Mike Benson

ICE Off Campus: Alumni & Higher Education Organizing Call · Indivisible Since Trump’s return to office, higher education has been under attack – with schools facing pressure from the administration to curtail free speech and academic freedom, eliminate DEI policies as par...

Our next organizing call will focus on what you can do to keep ICE off college campuses — because everyone has a role to play in ensuring schools and their communities are safe from the regime’s secret police.

"Regulations could help keep AI systems in their lane. Instead of setting AI agents loose on the world, we could insist on AI systems having clear and well-scoped purposes – and demand evidence that they are fit for purpose."

Opinion | Free speech or conspiracy? How courts limit protesters' First Amendment rights Prosecutors are charging protesters with conspiracy, seeking to limit opposition to government policies. More courts are allowing it.

Opinion | Free speech or conspiracy? How courts limit protesters' First Amendment rights

Prosecutors are charging protesters with conspiracy, seeking to limit opposition to government policies. More courts are allowing it.

there is no opposition party in the U.S.

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI Musk can't convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.

This is the only real end, his billions in grift ..now polluted water and air from Grok

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI | Musk can’t convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.

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Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as ‘acting CEO’ U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that her ascension was an illegal end-run around the Senate’s advice and consent role.

NEW: Kari Lake was illegally empowered to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the federal agency that oversees Voice of America — and her actions in that role were illegitimate, a federal judge ruled today. Any actions Lake took must be treated as “void.”

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

#CrueltyIsThePoint

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp | AP News share.google/oEsuWilzBHnF...

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.

Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.

(Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

It is imperative that this unlicensed wash out not be confirmed. Confirmation of an individual, at a flag grade to boot, who doesn't even meet the basic standards is a slap in the face to every USPHS Officer, acting, separated, or retired.

Visca Siurana!

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

New subscription = new gift links. Here's one. Interactive multimedia on a serious topic.

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‘What’s your plan for this pregnancy?’ Comfort, shame and a missed diagnosis | Arkansas Advocate As part of an ongoing series to shed light on the issue, States Newsroom spoke with dozens of doctors, patients and people who found themselves in crisis pregnancy centers. These are some of their sto...

‘What’s your plan for this pregnancy?’ Comfort, shame and a missed diagnosis arkansasadvocate.com/2026/03/06/r...

Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead | Arkansas Advocate At least eight states have given TANF funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years, even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortion rights in 2022.

Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead arkansasadvocate.com/2026/03/07/r...

However, anywhere that serves as the source of aggression, either directly or indirectly against Iran, is a legitimate target. In the face of the United States and the Zionist regime, there will be absolutely no retreat. Countries that have not provided their airspace or facilities to the United States and the Zionist regime have not been our target up to this moment, and will not be our target going forward either (again referring to Azerbaijan, Oman & Turkey). However, all bases that serve as the point of origin for aggression against dear Iran will, as before, be struck heavily on land, at sea, and in the air. We say this explicitly: We will strike them and destroy them so that it may serve as a lesson to anyone who dares to carry out unprovoked acts of aggression against our nation. From now on, anything built in the name of the enemy, similar to these bases, facilities, and equipment, will be destroyed again and again with subsequent crushing blows. The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly welcomes the escorting of oil tankers and the claim of an American military presence for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and we are waiting for them.“

🇮🇷 Full remarks | Khatam Al-Anbiyaa Central Headquarters:

“The Islamic Republic of Iran respects the interests and national sovereignty of neighboring countries and, up to now, has committed no aggression against them (referring to Azerbaijan, Turkey, Oman and Pakistan).

However, anywhere that...

"Go Home, Nazis." J6 convict Jake Lang is currently holding an islamophobic 6-man mini hate rally outside the residence of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. There are 5 NYPD officers protecting their 6 person group, and 10 more just out of picture.

"Go Home, Nazis." J6 convict Jake Lang is currently holding an islamophobic 6-man mini hate rally outside the residence of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. There are 5 NYPD officers protecting their 6 person group, and 10 more just out of picture.

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ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger.

Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

YouTube video by Declassified UK The Cyprus protest against Starmer you won't see on the BBC

The Cyprus protest against Starmer you won't see on the BBC youtu.be/K65x8z-ZY9o?...

@declassifieduk.org

Temporarily banning data centers draws more interest from state, local officials • South Dakota Searchlight As communities’ concerns grow over rising electricity prices and the environmental effects of data centers, some local and state officials want to halt development of the facilities.

Lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation this session that would temporarily ban #DataCenters, according to Good Jobs First, a watchdog group that focuses on economic development incentives.

Via @stateline.org

#OtD 7 Mar 1877 Jewish socialist and feminist, Ida Rauh, was born in New York City. She advocated for women's rights, including voting rights and birth control, organised women workers and worked as an actor at the pioneering Provincetown Playhouse stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7983...

March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday To protest the police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and for voting rights, more than 600 people began a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery.

#tdih 1965 Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

While corporate media focused on the march, the violence against African Americans had a long history.

So did the organizing by Black sharecroppers, teachers, students, & more.

Read about the UNIA, DCVL, SNCC ⬇️.
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"Jede Phase der Kunststoffverwendung – von der Herstellung bis zur Entsorgung – schadet der menschlichen #Gesundheit. "
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Global #health burdens of #plastics: a lifecycle assessment model from 2016 to 2040
Deeney et al 2026
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Maher is an Islamophobe of the highest order. The fact that he has not been run out of town is a measure of how unseriously Islamophobia is treated in this country.

A new report explores research showing that one toxic exposure may have impacts across multiple generations. With #FarmBill decisions influencing pesticide use nationwide, prevention and safer alternatives deserve serious attention. #EnvironmentalHealth
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Nuestra América Convoy We are mobilizing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.

We are mobilizing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.

Join us in Havana on 21 March.

The social housing secret: how Vienna became the world’s most livable city In the Austrian capital, renters pay a third of what their counterparts do in London, Paris or Dublin. How is it possible?

🚨 #HousingMatters 🚨

London/elsewhere need to learn lessons from #Vienna.

@cityhallgreens.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenbenali.bsky.social @jim.londoncentric.media @london.gov.uk @betterhomesenfield.bsky.social @emilythornberry.bsky.social

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I recently co-authored a short piece on the (stalled) efforts to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution. The main holdouts have been supplier states, whose crude and petrochemical productions are currently shutting down. Possible small blessing: an urgent race for alternatives to #plastic.

Una propina generosa: 1.600 milions d'interessos A diferència dels anteriors governs independentistes, que acostumaven a donar importància política a la presentació de la balança fiscal, l’executiu de Salvador Illa no n’ha fet cap presentació específica. L’ha introduïda en un annex de l’informe econòmic i financer que acompanya el pressupost, sense destacar-la informativament. De fet, publicar-la és una obligació legal del govern […]

📝"Totes les inversions que l’estat espanyol no ha executat a Catalunya, en trens i carreteres, han quedat al descobert en un any de pluges superiors a les normals."

La píndola de Jordi Goula

New Documents Reveal Florida Paid Over $573 Million to DeSantis-Connected Immigrant Detention Contractors in 2025 - UNICORN RIOT New documents provided to Unicorn Riot have revealed that the state of Florida gave at least $558 million to private contractors last year to work on two immigrant detention centers — including the no...

Documents obtained by UR show that since 2025, Florida has spent over a half a billion dollars on two new immigrant detention centers in the state. Much of these funds were given to companies that contributed money to Gov. DeSantis' political campaigns.
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A line of protesters stands along a sidewalk holding large white signs with red letters that together spell out “CITIZENS BANK FUNDS ICE HOLES.” The signs are mounted on poles and form a long banner stretching down the grass beside the street. Only the protesters’ legs and hands are visible behind the signs. A bank building and parking lot appear in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Happening NOW: @burningriverbrigad.bsky.social, @indivisibleneo.bsky.social, and 70+ other groups are at Citizens Bank branches calling on the bank to stop backing ICE detention companies.

Can't make it to a protest? Help us amplify these folks' work!

#deicecitizensbank #iceout