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With Desalination Plants Destroyed, Families in Gaza Are Drinking Salty Water
“The water is salty, and sometimes it smells strange, but we have no other choice,” 17-year-old Ruba Al-Amsha said.
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Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons
Arms makers are teaming up with venture capital firms in a push to bring AI to the battlefield.
Iran’s Nationwide Internet Blackout Has Left Us Feeling Hopeless and Helpless
As Donald Trump threatens further military action, the sense of exhaustion in Iran is palpable.
DHS Seeks to Convert Giant Warehouses Across US Into Immigration Jails
A total of 23 converted warehouses could imprison up to 80,000 people, estimates suggest.
The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen
Having lived in Argentina after dictatorship, I know restoring democracy requires far more than just deposing fascists.
ICE Is Not the Only Problem. Border Patrol Has Acted With Impunity for Decades.
Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
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All Democrats Backed Sanders Push to Repeal $75B for ICE to Undo Medicaid Cuts
The extra $75 billion granted to ICE could instead prevent 700,000 people from losing health care, Sanders said.
The Affordability Crisis Is Real. Only Worker Organizing Can Offer Solutions.
A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.
Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data
Trump’s Department of Justice is suing over 20 states in a bid to open voter rolls to purges via federal challenges.
Federal Authorities Arrest Don Lemon Over Filming of Church Protest
Lemon’s lawyer called his arrest an “attack” on press freedom and a distraction from “crises” the administration faces.
Trump’s Back-and-Forth Threats on Iran Are Psychological Warfare
As Trump threatens Iran yet again, Congress continues to abdicate its responsibility to rein in war.
Police States Are Terrifying, But They Are Brittle. I Witnessed This in Tunisia.
Fifteen years ago this month, Tunisian protesters overthrew an authoritarian police state, overcoming brutal repression.
Rubio Dodges Accountability at Senate Hearing as Deadly Boat Strikes Continue
The families of two men killed on a small boat targeted by the US military filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week.
ICE’s Child Abductions Echo the Gestapo’s — But Its Tactics Are Homegrown
ICE’s kidnapping of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and other kids echoes the US’s long history of child snatching.
ICE
Measles Reported at ICE Jail in Dilley, Texas
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As Trump’s DHS Ravages US, Schumer Says His Job Is “to Fight for Aid to Israel”
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Minneapolis Mayor Warns of “Invasion” as More ICE Horror Stories Emerge
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New Alligator Alcatraz Court Filings Allege Trump Admin Withheld Evidence
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ICE Claims Broad Power to Carry Out Warrantless Arrests in Leaked DHS Memo
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Trump Says He’s “Not at All” Deescalating in MN After Democrats Fold on Shutdown
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Jeffries’s DHS Demand Is a Ban on Deporting Citizens — Which Is Already Illegal
“People who thought they might never go and knock on their neighbor’s door … now they’re delivering groceries and offering sanctuary rides to kids to get to school safely.”
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Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation
The Gaza Ceasefire Is a Minefield Shallowly Masquerading as a Truce
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In Gaza, We’re Struggling to Reintroduce Foods to Bodies Adjusted to Starvation
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Will Rafah Crossing Ever Open? Palestinians in Egypt Await Promised Reentry.
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With Their Breadwinners Killed, Gaza’s Children Turn to Begging to Survive
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UN Security Council Abandoned Palestinians. Humanity Must Refuse to Follow Suit.
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Gaza Will Mark Christmas With Silent Bells, Frozen Nights, and Grief
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Children Are Dying of Cold Exposure as Winter Hits Gaza
