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Adam Sawyer
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I work with data at Relevant Research. I post about migration and sports.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Americas, Earth
Arsenal + Nuggets + Avs + Rockies + Summit
I helped build DetentionReports.com
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · Aug 5
Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses over 175 facilities across the states and territories of the US to detain people who ICE believes are eligible for removal.

Starting today, I am going to start posting some summary information from DetentionReports.com for two facilities each day.
Interval ADP and Reported ADP for Stewart Detention Center As of July 21, 2025, ICE reported an annualized average of 1,882 detainees at the facility. Using an internal average, the number detained on that date was likely closer to 2,114.
adamjst.bsky.social
Roanoke City Jail is located in Roanoke, Virginia.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 2 days.

detentionreports.com/facility/ROA...
Roanoke City Jail is indicated by a blue marker and a label in Roanoke, Virginia. Map by OpenStreetMap, ODbL using Leaflet. A photo of the exterior of Roanoke City Jail. From Google Maps.
January 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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profjpc.bsky.social
From five years ago:
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
walterolson.bsky.social Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10h
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
adamjst.bsky.social
That Denver Nuggets win is proof that it's not worth the dive into doomerism.
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 AM
adamjst.bsky.social
Officially a clutch game. The NBA can't reasonably hand out a fine to the Nuggets now.
January 6, 2026 at 3:48 AM
adamjst.bsky.social
The zombie nuggets are making this a game. Crowd is nervous.
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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jamellebouie.net
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
adamjst.bsky.social
Forgive me for this moment of self-pity...

I look forward to the Nuggets v Sixers all year. As soon as the schedule is announced, I add it to the calendar. Always get tickets to see my hometown team come to Philly.

Just happened to be extremely unlucky with injuries this year 😭😭😭
vbenedetto.bsky.social Vinny Benedetto @vbenedetto.bsky.social · 20h
The following Nuggets are listed as out for tonight's game vs. Philadelphia:
Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon, Christian Braun, Cam Johnson, Tim Hardaway Jr., Jonas Valanciunas and Tamar Bates.
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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emmbadger.bsky.social
My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.
January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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asgvisalaw.bsky.social
It's almost as if they don't want to be treated the way they're treating the ICC staff.
newsguy.bsky.social Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 19h
DHS publicly accusing Hilton of a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to refuse service to its law enforcement officers, alleging that when attempts were made to book rooms using official government emails and rates, the hotel chain "maliciously cancelled their reservations."
January 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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838carlisle.bsky.social
wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
who cares about soccer
in nwsl leadership? no one, it seems
btvc.beehiiv.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
adamjst.bsky.social
Benin tie it up in the 83rd minute. Wow.
January 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
Most of these countries are having no trouble noting that the Maduro regime was systematically repressive while also pointing out that the U.S. has violated the UN Charter and international law. This is not actually that complicated.
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
adamjst.bsky.social
Brazen.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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sfcpoll.bsky.social
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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educatoratlarge.bsky.social
"I've read the history of the...workers struggles in the U.S. thru Zinn's books...I honor the American working people..."
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d
Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.
I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing with the biggest cocaine mafias, the names of Nicolás Maduro or Cilia Flores don’t appear. Those who have come forward to denounce him are Venezuelan opposition generals, nothing more, seeking to topple the popular vote. The judicial power in Colombia doesn’t belong to me; it’s independent of me, and my opposition largely handles it. If one wants to know about the mafia and the business of cocaine commercialization, just look at Colombia’s judicial files. That’s why I deeply reject Trump speaking without knowing; my name doesn’t appear in the judicial files on drug trafficking over 50 years, neither from before nor from the present. Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump. That’s not how you threaten a Latin American president who emerged from the armed struggle and then from the people of Colombia’s fight for Peace. I was part of the clandestine organization that fought for democracy in Colombia against the civil dictatorship of the "State of Emergency." The organization that in 1974, long before Chávez, carried out the operation to raise Bolívar’s sword once more, who said he would never sheathe it until injustice ended in Gran Colombia. I was with the M19 that made the first peace in contemporary Latin America. He doesn’t read Colombia’s history, and that’s why he fails when he criticizes us. He should only meet with his officers who are experts in drug investigations in Colombia, whom I’ve helped with my own investigations as a senator of the Republic from Colombia’s Left and its people, who have suffered the narco genocide and its political allies, who are also allies of the American far right. Tens of thousands of our comrades from the armed and popular struggle for democracy were assassinated, and we didn’t go begging you for invasions; we endured and won through Peace. I’ve never burned a U.S. flag because I’ve read the history of the popular and workers’ struggles in the U.S. through Zinn’s books in Spanish. And that’s why I honor the American working people, the Black and Indigenous people, the young soldiers who, alongside the Soviets, defeated Hitler. And that’s why I dared to speak on a street in New York in front of the United Nations building and under U.S. law that protects the opinions of those attending the United Nations Assembly to speak freely. I spoke against the genocide in Gaza—how I would have loved to accompany you to make peace in Gaza! Where the Palestinians love me, and perhaps if instead of going to capture a Latin American president with small controls on oil because you blocked the oil and condemned us to hunger and unleashed the exodus that reached your own country, I would have accompanied you to capture Netanyahu, the genocidaire. For what I said, you took the arrogance to punish my opinion, my words against the Palestinian genocide. Your punishment is to falsely accuse me of being a drug trafficker and having cocaine factories; I don’t have a car, nor estates abroad—my house I’m still paying off to the bank with my salary. It’s unjust, and I fight against injustices. I’m friends with a lot of people in the U.S. who stop me on the streets, surround me with their arms. That’s why I respect the history that began with Washington and Bolívar together; they gave each other things, they were liberators more than enslavers. I learned not to be a slave, and I reject your
January 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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natalieweiner.bsky.social
supporting vaccines as "personal choice" while vaccinating your own is nasty business bsky.app/profile/cait...
highland park isd - ultra rich and conservative subcity of dallas - has a 95% vaccination rate
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
adamjst.bsky.social
Miami Correctional Center is located in Bunker Hill, Indiana.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 20 days.

detentionreports.com/facility/MIA...
Miami Correctional Center is indicated by a blue marker and a label in Bunker Hill, Indiana. Map by OpenStreetMap, ODbL using Leaflet. A photo of the exterior of Miami Correctional Facility. From the Indiana Corrections fact sheet about the site. https://www.in.gov/idoc/files/Miami_Fact_Sheet.pdf
January 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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abenewman.bsky.social
9/So what is Europe to do? Not this...It has to wake up and understand that an alternative international order is being put on the table. It is not based on rules but hierarchy and extraction. Tepid finger waging will lead to domination.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
EU affirms ‘principles of national sovereignty’ in cautious response to Trump Greenland threats – Europe live
European Commission spokesperson also declines to rule on whether US intervention in Venezuela was legal
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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murosinvisibles.bsky.social
Cuban govt confirms that 32 Cubans died in US operation to capture Maduro. Most likely worked in his security detail

Venezuelan officials now say the death toll from US strikes is at least 80
January 5, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
They know how to break things, yet have no more idea how to conduct a war than they know how to actually govern. They'll just keep killing more people (fast and slow) and miming spectacle until we stop them.
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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rebeccawilliams.info
the latest example of ICE claiming a previously recognized government ID (issued by its own agency no less) is no longer valid
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
adamjst.bsky.social
Mini-Cassia Detention Center is located in Burley, Idaho.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 3 days.

detentionreports.com/facility/MIN...
Mini-Cassia Detention Center is indicated by a label and a blue marker near in Burley, Idaho. Map by OpenStreetMap, ODbL using Leaflet. A photo of the exterior of Mini-Cassia Detention Center in Burley, Idaho. From google maps.
January 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM