JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
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You can watch writer & filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara's documentary on this, THE BOMBING OF OSAGE AVENUE!
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As I said.
Senior AEI fellow, Michael Rubin, says: "Will Ankara in 2036 be like Tehran in 2026?"
Rubin has argued for a while that Israel and the US should prepare to do to Turkey what it does to Iran.
That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this
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The largest rent strike in a century?
The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (1/6) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
Overview of the board of “peace” on Gaza by @danaelkurd.bsky.social
Essentially (my interpretation here): we’re seeing an attempt to return to a pre-UN world mixed in with Dubaization. It’s perfectly suited for the likes of Netanyahu, MBZ, Orban, Putin and ofc Trump
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Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
Last year when I wrote about prison staff jumping ship for ICE, I reported that BOP had lost a net of at least 1400 employees by late fall.
I just got new data showing they lost a net of ~1700 by mid-December -- though w/EOY retirements the final 2025 figures will likely be higher.
If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting
@prisonculture.bsky.social's Black Zine Fair in 2026. As someone who encourages students to read & make zines in my gender studies classes, I can attest to the power of the form.
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Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows.
Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness"
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Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.
“The year-plan for 2024 noted ‘facial rec software combined with scraping is efficiently producing named POIs,’ or persons of interest. For 2025, Canary Mission’s goals included distinguishing their brand from competitors and sharing data with donors.”
Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.”
Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show.
(Published December 2025)
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
Link to the full press statement: www.instagram.com/p/DR43VlgDky...
The idea that it’s surprising or just savvy realpolitik to see universities capitulate to the fascists in Washington downplays the extent to which the call is coming from inside the house
Vassar administrators then proceeded to blame students for apparently placing their international peers at risk of deportation, like there’s nothing the university can do to defend its community.
Text from Instagram post reading that on December 2, the Vassar administration demanded that we canceled our educational teaching on the popular for the liberation of Palestine by email citing. It is unlawful knowingly provide any support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
Vassar SJP reports that university administration demanded it cancel a recent teach-in on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, citing material support laws (which apparently covers educational programming now):
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
Seems like they had a source in the chat & not that they’re able to hack into signal or get the records via warrant. Important distinction for organizers & guardian article should’ve made it more clear.
They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Join us tomorrow for a very timely conversation on municipal power in NYC! The event starts at 6:30pm at CUNY Law.
Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New: mutual aid fund supporting immigrant families impacted All donations support families in Chicago IL who have been directly impacted by detention, deportation, and ICE raids
Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
“Support of Palestine is inherently subversive in the West because Israel is essential to Europe and America’s idea of themselves. Even if we assiduously focus on Palestine in isolation from other issues, its liberation is necessarily a world-building project.” stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
