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I'm telling you, they saw Kmart and said they can do better

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Social media users say Gaza accounts and pro-Palestinian voices are disproportionately 'censored' by social media platform Bluesky #Censorship #3E #BlueSky #SNS #FreedomOFSpeech www.middleeasteye.net/trending/blu...

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A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“We have systematically divested from the things that reduce violence while simultaneously investing in the things that produce it.” @amanda-alexander.bsky.social of @detroitjusticecen.bsky.social and Danielle Sered of @commonjustice.bsky.social on policing debates after 2020:

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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

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Speaking in Paris at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know. Its theories of Nordic supremacy and economic suppression have long been realities to us.”

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What happens if you have a mental health crisis in Britain? Increasingly, you go to jail. This article by Becca Wilks is eye-opening national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...

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In the 1950s, a federal highway sliced through Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — displacing residents and dividing the thriving Black business district. Decades later, the loss of Black prosperity is getting new political attention.

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The Justice Department is dropping police reform agreements with Louisville and Minneapolis, which came after the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

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Friends, protesting works. The republicans are cowards. With enough pushback they may alter course. We must keep up the pressure. Turn your rage into action. Don't give in to feelings of helplessness. #weekinprotest theblop.org www.fiftyfifty.one June 14! 🚫👑 actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

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Police are reselling their SIG Sauer P320 pistols — alleged in multiple lawsuits to fire without the trigger being pulled — to the public. The latest from our friends at the @thetrace.org:

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My article is in the @bostonglobe.com !! Dora Richter, and a story of remembering #transgender #history www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/18/o...

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Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

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“Without her mother she doesn’t know how she’ll get to her treatments.” ICE grabs the mother and brother of a 21 year old 🇺🇸 citizen with cancer, leaving her without a caretaker. (She had to be carried from her car for the interview) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGpFscH...

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The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

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Investors now own 30% of metro Atlanta’s single-family rental homes

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The criminal legal system is being used by right wing politicians to punish their political enemies without ever showing evidence or holding a trial. If we allow the lives of protesters to be destroyed like this, the First Amendment is meaningless. apnews.com/article/cop-...

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Reverence for the Constitution gets in the way of acknowledging how deeply the founders of the U.S. republic distrusted democracy and strove to insulate the government from influence by the common man.

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Emotional mail day. Since this book went to press the dreaded Cop City, awash in death and deceit from inception, has opened, formalizing a new chapter in “Atlanta Way” repression. But the opposition movement has politicized and even radicalized untold Atlantans and so many around the world. 1/

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think anybody could predict for where this ad goes

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It was a pleasure meeting and working with Rebekah Sager and Roger Fountain 🤩! I can't thank them enough for telling our Black #LongCOVID stories through words and photos. Our stories/ experiences are different and unique. I hope you enjoy this amazing read capitalbnews.org/black-americ...

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It's overt. All there in the open. US media will never admit it but glad Guardian is using the Eugenics word.

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After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression. theintercept.com/2025/04/30/i...

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This week, in an especially worrisome development, the Justice Department reinstated a rule that allows federal investigators to secretly go after journalists’ records in leak investigations. The DOJ cited "growing concerns" about government employees leaking to the media...

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“What is extraordinary about capitalism as a system, as Marx observed (even as he sought to identify its fragilities), is that it is self-perpetuating: propelled by an internal logic that has triumphed over many other ways of organizing the world, even if it has not eradicated them altogether.”

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More local news coverage about “Border Surveillance: Places, People and Technology” @eff.org's traveling exhibit about the technical and social realities of mass surveillance on the U.S.-Mexico border currently on display at Angel Island historic immigration station in San Francisco Bay.

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The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies. But its ties to Russia’s VK, whose CEO has been sanctioned, have researchers sounding the alarm. www.wired.com/story/easyjs...

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Sold as conveniences, the flood of new internet-connected car features raise your risk of surveillance by government and law enforcement. This story uses public records obtained through FOIA, so we dropped the paywall on it. Read it here: wrd.cm/4lXJQWb

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This is a fantastic piece about America’s sudden descent into competitive authoritarianism

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In its push for “efficiency,” DOGE has leaned increasingly on AI—regardless of whether it makes any sense. And it's using it as an imperfect means to destructive ends, @brbarrett.bsky.social writes.

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NEW from @theappeal.org: Louisiana sent kids to an adult jail that violated scores of regulations, reports say lailluminator.com/2025/04/30/j...

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Speaking freely online shouldn’t cost you your visa. But the federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the U.S. for online speech the administration disfavors. This is an alarming attack on digital rights.

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The orgasm rate for women is way too low.

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Authorities in Cobb County are bringing felony charges against people protesting Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall. These charges are fake and will be thrown out eventually, but police continue to use them to intimidate, attack and incarcerate critics. www.morgancountycitizen.com/news/local/d...

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Learn about the spying technologies police are deploying in our communities at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance hub.

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THEYRE letting for profit companies, come in and sell off assets of hospitals in underserved communities (black) and then leave the hospital in financial ruin causing them to shut down. Classism, racism, greed and corruption. I

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The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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The federal funding that Congress allocated for the City of Jackson to stabilize its water infrastructure, bring it into compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act & rebuild it for future operations will run out this month, said Interim Third Party Manager Ted Henifin. Read more:

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