I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Bylines in Mother Jones, Zeteo, Rolling Stone, American Prospect. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
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Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
Here's a thread of ICE agents dragging people out of their cars to assault and beat them down:
Between this, the third-country removals to Israel and Eastern Europe just now, and a small jet heading toward Africa I haven't told y'all about yet, ICE is going nuts today.
ICE flights. Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
At least 73 flights on 25 planes, including six removal flights to Mexico alone, plus five more removal flights.
Will update the Third-Country Removal Tracker with the above Ecuador flight soon, plus the third-country removals to Honduras, Israel and Moldova earlier today. And probably where this ICE flight is about to land.
What an awful day.
Cuban immigrants like Rogelio Bolufe Izquierdo have recently been put on third-country removal flights not just to Ecuador but also Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Sudan.
Thousands have been expelled to Mexico, including elderly people who lived in the US for decades. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
Solidarity with @jclannon.bsky.social and the folks at Shannonwatch, who are refusing to let this go.
Here's what I told Shamim:
🧊✈️ Wednesday ICECAST -10 Jun 26 🏳️🌈
8am – San Diego/Miramar*
9am – Houston* Jacksonville*
10am - State College PA
Detroit/Willow Run, SD/Miramar (2nd)
11am – Boston/Hanscom, Kansas City
12pm - Springfield MO
2pm — Indianapolis
3pm — Newark
(all times local)
*Outbound removals
Air to Ground Message:
SWEET. THX MUCH. MAN...THE SMELL FROM THAT PERSON PUKING IS LOFTING THROUGH THE WHOLE PLANE...ARENT U HAPPY UR IN XXXX AT A DESK RIGHT NOW...LOL.
Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a7b93173e97
F: #f09cdc5bec5
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We're used to conservatives claiming people protesting ICE (and getting gassed and beaten and killed for it) are violent mobs.
Now HERE's a REAL violent mob - sicced on brown people by Hitler-saluting Elon Musk - and they've been downgraded by the Prestige Press to "protestors."
It's too obvious.
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The 66-page report, “‘Casting Us Aside to Die:’ Cuban and Other Third-Country Nationals Deported from the US to Mexico,” documents US government abuses against Cubans and other third-country nationals...
The agent testified about being in the SUV surrounded by protesters and said, "I thought I was going to get drug out of the vehicle and, you know, assaulted or beat down."
