“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
"As I reviewed photos of protesters and tear gas in the wake of his death, I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend."
“The two were held for almost a week in a hotel 80 miles from their home, without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge, before being deported.”
We’ve been following the story of Génesis at @thebarbedwire.com — glad @theguardian.com reported this.
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To save costs, they’ve already pre-determined the outcome
The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution. Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. “That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
"as a tool of authoritarian conflict management, the Board of Peace arguably upholds three basic principles: Might is right, ethnic cleansing is an appropriate tool of conflict resolution, and war is an opportunity for real estate development."
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BlackNest’s web development content reveals how Canary Mission thinks of its “wins” in its efforts to influence U.S. policy. The website categorizes the group’s impacts into categories: “Change of behavior,” job loss, denials of entry to the U.S., arrests, and “deportation/forced to flee.”
This paragraph should be a feature of every article written by any serious media outlet, in addition to not writing like Israeli military stenographers. #Gaza
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
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Trump will be the NFL's special guest this Super Bowl Sunday. **Please** watch and share this 10 minute clip from my doc "Behind The Shield" to **remind** folks how Trump dragged anti-racist players like Kaepernick in 2016-2017. His smirking presence is a slap in the face.
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While the ceasefire allowed displaced Palestinians to return north, the destruction in Northern Gaza will leave many homeless. Bellingcat's analysis of 50 shelters for internally displaced people, suggests that many former shelters have been damaged or destroyed. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
this is good, but:
always put an asterisk next to organizations claiming “we just did this big thing!” in a manner that suggests finality.
especially any donor funded entity inclined to stretch the truth to claim Ws with their donors.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour: “It has become ever more apparent that, to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals, the rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain."
I interviewed two despairing Office of Personnel Management employees for this story. Musk's people at DOGE got access to sensitive records on millions Jan. 20. They can make further actions harder to spot. Please read and share, this should be free with an email address. wapo.st/3WNsOik #musk #opm
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
in this piece in the Forge, @alissashira.bsky.social and I draw out organizing lessons from moments of crisis and beyond that we hope will be relevant for this moment, take a look! forgeorganizing.org/article/less...
Yesterday was Alaa's birthday. He's still not free. #freealaa www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Update: this passed committee by a 9-3 vote and is headed to a floor vote later this week, likely Thursday morning
rip to the brilliant and inimitable saafir. there has never been a rapper like him and hard to imagine there ever will be.
No one thinks McBride is a threat to anyone. Pulling this shit only further confirms that the anti-trans stuff was never about safety. It’s performative cruelty to dehumanize and humiliate trans people.
At Knight, we’ve been closely watching the shift in how Americans get information. The latest Pew-Knight Initiative report reveals that almost 1 in 5 adults regularly get news from news influencers on social media. Swipe for key 🗝️ findings and read more here: kf.org/3CrnwlB
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"The fall of America as a solar superpower is a tragedy of errors where myopic corporate leadership, timid financing, oligopolistic complacency and policy chaos allowed the US and Europe to neglect their own clean-tech industries." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
SEIU, One of the largest unions in the U.S., has thrown its weight behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’s bid this week to block a huge tranche of weapons sales to Israel amid its genocide in Gaza.
THREAD: The UN Special Committee investigating Israel’s practices published its report yesterday concluding that Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide. Most notably, it captures some of Israel’s digital warfare and the conduct of social media companies.
Very excited to announce something we've been working on for awhile: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance. It's a one-stop-shop to teach you all the basic things you need to know about the 16 most common types/categories of surveillance local PDs use plus news, analysis, and resources.
More than 61,000 dead in Khartoum state alone, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group finds: 26,000 of them killed as a direct result of the violence. Leading cause of death across Sudan is preventable disease and starvation.
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Sorry it ends up being Said Arikat:
"...let’s talk about what you said about the principle of self-defense. Does that in any way apply to the Palestinians? Do they have a right to self-defense? Do Palestinians have a right to self-defense?"
