Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...

Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.

The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

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30-year-old youth minister Elijah Gantt has spent two years behind bars awaiting trial for attending a protest to mark the 10 year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing. The state’s case included 12 charges and a sentencing request of 66 years until he accepted a plea deal. Now they are seeking 19.

Protesters Marking 10 Years After Michael Brown’s Killing Face Arrest and Prison

“To say, why were we out there, why were we even protesting … is to gaslight an entire community,” said one supporter.

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Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.

At Its Best, LGBTQ Pride Is an Abolitionist Uprising — and a Dance Party

Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.

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NEW: An unprecedented assault on American nonprofits is underway, and it all started when the Trump admin convened a slate of anti-trans activists for a workshop on gender-affirming care. Important investigation by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social for Assigned and @accountabilityji.bsky.social.

MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians. - Assigned Media

The right wing has gone all in on assaulting nonprofits, following the playbooks of authoritarian regimes the world over.

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Gabriela Soto: My husband, Martin Soto, was abducted by ICE this February when he left our home at night to buy diapers for our 11-month-old son. Martin — who is a loving father, husband, son, church member, worker, and neighbor — was then jailed for 4 months at Delaney Hall.

ICE Kidnapped My Husband on His Way to Buy Diapers for Our Infant Son

My husband, Martin Soto, took part in the hunger strike at Delaney Hall. I led a rally. The retaliation was immediate.

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Quick read of the trans sports decision.. *Categorical exclusion of trans athletes from sex-separated school sports is lawful under Title IX and equal protection *A biological-sex law is not a transgender classification *No as-applied challenges under intermediate scrutiny or rational basis

@ilhanmn.bsky.social: Trump's gutting of Medicaid will strip coverage from millions of people, push hospitals into closure, and make an already broken health care system even worse. Only Medicare for All would ensure that people can get the care they need.

Ilhan Omar: Our Health Care System Is Broken Beyond Repair. We Need Medicare for All.

Repealing Medicare cuts and restoring ACA subsidies are the first step. But ultimately, we need universal health care.

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Why are some of you consistently telling people who live in NY that their candidates can't win in Iowa? LOL. The candidates are FROM NY and running in NY. Take up your criticisms with the media not New Yorkers.

Congratulations to the young multi-racial coalition of New Yorkers who are demanding better.

2028 is going to be a fucking extinction-level electoral event for so many of these incumbent Dems who have coasted for years without any serious challenges. This cycle is the clarion call for ten times as many primary challengers to take on suddenly-very-beatable-looking incumbents.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Grace Meng has been in Congress since 2013 and didn’t even have a primary challenger in 2024. She’s at just 57% against a progressive who had virtually zero support or resources.

"Whether Facebook and Google are capitulating to Trump due to fear of economic retribution, shared politics, or a desire to increase their stock prices or keep up with technology, the impact is devastating for journalism and democracy."

In our recent Truthout op-ed about Google's increasing use of AI summaries in search and the destructive impact it will have on journalism, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @neginowl.bsky.social and I questioned big tech's motivations and wrote about the indisputable outcome:

A father fears for his child, but he tries not to add to his child’s fear.

In Gaza, Fathers Can’t Promise Their Children Food, Safety, or Even Survival

Every Palestinian father faces the impossible task of trying to create a sense of safety in a place where there is none.

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Google is downgrading links & promoting AI. That means users will see a summary generated by an AI bot developed by a corporate behemoth w/ close ties to Trump. Important reporting @neginowl.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social @truthout.org @therealnews.com therealnews.com/googles-new-...

Google’s new AI-fueled search bar threatens to further upend journalism industry

Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

therealnews.com

1/ A doctor denied care to 28-year-old Harmonie Perrone for her ectopic pregnancy because she believed there was a “1 percent chance” she could have a healthy pregnancy. Now, she’s suing an Illinois hospital and the OBGYN.

Illinois’ law protects abortion. She says she still couldn’t get treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.

A lawsuit filed in Illinois raises questions about who can get life-saving reproductive health care, even in states with legal protections.

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McClatchy's AI tool repackages existing articles to run as new ones. McClatchy reporters don't want their bylines on those articles, and are unionizing in response. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-...

The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool

The local Pennsylvania outlet is the first newsroom under The NewsGuild-CWA to unionize in response to AI adoption.

niemanlab.org

The worst people in the world are coming together to determine how we access journalism. Nobody wants this. Research shows people don't want to get news from chatbots and that they can fuel misinformation. @ziggywest.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and I wrote about the need to fight back.

Google’s New AI-Fueled Search Bar Threatens to Further Upend Journalism Industry

Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

truthout.org

"Some children were placed in seclusion rooms from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for consecutive days because of a single behavioral outburst. We already know the destructive effects of solitary confinement on adults—why should children be any different?" inquest.org/serving-time...

Serving Time in Public Schools - Charles Bell - Inquest

Every year, thousands of children are placed in solitary confinement by U.S. public schools as punishment for having a disability.

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Mamdani being a huge coward when it comes to trans youth is genuinely enraging. They will tell us with a straight face how hard it is. Do you know how hard it is for a trans youth who has had to move states and had 3 providers drop them and now has no options? Try that.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2mo ago

1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs. It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

Josh Halliday@joshhalliday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Organizing involves collectivizing risk. That’s what makes it different from telling others what they should politically do.

AI poses a dire threat to journalism organizations' ability to share actual facts with broad audiences, as @neginowl.bsky.social & @ziggywest.bsky.social & I write. This is just one example of why we CANNOT acquiesce to an "it's inevitable" mindset when it comes to AI. truthout.org/articles/goo...

Google’s New AI-Fueled Search Bar Threatens to Further Upend Journalism Industry

Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

truthout.org

I have a new piece in @truthout.org today about autonomous libraries and the collections and spaces they create for political movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...

As Censorship Expands, Autonomous Libraries Are Springing Up to Fill the Gaps

From California to Illinois to Oregon, flourishing anarchist libraries are spreading knowledge and building community.

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Israel kidnapped Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from his post as the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital over 500 days ago. Now, it’s holding him in solitary confinement. Israel is holding Dr. Abu Safiya captive without any charges. That’s a war crime.

Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya now in cell barely big enough to sit in, says son, after UN experts demanded his release in March

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"Abolition is normal & accessible. So often people fixate on the question of 'Should we have prisons?' This exhibition reminds us to ask: 'What could we use more of? What could we be doing instead?'" Vic Liu & Prisonculture discuss their ongoing NYC art show.

“Hope Is a Discipline” - Vic Liu & Mariame Kaba - Inquest

An ongoing abolitionist art installation at the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library helps patrons to visualize a future free of prisons.

inquest.org

This was actually fascinating. I learned a lot. An interactive explainer that walks you through exactly how solar panels convert sunlight into electricity, step by step: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

An interactive exploration of how solar panels work: from photons and the bandgap of silicon to Wright’s Law and the political will problem.

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BREAKING: A federal judge in California has, as a very interim step, blocked Stanford children's hospital (LPCH) from turning over patient records responsive to the N.D. Texas trans care grand jury subpoena and barred DOJ from taking any action to enforce it while he considers a new TRO request.

A growing national movement for menstrual equity is calling on prisons to ensure menstrual products are freely available for people who menstruate behind bars. theappeal.org/prison-menst...

Bleeding Behind Bars Is Extra Grim When Prisons Fail to Offer Menstrual Products

Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

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I wrote about the smash-and-grab politics of fascist gangsterism and what it would mean to take back what’s been stolen. “The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again.”

The Heist State

“We are being robbed by the worst people in the world.”

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“The conditions in Gaza were certainly teratogenic. There is a severe lack of sanitation, a lack of clean water, displacement & an unsafe ability to get prenatal care.” In this Q&A, nurse Sandra Adler Killen outlines the devastating conditions for mothers & babies under Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

An ‘exceptional’ number of Gaza’s newborns die, arrive prematurely, or have serious comorbidities

In this Q&A with Prism, nurse Sandra Adler Killen outlines the devastating conditions for mothers and babies under Israel’s genocide in Gaza

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