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Carlton Williams

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Movement Lawyer & Clinical Law Prof Down w/ @nlg.org @wplc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social x.com/carltonwilliams #BDS #BLM #LandBack #AbolishICE #FreePalestine carltonwilliams@ProtonMail.com

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
❤️‍🔥 Join our team defending the movement for Palestinian liberation! Legal interns will conduct legal research, draft legal research memos and advocacy documents, and assist with intake calls and client communications. Learn more and apply today at bit.ly/legalinternsPL.
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Water Protector Legal Collective @wplc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The Water Protector Legal Collective was born at #StandingRock to provide legal support to water protectors defending land, water, and Indigenous rights. We continue to honor this legacy and stand with all communities resisting extractive projects threatening our lands and waters. #NoDAPL #MniWiconi
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Water Protector Legal Collective @wplc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Nine years later, this same fight is not over. There is still ongoing litigation stemming from the same concerns: the shutdown of a pipeline that desecrated sacred sites in its construction and continues to operate illegally without proper permits or a full Environmental Impact Statement.
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Water Protector Legal Collective @wplc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“This case has highlighted the need for a serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering [T]ribes' views on these types of infrastructure projects,” the agencies said.
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Water Protector Legal Collective @wplc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
That same day, the DOJ, DOI, and DOA issued a joint statement calling on the pipeline company to voluntarily halt construction near Lake Oahe, a site of immense cultural and spiritual significance to the Standing Rock Sioux.
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Water Protector Legal Collective @wplc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The Tribe had argued that the pipeline’s construction threatened sacred sites, water, and Treaty rights, but despite acknowledging the long history of injustices toward Indigenous Nations, Judge Boasberg ruled against the Tribe.
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Water Protector Legal Collective @wplc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#OnThisDay in 2016, a federal judge denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Judge Rules That Construction Can Proceed On Dakota Access Pipeline
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had sought a temporary stop to work on the pipeline. But after the ruling, three U.S. agencies said work would halt in an area particularly sensitive to the tribe.
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Genocide in Gaza. w.wiki/AipY
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 31/07/2026
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If Burnham stops arming genocide, stops imprisoning those brave enough to try to stop it, ends new oil and gas, imposes rent controls, and renationalises mail, rail, water and energy, no one would be happier than Green Party members, despite it hurting us in the polls. A debate:
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ro Khanna and Israeli Apartheid, the Iran War, and the Politics of the World Cup www.dropsitenews.com/p/ro-khanna-...
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Ro Khanna and Israeli Apartheid, the Iran War, and the Politics of the World Cup
Watch now | Rep. Ro Khanna describes his detention by Israeli settlers backed by the Israeli army in the West Bank. Khanna and Drop Site's Jeremy Scahill debate Palestinian armed resistance, the Iron ...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ro Khanna and Israeli Apartheid, the Iran War, and the Politics of the World Cup www.dropsitenews.com/p/ro-khanna-...
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Ro Khanna and Israeli Apartheid, the Iran War, and the Politics of the World Cup
Watch now | Rep. Ro Khanna describes his detention by Israeli settlers backed by the Israeli army in the West Bank. Khanna and Drop Site's Jeremy Scahill debate Palestinian armed resistance, the Iron ...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Residents push back on White Stadium parking, transportation plans at heated meeting
A public meeting in Dorchester to discuss parking and transportation issues around the new White Stadium was heated at times Thursday evening, with residents confronting city officials, particularly o...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Boston agrees to $850,000 settlement in lawsuit over police force during 2020 George Floyd protests archive.ph/AjAuM
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Boston agrees to $850,000 settlement in lawsuit over police force during 2020 George Floyd protests archive.ph/AjAuM
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Rollins gathering signatures in race for Suffolk County DA Three years after she resigned under pressure from her post as US Attorney, Rachael Rollins has returned to the political world, pulling nomination papers to run for the seat she won in 2018. flipsidenews.net/rollins-gath...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
For the Love of Water 2016-2026: A Ten-Year Retrospective Report from @wplc.bsky.social www.waterprotectorlegal.org/legal/forthe...
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For the Love of Water | Water Protector Legal Collective
Standing Rock: For the Love of Water, 2016-2026: A Ten-Year Retrospective Report. The Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement at Standing Rock galvanized Indigenous Peoples and allies worldwide to defend wate...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
For the Love of Water 2016-2026: A Ten-Year Retrospective Report from @wplc.bsky.social www.waterprotectorlegal.org/legal/forthe...
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For the Love of Water | Water Protector Legal Collective
Standing Rock: For the Love of Water, 2016-2026: A Ten-Year Retrospective Report. The Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement at Standing Rock galvanized Indigenous Peoples and allies worldwide to defend wate...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Exclusive: FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial
FOIA records obtained by Type Investigations and In These Times raise questions about evidence presented in Prairieland case.
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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A cop is facing manslaughter for the first time in 30 years. How did we get here?
For decades, police shootings have sparked protest. But in Boston, the shootings have over the years followed a familiar pattern: Police shoot a Black victim. Black community activists and elected off...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The US military apparently "lost" a $65 million KC-135 Stratotanker airplane over Iraq. aje.news/2s21hi?updat...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10/03/2026
We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias. Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom and civil society groups: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
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CherylOnTheTrails @cherylonthetrails.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/us-bomb...
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Rights Group Says Massacre at Iranian School—Likely by US—Should Be Investigated as 'War Crime' | Common Dreams
"Trump loves putting his name on things, but this should be the only building for which he is remembered by history."
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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#StopSLAPPs
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Greenpeace USA @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It was just round 1. It is not over. It’s time to resist. We will APPEAL this ruling in North Dakota. Energy Transfer’s intimidation lawsuit is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. We won’t back down. Learn more: www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-tod... #TimeToResist
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What today’s judgment means for Greenpeace USA - Greenpeace
A final judgment has officially been entered in Big Oil company Energy Transfer’s massive lawsuit against us.
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
War drones of Upstate NY... and the people protesting them. youtu.be/otxwbkwQX-8?...
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Drones of Upstate New York | Mashable Docs
YouTube video by Mashable
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
War drones of Upstate NY... and the people protesting them. youtu.be/otxwbkwQX-8?...
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Drones of Upstate New York | Mashable Docs
YouTube video by Mashable
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/03/2026
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Heated debate on the spectacular Green Party win in Gorton & Denton. Pushed back firmly on most of the caricatures and false claims about the Greens and the campaign
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/02/2026
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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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Rümeysa Öztürk got her PhD yesterday, roughly nine months after being released from ICE custody. Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk!
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Rümeysa Öztürk got her PhD yesterday, roughly nine months after being released from ICE custody. Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk!
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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4 Mass. State Police troopers charged in death of recruit suspended with pay
The supervisor and three full-time instructors facing manslaughter charges were suspended with pay following duty status hearings.
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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4 Mass. State Police troopers charged in death of recruit suspended with pay
The supervisor and three full-time instructors facing manslaughter charges were suspended with pay following duty status hearings.
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Genocide in Gaza en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Case dismissed. archive.ph/wY7jq
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2026
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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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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The Shoestring @theshoestring.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The Northwestern DA’s office successfully convicted Etel Haxhiaj, a rapid responder to a Worcester ICE raid, of assault on a police officer. Haxhiaj declined a plea offer that would have required her to sign an apology letter. “I chose the truth,” she said. @billshaner.bsky.social reports:
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Northwestern Assistant DA convicts Worcester ICE protester
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Etel Haxhiaj (ha-jee-eye) @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Thank you immensely @andrewjmarsh.bsky.social for this powerful beautiful analysis in @billshaner.bsky.social’s Worcester Sucks. ❤️ www.worcestersucks.email/p/criminaliz...
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Criminalizing those who rush to help their neighbors
An op-ed from Andrew Marsh
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Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Case dismissed. archive.ph/wY7jq
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Jane Kim 金貞妍 @thisisjanekim.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Join us at janekim.org .
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Jane Kim 金貞妍 @thisisjanekim.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We're in this fight for working people. Momentum is on our side, and we're taking nothing for granted.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/02/2026
This important story, which details the dangers of ICE and CBP’s face-recognition app, is available to read for free, thanks to @wired.com's initiative in partnership with @freedom.press to unpaywall FOIA-based reporting. Other outlets should follow suit.
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
NEW: ICE in Minnesota – Days 63-64: Gov’t Lawyers Quit En Masse, Pretti Killing Ruled Homicide, Minneapolis Peace Prize Nominee A brief rundown on some of the happenings and updates in the federal occupation of the Minnesota from the past two days. unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-in-...
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ICE in Minnesota – Days 63-64: Gov't Lawyers Quit En Masse, Pretti Killing Ruled Homicide, Minneapolis Peace Prize Nominee - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis – On the heels of a supposed “drawdown” in federal immigration enforcement throughout the Twin Cities metro area, protesters are continuing to show up and confront the federal occupation o...
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 30/01/2026
Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda has been banned from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors.
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TikTok takes down Gaza journalist Bisan Owda’s account mere days after US deal
Owda’s account had 1.4 million followers, she said.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 30/01/2026
After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being." bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
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ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled Woman Out of Her Car. What Happened Next Was Just As Chilling.
“They laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Aliya Rahman tells The Nation.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
NEW: Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That. Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former prisoners working to end prison slavery in MN. unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery...
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Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That. - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis, MN – Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in Dece...
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