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“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years and has no criminal record was detained by federal agents Sunday morning as she gardened outside her Lakeview home.” www.nola.com/news/politic...

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"The strike is over. The crisis is not," says head of NY prison system, acknowledging the massive disruption of programming for incarcerated people persists following the wildcat strike that began in February www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

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"When we ask them who they are, they usually don't reply. 'Who do you think we are?' barked one agent while they were making an arrest, as the elevator doors closed." Great reporting from @hellgatenyc.com on the rampant masking of ICE agents hellgatenyc.com/ice-gone-rog...

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Diagnosed with end-stage heart failure, doctors have twice told her that she has days to live. But Sierra Johnson, 36, is determined to keep fighting the state in her case alleging she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by staff while incarcerated in New York prisons. hellgatenyc.com/sexual-assau...

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I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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NEW: Messiah Nantwi’s brutal death inside Mid-State Correctional Facility in March highlights a “pattern and practice” of excessive force and cover-ups, according to a new federal suit. buff.ly/OOnpEHB

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“Collectively, Business Insider estimates US data centers could soon consume more electricity than what Poland used in 2023.” t.co/fJEIlEho2A

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“It’s not clear how halting a program initiated by those working closely with law enforcement, in a county where Trump won by nearly 60 percentage points last November, aligns with the administration’s public safety policies and messaging.” www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/17/n...

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Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.” “We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.” Not affirmation—access.

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It's the NYT's decision to endorse or not, but the wet blanket editorial today is an insult to engaged NYers & a discredit to journalism's civic mission. We @thecity.nyc take a different view. Elections are exciting if challenging! We built this for you: projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

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This horrifying story of a man spiking coffee and cookies(!) with mifepristone deserves its own attention re: reproductive coercion, but the Texas Rangers doing fetal personhood with a murder charge is a much bigger threat than this one man www.jezebel.com/man-allegedl... @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

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BTW, our new guide on protesting safely in the age of surveillance is unpaywalled. From phone safety tips to just how much law enforcement can track your movements, take a look at the guide:

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ICE agents told hospital workers Carrero-Marquez was a "violent gang member," while @sourcenm.com's review of state and federal criminal records shows one local traffic ticket. sourcenm.com/2025/06/11/i...

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Hochul can close up to three prisons this year, but the process by which NY officials decide which facilities to shut down "is done entirely behind the scenes without any input from the public." www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/10/a...

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The state of Texas is officially defining sex. Assigned Media's @valorievandieman.bsky.social on how state sponsored bullying encourages hatred, discrimination, and harassment.

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NEW — Iranian asylum seeker in ICE detention center goes on hunger strike: "I will not eat until my voice is heard and I am free." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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NPR internships are coming back, and I honestly couldn't be more thrilled. It is a PAID opportunity, from Oct '25 to Apr '26. This is a link to my team's (ATC) posting, but there are also non-newsroom postings (IT, web dev, graphics): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

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The EPA dropped a lawsuit against the first corporation whose PAC “maxed out” on contributions to Trump’s presidential campaign. The suit challenged GEO Group's use of a product "which causes irreversible eye damage and skin burns" at an ICE detention facility www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

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“One day before the Trump administration deployed U.S. Marines to confront protesters in Los Angeles, [DHS Sec] Kristi Noem asked Defense [Sec] Pete Hegseth to direct the military to detain or arrest “lawbreakers,” a move one expert called “a grave escalation.’” www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

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NEW: For @prismreports.org, I wrote about my beloved Los Angeles, an American city unlike any other, where there is an unspoken understanding that our place and our people must be defended at all costs:

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This picture is the epitome of record scratch, freeze frame You’re probably wondering how I got here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

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there are few worse/lazy headline constructions than “tensions flare as ____” because it answers zero questions. who’s tense? who’s making them flare? what’s the difference between each side’s ways of expressing their tension? who has more power in the situation?

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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

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For @newyorker.com I wrote about a topic many people are concerned about -- could civilians be deputized and how might that happen? Read more www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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"You lose people, you lose property. You lose so much through a transfer…In prison because of all the violence, who’d want to get moved? You want to be in the hell you already know, the hell that you already got comfortable in." h/t @prisonpolicy.org www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...

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Andrew Cuomo’s campaign last month released a list with what it billed as endorsements from the heads of tenant associations at 27 NYCHA developments. But five tenant association presidents who appeared on the list say they have not endorsed Cuomo.

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very excited to see this from two truly indispensable reporters! congrats Susan and Garnet!!

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“If you’d like to run something up or if we can help give a push somewhere, please reach out. If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing."

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“I’m hoping that the remediation manager recognizes solitary confinement as an international taboo… and as a practice we should eliminate in our city jails, in all of its various forms,” NYC Councilmember Sandy Nurse told me. boltsmag.org/new-york-rik...

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In a remote stretch of Montana, USDA funding helped provide food for ~250 households on a reservation where the nearest supermarket is about 20 miles away. Now, due to cuts, the tribe’s funding for local food purchases could run out within weeks. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social‬

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

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"I flipped channels, and found the same video of Floyd playing on another station. This time, the sound of Floyd crying out to his mother — whom I would later learn had been dead for two years — caused something to stir in my chest." On processing George Floyd's death from prison:

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NEW: Prison reform was the topic of an all-day hearing last week, where Robert Ricks, Robert Brooks’s father, advocated for legislation to expand prison oversight and make it easier to hold abusive officers to account. “I come here feeling like I’m getting ready to fight the wind,” he said.

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NYU conditioned a student's right to speak at graduation on his agreement not to call attention to human rights abuses. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

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For @typeinvestigations.org and @theappeal.org, D. Razor Babb and Emily Nonko spent over a year investigating (across prison walls) the drinking water concerns at Mule Creek State Prison, where Razor is incarcerated. "If you want to live, don't drink the water..." theappeal.org/mule-creek-d...

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Super helpful breakdown of everything that did and didn’t make it through this year’s state budget agreement from @nysfocus.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/05/10/n...

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“Artificial intelligence and more sophisticated offender ‘tagging’ technology could be used to better track offenders in the community and ‘effectively create a prison outside of prison,’ she said.” A startling honesty that yes, the goal (whether or not the tech works) is make everywhere a prison.

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Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

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“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days. …signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

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Really heartened to see Jessy's incredible reporting being recognized by @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social!

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you know when you are talking to someone and they ask you NO QUESTIONS AT ALL? why do they do that??? @sarahmiller.bsky.social asked around www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

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Excited to share that I’ll be spending my summer at @themarshallproject.org as a @djnf.bsky.social audience intern dowjonesnewsfund.org/news/djnf-an...

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Gov. Hochul's early release plan for NY state prisons has resulted in a 0.4% reduction in population. Just 151 people have been released, largely because other eligible candidates don't have approved housing, per @reuvenblau.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/29/h...

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Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features. www.wired.com/story/police...

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Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.

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DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...

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🚨 @nysfocus.bsky.social scoop: The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE. It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity. full story⬇️

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