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From Des’ defense: “If a loved one is charged with a crime, how long until it is safe for that person to move their own belongings without also being charged with a crime?” The witness: “I don’t know”.

Safe Drinking Water Is a Basic Human Right That Texas Prisons Fail to Respect Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

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They also allege that the box contained six incendiary zines, which you can get here to help pay for Des' defense.

detritusbooks.com/des

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Israel closing all crossings into Gaza

Not to mention the people who say chatgpt told them to get something notarized (often something that doesn't require a notary) but did not put a notary certificate on their nonsense petition so we go round and round about notary laws.

Secondly, every time someone asks me to help them find a case citation they cant locate i now have to start with "where did you get this citation?" Because I've spent too long looking for hallucinations with people.

If you want to know how using AI is going for pro se litigants, I can tell you I have lost count of the amount of times someone said their judge told them they filed the wrong thing or "they dont know what I'm filing" because they used chatgpt while acceptable forms were easily accessible online.

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.

Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.

Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

My report:

This is what the Trump bureau of prisons is doing to trans people, putting them at immediate risk of medical emergency to forcefully detransition them.

Unimaginable levels of cruelty.

"Plans for a proposed federal immigration detention facility in New Hampshire were scrapped by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday after hundreds of protesters took to the streets over the weekend in protest." www.rawstory.com/ice-26753150...

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com:

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

www.propublica.org/article/okla...

L.G.B.T.Q. Clubs in Some Texas Schools Can’t Be Banned, Judge Says

An obviously unconstitutional Texas law can't be enforced after state declined to offer "any defense of their new policies." To me this says they knew it was unconstitutional and the arguments they'd have to make were so embarrassingly wrong and bigoted, they'd rather lose the law than defend it.

The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

Police in Cameroon Arrest Journalists Probing Trump’s Secretive Deportation Campaign Press freedom groups are raising alarm over the arrest of four journalists in Cameroon, who attempted to investigate Trump’s secretive scheme to deport third-country immigrants to the African nation. ...

Four journalists in Cameroon were arrested for attempting to investigate Trump’s secretive scheme to deport third-country immigrants to the African nation.

Clarifying and answering some of your questions about #grok doxxing me. Thank you @noelleperdue.bsky.social and @404media.co for reporting this story. Stay safe, my friends, and FUCK GROK 💚

Very cute illustrated cover of a zine titled "Fiery Recipes to Abolish ICE". Cover is Risograph printed in blue and yellow and features illustrations of peppers and fires with fun facial expressions.

Three scenes describing the zine. Text reads: "Fiery Recipes to Abolish ICE is a cooking zine that features 10 spicy recipes from 10 different food writers. We are raising funds to donate to anti-ICE groups because everyone should have the right to safety, food, and the freedom to live in the U.S., a country built by immigrants. Besides zine production and mailing costs, ALL of the proceeds will be donated to Minnesota-based organizations fighting against the injustices of ICE."

Check out "Fiery Recipes to Abolish ICE," a riso-printed cook zine raising money for Minnesota organizations fighting ICE! $30 includes shipping & support for MN immigrants. 🌶🔥

Original post with more details at www.instagram.com/p/DUsoctGD_Ol/ & order form at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

Texas Is Planning to Put an Innocent Man to Death. Will the Supreme Court Even Take the Case? Charles Flores was convicted of the January 1998 killing of Betty Black during an attempted robbery. Right from the start, he has maintained his innocence.

This is a "forensic hypnosis" case and it pisses me TF off that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined to apply the junk science writ to one of the junkiest junk sciences out there. The Texas CCA loves executions so much, innocence is seen as a technicality. slate.com/news-and-pol...

And yet at the same time Dallas County prepares to send James Broadnax to the execution chamber for a bizarre confession acquired when he was 19 and under the influence of hallucinogens. When is it enough of this?

In an Instagram post, Joe Panzarella, president of the Freedmen’s Town Super Neighborhood in Houston’s Fourth Ward, said a private developer that hired out contractors was responsible for the brick removal. bit.ly/3ZGSpL5

There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.

Great to see this project back up and running!

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

The US is deporting Palestinians to the Occupied West Bank, as in, under the control of the country that displaced them and forced them to seek refugee status in the first place.

Via a private jet owned by an Israeli buddy of Trump.

Graphic reads Zines are community care. Free Des! Photo shows political prisoner Des Revol with a baby possum.

freedes.net/solidarity-w...
#FreeDes

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

"More officers lifted the yellow tape and rushed out into the crowd."

"Panic ensued, kids began yelling and adults were screaming, 'They're just kids!'"

"These are children! You guys, I'm a teacher! Please!"
#California #USA #Policing #Protest #Education #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The American Teen Caught in Israel’s Prison System Mohammed Ibrahim is one of hundreds of Palestinian children who report physical abuse in Israeli detention.

Mohammed Ibrahim, the Palestinian-American boy who was imprisoned by Israel for nine months, lost his cellmate, another child, to forced starvation, and his cousin, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers

foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/04/m...

Sisters, brothers, comrades of indeterminate or incomprehensible (non)genders, it is Time

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Theres 7 minutes left in the 1st half so yeah around 8

humongous TW for the video.

its all escalating here. we keep saying this. dont take your eyes off mn