“This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.

News has just come in that a Palestinian boy from the West Bank, the same age as Greta, has died in Israeli custody.

– What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.”

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #GretaThunberg #GlobalSumudFlottilla #torture #sweden

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/mutilated-bodies-palestinians-held-notorious-israeli-jail-gaza-officials

#Murder #Torture #Genocide

We must sever all ties with #Israel.

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/mutilated-bodies-palestinians-held-notorious-israeli-jail-gaza-officials

#Murder #Torture #Genocide

We must sever all ties with #Israel.

“This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.

News has just come in that a Palestinian boy from the West Bank, the same age as Greta, has died in Israeli custody.

– What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.”

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #GretaThunberg #GlobalSumudFlottilla #torture #sweden

New rabbit hole: There's apparently been a full-blown panic among law enforcement and corrections officers about fentanyl exposure for the past 3 or more years. Large numbers of LEOs believe that merely touching fentanyl is fatal. There are multiple online videos of officers touching something confiscated in an arrest and then collapsing. There are reports of dozens of correctional officers being rushed to the ER after reportedly touching fentanyl soaked into envelopes in the mail room--one even died last year (summer 2024).

Meanwhile, there are MDs and substance use experts on record saying that literally cannot happen: nobody even gets a buzz from fentanyl by just touching it, let alone dying. There is now scholarly research documenting the widespread false beliefs about fentanyl in LEO circles, and at least one suggesting that all the incidents represent a "culture bound syndrome" in law enforcement; essentially a mass delusion, which triggers panic attacks and perhaps some hypnosis-like states of consciousness.

I haven't verified this point, yet, but I saw one online document alleging that in none of the alleged single-contact exposure reactions to fentanyl (or amphetamines, which are cited in many other incidents) has there ever been an investigation finding any drugs on the mail items, or finding that the officer's reaction really was from the drug they apparently touched. In almost all cases there is apparently no investigation at all, beyond interviewing the officers about their beliefs of what happened.

Anyway, these incidents are also being used by corrections and LE officers to justify #censorship and #torture of #prisoners.

https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/worker-dies-at-california-prison-amid-fentanyl-exposure-concerns-13173

#fentanyl #drugs #panic #prison #oppression

New rabbit hole: There's apparently been a full-blown panic among law enforcement and corrections officers about fentanyl exposure for the past 3 or more years. Large numbers of LEOs believe that merely touching fentanyl is fatal. There are multiple online videos of officers touching something confiscated in an arrest and then collapsing. There are reports of dozens of correctional officers being rushed to the ER after reportedly touching fentanyl soaked into envelopes in the mail room--one even died last year (summer 2024).

Meanwhile, there are MDs and substance use experts on record saying that literally cannot happen: nobody even gets a buzz from fentanyl by just touching it, let alone dying. There is now scholarly research documenting the widespread false beliefs about fentanyl in LEO circles, and at least one suggesting that all the incidents represent a "culture bound syndrome" in law enforcement; essentially a mass delusion, which triggers panic attacks and perhaps some hypnosis-like states of consciousness.

I haven't verified this point, yet, but I saw one online document alleging that in none of the alleged single-contact exposure reactions to fentanyl (or amphetamines, which are cited in many other incidents) has there ever been an investigation finding any drugs on the mail items, or finding that the officer's reaction really was from the drug they apparently touched. In almost all cases there is apparently no investigation at all, beyond interviewing the officers about their beliefs of what happened.

Anyway, these incidents are also being used by corrections and LE officers to justify #censorship and #torture of #prisoners.

https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/worker-dies-at-california-prison-amid-fentanyl-exposure-concerns-13173

#fentanyl #drugs #panic #prison #oppression

Russian authorities have subjected civilian detainees in Ukrainian areas it occupies to "widespread" and "systematic" torture that includes sexual violence, according to a U.N. rights office report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/24/world/politics/un-russian-torture-ukraine-civilians/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #un #torture #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

United Nations investigators said they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the most senior perpetrators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/asia-pacific/politics/myanmar-systematic-torture-un-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #un #myanmar #humanrights #torture #rape

Prefacing a difficult-to-read report on the testimony of men now freed from CECOT, ProPublica states,

"We interviewed nine men for this story. They are bewildered, frightened, angry. Some said their feelings about what happened were still so raw they had trouble finding words to describe them. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment."

#Trump#StephenMiller #ElSalvador#Venezuela #immigrants #torture
/1

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/1

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

Tim Miller talks with Mehdi Hasan about his brave decision to face the spittle-spewing screaming meemies of the fascist right in a Jubilee debate — and about how racist hostility to black and brown immigrants (like Hasan himself) is the energizing center of the fascist right.

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mehdi-hasan-jubilee-debate-left-me

"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/4

"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."

Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/3

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era

"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:

Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm

Are you okay with that? I’m not."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/2

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/1

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #french #Revolution #bastille #haiti #prison #torture

Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #french #Revolution #bastille #haiti #prison #torture

Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/