Harms Committed
@harmscommitted.com
Independent Journalism on State Violence
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News Service & Research Tool
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curated by morgan harper (they/them)
phd candidate @ university of toronto
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News Service & Research Tool
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curated by morgan harper (they/them)
phd candidate @ university of toronto
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🌀Introduction🌀
Harms Committed is a news service and research tool to help journalists, academics, and activists access independent journalism on state violence.
This thread explains what to expect and how it functions.
1/12 🧵
Harms Committed is a news service and research tool to help journalists, academics, and activists access independent journalism on state violence.
This thread explains what to expect and how it functions.
1/12 🧵
"If the Christian world is to honor the meaning of Christmas, it must turn its gaze to Bethlehem—not the imagined one, but the real one, a town whose people today still cry out for justice, dignity, and peace."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
While Bethlehem Holds First Full Christmas Since Genocide Began, Little to Celebrate in Gaza
With Gaza's Christian population decimated by Israeli attacks, Christmas celebrations are muted. Churches forced to keep festivities indoors as IDF continues attacks.
www.commondreams.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Christmas will pass in Gaza without lights and without fanfare."
"Infants have frozen to death [..] and many are living in tents that flood."
"This is Gaza — a place where the suffering inflicted by Israel robs religious celebrations of joy from everyone."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"Infants have frozen to death [..] and many are living in tents that flood."
"This is Gaza — a place where the suffering inflicted by Israel robs religious celebrations of joy from everyone."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
Gaza Will Mark Christmas With Silent Bells, Frozen Nights, and Grief
Christmas is due to arrive without lights and without warmth, burdened by the memory of a war that has not truly ended.
truthout.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Christmas will pass in Gaza without lights and without fanfare."
"Infants have frozen to death [..] and many are living in tents that flood."
"This is Gaza — a place where the suffering inflicted by Israel robs religious celebrations of joy from everyone."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"Infants have frozen to death [..] and many are living in tents that flood."
"This is Gaza — a place where the suffering inflicted by Israel robs religious celebrations of joy from everyone."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
Go Fourth "focuses on personal stories of ordinary citizens [in Chicago] being disrupted or detained by ICE."
"[S]everal more videos planned for the new year."
Find the documentary shorts here: www.youtube.com/@GoFourthMedia
#Illinois #USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[S]everal more videos planned for the new year."
Find the documentary shorts here: www.youtube.com/@GoFourthMedia
#Illinois #USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Amid ICE Arrests, Chicago Filmmaker And Citizen Journalist Captures A City Under Siege
Andrew Freer of Go Fourth Media is releasing a series of documentary shorts on YouTube chronicling ICE and Border Patrol activity and the stories of local activists standing up for their neighbors.
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Go Fourth "focuses on personal stories of ordinary citizens [in Chicago] being disrupted or detained by ICE."
"[S]everal more videos planned for the new year."
Find the documentary shorts here: www.youtube.com/@GoFourthMedia
#Illinois #USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[S]everal more videos planned for the new year."
Find the documentary shorts here: www.youtube.com/@GoFourthMedia
#Illinois #USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
FDA will "define chest binders as medical devices."
"[Trying] to call a chest binder a medical device, specifically because it is marketed towards trans people, in order to control it and make it inaccessible, is absurd and clearly discrimination."
#USA #Healthcare
"[Trying] to call a chest binder a medical device, specifically because it is marketed towards trans people, in order to control it and make it inaccessible, is absurd and clearly discrimination."
#USA #Healthcare
FDA Threatens Companies Selling Binders
The FDA sent twelve businesses threatening letters on Tuesday, demanding that they register their chest binders as medical devices with the FDA.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
FDA will "define chest binders as medical devices."
"[Trying] to call a chest binder a medical device, specifically because it is marketed towards trans people, in order to control it and make it inaccessible, is absurd and clearly discrimination."
#USA #Healthcare
"[Trying] to call a chest binder a medical device, specifically because it is marketed towards trans people, in order to control it and make it inaccessible, is absurd and clearly discrimination."
#USA #Healthcare
"I was around ten years old when I first saw death carried through the street like a neighbor."
"To the outside world these are case studies and evidence."
"To my sister, they are the empty side of the bed and 5 children asking where their father went."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
"To the outside world these are case studies and evidence."
"To my sister, they are the empty side of the bed and 5 children asking where their father went."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
I did not understand I grew up in a concentration camp until I left Gaza
Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life.
mondoweiss.net
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"I was around ten years old when I first saw death carried through the street like a neighbor."
"To the outside world these are case studies and evidence."
"To my sister, they are the empty side of the bed and 5 children asking where their father went."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
"To the outside world these are case studies and evidence."
"To my sister, they are the empty side of the bed and 5 children asking where their father went."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
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Not something we could ever expect from those very progressive Hollywood unions
"United Teachers of Los Angeles [..] passed a motion that the union should refrain from endorsing any candidate [..] who as a member of the U.S. Congress voted to send weapons to Israel."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
United Teachers of Los Angeles: No Endorsements for Congressional Genociders
Los Angeles teachers have drawn a line in the electoral sand to send a message to congress members tethered to the Israel lobby.
www.counterpunch.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Not something we could ever expect from those very progressive Hollywood unions
"The genocide in Gaza has thus become a mirror in which the world sees itself."
"Decolonization is not only about borders; it is about dismantling imperial capitalism, militarism, and the global hierarchies that sustain them."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide
"Decolonization is not only about borders; it is about dismantling imperial capitalism, militarism, and the global hierarchies that sustain them."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide
The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there's no going back
People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.
www.972mag.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"The genocide in Gaza has thus become a mirror in which the world sees itself."
"Decolonization is not only about borders; it is about dismantling imperial capitalism, militarism, and the global hierarchies that sustain them."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide
"Decolonization is not only about borders; it is about dismantling imperial capitalism, militarism, and the global hierarchies that sustain them."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide
"Trump's administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning early next year."
"[M]illions of borrowers sit on the precipice of default."
"[C]ruel, unnecessary, and irresponsible."
#USA #Education #Labour
"[M]illions of borrowers sit on the precipice of default."
"[C]ruel, unnecessary, and irresponsible."
#USA #Education #Labour
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans
As millions of borrowers sit on the precipice of default, this Administration is using its self-inflicted limited resources to seize borrowers' wages instead of defending borrowers' right to affordable payments.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Trump's administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning early next year."
"[M]illions of borrowers sit on the precipice of default."
"[C]ruel, unnecessary, and irresponsible."
#USA #Education #Labour
"[M]illions of borrowers sit on the precipice of default."
"[C]ruel, unnecessary, and irresponsible."
#USA #Education #Labour
American "travel ban on a former EU commissioner and leaders of nongovernmental groups that fight against disinformation and hate speech."
"[A]n authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship."
#USA #EU #Censorship
"[A]n authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship."
#USA #EU #Censorship
Trump Ban on European Disinformation Opponents Decried as 'Authoritarian Attack on Free Speech'
"Is McCarthy's witch hunt back?" asked Thierry Breton, a former EU commissioner now barred from entering the US.
www.commondreams.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
American "travel ban on a former EU commissioner and leaders of nongovernmental groups that fight against disinformation and hate speech."
"[A]n authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship."
#USA #EU #Censorship
"[A]n authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship."
#USA #EU #Censorship
"They're worried about the coal mine."
"They don't care about us, but when they run for reelection, they get coal miners standing beside them. But yet, when it comes to protecting us, they ain't protecting us."
"We just die. And they just put somebody else in our place."
#USA #Mining #Labour
"They don't care about us, but when they run for reelection, they get coal miners standing beside them. But yet, when it comes to protecting us, they ain't protecting us."
"We just die. And they just put somebody else in our place."
#USA #Mining #Labour
Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
truthout.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Federal prosecutors have sent a million more pages related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Department of Justice, which plans to release them in the coming weeks."
#NewYork #USA #Trafficking #SexualViolence
#NewYork #USA #Trafficking #SexualViolence
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files
Justice Department staff wrote in a social media post the documents came from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Federal prosecutors have sent a million more pages related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Department of Justice, which plans to release them in the coming weeks."
#NewYork #USA #Trafficking #SexualViolence
#NewYork #USA #Trafficking #SexualViolence
"United Teachers of Los Angeles [..] passed a motion that the union should refrain from endorsing any candidate [..] who as a member of the U.S. Congress voted to send weapons to Israel."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
United Teachers of Los Angeles: No Endorsements for Congressional Genociders
Los Angeles teachers have drawn a line in the electoral sand to send a message to congress members tethered to the Israel lobby.
www.counterpunch.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"United Teachers of Los Angeles [..] passed a motion that the union should refrain from endorsing any candidate [..] who as a member of the U.S. Congress voted to send weapons to Israel."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
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"[T]here are 1,175 pending commutation applications and 608 pending pardon applications. ... Many had hoped [her DV survivor] support would extend to survivors incarcerated for acts committed while defending themselves against an abusive loved one, or offenses that an abuser had coerced them into."
"Fearing for her life, she hit him in the head with a rock."
"Her court-appointed attorney dismissed her requests to mount a battered woman defense" due to transphobia.
Hochul "has the power to begin to make amends by granting clemency."
#NewYork #USA #Military #Incarceration #SexualViolence
"Her court-appointed attorney dismissed her requests to mount a battered woman defense" due to transphobia.
Hochul "has the power to begin to make amends by granting clemency."
#NewYork #USA #Military #Incarceration #SexualViolence
Kathy Hochul Promised More Clemencies—Where Are They?
The governor could change the lives of Sara Kielly and Assia Serrano with the stroke of her pen.
hellgatenyc.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"[T]here are 1,175 pending commutation applications and 608 pending pardon applications. ... Many had hoped [her DV survivor] support would extend to survivors incarcerated for acts committed while defending themselves against an abusive loved one, or offenses that an abuser had coerced them into."
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"[T]he lives of people in the Global South are subordinated to the profitability of capital in the Global North. Borders, weapons, and sanctions function as tools that protect wealth while distributing death. ... [The EU and the US] remain deeply complicit in ongoing genocides and mass atrocities."
"From Congo to Gaza, Sudan to West Papua, the same logic of resource-driven exploitation."
"[E]ntire peoples are sacrificed so corporations and states can gorge on what lies beneath their land."
#DRC #Gaza #Palestine #Sudan #WestPapua #Israel #EU #USA #Genocide #Mining #Forests #Climate #Military
"[E]ntire peoples are sacrificed so corporations and states can gorge on what lies beneath their land."
#DRC #Gaza #Palestine #Sudan #WestPapua #Israel #EU #USA #Genocide #Mining #Forests #Climate #Military
Global Complicity: Who Kills in the Congo?
The world may be watching Congo more than before, but it still refuses to see itself in the story.
www.counterpunch.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"[T]he lives of people in the Global South are subordinated to the profitability of capital in the Global North. Borders, weapons, and sanctions function as tools that protect wealth while distributing death. ... [The EU and the US] remain deeply complicit in ongoing genocides and mass atrocities."
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"[The fear of deportation] gives [people] impunity to do whatever they want to the immigrant community because they know immigrants may not go and file a complaint ... [They] may not come to court and testify."
"Stogner said she can't prosecute the case without the victim's testimony."
"[W]itnesses are getting deported, victims are getting deported."
"[M]aking it harder for them to prosecute people accused of violent crimes."
#Texas #USA #Courts #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[W]itnesses are getting deported, victims are getting deported."
"[M]aking it harder for them to prosecute people accused of violent crimes."
#Texas #USA #Courts #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Texas prosecutors say deportations are harming criminal cases
District attorneys in Harris, El Paso and other counties say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained, deported or too scared to come to court.
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"[The fear of deportation] gives [people] impunity to do whatever they want to the immigrant community because they know immigrants may not go and file a complaint ... [They] may not come to court and testify."
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Okay big emergency
I know money is tight and the holidays don't help but
My mom informed me her "employer" just ripped her off out of $700
So now, if we can't make that our power gets cut off on the 30th.
Please if possible, I would really appreciate help
ko-fi.com/0dayhx
I know money is tight and the holidays don't help but
My mom informed me her "employer" just ripped her off out of $700
So now, if we can't make that our power gets cut off on the 30th.
Please if possible, I would really appreciate help
ko-fi.com/0dayhx
December 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Okay big emergency
I know money is tight and the holidays don't help but
My mom informed me her "employer" just ripped her off out of $700
So now, if we can't make that our power gets cut off on the 30th.
Please if possible, I would really appreciate help
ko-fi.com/0dayhx
I know money is tight and the holidays don't help but
My mom informed me her "employer" just ripped her off out of $700
So now, if we can't make that our power gets cut off on the 30th.
Please if possible, I would really appreciate help
ko-fi.com/0dayhx
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With that, I unfortunately have to reopen fundraising because the insurance payout is a bit short of what the exact same car would cost in New York 🫠
Closed the old goal out at 44% with more details later
ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=0
Closed the old goal out at 44% with more details later
ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=0
Support D-7th | Thorn Delarosa-Hawthorne
Support D-7th | Thorn Delarosa-Hawthorne
ko-fi.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
With that, I unfortunately have to reopen fundraising because the insurance payout is a bit short of what the exact same car would cost in New York 🫠
Closed the old goal out at 44% with more details later
ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=0
Closed the old goal out at 44% with more details later
ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=0
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Nasra reached out, she needs help to feed her family and herself and to get supplies to survive the winter. She sent these photos of her & her children. She's a wonderful person & an amazing mother, but she needs help.
gofund.me/5cbc20851
www.paypal.com/paypalme/Nas...
gofund.me/5cbc20851
www.paypal.com/paypalme/Nas...
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Nasra reached out, she needs help to feed her family and herself and to get supplies to survive the winter. She sent these photos of her & her children. She's a wonderful person & an amazing mother, but she needs help.
gofund.me/5cbc20851
www.paypal.com/paypalme/Nas...
gofund.me/5cbc20851
www.paypal.com/paypalme/Nas...
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My friends, three days ago my internet connection was very limited. Now I'm able to post. My friends, please donate to my family. I depend on donations to support them. To be honest, I'm very close to going bankrupt. Don't leave your brother in this suffering.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My friends, three days ago my internet connection was very limited. Now I'm able to post. My friends, please donate to my family. I depend on donations to support them. To be honest, I'm very close to going bankrupt. Don't leave your brother in this suffering.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
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It’s been over three weeks since Ruaa was banned from this platform with no reason -because there is no reason other than hate and discrimination
Don’t let hate win
If you can pledge $5 for her today that would mean so much
bsky.app/profile/divy...
Don’t let hate win
If you can pledge $5 for her today that would mean so much
bsky.app/profile/divy...
A challenge for us. You know Ruaa (now DELETED, itsmeio.bsky.social) relies on this app to feed her family. Asking for help was already so degrading + she barely has internet. So...how many $5 weekly pledges can we get by Friday to ensure help even when banned?
#SaveRuaa chuffed.org/project/help...
#SaveRuaa chuffed.org/project/help...
December 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s been over three weeks since Ruaa was banned from this platform with no reason -because there is no reason other than hate and discrimination
Don’t let hate win
If you can pledge $5 for her today that would mean so much
bsky.app/profile/divy...
Don’t let hate win
If you can pledge $5 for her today that would mean so much
bsky.app/profile/divy...
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Yall. You knocked it out of the park and met three rent appeals. We have just ONE rent deadline left for single mom Maha, and my family is matching the next 200 for it. 🩷
What a lovely way you can help this Christmas! Give and be doubled. Rent due Monday, 438/800: chuffed.org/project/savi...
What a lovely way you can help this Christmas! Give and be doubled. Rent due Monday, 438/800: chuffed.org/project/savi...
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Yall. You knocked it out of the park and met three rent appeals. We have just ONE rent deadline left for single mom Maha, and my family is matching the next 200 for it. 🩷
What a lovely way you can help this Christmas! Give and be doubled. Rent due Monday, 438/800: chuffed.org/project/savi...
What a lovely way you can help this Christmas! Give and be doubled. Rent due Monday, 438/800: chuffed.org/project/savi...
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Eslam is back! @ssme-ra.bsky.social still doesn't have her old account back, but she's back!
Help a sister out?
Please. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
Help a sister out?
Please. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
December 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Eslam is back! @ssme-ra.bsky.social still doesn't have her old account back, but she's back!
Help a sister out?
Please. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
Help a sister out?
Please. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
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Hello friends, this link will be the fastest way to deliver funds directly to me here in Gaza.
I am Joy, a Palestinian writer & poet. I published my first book under the conditions of genocide & famine, and now I am in desperate need of your help.
Pls donate & boost 🇵🇸❤️
chuffed.org/project/fara...
I am Joy, a Palestinian writer & poet. I published my first book under the conditions of genocide & famine, and now I am in desperate need of your help.
Pls donate & boost 🇵🇸❤️
chuffed.org/project/fara...
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hello friends, this link will be the fastest way to deliver funds directly to me here in Gaza.
I am Joy, a Palestinian writer & poet. I published my first book under the conditions of genocide & famine, and now I am in desperate need of your help.
Pls donate & boost 🇵🇸❤️
chuffed.org/project/fara...
I am Joy, a Palestinian writer & poet. I published my first book under the conditions of genocide & famine, and now I am in desperate need of your help.
Pls donate & boost 🇵🇸❤️
chuffed.org/project/fara...
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Omar. Omar is just 16 and is taxed with helping his whole family. His father was a food industry engineer before the war but he is unemployed now and struggling.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
December 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Omar. Omar is just 16 and is taxed with helping his whole family. His father was a food industry engineer before the war but he is unemployed now and struggling.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
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If you can help, Sahker & Reem would really appreciate it🫶🏻
December 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If you can help, Sahker & Reem would really appreciate it🫶🏻