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Working to change US policy, corporate action and consumer behavior through education, advocacy and solidarity.

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.

Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.

https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

NEW from @StatusCoup:

Gov. Sherrill Coordinated With ICE to Brutalize Protesters at Delaney Hall
https://t.co/NDYLMIUVsk

[Molly Walsh @mollywalshCLE]

With 1,700+ license plate readers, is Cuyahoga County in a "surveillance state"?

My colleague Adam Ferrise takes a closer look at the growing network of cameras across the county and the questions it raises about privacy and policing.

https://t.co/w36RY3tn0q

[bryan culbertson @bryanculbertson]

This Flock executive misunderstanding his own software is actually providing the perfect example of how useless Flock is

There were actually only 3000 cars stolen during this period of time, but Flock sent out 70x the alerts for OPD to handle

Flock is useless noise at that rate

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

🚨"I'm press! What's your name and badge number?" our videojournalist @JonFarinaPhoto refuses Newark police illegally trying to stop him from broadcasting near Delaney Hall ICE prison on Day 13 of hunger/labor strike. WATCH ⬇️

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 Section 8 of Flock Safety’s contract caps liability at just $100.

100,000+ cameras. 49 states. 20B license plates scanned every month. $8.4B valuation. If your data is leaked, lost, or misused: max payout is $100.

Billions for them. $100 for you.

Y'all okay with this?

[ACLU of Ohio @acluohio]

📣Our attorneys are in federal court this morning for a multi-day hearing in our class action lawsuit against ICE, Customs & Border Patrol, and DHS.

We sued these government organizations in March for their unlawful policy and practice of conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause.

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

Joshua Brown was killed 10 days after he testified against the white cop who murdered her Black neighbor, Botham Jean. The pigs said he died in a botched drug deal, spinning a story that 3 men drove 300 miles to buy drugs from him, killed him and left the drugs and the money! 🤔

[TiffinOhio.net @TiffinOhioNews]

Private prison company GEO Group donated $250,000 to a super PAC aligned with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) 11 days after he voted for legislation that doubled ICE detention capacity—a deal that came to light only through a reporting error. Read more: https://t.co/BJ8pCanlS9

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

Women are suffering and dying at Michigan’s only women’s prison, and activists say lawmakers are moving too slowly https://t.co/B7NP97sAFL

[Levi Vonk @VonkLevi]

Data centers being forced down everyone’s throats despite huge pushback is a real sign of US global decline. Neoliberalism’s job was to export these kinds of unsightly and dirty industries to less powerful countries. Looks like we’re the ones increasingly without power now.

[zellie @zellieimani]

As bad as State violence has been outside of Delaney Hall — and it’s been bad — it is in no comparison to the violence detainees have been subjected to since their incarceration.

So if what you see on video horrifies you, imagine what you don’t see.

[Scott @disorderlyswine]

Killings like this are why you should be following @IncarcerNation. This is the sort of death by police which frequently are hidden from the official tally.

[Free Rodney Hinton 🇸🇳 @onlineva_]

white people's refusal to acknowledge that the police ARE ICE is rooted in anti blackness

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"For example:  while 70 cars in 100 may contain iPhones, only one will have an iPhone 13rev2, an Audi radio, a pair of Bose headphones, a Garmin sports watch, a key finder, and the license plate ABC-1234."

#Surveillance #Privacy

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

US counter-terror fusion centers are watching your anti-AI data center posts on social media, according to a document we obtained warning of “disruptive First Amendment activity." Keep in mind next time you joke about the Butlerian Jihad. https://t.co/NLNul1eHOO

[The Intercept @theintercept]

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers. https://t.co/pQ51rpLNEm

[Daniel Boguslaw @DRBoguslaw]

The people wanted documents, so I am giving them documents. Today I am publishing internal DHS and fusion center reports showing the criminalization of speech and assembly involving criticism of AI and data centers. You can read all documents at the link in replies.

[nobody from nowhere @ctizzie]

"Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds." - MLK, 1963

[IncarcerNation.com @IncarcerNation]

Today's numbers. We are past 1K in under 5 months! If the trend continues, we will end the year with approx. 2,400 fatalities. All cases are documented individually in this link.
https://t.co/tVlrJHrsL2