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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13h
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 14h
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Border agents are randomly seizing phones of US citizens who support palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the really cool things about this case is that one of the lead plaintiffs is Lioness - a nonprofit run by women who did time in sweltering Texas prisons themselves. Then they got out and spearheaded this lawsuit that could drastically improve life for all their sisters still inside.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 23/09/2026
And as we reported yesterday, just two months after the December transportation docs were created, ICE added nearly $6.5 million to the Moshannon Valley Detention Center detainee transportation contract, which is operated by GEO Transport Inc. That's GEO Group's secure transportation subsidiary.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“There is an inability to hold simultaneously in our minds that this person not only inflicted suffering but is someone who is herself suffering, and that is what we really need to do to understand this case,” Sandra Babcock, with the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, told Truthout.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My latest. A hard story to work on, but its important not to look away. truthout.org/articles/ten...
truthout.org
Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026
3 months ago Google search started to prioritize AI summaries over links, and the impact on journalism could not be more devastating. Truthout's overall readership from Google is down 54% against last year. We lost a huge chunk of our audience overnight that we painstakingly built over decades.
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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The Indypendent: A Free Paper for Free People @theindypendent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, @reneefeltz.bsky.social looks at the immigration detention system that expanded in the post-9/11 era—and at three decades of organizing to shut detention centers down. #September11
indypendent.org
Ending the ICE Age
Two new books shed light on 30 years of struggle to end immigrant detention in New Jersey and beyond.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"That damage falls on everyone who enters isolation. But it does not fall equally. Women bear a disproportionate share, and the reasons why begin long before any prison sentence." - a thought-provoking piece by Kwaneta Harris for @solitarywatch.bsky.social
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For a year, California's largest ICE facility has barred all detained residents from hugging loved ones. The policy has sparked so much fury that residents have launched campaigns across dorms demanding contact visits In my latest, see video from one detained organizer + how CoreCivic has responded
theguardian.com
ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back
In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ohio lawyer: “When we challenged the constitutionality of ankle monitors being placed on our clients…we were told, ‘We’re following our orders.’" “…It was also said by a man representing ICE while wearing a Hawaiian shirt with AK-47’s and grenades printed on it.” Wow, from @swin24.bsky.social:
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We @interruptcrim.bsky.social invite those in NYC to a community teach in about abortion & reproductive justice on 10/3. It will be facilitated by @amylittlefield.bsky.social & @renee.bsky.social. Registration is now open: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a... - It is in person.
Flyer for an abortion community teach-in, October 3, 11AM–4PM, LES NYC. Registration and breakfast at 10:30AM. Pink flowers border the flyer. Includes registration link: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026
Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/08/2026
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/08/2026
In a first, Starbucks Workers United and its 12,000 members are calling for a boycott of the coffee chain, after spending nearly 5 years pressuring the company to negotiate a first contract since the first location unionized in 2021.
truthout.org
In First, Starbucks Workers United and Its 12,000 Members Call for Boycott
“[I]t is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)
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Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.
In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
truthout.org
Networks Make Sure Migrants Have Support When They’re Released From ICE Jails
As the Trump administration moves migrants around the US, transportation networks help them get home.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Airline unions can help stop the Trump deportation machine, according to @gillianbrockell.com. “The airlines and the unions have immense power here, and they’re choosing not to take it,” she said.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“In its opinion Friday, the Justice Department said military personnel can arrest individuals who leave national defense areas before they can be apprehended for trespassing.”
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Justice Department expands military's power to detain migrants accused of trespassing
The Justice Department issued a legal opinion giving the U.S. military broader powers to detain migrants near certain areas along the southern border.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Three states are set to execute people today, starting at 10 am CT. All of them have a record of botched executions, including TN, where Tony Carruthers was tortured this year -- and before him, Byron Black. This is Black's son over the weekend, protesting today's execution. New @theintercept.com:
theintercept.com
Tennessee Plans Another Execution Despite Its Brutal Recent Mistakes
Despite a record of botched executions, three states including Tennessee plan to kill by lethal injection on Thursday.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Among many nuggets in this story: DHS’s OIG found that a CBP employee used commercial location data to track coworkers. WIRED got the underlying case file. It appears to be the first known internal abuse of DHS’s ad-tech location-tracking tools. Story is extremely free to read:
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 13/08/2026
ICE belatedly confirmed the death of a third immigrant at the Delaney Hall Detainee Hall detention center in Newark, more than a week after a local member of congress told the public he was informed of the man’s death. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/13/i...
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ICE Belatedly Confirms Death of Third Delaney Hall Detainee
In a statement Thursday night, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan immigrant, had died after his “release” to a local hospital.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ten years ago, this week. @rappcampaign.bsky.social www.democracynow.org/2016/8/10/af...
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After Being Denied Parole 10 Times, Elderly Prisoner Allegedly Commits Suicide at Fishkill Prison
In upstate New York, the suspected suicide of 70-year-old prisoner John MacKenzie has drawn attention to how the state is refusing to release aging prisoners who have a low risk of recidivism. MacKenz...
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICE’s planned purchase would likely be the largest from the company to date. He said he could envision ICE officers using the gloves to help remove uncooperative subjects from cars and houses and in and out of detention facilities.
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding answers from DHS after local police discovered an ICE agent sitting outside of her latest town hall in a car with mismatched license plates, a violation of Minnesota law. www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-...
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Ilhan Omar Says ICE Agent Sat Outside Her Town Hall In Car With Mismatched Plates
This “raises serious and uncomfortable questions,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/08/2026
From a journalist who's covered abortion for a decade: this is a HUGE deal. SBA Pro-Life America is the top political group in this space. It had so far refused to publicly embrace using the dormant Comstock Act to restrict abortion (like ADF, AUL, Students for Life). That reticence ended on Friday
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/08/2026
Keith LaMar has spent three decades in solitary confinement, was sentenced to death for the murder of five fellow prisoners during a 1993 prison uprising. He has always maintained his innocence.
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“Consistent Torture”: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row After Getting 3-Year Execution Reprieve
We speak with Keith LaMar, an artist, teacher and writer on death row in Ohio. LaMar, who has spent three decades in solitary confinement, was sentenced to death for the murder of five fellow prisoner...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/08/2026
Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting AG Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. “Abortion bans do not stop abortion. What they do is they kill and harm the people who need them,” says Amy Littlefield, The Nation's abortion access correspondent.
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“Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. Blanche, whose confirmation for attorney general is curre...
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/08/2026
One immigrant justice advocate estimated that hundreds of protests have occurred in immigration jails in Trump's second term. He said that most of these protests are sit-ins and hunger strikes — but they only get covered if hundreds of people participate, while smaller ones fly under the radar.
truthout.org
It’s Not Just Delaney. Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds of Hunger Strikes.
Formerly incarcerated immigrants, solidarity activists, and scholars discuss the underreported resistance in ICE jails.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The two deaths announced this week at Delaney Hall didn’t come up on GEO Group's Thursday call with investors. Their focus was on the re-opening of the federal spigot, and how ICE contracts are about to ramp up. I wrote about this for @theindypendent.bsky.social & reviewed two timely new books.
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great review of two new books on detention from @reneefeltz.bsky.social including the incredible anthology about 30 years of resistance at the Elizabeth Detention Center in NJ indypendent.org/2026/08/endi...
indypendent.org
Ending the ICE Age
Two new books shed light on 30 years of struggle to end immigrant detention in New Jersey and beyond.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 04/08/2026
A third detainee died after being held at Delaney Hall, according to Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ), who said the death wasn’t disclosed to the public by Immigration and Customs Enforcement because the agency recently changed how it reports deaths of detainees. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/04/t...
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A Third Delaney Hall Detainee Has Died, New Jersey Congressman Says
Rep. Rob Menendez said ICE confirmed details of the death, which took place weeks ago, to him during an oversight visit to the facility on Monday.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/08/2026
The Dominican American historian, activist and prison abolitionist Dr. Johanna Fernández died on July 30 at the age of 55.
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Johanna Fernández Dies at 55: Leading Scholar on the Young Lords & Latinx Freedom Movement
We look at the life and legacy of Dominican American historian, activist and prison abolitionist Dr. Johanna Fernández, who died on July 30 after a long battle with cancer. She was 55 years old. As a ...
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What horrible news of another death at Delaney Hall: 41-year-old Edwin Jovanny Lopez-Cornejo, a son and father of a now devastated 12-year-old daughter. He had lived in Plainfield, NJ for two decades. I have a review out today of two new books that help make sense of it all and what to do.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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NPR @npr.org · 04/08/2026
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people. n.pr/4w4pkH0
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Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/08/2026
a horrifying new story from my colleague José Olivares
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‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hard to keep track of the number of times he's declared victory in his illegal war-of-choice. #86-47
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/08/2026
Telecom companies also strip privacy en masse from incarcerated people and those who communicate with them.
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FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications
Telecom companies also strip privacy en masse from incarcerated people and those who communicate with them.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This man uses "fuck" or "fucking" at least 18 times in less than 100 seconds, which is just a New Yorker's way of saying "Welcome to our fine city, gentlemen."
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Johanna Fernandez was one of the fiercest voices for justice whether around the world or at CUNY. Her book on the Young Lords was one of the best books ever written on the Black and Latinx Freedom Struggle. She will be dearly missed. Rest in power, my friend.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 31/07/2026
PHILA INQUIRER: This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in Central Penn, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March. @willbunch.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun... @willbunch.bsky.social
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This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in Central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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