Month: July 2025

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Three weeks since Jabari Peoples was shot and killed by a Homewood (AL) officer, his family still has no answers. An independent autopsy shows he was shot in the back. We are demanding the release of the bodycam footage so his family can see how their 18-yo child was killed.

 

 

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They’re chasing quotas, not criminals! The former head of Chicago’s immigration court, fired by Trump, is finally speaking out. A new lawsuit accuses the administration of unlawfully targeting documented immigrants who were already showing up to court, just so ICE could hit arrest quotas. Immigrants are being detained not because they broke the law, but because they were easy to “target.”

 

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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

 

 

 

The economic value of slave labor in the United States from 1619 to 1865 was approximately $14 trillion in today’s currency. This nation owes a debt to Black Americans with enslaved ancestors.
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The economic value of slave labor in the United States from 1619 to 1865 was approximately $14 trillion in today’s currency. This nation owes a debt to Black Americans with enslaved ancestors.

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.” We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.

 

 

 

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17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance. And $3.5 trillion was added to the deficit. All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors. The ultimate betrayal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”
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The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

 

 

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Dr. Mark Brauner, an emergency medicine physician who is currently volunteering at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza, describes a disturbing pattern of “execution-style” killings of Palestinians at U.S./Israeli-run food distribution sites.

 

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Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Never limit your sense of morality to America’s legal system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump admin is holding 56,000 immigrants in horrific detention conditions—15K more ppl than the system allows. 10 deaths in five months, starvation, delayed gyno care for pregnant women, no insulin for diabetic ppl & over 50% w no criminal conviction.
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Trump admin is holding 56,000 immigrants in horrific detention conditions—15K more ppl than the system allows. 10 deaths in five months, starvation, delayed gyno care for pregnant women, no insulin for diabetic ppl & over 50% w no criminal conviction.