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We are all part of the circle of interdependence.
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Victoria Law
12 days ago
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New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries
Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…
https://nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/batavia-buffalo-detention-center-ice-book-ban
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Democracy Now!
about 2 months ago
Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm.
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20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Faces Racism and Climate Injustice
Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm. Flaherty explains h...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/28/jordan_flaherty
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If you appreciated Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History,” then you will love how
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
carries on the tradition of historians who set the record straight in her “seminal book that radically reexamines an intensely studied man and his legacy.” - via
@theindypendent.bsky.social
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Truthout
2 months ago
In Los Angeles, nurse and community activist Amanda Trebach was released from federal custody this weekend without criminal charges, after she was violently arrested early Friday morning while recording the operations of federal immigration agents in the area.
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Activist Released Without Charges After Violent Arrest While Documenting ICE
Masked agents pinned Amanda Trebach on the pavement then forced her into an unmarked van.
https://truthout.org/video/activist-released-without-charges-after-violent-arrest-while-documenting-ice/
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Al Jazeera English
2 months ago
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
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Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
https://bit.ly/4mduufY
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Ryan Grim
3 months ago
Message from an American doc I know who is back in Gaza for his third mission: "The docs here say if you’re lucky there’s no aid distribution when you’re on. You’re unlucky if there’s a distribution that night. "
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BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6SGoN6dA
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3 months ago
By me and the super-talented Ritia Liu How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
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How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers
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WIRED
3 months ago
NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
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DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-and-doj-face-new-pressure-over-collecting-childrens-dna/
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Democracy Now!
3 months ago
"War on Children": Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel's Plan for Concentration Camps
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“War on Children”: Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camps
The official death toll in Gaza has topped 58,000, with Israeli forces continuing to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid and talks over a ceasefire agreement stalled in Doha. This morning’s injured were...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/14/gaza
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Democracy Now!
3 months ago
ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond
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ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond
An immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on Thursday led to an hourslong standoff between protesters and federal border agents, who blocked the roads with military-style vehicles and tear-gassed...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/14/los_angeles
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Democracy Now!
3 months ago
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory. Albanese says the move is an effort to “distract” from the genocide in Gaza.
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Mondoweiss
4 months ago
From COINTELPRO to Project Esther—how the U.S. turned repression of Palestine solidarity into a privatized, digital-age industry. Professors, nonprofits, and algorithms now do the FBI's dirty work. A must-read on the new era of counterinsurgency👇
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From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the U.S.
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the…
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from-cointelpro-to-project-esther-the-evolution-of-domestic-counterinsurgency-in-the-u-s/
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Taniel
4 months ago
NEW in Bolts: Louisiana Republicans have passed a new law that effectively eviscerates people's ability to claim their innocence and seek relief once they've been convicted. A massive blow to the rights of people in prison in a state that's full of wrongful convictions:
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Louisiana Is Bulldozing the Right of Prisoners to Prove Their Innocence After a Conviction - Bolts
Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that would ultimately free him, while watching television coverage of the... Read...
https://boltsmag.org/louisiana-limiting-post-conviction-relief-murrill-landry/
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Democracy Now!
4 months ago
With each passing day, the violence wielded by ICE grows more intense and widespread.
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Time to Unmask Trump’s Detention and Deportation Squads
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Narciso Barranco sits in ICE detention, with his two sons still on active duty in the US Marines not far away, at Fort Pendleton. It is past time to unmask the violent…
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/26/time_to_unmask_trumps_detention_and
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WIRED
4 months ago
Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights. So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
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Andrew Couts
4 months ago
We've just updated the
@wired.com
guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices.
@agreenberg.bsky.social
and
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report:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/
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Victoria Law
4 months ago
Today, my partner would have turned 64. He dedicated the past 30 years of his life to building the new ABC No Rio to further the connections between arts and activism. He lived long enough to see the groundbreaking. We set up a memorial fundraiser to realize his dream:
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Steven Englander Memorial Fundraiser: ABC No Rio Building Fund
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, surrounded by biological and chosen family, ABC No Rio director Steven Englander drew his final breaths.Steven left us just 18 months before he would have had the chanc...
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundraising/steven-englander-memorial-fundraiser-abc-no-rio-building-fund
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Haymarket Books
4 months ago
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
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FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-the-border-abolish-the-police
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Democracy Now!
5 months ago
"Worse Than McCarthyism": Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students
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“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mccarthyism_universities
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The Guardian
5 months ago
US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database
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US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database
Collection of migrants’ DNA has increased by 5,000% in three years in a ‘massive expansion of genetic surveillance’ US immigration authorities are collecting and uploading the DNA information of migrants, including children, to a national criminal database, according to government documents released earlier this month. The database includes the DNA of people who were either arrested or convicted of a crime, which law enforcement uses when seeking a match for DNA collected at a crime scene. However, most of the people whose DNA has been collected by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency that published the documents, were not listed as having been accused of any felonies. Regardless, CBP is now creating a detailed DNA profile on migrants that will be permanently searchable by law enforcement, which amounts to a “massive expansion of genetic surveillance”, one expert said. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/cbp-dna-collection-children-immigrants?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Taniel
5 months ago
The fact that Emil Bove of all people may now fill a seat for which Senate Dems had the direct opportunity to confirm a Biden nominee is really something.
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Democracy Now!
5 months ago
"King of the North": New Book Examines MLK's Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie
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“King of the North”: New Book Examines MLK’s Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie
Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different picture...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/23/jeanne_theoharis_king_of_the_north
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Democracy Now!
5 months ago
"We Southernized Dr. King": Historian Jeanne Theoharis on MLK's Struggle Against Racism in the North
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“We Southernized Dr. King”: Historian Jeanne Theoharis on MLK’s Struggle Against Racism in the North
Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, a major reexamination of his experiences...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/23/we_southernized_dr_king_historian_jeanne
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Pluto Press
5 months ago
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X was born
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Democracy Now!
5 months ago
In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Palestinian activist
@mohsenofpalestine.bsky.social
reflects on the "interconnectedness between injustices."
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Democracy Now!
5 months ago
Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
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Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
A major new report by U.S. academics analyzes Israel’s occupation of Palestine under the legal framework of the crime of apartheid. The report was intentionally released on Nakba Day — the day that...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/15/nakba_day_palestinians_mark_77
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The Nation Magazine
5 months ago
Amid attacks from the Trump administration, 74 percent of "Sesame Street" workers vote to unionize to make their workplace “smarter, stronger, and kinder,” reports Ella Fanger.
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Sesame Street Workers Say, “U Is for Union”
Amid attacks from the Trump administration, 74 percent of Sesame Street workers vote to unionize to make their workplace “smarter, stronger, and kinder.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sesame-street-workshop-union/
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WIRED
6 months ago
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/
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Democracy Now!
6 months ago
Democracy Now! is seeking an experienced leader to join our team as Director of Technology. More details:
democracynow.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0plq3/
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Democracy Now!
6 months ago
Palestinian writer
@mosababutoha.bsky.social
has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his essays about life in Gaza during Israel's genocidal military campaign, which has killed dozens of his relatives. Watch our interview with him from late last year:
www.democracynow.org/2024/10/25/m...
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Taniel
6 months ago
IMPORTANT new story in Bolts: Texas Republicans made a show of dropping language that criminalizes pregnant women from a bill they're pushing through the legislature. But Bolts reports that the language still exists in another bill that's passing through the legislature.
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“A Backdoor Effort” to Revive Texas’ Century-Old Abortion Law - Bolts
Abortion legislation moving through the Texas Legislature gives the attorney general power to enforce a pre-Roe law that could criminalize pregnant people.
https://boltsmag.org/texas-1925-abortion-law/
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Democracy Now!
6 months ago
As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
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As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
As the Trump administration goes after universities, law firms and more, some argue that the free press will eventually become a target. Trump’s attacks on the press have already begun, with the president...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/24/trump_war_on_press
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Are you a history buff or just trying to make sense of how we got here? I highly recommend taking the time to watch this wide-ranging interview with Greg Grandin and then read his new book!
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6 months ago
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Drop Site
6 months ago
🚨BREAKING | Officials Confirms Raids in Multiple Cities; TAHRIR Coalition Says FBI Agents, Michigan State Police, and Local Officers Targeted Pro-Palestine Organizers
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jon ben-menachem
7 months ago
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
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Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/columbia-universitys-new-campus-patrol-officers-appointed-by-new-york-police-2025-04-04/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
7 months ago
Hard to watch:
@newsweek.com
posted footage of masked ICE agents arresting 50-year-old grandmother Angela Gonzalez, who'd been here since she was 11. She had a pending VAWA application, but other than that, had no options for a green card since she got here too late for the Reagan amnesty.
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Kate Aronoff
7 months ago
I wrote about Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, a prominent WA state organizer abducted by ICE last week He won an historic union drive and helped get heat protections & overtime pay for farm workers ICE pulled him over, broke his car window & put him in a detention center
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating
ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193391/juarez-zeferino-ice-detention-activists
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Prem Thakker ツ
7 months ago
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
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8 months ago
Advocates: NY Prison Guard Strike Is Part of History of Repression & Violence Against Prison Activism
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Advocates: NY Prison Guard Strike Is Part of History of Repression & Violence Against Prison Activism
We speak with Jose Saldaña, director of Release Aging People in Prison, about a wildcat strike by New York prison guards who claim limits on solitary confinement have made their work more dangerous....
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/26/new_york_prisons
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Democracy Now!
8 months ago
"No Public Oversight": Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Rights Abuses
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“No Public Oversight”: Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Rights Abuses
The U.S. military transported 17 new immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay military base on Sunday, just before efforts to jail an anticipated 30,000 immigrants in tent camps at the base were halted...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/25/guantanamo_bay_migrants_immigrant
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Democracy Now!
8 months ago
Today marks one year since Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the genocide in Gaza. “I just want people to remember his message,” said Bushnell’s friend, Levi Pierpont, when we spoke with him in the days following the death.
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8 months ago
“We are the checks and balances,” says federal worker Chris Dols, who is organizing protests against mass government layoffs. Dols calls on the broader labor movement to get involved in opposition to DOGE’s power grab.
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8 months ago
"They're trying to immiserate the working class and they're doing it through the federal workforce,” says federal worker Chris Dols.
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Democracy Now!
8 months ago
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
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8 months ago
Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape. Why Don't They Warn Users?
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Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape. Why Don’t They Warn Users?
Match Group, the tech company that owns Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge, Tinder and other popular dating services, has known for years which users have been accused of sexual assault and rape, but kept those...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/14/match_group_hinge_sexual_assault
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Democracy Now!
9 months ago
Educator
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
says Trump's vow to abolish the Education Department is not about "local control" over schools. "Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."
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“Educational Arson”: Trump Moves to Abolish Dept. of Education
As the Trump administration, led in part by his unelected adviser Elon Musk, sets its sights on cutting the Department of Education, we speak to longtime educator Jesse Hagopian about what he calls an...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/jesse_hagopian_trump_attacks_on_education
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Haymarket Books
9 months ago
Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!
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