by Mike Ludwig | Jul 10, 2026 | AI, big tech, cellphone, Flock Safety, Fourth Amendment, geo-fence, license plate readers, News, Organizing, Policing, Privacy, Supreme Court, Surveillance
Civil rights attorneys say a recent Supreme Court ruling in a landmark digital privacy case could put “wind in the sails” of local organizers challenging police deployment of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). However, those organizers in cities large and small still face both a powerful industry and police departments determined to outfit their forces with the latest tech. It will take more…
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by Shane Burley | Jul 8, 2026 | Activism, Anti-Fascism, Deportation, Fascism, ICE, immigration, Judaism, mass deportation, News Analysis, Organizing, Palestine, Resistance, Trump Administration
As Donald Trump’s administration came to power in 2025, immigrant justice groups were immediately tasked with rapidly adapting to the intensification of immigration enforcement. Neighborhoods around the country began self-organizing, creating rapid response networks to prepare for impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. In many of these places, immigration justice organizing was…
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by Justin Akers Chacón | Jul 1, 2026 | Birthright Citizenship, Donald Trump, far right, Immigrants, immigration, Op-Ed, Organizing, Project 2025, Supreme Court
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented people born inside the United States. In a 6-3 decision, which included Trump-picked, right-wing justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the majority upheld that birthright citizenship was guaranteed under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th…
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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 Jaime Sauceda | Jun 30, 2026 | LGBTQ activism, LGBTQ Rights, Op-Ed, Organizing, Pride, Prisons, Solitary Confinement, Trans Rights, Washington State
This June, a Pride celebration organized by Alliances, a multi-generational and multiracial group of incarcerated queer and trans people, was held inside Washington State’s largest prison. Yet behind the skits and the celebration of queer joy expressed at the June 3 Pride event inside the Twin Rivers Unit at the Monroe Correctional Complex, the continued punishment of trans women and queer…
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by Shaddi Zeid | Jun 29, 2026 | big tech, Budget, Illinois, Op-Ed, Organizing, Tax Cuts, Taxes, Trump Administration
On June 1, the Illinois legislature passed a tax on the digital advertising revenue of tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet (parent company of Google). Big Tech resisted the measure and will likely challenge it in court. Nevertheless, several analyses show the tax may generate $800 million annually, a number that could increase with time as revenues from digital advertising are expected…
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