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Officials Play “Accountability Ping Pong” With Jail Deaths in Texas A bipartisan push for more oversight comes after a sheriff flouted state law mandating independent investigations of jail deaths.

Even if they rarely lead to consequences for staff, outside investigations into deaths in jails often still document information that families need to pursue wrongful death lawsuits or uncover evidence that contradicts jailers’ account of what happened.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

NEW: Even the FBI thinks unidentified masked ICE agents is a bad idea. @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

“The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative befo...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. He leaves behind a legacy of war, torture and impunity.

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

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20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Faces Racism and Climate Injustice Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm. Flaherty explains h...

Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm.

If you appreciated Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History,” then you will love how @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social carries on the tradition of historians who set the record straight in her “seminal book that radically reexamines an intensely studied man and his legacy.” - via @theindypendent.bsky.social

Activist Released Without Charges After Violent Arrest While Documenting ICE Masked agents pinned Amanda Trebach on the pavement then forced her into an unmarked van.

In Los Angeles, nurse and community activist Amanda Trebach was released from federal custody this weekend without criminal charges, after she was violently arrested early Friday morning while recording the operations of federal immigration agents in the area.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Message from an American doc I know who is back in Gaza for his third mission: "The docs here say if you’re lucky there’s no aid distribution when you’re on. You’re unlucky if there’s a distribution that night. "

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)

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Take time to watch this interview.

How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar

By me and the super-talented Ritia Liu
How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
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DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

“War on Children”: Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camps The official death toll in Gaza has topped 58,000, with Israeli forces continuing to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid and talks over a ceasefire agreement stalled in Doha. This morning’s injured were...

"War on Children": Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel's Plan for Concentration Camps

ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond An immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on Thursday led to an hourslong standoff between protesters and federal border agents, who blocked the roads with military-style vehicles and tear-gassed...

ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.

Albanese says the move is an effort to “distract” from the genocide in Gaza.

From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the U.S. Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the…

From COINTELPRO to Project Esther—how the U.S. turned repression of Palestine solidarity into a privatized, digital-age industry. Professors, nonprofits, and algorithms now do the FBI's dirty work.

A must-read on the new era of counterinsurgency👇
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Louisiana Is Bulldozing the Right of Prisoners to Prove Their Innocence After a Conviction - Bolts Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that would ultimately free him, while watching television coverage of the... Read...

NEW in Bolts: Louisiana Republicans have passed a new law that effectively eviscerates people's ability to claim their innocence and seek relief once they've been convicted.

A massive blow to the rights of people in prison in a state that's full of wrongful convictions:
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Time to Unmask Trump’s Detention and Deportation Squads By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Narciso Barranco sits in ICE detention, with his two sons still on active duty in the US Marines not far away, at Fort Pendleton. It is past time to unmask the violent…

With each passing day, the violence wielded by ICE grows more intense and widespread.

Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights.

So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Steven Englander Memorial Fundraiser: ABC No Rio Building Fund On Thursday, December 12, 2024, surrounded by biological and chosen family, ABC No Rio director Steven Englander drew his final breaths.Steven left us just 18 months before he would have had the chanc...

Today, my partner would have turned 64. He dedicated the past 30 years of his life to building the new ABC No Rio to further the connections between arts and activism. He lived long enough to see the groundbreaking. We set up a memorial fundraiser to realize his dream: www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse...

"Worse Than McCarthyism": Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students

US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database Collection of migrants’ DNA has increased by 5,000% in three years in a ‘massive expansion of genetic surveillance’ US immigration authorities are collecting and uploading the DNA information of migrants, including children, to a national criminal database, according to government documents released earlier this month. The database includes the DNA of people who were either arrested or convicted of a crime, which law enforcement uses when seeking a match for DNA collected at a crime scene. However, most of the people whose DNA has been collected by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency that published the documents, were not listed as having been accused of any felonies. Regardless, CBP is now creating a detailed DNA profile on migrants that will be permanently searchable by law enforcement, which amounts to a “massive expansion of genetic surveillance”, one expert said. Continue reading...

US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database

The fact that Emil Bove of all people may now fill a seat for which Senate Dems had the direct opportunity to confirm a Biden nominee is really something.

“King of the North”: New Book Examines MLK’s Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different picture...

"King of the North": New Book Examines MLK's Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie

“We Southernized Dr. King”: Historian Jeanne Theoharis on MLK’s Struggle Against Racism in the North Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, a major reexamination of his experiences...

"We Southernized Dr. King": Historian Jeanne Theoharis on MLK's Struggle Against Racism in the North

A photo of Malcolm X standing at a podium

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Palestinian activist @mohsenofpalestine.bsky.social reflects on the "interconnectedness between injustices."