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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
my latest for @convergencemag.com 💥The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism💥 read here 👇🏽 convergencemag.com/articles/the...
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The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism
Authoritarians use many tactics to consolidate power, grassroots research plays a key role in exposing these tactics and making regimes more vulnerable to resistance movements.
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
my latest for @convergencemag.com 💥The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism💥 read here 👇🏽 convergencemag.com/articles/the...
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The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism
Authoritarians use many tactics to consolidate power, grassroots research plays a key role in exposing these tactics and making regimes more vulnerable to resistance movements.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/03/2026
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
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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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Prism @prismreports.org · 06/03/2026
What we have witnessed U.S.-based fascism accomplish in a very short time should lead us to reassess *everything.* All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands, argues @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest ‘Another way out.’
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All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands
As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Latest from me for @commondreams.org - Immigration Detention Centers are Political Prisons
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/... Salar Mohandesi writing for @versobooks.bsky.social .
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Organizing in the Heart of Empire
The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/03/2026
Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.
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The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/03/2026
The Israeli military says that it dropped roughly 4,000 bombs during its illegal 12-day war last June, and that it had already surpassed that by Tuesday, the fourth day of the new U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
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Israel Has Dropped 4,000 Bombs on Iran — The Same Amount as 12-Day War in a Third of the Time
The death toll has already surpassed that of last year’s war, with Iranian officials reporting 1,230 killed so far.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 24/02/2026
Movements to end mass incarceration, immigrant justice movements, labor movements, environmental justice movements, and all others need to be interconnected in the fight to free all political prisoners.
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Immigration Detention Centers Are Political Prisons
​As immigrants are being targeted, cross-movement solidarity is essential in the fight to free all political prisoners.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/02/2026
New @pressfreedom.bsky.social report shows that a record 129 journalists, media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, with Israel responsible for over two-thirds of those killings. And drone killings of journalists spiked from two in 2023 to 39 in 2025 — with Israel responsible for 28 of the 39.
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Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists
Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...
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Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 24/02/2026
"[E]scalating war on protest." "About 14% of approximately 19,400 Black Lives Matter charges, summons, or citations were successfully prosecuted, compared with about 40% of around 6,800 Gaza cases through late 2024." #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Israel #Policing #Courts #Protest #Genocide
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How data on the crackdown on Gaza protests reflects the increasing repression of activist movements in the U.S.
Data shows Gaza protesters faced harsher punishments than Black Lives Matter protesters did just a few years ago. Experts tell Mondoweiss this is the result of pro-Israel bias and a backlash against protest movements that has been building for years.
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Latest from me for @commondreams.org - Immigration Detention Centers are Political Prisons
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Race Forward @raceforward.org · 22/02/2026
More than five years since the 2020 uprising, the struggle for racial justice continues—and so does the organizing. In this episode of Momentum, Minister JaNaé Bates of @isaiahmn.org and host @jaboa.bsky.social explore how resistance is not just reaction—it’s tradition, strategy, and purpose.
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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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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 21/01/2026
Calls for more training for ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies means more investment in these systems and legitimizing the expansion of the role of the agent.
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You Can’t Train Away ICE’s Terror
​Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15/02/2026
"Carceral AI is not a futuristic threat—it is a present-day reality." "[F]ighting to make carceral AI 'unbiased' [..] works directly against abolitionist aims, obscuring the biases that the criminal legal system is built on." #Michigan #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Weapons
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Carceral AI is here. It's time to fight back.
Facial recognition is just the tip of the iceberg. Today, AI is being used to monitor social media, track ICE targets, and classify swaths of the population as "future" criminals.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them. “We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
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Films For Action @filmsforaction.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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You Can’t Train Away ICE’s Terror | Jaboa Lake
​Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Latest from me for @commondreams.org A more trained mass deportation system is still a mass deportation system. A more trained agent of family separation is still an agent of family separation. A more trained armed stated terror presence in communities is still armed state terror.
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
👉🏽Read the newest from me for @commondreams.org “DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say
Tribal leaders say Indigenous people have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or names.
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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Ten actions that hurt workers during Trump’s first year: How Trump and Congress further rigged the economy in favor of the wealthy
The tax cut law that President Trump boasts will make his wealthy friends “a lot richer” is just the latest in a series of betrayals of working people by the administration and Congress since Trump to...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 09/01/2026
"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street."
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'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More
"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street," said US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is an agency that must be reined in."
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skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation www.commondreams.org/opinion/dc-f...
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DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation | Common Dreams
​Increased criminalization and deportations exacerbate family separation by creating the conditions used to justify state intervention and forcible removal.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/01/2026
Armies move on their stomachs. The private sector is making ICE possible, at a rich profit. An organized boycott could turn that business move into a liability.
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 05/01/2026
U.S. Special Forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In Cuba, people gathered in solidarity, rejecting U.S. aggression. They condemned the move as a violation of international law and human rights, an example of U.S. imperial oppression. Full: www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/havana-respo...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The American citizen killed by ICE in Minneapolis today was a mother whose son is now an orphan (his father passed away in 2023) www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
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Race Forward @raceforward.org · 23/12/2025
Even in these uncertain times, we continue our work toward a vision of a multiracial democracy where all people, regardless of race, gender, gender identity, economic status, and abilities can thrive. Show up for racial equity. Your gift drives lasting impact. give.raceforward.org/give/724524/...
"Whenever there's oppression, there's resistance. Wherever there's resistance, there's solidarity." — jaboa lake, phd, Sr. Director of Impact Evaluation, Learning, and Research, Race Forward
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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Great crowd for a discussion of HOW TO END FAMILY POLICING with C. Hope Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, Shannon Perez-Darby and Dr. jaboa lake @haymarketbooks.org 💥 www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...
C. Hope Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, Shannon Perez-Darby and Dr. jaboa lake sit in front of a bookstore full of people.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 02/12/2025
Older people now make up 5x as much of the prison population as they did 3 decades ago. Turning prisons into “makeshift nursing homes” is one of the nation’s most wasteful, morally bankrupt experiments to date.
Graph showing that in 2021, 15% of people in prison were 55+, a 5x increase from 1991.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 01/12/2025
“My own government is forcing me to subsidize the mass murder of children. I don’t want that, & I don’t think Americans do either.” In this Q&A, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discussed his second medical mission at the Nasser Medical Complex where the Israeli military used US-made weapons to bomb the hospital.
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U.S. is forcing Americans to ‘subsidize the mass murder of children’ in Gaza
In part two of a Q&A with Prism, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discussed his second medical mission in Khan Younis at the Nasser Medical Complex
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 01/12/2025
In this week's Make it Make Sense, tenants of the apartment building raided by ICE in Sept announce unionizing, SAIC laid off 20 20 employees, community members fight demolition of a southwest-side power plant, and more. bit.ly/48eR0za
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Make It Make Sense: Tenants of buildling raided by feds unionizing
Plus: Layoffs at SAIC’s Video Data Bank, community members fight demolition of a southwest-side power plant, and more.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/12/2025
The insular culture of the Border Patrol, observers say, creates a shroud of silence around allegations of wrongdoing—a cultural aversion to oversight that stands as a barrier to reform.
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“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”
The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/11/2025
The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj
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The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 26/11/2025
Sethy Seam, who was 16 when sentenced to life without parole, received clemency last year, and left prison in January after 27 years: “A lot of kids had hard lives. They did 25 years in prison, and now they’re a whole lot different. They need hope, too.”
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In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom
After the state’s previous governor granted clemency to people sentenced to life in prison as minors, others with juvenile life sentences are hoping the new administration also believes in second chances.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2025
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers.

As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 24/11/2025
Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly. That's more than 11 violations every single day. The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation Increased criminalization and deportations exacerbate family separation by creating the conditions used to justify state intervention and forcible removal. www.commondreams.org/opinion/dc-f...
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DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation | Common Dreams
​Increased criminalization and deportations exacerbate family separation by creating the conditions used to justify state intervention and forcible removal.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 23/11/2025
KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to the Indigenous communities in the area. After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
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In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
👉🏽Read the newest from me for @commondreams.org “DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation”
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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Yes! I’ll be speaking at this book release event at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social in Chicago on Dec 1st alongside editors. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/48811
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How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action with Charity Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, and Shannon Perez-Darby | Pilsen Community Books
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16/11/2025
"[W]hile the raids continued, the flow of information about them did not." "It has been more than seven weeks since ICE last published a spreadsheet of aggregate detention statistics." "Typically, these are published every two weeks." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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ICE Raids Kept On During the Shutdown, But the Detention Data Stayed Hidden
More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16/11/2025
“It takes more than a broken window to break our resolve.” As public infrastructure continues to buckle under the Trump admin, radical indie bookstores provide essential civic spaces & cultural safeguards, Costa Beavin Pappas reports.
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Indie bookstores merge activism and literature for collective care
Charis Books, Red Emma's, and other booksellers serve as intellectual and cultural hubs during rising authoritarianism
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/11/2025
ICE has published a request for information for private-sector contractors to launch a round-the-clock social media monitoring program.
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ICE Is Collecting More Data, Aims to Outsource Judgment to Private Contractors
ICE wants to build a public-private surveillance loop that transforms everyday online activity into potential evidence.
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 09/11/2025
Press freedom threats surge with ICE raids Read this article by @kerrymflynn.bsky.social on @axios.com based on data from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
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Press freedom attacks surge with ICE raids
Local journalists are facing the most intense threat since the Black Lives Matter protests.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/11/2025
Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration. buff.ly/PVtpTbY
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment
Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.
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