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The number of older people behind bars has skyrocketed over the past three decades, and prisons aren’t equipped to handle their heightened medical and mental health needs.
We’re calling on elected officials to address this growing crisis.
Read our new report, Trapped in Time, in full.
We’re calling on elected officials to address this growing crisis.
Read our new report, Trapped in Time, in full.
Trapped in Time: The Silent Crisis of Elderly Incarceration | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The number of older people behind bars has skyrocketed over the past three decades, and prisons aren’t equipped to handle their heightened medical and mental health needs.
We’re calling on elected officials to address this growing crisis.
Read our new report, Trapped in Time, in full.
We’re calling on elected officials to address this growing crisis.
Read our new report, Trapped in Time, in full.
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The number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank now stands at 938, including 198 children, who were killed by Israeli forces or settlers since the war began, according to the UN.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank now stands at 938, including 198 children, who were killed by Israeli forces or settlers since the war began, according to the UN.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jbp58f
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Palestinians face severe malnutrition due to Israel’s blockade of aid, says Gaza’s Media Office.
This has led to:
🔸 300 miscarriages in pregnant women
🔸 58 deaths from hunger
🔸 242 deaths from lack of food and medicine
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jbp58f
This has led to:
🔸 300 miscarriages in pregnant women
🔸 58 deaths from hunger
🔸 242 deaths from lack of food and medicine
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jbp58f
May 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Palestinians face severe malnutrition due to Israel’s blockade of aid, says Gaza’s Media Office.
This has led to:
🔸 300 miscarriages in pregnant women
🔸 58 deaths from hunger
🔸 242 deaths from lack of food and medicine
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jbp58f
This has led to:
🔸 300 miscarriages in pregnant women
🔸 58 deaths from hunger
🔸 242 deaths from lack of food and medicine
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jbp58f
Horrific.
Phone footage appears to contradict Israel's account in troops' killing of 15 Palestinian medics
A video on the phone of one of 15 Palestinian medics killed by Israeli forces in Gaza shows that their emergency vehicles had their lights and sirens flashing when they came under a barrage of gunfire...
apnews.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Horrific.
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If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).
March 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).
A green card holder was arrested for speaking out against U.S. foreign policy and Israel’s bombing of civilians.
Now foreign professionals traveling to the U.S. are being barred from entry to the U.S. for criticizing leadership.
Whose free speech is next?
Now foreign professionals traveling to the U.S. are being barred from entry to the U.S. for criticizing leadership.
Whose free speech is next?
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son ordinateur et son téléphone ne soient fouillés.
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A green card holder was arrested for speaking out against U.S. foreign policy and Israel’s bombing of civilians.
Now foreign professionals traveling to the U.S. are being barred from entry to the U.S. for criticizing leadership.
Whose free speech is next?
Now foreign professionals traveling to the U.S. are being barred from entry to the U.S. for criticizing leadership.
Whose free speech is next?
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The world cannot stand by and allow Israel to continue inflicting staggering levels of death and human suffering on Palestinians in Gaza.
March 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The world cannot stand by and allow Israel to continue inflicting staggering levels of death and human suffering on Palestinians in Gaza.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Israeli police briefly detained the co-owner of the Palestinian-owned Education Bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem and confiscated over 50 books during a second raid in less than a month.
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March 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Israeli police briefly detained the co-owner of the Palestinian-owned Education Bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem and confiscated over 50 books during a second raid in less than a month.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/46b27z
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Anyone using dehumanizing language against groups of human beings fundamentally fails to understand how genocides start.
forward.com/news/703018/...
forward.com/news/703018/...
March 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Anyone using dehumanizing language against groups of human beings fundamentally fails to understand how genocides start.
forward.com/news/703018/...
forward.com/news/703018/...
We’re deporting refugees.
We are essentially sentencing these people to death for seeking help from the country built on the promise of offering it.
We are essentially sentencing these people to death for seeking help from the country built on the promise of offering it.
After weeks of lawsuits and human rights criticism, Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.
Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo following human rights criticism
Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.
bit.ly
March 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We’re deporting refugees.
We are essentially sentencing these people to death for seeking help from the country built on the promise of offering it.
We are essentially sentencing these people to death for seeking help from the country built on the promise of offering it.
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
February 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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Exclusive: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration reut.rs/4hfG4Vp
Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
reut.rs
January 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Exclusive: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration reut.rs/4hfG4Vp
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Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
January 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.