The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison — the longest sentence a U.S. court has ever given to a group of political anarchist defendants.

An Israeli airstrike hit a civilian vehicle on a busy street in Gaza City around noon on July 9, 2026, killing at least one Palestinian and injuring others. This attack was one of many in a 24-hour period in which Israel killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip despite a "ceasefire."

Thousands of sweaty, red-faced people packed shoulder-to-shoulder outside on Madison Drive during a record heat wave in D.C., that surpassed 105 degrees with high humidity, hours in advance of what the President of the United States was hyping up as the greatest fireworks show of all time. ...

Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System

NEW: The District of Calamity: Freedom 250 and the Semiquincentennial in Washington Residents and tourists of the nation’s capital saw the city transformed into a circus for more than a month – a site for media spectacles and thinly-veiled celebrations of the president.

The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.

What started in Albania as a protest over environmental concerns and a luxury resort tied to Trump’s family has turned into a mass movement against the government, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister. It's also spread to the Albanian diaspora. [Video]

NEW: The German collective Rosa Rolling Safespace has been providing a mobile safe space for women living in refugee camps around Athens. Their work shows that gender-based violence in these settings is not incidental but structural, a direct product of European and Greek migration policies.

NEW: Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System

President Trump has now endorsed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for Minnesota Governor. A fitting endorsement as Lindell has so far funneled ~$250,000, or ~22%, of his campaign spending into his personal company to purchase copies of his memoir From Crack Addict to CEO.

'Blood Money Rave' || Boycott Room, a group calling for a coordinated boycott of the event series and video platform Boiler Room — which was bought by Israeli-linked company KKR last year — took another stand last weekend with protests & a counter-rave in NYC. Full story at website-link in bio.

Anti-Uranium Summit Sheds Light on Toxic Industry

What started in Albania as a protest over environmental concerns and a luxury resort tied to Trump’s family has turned into a mass movement against the government, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister. It's also spread to the Albanian diaspora.

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The fight for nightlife goes on as Boycott Room, a group of DJs, organizers & activists calling for a coordinated boycott of the event series and video platform Boiler Room—which was bought by Israeli-linked company KKR last year—took another stand last weekend with protests & a counter-rave in NYC.

"Ce qui a commencé en Albanie par une contestation liée à des préoccupations environnementales et à un complexe de luxe impliquant le gendre du président Trump s'est transformé en un mouvement de masse: la population réclame la démission du Premier ministre"

An Israeli airstrike hit a civilian vehicle on a busy street in Gaza City around noon on July 9, 2026, killing at least one Palestinian and injuring others. This attack was one of many in a 24-hour period in which Israel killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip despite a "ceasefire."

NEW: Boycott Room, a group of DJs, organizers and activists that have been calling for a coordinated boycott of the event series and video platform Boiler Room took another stand with a protest and counter-rave last weekend in New York City.

Pro Palestinian artists and activists have continued protest actions against Boiler Room, an online music platform that was aquired by the billion dollar Israeli linked firm, KKR in 2025. unicornriot.ninja/2026/nyc-act...

Info about the "Homeland Security Task Force" (HSTF) system involving state / local level units - little discussed (2025) unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-led...

NEW: What started in Albania as a protest about environmental concerns and a luxury resort tied to President Trump’s son-in-law has turned into a mass movement against the government, with people demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister and it has spread to the Albanian diaspora. [Video]

Trans people in Greece have no map to navigate their healthcare access within the current system. For Sadie, a 27-year-old trans woman living in Athens, this was the reality she had to navigate: fragmented information, uneven access, and a system that only partially exists.

Revolt in Albania Reaches Diaspora in Greece [Full story in quoted post]

NEW: In Albania, what started as a protest about environmental concerns and a luxury resort tied to President Trump’s son-in-law has turned into a mass movement against the government, with people demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister. [Video]

Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years Judge Reed O’Connor reportedly said at sentencing that he “wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.” This ideology, in the words of FBI Director Kash Patel, is “Antifa-aligned anarchis[m].”

"How, exactly, agents got inside encrypted Signal groups that by design aren’t supposed to leak beyond their participants remains the case’s open wound...somebody, somewhere, was already on the inside." unicornriot.ninja/2026/governm...

When the judge is concerned because they don't know how the government got terabytes of private communications, that seems a bit concerning. unicornriot.ninja/2026/governm...

Two of the 15 defendants charged in an 8-felony-count federal conspiracy for their activism during ICE's deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, spoke to Unicorn Riot about their case a week after their home was raided by federal agents. Full story / interviews at website.

Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15

Activists Drop ‘Stop Line 5’ Banner From Stone Arch Bridge, Urge Michigan to Block Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel Permits Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2026/activis...

Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years Judge Reed O’Connor reportedly said at sentencing that he “wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.” This ideology, in the words of FBI Director Kash Patel, is “Antifa-aligned anarchis[m].”

Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 The DOJ is sitting on 47,000 pages of documents, nearly 16 terabytes of Signal data, and 960 video and audio files pulled from body cameras, dash cameras and drones. New from @combs0294.bsky.social.

NEW: The Minnesota 15 case is about thousands of pages of conversations harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build federal conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.

The federal government’s deadly immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota earlier this year left in its wake human rights violations, widespread terror and laid bare the United States immigration enforcement’s volatile and abusive behavior, according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years - full report unicornriot.ninja/2026/then-th...

NEW: Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years Federal judges Mark Pittman and Reed O’Connor have handed down the final sentences of over 562 years in federal prison for activists connected to a July 2025 protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center.

Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison — the longest sentence a U.S. court has ever given to a group of political anarchist defendants. A Thread 🧵 in quoted post.

“'I think it’s really important to point out that the retaliation that we’re seeing from the federal government isn’t just related to our speech, it’s related to the power that we have together,' Robinet said."

Two of the 15 defendants charged in an 8-felony-count federal conspiracy for their activism during ICE's deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, spoke to Unicorn Riot about their case a week after their home was raided by federal agents. Full story / interviews at website.

Eine Transfrau aus Athen erzählt, Transpersonen sind bei gesundheitlicher Versorgung auf informelle private Netzwerke angewiesen. Crowdfounding und damit das Aufgeben von Privatsphäre sind wesentlicher Bestandteil, um Ops zu finanzieren. Die Gewalt gegen Transpersonen in Griechenland nimmt zu.

NEW: Full report > Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years unicornriot.ninja/2026/then-th...

Terror Charges and the Criminalization of Pro-Palestine Activism in the Czech Republic [Short Film]

“I had to figure it out myself by then. And most things in my transition, I’ve had to figure out on my own, to be honest.” For Sadie, a 27-year-old trans woman living in Athens, this was the reality she had to navigate: fragmented information, uneven access, and a system that only partially exists.

Ten years ago tonight, police fatally shot Philando Castile in front of his girlfriend and her daughter during a traffic stop near the MN State Fairgrounds. Protests occurred immediately, Summit Ave. vandalized, I-94 was taken over & people occupied space in front the Gov Residence for ~23 days.

NEW: Activists in Minnesota Drop ‘Stop Line 5’ Banner From Stone Arch Bridge, Urge Michigan to Block Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel Permits [Video]

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NEW: Stop Line 5 activists dropped a huge banner that read “Stop Line 5” from the historic Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, which spans across the Mississippi River and called on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to “Deny the Line 5 tunnel permits.” Full story at our website.

"Hearing There's Going to Be National Guard at Polling Places" UR heard from a military veteran at a march on July 4 in Philadelphia who warned that National Guard could be at polling places, much like the forces still on the streets in New Orleans, where he is visiting from.

"Our democracy is dying in 4K and it's our job to fight," said a 22-year-U.S. Army veteran on July 4 in Philly. He was among hundreds of veterans in Philadelphia marching in the "Freedom over Fascism" protest against President Trump.

NOLA Veteran: "Hearing There's Going to Be National Guard at Polling Places" Among 100s of veterans in Philadelphia on the 4th of July, UR talked to one who warned that National Guard could be at polling places, much like forces still on the streets in New Orleans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNlI...