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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Immigration (3rd Quarter, 2017)
ICE wants to destroy records that show abuses and deaths of immigrants in custody (August 29, 2017)
A Federal Judge Put Hundreds of Immigrants Behind Bars While Her Husband Invested in Private Prisons (August 24, 2017)
ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody (August 28, 2017)
A Federal Judge Put Hundreds of Immigrants Behind Bars While Her Husband Invested in Private Prisons (August 24, 2017)
ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody (August 28, 2017)
Immigration (2nd Quarter, 2018)
There’s no immigration crisis, and these charts prove it (June 21, 2018)
Government never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows (June 29, 2018)
Ex-ICE chief counsel sentenced for stealing undocumented immigrants' identities (June 29, 2018)
It's not just people in the U.S. illegally — ICE is nabbing lawful permanent residents too (June 28, 2018)
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life (June 9, 2018)
Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says (June 17, 2018)
Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show (June 20, 2018)
Governor orders probe of abuse claims by immigrant children (June 20, 2018)
Donald Trump’s child cruelty shocks us, but it shouldn’t surprise us (June 19, 2018)
Understanding the administration's monstrous immigration policies (June 17, 2018)
Are undocumented immigrants flooding our southern border? (June 21, 2018)
Response to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsens press briefing today on zero tolerance policy (June 19, 2018)
9 myths about trumps zero tolerance policy (June 18, 2018)
Here’s a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their families (June 18, 2018)
Officials who help illegal aliens avoid ICE could get 5 years in jail under proposed bill (May 22, 2018)
Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors (April 26, 2018)
"We're gonna take everyone" — Border Patrol Targets Prominent Humanitarian Group As Criminal Organization (April 30, 2018)
Anguish at Southwest border as more immigrant children are separated from parents (May 22, 2018)
Taking children from their parents is a form of state terror (May 9, 2018)
Trump Has Quietly Cut Legal Aid for Migrant Kids Separated from Parents (May 31, 2018)
Why separating kids from parents is a form of torture (June 21, 2018)
The migrant children in tent cities could have a suite at Trump's Washington hotel for rates lower than what the US government spends detaining them (June 20, 2018)
Americans broadly support legal status for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children (June 18, 2018)
Republicans turn more negative toward refugees as number admitted to U.S. plummets (May 24, 2018)
Government never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows (June 29, 2018)
Ex-ICE chief counsel sentenced for stealing undocumented immigrants' identities (June 29, 2018)
It's not just people in the U.S. illegally — ICE is nabbing lawful permanent residents too (June 28, 2018)
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life (June 9, 2018)
Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says (June 17, 2018)
Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show (June 20, 2018)
Governor orders probe of abuse claims by immigrant children (June 20, 2018)
Donald Trump’s child cruelty shocks us, but it shouldn’t surprise us (June 19, 2018)
Understanding the administration's monstrous immigration policies (June 17, 2018)
Are undocumented immigrants flooding our southern border? (June 21, 2018)
Response to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsens press briefing today on zero tolerance policy (June 19, 2018)
9 myths about trumps zero tolerance policy (June 18, 2018)
Here’s a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their families (June 18, 2018)
Officials who help illegal aliens avoid ICE could get 5 years in jail under proposed bill (May 22, 2018)
Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors (April 26, 2018)
"We're gonna take everyone" — Border Patrol Targets Prominent Humanitarian Group As Criminal Organization (April 30, 2018)
Anguish at Southwest border as more immigrant children are separated from parents (May 22, 2018)
Taking children from their parents is a form of state terror (May 9, 2018)
Trump Has Quietly Cut Legal Aid for Migrant Kids Separated from Parents (May 31, 2018)
Why separating kids from parents is a form of torture (June 21, 2018)
The migrant children in tent cities could have a suite at Trump's Washington hotel for rates lower than what the US government spends detaining them (June 20, 2018)
Americans broadly support legal status for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children (June 18, 2018)
Republicans turn more negative toward refugees as number admitted to U.S. plummets (May 24, 2018)
Immigration (3rd Quarter, 2018)
CIA-Linked Military Contractor Used Arizona “Black Site” to Secretly Jail Dozens of Migrant Children (July 9, 2018)
Man, 92, beaten with brick on street, told to 'go back' (July 10, 2018)
Woman charged with attempted murder in beating of man, 92, with brick (July 13, 2018)
Pizza Delivery Man Detained by ICE Is Freed by Judge (July 24, 2018)
Drinking Toilet Water, Widespread Abuse: Report Details ‘Torture’ For Child Detainees (July 17, 2018)
Given What the U.S. Has Done to the World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In (July 19, 2018)
She served in the Army for more than 4 years. Now she could be deported (August 14, 2018)
"Where is my son?": A migrant father was deported in May. His son is still in a Texas shelter. (August 20, 2018)
Court rules man in ICE custody for nearly two years is US citizen: report (August 20, 2018)
The Trump Administration Is Revoking Passports of Some U.S. Citizens of Hispanic Descent (August 30, 2018)
Immigrant Fathers & Children on Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center (September 28, 2018)
New Trump admin order for separated parents: Leave U.S. with kids or without them (July 3, 2018)
Last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials says Trump's family separation policy is ‘crime against humanity’ (August 9, 2018)
Man, 92, beaten with brick on street, told to 'go back' (July 10, 2018)
Woman charged with attempted murder in beating of man, 92, with brick (July 13, 2018)
Pizza Delivery Man Detained by ICE Is Freed by Judge (July 24, 2018)
Drinking Toilet Water, Widespread Abuse: Report Details ‘Torture’ For Child Detainees (July 17, 2018)
Given What the U.S. Has Done to the World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In (July 19, 2018)
She served in the Army for more than 4 years. Now she could be deported (August 14, 2018)
"Where is my son?": A migrant father was deported in May. His son is still in a Texas shelter. (August 20, 2018)
Court rules man in ICE custody for nearly two years is US citizen: report (August 20, 2018)
The Trump Administration Is Revoking Passports of Some U.S. Citizens of Hispanic Descent (August 30, 2018)
Immigrant Fathers & Children on Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center (September 28, 2018)
New Trump admin order for separated parents: Leave U.S. with kids or without them (July 3, 2018)
Last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials says Trump's family separation policy is ‘crime against humanity’ (August 9, 2018)
Immigration (4th Quarter, 2018)
Migrants say coming to the US isn't their goal: "They see us as animals" (October 23, 2018)
The caravan “invasion” and America’s epistemic crisis (November 2, 2018)
Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why. (October 26, 2018)
Trump Claims New Power to Bar Asylum for Immigrants Who Arrive Illegally (November 8, 2018)
The five-year-old boy who was detained at the border and persuaded to sign away her rights (October 11, 2018)
ICE put a 4-year-old on a plane to Guatemala. Her dad found out 30 minutes before she landed (October 11, 2018)
ICE Is Sending Separated Children Home With No One To Pick Them Up (October 15, 2018)
Mexico to deport up to 500 migrants who tried to cross US border (November 26, 2018)
They say he yelled ‘I hate Mexicans’ before attacking them with a metal bar. Will this Utah case be considered a hate crime? (December 1, 2018)
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids (November 28, 2018)
"Death is waiting for him." (December 6, 2018)
7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion (December 13, 2018)
An 8-year-old Guatemalan child dies in U.S. custody on Christmas Day, just weeks after a similar death (December 25, 2018)
Videos: Migrant children dragged, pushed at Southwest Key shelter (December 28, 2018)
For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business (October 1, 2018)
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds (October 9, 2018)
ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees (November 6, 2018)
Texas detention camp swells fivefold with migrant children (October 3, 2018)
The lasting trauma of mothers separated from their nursing children (November 16, 2018)
Most Americans view openness to foreigners as ‘essential to who we are as a nation’ (October 9, 2018)
The caravan “invasion” and America’s epistemic crisis (November 2, 2018)
Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why. (October 26, 2018)
Trump Claims New Power to Bar Asylum for Immigrants Who Arrive Illegally (November 8, 2018)
The five-year-old boy who was detained at the border and persuaded to sign away her rights (October 11, 2018)
ICE put a 4-year-old on a plane to Guatemala. Her dad found out 30 minutes before she landed (October 11, 2018)
ICE Is Sending Separated Children Home With No One To Pick Them Up (October 15, 2018)
Mexico to deport up to 500 migrants who tried to cross US border (November 26, 2018)
They say he yelled ‘I hate Mexicans’ before attacking them with a metal bar. Will this Utah case be considered a hate crime? (December 1, 2018)
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids (November 28, 2018)
"Death is waiting for him." (December 6, 2018)
7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion (December 13, 2018)
An 8-year-old Guatemalan child dies in U.S. custody on Christmas Day, just weeks after a similar death (December 25, 2018)
Videos: Migrant children dragged, pushed at Southwest Key shelter (December 28, 2018)
For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business (October 1, 2018)
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds (October 9, 2018)
ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees (November 6, 2018)
Texas detention camp swells fivefold with migrant children (October 3, 2018)
The lasting trauma of mothers separated from their nursing children (November 16, 2018)
Most Americans view openness to foreigners as ‘essential to who we are as a nation’ (October 9, 2018)
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Standing Rock
'He's a political prisoner': Standing Rock activists face years in jail (June 22, 2018)
Standing Rock activist faces prison after officer shot him in the face (October 4, 2018)
Taking a Stand at Standing Rock (August 24, 2016)
North Dakota seeks to restrict access to public records after Standing Rock reporting exposed law enforcement abuses (February 11, 2019)
Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down pending review (July 6, 2020)
Standing Rock activist faces prison after officer shot him in the face (October 4, 2018)
Taking a Stand at Standing Rock (August 24, 2016)
North Dakota seeks to restrict access to public records after Standing Rock reporting exposed law enforcement abuses (February 11, 2019)
Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down pending review (July 6, 2020)
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Corporate Censorship
Facebook Accused of 'Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent' After Independent Media Swept Up in Mass Purge (October 12, 2018)
Facebook carries out massive purge of oppositional pages (October 12, 2018)
Brutally Honest: Facebook Removes Images Of Starving Children from Yemen (October 29, 2018)
Facebook deletes hundreds of Iran accounts (February 2, 2019)
TWITTER: In another outrageous example of censorship of left-wing alternative media, @Twitter has inexplicably "temporarily restricted" the account of leftist Latin American outlet @teleSUREnglish. (March 21, 2019)
TWITTER: In June, Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts linked to Venezuela's democratically elected government. (January 23, 2018)
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (April 2, 2019)
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments (December 30, 2017)
Facebook takes down page of Palestine news site (October 11, 2019)
TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users (March 16, 2020)
Ajamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era (January 27, 2021)
Facebook carries out massive purge of oppositional pages (October 12, 2018)
Brutally Honest: Facebook Removes Images Of Starving Children from Yemen (October 29, 2018)
Facebook deletes hundreds of Iran accounts (February 2, 2019)
TWITTER: In another outrageous example of censorship of left-wing alternative media, @Twitter has inexplicably "temporarily restricted" the account of leftist Latin American outlet @teleSUREnglish. (March 21, 2019)
TWITTER: In June, Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts linked to Venezuela's democratically elected government. (January 23, 2018)
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (April 2, 2019)
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments (December 30, 2017)
Facebook takes down page of Palestine news site (October 11, 2019)
TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users (March 16, 2020)
Ajamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era (January 27, 2021)
Monday, October 8, 2018
Amazon in 2013
Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center (July 1, 2013)
Amazon is everything wrong with our new economy (July 30, 2013)
Amazon to build CIA cloud (March 21, 2013)
Amazon just ruined Sunday morning (November 11, 2013)
A New Book Portrays Amazon As a Bully (October 22, 2013)
Amazon is worse than Walmart (July 30, 2013)
Amazon in 2014
Amazon’s dirty energy problem is about to get even worse (November 13, 2014)
Douglas Preston on his open letter about Amazon (August 8, 2014)
“Everything Amazon did had the underlying tone of fear” (January 22, 2014)
Amazon-backed book award rejected by distinguished author (July 10, 2014)
A tale of two books (September 29, 2014)
Amazon’s dirty secret: Damning new report reveals shameful environmental record (April 2, 2014)
Amazon Must Be Stopped (October 9, 2014)
Yes, stop Amazon: Ayn Rand, false equivalence and the New York Times (October 15, 2014)
The Obama administration’s shameful defense of Amazon’s low pay (October 12, 2014)
Cheap Words (February 17, 2014)
Amazon’s frightening CIA partnership (December 1, 2014)
Amazon’s new all-you-can-eat plan to devour the book business (July 18, 2014)
Amazon’s new security scandal (May 12, 2014)
Vox on Amazon: Way off-base, not entirely wrong (October 22, 2014)
James Patterson: “Amazon could actually dedicate itself to saving books and literature in this country” (November 19, 2014)
Amazon’s ridiculous photography patent makes Mark Cuban happy (May 9, 2014)
Amazon’s near sweatshops and awful conditions (March 16, 2014)
Slate’s defense of Amazon forgets just one thing: Workers (October 16, 2014)
Amazon’s hypocritical tax scheme (April 25, 2014)
Amazon is losing its cool (August 9, 2014)
France passes “anti-Amazon” bill aimed at helping small bookstores (June 27, 2014)
Amazon’s awful war of words: How an iron-fisted PR strategy went off the rails (August 20, 2014)
Amazon’s scorched-earth campaign: Why the Internet giant started a war (June 1, 2014)
Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)
4 ways Amazon’s ruthless practices are crushing local economies (September 27, 2014)
Goodbye, Amazon: We’re through! (May 20, 2014)
Amazon’s Wal-Mart problem (October 18, 2014)
Amazon’s selfish defender (October 14, 2014)
Amazon’s gross new innovation: How it’s quietly shortchanging everyday Americans (October 8, 2014)
The great Amazon debate (October 20, 2014)
Stephen Colbert escalates war with Amazon (June 13, 2014)
Amazon in 2015
More reasons to hate Amazon (June 3, 2015)
Why so defensive, Amazon? (October 19, 2015)
I was an Amazon drudge (November 26, 2015)
Amazon is killing your mailman (February 13, 2015)
Dying to work for Amazon (October 22, 2015)
Jeff Bezos, Orwellian overlord: Why his defense of Amazon’s “bruising” workplace culture is so hard to swallow (August 17, 2015)
Authors United founder says Amazon’s control of the book industry is “about the same as Standard Oil’s when it was broken up” (July 14, 2015)
Amazon wants to be hated: First it kills the bookstore, then it wears its skin (November 4, 2015)
Jeff Bezos relies on lowly grunts like me (March 7, 2015)
Why so defensive, Amazon? (October 19, 2015)
I was an Amazon drudge (November 26, 2015)
Amazon is killing your mailman (February 13, 2015)
Dying to work for Amazon (October 22, 2015)
Jeff Bezos, Orwellian overlord: Why his defense of Amazon’s “bruising” workplace culture is so hard to swallow (August 17, 2015)
Authors United founder says Amazon’s control of the book industry is “about the same as Standard Oil’s when it was broken up” (July 14, 2015)
Amazon wants to be hated: First it kills the bookstore, then it wears its skin (November 4, 2015)
Jeff Bezos relies on lowly grunts like me (March 7, 2015)
Amazon in 2016
In what is quickly becoming the age of Prime, why do investors still hate Amazon? (July 29, 2016)
Amazon’s bookstore trap: Come for the casual browsing, leave all your data in their hands (February 3, 2016)
Amazon is killing our cities: We’re bingeing “Transparent” while a long-term disaster builds (January 27, 2016)
Another blow to small biz in U.S.? (May 17, 2016)
Amazon’s bookstore trap: Come for the casual browsing, leave all your data in their hands (February 3, 2016)
Amazon is killing our cities: We’re bingeing “Transparent” while a long-term disaster builds (January 27, 2016)
Another blow to small biz in U.S.? (May 17, 2016)
Amazon in 2018
Exposed: Undercover Reporter at Amazon Warehouse Found Abusive Conditions & No Bathroom Breaks (September 5, 2018)
I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them (September 17, 2018)
Spain: Amazon Fires 100 Workers Striking For 'Better Working Conditions' (April 18, 2018)
Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries (July 30, 2018)
Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video (September 26, 2018)
The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager (November 21, 2018)
Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants the company to pay up. (August 23, 2018)
I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare (June 25, 2018)
I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them (September 17, 2018)
Spain: Amazon Fires 100 Workers Striking For 'Better Working Conditions' (April 18, 2018)
Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries (July 30, 2018)
Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video (September 26, 2018)
The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager (November 21, 2018)
Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants the company to pay up. (August 23, 2018)
I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare (June 25, 2018)
Friday, October 5, 2018
Voter Suppression
US voter suppression: why this Texas woman is facing five years' prison (August 28, 2018)
Crystal Mason begins prison sentence in Texas for crime of voting (September 28, 2018)
North Dakota’s Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Americans, Imperiling Heitkamp (October 10, 2018)
17 Million Voters Have Had Registration Canceled Since 2016 Election: Report (August 2, 2019)
Crystal Mason begins prison sentence in Texas for crime of voting (September 28, 2018)
North Dakota’s Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Americans, Imperiling Heitkamp (October 10, 2018)
17 Million Voters Have Had Registration Canceled Since 2016 Election: Report (August 2, 2019)
Religious Conservatism in the United States
I Know Why Evangelical Women Support Brett Kavanaugh. I Was Raised To Do The Same. (October 3, 2018)
Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh—And They Think Other Voters Are, Too (October 3, 2018)
Conservative Women Are Leading the Defense of Kavanaugh (September 26, 2018)
Under Trump, America's religious right is rewriting its code of ethics (February 18, 2018)
Young People Are Turning Away From Religion At Dramatic Rates, Leading To Surge In Church Closings (November 12, 2018)
7-year old boy dies after court-appointed guardians punish him for not knowing 13 Bible verses (February 2, 2019)
7-Year-Old Boy Killed While Being Punished For Failing To Memorize Bible Verses (February 2, 2019)
Bill That Would Let Professionals Deny Service Based on Clients' Sexual Identity Moves Forward in Texas Senate (March 27, 2019)
Conservative Bible Project aims to rewrite scripture to counter perceived liberal bias (December 4, 2009)
Roy Moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles (November 10, 2017)
The larger problem of sexual abuse in evangelical circles (November 14, 2017)
Amid Roy Moore allegations, stories of evangelical men and teenage courtship emerge (November 13, 2017)
The preachers getting rich from poor Americans (May 29, 2019)
The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity (July 5, 2019)
Pastor again defies state order not to hold large gatherings. He says 1,000 people came to his church Sunday (March 24, 2020)
The White Christian Nationalism Tearing America Apart at the Seams (January 11, 2022)
Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh—And They Think Other Voters Are, Too (October 3, 2018)
Conservative Women Are Leading the Defense of Kavanaugh (September 26, 2018)
Under Trump, America's religious right is rewriting its code of ethics (February 18, 2018)
Young People Are Turning Away From Religion At Dramatic Rates, Leading To Surge In Church Closings (November 12, 2018)
7-year old boy dies after court-appointed guardians punish him for not knowing 13 Bible verses (February 2, 2019)
7-Year-Old Boy Killed While Being Punished For Failing To Memorize Bible Verses (February 2, 2019)
Bill That Would Let Professionals Deny Service Based on Clients' Sexual Identity Moves Forward in Texas Senate (March 27, 2019)
Conservative Bible Project aims to rewrite scripture to counter perceived liberal bias (December 4, 2009)
Roy Moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles (November 10, 2017)
The larger problem of sexual abuse in evangelical circles (November 14, 2017)
Amid Roy Moore allegations, stories of evangelical men and teenage courtship emerge (November 13, 2017)
The preachers getting rich from poor Americans (May 29, 2019)
The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity (July 5, 2019)
Pastor again defies state order not to hold large gatherings. He says 1,000 people came to his church Sunday (March 24, 2020)
The White Christian Nationalism Tearing America Apart at the Seams (January 11, 2022)
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