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Earlier this month, roughly 500 people at the facility went on hunger strike, and organizers say that 12 people are still maintaining the strike. It’s unclear if Sandoval was a participant.

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Luis Sandoval, a 48-year-old from El Salvador, died on Friday at the Folkston ICE facility, owned by the notorious GEO Group. The detention center is already facing scrutiny over poor conditions. https://t.co/aGKz36Cm2p

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Over 3,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron since Friday, as Netanyahu carries out collective punishment in a bid to shore up support ahead of Israel’s elections on Tuesday.https://t.co/jx9osuf6MH

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At a rally in Michigan, Trump said that El-Sayed would be “the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate,” as Republicans' Islamophobia reaches new lows.https://t.co/SUCymmuu9f

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“If we put a project like this in around Yellowstone County, in that river valley, it’s gonna be an environmental impact similar to a coal mine, or something that’s gonna cause irreparable harm to the area. I think that’s why there’s so much opposition to it right now.”

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The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council voted unanimously this October to ban data centers on tribal land in Montana. But the Apsáalooke, or Crow Tribe, has not taken an official position and remains open to hearing proposals from companies.https://t.co/XwGhjiXMDc

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Jazzy Mason's essay is a 2026 winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, which honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

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"The man in blue is screaming commands, provoking my trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, though he will never call it that. To him, this is procedure. Policy. Control. To my body, it is a return."https://t.co/6nHbggQcXK

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Candidates from the Student List, who are not students themselves but largely first-time politicians selected by student-led popular assemblies, won a majority of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, marking a seismic shift in Serbian politics.

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Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement against Vučić’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party. https://t.co/pOnuU2QsFY

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Congressional District 9 had stood as the state’s sole majority Black district for more than 40 years. Now, it stretches across half the state and is majority white.

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Not two weeks after the Tennessee legislature carved Memphis into three congressional districts this spring, in a move designed to eliminate Democratic representation, Republican state Sen. Brent Taylor made his electoral expectations clear.https://t.co/mLQNq3iTML

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Harlow Scott’s essay is a 2026 winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Prize, which uplifts the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers who are sharing their stories firsthand — and calling us to action against brutal state repression.

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"After the surgeon removed my cancerous tumor, my stomach looked like a horror movie connected by twelve inches of staples and yellowish pink flesh. He instructed me to keep my wound clean, but the correctional officers refused to let me shower for 7 days."https://t.co/vxVCjQxPGt

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Pro-democracy campaigners urged the U.S. government to formally recognize Lula's victory in Sunday’s runoff election as his far-right challenger, Bolsonaro, refused to accept the results, sparking fears of political violence.https://t.co/ROj7wBF0Yh

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The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released new evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ. https://t.co/1WXSjq9Xdq

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Jazzy Mason's winning essay, “For Child Abuse Survivors Like Me, Prison Reactivates Familiar Trauma,” points to the way in which prison “mirrors the dynamics of abuse with chilling precision.” https://t.co/6nHbggQcXK

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Harlow Scott's winning essay, “Cancer in Prison: A Death Sentence?” chronicles her diagnosis with colon cancer, 14 years into her prison sentence. She describes the medical neglect and abuse to which she’s been subjected. https://t.co/vxVCjQxPGt

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Meanwhile, 79 million people in this country live with a criminal record and all the barriers and obstacles that come with it. We must uplift the stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers who are sharing their stories firsthand — and calling us to action.

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As repression has escalated in so many realms of U.S. life over the past year and a half, we cannot allow ourselves to forget that nearly 2 million people in this country experience some of the most constant and brutal state repression, in the form of incarceration.