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Pope Francis Dies at 88, Hours After Calling for Gaza Ceasefire | Democracy Now! — Read on http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/21/headlines/pope_francis_dies_at_88_hours_after_calling_for_gaza_ceasefire

All musicians & DJs listed in this database performed shows in complicit Israeli venues after October the 8th of 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal campaign on the Palestinians, in what is considered an act of deliberate whitewashing of the Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. (Please refer to Musicians for BDS’s Statement of Principles inContinue reading “Artwash Database”

I’m asking for your financial support following political repression. On April 8, 2025, I was detained and interrogated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Tampa airport after returning from a (fully legal) trip to Cuba. I am a U.S. citizen, but that didn’t stop federal Customs agents from telling me that “mostContinue reading “Help Musa Pay Legal Fees + Get a New Laptop | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising”

This case is not just about one deportation. It’s a blueprint for how to make anyone disappear. — Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-analysis-trump-black-sites.html

Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from a spring break trip with his family. — Read on http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

More than 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor in support of detained children, mother – syracuse.com — Read on http://www.syracuse.com/state/2025/04/more-than-1000-march-in-sackets-harbor-in-support-of-detained-children-mother.html

Federal Investigations of UC Faculty Members – The Council of UC Faculty Associations — Read on cucfa.org/2025/04/cucfa-letter-on-eeoc-investigation/