.' zeteo.com/p/why-has-th...

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

So a Trump attorney that aided his 2020 campaign (and wrote a memo encouraging Pence to skip counting electoral votes) was given an "election integrity" job in the administration, where he made a referral to investigate Fulton County. 1/2

What does anyone involved with this horrific absurdity think this plausibly accomplishes for them or US?!?

“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.” Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride. 🇭🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

In Oregon, ICE brutally attacked a U.S. citizen. Then, they abandoned her without offering any medical aid for her severe injuries.

From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Minneapolis: A protester near the Whipple Federal building lies on the ground bleeding after being thrown to the ground by Minnesota State Patrol... more to come at VisuNews.Substack.com and Patreon.com/ZDRoberts

Fox News smeared Alex Pretti after he was shot by DHS officers ⬇️

Chandler Patey is 29. He rents an apartment near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland. He allows protesters to use the bathroom and wash off pepper spray. DHS has now singled him out as the possible "leader of Antifa"

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/air-wisconsi...

Comedian and anti-fascist activist Walter Masterson and his Friends are under investigation by the Trump Administration.

unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't

Op-Ed out from Old Irving Park’s Blackhawk Pajama Pants Guy (complimentary). He says if we ever want accountability or recourse for harms committed, it’s up to Congress to act.

A disabled man named Wael Tarabishi died last week after ICE abducted his father and full time caregiver. Wael begged for his dad’s release. He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him. His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.

Don’t let this story disappear. www.koco.com/article/ice-...

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Doesn’t look like ICE is drawing back.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...

This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.