Chilling Dissent
Armed Off-Duty Cop Tried to Incite Violence at a High School Anti-ICE Protest
“My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all,” the Phoenix cop told fellow police after the incident.
Justice
Chilling Dissent
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
Unmasking ICE
Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
A magistrate judge will be able to review and consider releasing Jonathan Ross’s personnel files and materials that capture the hour surrounding Good’s shooting.
GOP Megadonor Leonard Leo Is Bankrolling a Website on the Warpath Against Somalis
The Maine Wire presents itself as a plucky upstart fighting for the common Mainer, but it’s fueled by powerful right-wing money men.
Chilling Dissent
DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree
Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns.
Chilling Dissent
Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest
When the viral video cooled off, people thought the case against the 62-year-old would be dropped. Prosecutors doubled down.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Mother of the Last Afghan in Guantánamo Bay Begs Trump to Free Her Son
The mother of Mohammad Rahim said it was her “most earnest and final hope” to see him again while she’s still alive. He has never been charged with a crime.
Voices
Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection at All
The Supreme Court ruling has far-reaching, terrifying potential consequences — and not just for trans youth.
The War on Immigrants
Two-Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals
The White House had said all the thousands of people arrested were “dangerous criminal” immigrants.
Voices
What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research?
The destruction of parts of two universities in Iran fits with Israel’s M.O. of crippling countries’ ability to rebuild.