Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

What we have witnessed U.S.-based fascism accomplish in a very short time should lead us to reassess *everything.* All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands, argues @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest ‘Another way out.’

Latest from me for @commondreams.org - Immigration Detention Centers are Political Prisons

www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/... Salar Mohandesi writing for @versobooks.bsky.social .

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

The Israeli military says that it dropped roughly 4,000 bombs during its illegal 12-day war last June, and that it had already surpassed that by Tuesday, the fourth day of the new U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

Movements to end mass incarceration, immigrant justice movements, labor movements, environmental justice movements, and all others need to be interconnected in the fight to free all political prisoners.

New @pressfreedom.bsky.social report shows that a record 129 journalists, media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, with Israel responsible for over two-thirds of those killings. And drone killings of journalists spiked from two in 2023 to 39 in 2025 — with Israel responsible for 28 of the 39.

New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"[E]scalating war on protest." "About 14% of approximately 19,400 Black Lives Matter charges, summons, or citations were successfully prosecuted, compared with about 40% of around 6,800 Gaza cases through late 2024." #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Israel #Policing #Courts #Protest #Genocide

Latest from me for @commondreams.org - Immigration Detention Centers are Political Prisons

More than five years since the 2020 uprising, the struggle for racial justice continues—and so does the organizing. In this episode of Momentum, Minister JaNaé Bates of @isaiahmn.org and host @jaboa.bsky.social explore how resistance is not just reaction—it’s tradition, strategy, and purpose.

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.

Calls for more training for ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies means more investment in these systems and legitimizing the expansion of the role of the agent.

"Carceral AI is not a futuristic threat—it is a present-day reality." "[F]ighting to make carceral AI 'unbiased' [..] works directly against abolitionist aims, obscuring the biases that the criminal legal system is built on." #Michigan #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Weapons

"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them. “We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Latest from me for @commondreams.org A more trained mass deportation system is still a mass deportation system. A more trained agent of family separation is still an agent of family separation. A more trained armed stated terror presence in communities is still armed state terror.

👉🏽Read the newest from me for @commondreams.org “DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation”

Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street."

DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation www.commondreams.org/opinion/dc-f...

Armies move on their stomachs. The private sector is making ICE possible, at a rich profit. An organized boycott could turn that business move into a liability.

U.S. Special Forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In Cuba, people gathered in solidarity, rejecting U.S. aggression. They condemned the move as a violation of international law and human rights, an example of U.S. imperial oppression. Full: www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/havana-respo...

The American citizen killed by ICE in Minneapolis today was a mother whose son is now an orphan (his father passed away in 2023) www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Even in these uncertain times, we continue our work toward a vision of a multiracial democracy where all people, regardless of race, gender, gender identity, economic status, and abilities can thrive. Show up for racial equity. Your gift drives lasting impact. give.raceforward.org/give/724524/...

Great crowd for a discussion of HOW TO END FAMILY POLICING with C. Hope Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, Shannon Perez-Darby and Dr. jaboa lake @haymarketbooks.org 💥 www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...

Older people now make up 5x as much of the prison population as they did 3 decades ago. Turning prisons into “makeshift nursing homes” is one of the nation’s most wasteful, morally bankrupt experiments to date.

“My own government is forcing me to subsidize the mass murder of children. I don’t want that, & I don’t think Americans do either.” In this Q&A, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discussed his second medical mission at the Nasser Medical Complex where the Israeli military used US-made weapons to bomb the hospital.

In this week's Make it Make Sense, tenants of the apartment building raided by ICE in Sept announce unionizing, SAIC laid off 20 20 employees, community members fight demolition of a southwest-side power plant, and more. https://bit.ly/48eR0za

The insular culture of the Border Patrol, observers say, creates a shroud of silence around allegations of wrongdoing—a cultural aversion to oversight that stands as a barrier to reform.

The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj

Sethy Seam, who was 16 when sentenced to life without parole, received clemency last year, and left prison in January after 27 years: “A lot of kids had hard lives. They did 25 years in prison, and now they’re a whole lot different. They need hope, too.”

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly. That's more than 11 violations every single day. The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.

DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation Increased criminalization and deportations exacerbate family separation by creating the conditions used to justify state intervention and forcible removal. www.commondreams.org/opinion/dc-f...

KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to the Indigenous communities in the area. After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.

👉🏽Read the newest from me for @commondreams.org “DC Police Collaboration With Occupying Feds Perpetuates Family Separation”

Yes! I’ll be speaking at this book release event at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social in Chicago on Dec 1st alongside editors. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/48811

"[W]hile the raids continued, the flow of information about them did not." "It has been more than seven weeks since ICE last published a spreadsheet of aggregate detention statistics." "Typically, these are published every two weeks." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

“It takes more than a broken window to break our resolve.” As public infrastructure continues to buckle under the Trump admin, radical indie bookstores provide essential civic spaces & cultural safeguards, Costa Beavin Pappas reports.

ICE has published a request for information for private-sector contractors to launch a round-the-clock social media monitoring program.

Press freedom threats surge with ICE raids Read this article by @kerrymflynn.bsky.social on @axios.com based on data from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration. buff.ly/PVtpTbY

Learn more about the geography of mass incarceration in more than a dozen states here www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/

'Unlearn the language of “good,” “innocent,” or “wrongfully.” This is not just a rhetorical shift, but a shift in values. Let go of any preconceived notions you had about “criminals.”' -- @mskellymhayes.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/whe...