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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/10/2026
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some days when I feel resentful about having spent years explaining that criminalization is the fuel of fascism which is why we have to reject criminalization, I remember that perhaps the time I say it might be the first time someone has considered the idea. So I keep saying it and keep organizing.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12/10/2026
personally I think it is not great that the federal government is not only weaponizing the criminal legal system against political opponents, but citing as their justification a 4chan conspiracy theory
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Noah Madoff @noahmadoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
read this dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...
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Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine
Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/09/2026
If you’re ever wondering why your tiny rural police force has a DHS supplied APC, fucktons of riot gear, tear gas, automatic weapons and sniper rifles, well, today’s why.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026
the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/05/2026
TPUSA was promoting an anti-trans event on Juniper's campus when she was stabbed to death Sunday. I'm pretty well-informed + I only heard about this today on the "It Could Happen Here" podcast. Violence against trans and nonbinary people has skyrocketed in recent years. Media coverage is dismal.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Every dimension involves contradiction, and every contradiction is an invitation to organize, and to think about how to win.” Good morning.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
As workers who make these companies run, here are our demands: Executive leadership at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon must reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with other repressive state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We are writing to urge our own companies to also refuse to comply should they or the frontier labs they invest in enter into further contracts with the Pentagon.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology. This is our first statement together.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This intimidation is an ultimatum: AI companies can either agree to the Pentagon’s terms, or be designated a “supply chain risk,” or forced to provide the technology through the Defense Production Act.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Read our full statement with @amzn4climate.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social, Amazon Labor Union, United Video Game Workers, + more: medium.com/@notechforap...
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Worker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's Demands
Reject The Pentagon’s Demands.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
No Tech for Apartheid is building labor power against technology fueling surveillance, apartheid, genocide, militarism, and state violence—from the U.S. to Palestine. Are you a Google or Amazon worker? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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Join No Tech for Apartheid
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This work is urgent. And workers have a unique postionality to resist. That's why we’re coming together as Google workers to demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor. We welcome all Google workers join us and sign our petition at www.googlers-against-ice.com
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Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We started #NoTechForApartheid to organize against Project Nimbus, Google/Amazon’s $1B cloud contract w Israel We’re taking on ICE contracts now not only bc it’s the right thing to do but bc organizing that materially recognizes the interconnectedness of our fights only strengthens our movements
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Yesterday, our #GooglersAgainstICE petition opposing Google’s partnerships with DHS/ICE/CBP hit 1,400 signatures. This powerful & growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
You have to admit, "don't be evil" to "we refuse to discuss our ICE contracts" is a hell of an arc
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/02/2026
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Are you a Google worker? Add your name: www.googlers-against-ice.com
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Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social for speaking to us about our #GooglersAgainstICE petition—now at 1200+ names! We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...
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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I spoke with Alex from @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, which is behind the petition, and other employees who feel similarly: Google's hardline posture, summary firing of employees who protested the company's contracts with the Israeli military, and recent layoffs, have created a climate of fear.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/02/2026
Incredible continued organizing by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It's happening at Google, led by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...
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800 Google employees demand an end to any cloud contracts with ICE and CBP
The petition also called for executives to protect vulnerable Google employees, "from cafeteria workers to data center employees."
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
BREAKING: We have now received 1200 signatures on our petition of Google workers demanding that the company cut its ties with DHS, CBP, and ICE. ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
did you know jared kushner said in davos that the plan is to build data centers where palestinians lived
Another slide, titled "New Gaza", showed plans to turn the enclave into a centre of in-dustry, heavy on data centres and other digital infrastructure.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/01/2026
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/01/2026
I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.” Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 15/01/2026
A man was shot in the leg during a foot chase amid a federal immigration enforcement operation on the north side of Minneapolis, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. bit.ly/3MMvefi
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Reports of a shooting involving federal agents in north Minneapolis
During a federal immigration enforcement operation on the north side of Minneapolis, a man was shot in the leg, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.
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