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How Many People Have Been Killed by ICE and Border Patrol?

After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street -- an initial "domestic terrorist" narrative that unraveled once bystander video contradicted it -- The Marshall Project tallies the broader pattern of fatal shootings by federal immigration agents under Trump's second term.

 Posted on Jan 26, 2026  |  The Marshall Project

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump Is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Unmasking the secret police operating under the banner of national security.

 Posted on Oct 17, 2025  |  ProPublica

This is how the great sleeping giant of America awakens, roars and puts an end to it

A nation pushed too far finally pushes back.

 Posted on Oct 12, 2025  |  Raw Story

A MAGA Ghoul Is Trump’s Project 2025 Grim Reaper

Trump declared the shutdown an “unprecedented opportunity” to cut the “Democrat Agencies” he disagrees with most—and Russell Vought is ready to help, scythe in hand.

 Posted on Oct 4, 2025  |  The Daily Beast

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.

Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it, too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

 Posted on Sep 13, 2025  |  The New Republic

Why Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ attack on the Smithsonian matters

Executive directive to Smithsonian to erase narratives on systemic racism, Black and LGBTQ+ histories

 Posted on Aug 30, 2025  |  The Guardian

Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism

A leading global democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.”

 Posted on Aug 30, 2025  |  Vanity Fair

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is

 Posted on Aug 30, 2025  |  The Guardian

America’s Newest Threat Isn’t a Foreign Power—It’s DOGE

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created by Donald Trump and fronted by Elon Musk, is not a government department—it’s an unconstitutional, unelected, and unaccountable entity that poses a grave threat to American democracy.

 Posted on May 17, 2025  |  The Enemy Within

America’s Lysenko: RFK Jr.’s Anti-Science Crusade Endangers Us All

The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head HHS is a dangerous rejection of evidence-based science, likened to the destructive pseudoscience of Soviet figure Trofim Lysenko, threatening the health and safety of millions.

 Posted on Dec 30, 2024  |  The Enemy Within

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