Harms Committed

"[G]uessing games."

"One nurse told Cunningham he had heartburn. Another said he had a stomach virus." "He had appendicitis."

"[Y]ou incarcerate us, and then you just say, 'Okay, he's a criminal, he doesn't matter, he can die.'"
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Author: Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Publication: The Appeal
March 3, 2026
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#Pennsylvania #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
https://theappeal.org/york-county-prime-care-medical-negligence-lawsuit-appendicitis/

"The footage appears to contradict [..] Trump's claim that it was an Iranian missile that hit the school."

"US is the only participant in the war that is known to have Tomahawk missiles."

"175 people were reportedly killed, including children."
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Publication: Bellingcat
March 8, 2026
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#USA #Iran #Israel #Education #Weapons #Military
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/08/video-shows-us-tomahawk-missile-strike-next-to-girls-school-in-iran/

"Firing off on a hospital."

"Zibashahr Park is home to a base for emergency first responders."

"16 members of the Islamic Azad University community [..] were killed in the strike."
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Authors: Nilo Tabrizy & Chris Osieck
Publication: New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
March 7, 2026
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#Iran #USA #Israel #Military #Healthcare #Education
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/airstrike-hit-iranian-emergency-medical-base-in-shiraz-killing-20/

"[S]tate judge ruled that [Columbia University] had violated New York law and its own rules in harshly disciplining students that administrators had alleged were involved in a demonstration in the spring of 2024."
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Author: Nick Pinto @nickpinto@journa.host
Publication: Hell Gate @index
March 2, 2026
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#NewYork #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Protest #Policing #Education #Courts #Genocide
https://hellgatenyc.com/columbia-expulsion-palestine-protesters-illegal/

"Two transgender residents of Kansas are suing the state over its newly enacted anti-trans law that has invalidated the driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people."

"[S]tokes fear and puts trans people at serious risk."
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Author: Chris Walker
Publication: Truthout
March 2, 2026
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#Kansas #USA #Identification #Bathrooms #Transportation #Courts
https://truthout.org/articles/trans-residents-sue-kansas-over-new-law-outlawing-their-current-licenses/

"[O]vercrowding, long waits, and shorter visits."

"[R]oughly 65% of incarcerated people who have been convicted of a crime in New York City are placed in a facility over 100 miles from the city."

"[R]egular family visitation can reduce recidivism by as much as 26%."
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Author: Indy Scholtens
Publication: Prism
March 2, 2026
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#NewYork #USA #Incarceration
https://prismreports.org/2026/03/02/prison-visits-new-york/

"[A]pocalypse will make fugitives of us all."

"Here in Minneapolis, we have been pressed into one another, required to rely on each other in ways that are ancient but feel new."

"It is this healthy mutual reliance that makes us more alive."
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Author: Autumn Brown
Publication: Prism
March 2, 2026
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#Minnesota #USA #MutualAid #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://prismreports.org/2026/03/02/minneapolis-is-a-precursor-and-an-opportunity/

"[E]cocide."

"Landmines put fear into a place, long after the mines are gone."

"It's estimated that it would take roughly 700 years to demine Ukraine, with each year of war adding another decade to clean up the aftermath."
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Author: Kang-Chun Cheng 鄭康君
Publication: The Xylom
March 2, 2026
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#Ukraine #Russia #Climate #Weapons #Military
https://www.thexylom.com/post/ukraine-demining-drone-agriculture-kharkiv

"Many needed psychological care, but there was no time or resources to 'open those kinds of mental wounds.'"

"They are tired. They are tired. They are tired."

"You'll see tears later, once they become aware that it's safe."
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Authors: Shannon Heffernan, Jesse Bogan, & Anna Flagg
Publication: The Marshall Project
March 2, 2026
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#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/immigration-detention-releases-family-dilley

"[M]arch to the Whipple Federal Building ended with state police and sheriff's deputies making mass arrests."

"[S]heriff's deputies violently threw a protester to the ground and forcefully bashed their head against the concrete."
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Author: L. Cam Anderson
Publication: Unicorn Riot @UnicornRiot@mastodon.social
March 2, 2026
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#Minnesota #USA #Protest #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/police-mass-arrest-protesters-again-after-whipple-protest-ending-week-of-action/

"Anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant groups, and I would add white nationalist groups too, view LGBTQ+ people and immigrants as threats to what they believe should be the dominant white Christian culture in the United States."

"[W]e must all speak out."
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Author: Kit O'Connell @kitoconnell@kolektiva.social
Publication: The Barbed Wire
March 2, 2026
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#Texas #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/02/lgbtq-texans-in-defense-of-immigrants/

"[C]ouple of miles from the Stewart Detention Center, sits the hospitality house, El Refugio."

Volunteers "gather at the house to cook meals, provide childcare and offer a listening ear for families visiting detained loved ones."
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Author: Karina Teichert
Publication: Atlanta Community Press Collective
March 1, 2026
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#Georgia #USA #MutualAid #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/03/01/inside-el-refugio-stewart-ice/

Police "killed a 48-year-old man in Paisley, Ontario."

"[D]eath of a man during an arrest by Edmonton Police Service officers in a seniors' residence."

"Peel Regional Police officers shot and killed a 44-year-old man in Mississauga."
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Author: Jeff Shantz
Publication: The Media Co-op
March 1, 2026
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#Canada #Drugs #Policing
https://mediacoop.ca/node/119345

"Amazonification of detention centers."

"When you treat a country like a business, every person then becomes a dollar sign."

"[T]he only acceptable outcome is for the property to remain a warehouse for goods, not people."
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Author: Brian Dolinar
Publication: Truthout
February 28, 2026
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#USA #Protest #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-wants-to-buy-warehouses-for-mass-detention-communities-are-fighting-back/

"Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year's midterms."
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Author: Doug Bock Clark
Publication: ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social
February 28, 2026
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#USA #Voting
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms

"America has long been an armory of illicit firearms for Mexican organized crime."

"There are only two highly regulated legal gun stores in the whole of Mexico."

"The defining asymmetry of the modern drug war is not migration or narcotics, but American guns."
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Author: Alain Stephens
Publication: The Intercept @TheIntercept@flipboard.com
February 28, 2026
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#USA #Mexico #Drugs #Military #Weapons
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/28/mexico-cartel-violence-american-guns/

"Even in total darkness and without internet or phone service, we kept working as best we could."

"Dr. Baker Abu Safia pushed himself beyond the limits, refusing to leave his patients as he, he said, was 'the only surgeon in northern Gaza.'"
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Author: Samah Zaher Zaqout
Publication: The Electronic Intifada
February 28, 2026
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#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide #Military
https://electronicintifada.net/content/saving-lives-time-slaughter/51174

"Kurdish children were harassed before my eyes, and some committed suicide."

"I realized they were going to kill me. I had no choice but to escape Turkey."
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Author: Diary Marif
Publication: Canadian Dimension
February 27, 2026
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#Türkiye #Canada #USA #Incarceration #Media #Protest #Food #Policing #Surveillance #Asylum #Torture #SexualViolence #Suicide
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-struggle-of-kurdish-journalist-omer-cakir

"Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a murder committed about 40 years ago."

"[D]espite being afflicted with autoimmune and heart and lung diseases, Kensu remains behind bars in Michigan."
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Author: Phil Mandelbaum
Publication: Unicorn Riot @UnicornRiot@mastodon.social
February 27, 2026
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#Michigan #USA #Drugs #Policing #Incarceration #Courts #Torture
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/making-another-murderer-the-captivating-case-of-temujin-kensu/

"The closure of the Rafah crossing has crushed Gazans' hopes."

"I am suffering from a seven-centimeter bone loss and urgently need a bone graft."

"The risk of amputation haunts me every day."
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Author: Shahad Ali
Publication: Truthout
March 7, 2026
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#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Iran #Egypt #Aid #Healthcare #Genocide #Military
https://truthout.org/articles/the-border-between-gaza-and-egypt-had-just-reopened-then-war-with-iran-started/

"Epstein regime."

"Israel's dwindling support pushed Washington and Tel Aviv to speed up their attack."

"The window for these aggressions with US support is closing."
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Author: Ali Abunimah
Publication: The Electronic Intifada
February 28, 2026
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#USA #Iran #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #Military #Nuclear
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/us-israel-launch-war-iran-public-support-collapses

"[B]lasts were reported in Tehran, including near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei."

"The term 'preemptive' is pure propaganda."

"Tehran had just offered terms that went far beyond the 2015 nuclear deal."
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Author: Jake Johnson
Publication: In These Times & Common Dreams
February 28, 2026
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#USA #Iran #Israel #Military #Nuclear
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-netanyahu-war-iran

"[I]nstruction that DMV employees must email the government helpdesk after issuing the updated [ID] with an individual's license number."

"[A] list is being compiled."

"I'm definitely not a fan of being marked as a trans person in a state database."
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Author: Marisa Kabas @marisakabas@journa.host
Publication: The Handbasket
February 27, 2026
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#Kansas #USA #Identification #Transportation
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-republicans-sb-244-trans-drivers-licenses

AI "has transitioned from a marginal topic in federal lobbying to a major area of focus."

"In 2025, lobbyists reported representing 774 organizations on AI issues, and they filed more than 3,500 reports that mention the topic."
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Author: Janaki Kapadia
Publication: Truthout
February 25, 2026
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#USA #Military #Technology #Surveillance #Lobbying
https://truthout.org/articles/once-a-niche-topic-in-federal-lobbying-ai-is-now-a-major-area-of-focus/

"Cuba's oil reserves could be totally depleted by March."

"[R]ely on oil for 80 percent of their electricity."

"The lack of electricity has led to widespread blackouts, impacting hospitals and essential services."
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Author: Marjorie Cohn
Publication: Truthout
February 25, 2026
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#USA #Cuba #Venezuela #FossilFuels #Electricity #Courts #Military
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-cruelty-is-strangling-cuba-its-oil-reserves-could-be-empty-by-march/

"It's time for a new Black future."

"In [Afrofuturism's] kaleidoscope lens, the future is a canvas to imagine free Black life: Free from white supremacy. Free from capitalism. Free from racial romanticism. Free from homophobia and binary thinking."
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Author: Nicholas Powers
Publication: Truthout
February 25, 2026
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#Minnesota #USA #Policing #Protest #Slavery
https://truthout.org/articles/as-the-status-quo-shatters-afrofuturists-visions-offer-a-way-forward/

"[N]ew voters in the poll represent 18 to 21-year-old Jewish Israelis." "75% of voters described themselves as 'right-wing.'"

"[O]nly 9% of men under 40 [..] 'rejected all the ideas of deportation and extermination.'"
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Author: Jonathan Ofir
Publication: Mondoweiss @mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net
February 27, 2026
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#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Voting #Genocide #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/new-israeli-poll-shows-young-jewish-voters-most-right-wing-fanatically-religious-and-pro-genocide-in-israeli-history/

"Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and drawing paper."

"[T]he children just 'cried and cried and cried.'"

"[D]etainees have [also] lost access to Gmail and other Google services in the Dilley library."
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Authors: McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk@journa.host & Mica Rosenberg
Publication: ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social
February 26, 2026
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#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal

"Allies of the Trump administration are reportedly circulating a document that they say would grant the president sweeping powers over elections."

"An advocate for the draft order claims it would give Trump the power to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines."
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Author: Sharon Zhang
Publication: Truthout
February 26, 2026
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#USA #China #Voting
https://truthout.org/articles/draft-order-to-declare-national-emergency-on-elections-circulating-trump-allies/

"Cuban government said Wednesday that the men on a Florida-registered boat who opened fire on Cuban soldiers in the island's territorial waters were bent on carrying out 'an infiltration for terrorist purposes.'"

"[S]eized assault rifles, explosives, body armor."
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Author: Jake Johnson
Publications: The Real News Network @therealnews@mastodon.social & Common Dreams
February 26, 2026
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#Cuba #USA #Military #Weapons
https://therealnews.com/cuba-says-men-on-florida-boat-intended-to-carry-out-an-infiltration-for-terrorist-purposes

"Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help."

"[T]he officers had used a 'phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl' to deceive campus staff."

"It just shows how much Columbia's administration does not keep us safe."
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Authors: Eileen Grench & Claudia Gohn
Publication: Documented
February 26, 2026
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#NewYork #USA #Education #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://documentedny.com/2026/02/26/columbia-student-elmina-aghayeva-detained-dhs/

"Anti-Blackness is foundational to U.S. fascism."

"It's not enough to 'abolish ICE'; we have to abolish the police force."

"We need to be abolition communist feminists. We are not only demolishers of worlds, we are builders."
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Authors: George Yancy & Robin D. G. Kelley
Publication: Truthout
February 26, 2026
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#Minnesota #California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://truthout.org/articles/robin-d-g-kelley-its-not-enough-to-abolish-ice-we-have-to-abolish-police/

"In Kansas today, trans Americans are waking up to a nightmare."

Licenses "have been invalidated overnight, potentially subjecting them to criminal charges if they're caught driving with an expired license, simply because they are trans."
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Author: Evan Urquhart @e_urq@journa.host
Publication: Assigned Media
February 26, 2026
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#Kansas #USA #Identification #Transportation
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-trans-woman-license-invalidated-overnight-no-notice-given

"U.S. embassy in Israel told its staff on Friday to leave the country if they wish to do so."

"China advised its citizens to evacuate Iran as soon as possible on Friday."

"U.S. has reportedly moved hundreds of personnel out of its Al Udeid base in Qatar."
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Author: Sharon Zhang
Publication: Truthout
February 27, 2026
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#USA #Israel #Iran #China #Qatar #Military
https://truthout.org/articles/us-authorizes-embassy-staff-to-evacuate-israel-urging-them-to-leave-today/

"Holt's proposed cuts, estimated to be $50 million dollars, will gut [New Brunswick's] education system."

"[P]lunder an already dramatically under-resourced post-secondary education system [..] and moving that money to private capitalist interests."
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Authors: Kristi Allain & Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Publication: NB Media Co-op
February 26, 2026
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#NewBrunswick #Canada #Healthcare #Education
https://nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/26/proposed-higher-education-cuts-will-subordinate-new-brunswick/

Refaat Alareer's "legacy is not found in writing alone, but in the real-world platforms he built for bloodless, thunderous resistance—platforms that have conveyed Gaza’s suffering to the world."

"I was one of his students."
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Author: Said Alsaloul
Publication: Prism
February 25, 2026
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#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Media #Education #Genocide
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/25/refaat-alareer-stories-genocide/

"Blot has sent this facility into a spiraling tailspin and human rights crisis."

"[R]emoved the ability for trans and intersex people to shower separately."

"[T]rans people have been forced into isolation under the guise of safety."
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Author: Adam Rhodes
Publication: Prism
February 25, 2026
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#NewYork #USA #Solitary #Incarceration #SexualViolence #Torture
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/25/bedford-hills-michael-blot-transgender/

"Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing report systematic harassment, beatings, torture, and being told to leave Gaza with their families by Israeli border agents."

"[A]ttempted to recruit some travelers as informants."
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Author: Tareq S. Hajjaj
Publication: Mondoweiss @mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss
February 25, 2026
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#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Egypt #Genocide #Torture
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/

"Eloy Detention Center is a death trap, where LGBTQ people are segregated, denied adequate medical care, and forced into silence."

"[T]ears roll down my cheeks when I see how much I have deteriorated."
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Author: John Washington
Publication: LOOKOUT @index
February 25, 2026
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#Arizona #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #SexualViolence
https://www.lookoutnews.org/during-state-of-the-union-trump-promoted-more-deportations-one-couples-story-highlights-the-human-toll/

"Homeland Security Investigations, [an ICE] sub-agency, has access to the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation's DAVID+ system, which contains driver's licenses, addresses, basic physical information, and photographs."
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Author: Carlos Berríos Polanco
Publication: The Latino Newsletter
February 25, 2026
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#PuertoRico #USA #Transportation #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://thelatinonewsletter.org/p/ice-sub-agency-puerto-rico-transportation-database

"Our right and ability to do this work is now under intense assault."

"I asked journalists who have been covering the ICE raids in LA, Oakland, Chicago, and Minneapolis to share their advice on staying safe."

"Here's what they said."
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Author: Brooke Anderson
Publication: Prism
February 18, 2026
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#USA #Media #Protest #Military #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/18/photojournalists-ice-raids-movement-journalism/

"Home Office's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group last year was unlawful, [..] the High Court has ruled."

"Despite the ruling, the group will remain proscribed until a further court order."

"[G]overnment will appeal."
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Authors: John McEvoy, Dania Akkad, & Martin Williams
Publication: Declassified UK
February 13, 2026
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#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Iran #Courts #Genocide #Protest
https://www.declassifieduk.org/terrorism-ban-on-palestine-action-ruled-unlawful-by-high-court/