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Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old from Mexico, died on March 16 at the Glades County Detention Center — a county jail on the western shore of Lake Okeechobee that has long housed immigrant detainees and been the subject of allegations of abuse. According to ICE, Perez “died of a presumed suicide,” although his official cause of death remains under investigation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is seeking $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, a sizable amount that is certain to be met with questions from Congress, which would need to approve any new money.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35486164

My enemies are not in Iran. My enemies are in Washington and Tel Aviv. In London and Canberra.<br/> My enemies are the western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful while slaughtering human beings with the help of my tax dollars.<br/> My enemies are the tyrants who are turning our civilization into a mind-controlled dystopia where it is increasingly illegal to criticize the abuses of my government and its allies, and increasingly difficult to find information which runs counter to the imperial narrative.

The woman, Leqaa Kordia, 33, was freed on Monday, about a month after she said she had been chained to a hospital bed following a seizure inside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she described filthy and inhumane conditions. She has not been charged with a crime.

'Quakers have been oppressed by the state for over 350 years. We'll continue to hire space to nonviolent groups, just as we always have.'

The fact that Mamdani publicly condemned a Palestinian American author whose work is crucial amid the silencing of voices witnessing the Gaza genocide has disappointed many of his supporters.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/35120

March 13, 2026

More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October — 23 — than died in the whole prior fiscal year.

Let’s talk briefly about the Illinois 9th District Democratic primary. According to available filings, Elect Chicago Women, a PAC backed by AIPAC’s political network, has already spent $2,887,149 supporting Laura Fine. Meanwhile, a deceptively named group called the Chicago Progressive Caucus has spent an additional $389,256 promoting Fine while attacking Kat Abughazaleh.

By Caitlin Johnstone - Mar 11, 2026 “You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper.” ~ Daniel Crimmins Reading by Tim Foley:Nobody wants to believe they’re the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run...

Our research shows that candidates who come from the union movement are exactly what many Americans crave

A persistent failure to adequately treat inmates’ health issues with medicine beyond a single dose of Ibuprofen

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he won’t sign any other legislation into law until Congress passes a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that he says also must end Americans’ ability to vote by mail, a startling demand months before the midterm elections.

This is a follow-up to banning puberty blockers for children under 16 in 2023, pausing or cancelling all trials recently, and the banning of trans people from gendered bathrooms this year.

Naqvi, along with two other U.S. citizens and three green card holders, was detained by Customs and Border Protection agents Thursday morning in O’Hare Airport’s third terminal, where they were held for roughly 30 hours, according to Naqvi’s family, her attorney and local officials.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10958558

President Trump on Sunday threatened to not sign any bills into law until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is approved by the Senate, doubling down on his push to change voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world may already be entering the early stages of World War III, as the rapidly escalating conflict involving Iran begins...

Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now: We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.

Then, late last month, Wu was with a group of friends in Maine and “called emergency services to assist a person attempting suicide.”

Overthrow your own governments, then talk

U.S. patients travel to Cuba for NeuralCIM, a promising Alzheimer’s treatment. Plus: WBC visa denials, reforms and solar panels across Cuba this week.

The original article link from the mirror gave me an error message so I am posting an archive of it.

However, several Democratic lawmakers zeroed in on a federal judge’s finding that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information “approximately 42,695 times” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of an agreement between ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. Immigration and border security are a major part of the agenda of President Donald Trump, a Republican.