While detainees have been relocated from ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Florida & federal officials have not confirmed if the notorious immigration detention facility has closed for good, Alexandra Martinez reports. Environmental groups press forward: “Now we must make sure nothing like this happens again.”

While mass incarceration typically isn’t the focus of Pride festivals nationwide each June, it should be. In a rural Kentucky prison, a trans woman made history by organizing what is believed to be the first LGBTQIA+ Pride festival at the Lee Adjustment Center, reports Mo Viviane.

How do banks profit from financing the industries fueling climate change? A new report details how the world’s top 65 banks put billions into supporting fossil-fuel infrastructure, sectors that ultimately worsen climate chaos, ray levy uyeda reports.

‼️BREAKING: Today the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin, enabling its plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from ~350,000 Haitians & 6,000 Syrians in the U.S. & deport immigrants who are unable to safely return to their home countries.

“Alligator Alcatraz will go down as one of the biggest failures in American history.” After detainees are relocated from ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ environmental group presses forward to shut down the detention center for good, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

No Pride without drag queens! For @prismreports.org, Mo Viviane writes about how Ohio & Kentucky lawmakers are targeting drag queens & trans people with bills that would punish people for expressing a gender different from their “biological sex.” Read the story at bit.ly/dragban. 📸: Audra McClain

Both anti-ICE protesters at Prairieland and Stop Cop City indictments were credited as part of the NSPM-7 initiative, an effort to prosecute civil disobedience and protest-related petty offenses as domestic terrorism. One Texas protester received 30 years for moving a box of antifascist zines.

“If you do not have a green card or citizenship, the immigration system can feel like slavery all over again.” SCOTUS will soon decide if the Trump admin can deport Haitian TPS recipients, many of whom fear returning to deadly conditions in Haiti, Jess DiPierro Obert reports.

“Biometric collection, paired with something like a driver’s license database, places us all in the crosshairs of criminalization at any moment.” Erie County, New York, bans businesses from using facial recognition, Victor Maung reports. Many consumers remain unaware the tech is being used at all.

NEW for @prismreports.org where I spent time on the Eastern Shore visiting with families in limbo as they await the SCOTUS decision on TPS and birthright citizenship prismreports.org/2026/06/23/s...

The sentencing of the Prairieland case is alarming & terrorizing for us all—& it is further evidence of what @williamcson.bsky.social wrote in 2024 in his piece, "The law is not for us, it's against us" Read the full piece here:

Remember these draconian Prairieland sentences when people talk about the importance of using the criminal system for "justice." A system is what it does; nothing more.

SCOTUS holds the fates of 20,000 Haitian TPS recipients on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, @jessobert.bsky.social reports. SCOTUS will soon decide if the Trump admin can deport Haitian TPS recipients, many of whom have built lives in Maryland & Delaware & fear being returned to deadly conditions in Haiti.

“When we see the rise of fascism all over the world, if labor unions are not at the front of that flight, they’re failing the working class.” In this Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, Chris Smalls talks class-consciousness & international solidarity in his new memoir ‘When the Revolution Comes.’

A trans woman made history by organizing what is believed to be the first Pride festival in a Kentucky prison, reports Mo Viviane. “I’ve done something that will be part of the very history I was teaching,” said Jayda DaShay Jett Hester. “I just really hope that there’s a way to continue this.”

“The Trump administration has really put the American people in harm’s way.” While the Trump admin has gutted & defunded agencies & research on the front lines of climate change, ray levy uyeda breaks down the historic El Niño. “What good is a perfect forecast if it’s not tied to action?”

“It’s difficult trying to create memories with him while he’s in here. ... The kids love spending time with him. It’s not a perfect world, but we do what we can.” Inside a California prison Father’s Day event, hundreds of families share meals, laughs & memories, @vevalenz.bsky.social reports.

SCOTUS will make a decision this month on President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Though it appears that the court is poised to rule against it, the executive order represents a broader strategy: to control the ethnic & racial makeup of the U.S., warns Pablo Andreu in an op-ed.

“New York is supposed to be a sanctuary city for transgender people. Then the highest members of state government suddenly ripped [out] the funding that had been widely agreed upon & advocated for.” Aviva Stahl reports on how millions for gender-affirming care were nixed from New York state budget.

“It’s up to us to see when something is at its limit & write an appropriate epitaph, instead of waiting by the grave of revolution begging it to come back to life.” There are people who need support & resources that cannot be met by recycling dead patterns, writes columnist @williamcson.bsky.social.

Juneteenth highlights the gap between rhetoric & reality about who’s actually ‘free’ in America, wrote @ashtonlattimore.bsky.social. The holiday invites us not only to celebrate liberation, but to ask: What gaps between stated American ideals & lived experience still impact Black life today?

“WOAR saved my life. If it was not for WOAR, I would not be able to sit here alive, breathing, talking to you.” In Philly, WOAR serves thousands of sexual assault survivors each year. But after funding from the state lapsed last year, the org's future remains uncertain, Rachel Wisniewski reports.

While the Trump admin maintains that the subject of its mass deportation campaign is “criminals,” there is far more evidence that sexual violence & child sexual abuse run rampant within the law enforcement institutions that ostensibly protect the American people, @nicolefroio.bsky.social analyzes.

Inside a California prison Father’s Day event, families share meals, laughs & memories, @vevalenz.bsky.social reports. A nonprofit-led “Get on the Bus” event brought together hundreds of families ahead of Father’s Day in a special moment that can be rare in prisons.

People often preach about a better tomorrow while failing to meet needs in the present day. If our politics mean anything, it'll be evident in our actions and results, not in loudness, ideological hubris, or reciting doctrine. I wrote about why for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/06/17/r...

“Even if you do have some grand plan for what revolution, a better world & novel systems will look like, that means nothing if you cannot produce them in reality.” Don’t plan a future that fails the present, writes @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest “Another way out.”

Most people are not aware of the climate’s changing conditions until it arrives on their doorstep. A historic El Niño is set to pummel an unprepared U.S., ray levy uyeda reports. The Trump administration has gutted & defunded the agencies & research once on the front lines of climate change.

📭CALL FOR SUPPORT💌 Prism's beloved managing editor @carolyncopes.bsky.social's father needs open heart surgery in the coming weeks & won't be able to work during his recovery. We're sharing a fundraiser for those who can to contribute, share & keep Brian in your thoughts.

Chris Smalls talks class-consciousness, international solidarity in his new memoir ‘When the Revolution Comes.’ In this Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, the labor organizer discusses reclaiming his narrative & why the fight against Amazon is “important to the working class struggle.”

I interviewed labor activist Chris Smalls about his new memoir, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES, for @prismreports.org.

Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship is part of broader nativist strategy, writes Pablo Andreu in an op-ed. From draconian immigration enforcement to prioritizing denaturalizations, President Donald Trump’s agenda is sinister.

For @prismreports.org, I learned about the gender affirming care fund that legislators and advocates pushed to include in the NYS budget and how those millions of $$$ ended up getting nixed. Thanks to @kristengonzalez.bsky.social @nyclu.org + others for speaking w/me prismreports.org/2026/06/15/n...

“A budget is a moral document. It’s a document that shows your values. At the end of the day, [the funding] is not there.” Trans New Yorkers & advocates woke up outraged when $8 million for gender-affirming care did not end up in the NY state budget after months of assurances, reports Aviva Stahl.

Millions for gender-affirming care nixed from New York state budget after months of reassurances, advocates say. The decision comes amid Trump admin’s mounting attacks on gender-affirming care & NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani pulling back on his own funding promise, reports @stahlidarity.bsky.social.

“Prison trained me to live reactively: to noise, to authority, to surveillance, to the moods & decisions of others. A home offers the possibility of living with intention. A home gives me room to choose & in that room, I am relearning how to be fully human,” writes columnist Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

“Everyone doing serious time in a maximum security prison shares the same struggles against the injustices of the criminal legal system, correctional officers, etc. ... Crazy Horse knew this better than others, which is why we became good friends,” writes Juan Hernandez in a R2W op-ed.

“No matter what people believe, at the end of the day, she’s still human & that alone should get her a little respect, a little sympathy.” ‘Dying on the Inside,’ a new podcast by the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting, highlights stories of women lifers, Tamar Sarai reports.

While employed at federal agencies, ICE & CBP agents have raped & beaten women & children while tasked with keeping the American public safe, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports. Who are the “criminals” at the core of the Trump admin’s justification for the growing number of raids & deportations?

“I don’t think it requires much consciousness or politicization to understand that FIFA is really a cancer on the game.” As the World Cup kicks off, residents are fighting against the displacement, gentrification & state violence that go hand in hand with the megasports event, August Chun reports.

U.S. military’s presence on Hawai’i constitutes public health disaster. Impacts are disproportionately leveled against Native Hawaiians, who most acutely experience the consequences of land theft, attendant loss of language & foods, cultural practices & access to clean water, ray levy uyeda reports.

“The old way of doing things, like building dams, building tunnels, diverting more water … shouldn’t be used in the 21st century.” A coalition of environmental orgs say the Golden State must undertake a “water renaissance” as climate change diminishes the crucial resource, ray levy uyeda reports.

When I achieved my dream of becoming a homeowner, I expected to feel joy. Instead, fear crept in, Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. writes in his column on life after reentry. “I was not just adjusting to a new address. I was adjusting to the idea that I could finally settle into a place & allow myself to stay.”

Everyone who puts on state-issued blues, otherwise known as the Illinois Department of Corrections uniform, comes in with the mindset that there are no friends in prison, writes Juan Hernandez in a R2W op-ed. But bonds do form & one day, a prison transfer led Juan back to his old friend Crazy Horse.

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“Sexual assault is never about sex; we know that it’s about power & control. How would that not be a tool that [ICE & CBP] would use?” DHS routinely describes undocumented immigrants as sexual predators while employing men accused of child sexual abuse & rape, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports.

For decades, the U.S. military has touted its presence on Hawai‘i as beneficial to the state’s economy & culture. But a new report challenges these claims & offers up an opposing conclusion: The ongoing conduct of the armed forces constitutes a public health disaster, ray levy uyeda reports.

“Angelenos love football, and we have a long history of being a football-loving city. But the people who run FIFA cannot be trusted to run major events because they use it to empower themselves and their friends, and to wash the reputations of state actors like the U.S. and Israel.” —Eric, NOlympics

“It is a conversation about understanding people fully & what growth, redemption & public safety really mean over time.” The new “Dying on the Inside” podcast offers a window into the lives of the roughly 150 women aging under a life sentence in Pennsylvania state prisons, Tamar Sarai reports.

“We’re calling to abolish FIFA. Football belongs to the people.” As the World Cup kicks off in Los Angeles, residents in North American host cities already battling gentrification & displacement prepare for surge of militarized policing & state violence, August Chun reports.

“One child was shot in the head while simply standing inside a classroom.” The Israeli military has creeped beyond the “Yellow Line” established during ceasefire talks, leaving Palestinians with few safe places to go, Ahmad Abushawish reports.