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<p>Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases<br>—</p><p>A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/race/" rel="tag">#Race</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#Gender</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a></p>

<p>Everything maga hates, in one convenient place...</p><p><a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/religiousfreedom/" rel="tag">#ReligiousFreedom</a> <a href="/tags/freedomofreligion/" rel="tag">#FreedomOfReligion</a> <a href="/tags/separationofchurchandstate/" rel="tag">#SeparationOfChurchAndState</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#Abortion</a> <a href="/tags/contraception/" rel="tag">#Contraception</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#Capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="/tags/whitenationalism/" rel="tag">#WhiteNationalism</a> <a href="/tags/christiannationalism/" rel="tag">#ChristianNationalism</a> <a href="/tags/christofascism/" rel="tag">#ChristoFascism</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/womensrights/" rel="tag">#WomensRights</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a></p>

<p>“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-weakening-enforcement-fair-housing-laws?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-weakening-enforcement-fair-housing-laws?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-hud-weakening-enforcement-fair-housing-laws?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a></p>

<p>A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.<br>—</p><p>The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation and subsequent federal probe.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/gar</span><span class="invisible">rison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a></p>

<p>“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump<br>—</p><p>Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>This week the US government was overthrown by a white nationalist christo-fascist authoritarian regime, and the media, the military, and Wall Street just sat back and let it happen. </p><p>That&#x27;s where we are, and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is lying.</p><p><a href="https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/call-it-by-its-name-a-coup" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="roberthubbell.substack.com/p/call-it-by-its-name-a-coup"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">roberthubbell.substack.com/p/c</span><span class="invisible">all-it-by-its-name-a-coup</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/coup/" rel="tag">#Coup</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a></p>

<p>Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters<br>---</p><p>Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ice</span><span class="invisible">-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#Violence</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> <a href="/tags/losangeles/" rel="tag">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="/tags/oakland/" rel="tag">#Oakland</a> <a href="/tags/portland/" rel="tag">#Portland</a></p>

<p>Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division<br>—</p><p>Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a></p>

<p>Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division<br>—</p><p>The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a></p>

<p>An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.<br>—</p><p>A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tig</span><span class="invisible">er-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/louisiana/" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#Prison</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#CriminalJustice</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights<br>—</p><p>The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/hom</span><span class="invisible">eland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#Border</a></p>

<p>The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/hom</span><span class="invisible">eland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#Border</a></p>

<p>The DOJ has halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-civil-rights-lawsuits-halted-louisiana-south-carolina?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-civil-rights-lawsuits-halted-louisiana-south-carolina?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-doj-civil-rights-lawsuits-halted-louisiana-south-carolina?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#Prison</a> <a href="/tags/louisiana/" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> <a href="/tags/southcarolina/" rel="tag">#SouthCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/mentalillness/" rel="tag">#MentalIllness</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a></p>

<p>The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.</p><p>This time we are dangerously close to lose. The &quot;Child Sexual Abuse&quot; (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed &quot;ChatControl&quot;, will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: &quot;because of the children&quot;. As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.</p><p>What you can do: <a href="https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts</span><span class="invisible">/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/csa/" rel="tag">#CSA</a> <a href="/tags/csam/" rel="tag">#CSAM</a> <a href="/tags/chatcontrol/" rel="tag">#ChatControl</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/cryptography/" rel="tag">#cryptography</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#civilrights</a></p>

<p>NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-agents-detained-mistreated-citizens-congressional-investigation" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/immigration-agents-detained-mistreated-citizens-congressional-investigation"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/imm</span><span class="invisible">igration-agents-detained-mistreated-citizens-congressional-investigation</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ice</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#criminaljustice</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#humanrights</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#civilrights</a></p>

<p>The Republican party is, without a doubt, a cult. I would go so far as to say it&#x27;s a dangerous cult.</p><p><a href="/tags/republicandeathcult/" rel="tag">#RepublicanDeathCult</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> </p><p><a href="https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minnesota-republicans-lawmakers-governors-race-immigration/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minnesota-republicans-lawmakers-governors-race-immigration/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sahanjournal.com/democracy-pol</span><span class="invisible">itics/minnesota-republicans-lawmakers-governors-race-immigration/</span></a></p>

<p>A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.</p><p>An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”</p><p>These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>

<p>Support hunger striking prisoners&#x27; demands for fair trial and conditions! They allegedly took action to prevent weapons from being sent to Israel to be used in genocide. Now the gov is holding them in inhumane conditions in prison, violating their rights. Please write your MP. <a href="https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/hungerstrikersEDM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/hungerstrikersEDM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">palestinecampaign.eaction.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/hungerstrikersEDM</span></a><br><a href="/tags/hungerstrike/" rel="tag">#HungerStrike</a> <a href="/tags/justice/" rel="tag">#Justice</a> <a href="/tags/justiceuk/" rel="tag">#JusticeUK</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/stopgenocide/" rel="tag">#StopGenocide</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a></p>

<p>Massive <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> raid on <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> apartment building leaves residents reeling: &#x27;I feel defeated&#x27;</p><p><a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> said federal agents with <a href="/tags/cbp/" rel="tag">#CBP</a>, the <a href="/tags/fbi/" rel="tag">#FBI</a> &amp; the <a href="/tags/atf/" rel="tag">#ATF</a> arrested 37 people in the raid.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/militarystate/" rel="tag">#MilitaryState</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/dueprocess/" rel="tag">#DueProcess</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/autocracy/" rel="tag">#autocracy</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <a href="/tags/gestapo/" rel="tag">#Gestapo</a> <a href="/tags/sturmabteilung/" rel="tag">#Sturmabteilung</a> <a href="/tags/coup/" rel="tag">#coup</a> <a href="/tags/trumpcoup2/" rel="tag">#TrumpCoup2</a> <br><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chicago.suntimes.com/immigrati</span><span class="invisible">on/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> Is Cracking Down on <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a>.<br>Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.</p><p>Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/rendition/" rel="tag">#Rendition</a> <a href="/tags/statesponsoredabduction/" rel="tag">#StateSponsoredAbduction</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/righttoprotest/" rel="tag">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/dueprocess/" rel="tag">#DueProcess</a> <a href="/tags/abuseofpower/" rel="tag">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#Tyranny</a> <a href="/tags/mafiastate/" rel="tag">#MafiaState</a> <a href="/tags/policebrutality/" rel="tag">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a href="/tags/militarystate/" rel="tag">#MilitaryState</a> <a href="/tags/cbp/" rel="tag">#CBP</a> <a href="/tags/gestapo/" rel="tag">#Gestapo</a> <a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/chicago-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/chicago-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/</span><span class="invisible">chicago-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook.</p><p>“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/imm</span><span class="invisible">igration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a></p>

<p>The Trump administration is testing the waters regarding the law and states’ rights, and we as citizens of the United States of America must educate ourselves and inform others so we can push back within the framework of the law and states’ rights. We must share information to help educate others.</p><p>I now realize that for myself the sharing of memes on social media has become a form of entertainment and self-validation, and to me this provides only a distraction rather than a chance to inform others therefore I am going to focus as much as possible on posting information to inform others.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CIvilRights</a> <a href="/tags/freedomofspeech/" rel="tag">#FreedomOfSpeech</a></p>

<p>If you or someone you know in Minnesota has had an encounter with federal agents, the State Attorney General wants to know about any issues or violations of your rights that took place.</p><p>These reports will help in future prosecutions of ICE and other persons involved in the violation of anyone&#x27;s constitutional rights via police state violence or intimidation.</p><p>File a report here: <a href="https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Action/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Action/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Act</span><span class="invisible">ion/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a></p>

<p>A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students<br>—</p><p>The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="/tags/transgender/" rel="tag">#Transgender</a> <a href="/tags/transrights/" rel="tag">#TransRights</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/dei/" rel="tag">#DEI</a> <a href="/tags/diversity/" rel="tag">#Diversity</a></p>