Renée Feltz
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Renée Feltz
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We are all part of the circle of interdependence.
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NEW: Even the FBI thinks unidentified masked ICE agents is a bad idea. @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. He leaves behind a legacy of war, torture and impunity.
“The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program
Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative befo...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm.
20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Faces Racism and Climate Injustice
Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm. Flaherty explains h...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If you appreciated Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History,” then you will love how @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social carries on the tradition of historians who set the record straight in her “seminal book that radically reexamines an intensely studied man and his legacy.” - via @theindypendent.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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In Los Angeles, nurse and community activist Amanda Trebach was released from federal custody this weekend without criminal charges, after she was violently arrested early Friday morning while recording the operations of federal immigration agents in the area.
Activist Released Without Charges After Violent Arrest While Documenting ICE
Masked agents pinned Amanda Trebach on the pavement then forced her into an unmarked van.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
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August 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Message from an American doc I know who is back in Gaza for his third mission: "The docs here say if you’re lucky there’s no aid distribution when you’re on. You’re unlucky if there’s a distribution that night. "
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Take time to watch this interview.
July 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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By me and the super-talented Ritia Liu
How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
www.wired.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"War on Children": Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel's Plan for Concentration Camps
“War on Children”: Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camps
The official death toll in Gaza has topped 58,000, with Israeli forces continuing to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid and talks over a ceasefire agreement stalled in Doha. This morning’s injured were...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond
ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond
An immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on Thursday led to an hourslong standoff between protesters and federal border agents, who blocked the roads with military-style vehicles and tear-gassed...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.

Albanese says the move is an effort to “distract” from the genocide in Gaza.
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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From COINTELPRO to Project Esther—how the U.S. turned repression of Palestine solidarity into a privatized, digital-age industry. Professors, nonprofits, and algorithms now do the FBI's dirty work.

A must-read on the new era of counterinsurgency👇
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from...
From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the U.S.
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the…
mondoweiss.net
July 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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NEW in Bolts: Louisiana Republicans have passed a new law that effectively eviscerates people's ability to claim their innocence and seek relief once they've been convicted.

A massive blow to the rights of people in prison in a state that's full of wrongful convictions:
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Louisiana Is Bulldozing the Right of Prisoners to Prove Their Innocence After a Conviction - Bolts
Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that would ultimately free him, while watching television coverage of the... Read...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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With each passing day, the violence wielded by ICE grows more intense and widespread.
Time to Unmask Trump’s Detention and Deportation Squads
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Narciso Barranco sits in ICE detention, with his two sons still on active duty in the US Marines not far away, at Fort Pendleton. It is past time to unmask the violent…
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June 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights.

So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
June 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Today, my partner would have turned 64. He dedicated the past 30 years of his life to building the new ABC No Rio to further the connections between arts and activism. He lived long enough to see the groundbreaking. We set up a memorial fundraiser to realize his dream: www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
Steven Englander Memorial Fundraiser: ABC No Rio Building Fund
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, surrounded by biological and chosen family, ABC No Rio director Steven Englander drew his final breaths.Steven left us just 18 months before he would have had the chanc...
www.zeffy.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"Worse Than McCarthyism": Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students
“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The fact that Emil Bove of all people may now fill a seat for which Senate Dems had the direct opportunity to confirm a Biden nominee is really something.
Last year, a handful of Democrats tanked Joe Biden's impressive judicial nominee Adeel Mangi out of cowardice.

Now Trump is ready to fill this U.S. appeals court seat with his pick: his own criminal defense attorney and "hatchet man" at DOJ. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Taps His Own Criminal Defense Attorney For Lifetime Federal Judgeship
Democrats tanked Joe Biden's pick for this U.S. appeals court seat out of cowardice. Now Trump is nominating Emil Bove, his hatchet man at DOJ.
www.huffpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM