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Tlaib "introduced legislation [.] to recognize Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people [.] and [.] take concrete actions like an arms embargo."

Israel's "genocide in Gaza has not ended, and it will not end until we act."

"20 cosponsors."
#Michigan #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
Tlaib Introduces Resolution to Recognize Israel's Genocide in Gaza, Prosecute Those Responsible
The legislation is cosponsored by 20 House Democrats, including progressive caucus leader Rep. Greg Casar.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"[F]ederal government politicizing access to safe drinking water."

"$3 billion appropriated for lead pipe replacements nationwide for the fiscal year that ended in September has not reached communities yet."

"[T]argeting blue states or blue cities."
#USA #Infrastructure #Water
'They're playing games': Illinois lawmakers press Trump administration over stalled lead-pipe funding
Congress appropriated $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Is the Trump administration withholding it?
grist.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"Eugenic policies and laws return time and time again like poison ivy, infecting our policymaking so much that our leaders no longer understand or care to nurture the full potential that disabled people bring to communities."
#USA #Policing #Housing #Healthcare
America's legacy of eugenics is alive and well under Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ableist rhetoric and dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path.
prismreports.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino is no longer in Chicago."

"[L]eft the city Thursday for Charlotte, North Carolina."

"21 people were arrested outside the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview Friday."
#Illinois #NorthCarolina #USA #Protest #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Border Patrol Boss Greg Bovino Left Chicago Thursday, Reports Say
Federal officials previously said Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino wasn't leaving the city. CBS reported he now appears to be in Charlotte, North Carolina.
blockclubchicago.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"[A]s much as $2 billion."

"Trump's order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the 'Department of War' this past summer will cost billions of dollars."
#USA #Military
"Department of War" Name Change, Which Isn't Even Official, Will Cost $2 Billion
The move prioritizes "political theater over responsible governance," a group of Democrats said in a statement.
truthout.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hakeem Jeffries "blocked an effort broadly supported by his own caucus to force a vote on restoring crucial labor protections for federal workers that were revoked by [..] Trump earlier this year."

"[C]ollective bargaining rights of over 1 million federal workers [..] are at stake."
#USA #Labour
Jeffries Blocks Vote on Restoring Federal Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights
Democrats have sought a vote on restoring collective bargaining rights removed by Trump for over 1 million workers.
truthout.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"[S]ecurity services like Forsythe, which employs ex-paramilitary soldiers and former RCMP officers, could be passing on information to CSIS and police about Indigenous and non-Indigenous land defenders and activists."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #FossilFuels #Policing #Surveillance
The deepening ties between CSIS and resource companies
As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the 'national interest,' the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS.
thenarwhal.ca
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"A total of 25 countries sent 323 shipments of oil to Israel while it was committing genocide in Gaza."

"[A]lmost 21.2 million metric tons of both crude and refined oil to Israel between November 1, 2023 and October 1, 2025."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Russia #FossilFuels #Genocide #Military
'Behind Every Barrel of Oil Is a Trace of Blood': 25 Countries Helped Fuel Gaza Genocide
"States have a moral and legal obligation to end these fuel flows immediately," one campaigner said.
www.commondreams.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Seán Binder will stand trial for his work as a volunteer rescuer helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea."

"[M]y case is part of a wider pattern of states criminalising humanitarian work. Solidarity is on trial in Greece."
#Greece #Courts #Incarceration #Immigration #Asylum
Greece: Authorities must 'drop baseless charges' against rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December 2025, Seán Binder will stand trial in Greece for his work as a volunteer rescuer helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea.
www.amnesty.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"RSF has killed at least 1,500 people in el-Fasher in [..] three days."

"[V]ideos are circulating online of the RSF torturing and executing people."

"RSF built 35 miles of barriers around the city to prevent food and medical aid."
#Sudan #UAE #Food #Healthcare #Genocide #Military
The Fall of El-Fasher: Sudan's Civil War Enters a New Phase
After the paramilitary RSF seized Darfur's last government-held city, civilians face mass atrocities, while the UAE's backing highlights the international stakes in Sudan's fractured conflict.
inkstickmedia.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"Epstein fed information to Thomas about Donald Trump's allegedly lecherous behavior."

"[D]ozens of emails [..] between 2015 and 2018."

"Little of the information given to Thomas, however, ever saw the light of day — not in Thomas's reporting, not in the New York Times."
#USA #Media #Trafficking
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
Exchanges about Trump between reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and Jeffrey Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.
theintercept.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"It's corrupt."

DHS "has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem's chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Reposted by Harms Committed
It isn’t about how it makes you or me feel, it isn’t about the poetics of care, it isn’t about the individual worthiness of this or that family.

Mutual aid simply means: I have a resource someone else needs to survive. And I share it with them.

One link, six families, survival every day in Gaza:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Los Angeles' "jails pared back access to life-saving opioid addiction treatment this fall during one of the system's deadliest years."

"[H]ow many people who died from overdose deaths were on the waiting list?"

"Patients are begging me for help."
#California #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Incarceration
L.A. jails scale back opioid addiction treatment as fatal overdoses continue
Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the system to reduce overdoses and in-custody deaths.
calmatters.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Texas A&M "will require each campus president to sign off on any course that could be seen as advocating for 'race and gender ideology.'"

Syllabi will "be examined by artificial intelligence."

"24/7 option for students 'to report [..] course content.'"
#Texas #USA #Education
Texas A&M OKs "race and gender ideology" restrictions
Faculty are also prohibited from teaching material inconsistent with approved syllabi. The changes come in response to a recent controversy over gender identity classroom discussions.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
ICE "said he was found the day before, hanging in a shower stall with a cloth tied around his neck."

"It made no mention of additional bindings that were on hands and feet."

"There's still so much unknown."
#Pennsylvania #Michigan #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Queens Family Demands Answers After Chinese Immigrant Found Bound in ICE Jail
While the county coroner ruled his death as a suicide, his family is suing.
documentedny.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Users with Atlanta Police Department accounts searched a network of thousands of Flock license plate readers for immigration enforcement in March 2025."

"[F]our searches that hit Atlanta's network on Sept. 15."
#Georgia #USA #Surveillance #Technology #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Atlanta PD used Flock cameras to track migrants, records show
Atlanta PD denied that it has assisted in immigration enforcement, but records show 15 immigration-related Flock searches in March 2025.
atlpresscollective.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"$3 billion."

"It's meant to go to programs that help reduce overdose deaths."

"But Pleus said small organizations like hers, despite being deeply rooted in their communities, are being sidelined."
#NewYork #USA #Drugs #Healthcare
Grassroots Harm Reduction Sidelined in NY Opioid Fund Spending
Much of the money, she said, is going to entities including large hospitals. "That one really gets my ass!"
filtermag.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"New York's state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the people it incarcerates."

"It's absurd." "I sit in one spot all day."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Solitary
Prison Agency Seeks to Dramatically Narrow Solitary Confinement Law
Prison officials are using a novel legal reading to argue that the HALT Solitary Confinement Act doesn't apply to units where most people are incarcerated.
nysfocus.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"Wood's family members and death penalty opponents welcomed Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's decision to grant clemency [..] just minutes before the 46-year-old was set to be executed by lethal injection for a murder his late brother admitted to committing."
#Oklahoma #USA #Incarceration #DeathPenalty
Facing Death Penalty, Tremane Wood Granted Surprise Last-Minute Reprieve
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to Tremane Wood just before his scheduled execution.
www.commondreams.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"[M]en sleeping on floors [..]; detainees wearing the same uniforms for several days [..], pleading with staff for hygiene products to keep themselves clean and denied access to medical care."
#Louisiana #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Conditions at La. ICE lockup worsening as detained population grows under Trump, immigrant rights advocates say
The Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center appears to have been operating well over its contracted capacity since April.
veritenews.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"The six people indicted on federal conspiracy charges linked to a protest outside ICE's Broadview facility pleaded not guilty."

"This case creates a conspiracy about people standing together spontaneously to protest injustice."
#Illinois #USA #Protest #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
6 Broadview Protestors Plead Not Guilty To Conspiracy Charges As Supporters Rally: 'We Will Win'
Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh is among a group of defendants that includes other public officials and candidates for office. They're scheduled to return to court next month.
blockclubchicago.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city's jail population."

"[C]oalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani [..] go even further."

"We must end the abuses, neglect, torture."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare
Rikers-Reform Fight Awaits Mamdani as Advocates Release Jails 'Blueprint'
With a court-appointed manager set to take over parts of the city's Correction Department, advocates want the incoming mayor to back up pledges he made about city jails while on the campaign trail.
www.thecity.nyc
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"[J]ail staff told Burns that Jacobo wouldn't be let go because she would be turned over to immigration agents — even though Jacobo is Native American."

"Jacobo's family quickly mobilized, with just hours left on the clock."
#Illinois #Arizona #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Arizona tribal member nearly deported after Iowa jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
Native American ICE detainer mistake nearly leads to deportation of Arizona tribal member after Iowa jail clerical error.
azmirror.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM