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2 weeks agoTrump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country
Donald Trump's return to the White House in 2025 has been a nightmare for immigrants and for the country. The administration's mass detention and deportation agenda brought forth an onslaught of cruel, violent policies intended to sow fear, suppress dissent, and vilify immigrants. Taking stock of all of Trump's actions on immigration in 2025 is nearly impossible. This is, of course, by design.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoPolice and crime commissioners to be abolished, government to announce
The controversial system of police and crime commissioners is to be abolished by the government, the Guardian has learned. Under the system, introduced under the Conservatives, all 43 police forces covering local areas across England and Wales had to answer to an elected official. The system, introduced in 2012, was supposed to boost the accountability and performance of police forces.
UK politics
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 months agoFormerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment
Susan Kigula's legal mobilization and the International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women built global abolitionist power to challenge punitive policies and reduce women's incarceration.
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 months agoWhen Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of "Innocence"
Sustainable grassroots organizing in criminalized movements requires mutual aid, community-based safety, accountability processes, collective care, resource redistribution, and refusal of carceral solutions.
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