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.
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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 🧵
"[C]autiously optimistic."
"Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application."
"'Every time there's a holiday, we're like, 'Is he gonna do it?'' she said. 'Then Christmas comes and nobody gets called.'"
#California #USA #Incarceration #Courts #Suicide
"Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application."
"'Every time there's a holiday, we're like, 'Is he gonna do it?'' she said. 'Then Christmas comes and nobody gets called.'"
#California #USA #Incarceration #Courts #Suicide
Incarcerated Californians Express Cautious Optimism About New Clemency Proposal
The change has brought hope to those who fear dying in prison, while others worry it won't save them from such a fate.
theappeal.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"[C]autiously optimistic."
"Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application."
"'Every time there's a holiday, we're like, 'Is he gonna do it?'' she said. 'Then Christmas comes and nobody gets called.'"
#California #USA #Incarceration #Courts #Suicide
"Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application."
"'Every time there's a holiday, we're like, 'Is he gonna do it?'' she said. 'Then Christmas comes and nobody gets called.'"
#California #USA #Incarceration #Courts #Suicide
Palau will "take in up to 75 [third-country deportees] from the United States during [..] Trump's purge of unauthorized immigrants in exchange for" $7.5 million.
#USA #Palau #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
#USA #Palau #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Palau Signs Controversial $7.5 Million Deal to Take 75 Trump Deportees
"What if we spent the $100,000 per person in America setting them up with housing assistance, healthcare, education, etc?" asked one critic.
www.commondreams.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Palau will "take in up to 75 [third-country deportees] from the United States during [..] Trump's purge of unauthorized immigrants in exchange for" $7.5 million.
#USA #Palau #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
#USA #Palau #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"I had allowed myself to hope — to live again, to laugh with friends, to savor fleeting moments of joy— only for death and destruction to strike."
"[R]eality of life in Gaza: Any effort you make to live an ordinary life might be cut off without warning"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide
"[R]eality of life in Gaza: Any effort you make to live an ordinary life might be cut off without warning"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide
Reuniting With Family in Gaza During the Break Between Bombings
For a brief period, the pause in Israeli violence gave us a sense of normalcy. Then the airstrikes started again.
theintercept.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"I had allowed myself to hope — to live again, to laugh with friends, to savor fleeting moments of joy— only for death and destruction to strike."
"[R]eality of life in Gaza: Any effort you make to live an ordinary life might be cut off without warning"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide
"[R]eality of life in Gaza: Any effort you make to live an ordinary life might be cut off without warning"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide
"The pain in my eyes is unbearable."
"[S]ince October 2023, more than 1,500 people were added to the 10,000 people who are blind or with limited vision in Gaza."
"Israel still prevents the entry of eye drops and treatments."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Healthcare
"[S]ince October 2023, more than 1,500 people were added to the 10,000 people who are blind or with limited vision in Gaza."
"Israel still prevents the entry of eye drops and treatments."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Healthcare
Israel blocks entry of eye drops for blind people in Gaza
Despite the October ceasefire, thousands could develop conditions affecting their vision.
electronicintifada.net
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The pain in my eyes is unbearable."
"[S]ince October 2023, more than 1,500 people were added to the 10,000 people who are blind or with limited vision in Gaza."
"Israel still prevents the entry of eye drops and treatments."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Healthcare
"[S]ince October 2023, more than 1,500 people were added to the 10,000 people who are blind or with limited vision in Gaza."
"Israel still prevents the entry of eye drops and treatments."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Healthcare
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6 supporters just chipped in ❤️
Can we make it 10 supporters today?
Boost and quote please 🍉
#gaza #genocide #palestine #mutualaid
Can we make it 10 supporters today?
Boost and quote please 🍉
#gaza #genocide #palestine #mutualaid
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 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
6 supporters just chipped in ❤️
Can we make it 10 supporters today?
Boost and quote please 🍉
#gaza #genocide #palestine #mutualaid
Can we make it 10 supporters today?
Boost and quote please 🍉
#gaza #genocide #palestine #mutualaid
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Eslam @ssme-ra.bsky.social had shared the news her sister has fallen seriously ill, so if we can keep Eslam's family in mind during these last days of the year, please do?
Photos and updates below.
Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
Photos and updates below.
Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Eslam @ssme-ra.bsky.social had shared the news her sister has fallen seriously ill, so if we can keep Eslam's family in mind during these last days of the year, please do?
Photos and updates below.
Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
Photos and updates below.
Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/1282...
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Good day. I'm doing a holiday mutual aid request for groceries for a DV family. We're at $25/$150 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach. Thanks so much! 🙂🎄🎁Happy Holidays!
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Good day. I'm doing a holiday mutual aid request for groceries for a DV family. We're at $25/$150 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach. Thanks so much! 🙂🎄🎁Happy Holidays!
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...
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Reposting from Twitter for my brother Ahmad. He is denied a space here, but not a voice as long as I can speak.
Thanks to your help he has been able to rent a better place to shelter, but that too is costly.
Share, donate, never stop helping.
gofund.me/124a7c49
paypal.me/AhmadAlsbaihii
Thanks to your help he has been able to rent a better place to shelter, but that too is costly.
Share, donate, never stop helping.
gofund.me/124a7c49
paypal.me/AhmadAlsbaihii
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Reposting from Twitter for my brother Ahmad. He is denied a space here, but not a voice as long as I can speak.
Thanks to your help he has been able to rent a better place to shelter, but that too is costly.
Share, donate, never stop helping.
gofund.me/124a7c49
paypal.me/AhmadAlsbaihii
Thanks to your help he has been able to rent a better place to shelter, but that too is costly.
Share, donate, never stop helping.
gofund.me/124a7c49
paypal.me/AhmadAlsbaihii
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NO PROGRESS
20/4200 needed by jan 1st
cash.app/$DragonAField
venmo.com/u/Caeli-Field
www.paypal.me/caelifield
#mutualaid
#transcrowdfund
💸💞
20/4200 needed by jan 1st
cash.app/$DragonAField
venmo.com/u/Caeli-Field
www.paypal.me/caelifield
#mutualaid
#transcrowdfund
💸💞
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
NO PROGRESS
20/4200 needed by jan 1st
cash.app/$DragonAField
venmo.com/u/Caeli-Field
www.paypal.me/caelifield
#mutualaid
#transcrowdfund
💸💞
20/4200 needed by jan 1st
cash.app/$DragonAField
venmo.com/u/Caeli-Field
www.paypal.me/caelifield
#mutualaid
#transcrowdfund
💸💞
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Today, we highlight little girls Remas & Toleen—they don't often get support, but the family managed to get some crucial, life-sustaining shelter from the deadly cold, plus some education costs. I think that's pure hope.
Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today, we highlight little girls Remas & Toleen—they don't often get support, but the family managed to get some crucial, life-sustaining shelter from the deadly cold, plus some education costs. I think that's pure hope.
Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abed. Abed is a dentist who managed a practice. It was destroyed as well as his home. He has been displaced 13 times along with his children Sabreen, 8, Salah, 7 and Ahmed, 5. Sabreen and Salah both have facial injuries that need treatment.
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abed. Abed is a dentist who managed a practice. It was destroyed as well as his home. He has been displaced 13 times along with his children Sabreen, 8, Salah, 7 and Ahmed, 5. Sabreen and Salah both have facial injuries that need treatment.
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Please consider donating to Sakher if you are looking for a way to share love this season 💗
gofund.me/d55183010
gofund.me/d55183010
December 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Please consider donating to Sakher if you are looking for a way to share love this season 💗
gofund.me/d55183010
gofund.me/d55183010
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We’re so close — only a little left to secure my children schooling and keep them steady and their future moving forward. (Only £135)
Please, help us finish this — donate if you can, or simply share to reach more kind hearts.❤️
Please, help us finish this — donate if you can, or simply share to reach more kind hearts.❤️
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We’re so close — only a little left to secure my children schooling and keep them steady and their future moving forward. (Only £135)
Please, help us finish this — donate if you can, or simply share to reach more kind hearts.❤️
Please, help us finish this — donate if you can, or simply share to reach more kind hearts.❤️
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Good morning for you, but for me i didn’t sleep this night! Because Mohammed situation, Sarah, and bombing 💣🥲
1079£ to hit our goal! 🥲
chuffed.org/project/help...
1079£ to hit our goal! 🥲
chuffed.org/project/help...
December 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Good morning for you, but for me i didn’t sleep this night! Because Mohammed situation, Sarah, and bombing 💣🥲
1079£ to hit our goal! 🥲
chuffed.org/project/help...
1079£ to hit our goal! 🥲
chuffed.org/project/help...
"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