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UN again calls on Israel to open Gaza’s Rafah crossing, stop blocking aid Israeli authorities are refusing to let in 600 aid trucks per day as specified in ceasefire deal, UN official says.

Israeli authorities are refusing to let in 600 aid trucks per day as specified in ceasefire deal, UN official says.

20 people have died in ICE custody so far this year — the most since 2005 Deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, by calendar year. 2025 data is through Oct. 18. From 2004 to 2025, ICE custody deaths: Bush 32, 20, 18, 8, 16 Obama 10, 9, 11, 5, 9, 6, 7, 12 Trump 11, 11, 3, 16 Biden 5, 3, 7, 11 Trump 20 Notes 2025 data does not include two deaths from a Texas shooting and a death during an apprehension in Illinois Source: ICE.gov, American Immigration Lawyers Association Credit: Rahul Mukherjee/NPR

Pretty telling that ICE custody deaths spiked under Bush and Trump.

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US groups demand release of American-Palestinian teen imprisoned by Israel More than 95 organizations advocate for freedom of 16-year-old dual citizen detained for more than six months

US groups demand release of American-Palestinian teen imprisoned by Israel

More than 100 organizations advocate for freedom of 16-year-old dual citizen detained for more than six months www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.

Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.

Another danger lies in Dems championing a “trained ICE” as somehow better than what we have now.

Chicago Against Trump’s Authoritarianism As ICE violently snatches Chicagoans in broad daylight and seems to be waging war on the city itself, Chicago City Council member and socialist Anthony Quezada recounts how the city is pushing back.

As fed power tries to turn Chicago into a war zone, community defenders, rapid response teams, & city leaders build sanctuary & share Know Your Rights. Chicago proves safety is solidarity. Neighbors protect neighbors, refuse to be divided, and plant seeds for change.
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You don't get more conservative with age, it's just the honest version of you comes out

Public Justice attorney Lucia Goin @lu-ci-a.bsky.social will present oral argument TODAY in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Gudex v. Franklin Collection Services, Inc. on at 10:45 AM ET. You can watch the livestream here:
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SCOTUS, ICE Raids & The Matter of Facts There is a lot one can say about today’s Supreme Court order lifting the stay issued by a federal district court in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo,[i]. This is the case that challenges the constitutionality o...

Today’s SCOTUS “decision” marks another day of doublespeak and racism. Is it the shittiest ever. Nah. But it’s up (down?) there at the top/bottom.

Need help with the details? I do. Thankfully, we have people like @sifill.bsky.social in our world.

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Largest Ever Verdict Dealt Against Gun Dealer Rendered for the City of Baltimore Jury awards City of Baltimore, represented by Brady and co-counsel, $62 million dollars in damages after nearby gun dealer Hanover Armory flooded the City with deadly ghost guns BALTIMORE, MD, August ...

Berger Montague obtained the largest-ever verdict against a gun dealer. The jury awarded $62 million after a gun dealer flooded Baltimore with deadly ghost guns. The award is ten times larger than the previous record. bergermontague.com/news/largest...

#Gaza: On Aug. 23, heavy gunfire broke out while people were gathered around one of our water-trucking distribution points in #KhanYounis.

Demand protection for civilians and humanitarian aid.

Sign: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/now-more-tha...

Update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

I’ve learned much about grieving f/ Jewish activists through the “Three Weeks” & Tisha B’Av recently. Just as I don’t believe Christianity is the white nationalism that Trump preaches, I don’t believe Judaism is the bloodlust that Netanyahu, Sen. Schumer, or their accomplices preach. #FreePalestine

Watch our colleague Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, Deputy Medical Coordinator, explain how starvation destroys the body.

Health workers in #Gaza are starving alongside their patients as Israeli authorities use hunger as a weapon.

Learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

“The worst case scenario of #famine is now happening in #Gaza according to the leading world experts.

An entirely man-made famine.”

Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

In Gaza, children are starving, families are shattered, and our teams are barely surviving.

The world must act now.

📄 Full statement by Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini at the #2states4peace conference: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Trump Executive Orders Violate Young People’s Rights to a Stable Climate, a Lawsuit Alleges • Oregon Capital Chronicle This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. A group of 22 y...

A nice boost for this great article @ @publicjustice.bsky.social 's lawsuit w/ our fabulous partners at OCT (@youthvgov.bsky.social) on behalf of courageous young people who refuse to accept the devastation of their planet by polluters & govt abettors.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just greenlit most of the Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the Department of Education BUT there is still an active order requiring the government to reinstate staff at the Office for Civil Rights.

Oral argument in our case Dunn v. Sante Fe is TOMORROW (Wed., July 16th) in the Tenth Circuit at 10 AM MDT/12 PM ET! Kudos to Hannah Kieschnick, @lnicholls.bsky.social, and our friends at Gupta Wessler LLP for their impressive work on this case. You can listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjtt...

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After 11 1/2 years here legally + ALREADY winning asylum, US govt REVOKED Imam Ayman Solimon's status + DETAINED him in Cincinnati. They're taking him to a notoriously VIOLENT + RACIST immigration jail in rural Ohio, forcing him to win his case AGAIN or be KILLED. www.instagram.com/reel/DL5TJrg...

Former Cincinnati Children's chaplain detained by ICE Ayman Soliman was arrested after an ICE check-in, supporters say in advance of press conference.

“Imam Ayman Soliman came to the United States at least seven years ago from Egypt, according to federal court records, and received asylum status in June 2018.”
😢💔
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theyre disappearing childrens hospital chaplains

The American Police State Is Here ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.

“ICE will have twice as many agents as the FBI and will have its own huge and growing prison system (which it operates independently) as its masked and un-uniformed officers continue to snatch people off of the streets and mete out violence as they see fit.”

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Adams Administration Will Close NYC's Last Remaining Free COVID Testing Site The closure of the rapid testing site in Crown Heights marks the end of an era in New York—not the end of COVID, but of the City's official effort to detect and contain it.

The closure of the rapid testing site in Crown Heights marks the end of an era in New York—not the end of COVID, but of the City's official effort to detect and contain it.

Whitfield v. Selene Finance | Public Justice What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Typically, a person needs to have been injured by the actions of another to have standing to bring a lawsuit. ...

Earlier this week, @lnicholls.bsky.social & @lu-ci-a.bsky.social filed our reply brief in the 11th Circuit in Whitfield v. Selene Finance. Check it out here: www.publicjustice.net/case_brief/w...

This new ICE budget is a historic increase in money for military force against civilians within the United States. Trump’s lawless Gestapo is now armed & able to throw not just immigrants into their concentration camps without criminal charges or court hearings - but any of us.

Uranus is conjunct Venus at 29 degrees in Taurus. Resources are being stolen from the people; the fabric of society is being shredded & attacked. This is Uranus’ last stop before entering Gemini — when we will be given two stark options to choose from. “What side are you on, my people?”

The federal budget is never “tight” when it comes to billionaires, bombs, and locking people up. But when working families show need for healthcare or child care? Suddenly, there’s “no money.”

That’s why we stay in these streets organizing!

Parsonage v. Walmart | Public Justice This case is about whether a state court will continue to recognize that having statutory claims is enough to sue in state court, or whether it will follow the federal courts and require concrete harm...

Amici brief filed in California’s Fourth Appellate District pushing back against efforts to expand the impact of the Transunion v. Ramirez decision: www.publicjustice.net/case_brief/p... @lu-ci-a.bsky.social @shelbyleighton.bsky.social

The Abominable Sadism of "Alligator Auschwitz" Slated to open this week, Florida's new detention center will have more than a little in common with a Nazi concentration camp.

"'Alligator Auschwitz' might be a new apex of public sadism," writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social. "I assume we’ll see [Kristi] Noem there too, and maybe the secretary of sadism, Stephen Miller." www.thenation.com/article/poli...