Negin Owliaei
@neginowl.bsky.social
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Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. Internationalist. Any pronouns.
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neginowl.bsky.social
For anyone else who needs a reminder of what’s possible.
truthout.org
As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” When the flotilla was attacked, the reaction was swift: a 24-hour general strike was called.
We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
Following a 24-hour general strike on September 22, the country is now gearing up for a national protest on October 4.
truthout.org
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annamerlan.bsky.social
Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization
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sarahlazare.bsky.social
One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
inthesetimes.com
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truthout.org
Summer Lee and other lawmakers have sent a letter to the DHS demanding information on any plans ICE has to use Graphite, a spyware program that can access — without the owner’s knowledge or consent — a phone’s location data, photos, and encrypted applications, including WhatsApp and Signal.
Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…
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truthout.org
"Remaining in the city was impossible, as Israeli forces killed anyone who refused to leave. At the same time, we also knew that life in tents — stripped of the most basic necessities and overshadowed by the uncertainty of whether we would ever return home — was simply another form of death."
“Just End the War and Return Me to My Neighborhood”: Report From Southern Gaza
The despair we are living through keeps us clinging to the news, scanning for headlines containing the word “ceasefire.”…
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madar.bsky.social
No better illustration of how much of our opposition party thinks social media posting is a substitute for the responsible exercise of legislative power. @schatz.bsky.social is one of the most irritating offenders here, often posting like he’s Mort Sahl instead of a U.S. Senator
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kvetch.gay
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
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jimlaporta.bsky.social
New at CBS News: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. www.cbsnews.com/news/netanya...
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.
www.cbsnews.com
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Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported today to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities. Officers arrested him while he was reporting at a “No Kings” protest against Trump, even though he was wearing a “PRESS” vest.
Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest
Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 5d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
neginowl.bsky.social
Curious to see how she’ll square her whole “permanently censored victim” schtick with being at the helm of one of the biggest news institutions in the country.
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leximcmenamin.com
the direct line between this and the 2000s-mid 2010s “campus culture wars,” in this essay I will (but literally, just prob next week, clearing out drafts rn)
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.
Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
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neginowl.bsky.social
I think about this moment whenever I feel cynical (so basically daily). The logic the flotilla movement has been using to challenge Israel's blockade on Gaza is so fundamental, so grounding.
neginowl.bsky.social
I had the honor of speaking to Huwaida Arraf in 2024 about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla movement. So much of what she said still resonates, but I'll never forget her describing the success of the 2008 flotilla, nor hearing the audio of their boat arriving on Gaza's shore (around 8 min in).
The Take: The movement to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
The Freedom Flotilla’s latest mission is delayed, but it hopes to set sail to Gaza soon.
www.aljazeera.com
neginowl.bsky.social
A key part of this story: ICE has no legal authority to make such requests, and Meta has no reason or responsibility to comply with them. Good, practical info in here about the rights we have in such circumstances.
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Meta sent emails to 6 people informing them that ICE had served the company with a subpoena demanding extensive personal information about the users. The accounts, most notably StopIce.net, are part of a broader crowd-sourcing movement that works to publicly identify masked ICE agents.
Trump’s ICE Turns Its Target to Activists, Not Just Immigrants
ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.
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derekseidman.bsky.social
More info coming out on the ICE raid in Cato NY that I reported on last week for @truthout.org.
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remorahousedc.bsky.social
There was a noticeable difference between “feds are in town” and “feds are in town and now being paired up with MPD units.”

They went from bumbling around on the Mall to surgical strikes in migrant neighborhoods & targeting key commuter roads for working class neighborhoods at rush hour.
golikehellmachine.com
this article shows how critical local partnerships are for ICE to hit their numbers, which is why you should keep the pressure on your local city governments to refuse cooperation with them
haleaziz.bsky.social
ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
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golikehellmachine.com
this article shows how critical local partnerships are for ICE to hit their numbers, which is why you should keep the pressure on your local city governments to refuse cooperation with them
haleaziz.bsky.social
ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE
www.nytimes.com
neginowl.bsky.social
For anyone else who needs a reminder of what’s possible.
truthout.org
As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” When the flotilla was attacked, the reaction was swift: a 24-hour general strike was called.
We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
Following a 24-hour general strike on September 22, the country is now gearing up for a national protest on October 4.
truthout.org
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williamcson.bsky.social
More people need to understand that saying only “criminals” should be subjected to expanding state violence around us is what led to the broader public being targeted by it, too. Criminality is subjective, and power determines what it is or is not.
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mayaschenwar.bsky.social
I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...
Announcing the Winners of the 5th Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.
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