by Marianne Dhenin | Jun 10, 2026 | Deportation, Deportations, due process, Habeas, habeas corpus, ICE, immigration, immigration jails, mass deportation, mass deportations, News, Resistance, Trump Administration
Coalitions of attorneys, rights groups, and other organizations are developing a powerful new infrastructure to challenge the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine. Several so-called habeas projects have been created in states or regions across the country in recent months to connect noncitizens facing unlawful detention with pro bono attorneys who can file habeas corpus petitions on…
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by Paul Messersmith-Glavin | Jun 5, 2026 | AI, big tech, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Data Center, data centers, Donald Trump, Indigenous Activism, Indigenous Resistance, MAGA, News Analysis, Organizing, Resistance, Toxic Waste
Between 4,000 and 5,000 data centers are actively humming in the U.S. right now, draining energy and, in the case of some of the hyperscale ones, consuming as much as 5 million gallons of water per day. Even this does not satisfy the demand cultivated by the tech industry, however: At least 3,000 more data centers are under construction or planned, prompting a diverse grassroots mobilization…
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by Christine Ahn | May 19, 2026 | Afghanistan, Airstrikes, Bombs, Cambodia, diaspora, diplomacy, Gaza, Iran, iran war, Iraq War, Israel, Korea, Korean War, Laos, Lebanon, Op-Ed, Palestine, Peace, Pentagon, Resistance, Taliban, US foreign policy, Vietnam, Vietnam War, War, war in Afghanistan, war in Iran, Yemen
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran opened not with a declaration, not with diplomacy exhausted, but with airstrikes. Among the first confirmed casualties were more than a hundred schoolchildren killed in a strike on their elementary school in southern Iran. Within a month, 850 U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Iran. President Donald Trump has delivered on his promise to bomb Iran…
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by Marianne Dhenin | May 14, 2026 | ACLU, Activism, antifa, counterterrorism, Department of Justice, doj, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump, FBI, ICE, News, NSPM-7, Pam Bondi, Repression, Resistance, Trump Administration
The White House’s 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy, published May 6, reveals startling new details about the Trump administration’s plans to target progressives. The new memo builds on one issued last September, called the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) on “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” Organizers warn the administration’s so-called “America…
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by Gabriel Arkles | Apr 30, 2026 | Activism, Gender Nonconforming, LGBTQ activism, LGBTQ Rights, Op-Ed, Organizing, Resistance, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, Stonewall, Supreme Court, Sylvia Rivera, Trans Rights
Over the past year, we have seen the Trump administration repeatedly use the specter of sexual violence to scapegoat immigrants and trans people — specifically women and transfeminine people. Both historically and currently, these groups are disproportionately likely to face sexual violence, but in the right-wing narrative, they have been reframed as its perpetrators. While breathtaking in its…
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by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs | Apr 25, 2026 | Activism, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, ICE, Immigrants, immigration, immigration jails, Interview, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Organizing, Policing, Resistance, Surveillance
The recent move from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to convert empty or surplus warehouses into large-scale ICE detention centers has produced a new terrain of struggle in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A notable departure from ICE’s existing detention system, which largely relies on contracts with county sheriff’s departments and privately run prison…
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