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ブライアン・コバート 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯 authory.com/BrianCovert

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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An important new film opens in Japan today September 11, the 25th anniversary of 9/11: 𝙈𝙧. 𝙉𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚? (ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか?) is the story of the late Allen Nelson, a soldier-turned-peace activist who was fairly well known in Japan. A must-see film... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_lc...
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Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?_Official Trailer
YouTube video by キノフィルムズ
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
• REMEMBERING GARY WEBB & "DARK ALLIANCE" (3/3) And finally, thirty years ago today, 20 August, reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper in the USA published the last part of his explosive three-part investigative series "Dark Alliance". Day Three: web.archive.org/web/19961220...
Official website logo of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper's "Dark Alliance" investigative series by reporter Gary Webb, 1996.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
• REMEMBERING GARY WEBB & "DARK ALLIANCE" (2/3) Thirty years ago this day, 19 August, reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper in the USA published the second part of his explosive three-part investigative series "Dark Alliance". Day Two: web.archive.org/web/19961220...
Official website logo of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper's "Dark Alliance" investigative series by reporter Gary Webb, 1996.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
• REMEMBERING GARY WEBB & "DARK ALLIANCE" (1/3) Thirty years ago today, 18 August, reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper in the USA began publishing the three-part investigative series "Dark Alliance" to a firestorm of controversy in 1996. Day One: web.archive.org/web/19961220...
Official website logo of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper's "Dark Alliance" investigative series by reporter Gary Webb, 1996.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Remembering today the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945. A decade ago, a sitting president from the USA, Barack Obama, became the first president to visit the city. Obama's visit left a lot to be desired. My blog piece on it: authory.com/BrianCovert/...
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POTUS Comes to Hiroshima
History was made one month ago when POTUS (President of the United States) Barack Obama landed in the city of Hiroshima, Japan — the first sitting American president to ever visit the site since it wa...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 06/08/2026
Read more from HRW:
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Lebanon: Israel’s Killing of Journalist an Apparent War Crime
The Israeli military’s April 22, 2026, attacks in Lebanon that killed one journalist and severely injured another included apparently deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, which would ...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“They [Democrats] have failed tremendously to stand up to billionaire power because the only people as addicted to billionaire money in American politics as the Republicans are the Democrats” — Gil Durán
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An historically important book, "Hiroshima, 8:15", has just been published today — the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing by the USA in 1945. This is the recently discovered memoir of the late Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Japan. A must-read for us all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The lost Hiroshima memoir
How I came to edit a harrowing and gripping account of the first act of nuclear warfare.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
An extensive interview piece, just published today in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 newspaper of London, with 𝗞𝗼𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 by the United States. Kondo also contributes the foreword to an upcoming book, "Hiroshima, 8:15". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness
On that fateful day in 1945, Kondo was just a baby in her mother’s arms. She talks about her father’s newly discovered eye-witness account of the aftermath – and why she decided to continue his work a...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An informative, incisive interview with the brilliant thinker and writer Ece Temelkuran on fascism in the world today and what rebuilding Home means in these troubled times. Check it out.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtXQ...
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Rebuilding 'Home' in the 21st Century (w/ Ece Temelkuran) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Politico @politico.com · 10/07/2026
Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some. 🔗 politi.co/4vSW46T
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 10/07/2026
"You don’t win by abandoning the ground where the nest is growing. You win by digging in. The right has always known that. The only question is when the left will." thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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The South is democracy’s front line, and the left must send reinforcements
Sustaining this work takes an investment the South has never been given.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A new major motion picture in Japan now tells the story of the late 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻, a U.S. marine during America's war in Vietnam and later a devoted advocate for peace. 『ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか?』(Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?) is directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto. nelsonsan.jp
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映画『ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか?』公式サイト|9月公開
監督・脚本・撮影・編集:塚本晋也(『野火』、『斬、』、『ほかげ』)/“戦争加害者の傷”というタブーに切り込む衝撃作。
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Melat Kiros @melatkirosco.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I’m running for Congress! It’s time for a new generation of leadership to tackle the greatest issues facing everyday Americans: housing affordability, healthcare, and the rising cost of living. Learn more about the campaign at KirosforCO.com!
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Politico @politico.com · 28/06/2026
The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security amid a rise in threats to the justices. Along with restricting the justices' personal freedoms, the move threatens to further cocoon them in ideological bubbles as they decide controversial cases.
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The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force
The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security. At what cost?
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 22/06/2026
Crackdowns on writers and #FreeExpression during war emerged as a key trend in this year’s #FreedomToWrite Index, notes Pen America’s Liesl Gerntholtz. Time and again, those who write about war – novelists, commentators, poets, even economists – suffer the consequences:
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As Governments Silence Critics During War, Writers Are Among the First to Pay the Price
Crackdowns on writers during wartime emerged as a key trend in PEN America's 2025 data gathered for the latest annual Freedom to Write Index.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Exceptional review of the new book "Nation of Strangers" and an interview with its author, journalist Ece Temelkuran of Turkey: on coping with the rising tides of fascism lapping at the shores of democratic societies the world over and the resulting loss of Home, whoever and wherever you may be.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Welcome once again to the Trump Concentration Camps®. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Death rate in ICE immigrant detention centers more than doubles under Trump, Reuters analysis finds
Experts have raised concerns about medical care and supervision in ICE detention centers.
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 15/06/2026
This country was built on contradiction. Liberty for some. Exclusion for many. Most politics is reaction. Resist, respond, repeat. But history shows change starts with imagination first. We are living inside someone else’s vision of this country. It is time to imagine a new one.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The American war in Vietnam in the 1960s-70s included the spraying of millions of gallons of highly toxic chemicals onto the Vietnamese people for a full decade. Here's a recent report on it by Japan's public broadcaster, NHK.... www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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In the Wake of Agent Orange: 50 Years After the Vietnam War | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
The harm left in the wake of Agent Orange still impacts Vietnam's environment and its people. We follow filmmaker Masako Sakata who has spent two decades documenting the victims of this toxic legacy.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁, under far-right chief justice John Roberts, make clear that the court is on a path to desecrate voting rights in the USA — starting with, but certainly not limited to, Black voting rights in U.S. southern states. This must be stopped now.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/06/2026
They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
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They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
Immigrants are frequently being sent all over the country, and often families and attorneys don’t know where they are.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, on losing her native Turkey to the F-word (fascism) and what people in other democratic societies can do when fascism comes a-knocking at their nation's door too. An excerpt from her powerful new book "𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨" — a must-read for these perilous times.
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An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country
Nation of Strangers is the conclusion of a decade-long odyssey. My ten-year saga began in 2016 when I wrote a book called Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy. Before the book, I’d enjoyed a succe…
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It's all part and parcel of the Trump Concentration Camps®.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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New York Exhibit Turned 3.5M Pages of Epstein Records Into a Public Archive
Exhibit spokesperson David Garrett told Military.com there's a "lot of evidence."
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A deep dive: When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Latino New Yorkers file sweeping class action against Trump over ‘race-based’ ICE arrests
The plaintiffs are seeking to stop ICE agents from “indiscriminately stopping and arresting” New Yorkers without warrants or reasonable suspicion.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Welcome to the Trump Concentration Camps®....
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙣, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙮 41-𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧-𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 24 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 [𝙐.𝙎.] 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙮....” english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-...
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Afghan asylum seeker dies the day after being detained by ICE: ‘His family deserves answers’
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, who worked for the US government in Afghanistan for 15 years, was not suffering from any illness when he was arrested, according to his family
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨....." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/84-y...
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8 decades after Japanese American incarceration, history repeats | Op-Ed
The same logic that justified incarcerating Japanese Americans — that rights can be suspended in moments of perceived crisis — undergirds today’s system.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Excerpt: “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” [the teenage girl] recalled Trump saying, according to the FBI report." Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump
Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Trump’s Attack on Iran Puts Him on Shakier Legal Ground Than Before
Trump’s new interest in targeting foreign leaders also goes far beyond his previous gambits.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Death toll from school bombing in southern Iran reportedly rises to 165
Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
More on the children of Trump's concentration camps...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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After Trump threats, Canadian military recruits surge
"They want to make sure that Canada remains a secure and sovereign country," Canada's defense minister said.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Jesse Jackson shifted Black politics from the margins of the Democratic party to its center
The civil rights icon, who died on Tuesday, used his progressivism as rebellion
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/02/2026
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The children of the Trump concentration camps (2/2)... www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The children of the Trump concentration camps (1/2)... www.propublica.org/article/life...
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
As the crisis in Minneapolis unfolded and we saw the feds thwart local efforts to independently investigate the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, it was hard not to think about the Mexican man killed by ICE agents a few miles from my house in Chicago. www.propublica.org/article/why-...
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“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer”
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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DHS Seeks to Convert Giant Warehouses Across US Into Immigration Jails
A total of 23 converted warehouses could imprison up to 80,000 people, estimates suggest.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. President Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history. One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immi...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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It’s time to defund the oligarchy and invest in the American people | Joseph Geevarghese and Rashida Tlaib
Trump’s presidency has brought a windfall to billionaires while hurting the poor. In these conditions, democracy cannot survive
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Videos prompt concern about ICE raids in California | AJ#shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/02/2026
In pushing the pernicious myth of the "good American," against her husband's systematic kidnapping of immigrants and their children, the Melania movie amounts to an American obscenity.
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The Melania movie is an American obscenity
The vapid, corruption-soaked film, which celebrates the myth of the "good immigrant," is more revelatory than it seems.
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