The Resistance Is Dismantling Trump’s $1 Billion ICE Prison Machine
Scott Dworkin
Apr 05, 2026
The Trump regime bet $1.074 billion you’d look away. You didn’t. They built a machine that the resistance is taking apart.
Last week DHS blinked. They paused all new warehouse purchases and are now reviewing every contract Kristi Noem signed.
The regime’s plan was to pack 92,000 people into ICE prisons—converting warehouses in American neighborhoods to do it.
They bought the buildings without telling anyone or asking for permission. They assumed communities would comply. They were wrong.
GOP Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi broke with the regime when DHS came for his backyard. “We cannot suddenly flood Byhalia with an influx of up to 10,000 detainees,” he said. That prison was scrapped.
Across the country owners are refusing to sell—eight purchases have fallen through. The regime spent $1.074 billion on warehouses across eight states. We’re fighting like hell to make sure none of them ever open.
THE COURTS ARE OPEN
The regime’s prison playbook was simple: buy quietly, announce fast, and dare anyone to stop them. But everywhere they tried it, the resistance was waiting.
In Romulus, Michigan, ICE bought a warehouse one mile from an elementary school—in a floodplain, with only six bathrooms planned for 500 detainees. They didn’t tell the city. Mayor Robert McCraight found out when the press called him. The city council voted unanimously to sue—and the next day Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed suit alongside them, seeking an emergency court order to block the prison entirely.
In New Mexico, the regime ran into something it didn’t plan for—the Immigrant Safety Act, a new law banning municipalities from signing ICE detention contracts starting May 20.
Otero County has been financially dependent on prison contracts with the federal government for nearly two decades—lose the contract, lose the only way to pay its debt. So the county convened a 12-minute secret meeting to lock in a five-year deal before the law could stop them.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez took it to the state Supreme Court and called it out: “Otero County did not obtain the approval state law requires, and the agreement is invalid.” If the court rules for him, roughly 900 detainees move or go free
THE WALLS KEEP CLOSING IN
When the regime couldn’t build new facilities, it tried to lock the doors on the ones it already had.
In Minneapolis, DHS barred clergy including Rev. Susie Hayward from entering the prison, forcing them to move their ministry across the street—on Ash Wednesday. So the church sued, and won. US District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered DHS to immediately restore clergy access.
The regime locked the door. The church sued. The judge opened it.
Yes, keep on fighting everywhere.
Bill Madden
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Book Bans: Trump’s 2025 Bonfire of the Vanities
In Trump’s America, 2025 delivered a record 4,235 book challenges — nearly matching the 2023 peak. Over 90% orchestrated by political hit squads like far-right hate group Moms for Liberty, not concerned parents.
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This isn’t parental rights. It’s cultural ethnic cleansing with a MAGA smile.
Sound familiar? May 1933: Nazi students, Goebbels cheering, torched “degenerate” books — anything questioning purity, sexuality, or the regime. Same instinct, different uniforms. Today’s censors purge stories of…
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1:54 PM · Apr 20, 2026
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… trauma, identity, and inconvenient truths while pretending to protect children. A memoir about gender dysphoria is apparently more toxic than actual trafficking.
The threat of fascism in America is real. It doesn’t need brown shirts or midnight raids. It arrives with library board…
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1:54 PM · Apr 20, 2026
Bill Madden
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… takeovers, funding threats, and sanctimonious warriors burning ideas they can’t control. First they scrub the shelves. Then they scrub history. Then they scrub you.
The bonfire is already lit. The only question is how long until the rest of us smell the smoke.
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1:55 PM · Apr 20, 2026
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jamelle
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the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism
7:35 AM · Apr 19, 2026
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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net
these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.
7:35 AM · Apr 19, 2026
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The Shadow Docket of the Supreme Court
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Tradwife to poverty pipeline
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Not the Latino,
Born, bred and educated in California
Who has spent his adult life in public service…
because…
THAT WOULD BE TOO MUCH LIKE RIGHT…
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NEW: Our Revolution is endorsing billionaire Tom Steyer for California Gov. Founded by Bernie Sanders after his 2016 presidential campaign, the group says if progressives don’t consolidate after Swalwell’s exit, they risk handing the seat to a Republican theintercept.com/2026/04/20/c…
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Motor City Liberal returns
@MotorCityLib
There are two kinds of evil that exist in politics
1. Voting Republican despite knowing their policies won’t help you but harm the people you don’t like.
2. Allowing monsters like Trump to win and punish everyone because we don’t hold your pet issue as our main issue.
6:01 AM · Apr 20, 2026
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
“The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that’s the threshold for mentally handicapped … they’re a net drain on the society” — even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking
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Khanna to Maria Bartiromo: “Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn’t put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. Obama actually did his homework … all Donald Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That’s his entire foreign policy.”[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Apr 20, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Ossoff: “How does American politics really work? It’s coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It’s been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money … all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself”[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Apr 20, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Never forget:
The Crazyfication Factor is 27%. The closer he gets to that number, the better.
Greg Sargent
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Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.
Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Patrick Wyman
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Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of “damnatio memoriae.” Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they’re Nero’s Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra.bsky.social
When I am Governor — if you start chasing people, including U.S. citizens, we get to come after you.
Cross that line in California and we will investigate you. We will arrest you. And we will prosecute you.
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Distill Social
@DistillSocial
US Senate Candidate Haley Stevens was just booed off the stage at the Michigan Democratic Convention. 👇
Indivisible Michigan
@IndivisibleMich
I talked to quite a few people who were so turned off by this they are no longer voting for
@AbdulElSayed
. It’s a democratic process, let all speak and let the people decide. Stop acting like children.
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RIP
Gone too soon.
Deadline
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Patrick Muldoon, known for his roles in the daytime drama ‘Days of Our Lives,’ primetime soap ‘Melrose Place’ and movie ‘Starship Troopers,’ died suddenly this morning. https://deadline.com/2026/04/patrick-muldoon-dead-days-of-our-lives-melrose-place-1236865474/
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