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my latest for @convergencemag.com 💥The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism💥 read here 👇🏽 convergencemag.com/articles/the...
The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism
Authoritarians use many tactics to consolidate power, grassroots research plays a key role in exposing these tactics and making regimes more vulnerable to resistance movements.
convergencemag.com
my latest for @convergencemag.com 💥The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism💥 read here 👇🏽 convergencemag.com/articles/the...
The Power of Grassroots Research in Combating Authoritarianism
Authoritarians use many tactics to consolidate power, grassroots research plays a key role in exposing these tactics and making regimes more vulnerable to resistance movements.
convergencemag.com
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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What we have witnessed U.S.-based fascism accomplish in a very short time should lead us to reassess *everything.* All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands, argues @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest ‘Another way out.’
All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands
As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority
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Latest from me for @commondreams.org - Immigration Detention Centers are Political Prisons
Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 5mo agoMovements to end mass incarceration, immigrant justice movements, labor movements, environmental justice movements, and all others need to be interconnected in the fight to free all political prisoners.
www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/... Salar Mohandesi writing for @versobooks.bsky.social .
Organizing in the Heart of Empire
The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...
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Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
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Firestorm Books@firestorm.coop · 5mo ago“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime —Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill
The Israeli military says that it dropped roughly 4,000 bombs during its illegal 12-day war last June, and that it had already surpassed that by Tuesday, the fourth day of the new U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Israel Has Dropped 4,000 Bombs on Iran — The Same Amount as 12-Day War in a Third of the Time
The death toll has already surpassed that of last year’s war, with Iranian officials reporting 1,230 killed so far.
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Movements to end mass incarceration, immigrant justice movements, labor movements, environmental justice movements, and all others need to be interconnected in the fight to free all political prisoners.
Immigration Detention Centers Are Political Prisons
As immigrants are being targeted, cross-movement solidarity is essential in the fight to free all political prisoners.
commondreams.org
New @pressfreedom.bsky.social report shows that a record 129 journalists, media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, with Israel responsible for over two-thirds of those killings. And drone killings of journalists spiked from two in 2023 to 39 in 2025 — with Israel responsible for 28 of the 39.
Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists
Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...
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New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
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"[E]scalating war on protest." "About 14% of approximately 19,400 Black Lives Matter charges, summons, or citations were successfully prosecuted, compared with about 40% of around 6,800 Gaza cases through late 2024." #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Israel #Policing #Courts #Protest #Genocide
How data on the crackdown on Gaza protests reflects the increasing repression of activist movements in the U.S.
Data shows Gaza protesters faced harsher punishments than Black Lives Matter protesters did just a few years ago. Experts tell Mondoweiss this is the result of pro-Israel bias and a backlash against protest movements that has been building for years.
mondoweiss.net
Latest from me for @commondreams.org - Immigration Detention Centers are Political Prisons
Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 5mo agoMovements to end mass incarceration, immigrant justice movements, labor movements, environmental justice movements, and all others need to be interconnected in the fight to free all political prisoners.
More than five years since the 2020 uprising, the struggle for racial justice continues—and so does the organizing. In this episode of Momentum, Minister JaNaé Bates of @isaiahmn.org and host @jaboa.bsky.social explore how resistance is not just reaction—it’s tradition, strategy, and purpose.
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6mo agoPolice departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.
Calls for more training for ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies means more investment in these systems and legitimizing the expansion of the role of the agent.
You Can’t Train Away ICE’s Terror
Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.
commondreams.org
"Carceral AI is not a futuristic threat—it is a present-day reality." "[F]ighting to make carceral AI 'unbiased' [..] works directly against abolitionist aims, obscuring the biases that the criminal legal system is built on." #Michigan #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Weapons
Carceral AI is here. It's time to fight back.
Facial recognition is just the tip of the iceberg. Today, AI is being used to monitor social media, track ICE targets, and classify swaths of the population as "future" criminals.
inquest.org
"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them. “We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
MPR News@mprnews.org · 6mo ago“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
Latest from me for @commondreams.org A more trained mass deportation system is still a mass deportation system. A more trained agent of family separation is still an agent of family separation. A more trained armed stated terror presence in communities is still armed state terror.
Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 7mo agoCalls for more training for ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies means more investment in these systems and legitimizing the expansion of the role of the agent.
👉🏽Read the newest from me for @commondreams.org “DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation”
Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 9mo agoAs DC residents, we must ask: What does true family safety look like for us?
Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say
Tribal leaders say Indigenous people have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or names.
washingtonpost.com
"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street."
'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More
"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street," said US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is an agency that must be reined in."
commondreams.org
DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation www.commondreams.org/opinion/dc-f...
DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation | Common Dreams
Increased criminalization and deportations exacerbate family separation by creating the conditions used to justify state intervention and forcible removal.
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Armies move on their stomachs. The private sector is making ICE possible, at a rich profit. An organized boycott could turn that business move into a liability.
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
thenation.com
U.S. Special Forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In Cuba, people gathered in solidarity, rejecting U.S. aggression. They condemned the move as a violation of international law and human rights, an example of U.S. imperial oppression. Full: www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/havana-respo...
The American citizen killed by ICE in Minneapolis today was a mother whose son is now an orphan (his father passed away in 2023) www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
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