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US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
12 hours ago

Mika Brzezinski Gets Into Fiery Battle With Trump Border Czar About ICE Detainments: Why Have These People Been Disappeared?!'

ICE detained migrants including taxpaying workers and relatives of U.S. service members, raising questions about criminal designation and detention practices.
#burkina-faso
fromTruthout
5 days ago

The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism

Criminalization is the default framework people turn to in the United States to restore their sense of order, amid a crisis or emergency, so, when I hear someone suggest something wild, like calling the police on ICE, I understand where they're coming from. But as the Trump administration continues to consolidate power, we need to lose our illusions about the law as a moral instrument. We need more outlaws and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.
Social justice
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

"Crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor."

President Trump proposed using federal officials to remove people experiencing homelessness from Washington, D.C., framing them alongside violent criminals and gangs.
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
1 month ago

'Stunned, shocked, disgusted, deflated': parents of boy beaten by Niall Gilligan react to former hurler's acquittal

A former All Star was found to have acted in self-defense during an incident at a couple's property.
fromTruthout
4 months ago

Abortion Bans Criminalize People - and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant

Chandler-Scott's traumatic ordeal reveals the ultimate endpoint of abortion bans - criminalizing pregnant people, whether they have an abortion or not.
Black Lives Matter
Left-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

What is a criminal' immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

The Trump administration's targeting of Venezuelan immigrants reflects broader systemic racism and bipartisan complicity.
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