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    ICE labeled…Rodriguez’s apprehension as a “collateral” arrest—a term for when agents detain migrants they aren’t targeting but instead encounter during a street sweep or raid. Such arrests accounted for more than a quarter of all apprehensions in between August 2025…and March 10. That’s one of the higher rates in the country. Seven of the nine people arrested this way had no criminal record.

    vermontpublic.org/local-news/2

    #vermont #ice
  2. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    Steve Herman: “I have a few suggestions: Get rid of the entertainers, limit the appearance of US presidents to those already out of office who can sit at the round tables and mingle with aspiring presidential candidates. Put the award recipients, including the scholarship winners, at the head table. Create a new award honoring the past year’s top defenders of free speech.”

    open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/

    #1a #pressfreedom #whca
  3. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “From Nebraska to Born to Run, his music has spoken truth to power for decades, and that is exactly what he is doing now,” they continued. “Musicians have the right to freedom of expression, and we stand in complete solidarity with Bruce and every member who uses their platform to speak their conscience. Local 802 and Local 47 will always defend that right.”

    rollingstone.com/music/music-n

    #solidarity #musiciansunion #brucespringsteen
  4. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «Since the 9/11 attacks, US-led wars have left nearly 1 million people dead in more than half a dozen countries in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa—over 400,000 of them civilians, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.»


    commondreams.org/news/iran-leb

    #childrenkilled #civiliandeaths #warcrimes
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    “At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.”

    apnews.com/article/suicide-ice

    #ice #dhs #detentioncamp #concentrationcamps #campeastmontana
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    “Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year,” said Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager in Columbia, Missouri, who spent several weeks in the camp before his deportation in February to the Netherlands. “ was 1,000% worse than a prison.”

    Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility
    apnews.com/article/suicide-ice

    #ice #dhs #detentioncamp #concentrationcamp #campeastmontana
  7. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    This is beyond — way beyond — reprehensible. Who needs machines to make a dystopian world when humans without empathy or conscience are so readily available? This is incomprehensible.
    “US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say”

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

    #antiwoman #pregnantchildren
  8. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «Trump commuted the prison sentence of the former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile, who was found guilty in 2024 for his role in a years-long scheme that involved alternative investments. … Gentile… was at the center of the $1.6bn fraud that harmed thousands of teachers, nurses and other less experienced investors.»

    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

    #trump #retirementfunds #financialadvisers #highriskinvestments
  9. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «The ICE crackdown isn’t just about immigration; it’s about gathering intelligence in support of Trump’s war on cartels — as well as on Antifa, on the radical left, and those who are “anti-American,” and anyone else they consider terrorists. And since the administration has been so quick to label everyone, including Renee Good, terrorists, it’s no wonder they think they’re at war.»

    open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp

    #domestic_spying_program #intelligence #radicalleft #terrorists #ice
  10. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «The choice is clear. We can resist Trump’s tyranny at some unknown future date — when his tin soldiers are stationed across the country, when the media has been totally neutered … and when the odds for success will be extremely difficult. Or we can stage that battle now, mustering all the liberty we have left. Democrats simply cannot pass a budget that pays for the destruction of the American Experiment.»

    inquirer.com/columnists/attyto

    #govshutdown
  11. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “It’s pretty astonishing that the Center for American Progress has chosen Secretary for this leadership position given his well-documented role in aiding and abetting and war crimes in ,” Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN, told Sludge.

    readsludge.com/2025/08/12/blin

    #gaza #genocide #blinken
  12. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “Instead you rounded up, detained, and deported me as a foreigner within your borders because my skin was not as white as yours — or because I said things you didn’t like.”

    “Christ Judges the Nations” medium.com/@ForwardBoomer/chri

    #ice #immigrants #obbb #leastofthese
  13. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    : "Let's be clear: There will be no accountability if the United States defers to the extremist Israeli government to investigate its own actions,"

    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s

    #israelwarcrimes #eygiassasination #antonyblinken #aysenurezgieygi #berniesanders
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    «In an incident all but completely ignored by the U.S. corporate media, a man identified as Matt Nelson set himself alight near the Israeli Consulate in Boston at around 8:15 pm local time on Wednesday, September 11.

    "My name is Matt Nelson and I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest," he said in a video first uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday. "We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza."»

    commondreams.org/news/aaron-bu

    #mattnelson #israelwarcrimes #gazagenocide
  15. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «“We find that universities are an established yet under-researched vehicle of climate obstruction by the fossil fuel industry,” the authors write.

    The analysis found that oil companies have long influenced universities to focus on climate efforts that would enshrine a future for fossil fuels.»
    theguardian.com/business/artic

    #universityresearch #researchbias #oilandgas #fossilfuelsponsorship
  16. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «The director of Public Citizen's Access to Medicines program, wrote a letter to the Danish pharmaceutical giant expressing deep concern that the company "may be exploiting the latest global health crisis, putting profits over people."

    A spokesperson for Bavarian Nordic,…maker of the vaccine…told STAT…that the firm doesn't "tend to talk about price," a lack of transparency that set off alarm bells amid a pressing international crisis.»

    commondreams.org/news/mpox-vac

    #mpox #mpoxvaccine #bavariannordic
  17. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection intended to end the pregnancy. But it was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube would rupture it, destroying part of her reproductive system.”

    apnews.com/article/pregnant-wo

    #texaslaw #pregnancyrisks #miscarriage #prochoice #antiabortionlaws
  18. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “Death reports obtained by the Guardian reveal more than 3,000 of the 11,500 people who died while unhoused in Los Angeles county between 2014 and 2023 were 60 and older, highlighting the vulnerability of older residents in one of the US’s most expensive regions.”

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #govnewsom #californiahomeless #housing #homelessness
  19. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «Musa ‘Aasi, a 58-year-old painter-decorator and father of four, said he heard guards beat 38-year-old Tha’er Abu ‘Asab to death in a neighbouring cell at Ketziot in November. One guard told 50-year-old Firas Hassan, from Bethlehem: “We are livestreaming this for Ben-Gvir”.

    Ben Gvir’s spokesperson said the minister was “proud” of his prison policy.»

    theguardian.com/world/article/

    #palestinianprisoners #israelitorture #israelwarcrimes
  20. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «[A senior American official:] “The Israelis think they are masters of the escalation ladder. But all you need is one mistake—and there’s an all-out war.”

    US diplomats have spent the last few days scrambling to prevent the next escalation. But surely the time has come for Biden to break with Bibi and to suspend shipments of offensive weapons. Time after time, threats and pleas have done nothing.»

    americanprospect.bluelena.io/i

    #weaponsembargo #stopisrael #israel #mideastcrisis
  21. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «At least 973 Native American children died in the US government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools.»

    theguardian.com/world/article/

    #boardingschools #indigenouslivesmatter #genocide
  22. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «Last June, local prosecutor Wesley Bell called Rep. Cori Bush to assure her that under no circumstances would he be running against her, according to audio of a phone call between Bell and Bush obtained by Drop Site News. A few months later, he launched his primary challenge against Bush for the Missouri House seat after being recruited by AIPAC.»

    dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-audi

    #gaza #aipac #wesleybell #coribush
  23. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “There has always been epidemic violence against women in this country. But a lot of recent violence has been cultivated as an asset for rightwing politicians and a cash crop for gun manufacturers.”

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #americanviolence #usviolence #gunviolence #politicalviolence
  24. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    Seth Myers is spot on here…

    youtube.com/watch?v=p0WMqot0hs

    #democracy #calloutfascism #freespeech #speaktruth
  25. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «Trump in April asked an assemblage of oil and gas company CEOs at Mar-a-Lago to raise $1 billion for his campaign, and promised them that he would reverse some of President Biden’s environmental regulations if he is elected. Several of the large donors during the first quarter whose donations were disclosed in the filing come from the oil and gas industry.»

    readsludge.com/2024/07/16/trum

    #oilandgas #petroleumindustry #billionaires #trumplegalbills #quidproquo
  26. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    «Responding to Axios reporting in which the lawmaker, provided anonymity by the outlet, was quoted as saying, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “If you’re a ‘senior Democrat’ that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.”»

    commondreams.org/news/ocasio-c

    #hopeignitescourage #fascism #democraticleadership #aoc
  27. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    Mary Trump: I want to see our nation unified.…But the other side seems to be saying that, in order for that to happen, we’re not allowed to talk about Donald’s record of lawlessness, cruelty, and incompetence and we must make concessions to the would-be dictator. On Monday…we were reminded just how dangerous things will get if Donald wins this election.

    marytrump.substack.com/p/we-ca

    #speaktruth #trump #fascism #assassinationattempt
  28. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “Chan notes that at the start of the outbreak, Shi ‘initially wondered if the novel coronavirus had come from her laboratory,’…[but] leaves out the vital context that…in response to her worry, [Shi] went through the lab’s records to check if it could have been the source, and found that it couldn’t have been.”

    fair.org/home/nyt-unleashes-th

    #sars_cov2 #lableaktheory #covid19
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    “As Henry Farrell, a professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins who has written at length about the concept of trust in the Sicilian Mafia, explained, Trump, like actual mob bosses, prefers ambiguous language: ‘He has made a very successful career out of speaking in code, and ruthlessly throwing subordinates under the bus when they do what he wants them to do but then get caught.’”


    publicnotice.co/p/trump-employ

    #brianbutler #jacksmith #trumpcrime
  30. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    “‘In 2023, we returned more cash to shareholders and produced more oil and natural gas than any year in the company's history,’ Chevron chief executive Mike Wirth boasted.”
    ……
    “Global Witness strategy lead Alice Harrison said…‘They're now choosing to reward their shareholders instead of investing in clean energy in a brazen wealth transfer from energy consumers to Big Oil shareholders.’”

    commondreams.org/news/exxon-ch

    #profits #climatecrisis #petroleumindustry
  31. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    This column by @willbunch is profound.
    “A federal holiday for a martyred civil-rights hero that for a few short years nodded toward service and reflection,…in 2024 will be overshadowed by Republicans deciding which brand of white supremacist moves on to Milwaukee’s GOP convention and maybe the White House. It’s truly hideous.”

    inquirer.com/columnists/attyto

    #mlkday2024 #whitesupermacy #2024election #fascism
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    “‘COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure,’ former U.S. Vice President Al Gore tweeted in response to the release. ‘The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, by the Petrostates, and for the Petrostates.”’”

    commondreams.org/news/cop28-dr

    #petroleumindustry #cop28
  33. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·

    I think @atrupar is spot on here.

    “Christian white evangelical Republicans imagine themselves as besieged by a corrupt decadent liberal Black atheist state determined to destroy them.…Guns are a symbol of virility and righteous Christian white resistance to oppression. They’re like MAGA hats or…swastika armbands. It’s an identity marker which shows you’re with the program, and also serves as a threat….”

    aaronrupar.substack.com/p/cove

    #fundamentalism #guncult #christiannationalism #fascism
  34. Linking Dot @linkingdot ·
    CW: Twitter Files Missing Info

    “Former Trump administration officials and Twitter employees tell Rolling Stone that … The Trump administration and its allied Republicans in Congress routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to — the exact behavior that they’re claiming makes President Biden, the Democrats, and Twitter complicit in an anti-free speech conspiracy to muzzle conservatives online.” via @noahshachtman
    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    #techbias #freespeech #twitterfiles