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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 13h

Pax Ahimsa Gethen: @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 13h

"[T]rans community lost a beloved leader with the passing of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy."

"[C]ommunity organizer for over 50 years, from participating in the Stonewall Riots [..] in 1969 to founding a trans sanctuary in Arkansas in 2023."
#NewYork #Arkansas #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Healthcare

Rest in Power, Miss Major — Assigned

Honoring a lifetime of Black trans activism.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 14h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 14h

"Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say."

"The Rafah crossing, formerly the largest border crossing for humanitarian aid, will remain closed indefinitely."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Israel Says It’s Halving Aid Into Gaza After Receiving Last 20 Living Captives

Israel says Hamas hasn’t returned captives’ bodies — while still blocking entry of machinery that can clear rubble.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15h

"[T]he video depicts an older white agent straddling a young Black man on the ground."

"[A] person can be heard in the video screaming, 'he's a citizen!'"

"'You don't know what's going on, so get the f—ck back,' the white agent responds."
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Feds gas Chicago neighborhood, detain young Black man amid day of Southeast Side raids • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods. Nearby, they detained a young Black man onlookers insisted was a U.S.…

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15h

"We are taking these actions to defend our neighbors, [..] our values, and the character of Chicagoland."

"This is a place where immigrants are loved, needed, and appreciated, and we will not give up members of our beloved communities without a fight."
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

When ICE Came to Our Chicago Neighborhood, We Were Ready to Respond

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Rogers Park, a result of months of work building solidarity and networks.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15h

"In a remote prison in rural Virginia, I watch an elderly man deteriorate before my eyes."

"[I]n prison, a cancer diagnosis might as well be a death sentence."

"I couldn't walk around like Mr. Cross was nobody. I couldn't, and I won't."
#Virginia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

I Walked Past Him - Tutankhamon Waterman - Inquest

In prison, a cancer diagnosis might as well be a death sentence.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

Increasing "challenges harm-reduction workers face along the border."

"[H]ypermilitarized, as we've never seen."

One study "found the 2010s military deployment in Juárez [..] 'increased drug use and health harms, including HIV risk.'"
#Texas #USA #Mexico #Policing #Drugs #Healthcare

In Juárez, a Militarized Border Makes Drug Use More Deadly

Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

"I must endure torture to receive care."

"[C]are became just another word for control, and medical necessity became the perfect excuse for psychological torture."

"My mind became both my prison and my sanctuary, the only space they couldn't steal from me."
#Texas #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

The Shape-Shifting Face of Solitary: A Prison Hospital's Dark Truth

An incarcerated woman describes her eleven-day hospital stay, where she was tortured and isolated for her gender and her journalism.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

"[V]ery, very, very humiliating."

She "didn't know that she would have to strip completely naked in front of [an ICE] facility guard" after each visit.

"For about two weeks, every day I wanted to cry when I thought about it."
#California #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

People in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches After Visits With Loved Ones

Some people decide not to participate in in-person visitation because they don’t want to take off all their clothes in front of a guard.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

"[L]engthy process survivors of sexual assault are facing."

New York "state cases could take up to a decade to see a resolution, even as some women who sued the City of New York in 2023 claiming sexual abuse at city jails are already in settlement negotiations."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration

She Fought for Prison Abuse Victims, Then Died Waiting for Her Own…

Johnson was one of roughly 1,600 women to sue the state under the Adult Survivors Act alleging they were sexually assaulted in state prisons.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16h

"Portland medical workers say that an [ICE] agent threatened to shoot them as they tried to transport an injured protester last week."

"[V]iciously yelling in my face, stating, 'DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU.'"
#Oregon #USA #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say | Common Dreams

The incident comes as immigrants' rights advocates warn ICE's tactics in US cities are growing increasingly violent.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 17h

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 17h

"Trump offered little to Palestinians, and made no mention of their rights, much less any notion of ending Israel's dominance."

"[H]is sitting as chair of the so-called 'Board of Peace' [.] was the extent of the commitment Trump made to a Palestinian future."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war

In a speech to the Knesset, Donald Trump declared the war in Gaza over and tempted Israel with economic riches through regional normalization, while almost completely ignoring the Palestinians.

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 1d

One wonders if there are any prisons where this *isn't* true....
But I think we all know the answer.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"[T]he population of [Idaho's] imprisoned women increased by 50 times since 1980."

"[T]hey're kept there by guards — mostly men — who control every aspect of their lives; who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sex abuse

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

www.investigatewest.org

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 1d

"The Handmaid's Tale is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"[T]he population of [Idaho's] imprisoned women increased by 50 times since 1980."

"[T]hey're kept there by guards — mostly men — who control every aspect of their lives; who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sex abuse

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

www.investigatewest.org

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in @newrepublic.com today, covering how Trump’s grant terminations and new ideological funding conditions are hurting survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Cancelled grants include those for emergency housing and interpretation services for deaf and hard-of-hearing survivors.

Trump’s DOJ Cuts Are a Disaster for Sexual Violence Survivors

The administration has slashed funding and wants to implement ideological conditions on grants for programs that both support survivors and prevent these crimes in the first place.

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