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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/10/2026
U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike tell the AP the military's medical system failed them: “I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that.”
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
📻 Show’s up! Featuring @gelliottmorris.com, Jose Olivares, @letsgomathias.bsky.social, and @lilymasonphd.bsky.social: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.
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Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why do Trump and Hegseth want you to watch a man die?
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Why They Want You to Watch
The Legal Spectacle of Public Executions
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
!!!! U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats (Gift Article)
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I struggled to finish reading this important and horrifying reporting www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Acey Deecey 🚀🚀 @mcgarrygirl78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fantastic article on the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. We're living in an era of the government trying to erase our achievements and darken our futures.
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For Years, the Smithsonian Strove to Bring the African American History and Culture Museum to the National Mall. Now, It Celebrates a Decade as a Beacon of Understanding, Community and Resilience
The museum lovingly called the "Blacksonian" chronicles the past and present and envisions the future to tell the stories of Black life in America
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Sam Eagle @sameagle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The artist's library : a field guide, from the library as incubator project
217 pages : 19 cm
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. My new piece:
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A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 16/09/2026
Tech and government leaders gathered in recent days to debate the existential threat that artificial intelligence could one day pose to humanity. But for Black and Brown communities across the country, the infrastructure powering AI is already an environmental threat.
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AI May Threaten Humanity One Day. Many Black and Brown Communities are Feeling the Threat Now
As tech and government leaders gathered in recent days to debate the existential threat that artificial intelligence could one day pose to humanity, for many Black and Brown communities across the cou...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I told him at the time to stop working, because ICE was arresting everyone,” Sakariye’s cousin told me. But Sakariye refused. “He believed ICE was looking for criminals.”
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
damn, Mamdani released 170K documents earlier this week showing how govt officials (espech Giuliani and Bloomberg) deceived New Yorkers about all the chemicals in the air post-9/11 hellgatenyc.com/toxic-air-91...
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Confronting New York City's Lies About Toxic Air After 9/11
Plus, a selection of some of the best writing on 9/11, and more news to take you into the weekend.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you have never heard Suheir Hammad read 'First Writing Since," I suggest you take a few minutes today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyL...
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Def Poetry: Suheir Hammad- ''First Writing Since'' (Official Video)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really happy to say that today's episode of @npr.org's Code Switch is wide reaching interview with me about the current state of police surveillance, the harms being caused by this system, and the deep history of how we got here.
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Why we’re all being watched : Code Switch
There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In my decades of public service, I have rarely been as angry as I was the day the damning inspector general’s report was released about the EPA's response to the World Trade Center collapse. Read my new piece on the lessons of 9/11 at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/09/2026
US prosecutor overseeing probe of Trump foes resigns reut.rs/4gNe8KP
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US prosecutor overseeing probe of Trump foes resigns
A U.S. ​prosecutor who has been overseeing a wide-ranging probe into past investigations of President Donald Trump ‌told Reuters on Thursday that he has resigned.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 04/09/2026
People detained in ICE's detention facilities in Louisiana have been recording and uploading videos pleading for help.
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Olatunde Johnson @olatij.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Exactly. The regs are here: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-18127.pdf Note the dramatic extension of Bob Jones, purposefully vague on what is “discrimination”, and purports to apply to remedial programs too (ie that correct past and ongoing discrimination).
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The true story is about the ongoing project of this Administration to remove the work, the stories, the history, & the contributions of Black people from public life in our country.” — @sifill.bsky.social Read: Art & the Authoritarian Deracialization Campaign sherrilyn.substack.com/p/art-and-th...
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Art and the Authoritarian Deracialization Campaign
Ernest Cole, The True America (1968-71)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026
NEW: Top USPS officials expressed concerns that new mail voting rules could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI is not inevitable. resistance works!
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/09/2026
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Almost every week, we see a liberal writer condemn “wokeism” or the “woke. . .” They are attacking a caricature, a perversion, a distortion of a historically Black concept that MAGA propagandists first distorted. These people are not serious thinkers.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
To be clear, the official position of the US government is that Black Haitian lives don’t matter and it is absolutely the institutional version of hate mail telling people to kill themselves It’s genocidal
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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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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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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
JUST IN: The three Stars and Stripes employees that were recently fired by the Pentagon have filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and two public affairs officials. #Flashes
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Did you know that historically Black Colleges and Universities are designated colleges founded before 1964 to provide accredited education for Black students? Read on to learn more: buff.ly/O0ZVkR3 #Libraries #Services #AfricanAmericans #BlackHistory #History #BlackColleges #BlackUniversities
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Historically Black College and University Archives: Protecting American History
Historically Black College and University archives preserve the histories and accomplishments of HBCUs and their graduates, along with important aspects of Black life in America.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
By joining the pile-on against Hasan Piker, Democrats & liberals are running the Right's disinformation playbook for them-- the same playbook the Right uses before every election. This time around the moral panic was created by a far-right pro-Israel account named Max Nordau/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/08/2026
Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW: Days after announcing it had received ICE contracts that could pay it $165m/year to detain immigrants, the private prison company the GEO Group donated $1.4m to the Trump-backed MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts (Gift Article)
The GEO Group has profited from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. A subsidiary donated more than $1.4 million to the president’s super PAC last month.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 21/08/2026
The once-independent system that Congress established after Watergate has radically transformed in President Trump’s second term. “All the adults have left the room,” one senior Office of Inspector General official said.
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From Watchdogs to ‘Lapdogs’: Inside the Trumpification of Agencies’ Inspectors General
Between canceled reports, deleted pages and mass firings, the government is getting less oversight.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 22/08/2026
I just wish that people would understand that racism is not hurt feelings
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/08/2026
Newly released federal documents have revealed the existence of an expansive surveillance program launched by the federal government against activists, labor unions and community groups in Minnesota last winter. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/oper…
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“Operation Puppet Master”: Trump Admin Spied on Minnesota Activists & Unions After ICE Killings
Newly released federal documents have revealed the existence of an expansive surveillance program launched by the federal government against activists, labor unions, community groups, and even a bicyc...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
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How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 19/08/2026
New research from the University of California, Berkeley shows companies that maintained diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming continued to make high profits, despite executive orders by the Trump administration threatening companies that continued to support it.
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'Go Woke, Go Broke' is a Myth, New Study Finds Companies that Kept Diversity Initiatives Maintain High Revenue
Companies that held steadfast to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming continued to earn high profits – despite ominous warnings from President Donald Trump that such efforts hurt bottom ...
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
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Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.
The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/08/2026
We tested how well chatbots can debunk election falsehoods. Our research shows they can fight election disinformation, but they can also be used to generate deceptive images. Watch The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4gjTZdS
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In case you missed it: ChatGPT has been fueling mass shootings and other violence. My comprehensive investigation of a shooter's chat logs is the first of its kind, and includes some troubling questions that OpenAI would not answer www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/08/2026
NEW on “Paper Trail”: Hundreds of immigration agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex overnight last year, some rappelling down from a helicopter. Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested “terrorists.” We uncovered a very different story.
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a dramatic midnight raid. We uncovered a very different story.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Check out our toolkit for ways you can help interrupt the ICE machine, many from your own home:
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Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration is preparing to spend nearly $5 million in State Department funding to promote anti-immigrant narratives and Christian nationalism across Europe. The program would use U.S. taxpayer dollars to strengthen far-right allies and export Project 2025. Read more:
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State Department Plans $5 Million Push for ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ in Europe
The Trump administration is launching a nearly $5 million State Department program to fund organizations across Europe that promote anti-immigrant narratives, Christian nationalist rhetoric, and the d...
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