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Jon Ayon

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In Los Angeles today! ✊🏼 #california
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
Reporter Molly Hensley-Clancy has already identified eight youth sports coaches who are still working with kids despite having been banned by SafeSport, a center created by Congress to protect kids from abuse in sports. She's not done. Here’s how you can help.
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Help Us Investigate Abusive Coaches in Youth Sports
We’re continuing to report on abusive youth sports coaches and the gaps in the system that allow them to continue working with kids. If you have something to share on this topic, we want to hear from ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 07/09/2026
"Israel strikes Lebanon and kills kids. They continue to strike Gaza and kill kids," said US Congressman Mark Pocan. "More and more members of Congress are saying it's time to #BlocktheBombs."
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'There Is No Ceasefire': Israel Kills 12 More in Lebanon, Including Children
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "apologists have to explain why killing kids happens so regularly and effortlessly," said one congressman who noted growing support for blocking US weapons to Israel.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)
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A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section. (Published March)
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
We identified the top 100 sprayers of the controversial weedkiller Roundup in California—a state that produces more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and nearly half of its vegetables. Check out our new searchable database to find out who’s at the top of the list. bit.ly/3SqKXDZ
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are being tracked, monitored, and profiled 24/7 by a corporate-state complex that treats our private lives as raw data to be harvested and monetized.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A heartbreaking tragedy. Driven by racism and cruelty. Historians looking back on this shameful period will wonder how this was allowed. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spring…
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We met the Domingo family. 18-year-old Wendy has been left to take care of her siblings after their parents were detained and sent back to Guatemala.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026
NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row. Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back. with @veritenews.org
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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?
23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 24/08/2026
A proposed policy, echoing Los Angeles and San Diego, would forbid students from using devices during their free time and require district leaders to create guidelines for next year.
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OUSD banned cellphones. Are Chromebooks next?
A proposed policy, echoing Los Angeles and San Diego, would forbid students from using devices during their free time and require district leaders to create guidelines for next year.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/08/2026
"I'm absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda." Activist Autumn Hill has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for attending a protest outside a Texas ICE facility where a police officer was shot and wounded — even though Hill had already left the protest when the shooting occurred.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/08/2026
Despite sanctuary policies in Illinois that prohibit law enforcement from collaborating with ICE, local cops and prosecutors across the state routinely help federal agencies detain and deport immigrants.
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Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch
We speak to journalist Aura Bogado, whose new investigation into Illinois law enforcement and prosecutorial collaboration with ICE has revealed that dozens of immigrants have been arrested and deporte...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/08/2026
AI expert Connor Leahy of ControlAI says governments should "criminalize the creation of superintelligence the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb." www.democracynow.org/2026/8/20/ai_s…
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What Is AI Superintelligence? Why Critics Warn Against Developing Such Technology
Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and ot...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/08/2026
"Folks are going bankrupt simply because they are trying to stay alive. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy,” says @angieforfl.bsky.social. She's a Democratic Florida state representative and U.S. Senate nominee who will face off against Republican Ashley Moody in November.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/08/2026
“The United States needs to practice diplomacy, and regardless of which group is in power, we should be exercising diplomacy and having a relationship” with Afghanistan, says Aisha Wahab, congressmember-elect from the Bay Area who will be the first Afghan American to serve in the House.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/08/2026
Montreal is set to vote on suspending ties with the Israeli government. “The tide has turned definitively, and Canadians want to see their governments and their elected officials stand up on the right side of history,” says @avilewis.ca, leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I hope you read this one. I wanted to capture how…angry I am about this one and dug a little bit harder into how it isn’t treated by too much of our media and politics like the scandal it is Lying a nation into a destructive, pointless war with no end in sight is supposed to be considered a scandal
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“We want water!” Protesters chanted outside the governor’s fundraiser, condemning official inaction amid a crippling water crisis. Having lived three years in PR and forged deep bonds with its incredible people, I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with PR. Boricua pride, resilience, and resistance! ✊🏽 💪🏽
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
While most kids begin back to school, 5-year old Liam is spending his second week in Dilley Detention center where people are mistreated, malnourished, and kept in conditions made to break their health and spirits. He was detained along with his dad on their way to his soccer practice.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
Allegations of sexual misconduct against AAU coaches are handled by a board whose names are not made public. Asked about written guidelines for when to ban coaches, a former board member said the group “just decided on our feelings.” with @washingtonpost.com
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A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for all." Sounds good to me, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Let's ALL get out there on November 3rd & beat the machine!!! Go to: iwillvote.com ☑️ or vote.org 🗳️
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
Coach Richardson required his teen players to hug him after practice, former players said, sometimes pulling girls down onto his lap and telling them, “I love you.” He also kept a bed in a back room at the gym, purportedly for player recovery.
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This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?
Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/08/2026
Five years after the Taliban retook Afghanistan, women and girls have vanished from public life, banned from school, work, even public parks. "Women and girls of Afghanistan are suffering the most darkest situation in the world," says activist Negina Yari.
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5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life
Restrictions on women’s rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the process. Afghan women are banned from atten...
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Israeli forces used phosphorus shells and carried out airstrikes and heavy artillery fire across several areas of southern Lebanon overnight and early Saturday, Lebanese state media reported. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260822-isr...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
NEW: Oregon has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
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Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon does...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🚨 👇 🚨 👇 🚨 👇 🚨 A $158M contract for the care and feeding unaccompanied migrant children has been awarded to a group run by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Remember that at this very moment Greg Abbott is trying to protect the mass deportation agents currently terrorizing Texans and community members all over this country.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/08/2026
A former Justice Department attorney has filed a complaint claiming that the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism allegations pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence.
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Former DOJ Attorney Files Complaint Against Antisemitism Task Force
A former Justice Department attorney has filed a complaint claiming that the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despit...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hundreds of Tyson workers are gathering to take a stand against the company's illegal, abrupt layoffs. We stand with the workers against Tyson's corruption, which is demonstrated by the fact that their CEO makes 293x the average worker. And yet they can't afford to keep their Joslin plant open?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
not saying federal immigration enforcement in any form should disappear tomorrow but if you leave this entity intact, and tinker at the edges and give them a stern talking to, however well meaning you are, you’re leaving these weapons and this orgy of abuses and masked thuggery intact for the next…
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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Four people have died at Adelanto since Sept. 2025, yet the facility keeps passing ICE inspections. ImmDef attorney Alison Steffel says the system meant to keep people safe is failing. Read Project On Government Oversight's investigation: 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vn4ve6b
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Inside ICE’s Broken System for Inspecting Detention Facilities
New data reveals a twisted ICE detention oversight system where facilities get glowing grades, even amid deadly conditions.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/08/2026
The new documentary "American Doctor" tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel's genocide, with local medical staff risking their lives in the process. We speak with the film's director and two of the doctors featured in it.
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“American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
The new documentary American Doctor tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, w...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
With the horrific news about ICE using torture gloves, we're reminded of police use of cattle prods against voting rights activists in the 1960s -- as in 📷 of Roy Wilkins & Medgar Evers, 11 days before Evers was murdered 💔 #TeachTruth about policing history 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ev...
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Medgar Evers
Profile. By Dernoral Davis. Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925—June 12, 1963), Civil Rights Movement activist in Mississippi.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/08/2026
“Democratic socialism to me is … the redistribution of resources,” says @donavanmckinney.bsky.social, Democratic Michigan state representative who won the Democratic House primary in his state's 13th Congressional District. He was backed by DSA.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/08/2026
The new documentary "American Doctor" tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, with local medical staff risking their own lives in the process.
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“American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
The new documentary American Doctor tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, w...
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 14/08/2026
In a training for law enforcement, the license plate surveillance company highlighted Oakland as a “powerful example” where police persuaded elected officials to approve its cameras despite broad opposition.
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Flock’s pitch to police: Be like Oakland and Richmond
In a training for law enforcement, the license plate surveillance company highlighted Oakland as a “powerful example” where police persuaded elected officials to approve its cameras despite broad opposition.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Amid a recurring pattern of contaminated drinking water, over 50 detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center signed a letter demanding an investigation into the facility’s water quality issues. Read the response from DHS and the rest of the story at: lataco.com/contaminated...
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Jon Ayon @jonayon.com · 14/08/2026
An important and validating read for those who were against this war from the start and a damning, informative one for those who weren't.
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The U.S. Owes Afghanistan a Reckoning – But It Refuses to Have One
Five years on from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Britain has a public inquiry, Australia has an arrest, New Zealand has an apology, but in Washington, DC, there is only impunity and denial.
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