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"Pitt's suspension of the club's status and other interference with peaceful advocacy is unconstitutional retaliation." "Pitt cannot constitutionally put its thumb on one side of the debate by harassing and chilling the pro-Palestinian students' side." #Pennsylvania #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

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"The rhetoric—racist, xenophobic lies cloaked in 'America first' language—demonizes nonwhite, non-U.S. citizens to justify everything the government does to them, no matter how unconstitutional, brutal, or deadly." "This is the bedrock of carceral imperialism." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation

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Survival crimes "which I define as criminalized activities undertaken to survive extreme financial hardship." "I argue that these should be considered a form of labor, opening the potential for such activities to be protected under the 'right to earn a living.'" #USA #Policing #Incarceration

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"A medic has been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a hospital in Gaza." "The attack on Tuesday came two days after another major hospital was targeted." "[T]he latest strike hit the entrance to the Kuwaiti field hospital in al-Muwasi." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

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"It is time for you to leave the United States." "A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen is speaking out after she received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country." #Massachusetts #USA #Deportation

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"[P]rison employees cut the electricity to [Bowman's] cell after he refused to sign [..] a 'Safety Agreement for Inmates.'" "I do not believe that there is adequate mental health care here, and I did not want to sign an agreement saying I thought there was." #Virginia #USA #Incarceration

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"[B]oth Liberal and Conservative MPs have propagated the October 7 mass rapes hoax, smeared protesters as antisemitic and dangerous." "[A] choice between a familiar neoliberal imperialism and a far-right turn toward crackdowns at home and escalation abroad." #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

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"But when Gaza bleeds, the mask falls." "This is about the horrifying disconnect between the West's rhetoric and its actions, between the principles etched into human rights charters and the blood drying on the rubble of bombed-out neighborhoods." #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Genocide

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"Metering started at least as early as 2016 under [..] Obama, but it became the de facto operation at the border for all asylum-seekers during [..] Trump's first term." "Metering is subjecting people to extraordinary levels of instability and exposure to violence." #USA #Mexico #Cuba #Deportation

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"The Israeli government has long pursued a policy of dispossession and displacement, forcing Palestinians off their land and into refugee camps, only to destroy those camps as well." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Housing #EthnicCleansing

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"The CorruptCare scandal is a direct product of the Alberta Surgical Initiative, which sought to double the share of procedures conducted at the private centres." Jason Kenney "said this was intended [..] to ensure surgeries wouldn't be done in 'union-run hospitals.'" #Alberta #Canada #Healthcare

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"[T]he recovery scene is full of these kinds of rackets." "None of this is ever mentioned by the endless carousel of politicians who promise to fix Canada's drug problem." "The point is really just to make us go away. To put us out of sight." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs

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"The firing squad shows what the death penalty is, which is the state shedding blood in your name." "The execution of Mikal Mahdi was a vivid reminder of that fact." #SouthCarolina #USA #Incarceration

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"The largest humanitarian crisis, largest displacement crisis, largest hunger crisis." "Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of those to neighbouring countries." "400,000 people had been displaced from the Zamzam camp alone since the weekend." #Sudan #Housing #Genocide

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"After years of expanding legal access, lawmakers in several states this year have targeted marijuana." "[P]rohibitionist politicians have been emboldened to act against the will of voters." "57% of U.S. adults say that marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational purposes." #USA #Drugs

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"There's a million-and-a-half reasons why reporters need to be in close proximity to law enforcement to do their own job. This gives police far too much discretion to shut that reporting down." "[I]t shields [police] from citizens having the evidence of police misconduct." #Tennessee #USA #Policing

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"Kyrgyzstani authorities must immediately provide a clear legal basis for Rita Karasartova's detention." "The search and arrest occurred shortly after she shared on her Facebook page a letter from exiled Kyrgyzstani activist Tilekmat Kurenov." #Kyrgyzstan #Incarceration

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"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will remove gender dysphoria from disabilities protected under federal law." "It essentially declares that the Biden update adding gender dysphoria to disability law can't be enforced." #USA #Healthcare

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"I explain to them: That person is racist. They don't want us in this country, so if we're careless, they might attack us." "Sometimes, we practically hide with my children." #NorthCarolina #USA #Deportation

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"So many people die in here now that regular mass wakes are a non-starter—written off as a security threat." "These days my old mind is getting confused as to who died for real and who made parole." "Maybe funerals would help me put my memories in different boxes." #Georgia #USA #Incarceration

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"The State Department internally found no evidence supporting the Trump administration’s reasoning for abducting and pushing to deport Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk." #Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Deportation #Incarceration #Genocide

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"I would be worried about whose hands this data would get into." TRAC "contains details about more than 340 million wire transfers sent via Western Union." "ICE agents have also been top users of the database, served on TRAC's board, and even funded its operations." #USA #Mexico #Deportation

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"A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court ruling that found two Alabama laws criminalizing panhandling unconstitutional." "First Amendment protections of speech apply to the act of begging." #Alabama #Housing #Policing

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"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy." "The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world." #USA #Genocide

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"A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy [Andrew Buen] convicted of killing a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed." "I think this was about power. It wasn't a mistake." #Colorado #USA #Policing #Incarceration

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