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The Austin Police Department (APD) on April 24 reached an agreement with Texas state authorities to release a stricter policy that would require local police to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they encounter people with an ICE warrant out against them. The move comes months after community outrage following the January ICE arrest of Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos and her 5-year-old daughter Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos after Gutiérrez called Austin police for help dealing with a friend’s alleged abuser. When officers arrived, they reported Gutiérrez to ICE, leading to her deportation to Honduras along with her daughter, who is a U.S. citizen.

Seattle Shield requests suspicious activity reports from local private companies, which are then circulated within the network as part of a nationwide surveillance apparatus, a Prism investigation found

In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have experienced

It’s also imperative to not view this war in a silo, but instead see it as part of the same violent, hegemonic project that has been conducting genocide and spreading violence across Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and beyond. We must hold elected officials accountable for failing to uphold U.S. and international law by continuing to support the transfer of weapons to Israel as it commits genocide against Palestinians. We must make it politically toxic for those lawmakers not to support legislation like the Block the Bombs Act, which aims to stop such transfers.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.

Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, is a hearty species. Every year, the plant grows from seeds, surviving months of muzzling by sheets of ice brought by intense Upper Midwest winters, fending off hungry waterfowl in the spring, and thriving in heat and aquatic habitats all summer long. Manoomin is sensitive and growing increasingly vulnerable to the dual forces of habitat destruction and climate change.