As devastating, ableist, and utterly classist as this news is, working people need to remember that a better system is possible. We will build a system that works for us instead of against us — but we must fight for it together.

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

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ICE and CBP’s use of AI-powered surveillance technology threatens people and movements everywhere. But communities are rising up to defend themselves and the planet. 🍃 Read my latest for @counterstream.bsky.social’s new issue of Peace & Riot:

Policing the Planet — Peace & Riot

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housing is a human right. end billionaires.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 4mo ago

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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In the throes of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration enforcement embeds within colleges, with little to no community oversight, legal transparency, or guardrails, @julialuz.bsky.social reports. As more colleges enter into partnerships with ICE & CBP, students are fighting back.

Universities agree to immigration enforcement on campus

Of the colleges that have entered into partnerships with ICE and CBP since last year, only St. John’s University in New York has backed out

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There wasn’t a list in the article of the 17 colleges, so I made my own! They’re all in Florida for now (yes, including Santa Fe College, I checked and it’s in Gainesville). Data from DHS: www.ice.gov/identify-and...

Prism@prismreports.org · 4mo ago

Today, 17 colleges have active agreements with immigration agencies. Students are fighting back against immigration enforcement on campus, @julialuz.bsky.social reports. Of the colleges that have entered into partnerships with ICE & CBP, only St. John’s University in New York has backed out.

Why have universities held tightly onto partnerships with ICE despite students and faculty overwhelmingly speaking out against them? Read my latest for @prismreports.org

Universities agree to immigration enforcement on campus

Of the colleges that have entered into partnerships with ICE and CBP since last year, only St. John’s University in New York has backed out

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My latest. Tap in 👇🏽

Prism@prismreports.org · 4mo ago

Today, 17 colleges have active agreements with immigration agencies. Students are fighting back against immigration enforcement on campus, @julialuz.bsky.social reports. Of the colleges that have entered into partnerships with ICE & CBP, only St. John’s University in New York has backed out.

The law firm Proskauer Rose LLP has been behind several union busting efforts at universities and media companies across the country. They just claimed another college — my alma mater. Please share, circulate and support the St. John’s faculty, who are again fighting for their right to unionize.

Another College Stops Recognizing Faculty Unions, Citing Catholic Identity and Need for ‘Flexibility’

St. John’s University said core academic decisions were being tied up in collective bargaining. It’s the latest institution to invoke its faith-based mission.

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Scoop: Police have recently been ordered to be "as vague as permissible" in the Flock system about the searches they do in a message shared with several major police departments around the country by the FBI. Actively avoiding transparency is now the strategy: www.404media.co/police-told-...

Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock

The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.

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In light of the escalating violence against Venezuela, let us not forget who ultimately suffers: the Venezuelan people. Published in mid-December, Prism spoke with Venezuelan refugees on the chaotic & violent conditions they face in Mexico. prismreports.org/2025/12/18/v...

Venezuelan migrants return home to conditions worse than what they fled

Mexico has become a reluctant receiving country for asylum-seekers to the U.S., including thousands of Venezuelan migrants

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I’m looking for more immigration, higher ed, surveillance, and intelligence experts to share their expertise with me for this story. Please drop suggestions below or share with your networks! Ty ✨

Julia Luz Betancourt@julialuz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social 📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at julesthejourno@proton.me ⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address

The rapid normalization of the violence is the point

I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social 📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at julesthejourno@proton.me ⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address

*pretends to be shocked* great reporting, btw

ProPublica@propublica.org · 9mo ago

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Can we just pause and think for a second about why 42 million people in the U.S. are on SNAP… 42 MILLION. That is more than the population of the entire state of California.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

While Trump’s NSPM-7 memo claims so-called anti-Christian beliefs are signs of “left-wing violence,” a Chicago pastor who belongs to a Presbyterian church was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE. You can’t make this up.

I can’t believe I have to check my credit score through all of this.

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents. Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs. Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

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Every journalist covering the White House, government, free speech, repression, etc. should honestly report on what this is: an attempt to manufacture consent for what would be a dictatorial power grab.

With his ban on military shaving waivers, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he’s pushing out: Black troops.

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid

Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

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Have you heard of Flock Safety? The surveillance company was once a small technology startup with a mission to “eliminate” non-violent crime. Now it’s becoming a one-stop shop for law enforcement to buy and plug into all the big brother-esque tech they can get. My latest for BreakThrough News 👇🏽

Welcome to the era of digitized white supremacy.

WIRED@wired.com · 12mo ago

Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that's the point. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

When big tech companies and imperialist states are able to roam unchecked, it is inevitable that they will join forces. This is a byproduct of capitalism.

Johana Bhuiyan@jmbooyah.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is real I shit you not

Our tax dollars & the U.S.’ support of Israel enable the occupying force to commit genocide. We've compiled an ongoing, updating list of fundraisers for Palestinian liberation. We owe Palestinians our money & support. If you’re able to share funds, here are orgs & grassroots efforts to start.

Fundraisers for Palestinian liberation: We owe Palestinians our money and support

For those of us outside of Gaza, we are witnessing the U.S.-backed, Israeli-imposed mass starvation and famine of Palestinians in Gaza. Prism has

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Prism@prismreports.org · last yr.

🧵 We have decided to pause mid-year fundraising & ask that you donate to mutual aid & orgs in Gaza. Prism is fine, our U.S. writers & staff are fed, housed, & safe, but our friends in Gaza are not. We cannot justify fundraising for ourselves while Israel starves Gaza. Learn more & donate ⤵️

“The Supreme Court’s assault on democracy and President Donald Trump’s are tightly intertwined… Trump may be behind this plan, but it was the Supreme Court that made such brazen partisan gerrymandering possible.”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr.

The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act.