Daniel Sharp
@deeesharp.bsky.social
Philosopher at the University of Vienna. Working on migration, citizenship, democracy & equality.
Read my work here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VYT_0LjgcGgXDKEx4JSxTaRXxEU0rJP1?usp=drive_link
Read my work here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VYT_0LjgcGgXDKEx4JSxTaRXxEU0rJP1?usp=drive_link
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now that's the power of a union
The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
now that's the power of a union
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Two months ago I wrote a story spelling out how the on the ground tactics of activists and neighbors worked.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Two months ago I wrote a story spelling out how the on the ground tactics of activists and neighbors worked.
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NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
www.huffpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
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Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
February 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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Before the charity stream began, content creators from @minnmax.com and @giantbomb.bsky.social weren't sure what number to aim for — maybe $30,000 or $50,000.
Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.
Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.
Minneapolis video game livestream raises $250K for rent aid during ICE surge
Podcasters from MinnMax and Giant Bomb, two video game media outlets, played games for eight hours during their “ICE Out” livestream.
www.mprnews.org
February 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Before the charity stream began, content creators from @minnmax.com and @giantbomb.bsky.social weren't sure what number to aim for — maybe $30,000 or $50,000.
Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.
Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.
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Center-left candidate António José Seguro is projected to become Portugal’s next president by a comfortable margin, exit polls indicated today.
Exit poll: Center left wins Portuguese presidency
Center-left candidate António José Seguro is projected to defeat far-right leader André Ventura and become the country’s next head of state.
www.politico.eu
February 8, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Center-left candidate António José Seguro is projected to become Portugal’s next president by a comfortable margin, exit polls indicated today.
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What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails.
Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.
Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.
February 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails.
Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.
Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.
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"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
February 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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The largely immigrant workforce at JBS's flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions. Reporting by Ted Genoways for FERN and Mother Jones. Photography by Maryanne Andrei.
thefern.org/2026/02/thes...
thefern.org/2026/02/thes...
February 6, 2026 at 11:16 PM
The largely immigrant workforce at JBS's flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions. Reporting by Ted Genoways for FERN and Mother Jones. Photography by Maryanne Andrei.
thefern.org/2026/02/thes...
thefern.org/2026/02/thes...
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“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
![“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday.
“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreiet46krrk7ovnqxsd6vr7ogw2lgame43jsqw25u2ygi5el5i5toom@jpeg)
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
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If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
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Immigration agents across the United States have committed serious human rights violations with impunity. These include extrajudicial killings, mass detentions, and forced deportations.
Here’s what you can do to take action:
amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...
Here’s what you can do to take action:
amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...
February 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Immigration agents across the United States have committed serious human rights violations with impunity. These include extrajudicial killings, mass detentions, and forced deportations.
Here’s what you can do to take action:
amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...
Here’s what you can do to take action:
amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...
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ICE officials said he ran into a wall, which doctors immediately rejected as inconsistent with the wounds. The immigrant's account - that he was beaten in the head by steel batons, contrary to DHS guidelines - is more plausible. But no accountability exists for him, or us.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
apnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
ICE officials said he ran into a wall, which doctors immediately rejected as inconsistent with the wounds. The immigrant's account - that he was beaten in the head by steel batons, contrary to DHS guidelines - is more plausible. But no accountability exists for him, or us.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
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NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The havoc ICE is wreaking on the First Amendment simply cannot stand in our democracy.
Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social recount the numerous gruesome attacks on reporters in Minnesota. It goes way beyond the arrest of Don Lemon.
Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social recount the numerous gruesome attacks on reporters in Minnesota. It goes way beyond the arrest of Don Lemon.
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The havoc ICE is wreaking on the First Amendment simply cannot stand in our democracy.
Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social recount the numerous gruesome attacks on reporters in Minnesota. It goes way beyond the arrest of Don Lemon.
Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social recount the numerous gruesome attacks on reporters in Minnesota. It goes way beyond the arrest of Don Lemon.
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This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
Alternative view: just abolish the DHS. These reforms are not even close to enough.
We asked key civil rights and immigration experts how to reform DHS, CBP, and ICE—and how Congress can do it.
See what they said:
www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...
From Sam Trepel, @mjschlanger.bsky.social, @margyoh.bsky.social , rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social, & @hannahajames.bsky.social
See what they said:
www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...
From Sam Trepel, @mjschlanger.bsky.social, @margyoh.bsky.social , rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social, & @hannahajames.bsky.social
Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms
Experts detail targeted reforms and legislative pathways Congress could enact to improve ICE and CBP accountability.
www.justsecurity.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Alternative view: just abolish the DHS. These reforms are not even close to enough.
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points:
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
February 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points:
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
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AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 AM
AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
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This is good. More of this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:33 AM
This is good. More of this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...