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"Starting on May 22, a hunger and labor strike inside Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey catalyzed daily demonstrations outside the facility, creating the most visible flashpoint in the fight against the brutality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the fight in Minnesota in early 2026. Here, we offer an appraisal of the tactics that protesters have employed outside Delaney Hall, anonymously provided by participants, followed by two interviews exploring the events in detail."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/06/11/tactics-at-delaney-hall-a-strategic-appraisal-with-interviews-from-the-front-lines
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Via @nprofile1q... :

"BREAKING: As many as 90 prisoners have been transported out of Delaney Hall ICE prison on Day 20 of the ongoing prisoner hunger & labor strike—male & female prisoners.

Female prisoners who had ended hunger/labor strike are now resuming.

Female prisoners resuming hunger & labor strike are demanding the release of all women prioritizing those under 21, those with medical conditions, and mothers. They also want investigations into sexual abuse by Delaney Hall guards and full visitation to be reinstated so their loved ones can visit."

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Antifascists with @nprofile1q... reporting that:

"Patriot Front member Scott Wayne Durham (fka Patryck Scott Durham) assaulted a trans woman in Laramie, who is now facing felony charges for drawing a firearm in self-defense."

From LGBTQ Nation:

"A transgender bartender in Laramie, Wyoming, who pointed her gun at a man she says hurled gay slurs at her and threw her to the ground, is headed to trial on felony assault and gun charges. If convicted, she could face up to 15 years in prison.

Ríhanna Kelver says she was acting in self-defense after the man, accompanied by two companions, taunted her and knocked her to the crosswalk where the confrontation took place on a downtown street in Laramie. Video evidence shows Kelver pulling a handgun from her satchel and pointing it at the man after the attack."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/3-men-assaulted-a-trans-bartender-now-shes-facing-felonies-for-defending-herself/

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"Anti-ICE protesters will regroup and converge on the next flashpoint, wherever that may be. Their numbers will likely be bolstered by new companions from New York and New Jersey, who will add their recent experience defying ICE to the movement’s collective memory. The fight will continue as they refine their tactics and strategies."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/06/04/inside-the-clashes-at-delaney-hall-detention-center-a-timeline-from-a-mutual-aid-volunteer
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"Not only was Jared Taylor, the founder and editor of American Renaissance, in attendance at this “Summit” he and Bonvino were there as VIP guests alongside elected officials from Germany’s neo-fascist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Spain’s Vox. They all addressed the 600 fascists attendees coming from across Europe and many from the United States and Canada including Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republicans Club.

In his remarks in his speech Bovino, who has said in the past that he would like to deport a third of America’s population, said he and the Austrian neo-fascist organizer of the Summit, Martin Sellner shared the same ideals. “You’ve invited me here today,”Your ideas, we’ve talked a lot on that and those ideas mirror each other. We’ve never talked before face to face until yesterday and we’re on the same sheet of music almost immediately.” A controversial figure for years, in early 2018, Sellner received a donation of $1,500 from the Australian-born terrorist Brenton Tarrant of the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand."

https://idavox.com/index.php/2026/06/06/from-border-patrol-to-blood-and-soil-greg-bovino-speaks-at-fascist-ethnic-cleansing-conference-in-portugal/
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"The battle of Operation Metro Surge briefly made Minneapolis the unlikely epicenter of global resistance to US hegemony for the second time in six years. Many of us will spend the rest of our lives reflecting back on what happened and the kind of people we became in these few short months. We will never be the same again.

The fascists came clutching their guns with their fingers on the triggers. They muttered, “Long live the king.” We confronted them in the streets, fists in the air, and yelled, “Long live Minneapolis.”"

https://firewithfire.blog/2026/06/06/fire-and-ice-a-story-of-grassroots-resistance-to-operation-metro-surge/
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"For decades, Muslim and Arab communities have been positioned within American political discourse as permanent sites of suspicion. The so-called “War on Terror” normalized mass surveillance, racial profiling, and the framing of entire communities as security threats. In recent years, anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric has increasingly merged with broader far-right conspiracy culture, anti-immigrant politics, and anti-Palestinian dehumanization.

The result is a political atmosphere in which extremist violence does not need to invent hatred from scratch. It inherits narratives that already circulate openly across media, politics, and digital culture, then pushes those narratives toward their most violent conclusions.

The attack itself is now the subject of a criminal investigation. But understanding how two teenagers arrived at a worldview that celebrated Nazi symbolism, glorified mass killers, and called for the extermination of Muslims requires looking beyond the events of May 18."

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/sandiegomosqueattackpt1/