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Meaghan Mingo

@mingome.bsky.social
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Postdoc @NotreDame | PhD @CornellSoc. Ever evolving ethnographer. Studying school punishment, race, and place in the rural South. She/her. www.meaghanmingo.com

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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 14h
studentloan.gov apparently doesn't work on apple devices, at least for submitting docs for switching repayment plans; agents can't answer basic questions about docs required, send you back to your loan servicer loan servicer @nelnet.bsky.social site has nonfunctional links hate it here
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 09/09/2026
A new report out of South Carolina reveals that 3 out of 4 confined youth in the state are Black, despite Black children making up just 28% of its youth population. This jarring disparity exists across the country and is the result of racist policies that fail Black children.
Graph showing that in 2025, 76.1% of confined youth in South Carolina were Black vs. 17.7% White, <5% Hispanic, and <2% Other.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The U.S. described updating world maps to show the *correct* size of Africa (and everything else) as a “radical ideological project”
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a pattern, folks. Public health money being used for policing. During COVID a lot of cities spent their COVID relief money to by drones, robots, and surveillance cameras claiming they could be used to do social distancing or they were being used to fight COVID-related crime spikes.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a beautiful piece of writing. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard. (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A recent case in Texas wherein a high school student was paddled by his football coach (without parent permission) has put school-based corporal punishment in the spotlight again. Here’s why we need to end this harmful practice in all of our schools: scholars.org/contribution...
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Protect Children, End Corporal Punishment in US Schools
In March 2025, a third grade student at The New William J. Berry Elementary School in Heidelberg, MS left school with a broken arm. Was this injury the result of a tumble off a playground slide or tac...
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
shoutout to le cafe coffee for the default 4 shots of espresso in their 16 oz latte. y'all real ones, sip by sip bringing me back to life.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 09/08/2026
A blistering reminder that only 5 U.S. states provide air conditioning in all prison units. And states like Texas and Florida, known for sweltering heat, are not among them:
Color-coded U.S. map showing which states provide air conditioning in their prisons. Only New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Kentucky provide AC in all units.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Infuriated and heartbroken by the news that ICE murdered a 26-year-old father from Colombia in Biddeford, Maine today. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE agent shoots and kills a motorist in Biddeford, Maine, Sen. Angus King says
A federal immigration agent has fatally shot a motorist in Biddeford, Maine, marking the second time in a week that U.S.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Screaming congratulations to Anthony Jack for his promotion to FULL PROFESSOR at @buwheelock.bsky.social! We all know this man can write a dang (award winning) book, but the outpouring of love and community is a testament to Tony's generosity, brilliance, and impact as a scholar, friend, and human.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 29/06/2026
On this day in 1958, a bomb exploded outside Bethel Street Baptist Church in one of Birmingham, Alabama's Black neighborhoods. The church pastor, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, was a civil rights activist working to eliminate segregation in the area.
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Jun. 29, 1958 | The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's Bethel Street Baptist Church Bombed
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 22/06/2026
On this day in 1908, nine Black men were lynched while the entire Black community was terrorized by white residents of Sabine County, Texas.
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Jun. 22, 1908 | White Mob Lynches Nine Black Men in Sabine County, Texas
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 22/06/2026
MYTH: Some people need to go to jail to get treatment REALITY: Most people in local jails have substance use disorders, yet only a tiny fraction of jails provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. Jails are designed for punishment, not care.
Graph showing that in jails, the most effective treatment options are the least accessible for people with opioid use disorder
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In another ex. of how legality of school corporal punishment leads to violence against children, see the 2,600 incidents of police use of force in TX schools -- & how it's nearly impossible for families to win an excessive force case bc corporal punishment is legal. texasstandard.org/stories/poli...
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Police in Texas schools have used heavy-handed tactics on students, an investigation finds
Journalists from The New York Times and San Antonio Express-News identified 2,600 instances of police using physical force on students.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Banning school corporal punishment at the district level is a good start, but we need state and federal legislation to protect kids. When it doesn't, you get a teacher kicking a student and the state saying assault “does not rise to the level of a crime." www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-m...
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Miami Middle School Teacher Accused of Spartan-Kicking Student
The Miami-Dade history teacher is accused of Spartan-kicking the 13-year-old to the ground.
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Asad L. Asad @asadasad.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As of today, I'm an Associate Professor of Sociology--with tenure! While I don’t know every player involved since the tenure process is confidential, I am deeply grateful to the many people who have uplifted me along the way. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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As of today, I am an Associate Professor of Sociology—with tenure! (For the non-academic folks: tenure is a major career milestone that grants permanent job security. It protects scholars from… | Asa...
As of today, I am an Associate Professor of Sociology—with tenure! (For the non-academic folks: tenure is a major career milestone that grants permanent job security. It protects scholars from politi...
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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Starting today, I’m a tenured professor at Stanford. I’m thrilled and grateful to my generous mentors and brilliant students. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...
Me standing in front of Stanford’s main quad in my doctoral regalia. I’m holding books in my left hand, which I needed to return to the library just before that year’s graduation ceremony
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Had the privilege and pleasure of celebrating @asadasad.bsky.social & @mathuclair.bsky.social’s promotions to Associate Professor of Sociology WITH TENURE at Stanford. Two of the best humans and scholars I know, Matt & Asad are the rare blend of brilliant, generous, creative, and kind.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 30/04/2026
In Alabama and across the South, lawmakers are already moving to redraw maps that look race‑neutral on paper but weaken Black and Brown political power. The people still have power. We must defend fair maps and protect the right to vote. bit.ly/48z1c6N
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Alabama Republicans push for new congressional map after seismic Supreme Court ruling: ‘It's time to act'
Republicans are calling on Gov. Kay Ivey to convene a special session to redraw the congressional maps.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I had the absolute privilege (and pleasure!) of spending last week at the ND Kylemore Writing Residency in Ireland. Grateful to learn alongside and from so many talented writers, including fellow ethnographer @traciecanada.bsky.social and our fearless instructor @dionneirving.bsky.social✨
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Grateful to @scholars.org for the opportunity to write this brief on the urgent need to ban corporal punishment in US schools. Children deserve bodily autonomy, safety, and care at school and in their communities.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just a morally corrupt, irredeemably cruel nation. Note the case where the parents of an 8 year old and 4 month old baby were sent to detention facilities after a school bus driver called police to report another student had threatened to kill the 8 y/o girl. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In at least two death penalty cases, Louisiana judges found that Holland withheld evidence. In a third, he secured the conviction of a Black 16-year-old, comparing the boy to a dog and telling the jury to “get rid of it” www.propublica.org/article/hugo...
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He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.
Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I think a lot about how completely US American it is to feel entitled to complete safety AND zero negative economic impact when you are not only at war, but started it. Just complete audacity and entitlement rooted in the dehumanization of others and massive overestimation of one’s own value.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges for Wearing All Black theintercept.com/2026/03/13/i...
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Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges for Wearing All Black
The government won on most of the charges against the anti-ICE protesters, including terror counts and conspiracy to moving a box of antifa zines.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Ali Bani Odeh (37), Waad (35), Othman (6) and Muhammad (5) died in their car in a hail of bullets. Only Khaled (11) & Mustafa (8) survived. Khaled reports crying out 'Please help me'; Israeli soldiers pulled him out by his hair, threw him to the ground, & kicked him. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/w...
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Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“The situation is becoming catastrophic for millions of children across the region,” UNICEF said in a statement, noting that at least 200 children are reportedly dead in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and one in Kuwait. “These numbers will likely climb...” www.commondreams.org/news/childre...
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'Catastrophic,' Says UNICEF: 1,100+ Children Killed or Wounded in Mideast Since US-Israel Launched Iran War | Common Dreams
Since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, more than 1,100 children have been killed or injured across the Middle East, UNICEF said, calling for a swift diplomatic resolution.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/03/2026
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
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Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Let me tell you one Black thing. When I consider the future, I do not land on my untimely death or resignation. I doubt they did either. I do not even cast my eyes toward my job. I cast my eyes toward a joyful horizon full of color..." academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
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Holding the Future on My Bed
I am not sleeping again.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This nation will always choose profit over people, classism over community. Shame on @fortlauderdale.bsky.social and everyone involved in this disgusting project. Wishing yall bad knees, broken paddles, and sand that never washes out of your sheets. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/a-bat...
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A Battle for Basketball Paradise
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
a few of my favorite poems for the (word) lovers
NEW FACE
Alice Walker
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
To examine the dark mysteries of the blood with headless heed and swirl,
to know the rush of feelings swift and flowing as water.
The source appears to be some inexhaustible spring
within our twin and triple selves;
the new face I turn up to you
no one else on earth has ever
seen.YOU CAME, TOO
Nikki Giovanni
I came to the crowd seeking friends I came to the crowd seeking love
I came to the crowd for understanding
I found you
I came to the crowd to weep I came to the crowd to laugh
You dried my tears
You shared my happiness
I went from the crowd seeking you I went from the crowd seeking me
I went from the crowd forever
You came, tooPOEM FOR MY LOVE
June Jordan
How do we come to be here next to each other in the night
Where are the stars that show us to our love inevitable
Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness and the rain
falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh the black men waiting on the corner for a womanly mirage
I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you asleep
and breathing in the quiet airLOVE POEM WITH APOLOGIES FOR MY APPEARANCE
Ada Limón
Sometimes, I think you get the worst of me. The much-loved loose forest green sweat pants, the long bra-less days, hair knotted and uncivilized, a shadowed brow where the devilish thoughts do their hoofed dance on the brain. I'd like to say this means I love you, the stained white cotton t-shirt, the tears, pistachio shells, the mess of orange peels on my desk, but it's different than that.
I move in this house with you, the way I move in my mind, unencumbered by beauty's cage.
I do like I do in the tall grass, more animal-me than much else. I'm wrong, it is that I love you, but it's more that when you say it back, lights out, a cold wind through curtains, for maybe the first time in my life, I believe it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
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ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/02/2026
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Very much recommend reading this new piece from Roxane Gay. electricliterature.com/menopause-wr...
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Menopause, Writer’s Block, and Being a Late Bloomer - Electric Literature
I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
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ICE demanded Maine sheriff’s employment records following his criticism of arrest
The subpoena came a day after Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce blasted immigration agents for arresting one of his guards.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/01/2026
Despite months of warnings that Trump has been “lawless,” “destructive, and ”authoritarian,“ 149 Democratic members of the House joined with 192 Republicans to pass a sweeping military spending bill — a vote that progressive critics say exposes the hypocrisy of what claims to be an opposition party.
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149 House Democrats Join 192 Republicans to Pass Sweeping Military Spending Bill
Progressive critics say the vote exposes the fecklessness and hypocrisy of what claims to be an opposition party.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
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From the Maine community on Reddit: ICE tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully filming
Explore this post and more from the Maine community
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Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Another example of why school corporal punishment is state-sanctioned and administered abuse. "...investigators determined they would have enough evidence establish probable cause of child abuse if the incidents hadn’t occurred on school property & by a staff member." www.wcjb.com/2026/01/22/d...
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Dixie County teacher accused of hitting students won’t be charged due to corporal punishment law, deputies say
The report found probable cause that a teacher hit students; however, no charges are expected to be filed due to Florida’s corporal punishment law
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted
.@DAGToddBlanche: “It’s a crime — and so they will face a jury. If they’re convicted, they will go to prison… every single American should be enraged and heartbroken at what happened yesterday in that church.
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