How ICE is skirting oversight, laws, and regulation in building, acquiring, funding, using detention camps - an interview by @andrawatkins.bsky.social of @markramm.bsky.social (links in the text accompanying the video):
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A rebranded British mercenary firm and a military logistics company nobody can explain just split $1.35B in ICE detention contracts. Neither has ever run a detention facility.
Full investigation:
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See also:
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Here is my new data journalism project. I am tracking multiple signals that help track ICE cooperation signals by county.
Everything I've documented about America's mass detention system — from culture to contract, from arrest to autopsy, from the border to Minneapolis.
One investigation index. Eight layers. All sourced. theramm.substack.com/p/the-detent...
When buying warehouses became politically difficult, the administration seems to have chosen another tactic that requires local Sherif's offices to become complicit. They think they can hide what they are doing from the public.
I published a piece this morning documenting the removal of every military official whose job was to say no.
Hours later: "A whole civilization will die tonight."
Civilians are forming human chains around power plants. The deadline is 8 PM.
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Empire tries to use Violence to control. Now in this time of christian nationalism, I think it is important to tell the story of a Jesus who lived under occupation, rather than the one that is being taught in too many churches that makes Jesus into the occupier.
This from @markramm.bsky.social is stunning, concerning.
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Liberty in chains.
Resigned to arrest because she had “failed to disperse.”
Smiling because she knows exactly what she is doing.
The chains are part of the costume.
The zip ties make the metaphor real.
This series is worthwhile investigative reading from @markramm.bsky.social
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Liberty, Truth, Justice Matter.
Caring, Competent Community Matters.
DemocracyMatters.
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My latest article. Jenn Budd has been telling us about Border Patrol for years. We should pay attention, the evidence backs her story and her message (that border patrol is a criminal organization) is important.
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Bondi called Rep. Massie "Trump derangement syndrome" — for asking about Epstein survivors.
He co-authored the transparency law. Asked why survivors weren't warned before their names were released. Her response: attack him.
Trump announced the Venezuela invasion as a drug war at 4 AM.
By noon he was talking about oil companies spending "billions."
The pretext lasted 12 hours.
Strategic Contamination: The DOJ Trap: Mixing Truth with Lies
The DOJ released a letter they'd known was fake since 2020, let it spread for hours, then exposed it.
This isn't incompetence—it's strategic contamination.
When you mix verified evidence (flight logs, $851K overtime, flagging directives) with known fakes, both become suspect.
That's the trap.
I've written a full, rapid-response breakdown of the case and its implications.
Read the full intelligence briefing here:
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The precedent this sets is terrifying. It creates a playbook for authoritarianism:
* Defy any court order you don't like.
* Claim emergency powers.
* Count on a captured SCOTUS majority to bail you out with an unsigned, unexplained order.
Justice Sotomayor's dissent is absolutely blistering. She accuses the government of "flagrantly unlawful conduct" and the majority of a "gross abuse" of power.
Her money quote: The Court apparently finds "violence in farflung locales more palatable than" inconveniencing the executive branch.
The case is D.V.D. v. DHS. The administration was caught repeatedly defying federal court injunctions, deporting people to active conflict zones like South Sudan & Libya, sometimes with less than 24 hours' notice, while their cases were still active.
MERGENCY BRIEFING: The Supreme Court just used its shadow docket to greenlight deportations to war zones.
In a 6-3 unsigned order, the majority rewarded the executive branch for openly defying lower court orders. It's a case of democratic backsliding in plain sight. #SCOTUS #ConLaw
This is because he is now in the pocket of the Saudi government.
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