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The ACLU claims the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration violated the Freedom of Information Act by ignoring requests and appeals for information concerning DOGE's “attempted or actual access” to sensitive federal databases. www.wired.com/story/aclu-l...

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When a prison echoes the darkest chapters of history, it’s not justice—it’s a warning. Safety shouldn’t come at the cost of humanity. Bukele flaunts CECOT like a trophy, but celebrating cruelty is a dangerous precedent.

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US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Defending our civil liberties isn’t new to us, it’s true to us. Support our work and join the fight.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

submitted 5 days ago • 872 comments

September 2024

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Andry, a makeup artist, never lived in the U.S.When he arrived with his CBP One, he was arrested.Never even glimpsing the freedom he had hoped for. A cruel twist for many: they let some in,only for their dreams to be shattered with imprisonment,then sent to CECOT. www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

submitted 6 days ago • 371 comments

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

🇺🇸🇸🇻One month ago, the US removed 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador. Since then: 🔴They've been held incommunicado in the CECOT 🔴Families have no info on their whereabouts 🔴No legal basis has been offered for their detention These enforced disappearances should end immediately www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...

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🇭🇹🧵Selon la RNDDH, la violence criminelle s'aggrave en Haïti. En 3 mois, au moins : ⚠️110 personnes tuées entre le 6-7 décembre 2024 à Wharf Jeremy ⚠️139 personnes tuées / disparues entre le 27-29 janvier 2025 à Kenscoff ⚠️20 personnes tuées le 16 février à Chateaublond

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In fairness, China's pronouncers of state propaganda have a much better game then America's.

submitted 8 days ago • 874 comments

We’ve been seeing this from a lot of blue states, but seeing this from a state like Utah is different is a big deal is something I at least didn’t expect

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

submitted 8 days ago • 256 comments

If you're buying a paper today and you happen to buy the Sunday Times, and you happen to read the Culture magazine, that's my interview with Caitriona Balfe on the cover, so I got that going for me.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism, has died at age 89, according to his family. cnn.it/43R9Mw7

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Is anybody going to stop this?

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lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

submitted 10 days ago • 411 comments

The logical end, and aspiration, of what we’ve been seeing: “officials have discussed possibly denaturalizing and deporting activists and other individuals… [for] subsequently supporting what Team Trump decides are ‘pro-terrorist’ causes or groups.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 10 days ago • 2341 comments

“Nobody should be forced to piece together bits of information from the media or to read into the authorities’ silence to find out where their relatives are being held,” And this is exactly what these Venezuelan families have been subjected to. www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

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"It's criminal." Nina Olson, former national taxpayer advocate at the IRS, emphasizes the illegality of the IRS sharing taxpayer data with ICE.

submitted 12 days ago • 89 comments

How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains. This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes:

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Garcia: "We're here talking about furniture while Donald Trump is destroying the economy ... were you aware that as markets were crashing Donald Trump the next day went out to play a few rounds of golf?"

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments