Alec Karakatsanis

Watch this video featuring our work @CivRightsCorps to learn about how our case will free almost 20,000 people from jail every year in Houston, Texas.

What we are seeing is the strategic and methodical targeting of those who use their resources to support social movements challenging the grotesque violence wielded by the most powerful institutions. These are entirely politically motivated charges. middleeasteye.net/news/fergie-ch…

⭕️ Immigration Judge Ruled a Man’s Pro-Palestine Views Mean Nothing He Says Can Be Believed Yaakub Vijandre, a 38-year-old Filipino-American photojournalist and DACA recipient, has been held in ICE detention for nine months over pro-Palestine social media posts and posts opposing U.S. torture of prisoners, according to a member of his legal team attorney Eric Lee. Vijandre came to the U.S. in 2001 at age 14 and has no criminal record, but was arrested outside his Texas home in October 2025, a day after he filmed a city council meeting on the ICE detention of a local Palestinian community leader. In denying him relief in March 2026, an immigration judge ruled that his politics rendered his testimony unreliable, writing that “the respondent’s worldview is informed by extremist ideology to such an extent that he no longer has the ability to provide reliable or credible factual statements,” and that he lacks a “meaningful grasp of truth about terrorism and terrorists.” 📷Shared by the Vijandre family.

I explained this dynamic after previous public executions by ICE: democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec…

Another cold blooded execution by ICE today in Maine, just days after the murder in Houston. The only acceptable position for politicians is eliminating the agency. Do not for one minute tolerate any politician calling for "training" or "body cameras." The demand is clear.

The book has been called, by my grandmother, “the greatest indictment of mainstream news, police propaganda, and the pseudoscience of establishment criminology ever written by one of my grandchildren.” It’s not something you want to miss.

Excited to see this article by criminology scholars in the newsletter of the American Society of Criminology on the value of teaching my book Copaganda. And a reminder for teachers: we have free copies of the book for your students if you want to teach it! asc41.org/wp-content/upl…

You can read more about the backstory of the probe into Fain's leadership at UAW, appears to be political retribution (from liberals) motivated by Fain's early support for Palestine, in this lengthy @theprospect feature here: prospect.org/2026/04/01/apr…

You can support the family here: gofundme.com/f/in-loving-me…

If you have not been involved in resisting the unprecedented expansion of ICE—and of all it represents about how our society has lost its way—now is the time to start. pbs.org/newshour/natio…

I write about all this with lots of tangible examples in my introductory piece on how the criminal legal system works in the United States. It's the first essay in my book Usual Cruelty, but also available for free here: yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-puni…

This great video highlights something vital to understand but that is often erased from public discussion: one of the most important things to understand about any legal system is which kinds of dangerous, immoral conduct it chooses to criminalize and which it chooses to protect.

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To understand the background on this kind of propaganda that subtly lies about the purported purpose of thing powerful institutions do, read more here: x.com/equalityAlec/s…

They aren’t “creatures” or “dogs,”and their purpose isn’t to “protect police lives” you absolute monsters. I guess they are “a treat” for the public in the same sense that the New York Times is a respected news organization.

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him. 🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness. 🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment. 🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.” 🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law. 🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.” Photo: Amnesty International

US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone. UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism” The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda. Who’s actually in charge in London?

I do want to mention that 15 Minnesota community and union members are facing federal indictment, a clear effort to punish and chill effective organizing against ICE, so I hope you'll consider contributing to their legal fund which can be found here-> chuffed.org/project/186570…

Routine destruction of Palestinian roads and water infrastructure in the Occupied West Bank, featuring the armored D9 Caterpiller produced in East Peoria, Illinois and provided free of charge using our taxpayer dollars.

A good time to repost this: givebutter.com/gazajournalists

One after another, establishment liberal institutions supposedly committed to important values are demonstrating that they lack the courage and moral clarity--and political/financial independence--to live up to those values.