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Florida builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to escalate Trump’s deportation war
This aggressive use of public lands and services, including the use of millions of dollars in FEMA funds, was carried out not in order to respond to the real needs of Floridians, but in order to wage war on immigrants in a purposefully theatrical and cruel way.
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‘Finally, relief is on its way’: NY to end prison phone fees
Once a crushing cost for families desperate to stay in touch with loved ones behind bars, phone calls will now be covered by the state.
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Trump’s concentration camps are not new to the U.S.
Outrage over ICE raids rings hollow while 2 million languish in prisons. America has always had concentration camps. We just reserve our anger for the ones with TV cameras.
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We are all Palestine Action
To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.
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‘It’s proven that Zionism is a paper tiger in Democratic politics’: breaking down Zohran Mamdani’s stunning New York victory
Mondoweiss talks to political consultant Peter Feld to break down Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City: “It’s proven that Zionism is a paper tiger in Democratic politics and that the emperor has no clothes.”
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Trump reverses trend away from the death penalty
If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.
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‘IAM Max’: Machinists rally for member detained by ICE
Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.
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Mumia embraces the LGBTQ+ movement
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader of people working for peace and justice.
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Police storm Columbia University library, arrest pro-Palestinian student protesters
Footage showed a heavy police presence as students clashed with security and barricaded themselves inside the library.
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Attorneys criticize arrest of Milwaukee Judge Dugan as ‘bad for justice’
After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.
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‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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FBI and police raid homes of Palestine activists in Michigan
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies raided multiple homes in Michigan, reportedly targeting a number of student activists connected to Gaza solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.
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CECOT: Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin”
The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.
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American concentration camps
Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.
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Judge blocks deportation of Columbia protest organizer Mahdawi
A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.
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The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Communist prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)
Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.
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Federal Agents arrest Tufts student as part of crackdown on pro-Palestine speech
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, was targeted by pro-Israel groups for co-authoring an op-ed calling for Tufts to divest from Israel
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Letter from a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana
Authorities arrested and are attempting to deport Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States and prominent figure in last year’s Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment.
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Venezuelans demand the release of migrants deported to El Salvador
Migrants in Salvadoran prisons are separated from their families and lack adequate and timely protections for their defense.
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At my Texas prison, solitary confinement all but guarantees sexual exploitation by guards
Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”