"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered."
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Black People Knew This Would Happen
Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.
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Farajalah’s mother had recently died in Gaza, but he had been denied permission to leave the detention facility to mourn her.
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Prominent Palestinian Protester in Brussels Dies in Custody
Mahmoud Farajalah took his life after months in immigration detention, as human rights groups’ condemned the crackdown on Brussels protests.
Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.
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Black People Knew This Would Happen
Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.
Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”
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Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies
Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”
"If, during the regular course of a work week or at a major community event the cops are around every corner, why wouldn’t they also make random cameos during ICE raids?" writes Ian F. Blair.
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The United Police State of America Has Arrived
The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred.
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“The idea that masked men would now go to 14-year-olds and ask them to waive their rights to return to the countries that they fled is shocking.”
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ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation
ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.
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If the U.S. military does confront drug cartels in Mexico, it will find itself facing battle with its own weapons.
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Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory.
The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while enabling the flow of guns into Mexico by slashing federal regulators.
To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
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She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to "designated terrorist organizations."
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Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians
The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to “designated terrorist organizations.”
Trump has deployed roughly 35,000 federal troops within the United States this year, according to exclusive figures provided to The Intercept by official military sources.
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Ignoring Court Ruling, Trump Sends Troops to Portland to Break Imagined Antifa “Siege”
Trump’s order to send the Oregon National Guard to Portland appeared to surprise Pentagon officials.
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