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For anyone else who needs a reminder of whatâs possible.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Truthout
2 days ago
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sanjukta paul
5 days ago
This woman has been in ice jail for 10 months for absolutely no reason. It also shows how an arrest at a protest caused massive consequences - essentially creating a flag on her at her next immigration check in- even though charges were dropped
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Harms Committed
7 days ago
"They're worried about the coal mine." "They don't care about us, but when they run for reelection, they get coal miners standing beside them. But yet, when it comes to protecting us, they ain't protecting us." "We just die. And they just put somebody else in our place."
#USA
#Mining
#Labour
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Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
https://truthout.org/articles/coal-miners-were-poised-to-win-key-safety-protections-then-trump-showed-up/
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Truthout
10 days ago
Hawaiâi is nearing a pivotal deadline on military land leases, exposing how the US has long abused Hawaiian land and opening a rare chance for Native communities to assert Indigenous sovereignty and demand the landâs return for public and ecological healing.
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Hawaiâi Has a Rare Opportunity to Reclaim Land From the US Military
The US military is abusing Hawaiian land. Will residents be able to exert Indigenous sovereignty and get it back?
https://truthout.org/articles/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/
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Mike Ludwig
9 days ago
Here's a fun fact to share with relatives: Trump promised over and over to slash our energy bills in half but also embraced the fossil fuel industry's rush to export as much fracked gas as possible. Now winter heating bills are up 22% over 2024, even though the US is the world's top gas producer!
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Trumpâs Embrace of Natural Gas Exports Is Driving Up Energy Bills for Consumers
US households paid $12 billion more for natural gas over the first nine months of Trumpâs term, about $124 per family.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-embrace-of-natural-gas-exports-is-driving-up-energy-bills-for-consumers/
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Anodyne
13 days ago
It would be great if more politicians meaningfully considered whether transit fares are worth their costs.
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Ned Resnikoff
10 days ago
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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Alejandra Caraballo
13 days ago
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
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Activate Virginia
13 days ago
"Staunton announced this afternoon that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove the six automated license plate readers installed throughout the city."
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Staunton cancels Flock contract, doesn't agree with CEO's ideology
Staunton has announced that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove all automated license plate readers installed in the city.
https://augustafreepress.com/news/staunton-to-cancel-flock-safety-camera-contract-doesnt-agree-with-ideology-of-ceo/
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Harms Committed
14 days ago
"The antidote to billionaire-dictated media is alive already in the form of grassroots, independent publications that build their work in line with the values of justice, equity, and the pursuit of liberation."
#USA
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Israel
#Media
#Censorship
#Technology
#Genocide
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Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Letâs Act to Defend It in 2026.
Independent grassroots journalism committed to the pursuit of liberation is an antidote to billionaire-dictated media.
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-are-encroaching-on-the-free-press-lets-act-to-defend-it-in-2026/
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jamelle
14 days ago
weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Bari Weissâ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cbs-news-town-halls-debates-jd-vance-god-feminism-1236453991/
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Zito
15 days ago
Probably more important than his rambling speech. Theyâre going to strip people of their citizenship.
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Emissary Of Night | ÙÙÙÙ
15 days ago
I think there is a decent chance that this is a top line foreign policy issue in the Democratic primaryâ Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker have both already been asked by multiple Democratic aligned podcasts if they would sign a new MOU with Israel. Buttigieg said no, Booker did not answer.
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Ryan H.
15 days ago
I try to eliminate my own hypocrisy wherever I find it, and this year that's meant addressing my media diet - to that end, I began donating monthly to
@truthout.org
this summer to support their indispensable journalism. Highly encourage you to join me in putting our money where our values are!
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Maya Schenwar
15 days ago
In 2026, letâs take back the media â and our minds and spirits â from the billionaires. This op-ed that
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and I wrote today is close to my heart!
truthout.org/articles/bil...
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Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Letâs Act to Defend It in 2026.
Independent grassroots journalism committed to the pursuit of liberation is an antidote to billionaire-dictated media.
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-are-encroaching-on-the-free-press-lets-act-to-defend-it-in-2026/
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Worried about the billionaire takeover of journalism? Boy do
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and I have the antidote for you! The control of the ultra wealthy over the news isnât inevitable, not in the least. But it does require collective action.
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Harms Committed
17 days ago
"Obama also institutionalized the weekly 'kill list,' which evolved into a bureaucratic process for targeted killing." "Critics warned at the time that any president could inherit this system." "Trump did exactly that."
#USA
#Venezuela
#Afghanistan
#Yemen
#Somalia
#Military
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Decades of Global Drone War Made Trump's Caribbean Killing Spree Possible
The so-called war on terror laid the foundations for Trump to turn international waters into one-sided battlefields.
https://truthout.org/articles/decades-of-global-drone-war-made-trumps-caribbean-killing-spree-possible/
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
18 days ago
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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molly conger
18 days ago
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
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Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/two-survivors-of-brown-university-attack-escaped-other-school-shootings
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elia ayoub
18 days ago
Absolutely horrific and repulsive. Solidarity with Jewish friends, especially as itâs the first night of Hannukah
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Bondi beach shooting live updates: 10 people dead including one shooter with another alleged shooter in critical condition; home affairs minister condemns âappalling act of violenceâ
Follow updates live
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/dec/14/nsw-police-responding-to-reports-of-shooting-at-sydneys-bondi-beach-follow-latest
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Carl Quintanilla
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Prisonculture
19 days ago
I think that we are all underestimating how terrible the economy is going to be next year. A lot of the impact(s) of the horror bill will come on line in the next couple of years.
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Stephen Semler
20 days ago
House members who voted for the $901 billion military bill received four times as much money from military contractors as those who opposed it.
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Radley Balko
19 days ago
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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Nick Pettigrew
20 days ago
While the Divorced Sitcom Writer continues on his decade-long tantrum that nobody wants to work with him & listen to his bile any more, Robin Ince voluntarily resigns with dignity from his show because he wouldn't just be quiet in his support of marginalised people. What a world.
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Winifred Sedai Burton
20 days ago
"Faith Based Oil Driller" is why every alien vessel that enters our atmosphere turns right the fuck around.
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Julia Serano
27 days ago
one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
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Prem Thakker ă
23 days ago
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide â something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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Truthout
24 days ago
The rise of Starbucks Workers United has energized the labor movement, as the struggle to unionize the mega-chain represents far more than baristas pitted against managers: Starbucks is a global powerhouse. Current fights at places like Starbucks will shape the labor movement for decades to come.
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Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail
Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions.
https://truthout.org/articles/why-walmart-wants-to-see-the-starbucks-barista-strike-fail/
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Truthout
24 days ago
Ultranationalist Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, wore golden noose-shaped lapel pins to a meeting on Monday in order to show their âcommitmentâ to advancing a widely condemned bill to mandate the death penalty for âterroristsâ who kill Israelis.
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Israeli Ministers Wear Noose Pins to Symbolize Support for Killing Palestinians
The pins resemble the hostage pins that Israeli leaders have worn throughout the Gaza genocide.
https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-ministers-wear-noose-pins-to-symbolize-support-for-killing-palestinians/
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Harms Committed
28 days ago
"The violence he carried out in Washington, D.C. is linked to the violence he carried out in Afghanistan." "It is the direct outcome of a U.S. military strategy that relied on militias empowered to kill without consequence."
#WashingtonDC
#USA
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Suspect in National Guard Shooting Brought the CIA's Shadow War Home
Rahmanullah Lakanwal was between 14 and 16 years old when he became a CIA-backed militiaman in Afghanistan.
https://truthout.org/articles/suspect-in-national-guard-shooting-brought-the-cias-shadow-war-home/
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Spencer Ackerman
24 days ago
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
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tyler
25 days ago
if you missed itâi want everyone to know about the extremely disturbing warrantless spying made possible by "Flock Safety," a policing surveillance startup that gives local cops (and even some corporations) an AI-enabled camera network, empowering them to follow individual drivers all around a city.
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John Carl Baker
25 days ago
This is incredible
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Elise Wang
26 days ago
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration âcourtâ than the common sight of children ârepresenting themselves.â Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who donât know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
https://coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/childrens-immigration-court/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAOhQC1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadjGLlm0E05fKRKExzQChNCbl0_roRDshoN1cuOMGibdt8Gxh3ld6_JMzSOOA_aem_rONfBOHip4jUDkLwXqoTAw
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Brian Merchant
28 days ago
Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input. That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
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Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games journalist about AI and labor.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/journalists-win-a-key-battle-over?utm_source=activity_item
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Truthout
29 days ago
The family of a Colombian man believed to be killed by a strike on a boat in September has filed a human rights complaint against the United States, saying that the attack was âmurderâ and that he was denied the right to due process.
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Family of Colombian Man Killed in Boat Strike Files Complaint Against US
This is the first known filing of its kind, and comes amid increasing scrutiny over the militaryâs boat strike campaign.
https://truthout.org/articles/family-of-colombian-man-killed-in-boat-strike-files-complaint-against-us/
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Liliana Segura
29 days ago
Here are the people who stood and smiled and laughed as Trump went off on his racist rant. Shame on them. And shame on every last person who has spent the last decade downplaying and normalizing his obvious, constant bigotry.
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Alex Shephard
29 days ago
given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come
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Prisonculture
29 days ago
This is a gift. Thank you to
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for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC:
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- share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few daysâ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they werenât coming to âkeep the peace....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14xX5K4exAvFLx9nW-SVCaKP5RDM6y4WveLflBFYS7To/edit?usp=sharing
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âWhen you run a shadow war for two decades, eventually it stops staying in the shadows.â
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Truthout
30 days ago
Days before Thanksgiving, the mayor of Nashville quietly submitted a resolution to enable $15 million in state surveillance funding to flow to a local nonprofit â a controversial move that could stymie accountability over the use of such surveillance technology.
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A Nashville Proposal Could Outsource Surveillance and Policing to a Nonprofit
Nashville may be the latest city to leverage a local nonprofit to build a public-private panopticon.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-nashville-proposal-could-outsource-surveillance-and-policing-to-a-nonprofit/
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Sarah Lazare
29 days ago
Reminder that as Trump dehumanizes and slanders Somali-Americans, this is what his administration is doing to Somalia.
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U.S. Conducts âLargest Airstrike in the History of the Worldâ (Sort Of)
The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs on a cave complex in Somalia, killing 14.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/23/largest-airstrike-somalia-us/
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Truthout
30 days ago
This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can.
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Truthout
30 days ago
A real grassroots alternative is needed to mainstream media â journalism for the 99%. Please, this
#GivingTuesday
, make a donation to Truthout. Every single dollar makes a difference, so dig deep if you can!
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Molly Crane-Newman
30 days ago
In a troubling scene, NY Justice Carroâs CSOs just ejected a veteran court reporter for trying to challenge the sealing of footage in Luigi Mangioneâs case. They shouted over her and threatened her with contempt as she tried to ID herself and object as a surrogate for the public.
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Ben Phillips
about 1 month ago
The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture. đ Zoom inâŠ
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Mark Yeager
about 1 month ago
One of the many things Iâm grateful for is independent, perceptive, fact-based journalism. One source of actual journalism I support is Truthout, but there are many others to be found on Bluesky. From this article, which you should read in its entirety:
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