On April 2, guards at the remote Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” allegedly brutally beat several detained men who demanded access to phones. It took nearly a week for word to get out. Six days after the reported attack, Raiko Lopez Morffi’s right eye was still swollen and black during a video call with his lawyer Katie Blankenship…
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Two transgender residents of Kansas are suing the state over its newly enacted anti-trans law that has invalidated the driver’s licenses of hundreds of trans people. The new law also authorizes any individual to sue anyone in Kansas who they suspect of using the “wrong” restroom, based on the state’s new definition of gender, which wrongly states that gender is equivalent to the sex a person…
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Over 20 press freedom groups have slammed Congress for its subpoena of journalist Seth Harp, author of a recent book that exposed crimes within the most secretive ranks of the military, saying that Congress is trying to chill inquiry into the military as the Trump administration threatens numerous countries. Last week, the House Oversight Committee voted to issue a subpoena for Harp after he…
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