The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history. DHS is planning 23 new detention centers that would more than double the number of people in ICE custody, detaining an additional 76,500 people, according to Bloomberg. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

ICE is the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the country, and its budget is set to triple this year.

ICE is using that cash to arm itself with a high-tech arsenal to track immigrants and citizens alike.

THREAD. So far, seven people have reported ICE recording them and uploading their data into a facial recognition app without their permission. ICE uses Mobile Fortify and a ClearviewAI facial recognition app to track undocumented immigrants and citizens opposing ICE’s presence.

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Who is the “inflation hawk,” Kevin Warsh, Trump’s new appointee to lead the Federal Reserve in May?

He’s another Wall Street broker in Trump’s pocket, calling for a “regime change” at the Fed.

THREAD: Warsh served as governor of the Fed from 2006 to 2011 after serving as an economic aide for George W. Bush’s administration.

During the 2008 recession, Warsh wanted to keep high interest rates even as the economy teetered toward collapse. Warsh opposed interest rate cuts, and when the Fed issued them, inflation didn’t rise.

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A rapidly growing coalition is launching a general strike this Friday in Minnesota, aimed at pushing out ICE.

The coalition includes:
- The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
- SEIU Local 26
- UNITE HERE Local 17
- CWA Local 7250
- The Saint Paul Federation of Educators
- The Minneapolis Federation of Educators
- The Minnesota AFL-CIO
- The Sunrise Movement
- Faith leaders

And more. Thread. Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:

1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.

“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”

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Scotland is considering reshaping their economy to make it more democratic, locally orientated, and sustainable.

The proposed legislation would foster worker owned co-ops, livable wages, land use for the common good, and more.

It's a model the US should take a good look at. 🧵 Scotland’s Community Wealth Building (CWB) law, proposed last March, is headed to its Stage 1 debate in November.

The bill harnesses momentum in local economic activity, spearheaded by anchor institutions—places with a strong community presence. parliament.scot/-/media/files/…

California’s 214 billionaires are panicking over a ballot proposal that hasn’t passed yet.

This November, California will vote on a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.

Billionaires are up in arms, as is Gavin Newsom—who says he’ll “do what I have to do to protect the state.” The Billionaire Tax Act responds to Trump’s OBBB, which strains California’s critical infrastructure by cutting around $100B in federal funds.

The goal? To keep California’s health care and education systems from collapsing amid skyrocketing costs and employee burnout.

EXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices.

We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

The scary part? It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @ConsumerReports and @Groundwork found it could cost families $1200/year. We investigated Instacart grocery prices in 4 different states.

Nearly three-quarters of the grocery items we tested showed different prices to different shoppers.

Some items had up to five different price points simultaneously.

EXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices.

We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

The scary part? It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @ConsumerReports and @GroundworkProj found it could cost families $1200/year. We investigated Instacart grocery prices in 4 different states.

Nearly three-quarters of the grocery items we tested showed different prices to different shoppers.

Some items had up to five different price points simultaneously.

THREAD: A small handful of companies are propping up the U.S. economy.

GDP growth is overly reliant on one sector: AI.

And the numbers are going up in no small part because these companies keep investing in each other. On Tuesday, Nvidia and Microsoft announced that AI startup Anthropic will buy $30 billion of cloud computing capacity from Microsoft, “powered by Nvidia.”

As part of the deal, Nvidia agreed to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic, and Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion.

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Donald Trump is proposing 50-year mortgages.

What he doesn't want you to know is that if you take a 30-year loan on the average house, you pay around $824,000 over the life of the loan.

If you took out a 50-year loan for the same house, you’d ultimately pay about $1,213,500.🧵 Assuming a 6.2% interest rate, a 30-year plan on a $373,680 loan costs $2,288.68 per month.

A 50-year loan would cost $2,022.52 per month.

While homebuyers would see a small drop in their monthly costs, they would also see a meteoric rise in interest payments.

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The South has quickly emerged as a battleground between big tech and working people.

Companies are pouring billions into data centers, but Southerners are fighting to block them.

The outcomes could greatly affect residents’ economic security and the region’s water supply. 🧵 $200 billion worth of data center projects are being built in the South, according to a new report from @MediaJustice.

To keep up with the massive amounts of energy these centers consume, projects like gas pipelines and coal plants are also growing.

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Companies are increasingly trapping workers with a move that looks a lot like indentured servitude.

The company will pay for training, then when you want to leave the job, the corporation will say you owe thousands of dollars for that training — unless you stay on the job.

🧵 The following article describes a nurse who switched to a better-paying job at a nearby hospital only to wind up with debt collectors at her door demanding she pay her former employer back for a loan she didn’t know she owed.

jacobin.com/2025/08/corpor…

Amazon tried to build a massive, water-consuming data center out in Arizona. Tucson’s city council unanimously killed it.

We were on the ground to tell the real story of how a community stopped Amazon in their tracks.

A thread 🧵 Back in 2023, Amazon Web Services outlined a plan to build a 290-acre data center—nearly the size of downtown Tucson.

It was one of the largest projects ever considered by the city, and was projected to use massive amounts of water and electricity.

azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/ama…

Republicans in Congress are currently trying to ram through a bill that would the biggest wealth transfer in history.

Here are some of the most extreme cuts, giveaways to the rich, and impacts that the bill will have.

What they're trying to do is simply shocking. 🧵 Due to the drastic Medicaid cuts in the bill, 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close, and more than half would have to cut staff.

Florida Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis are preparing the most sweeping set of anti-worker bills in the country — rolling back labor protections for kids as young as 14 and even classifying older workers as interns or apprentices.

🚨THREAD🚨 In 2020, more than 60% of Florida voters backed an amendment raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. But now, in an anti-democratic move, legislators could get around the will of the people.

Two people were tased at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall in Georgia, where furious constituents demanded answers about insider trading, DOGE, and more.

The Congresswoman faces multiple allegations of profiting from market manipulation. What’s really going on? 🧵 MTG bought between $10K-$150K worth of stock the same day that Trump announced his 90-day pause on tariffs.

The day before, she purchased between $11K-165K in stocks and sold between $50K-100K in Treasury bills.

*Signs an illegal executive order. This is called breaking a union contract.

It’s an attack on workers everywhere. Thread. Last night Trump signed an executive order instructing 18 agencies to illegally terminate their collective bargaining agreements with 700,000 union workers.

In the first two weeks of the Elon Musk presidency, the world’s richest man has attacked the federal government relentlessly.

Here’s what the billionaire has done in just 14 days. Thread 🧵 Musk and his cronies have forced their way into the Treasury Department, and his young, inexperienced loyalists are attempting to get into the system that manages payments for the entire government.
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Unprecedented wildfires are ripping through the Los Angeles area, and the state’s wildfire fighting force often includes incarcerated workers making as little as under $6 a day.

🧵 2) California has dozens of “fire camps” throughout the state for incarcerated people to fight wildfires.

They work in “hand crews” to dig trenches, clear vegetation, and perform other “dirty work” to help make putting out fires possible. smithsonianmag.com/history/the-hi…

President Biden has officially blocked the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese giant Nippon Steel for $14.9 billion.

"Without domestic steel production and domestic steel workers, our nation is less strong and less secure," Biden said. Despite extensive lobbying by Nippon, United Steelworkers opposed the deal over concerns including that Nippon would seek to renegotiate their existing contract, which expires in September 2026, and could pursue layoffs and plant closures.
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The FTC is suing the biggest alcohol distributor in the country, and it matters a whole lot more than you think.

It could even change the price of your groceries.

Here’s why you should know about the Robinson-Patman Act. Thread. The Robinson-Patman Act requires suppliers to offer the same prices and terms to all buyers. Passed in 1936 to protect small businesses, the law meant that big chains and corporations couldn’t get discounts that weren’t available to mom and pop shops.
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