Ashifa Kassam

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions."
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.

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Thanks for sharing this one too!

Thanks for sharing Maqsood

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Same to you!

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Trump’s Greenland threats open old wounds for Inuit across Arctic Demand by US that it take control of Arctic island is for many a reminder of troubling imperial past

Greenland: @ashifakassam.bsky.social on imperial claims and geopolitical rhetoric dominating over indigenous voices
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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‘We had to remove the dead to get to the living’: train crash shocks Spanish town People in Adamuz rushed to help when two trains smashed into each other and say they will never forget what they saw

“Despite the enormity of what had happened, the one thing everyone could agree on was that the people of Adamuz had done all they could to help,” writes @swajones.bsky.social from Adamuz, Córdoba. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Grokipedia vo.2 Family Origins and Childhood Julia Carrie Wong was born to a Chinese immigrant father and a white Jewish mother, resulting in her biracial Chinese-Jewish heritage and brown skin tone. 181

is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Colombian President “does have to watch his ass” - Trump just now at presser
Also says Maduro will be brought to New York

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1958 photo of Brigitte Bardot with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde

Articles about Brigitte Bardot after her death on Sunday have referred to her far right sympathies, which supposedly emerged later in the film star's life. Here she is, though, in 1958 with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde, future founder of the extremist OAS terror group

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The U.S. sank the alleged narco-terrorists’ boat — and let them go In blowing up the vessel, destroying evidence and repatriating the survivors, the U.S. cut short a process that’s helped bring down traffickers.

OF ALL THE VESSELS SUNK BY THE U.S. it was the likeliest to have been carrying drugs: a semisubmersible with at least one convicted trafficker on board. The U.S. blew it up, destroyed the evidence and let the survivors go GIFT LINK @schmidtsam.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social

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Thanks for sharing Ashis, wishing you all the best for the holiday season!

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.

Praying for his full & speedy recovery.

And so deeply inspired by his example.

The AfD has been flatlining at a high level for months nationally despite the Merz govt’s unpopularity - @diezeit.bsky.social asks whether it has tapped out its voter potential

Russia: Government Designates Human Rights Watch “Undesirable” (Berlin, November 28, 2025) — Russia’s designation of Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public by the Justice Ministry on November 28, is yet another mark of the Kremli...

Russia’s banning of @hrw.org as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public today, is yet another mark of the Kremlin’s repression. It only redoubles our determination to document the Russian authorities’ human rights violations and war crimes
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...