by Brett Wilkins | Jul 25, 2026 | FBI, Flock Safety, ICE, immigration, Mass Surveillance, News, spying, Trump Administration
A coalition of privacy and civil liberties advocates filed a federal lawsuit Friday accusing the Trump administration of secretly collecting and keeping personal information about people who monitor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, arguing that the practice violates federal privacy law and threatens constitutionally protected speech and association. The lawsuit — filed in…
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by Chip Gibbons | Jul 24, 2026 | Cold War, counterterrorism, Criminalization, cuba, Donald Trump, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Marco Rubio, McCarthyism, News Analysis, NSPM-7, Stephen Miller, Surveillance, Trump Administration, War On Terror
The Trump administration’s drive to turn the machinery of counterterrorism against left-wing movements worldwide kicked into a higher gear this month surrounding its convening of an international “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.” On July 16, 2026, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stood before representatives of over 60 nations assembled for the global summit…
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by Katheryn Houghton | Jul 22, 2026 | Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Ebola, epidemics, FBI, Federal Funding, National Institutes of Health, News, NIH, Public Health, Science, Trump Administration
HAMILTON, Mont. — The Trump administration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst Ebola epidemics. In June, Vincent Munster, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institutes of Health, was charged with bringing biological specimens into the U.S. without proper documents. Weeks later, Sen.
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by Julia Conley | Jul 21, 2026 | DHS, FBI, ICE, immigration, News, Trump Administration
New guidance distributed to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the country in recent days said that the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations that officers have with protesters or people who are subjected to immigration enforcement — leaving the agency to investigate its own violent encounters with the public following at least two recent killings by ICE agents.
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by Glen Stellmacher | Jul 1, 2026 | Anarchism, anarchists, anti-capitalism, Anti-Fascism, antifa, Criminalization, criminalization of dissent, criminalizing dissent, Dissent, FBI, Minneapolis, News Analysis, NSPM-7, Organizing, Policing, Prairieland, Protests, Repression, Resistance, Surveillance, Trump Administration
The FBI says that anti-capitalist graffiti can indicate a mobilization to violence and can be reported to the bureau, according to a counterterrorism report obtained by Prism through a public records request. The public safety awareness report, dated Jan. 30, states that “anarchist violent extremists,” dubbed AVEs by the FBI, “pose [a] persistent public safety threat.
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by Schuyler Mitchell | Jun 25, 2026 | FBI, First Amendment, free speech, ICE, News, Policing, Protests, Repression, Social Media, Spokane, Surveillance, Washington State
On the evening of June 11, 2025, Shailynn Bray-Waters joined hundreds of other protesters at a demonstration outside an ICE field office in Spokane, Washington. She’d learned through social media that two of her former ESL students — Cesar Alexander Alvarez Perez and Joswar Slater Rodriguez Torres, both lawful asylum seekers from Venezuela — had been detained during a routine immigration check-in.
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