“If they admit openly that there are hunger strikes,” said one lawyer, “they admit that the conditions in detention are so bad that people are willing to forgo food to raise awareness.”
Force-Feeding ICE Detainees
Tag: Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
US Govt Plans to Crush Anti-AI ‘Extremism’
WIRED Magazine has reviewed leaked documents showing how, as the Trump administration prepares for AI to cause a wave of social unrest, it is already using the technology to suppress anti-AI “extremism,” Alan MacLeod reports.
Israel Googling Real Names of Anonymous X Users
Across the world, anonymous users on the social-media platform X are reporting that data from Google Trends shows their real names are being mass searched in Israel, Alan MacLeod reports.
Donald Trump’s Death Cards
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
American Gestapo/American Psycho
The U.S. has a government devoid of social virtue and bent primarily on demonstrating its power over persons, says Andrew Napolitano.
Hedges Report: Construction of the Surveillance State
Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump administration.
Palantir’s Value Soars With Dystopian Spy Tool that Will Centralize Data on Americans
By contracting the surveillance firm to agglomerate the U.S. population’s personal data across government agencies, the White House has turbo-charged the company’s value, Kit Klarenberg reports.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: American Freefall
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.
‘I Am a Political Prisoner’
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.