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(Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) Back in 2018, when I was with the Washington Post, I put together a collection of academic studies, media reports and investigations, and other resources on racism in the criminal justice system. The idea, which the paper supported at the time, was to post all of this data in one place and keep it updated as a one-stop resource and repository.

A violent mob attacks Black people at a speech given by Frederic Douglass at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church in 1860. (Photo by API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)) “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. ...Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Migrant kids and their parents at the detention facility in Dilley, Texas. Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images. If recent reporting is correct, once the pending Paramount/Skydance takeover of Warner Brothers is complete, Larry and David Ellison plan to put Bari Weiss in charge of CNN, one of the largest networks on the planet. This would expand Weiss’s already enormous influence to include global news, shaping how U.S. politics is covered internationally.

Bari Weiss poses with Palantir co-founder and antichrist speculator Peter Thiel and his husband Matt Danzeisen at an X/Free Press/Uber party during Trump’s second inauguration. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images) Bari Weiss continues to take a hatchet to CBS News. This week she fired longtime journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after he angrily confronted her handpicked new editor for the program. Weiss also recently fired at least three other correspondents and producers.

It took nearly a year for the public to learn that a DHS officer killed a Latino man and U.S. citizen -- and that federal officers lied about how it happened. (Note: This article is part of an ongoing series about how the Trump administration has brazenly lied about abuse by immigration officers. You can find links to previous posts below.) Ruben Ray Martinez was the first person shot and killed by immigration agents during Donald Trump’s second term.

A Minneapolis prosecutor charges an ICE agent, exposing how DHS shamelessly lied after its officers shot an immigrant, tear gassed two kids, and put a bullet in the wall of a child's bedroom. (Note: This article is part of an ongoing series about how the Trump administration has brazenly lied about abuse by immigration officers.

Reporter Dion Lim, speaking at a conference in 2018 (Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images) Over at X, Gary Tan, the president and CEO of the venture capital firm Y Combinator, put up a long post this week touting a new book by San Francisco TV reporter Dion Lim. Lim’s book, called Amplified, was published by Third State Books, a company started by Tan’s wife, Stephanie Lim, to provide a voice for Asian-American authors. That’s a great idea, and much needed.

Image by Andriy Onufriyenko for Getty Note: A version of this article was originally published at The Intercept. You might spend your Saturday mornings sipping coffee, attending your kid’s soccer game, or just recovering from a tough week at work. Paul Heaton recently spent his getting ChatGPT to confess to a crime it didn’t commit.

Screen grab of a video in which federal agents shatter the window of Francisco Longoria Note: This post is a second in a series about incidents in which federal immigration officers and DHS have brazenly lied about their abuse. You can read the first post here.

In video shot by a neighbor, federal agents lead ChongLy Scott Thao out of his home last January I’m currently working on a new edition of my first book, Rise of the Warrior Cop. It will have an updated introduction, plus at least two — and likely three — new chapters that will bring the police militarization narrative through the Biden years up to the first 14 months or so of Trump’s second term.