No but like seriously everyone go pay for journalism. Pay NPR or if not us pay someone else. Just please pay someone or else seriously all these big ships are going to keep slowwwwwwly sinking.
Important work from @jjoffeblock.bsky.social
1 in 3 people in ICE detention are in GEO Group facilities.
In 2025, its profits rose nearly 700% increase from the year before.
"Last year was the most successful period for new business wins in our company's history." - CEO George Zoley on their latest earnings call.
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“In a previously unpublicized letter sent to members of Congress in April, recently departed acting ICE director Todd Lyons acknowledged the agency gives itself wide latitude to collect information on individuals ...”
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The technology ICE has "uses what is known as 'zero click' technology so that it can gain access to encrypted messages on a targeted device even if the user never clicks on a link," via @jjoffeblock.bsky.social
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ICE is promising local police a lot to work with them: new cars, reimbursed salaries, even bonuses for finding undocumented people.
If every police agency gets what it’s been promised, a recent report estimated it could add up to $2 billion in 2026 alone.
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Essential reading from @sergiomarbel.bsky.social on conditions at a deadly ICE detention center in El Paso, including the account of a man who said he talked three people out of killing themselves while there.
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Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.
70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.
30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.
7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
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“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”
Messages sent to the FBI by an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension went ignored for at least two days, per records obtained by @wired.com.
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
NEWS: NPR plans newsroom restructure and modest jobs cuts as it confronts era without federal funding.
CEO Katherine Maher says NPR intends to save $8M from newsgathering & related units; shows and podcasts not eligible for buyouts or targeted for layoffs.
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Gillian Brockell
Dan Saltzstein
NPR is offering buyouts to journalists as it overhauls its newsroom, with the threat of layoffs to follow. Two recent gifts totaling $113 million are primarily dedicated to NPR's tech infrastructure.
Messages sent to the FBI by an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension went ignored for at least two days, per records obtained by WIRED.
