Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

NEW GTA 6 DETAILS REVEALED: - Rockstar calls GTA 6 its “deepest and most immersive” game yet, with a new approach to nearly everything it has done before. - Development starts with extensive real-world research. A small Rockstar team travelled through Miami, nearby towns and the Florida Keys to Key West. - Rockstar later returned with larger teams, recording locations while studying the people, culture and environments they wanted to recreate. - Aaron Garbut and Rockstar art directors spent a day filming Florida from a helicopter over the Everglades, mangrove inlets, Downtown Miami and the beach. - Rockstar met locals, police and gang members to understand different sides of Florida and Leonida. - Miami’s contrasts inspired the game, including wealth, poverty, excess, hustle and how openly people show everything off. - Clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics and styling were heavily researched so Leonida’s characters feel authentic to where they come from. - GTA 6’s satire draws from things Rockstar found interesting, including conspiracy theories and the strange ways people react to everyday events. - Since development has lasted years, Rockstar avoids chasing short-lived internet trends, instead exaggerating ideas that can still feel relevant at release. - Rockstar wants Vice City and Leonida to feel like somewhere players can spend hundreds of hours and genuinely get attached to. - GTA 6 continues exploring the American Dream, but Rockstar says it’s now more modest: owning a home, supporting a family and paying off debts instead of becoming wildly successful. - Jason’s criminal life is partly driven by his material circumstances. Rockstar mentions drug trafficking and bank robbery, but how much he embraces that lifestyle is shaped by the player. - Lucia wants a better life and refuses to let obstacles stop her from getting it. - Jason and Lucia were written to complement each other, with a push-and-pull dynamic throughout the story. - Rockstar wanted both to feel vulnerable, flawed and capable of being right or wrong, rather than permanently “badass.” - Lucia was partly inspired by one Rockstar writer’s experience growing up around strong women in New Jersey and New York. - Jason and Lucia were intended to feel young, hopeful and inexperienced rather than hardened career criminals. - Rockstar describes going on the run and pushing a crime spree to its limit as having something “hopeful and naive” about it. - Raul was created as an older, experienced figure who introduces Jason and Lucia to larger-scale heists and criminal set pieces. - Raul represents a more specifically Miami side of the criminal world, bringing local knowledge Jason and Lucia don’t initially have in Vice City. - Ambrosia was inspired partly by Clewiston and the Lake Okeechobee area. - National politics are not a major GTA 6 focus. Election signs, robocalls and radio shows will exist, but Rockstar avoids tying the game too closely to one real-world politician or event. - Rockstar’s satire takes a real issue, finds its most interesting part, then exaggerates it until the ridiculousness becomes obvious. - GTA 6 has a dedicated pedestrian dialogue team in Los Angeles, plus advertising and comedy writers across LA, New York and London. - Rockstar says there are no real “background” NPCs. If you stop and listen to someone, their conversation is designed to hold up instead of being random background noise. - Hundreds of conversations can be heard in busy areas, each designed to remain believable if the player stops to listen. - Rockstar describes every NPC as effectively the main character of their own story rather than just an “extra.” - GTA 6’s writing system is extremely technical, requiring many writers to create the hundreds of voices that make Leonida feel alive. - New LOVE magazine screenshots show Jason and Lucia at a pool table, plus a new Leonida street scene with dirt bikes, cars and large painted columns. [Via Love Magazine]