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Family of Colombian Man Killed in Boat Strike Files Complaint Against US This is the first known filing of its kind, and comes amid increasing scrutiny over the military’s boat strike campaign.

The family of a Colombian man believed to be killed by a strike on a boat in September has filed a human rights complaint against the United States, saying that the attack was “murder” and that he was denied the right to due process.

Here are the people who stood and smiled and laughed as Trump went off on his racist rant. Shame on them. And shame on every last person who has spent the last decade downplaying and normalizing his obvious, constant bigotry.

given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come

Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

“When you run a shadow war for two decades, eventually it stops staying in the shadows.”

A Nashville Proposal Could Outsource Surveillance and Policing to a Nonprofit Nashville may be the latest city to leverage a local nonprofit to build a public-private panopticon.

Days before Thanksgiving, the mayor of Nashville quietly submitted a resolution to enable $15 million in state surveillance funding to flow to a local nonprofit — a controversial move that could stymie accountability over the use of such surveillance technology.

U.S. Conducts “Largest Airstrike in the History of the World” (Sort Of) The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs on a cave complex in Somalia, killing 14.

Reminder that as Trump dehumanizes and slanders Somali-Americans, this is what his administration is doing to Somalia.

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In a troubling scene, NY Justice Carro’s CSOs just ejected a veteran court reporter for trying to challenge the sealing of footage in Luigi Mangione’s case. They shouted over her and threatened her with contempt as she tried to ID herself and object as a surrogate for the public.

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…

One of the many things I’m grateful for is independent, perceptive, fact-based journalism. One source of actual journalism I support is Truthout, but there are many others to be found on Bluesky.

From this article, which you should read in its entirety:

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Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.

As the Trump administration continues to unlawfully murder people in small vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities, and ignore court orders, six Democratic members of Congress were moved to act.

Gaza Economy at 13 Percent of Pre-Genocide Level, With Worst Collapse on Record “Multidimensional poverty now engulfs all Gazans,” one UN official said.

Israel’s genocide has destroyed nearly 90% of Gaza’s economy, causing the worst economic collapse ever recorded. In 2024 alone, Israel caused Gaza’s GDP to decline by 83%, according to data reported by the UN Trade and Development agency. Now, Gaza’s economy stands at just 13% of its 2022 levels.

Unpopular opinion: Yes, it's bullshit that Ghislane Maxwell is getting better treatment in prison than everyone else because she praised Trump. But it's much bigger bullshit that incarcerated people are treated so horrifically that toilet paper is considered a privilege.

I keep coming back to this

Sen. Ron Johnson: Time to conduct science with integrity. Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions.

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.

“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.

Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

The Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment? Rigorous, principled, independent journalism is an essential part of movement building.

Trump would really hate it if you sent this article to your friends at progressive foundations.

The biggest revelation in Lizza’s tell-all tonight is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.

There are (rightfully) several of these challenges going on — and likely more we don’t yet know of — and I hope to be able to spend some time on this issue soon, but this is a notable win that I’m glad to see getting coverage.

My kid goes to a Spanish immersion daycare in DC and the potential for this scenario has been my worst nightmare for a year now.

Reading about the community response to the ICE abduction of a daycare teacher in Chicago was so powerful. Definitely recommend parents — anyone, really — read.

ICE Raided My Son’s Daycare to Abduct a Teacher. This Kind of Trauma Lasts. Children in Illinois have suffered months of systematic abuse by federal agents enacting Trump’s immigration raids.

Children at my son’s Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently assaulted by ICE agents who entered their school, armed with weapons, earlier this month. Miss Diana was abducted by ICE on the morning of November 5 as she prepared to start her shift for the day.

Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.

I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

These Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza. Then Came Backlash. Medical institutions are silencing their staff and impeding efforts to build solidarity with medical workers in Gaza.

Medical institutions are silencing and even punishing staff for speaking up about Palestine, but health care workers told me doing so is their job: "Our basic oath is to protect life, and it’s not restricted to a certain geographic area [or] a certain population." Read my reporting at @truthout.org.

Immigration arrests surge in Hawaii as federal agents target courthouses Advocates and legal experts say many arrests are happening quietly, often when immigrants show up at state courts.

Immigration raids in Hawaiʻi are especially ironic since the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was illegally overthrown and the Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States against the will of the people.

This has seemed to go largely under the radar thanks to so many various evils this week, but this is such an insidious form of white supremacy.