Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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I wrote about Christa Pike, and the urgency of our mandate to dismantle the prison-industrial complex and grow the world we need. Let's push ourselves to imagine and build the life-affirming vision that abolishes death penalties of all kinds. truthout.org/articles/we-...

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“They are looking for our thoughts... They want to see who I’m messaging. They want to see what WhatsApp groups I am part of.” -Jalal Shehadeh on searches of pro-Palestine folks' phones at the border truthout.org/articles/bor...

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Thank you. Truthout is one of my “go to” media resources

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